Full time employees are entitled to vacation with pay. Full-time is defined as working forty (40) hours per week and fifty-two (52) weeks per year. Vacation shall be earned according to the following schedule:
First year of employment 1 Weeks
Second-ten years of employment 2 Weeks
Tenth year to Nineteenth year of employment 3 Weeks
Twentieth and all subsequent years of employment 4 Weeks
Those who have been employed less than six months at the end of the fiscal year or terminate the employment before the end of a fiscal year shall not be entitled to any paid vacation.
The vacation time shall generally be scheduled during non-school time and may be taken in one-half day increments. The superintendent shall review and approve of all vacation requests.
Vacation time may not accumulate from one year to the next and shall be used by June 30th of the following fiscal year. Except in cases of emergency, employees may not be employed for extra wages during vacation periods.
Holidays - Employees shall be entitled to be absent from work on the below listed holiday: Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Years Day, Memorial Day, July 4th. Such holidays shall be with pay providing they occur during the employees' normal work year. Each employee will be paid for the normal contracted work hours as per individual contract.
Personal leave - At the beginning of every school year, each employee shall be credited with two (2) days, with pay, to be used for the employee's personal business, which shall mean business that cannot be conducted other than during working hours. An employee planning to use a personal day shall notify the superintendent at least three days in advance, except in the case of a bona fide emergency, in which case the superintendent shall be notified as soon as possible. Personal days shall not accumulate from year to year.
Legal Reference: Iowa Code §§ 1C.1-.2; 4.1(34); 20.9 (1995).
Cross Reference: 409.1 Licensed Employee Vacations - Holidays Personal Leave
601.1 School Calendar
Approved: March 1996
Reviewed: April 2009, January 2011, January 2014, January 2017, May 2020
