Full-time career employees on any shift or work schedule are granted leave with pay for actual time on jury duty, including grand-jury duty, and related travel not to exceed the number of hours in the employee's normal workday and work week. The leave with pay is payable at the straight-time rate (including shift differential, if applicable) and will not be counted as time worked for the purpose of computing overtime premium pay.
Part-time career employees at 50% time or more are granted leave with pay for actual time spent on jury duty, including grand-jury duty, and related travel that occur during the employee's regularly scheduled hours of work. All such leave is charged to court leave.
An employee will be granted necessary time off with pay, not to exceed two hours, for voting in any statewide primary or general election if the employee is scheduled to work eight hours or more on that day and does not have time to vote outside working hours.
For exempt employees only, in consideration of unusual circumstances or unusual effort, leave of absence with pay may be granted as described below. Such leave may not be used, however, to balance extra work on an hour-for-hour basis. Normally, authorized leave will not be used in connection with vacation time. Exceptions to this limitation may be made by the division director or department head when such action is in the best interests of the department or division work schedule.
Up to five working days of leave with pay may be granted by the Laboratory Director to any employee to cover unusual circumstances. If adequate sick-leave and vacation credits exist, leave will be charged to such credits.
See RPM §2.15 (Workers' Compensation Insurance).
When authorized by the Associate Laboratory Director for Operations (ALDO) or designee, leave with pay may be allowed in the following circumstances:
Leave with pay may be allowed during public emergencies that effectively prevent an employee from attendance at work or continuance of work in a normal and orderly manner. A public emergency includes fire, explosion, power failure, flood, earthquake, snow storm (Washington, D.C., offices only), protest demonstration, riot, sabotage, and other comparable occurrences. When an employee is absent because of personal reasons resulting from a public emergency, the employee should charge this absence to accrued vacation or leave without pay.
Leave with pay may be allowed for search-and-rescue or disaster-control work by an employee as a member of an organized civil disaster unit. Leave with pay is not granted for training, drills, or practice exercises.
Under the terms of its electric-power agreement, the Laboratory may experience periods of reduced power. In some areas such interruptions may require lighting, temperature, and humidity changes as well as restricted use of electrical equipment such as typewriters, calculators, and computer terminals. If these conditions effectively prevent an employee from performing his or her work and alternate assignments appropriate to the employee's job classification are not available, the division director or designee may request authorization from the ALDO to grant leave with pay for the period during which the employee's work cannot be performed.