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Vacation, Sick and Personal Time

Employees should refer directly to the applicable bargaining unit agreement for detailed information. Vacation and sick time allotments vary depending on an employee’s specific bargaining unit agreement.

Benefits

Personal Days

Eligibility: As accrued

Full time employees are given 3 personal days at the beginning of each fiscal year. These days may be used for emergencies, observance of any religious holidays, personal business and attendance at a funeral. If these days are not used by June 30th, they are forfeited.  New employees accrue these 3 days at a rate of ½ day per month worked until the 3 days is reached or the fiscal year has ended.

Sick Time

Eligibility: As accrued

Paid sick leave is earned by new staff members on the basis of one day per month during the 1st year of employment and 1.25 days per month thereafter (15 days a year). If employed on or before the 15th day of any month you will receive sick leave credit for the entire month. Permanent p/t workers earn sick leave on a prorated basis. All non-aligned employees accrue 105 hours of sick time per year. Sick leave does not expire. For more information please refer to the sick policy for non-aligned.

Vacation Time

Eligibility: As accrued

Non-aligned employees accrue vacation at 105 or 140 hours per year, depending on the level of the position. Unused vacation time may be accrued up to two years, at which point it is capped until usage of time decreases the vacation bank below the capped level.  Please refer to the non-aligned vacation policy for additional information.

Jury Duty

Eligibility: Upon Employment

All employees will be allowed time off to perform such civic service as required by law. You are expected, however, to provide the university with proper notice of your request to perform jury duty and with your verification of service. You also are expected to keep management informed of the expected length of your jury duty service and to report to work for the major portion of the day if you are excused by the court. Employees on jury duty leave will be paid their NJIT salary for their jury duty service. Employees must surrender any pay received for Jury Duty to the Department of Human Resources. 

Bereavement

Eligibility: Upon Employment

In the event of a death of an immediate family member, non-aligned full-time employees will be allotted three (3) paid bereavement days per occurrence to grieve and/or attend the funeral. All other occurrences, the employee may use vacation or personal days. For more details please review the bereavement policy or your specific bargaining unit agreement. 
 
*For further details, please refer to your respective bargaining unit agreement for specific information regarding any paid time off.