Excess Annual Leave Rollover & Retention

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This message has been approved by Renisha Gibbs, Associate Vice President for Human Resources and Finance & Administration Chief of Staff, for distribution to all Deans, Directors, and Department Heads.

Due to the continued impact of COVID-19 and employees’ ability to utilize annual leave this calendar year, the University will increase the maximum year-end limits for the calendar year 2021. Hours in excess of the 2021 maximum year-end annual leave balances as of December 23, 2021, will be converted to sick leave.

Employees will not be eligible to retain annual leave beyond the 2021 maximum year-end limits.

2021 Maximum Year-End Annual Leave Balances:

Employee Type

Maximum Year-End Annual Leave Balance

USPS

320

A&P

432

Faculty (12-month)

432

Executive Service

560

 

Employees who do not want to retain the 80 hours of annual leave and would like to have all hours, including the 80 hours above the normal maximum year-end balance for their classification converted to sick leave, will need to complete the Request to Roll Over Excess Annual Leave Hours to Sick form. The completed form must be received in Human Resources no later than December 10, 2021, to be eligible for review and processing.

The increase to the 2021 maximum year-end annual leave balances will NOT impact the lifetime maximum leave payout limits outlined in the policy. All leave payouts will be in accordance will normal maximum payout amounts.

How to Determine if Employees Have Excess Annual Leave Balances:

Departments can use this OMNI query to identify employees who have excess annual leave balances.

Query by Department (require DEPTID to run)

FSU_TL_LEAVE_BAL_MAX_BY_DEPT_2

 

Shows employees in the department: annual leave balances, amount of annual leave they can carryover (based on the limit for their employee type), and each employee’s individual rollover amount (for all employees who are over the limit 2021 Maximum year-end).

 

Questions? Contact Sue Andres at sandres@fsu.edu (850) 644-5052.

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