PAID PARENTAL LEAVE PROGRAM POLICY Recognizing the need for work-life balance as it relates to bonding with a new child, the University provides eligible employees with paid parental leave. Paid Parental Leave Four weeks of paid parental leave per year will be provided to eligible employees who experience a qualifying event* as defined below. Leave usage requirements are as follows: • Must be taken within 12 months of the qualifying event*; • Can be taken intermittently or consecutively, but must be taken in one-week increments; • Limited to one paid parental leave allotment per rolling calendar year; and • Paid at 100 percent of straight-time, regular, base pay or salary (excludes summer pay). Eligibility Eligible employee must meet the following requirements: • Must be a full-time, regular faculty or staff member; • Must have completed two full calendar years of employment in an active status (inclusive of nine- and ten-month appointments); • Must be the legal parent of a newborn or newly adopted/placed child. The name of the employee must be listed on the child’s birth certificate or certified legal document that establishes adoption/placement. • Must be eligible for Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) – o Requirement of 12 previous months of service, and o Service of at least 1,250 hours in the previous 12 months. *Qualifying Event Parental Leave is granted to each eligible employee for one of the following qualifying events per rolling calendar year: • Birth of a newborn child; • Adoption of a child under the age of seven (7); and/or • Placement of a foster child under the age of seven (7). Leave Considerations If the qualifying event occurs outside of a regular appointment period (e.g., during the summer months), then eligibility for paid parental leave will begin with the next regular appointment period (if applicable) and will end at the close of said appointment period.
Eligible employees are limited to one qualifying event per child and one qualifying event per 12- month rolling year.
Coordination with other Leave Types Paid parental leave will be used concurrently with Family and Medical Leave (FMLA).
Eligible employees who qualify for birth recovery leave (if approved) must exhaust birth recovery leave prior to using paid parental leave.
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