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Chapter 04 - Family Sick Leave (FS)

 
4.0 FAMILY SICK LEAVE (FS)

4.1 Purpose
4.2 Guidelines
4.2.1 Family Sick Leave Limits
4.2.2 Applicable Family Members
4.3 Resources
4.4 Amendments


4.0 FAMILY SICK LEAVE (FS)

4.1 Purpose
Provides employees who do not participate in the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program (VSDP) use of a limited amount of their sick leave for the illness or death of certain family members. As a subset of the sick leave balance, when family sick leave is used the hours are deducted from both the sick and family sick balances.

4.2 Guidelines
These guidelines apply to classified staff covered by the Virginia Personnel Act and to salaried faculty who do not participate in the Virginia Sickness and Disability Program. Employees may be full or part-time and on a regular or restricted appointment.

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4.2.1 Family Sick Leave Limits

  1. Classified employees may use up to 48 work hours of sick leave per illness or death of an immediate family member. The maximum family sick leave a classified employee may use per leave year is 48 hours. This 48-hour maximum is reset at the beginning of the leave year (January 10).
  2. Faculty may use a total of ten days during a leave year for absence necessitated by the serious illness or death of an immediate family member. Use of such leave must be recorded through the regular leave reporting system so that total usage during the period can be monitored. This 80-hour maximum is reset at the beginning of the leave year (January 10).

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4.2.2 Applicable Family Members

Immediate family, for the purpose of using family sick leave, is defined as:
  • parents, including step-parents
  • spouse
  • children, including step-children and foster children
  • siblings, including step-siblings
  • any relative, either by blood or marriage, living in the employee's household

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4.3 Resources

  • Virginia Department of Human Resources Policy 4.55 Sick Leave, followed by Sick Leave Annotations
  • Commonwealth of Virginia Employee Handbook 1992-94
  • VT (Staff) Employee Handbook II.A.2.a
  • Virginia Tech Faculty Handbook 2.15.8, 4.2.1
  • Virginia Tech Handbook for Special Research Faculty 2.7.5

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4.4 Amendments

  • Section 4.2.1.2 revised 3/01
  • Section 4.2.1.1 revised 1/03
  • Section 4.2.1.2 revised 1/03

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