Additional flexible work-schedule options and changes to some leave procedures go into effect Monday for Laboratory workers.
One new flexible work-schedule option is a 4.5/40 schedule (40 hours in 4.5 days) that allows Lab workers to work nine hours Monday through Thursday and four hours on Friday. This option is now available in the Time and Effort system.
Workers also will be able to request changes to their schedule anytime, instead of only in May and November. However, changes still can only be made twice per year.
Additionally, exempt workers on the 9/80 schedule will be allowed, with manager approval, to occasionally swap or work their Friday off if they miss time in the same week as a result of vacation or illness. Non-exempt workers can continue to use the "personal reschedule" option.
Leave policy modifications
The changes to leave procedures also give LANS employees more flexibility, said Doris Heim, associate director for business services (ADBS). The key change is that exempt employees will charge leave (e.g., vacation, sick leave, or jury duty) in one-hour increments, instead of half-days. With this new practice, recording time to discretionary absence is no longer needed, so this time code will be eliminated. Non-exempt personnel will continue to charge leave in 15-minute increments.
LANS also will now allow a cash payout of vacation hours for employees at maximum accrual who are mandated to work and would otherwise lose vacation. LANS also will allow a cash payout of vacation hours in other limited circumstances, such as when an employee needs the payout to cover excessive medical bills.
See an all employee memo for more information.
For more information, see the November 1 Daily NewsBulletin.
