Paid Time Off
- Vacation — Sandia offers generous paid vacation. Regular full-time employees start at 15 days of vacation yearly (or 120 hours) and progress to 24 days after 20 years of service. Vacation begins to accrue within the first month of service.
- Holidays — Employees receive 11 paid holidays: Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Winter Shutdown (six days). In addition, Sandia observes an energy conservation day, the date of which varies from year to year.
- Sickness Absence — Full-time employees are eligible for 2,080 hours of sickness absence for illnesses and non-work related injuries. The first 1,040 hours are at full pay, and the balance is at half pay.
Other Paid Time Off
Sandia offers the following additional options for paid time off (at the discretion of the employee's manager):
- Personal Absence — Employees may charge up to 56 hours per fiscal year to take care of personal matters such as the death of a family member.
- Flextime — Exempt employees who have accrued flextime may take compensatory time off with pay.
- Military Training Leave — Employees may charge 88 hours per fiscal year for military training.
- Miscellaneous — Employees may charge for legally required activities, such as jury duty, election duty, or voting.
Unpaid Paid Time Off
- Personal Leave — To take care of urgent personal matters, including preparing for an anticipated disability or childbirth or to pursue an advanced degree.
- Family Medical Leave — Allows eligible employees, male or female, to take leave up to 12 months* for child care after the birth, adoption, or placement in foster care of a child.** Allows leave up to six months for family care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, sibling, parent-in-law, or parent-like relation.
- Military Leave — For service in uniformed military.**
- Special Leave — To perform an assignment with the government, another DOE contractor, or a college or university.
* The Family and Medical Leave Act allows for 12 weeks of leave.
** Sandia continues to contribute to health-care premiums for the first six months.
