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State service. The vacation anniversary date is not altered by leaves without

pay or separations from State service of less than six months’ duration.

However, the vacation anniversary date is adjusted whenever the
employee is on leave without pay for more than six months or is separated

from State service for a period of six to twelve months. The vacation
anniversary date is adjusted by adding the number of months and days off

the payroll due to leave without pay or separation to the original vacation
anniversary date.

Generally, persons reemployed after a separation from State service
which exceeds one year are treated as new employees and are assigned a

new vacation anniversary date.
Use of Vacation

Section 10.6 of the OSU Agreement contains a discussion of the impact
of seniority on scheduling of vacations and describes procedures for local

arrangements establishing annual periods within which employees must
request a block of time off in order to have seniority considered.

This section also provides that, apart from other arrangements developed
in accordance with this section, an employee’s properly submitted written

request for use of accrued vacation credits must be answered in writing
within five days of its receipt.

Separation
Employees who separate from State service may be eligible for a lump

sum payment for up to 30 days of accrued and unused vacation.
SICK LEAVE

Earning

Sick leave is earned and accumulated at the rate of one-half day each bi-
weekly pay period for a total of 13 days per year and may be accumulated to
a maximum of 200 days. Sick leave is earned only for pay periods during

which an employee is in full pay status for at least seven of the ten workdays

in the pay period.
Use

Proper uses of sick leave include personal illness, visits to doctor or
dentist or other recognized medical practitioner and illness or death in the

employee’s family (up to 15 days per year). For this purpose, family is
defined as any relative or relative-in-law, or any person with whom the

employee has been making his or her home. Family sick leave is available

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