Sec. 5-250. Vacations. Personal leave.
Sec. 5-250. Vacations. Personal leave. (a) Each appointing authority shall grant
to each full-time employee in a permanent position in the state service, who has worked
at least one full calendar year, an annual vacation with pay of twenty-one consecutive
calendar days or its equivalent. Each such employee who has completed twenty years
of service shall be entitled to one day for each additional year up to twenty-five years
of service, and each such employee with twenty-five or more years of service shall be
entitled to not more than twenty days' vacation, subject to regulations issued by the
Commissioner of Administrative Services. The Commissioner of Administrative Services may adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, concerning
the accrual, prorating and granting of vacation leave with pay as required. Computation
of such vacation leave may be made on an hourly basis. Hourly computation of vacation
leave shall not diminish benefit entitlement.
(b) An appointing authority may permit a full-time permanent employee in the state
service to accumulate vacation days with pay up to a maximum of one hundred twenty
vacation days, subject to regulations issued by the Commissioner of Administrative
Services.
(c) In addition to annual vacation, each appointing authority shall grant to each full-time permanent employee in the state service three days of personal leave of absence
with pay in each calendar year. Personal leave of absence shall be for the purpose of
conducting private affairs, including observance of religious holidays, and shall not be
deducted from vacation or sick leave credits. Personal leave of absence days not taken
in a calendar year shall not be accumulated.
(d) Vacation accruals earned by employees in the unclassified service, in accordance with administrative practice or internal departmental policy, which accrual practice
or policy was included, by the appointing authority, in the terms of employment on the
basis of which such employees were employed prior to July 1, 1972, and which accruals
have not been used and which can be verified by written attendance records, remain to
the credit of such employees for use as vacation time or for payment as provided in
section 5-252, as the case may be.
(1967, P.A. 657, S. 58; 1969, P.A. 658, S. 17; P.A. 73-462, S. 2, 3; P.A. 74-217, S. 2, 4; P.A. 76-254, S. 9, 11; P.A.
77-614, S. 67, 610; P.A. 79-621, S. 20, 24; P.A. 80-57, S. 2; P.A. 96-168, S. 19, 34.)
History: 1969 act substituted "vacation" days for "calendar" days in Subsec. (b) and added Subsec. (d) re vacation
accruals of unclassified employees; P.A. 73-462 replaced "regulations ... prior to June 30, 1967" with reference to departmental policy included in terms of employment prior to July 1, 1972; P.A. 74-217 required verification of accruals by
written attendance records; P.A. 76-254 included permanent part-time employees in provision for prorating vacation for
less than full year's service; P.A. 77-614 replaced personnel policy board with commissioner of administrative services;
P.A. 79-621 changed day basis for accrual to hourly basis provided there is no diminishment of entitlement; P.A. 80-57
amended Subsec. (a) to make computation of vacation leave on hourly basis optional rather than mandatory substituting
"may" for "shall" and added day equivalencies accordingly; P.A. 96-168 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change
deleting the reference to "seven additional hours" and "one hundred forty hours" in specifying the amount of extra time
earned after 20 years of service, effective July 1, 1996.
Subsec. (a):
Hourly calculation of vacation leave authorized by this section may not operate to reduce the total number of days of
vacation leave that an employee has earned and consequently plaintiffs were entitled to the number of days of vacation
leave previously earned, despite an increase in the number of hours in their standard work day. 249 C. 693.
Subsec. (c):
"Day" of personal leave represents an entire twenty-four-hour period for which a state employee elects not to work,
but, nonetheless, is paid. 267 C. 255. Legislature's use of terms "day" and "holiday" reflects its intent that employees shall
be compensated for leave commensurate with their scheduled hours during the calendar day. Id.