Annual Leave

• A faculty member serving on an academic-year contract of less than ten months is not entitled to paid annual leave.

• A full-time faculty member serving on a ten-month academic-year contract is entitled to fifteen calendar days of paid annual leave which shall be the last fifteen days of the ten-month contract period, unless otherwise designated at the time of appointment. Such paid annual leave time may not be carried forward into the next fiscal year.

• A part-time faculty member appointed on at least a 50% of full-time basis and serving on a ten-month academic-year contract is entitled to annual leave on a pro-rata basis. Such leave shall be taken as the final days of the ten-month contract period, unless otherwise designated at the time of appointment. Such paid annual leave time may not be carried forward into the next fiscal year.

• A full-time faculty member serving on a fiscal-year contract shall earn twenty-two (22) days of paid annual leave and three (3) days of paid personal leave per calendar year. Beginning with the twenty-first year of employment, a full-time faculty member serving on a fiscal-year contract shall earn twenty-five (25) days of paid annual leave and three (3) days of paid personal leave per calendar year.

• A part-time faculty member appointed on at least a 50% of full-time basis and serving on a fiscal-year contract shall earn, use, accrue, and be eligible for payment of annual and personal leave, on a pro-rata basis, on the same terms available to full-time fiscal-year faculty members.

• The time taken as paid annual leave shall have the concurrence of the supervisor.

• Annual leave may be accumulated, but only a maximum of fifty (50) work days may be carried forward into a new calendar year.

• At the end of each calendar year, a supervisor may, through appropriate channels, recommend to the institution’s Chief Executive Officer or designee that a fiscal-year faculty member be paid for days of annual leave lost because of the denial of an annual-leave request. The supervisor’s recommendation for payment for lost annual leave shall be accompanied by a written explanation of why the lost annual leave was not taken at another time during the calendar year. Payment is at the discretion of the chief executive officer or designee. It is also limited to unused annual leave that is in excess of the maximum accumulation and that is lost by the employee at the end of the calendar year.

• A fiscal-year faculty member transferring from one University System of Maryland institution to another shall be entitled to carry into the new position all unused annual leave accumulated at the time of transfer. Fiscal-year faculty members leaving the University System of Maryland to take another State position who are not entitled to transfer accumulated leave and fiscal-year faculty members leaving State service shall be compensated for all unused annual leave accumulated up to the date of resignation.

• Unused paid personal leave days may not be carried forward into the next calendar year and are not eligible for compensation upon termination.

For fiscal-year faculty members who are paid in whole or in part from contracts or grants, constituent institutions may limit the number of days of unused annual leave for which such employees may be paid upon leaving employment in the System. Any such limit shall be made a part of the employee’s written employment contract.