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Don’t forfeit your leave! Information on 2020 leave & winter break.

Regular Staff, 12-month Faculty, and Librarians, as we near the end of the year, please review the important information below about 2020 leave, floating holidays, and winter break. This information and the Significant Date Calendar will help you manage your leave and safeguard you from forfeiting leave.

2020 Leave

• Personal leave and accrued holiday leave must be used by pay period ending 01/12/2021 or the leave will be forfeited.
• The maximum amount of annual leave that can be carried into 2021 is 60 days (or 480 hours). This amount increased previously from 50 days (400 hours) to 60 days (480 hours) due to a temporary USM exception to annual leave carryover limits due to the circumstances related to COVID-19. This includes any annual leave earned and/or used in pay period ending 01/12/2021.
• The maximum amount of annual leave part-time employees may carry over to 2021 is pro-rated based on the percentage of time employed.

2020 Floating Holidays

• The floating holidays you earned this year include President’s Day (February 17^th), Columbus Day (October 12^th), Election Day (November 3^rd) and Veterans Day (November 11^th). You must be employed on the date of the holiday, and in an active pay status, to earn the floating holiday.
• Floating holidays are intended to cover part of the winter break. Floating holidays are to be used over the winter break on: Tuesday, December 29^th, Wednesday, December 30^th and Thursday, December 31^st. If you did not save your floating holidays to cover winter break, you must use accrued personal leave, annual leave, or leave without pay to cover those days (this may not apply to all staff and faculty so please refer to the Winter Break timesheets posted in TU Today on December 17^th and December 18^th).
• Since this year is a general election year, most employees will earn four floating holidays. Three floating holidays are needed to cover the winter break, so some employees may have an additional floating holiday to use by pay period ending 01/12/2021.

Winter Break

Below are the links to find the Winter Break timesheet examples that were posted in TU Today as reference on how to use your holidays and floating holidays.

Regular Exempt Staff, 12-Month Faculty and Librarians

Regular Non-Exempt Staff

If you have any questions about your leave, email leavebenefits@towson.edu.

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This post was written by Morrow, Jennifer G.