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Don’t forfeit your leave! Info on 2022 leave & Winter Break

Regular Exempt and Non-Exempt Staff and 12-Month Faculty & Librarians

As we near the end of the year, please review the important information below about 2022 leave, floating holidays, and winter break. This information and the Significant Dates Calendar will help you manage your leave and safeguard you from forfeiting leave.

2022 Leave

• Personal leave and accrued Holiday leave must be used by pay period ending 1/10/23 or the leave will be forfeited.
• The maximum amount of Annual leave that can be carried into 2023 is 50 days (400 hours). This includes any Annual leave earned and/or used in the pay period ending 1/10/23.
• The maximum amount of Annual leave part-time employees may carry over to 2023 is pro-rated based on the percentage of time employed.

2022 Floating Holidays

• The floating holidays you earned or will earn this year include President’s Day (February 21), Columbus Day (October 10), Election Day (November 8) and Veteran’s Day (November 11). 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. If you do not save your floating holidays to cover winter break, you must use accrued personal or annual leave to cover those days.

Winter Break 

The dates of the 2022 winter break and corresponding holiday type are below:

Monday, December 26th              State holiday – Christmas Day (Observed)

Tuesday, December 27th              University holiday

Wednesday, December 28th       Winter Break – Floating holiday*

Thursday, December 29th            Winter Break – Floating holiday*

Friday, December 30^th                    Winter Break – Floating holiday*

*Employees without accrued floating holidays to cover these days must use Personal or Annual leave.  Sick leave may not be used unless an employee is already on approved medical leave. If the employee does not have Personal or Annual leave available, these dates will be Leave W/O Pay (LWOPU).

Employees in 24/7 operations should discuss their holiday leave schedule with their supervisors. Holiday leave earned in 2022 must be used by 1/10/23.

Helpful Reminders

• Check your leave statement to ensure you have leave available before you record leave on your time sheet.
• Use the appropriate leave code when completing your time sheet.
• Check your time sheet to be sure any default time sheets are changed to reflect leave used.
• Use accrued Personal and Holiday leave first since this leave does not carry over.
• Manage your annual leave so you do not exceed the maximum 50-day carry over to next year.
• Employees – Review your time sheet carefully before approving.
• Supervisors – Review your employees’ time sheets for accuracy before approving and submitting to payroll. You are able to check the employees’ leave by viewing their Leave Balance.

Please follow these guidelines.  If you have questions about your leave, email leavebenefits@towson.edu.

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This post was written by Lam, Irene M.