Paid Sick Leave

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New York Institute of Technology provides paid sick leave to all employees at its New York and Arkansas campuses in compliance with state and local law, including the New York State Paid Sick Leave law.

Full-time, part-time, and temporary employees are covered by this policy. Student employees are also covered. See student employee handbook for additional information. Time-off benefits for union represented employees are addressed in the applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Paid sick leave is accrued over the course of a calendar year, as set forth below. Employees taking paid sick leave are expected to contact their designated supervisor as soon as possible or a minimum of one hour prior to the start of their shift.

Full-Time Non-Union Employees

Full-time employees accrue paid sick leave starting with the first month of regular full-time employment at the rate of one day per month (total of 12 days per year). Paid sick leave can be used in either half day or full day increments and must be recorded on employee timesheets via the online Self-Service Application portal.

Paid sick leave can be utilized for the employee's own mental or physical illness, or injury, or diagnosis, care, treatment, or preventive care for employee's mental or physical illness or injury. In addition, up to fifty-six (56 hours) per calendar year of the employee's accrued paid sick leave may be used for the following:

Absences related to employee's status as a victim of domestic violence, family offense, sexual offense, stalking, or human trafficking
A family member's mental or physical illness or injury or diagnosis, care, treatment, or preventive care for a covered family member's mental or physical illness or injury
Absences related to a family member's status as a victim of domestic violence, family offense, sexual offense, stalking, or human trafficking

Family Member is defined as an employee's child (biological, adopted, step, or foster child, a legal ward, or a child of an employee standing in loco parentis), spouse, domestic partner, parent (biological, foster, step, adoptive, legal guardian, or person who stood in loco parentis when the employee was a minor child), sibling, grandchild, or grandparent, and the child or parent of an employee's spouse or domestic partner.

Unused paid sick leave can be carried over into the next year. Unused paid sick leave is not payable upon termination of employment.

Part-Time and Temporary Non-Union Employees

Part-time and temporary employees will accrue one (1) hour of paid sick leave for every thirty (30) hours worked as submitted on the employee timesheets via the Self-Service Application portal. The minimum amount of paid sick leave that can be used in a day is four (4) hours or the scheduled shift for that day, whichever is less. Employees will be paid their normal rate of pay for any paid leave time, or the applicable minimum wage rate, whichever is greater.

A maximum of fifty-six (56) hours can be earned per calendar year and up to fifty-six (56) hours of paid sick leave may be carried over into the following year, but in no event shall the total paid sick leave to be taken exceed fifty-six (56) hours during any one calendar year. Unused paid sick leave is not payable upon termination of employment. Paid sick leave used must be recorded on employee timesheets on the online portal.

Paid sick leave can be utilized for the following reasons:

Employee's mental or physical illness, or injury, or diagnosis, care, treatment, or preventive care for employee's mental or physical illness or injury;
Absences related to employee's status as a victim of domestic violence, family offense, sexual offense, stalking, or human trafficking
A family member's mental or physical illness or injury or diagnosis, care, treatment, or preventive care for a covered family member's mental or physical illness or injury
Absences related to a family member's status as a victim of domestic violence, family offense, sexual offense, stalking, or human trafficking

Employee Responsibilities

In order for New York Tech to remain in compliance with state and local law, all employees must record their use of paid sick leave via timesheets submitted and approved on a timely basis to ensure balances are up to date.

The efficient operation of New York Tech is predicated upon employees maintaining satisfactory attendance records. Disciplinary action up to and including termination may be instituted for abuse or excessive absenteeism even though the employee has sick time remaining. Indications of abuse may include, but are not limited to, a pattern of: (1) use of unscheduled time on or adjacent to weekends, regularly scheduled days off, holidays, vacation or pay day, (2) taking scheduled time on days when other leave has been denied, and (3) taking time on days when the employee is scheduled to work a shift or perform duties perceived as undesirable.

Extended Absence

Full-time and part-time employees who are absent for reasons outlined in this Paid Sick Leave policy for more than seven consecutive calendar days, are required to contact the Benefits Unit of the Office of Human Resources at hrbenefits@nyit.edu. Where applicable, Benefits Unit personnel have the right to ask you to provide documentation confirming the necessity of your absence.

Retaliation

New York Institute of Technology will not retaliate against an employee in any way for exercising their rights to use paid sick leave.

General Information

Employees will be able to view their paid sick leave time banks on the Employee Self-Service Application portal for hours earned since September 30, 2020.

NOTE: For regular full-time employees, any unused accrued "sick time" earned prior to September 30, 2020 remains available, but will not appear in the Self-Service Application portal.

For additional assistance, please contact:

Human Resources (questions about the sick leave policy or timesheet instructions): hr@nyit.edu
Payroll (individual sick time or PSL pay questions for recent time periods): payroll@nyit.edu
Service Central (issues logging in to the self-service application): servicecentral@nyit.edu