File:  GCD - Administrative and Exempt (251 day employees) Staff Vacations and Holidays

This policy applies only to Administrative and Exempt staff that work 251 paid days per contract year.

Administrative and Exempt staff will be paid ten (10) paid holidays per year including: Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the Friday after Thanksgiving (granted in lieu of Presidents Day) Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day.

All full time administrators and exempt staff shall be entitled to annual vacation leave of twenty (20) working days per contract year.

Generally, vacation days accumulated during a contract year should be used before June 30 of that year. Vacation days may be held over to the following year, up to a maximum of two (2) years (forty (40) working days) vacation leave. Extenuating circumstances may be approved by the superintendent or designee.

Accumulated vacation leave is paid out at the administrative and exempt staff member's hourly rate of pay at separation (termination or resignation).

Adopted: August 22, 1995
Revised: November 8, 2018
Revised: November 3, 2022
Revised: June 15, 2023

CROSS REF.:   GCA-E-2, Administrator's Contract

LEGAL REF.:  C.R.S. 22-1-112 (school year-national holidays)