Benton County Employee Benefits – Paid Leave

Paid Holiday Leave

Per Benton County Personnel Policies, all regular status employees shall receive on day's pay for each of the holidays granted by the County.  Full-time employees shall receive regular compensation and part-time employees shall be compensated on a pro-rated basis based in direct relation to their position's established FTE.  Regular full-time employees on 10 hour shifts will be paid for a 10 hour holiday.  All other full-time employees will be paid an 8 hour holiday.  Part-time employees may either flex their schedules or use accrued vacation or compensatory time in order to maintain the number of regular scheduled work hours in a holiday week.  List of future holiday dates (2010-2020)

*Weekend Holiday - When a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday it will be observed on the scheduled work day nearest the holiday within that work week.

Benton County Deputy Sheriff's Association members (per the BCDSA Handbook): The following holiday are approved holidays: New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Each BCDSA member shall receive a total of 80 hours per fiscal year in a designated holiday leave bank. This time shall be credited to the BCDSA members holiday leave bank on July 1. More information can be found on page 28 of the BCDSA handbook.

BCDSA Handbook Sections:

• 11.1 Holiday
• 11.2 Holiday Date Modification
• 11.3 Holiday Pay - Holiday Not Worked
• 11.4 Holiday Pay - Holiday Worked
• 11.5 Holiday Notification

Two floating holidays are credited to each regular non-probationary employee at the beginning of the fiscal year.  Employees may utilize these holidays as whole days at a time of their choosing, with supervisor approval, with the fiscal year.  Floating holidays not used prior to the end of the fiscal year are forfeited.  Floating holidays are credited to new regular employees following successful completion of six months of service.

Employees represented by a bargaining unit should refer to their labor contract.

Paid Vacation Leave

All regular full time employees shall accrue vacation leave in the following manner:

All regular part-time employees shall accrue vacation time on a pro-rated basis based on the position's established FTE.

Probationary employees shall not accrue vacation time.  Full-time employees shall be credited 48 to 52 hours of vacation leave after the completion of six months of service.  Part-time employees shall be credited vacation time on a pro-rated basis based on the position's established FTE after successful completion of the probationary period.

Employees represented by a bargaining unit should refer to their labor contract.

Paid Sick Leave

All full-time regular, seasonal, and limited duration employees shall accrue sick leave at the rate of 8 hours per month, up to a maximum accrual of 1040 hours.  Those employees with accruals over 1040 on July 1, 2000, will retain that higher amount as their maximum accrual.  No employee may utilize sick leave before actually accruing such leave resulting in a negative sick leave balance.

Regular, seasonal, and limited duration part-time employees whose FTE is .5 or greater shall accrue sick leave on a pro-rated basis based on their positions established FTE.

Temporary, limited part-time, intermittent, and intern employees shall not accrue nor be eligible for paid sick leave.

Employees represented by a bargaining unit should refer to their labor contract.