Personal holiday must be used by Dec. 31
All permanent classified and professional staff employees must use their 2013 personal holiday by Dec. 31; if it's not used, it's lost. Staff will accrue another personal holiday for the 2014 calendar year that will be available Jan. 1.
The winter break day will be available for permanent classified and professional staff to use from Saturday, Dec. 15, through Monday, Jan. 6. This leave appeared on the Dec. 1-15 timesheet but can only be used starting Dec. 15. Refer to your Collective Bargaining Agreement or Handbook for more details.
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Employees may consent to receive W2聽online:聽Employees who can access it quicker than the paper form that is mailed and print a W2 whenever needed throughout the year. Those who consent to receive a W2 online will not receive a paper copy in the mail. Not receiving your W2 online? Make sure your W2 address is correct. .
Minimum wage increase for 2014: Washington state鈥檚 minimum wage will be increasing to $9.32/hour on Jan. 1. Adjustments to those student employees who are currently below $9.32 will be made by Human Resources.
Cyclic leave: Employees on cyclic appointments who have scheduled cyclic leave during the intersession must report cyclic leave on their timesheets. Supervisors and approvers are responsible for ensuring that their cyclic employees have an updated cyclic schedule for fiscal year 2014 (July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014), that employees are aware of their scheduled cyclic days, and that the time is reported as noted on the schedule. If cyclic leave is not reported, the employee will be overpaid and the department鈥檚 personnel budget will be overspent.
Holidays and alternate workweek schedules: If a holiday falls on a regularly scheduled day of work and employees don't work on the holiday, they report leave for hours they would typically work on that day over and above the hours the system will pay for. If a holiday falls on a normally scheduled day off and employees don't work on the holiday, they should report Holiday Comp Earned聽hours on the holiday for the聽appointment percentage only.