Parental Leave
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POLICY LEAVES
Purpose: To establish policy and procedures concerning employee leaves.
Policy:
- 7. Parental Leave
- Granted when employee becomes biological parent or pending adoption of a child
- 12 month employee receives full pay not to exceed 26 consecutive weeks
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9 month employee receives full pay during Fall or Spring semester and at .33 FTE
during Summer A or B, for a period not to exceed twenty-six consecutive weeks -
May use a combination of paid leave, accrued leave and leave without pay in addition
to paid parental leave if a period longer than 26 weeks is requested -
Once during employment, the 26 consecutive weeks of parental leave may be split and
allow the use of parental leave for a subsequent birth or adoption of a child -
The President or designee shall acknowledge to the employee in writing the period
of paid parental leave to be taken and the date of return to employment -
Subsequent to the use of parental leave, 9 month employees may be required to return
FIU for 2 semesters. 12 month employees may be required to return to FIU for 6 months.
If employee fails or refuses to return, FIU may recoup the value of the parental leave
period of paid parental leave to be taken and the date of return to employment - Foster care is not covered under parental leave but is provided through the FMLA provisions
Note: Florida International University remains the only state university to provide faculty 6
months of parental leave. This policy was first bargained 3 years ago, and most recently
re-bargained to allow faculty to split the 6 months of parental leave rather than use it all
at one time.
See: page 74 of
CBA 2015 – 2018
for further information
Grievance chair: