Personal Time Accruals
Bentley provides full-time, non-union staff employees with personal time to attend to matters they may want to handle without using vacation. While personal time can be used for any reason, employees must schedule personal time in advance with their supervisors. Personal time must be used before June 30th each year; unused personal time cannot be carried over to the following fiscal year.
Personal time will be granted as follows:
2019/2020 Academic Year
| If you are hired in the 2019/2020 Academic Year and your hire date is… | ||||||
| Work Schedule | Available July 1st | Before December 31st | Between January and April | In May or June | ||
| 10 and 12-month, 35 hrs/week | 14 | 14 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 10 and 12-month, 40 hrs/week | 16 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||
| 9-month employee, 35 hrs/week | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 9-month employee, 40 hrs/week | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | ||
2020/2021 Academic Year
| If you are hired in the 2020/2021 Academic Year and your hire date is… | ||||||
| Work Schedule | Available July 1st | Before December 31st | In January or February | In March or April | In May or June | |
| 10 and 12-month, 35 hrs/week | 21 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 0 | |
| 10 and 12-month, 40 hrs/week | 24 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 0 | |
| 9-month employee, 35 hrs/week | 11 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 0 | |
| 9-month employee, 40 hrs/week | 12 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 0 | |
* Part-time, less-than-half-time, temporary, casual, and seasonal employees are not eligible for personal days.
* For Bargaining Unit employees, the time off provisions in the union contracts apply.
Non-exempt employees can use personal time in quarter-hour increments. Exempt staff who are absent for 4 or more hours in a workday, but less than a whole day, must record 4 hours. Exempt employees who take off less than four hours are expected to make up their work in a timely manner.
Summer Schedule
Employees who work the compressed work week during Bentley’s Summer Schedule and who use personal time will be required to use the number of hours they would be scheduled to work (i.e. 8.75 hours per day for a 35-hour per week employee and 10 hours per day for a 40-hour per week employee).
Termination of Employment
Employees will not be paid for unused personal time when their employment with Bentley terminates. An employee’s last day of employment must be the last day actually worked and cannot be a vacation day or a personal day.
Date last revised: March 2020