{"id":28964,"date":"2025-12-18T09:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=28964"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:16:31","slug":"final-reminder-vacation-carryover-1231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/final-reminder-vacation-carryover-1231\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Reminder: Vacation Carryover 12\/31!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the end of the semester and the holidays approach, we want to remind you of the university\u2019s vacation carryover policy. Full-time, twelve-month employees are eligible to carry over up to\u00a0<strong>two weeks<\/strong>\u00a0of unused vacation time into the new year, beginning January 1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>35-hour\/week employees may carry over up to\u00a0<strong>70 hours<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>40-hour\/week employees, may carry over up to\u00a0<strong>80 hours<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any vacation time in excess of the carryover limit will\u00a0<strong>not<\/strong>\u00a0carry over and will be lost if not used by\u00a0<strong>December 31, 2025<\/strong>. We encourage you to plan ahead to schedule any time off before the winter break and the years\u2019 end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full-time, twelve month employees received their final vacation accrual on December 17. Any hours in excess of the carryover limit should be used before 12\/31\/25. Leave balances can be checked any time on the portal under Wilkes @ Work \u2192 Self Service Banner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>*Note that all sick time rolls over from year to year and is never lost. Accrued and unused personal time will remain available to use until May 31, 2025.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please review the following policies and feel free to reach out to the Human Resources office with any questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkes.edu\/about-wilkes\/offices-and-administration\/human-resources\/employee-policy-manual\/vacation-benefits.aspx\">Vacation Benefits (Staff &amp; 12M Faculty)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkes.edu\/about-wilkes\/offices-and-administration\/human-resources\/employee-policy-manual\/vacation-benefits-non-exempt-upd.aspx\">Vacation Benefits (Non-Exempt UPD Staff)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the end of the semester and the holidays approach, we want to remind you of the university\u2019s vacation carryover policy. Full-time, twelve-month employees are eligible to carry over up to\u00a0two weeks\u00a0of unused vacation time into the new year, beginning January 1: 35-hour\/week employees may carry over up to\u00a070 hours 40-hour\/week employees, may carry over&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/final-reminder-vacation-carryover-1231\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Final Reminder: Vacation Carryover 12\/31!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28974,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions\/28974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}