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Active Duty for the Purpose of Specialized Training:
In cases where an employee volunteers or is ordered to active duty for the purpose of special training, the employee will be placed on leave without pay for the period of training unless the employee elects to use the employee’s accrued annual leave. This leave without pay is given in addition to the paid leave for annual military training. The employee retains eligibility rights including accumulated annual leave (unless the above option has been exercised) and any sick leave not coverused yourat absencethe time the employee begins the training. The employee does not accumulate annual or sick leave during the leave without pay period, and the annual leave accrual rate will be calculated as though there had been no period of absence.
When the employee is released from work?active duty, the employee shall be reinstated to the position vacated or an equivalent position for which the employee is qualified in the same agency or its successor in interest.
Employees performing active military service for fewer than thirty-one (31) days must report for reemployment on the first regularly scheduled workday within eight (8) hours after discharge from military service. Those serving more than thirty (30) but less than one hundred and eighty-one (181) days must report within fourteen (14) days after discharge. Those serving more than one hundred and eighty (180) days must report for reemployment within ninety (90) days after discharge from military service.
The reinstated employee will not lose any seniority rights with respect to leave accrual rates, salary increases, reduction in force policies, or other benefits and privileges of employment. The A-Stateperiod Catastrophicof Leavemilitary Bankservice isshall, herefor purposes of computations to help!determine whether such persons may be entitled to retirement benefits, be deemed continuous service and the employee shall not be required to make any contributions to any state supported retirement fund. To receive service credit for retirement purposes, a copy of the employee's DD214 must be submitted to the appropriate retirement system. The retirement system will notify the university to remit the
employer's contributions to update the employee's account.
CatastrophicFormer Leave
employees Whatreturning isto the university after military service, but who extended their enlistment or reenlisted for additional military service beyond the initial period for more than a period of four (4) years (or five (5), when re-enlistment was at the request of the military) will lose all re-instatement rights and will be considered a Catastrophicrehire. Illness?
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Do I qualify to receive Catastrophic Leave?
Employees who have 80 hours of vacation and/or sickpaid leave in the systemnew atcalendar year. To be eligible for emergency active military duty paid leave, the onsetemployee must be actively employed by the university and submit a copy of anmilitary illnessorders orfor injuryeach emergency deployment.
Military leave for emergency active-duty situations is granted in addition to annual military leave for training purposes and haveannual completed the two years of service may apply for Catastrophic Leave or for a Catastrophic Leave for Dependent/Child to supplement their income while they are on leave from the University.
How do I apply for Catastrophic Leave?
Complete the Catastrophic Leave Application or the Dependent Child Certification Form.leave.
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For purposes of computations to determine whether the employee may be approvedentitled to retirement benefits, the period of the leave of absence shall be deemed continuous service.
ASU System shall continue to contribute its portion of any life or disability insurance premiums during the leave of absence on behalf of the employee, if requested, so that continuous coverage may be maintained.
Proportionate Pay for Military Members:
During the period that an employee of the ASU System is called into active duty, as a member of the National Guard or any of the reserve components of the armed forces by order of the UniversityPresident or the Governor, of an emergency nature for usecontingency byfor othermore employeesthan tothirty supplement(30) theirconsecutive income while they are on leave fromdays, the University.
Aftershall completing two years of service with Arkansas State University, employees becomebe eligible for continued proportionate salary payments, which when combined with the Catastrophicemployee’s Leaveactive Bankduty Program.pay, incentives, and allowances, except for uniform and clothing allowances, equal the amount that the employee would have otherwise received but for the employee’s required active duty under the order of the President or the Governor.
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Payments dating back to September 11, 2001, to the present are to be paid as a onetime lump sum payment. Thereafter, if the employee is still on active duty, payments will be made on a bi-weekly basis.
Employees must provide a Leave Bankand areEarning critical.Statement Onceshowing the Catastrophicemployees’ Leavemilitary Bankpay isor depleted,Form DD214 which indicates the programdate the employee was called to active duty and the date released from active duty.
Leave and Earning Statements for those currently on active duty, after the initial submission to payroll, need only be submitted thereafter when a pay change occurs. The payments will be subject to state and federal taxes.
Benefit eligible, full-time employees who work forty (40) hours per week, who are members of the National Guard or any of the reserve branches of the US Armed Forces will be granted leave at the rate of fifteen (15) working days per calendar year, plus necessary travel time for annual training purposes. Up to fifteen (15) unused military leave days may be carried over to the succeeding year for a maximum of thirty (30) military leave days for military training purposes for that calendar year.
Military leave for annual training will be granted without loss of pay and shall be in addition to annual leave. Any employee volunteering for training in addition to annual training shall take annual leave for that elective training.
The employee must attach a copy of the employee’s military orders to each request for military leave.
More questions about the Catastrophicprovisions Leavefor ormilitary the Catastrophic Leave Bank Program?members? View the OperatingStaff ProcedureHandbook or contact Human Resources!
A-State Human Resources
870-972-3454
HR@AState.edu