The College of Wooster
PA-12: Employee Rights
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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Reporter |
Brian
Webb Director of Campus Sustainability President's Office |
12.1 Number of weeks of paid maternity leave
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the maternity leave options available to employees:
The College supports employees who have the dual concern of maintaining a balance between
their work and family obligations through the provision of a Parental Leave policy. The purpose
of parental leave is to provide a birth mother, father, domestic partner or adoptive parent with
paid time off to recover from childbirth and/or to care for and bond with a newborn or newlyadopted child.
Eligibility
An eligible employee is a faculty or staff member who becomes a new parent, has completed at
least one year of service prior to the date parental leave is to begin, and is employed in a
regular full-time position working at least 1820 hours annually (.875 FTE)
Plan Provisions
An employee who has or shares primary responsibility for the care of a newborn child or a
newly-adopted child is eligible for six weeks of leave with normal pay and benefits during the
first twelve weeks immediately following the birth or adoption.
Parental Leave may be used at one time or intermittently during the first 12 weeks immediately
following the birth or adoption event.
Paid or unpaid time taken under this parental leave is credited against any available Family &
Medical Leave Act leave time.
Employees are expected to return to normal job responsibilities at the conclusion of the leave.
Persons failing to return and to continue working at the College for a minimum of one year
after the leave are required to repay the six weeks of paid leave time. Any balance owed will be
deducted from the final pay.
Applying for Parental Leave
Employees should give notice of the approximate time of desired leave to the immediate
supervisor as soon as possible by submitting a written request for Parental Leave on the
College’s Leave of Absence form. A promissory note, agreeing to repay the net parental leave
balance if the employee does not return to work for one year after the leave, must be signed by
the employee prior to the leave period.
Restrictions
If both parents are employed by the College, only one parental leave will be allowed per family.
However, the parents may split the parental leave benefit of six weeks between them.
Leave benefits will be paid only for periods in which the employee would otherwise have
worked.
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
12.2 Percentage of employees eligible for paid all-gender family/medical leave
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s eligibility criteria for paid family/medical leave:
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12.3 Published measures to protect employee rights
Does the institution publish information on grievance resolution in a format that is accessible to all employees?:
Does the institution publish information on whistleblower protections in a format that is accessible to all employees?:
Does the institution publish information on freedom of association in a format that is accessible to all employees?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s published measures to protect employee rights:
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
Optional documentation
Additional documentation for this credit:
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