A bit of trivia: the first day of autumn is just over 30 days away and there are only 128 days left in 2016. That’s about 3,106 hours until 2017!
This year, Monday, Sept. 5, is Labor Day.
In order to accommodate employee requests and reduce costs, Loma Linda University Health administrative offices will close a day early, Sept. 2, the Friday before Labor Day weekend. The extended holiday will affect LLUMC, LLUCH, LLUBMC, LLUMC-Murrieta and LLUSS; all clinical departments will retain their normal holiday schedules and staffing. The revised holiday schedule includes LLU administrative and support offices; university clinical and student support departments will retain their normal holiday schedules and staffing.
With this schedule change, all benefit eligible hourly employees will be provided the option of using either paid leave or unpaid “budget hours” to cover the regularly scheduled hours for these additional days off.
If an employee elects to use budget hours to cover this time off, the employee will not be paid for these hours but will receive full benefit accruals and maintain benefit eligibility. Note that budget hours will only be available for the additional days when departments are closed, not the regularly scheduled holidays.
If an hourly employee wants to be paid for these days when offices are closed, the employee should submit a paid leave calendar request through the API system using the “PDL” code. If an employee wants to save paid leave and take time off without pay, the employee should apply the budget time “BGT” code to cover the time off on the days indicated above.
Budget time does not apply to salaried employees. Salaried employees are expected to use paid leave to cover the additional time off. If a salaried employee does not have adequate paid leave to cover a recognized holiday or the extra days described above, the system will automatically allow the leave balance to go in the negative. If a salaried employee is needed at work on these days, their time should be reported as a salary day of work.
If you have any questions about this schedule change, please contact your supervisor.