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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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2. Permanent and continuous employees not in prevailing rate groups will be excused with full pay. B. In the event that work is required 1. Employees in prevailing rate groups will be compensated in accordance with prevailing practice. 2. Other employees, except those in administrative classifications as approved by the Merit Board, will be compensated by time and one-half payable in cash, in addition to regular compensation. 3. Administrative employees in classifications approved by the Merit Board shall receive no additional compensation. Approval of the following policy concerning Vacations (this is the policy as recommended by the Merit Board, modified by the provision that with respect to employees with ten or more years of service the original proposal for a third week of vacation for all employees be revised as to those in prevailing rate groups to provide that vacations shall be two work weeks in each year of service unless under prevailing practice in their respective employee classifications a longer period of vacation is granted, in which case prevailing practice shall be followed as to that classification). V. Vacations with Full Pay A. For all employees in their first year of service 1. No vacation shall be available for employees with less than six months of service, but at the end of six months of employment, one-half of the first year's vacation as listed in B-i and 2 shall be considered as earned and available, and the fractional amount of the first year's vacation shall be available thereafter in proportion to the fraction of the year worked. B. For all employees in their second and succeeding years of service 1. For all employees having an established basic work week with additional compensation for overtime beyond that work week: a. For those employees with less than ten years of service: Vacation shall be two work weeks in each year of service. b. For those employees with ten or more years of service: Vacation shall be three work weeks in each year of service, except that in the prevailing rate groups vacations shall be two work weeks in each year of sendee unless under prevailing practice in their respective employee classifications a longer period of vacation is provided, in which case prevailing practice shall be followed as to that classification. 2. For all employees in administrative and professional classifications of upper level responsibility as approved by the Merit Board, for whom no fixed or rigid daily and weekly schedule is provided, and the discharge of whose duties usually requires a certain amount of flexibility in such schedule, and for whom no provision is made for the payment of overtime worked except when such overtime is in an excessive amount, one month in each year of service. It is recommended that the effective date of the policy statement concerning Legal Holidays be as of the date of action by the Board; and that the effective date for the changes in the policy concerning the vacations be July I, 1953, provided additional resources are available to cover any added costs involved. The proposals of the Merit Board have also been considered by the State Teachers College Board and the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University. Both boards adopted the proposals in essentially the form as presented by the Merit Board, except for an amendment to Section V, Vacations with Full Pay, which amendment has the effect of eliminating employees in prevailing wage groups from receiving the extension of vacation with full pay from two weeks to three weeks except where vacations longer than two weeks are found to be the prevailing practice in individual employees groups and unless such benefits are included in the establishment of prevailing rates. The Teachers College Board took another important action, namely that no part of this proposed policy would be subject to negotiation with employees but that it would be regarded as constituting the definite regulations of that Board. The University of Illinois policy includes the work week, overtime pay, and Sunday work as items subject to negotiation. Respectively submitted,

ROBERT Z. HICKMAN D O R I S S. H O L T HAROLD E. GRANGE ROBERT Z. HICKMAN H E R B E R T B. MEGRAN W A Y N E A. JOHNSTON

Chairman Committee on Nonacademic Personnel

Chairman Committee on General Policy