Vacation & Personnal Time Policy

[Guest rbk08]

Hi,

We are a private 9-12 high school in Massachusetts and are re-writing our handbook this year. I am interested in revising our vacation policy and would love to know what other independent schools do for their faculty and administration. This is what we currently do:

Faculty: school breaks and summer off; 10 sick days; personal time at the discretion of the Head of School

Administrators (director level): 20 vacation days per fiscal year; 10 sick days; personal time (only after all vacation time has been used) at the discretion of the Head of School

Administrative Staff (support level): 10 vacation days per fiscal yr; sick and personal same as Administrators

Currently, vacation days roll over from year to year and do not expire, with no cap. Also, vacation time does not increase after a certain number of years...you always just get 10 or 20 days depending on your classification.

I don't like our current policy and would like to change it -- any sample policies or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks!

~R

[Sheila K]

A quick internet search should reveal PTO/vacation policies for many public schools, as they are considered public information. I don't know how many private school folks we have on these boards, but if you are interested in other businesses and their policies (and please let us know if you are!) then I think we can provide some information!

Please let us know!!!

P.S. I wouldn't like your policy either!!! I live for my time off!!!

[Guest Sieve]

There may be some information in publications available to NAIS member schools, or your regional accredidation orgnization