Paid Leave Programs

10-Month employees who work four or more hours per day in a given job are eligible for personal leave.  Unused personal leave is transferred to accumulated sick leave at the end of each fiscal year. Licensed employees receive 3 days per school year, and support employees receive 2 days per school year. See Policy GCBD-4 for more information.

The school division observes selected holidays designated annually by the School Board upon approval of the school calendar.  The school division will be closed on these days, and 12-month full-time employees will have these as paid holidays. See Policy GCBD-10 for more information.

If you participate in Virginia Retirement System Plan 1 or Plan 2 (with the exception of Bus Drivers, Bus Aides, Cafeteria Workers, and part-time Custodians), you are eligible to participate in the WPS Sick Leave Bank program.  The sick leave bank program provides continued pay for up to 90 days for eligible employees who have a prolonged, catastrophic, or long-term personal illness or injury and have exhausted their own paid leave allocations. 

See Policy GCBD-2 for more information and details regarding eligibility for the program.

If you are called for jury duty or subpoenaed to give testimony as a witness on a scheduled work day, you may take a leave of absence for the time required to serve on a jury or as a witness for your required presence at the courthouse. 

Employees shall be paid at their regular per diem rate minus the monies received for their services as a juror.  Verification of the call to jury duty or subpoena and the pay received shall be required prior to employees receiving payment from the school division for their absence. For more information for jury duty or civil duty leave, visit the links below:

• Jury Duty Leave - Policy GCBD-7
• Civil Leave - Policy GCBD-8