AACC staff will no longer receive frontloaded Paid Time Off (PTO) on July first.

Staff members now have to accrue any vacation days they plan to take, rather than get them all at once. In previous years, staff members have received four weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO) in
advance on July first. Now, staff will accrue time off at every pay.

“There’s a lot of confusion regarding actual leave balances,” Suzanne Boyle, the executive director of human resources, said. “So when people look and they see their leave … what you actually see is big, front loaded [number]. But you don’t actually accrue it until you work throughout the entire fiscal year.”

Boyle explains that in some instances staff members had been required to pay back any leave you took without being accrued.

“People didn’t anticipate having to pay that leave back,” Boyle said.

The college is switching the system of record they use to keep track of PTO, so there is less confusion about how much time off staff members have earned.

Despite the changes in how they are received, staff members still earn the same amount of annual and sick leave over the fiscal year.

The annual leave changes apply to full and part-time regular staff, and 12-month faculty. Sick leave changes apply to regular full and part time staff and 10 and 12 month faculty.