Agency leave policies reorganized
On December 1, 2010, Human Resources published a major reorganization of the personnel directives regarding leave benefits. The reorganization eliminated redundancy and consolidated the types of leave to help make the directives easier to use.
Most of the changes are to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act, which was amended in January 2009 and has since been clarified by the U.S. Department of Labor. Additional changes were mandated by Texas statutes and executive management decisions.
PD-06 and PD-51 were eliminated, with their subject matter moved to other directives. Several procedural changes were made that benefit all TDCJ employees, such as greater flexibility regarding the types of leave you may use while taking Family Medical Leave (FML).
Changes to directives include:
- PD-46 has been renamed Medical and Parental Leave and now includes FML procedures, state parental leave, sick leave, extended sick leave and leave without pay – medical.
- PD-49 has been renamed Leaves Other than Medical and Parental. Look here for procedures regarding vacation, overtime, holiday time, compensatory leave, most types of administrative leave and leave without pay.
- PD-50 Sick Leave Pool. All procedures regarding the sick leave pool can be found here.
- PD-53 was renamed Employee Awards and Recognition and now includes procedures regarding administrative leave for outstanding performance (ALOP).
- PD-76 Employment and Reemployment of Members of the Uniformed Services now contains all information regarding the various types of military leave, including administrative leave and leave without pay.
All Human Resources personnel directives can be found on INFOPAC and on the Human Resources page of the TDCJ website.
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