FY 2018-19 Special Bonus Leave:

• Will remain available during the length of the employee’s employment.
• Has no cash value.
• Cannot be paid out at the end of employment or applied to total state service.
• Will expire upon an employee’s separation or retirement from UNC-Chapel Hill.
• Will not pay out upon an employee’s separation or retirement from UNC-Chapel Hill.
• Can be used before exhausting comp time.
• Can be used to make up adverse weather liabilities that occurred on or after July 1, 2018.
• Is transferable with the employee who transfers (without a break in service) to another state agency position that is eligible for this Special Bonus Leave.
• Has a leave offsetting provision:
• If FY 2018-19 Special Bonus Leave is used in a year when an employee has more than 240 annual leave hours at the end of the calendar year, it will offset the hours that normally would transfer to the employee’s sick leave hours.
• Any FY 2018-19 Special Bonus Leave used will reduce the amount of annual leave over 240 hours (192 hours for postdoc/house officers) that roll over to sick leave at the end of each calendar year and be add those hours back to the FY 2018-19 Special Bonus Leave balance.

Permanent full-time and part-time leave-earning SHRA and EHRA are eligible to receive the FY 2018-19 Special Bonus Leave. Permanent part-time employees shall receive a pro rata amount of the five days (40 hours).

To receive the FY 2018-19 Special Bonus Leave, employees must meet all of the following criteria:

• Full-time employment.
• Employed (in pay status) with the state of North Carolina on July 1, 2018.
• Eligible to earn vacation leave on July 1, 2018.
• Permanent, probationary or time-limited appointment.

Note: Full-time employees who work less than 12 months (nine-, 10-, or 11-month employees) and permanent part-time employees who work less than 40 hours per week shall receive a pro rata amount of leave.

Session Law 2018-5 granted FY 2018-19 Special Bonus Leave to be effective on July 1, 2018.

• Employees may use FY 2017-18 Special Bonus Leave for time taken on or after July 1, 2017.
• Only vacation and bonus leave used beginning July 1, 2017, may be submitted for change. No changes prior to July 1, 2017, can be made; changes must have been made by September 27, 2017.
• Any balance of Special Bonus Leave will be transferred with the employee who transfers (without a break in service) to another state agency position eligible for special bonus leave.
• Employees use Special Bonus Leave to make up adverse weather liabilities if the adverse weather leave occurred on or after July 1, 2017.

Leave-earning SHRA/EHRA employees received FY 2017-18 Special Bonus Leave. Part-time leave-earning employees received a pro rata amount of the three days of FY 2017-18 Special Bonus Leave.

Session Law 2017-57 granted Special Bonus Leave to be effective on July 1, 2017.

Amount of Leave	Effective Date
80 Hours	Sept. 30, 2002
80 Hours	July 1, 2003
40 Hours	Sept. 1, 2005
40 Hours	Sept. 1, 2014

• Any balance of Bonus Leave on Dec. 31 will be retained by the employee and carried forward into the next calendar year.
• This leave will not be part of the maximum 240 hours of annual leave that can be retained.
• This leave will not be subject to conversion to sick leave.
• Any Bonus Leave balance can be transferred with the transferring employee to another state agency eligible for Bonus Leave.
• Bonus Leave balances can be paid out in addition to regular annual leave payouts if the employee separates or the employee changes to a non-leave-eligible status.
• Bonus Leave may be applied to negative leave balances.

Bonus Leave was prorated based on the following criteria:

• Full-time, leave-eligible employees who work less than 12 months.
• Permanent, part-time, leave-eligible employees (> .5 FTE).

Bonus Leave shall be used after all compensatory time has been used, and it may be used for any purpose for which regular annual leave is used.