{"id":724,"date":"2016-06-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/?page_id=724"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T18:56:15","slug":"partial-day-absences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/overtime-for-staff\/partial-day-absences\/","title":{"rendered":"Partial-day absences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"cursor:pointer\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/overtime-for-staff\/partial-day-absences\/#Overtime-eligible\" >Overtime-eligible<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/overtime-for-staff\/partial-day-absences\/#Overtime-exempt\" >Overtime-exempt<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/overtime-for-staff\/partial-day-absences\/#FMLA\" >FMLA<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>This policy on partial-day absences applies only to professional staff and UAW &#8211; Research Scientist Engineer bargaining unit employees.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Overtime-eligible\"><\/span><strong>Overtime-eligible<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you are overtime-eligible, you must use appropriate paid leave to cover a partial-day absence. If you do not have accrued leave, your absence will be unpaid.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Overtime-exempt\"><\/span><strong>Overtime-exempt<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you are overtime-exempt, you are expected to work to complete your job responsibilities, which sometimes may involve working extra hours. Therefore, an occasional partial-day absence does not require the use of paid leave. Of course, such absences should not be frequent or lengthy.<\/p>\n<p>Even though you do not need to use paid leave for a partial-day absence, you must get supervisor approval for the time off.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"FMLA\"><\/span><strong>FMLA<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For both overtime-eligible and overtime-exempt staff, any partial-day absence that is covered by <a href=\"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/ops\/leaves\/fmla\/\">FMLA<\/a> must be recorded as FMLA and charged to an appropriate leave balance. If paid leave is not available, you must take\u00a0leave without pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about the required use of paid leave for partial-day absences by professional staff employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":137,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12351,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions\/12351"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}