{"id":291,"date":"2024-07-17T19:45:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:24:04","slug":"p828","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/p828\/","title":{"rendered":"828 \u00a0Employee Attendance during Inclement Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Approved by President<\/strong>
Effective Date:\u00a0January 21, 2025
Responsible Division: Business and Finance
Responsible Office: \u00a0Human Resource Services
Responsible Officer: \u00a0Assistant Vice President, Human Resource Services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I.  Purpose<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This policy provides a uniform method of handling weather related absences that occur when employees are prevented or delayed from getting to work, or leave work early, because of a severe storm, snow accumulation, icy roads, flooding, etc., and to provide guidelines in the event Â鶹ÊÓƵ (MTSU or University) is officially closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

II.  Accounting for Time Missed (No Official Closedown)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a weather-day occurs, usually some employees make it to work and others do not. MTSU does not give free time off for such absences, unless the University is officially closed, as provided in this policy. Time missed is accounted for by permitting the employee to elect to be paid for the absence by charging the time to accumulated annual leave, if applicable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, if employees are given permission to leave work early, the work time missed is accounted for as annual leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

III. Official Closedowns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the University is officially closed, the following conditions apply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Employees in other than essential services, as determined by the supervisor:\n
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    1. An employee shall receive pay for the part of the work schedule missed during the official closedown period in the following circumstances:\n
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      1. Employee is at work until the closedown officially begins, irrespective of the time of arrival to work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Employee is informed not to report for work during the closedown.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. The status of an employee who is on approved annual or sick leave prior to the official closedown and not scheduled to work or is on a regularly scheduled day off, layoff, or leave of absence without pay does not change because there is an official closedown.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Employees in essential services, as determined by the supervisor:\u00a0 An employee who is required by the supervisor to work during an official closedown will be paid in accordance with\u00a0Policy 802 Hours of Work<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        IV. Remote Operations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        If the University transitions to remote operations, the following conditions apply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. Regular operations are assumed, and each department\/unit must plan for operational continuity by identifying and notifying employees who are expected to work during remote operations. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Forms:  none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Revisions: June 5, 2024; January 21, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Last Reviewed: January 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          References: Policy 802 Hours of Work. Policy 725 Inclement Weather <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Approved by PresidentEffective Date:\u00a0January 21, 2025Responsible Division: Business and FinanceResponsible Office: \u00a0Human Resource ServicesResponsible Officer: \u00a0Assistant Vice President, Human Resource Services I.  Purpose This policy provides a uniform method of handling weather related absences that occur when employees are prevented or delayed from getting to work, or leave work early, because of a severe storm, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-bannernosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/policies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}