Time Off

Time off lets you find that work-life balance you need for a happy and balanced life. Learn about your vacation allowance, holiday schedule, paid leave, parental leave, FMLA, and other types of leave to fit your needs.

Vacation

Vacation Accrual Schedule ensures fair and consistent vacation benefits for all employees, effective January 1, 2003. Based on your date of hire and length of service, you can easily determine your vacation eligibility, accrual rates, and banking maximums.

You accrue vacation starting on your first day of work.

ATLC and IGUA bargaining unit employees refer to your collective bargaining unit agreement.

Vacation hours per year for full-time employees	Years of Service
120	0-9
160	10-19
200	>20

Vacation accrues weekly until you reach the yearly maximum. Employees can carry over up to 200 hours of vacation (not holidays) to the next year. Vacation is prorated based on scheduled hours for part-time employees. Vacation is prorated based on hours worked for casual employees. Employees hired on or before 1/1/1996 receive their vacation as a lump sum on Jan. 1.

Vacation Buy-Out

ORNL offers the option of a ‘vacation buyout’ for all full-time and part-time salaried employees. Casual employees and bargaining unit employees are not eligible. Employees on leaves of absence are also not eligible for vacation buyout. Visit Vacation Buy-out for more information.

Vacation Donation

Employees must use donated vacation for purposes related to a medical emergency involving family member.

To receive donated vacation, recipient must have exhausted all his or her own paid leave time. This includes all vacation (current year vacation, deferred vacation, banked vacation, and up to 40 hours of borrowed vacation for employee on accrual) as well as maximum allowed paid personal leave and floating holiday.

Holidays

ORNL recognizes 11 holidays during the year. The following fixed holidays are observed: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas. Salaried employees may select an additional "floating" holiday of choice. Hourly employees receive an additional day related to Independence Day.

Paid Leave

Paid leave is offered upon proper approval, for absences associated with occasional illness, injury or personal business. Full-time exempt (monthly) employees are eligible for up to 24 hours/year. Non-exempt (weekly) are eligible for up to 48 hours/year. Part-time exempt employees are eligible for up to 16 hours/year. Part-time non-exempt (weekly) are eligible for up to 32 hours/year. Benefit hours are reduced by half if hired after July 1. ATLC and IGUA bargaining unit employees refer to your collective bargaining unit agreement.

Parental Leave

Parental leave provides salaried employees with paid time off to assist in the care and well-being of their newborn or newly adopted child. Full-time employees receive 120 hours and part-time employees receive 60 hours of parental leave per birth or adoption event. ATLC and IGUA bargaining unit employees refer to your collective bargaining unit agreement.

Other Types of Leave

Bereavement / Funeral Leave

With manager approval, up to three days of excused absence with pay for a death in the immediate family. ATLC and IGUA bargaining unit employees refer to your collective bargaining unit agreement. If the funeral is more than five hundred (500) miles away from employee's regular residence, four days are allowed for bereavement.

Military Training and Emergency Duty

Your full basic salary for 2 weeks training in a calendar year. If employee does not use all 80 hours of military training pay in previous calendar year, it may be carried over into next calendar year (in addition to new 80 hours for new year). Emergency duty is available for up to 4-1/3 weeks in a calendar year. ATLC and IGUA bargaining unit employees refer to your collective bargaining unit agreement.

Jury Duty

Your full basic salary is paid to you during your jury duty time. Employee provides immediate supervisor with satisfactory evidence of official call to jury duty. ATLC and IGUA bargaining unit employees refer to your collective bargaining unit agreement.

Family Leave and Medical Act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is federal legislation that requires covered employers provide up to 12 work weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees for certain family and medical reasons.

To be eligible, employees must have worked full or part-time for at least 12 months and have worked at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date on which any FML is to commence.