Touro University Nevada observes the following holidays:

  • New Year’s Day
  • Martin Luther King Day
  • Presidents’ Day
  • Passover – First 2 days & last 2 days
  • Shavuot – 2 days
  • Memorial Day
  • Independence Day
  • Labor Day
  • Rosh Hashanah – 2 days
  • Yom Kippur
  • Sukkot – First 2 days & last 2 days
  • Thanksgiving – Thursday and Friday
  • Floating holiday

Administrative Employee Vacation Benefits

New full-time employees receive 38 hours vacation following 6 months of employment and an additional 38 hours on their one-year anniversary of employment. Following the one-year anniversary, employees accrue vacation every two weeks as follows:

  • 1 through 5 years employment:   2.923 hours
  • 5 through 10 years employment: 4.384 hours
  • 10 plus years employment:         5.846 hours

These accruals are based on a 38-hour workweek.

Faculty Vacation Benefits

All full-time 1.0 FTE faculty accrue paid vacation hours bi-weekly beginning on their first day of employment and according to the following schedule:

  • Year 1 Accrual: 4.39 hours biweekly, 114.14 hours/year
  • Year 2 Accrual: 4.68 hours biweekly, 121.68 hours/year
  • Year 3 Accrual: 4.97 hours biweekly, 129.22 hours/year
  • Year 4 Accrual: 5.27 hours biweekly, 137.02hours/year
  • Year 5 Accrual: 5.56 hours biweekly, 144.56 hours/year
  • Year 6 and Beyond Accrual: 5.85 hours biweekly, 152.1 hours/year

Vacation leave days begin to accrue bi-weekly on the date of appointment of the individual faculty member. Days may be taken upon accrual. For administrative purposes, accrued vacation days are awarded at the end of the bi-weekly payroll processing. Faculty members from .50 to .99 FTE hired after July 1, 2017 will receive a prorated leave schedule based on the FTE (i.e. .50 to .59 FTE receives .5 of the leave accrual, etc).

Administrative Employees

Full-time employees are credited with 22.8 hours personal time per year at the beginning of the new fiscal year (July 1st). Employees who start working on or after January 1st are entitled to 11.4 hours personal time that current fiscal year. Personal time cannot be carried over into the next fiscal year and will not be compensated for upon termination of employment at Touro University Nevada.

Faculty

Full-time employees (1.0 FTE) are credited with 23 hours personal time per year at the beginning of the new fiscal year (July 1st). Faculty members from .50 to .99 FTE hired after July 1, 2017 will receive a prorated leave schedule based on the FTE (i.e. .50 to .59 FTE receives .5 of the leave accrual, etc). Employees who start working on or after January 1st are entitled to 11.5 hours personal time that current fiscal year. Personal time cannot be carried over into the next fiscal year and will not be compensated for upon termination of employment at Touro University Nevada.

Full-time employees are credited with 45.6 hours of sick leave per year at the beginning of the new fiscal year (July 1st). If employment begins on or after January 1st, 22.8 hours will be credited. Sick leave cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Sick leave can only be taken after 3 months of employment.

In the event of death of an immediate member of the employee’s family the University grants up to a five workday paid leave. The University defines immediate family as the employee’s spouse, parent, step-parent, grandparent, child, stepchild, grandchild and sibling. A two day leave with pay is granted in the event of the death of the employee’s spouse’s parent, step-parent, grandparent or sibling.