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period, shall be eligible to observe holidays and to earn and accumulate

vacation and sick leave and be granted, personal leave on a prorated basis

in the same manner and subject to the same limitations and restrictions as
would apply if they were compensated on an annual salary basis.

(d) In the event a holiday falls on a Saturday and another day is not
designated to be observed as the holiday, part-time annual salaried, hourly

and per diem employees (including those designated as seasonal) eligible
to observe holidays pursuant to §10.2 who are employed on a fixed

schedule of at least half time, and for whom Saturday is not a regular
workday, but who are scheduled to work on the Friday immediately

preceding such Saturday holiday, shall be granted holiday leave. The
amount of holiday leave granted shall be equivalent to the number of hours

the employee is regularly scheduled to work on that preceding Friday but
not to exceed one fifth (1/5) the number of hours in the normal workweek

of full-time State employees.
§10.17 Use of Sick Leave for Bereavement or Family Illness

(a) Employees shall be allowed to charge absences from work in the event
of death or illness in the employee’s immediate family against accrued sick

leave credits up to a maximum of 25 days in any one calendar year.
Requests for leave for bereavement or family illness shall be subject to

approval of the appointing authority; such approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld.

§10.18 Maternity and Child Rearing Leave
(a) Maternity and child-rearing leave shall be as provided in the

Attendance Rules and the guidelines for administration of those rules,

dated January 28, 1982, which are contained in Appendix I. However,
where the child is required to remain in the hospital following birth, the
seven month mandatory childcare leave shall, upon employee request,

commence when the child is released from the hospital. If a child is

required to be admitted to a hospital for treatment after childcare leave has
commenced, upon employee request, childcare leave shall be suspended
during a single continuous period of such hospitalization and that period

shall not count toward calculation of the seven month period. In such cases,

any entitlement to mandatory childcare leave expires one year from the
date of birth of the child.

(b) In cases of legal adoption under Article 7 of the Domestic Relations

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