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COMP (STATE COMPENSATORY) TIME:
Earning Comp Time:
Employees Exempt employees can earn state compensatory time for meetings held or work performed outside of the normal business day. This does not extend to social activities held in conjunction with conferences or other events. Employees who are assigned projects that exceed normal expectations and have specific due dates may earn state compensatory time for the time spent working on the project in order to meet the due date with prior supervisory approval. State compensatory time cannot be earned for reading or responding to e-mail outside of the normal workday.
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*If you need to stay additional hours on one day, try to swap out those hours on another day of the same week, in order not to exceed 40 total work hours for the week (M-Sun). Work must be performed on the UT campus or approved alternative site (such as a FWA location, conference, planned outing, etc.).
As a full-time exempt worker, you can accrue state compensatory time (1:1), but you will not be paid out directly for this. You will need to use this time before it expires within 12 months of the week it was earned.
Employees scheduled to work on an official holiday will receive holiday pay and may earn state compensatory time. Exempt or non-exempt employees may be paid for state compensatory time earned on holidays only if it is determined that allowing compensatory time off would disrupt normal teaching, research, or other critical functions as determined by management. (Yes you can work on the holidays if your boss approves it)
Using Comp Time:
The employee shall request to use state compensatory time through his or her supervisor.
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Because UT comp time expires if it is not used within a year of its accrual, employees are encouraged to use their comp time before the end of August each year.
Earning Federal Comp Time:
- Only applicable to non-exempt employees at UT.
- Same policies for accruing it
- Earned at time-and-a-half
- Does not expire
- Can be banked for future use