At Duke, the majority of employees don't take advantage of their vacation benefits. But mental health experts suggest that vacations
are essential to work-life balance and overall health.
 Audio Slideshow: Time Out
There are many instances of flexible work arrangements at Duke today.
Formal guidelines have
been developed to help support supervisors and employees in establishing these arrangements.
Work Absences
Duke provides time away from work to eligible staff members for a variety of reasons
— personal, family, community and other outside needs and obligations. At the
same time, it is necessary to place reasonable limits on time away from work to
ensure that each staff member's job responsibilities are properly carried out,
and that all staff members are treated fairly and consistently in dealing with
time away from Duke.
Campus
and Medical Center staff accrue benefit time using a traditional vacation,
holiday, and sick time model.
Duke University Health System (DUHS) provides a
Paid Time Off (PTO) program for eligible employees which puts vacation, sick
leave, holiday, and funeral leave into one program.
Duke recognizes that during a regular staff
member's career circumstances may arise which require a prolonged leave of
absence from work. A leave of absence requires the approval of the requesting
employee's department.
Duke provides up to three consecutive weeks of
100 percent paid parental leave to the eligible parent serving as the primary caregiver
following the birth or adoption of a child.
The Kiel Vacation/PTO
Donation Program allows employees the opportunity to donate accrued vacation or
PTO hours to fellow employees who have experienced a
catastrophic illness or injury and who have exhausted all accrued time, thus
resulting in a prolonged, unpaid leave of absence.
Duke also provides for other types of work
absences, including workers' compensation, funeral leave, voting time, jury duty leave,
flexible work arrangements, and disability
insurance.
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