The City of Minot will allow FMLA qualified employees to use 12 weeks of unpaid parental leave for the birth, adoption, surrogacy or foster placement of a child, within a 12-month period of the event.
Parental leave must be taken as a continued absence during the 12-week duration. However, incremental absence(s) taken in one-week increments for the 12-week duration, may be considered in emergency cases, and must be approved by the Department Head.
Employees experiencing pregnancy will be required to file a Short-Term Disability claim to access the 6-week paid benefit (8-week for C-section births), and will be allowed to access “frozen” sick accrual bank for the remainder of the 12-week leave.
Employees experiencing adoption, surrogacy or foster placement, and expectant fathers will be allowed to use 6-weeks of PTO paid leave, and 6-weeks of unpaid leave for parental leave purposes.
Employees must provide 30-day advance notice for approval of parental leave.
The City of Minot will approve military leave of absence requests from employees in order for employees to fulfill their military training and service obligations, provided the employee has military orders. The City of Minot does not require the use of PTO leave for military leave.
- Up to 20 days per year for paid military leave will be granted to employees for the required annual camp and for other military training or duty when ordered by proper authority to active non-civilian employment. However, the City of Minot does not recognize ‘orders’ issued under 10 USC Section 672(d) (voluntary active duty) as proper orders for the purpose of granting paid military leave, instead, an unpaid leave-of-absence will be granted unless the employee requests to use PTO in order to receive pay while on 672(d) military leave.
- Any military leave caused by the full or partial mobilization of the Reserve and National Guard, or emergency state active duty, will be granted with pay for the first 30 days thereof, less any other paid military leave that may have been granted during the calendar year, pursuant to our military leave policy.
- If leave is needed for the weekend, daily, or hourly periods of drill for military training, employees will be given the option of time off without pay or scheduling said training to off-duty hours.
If an employee is required to report for jury duty, the employee shall receive an amount that will equal the employee’s regular rate of pay for the time they are gone. This is accomplished by endorsing funds for jury duty compensation to the City of Minot; endorsed checks are to be given to the Human Resource Office. The employee also has the option of taking PTO and retaining the amount received for jury duty. Jury duty is paid at $25 for the first day of duty and $50 per day thereafter.