Emergency Instance
Emergency Instance time off allows part-time faculty and academic student workers to take time off during emergency situations (such as a public health emergency, a personal health condition, or family emergencies), or for personal or professional reasons.
Eligibility & Accrual
According to Article XX(A) of the ACT-UAW Local 7902 collective bargaining agreement, Article XXIX of the AFL-CIO Local 802 collective bargaining agreement, and Article XXI of the SENS UAW Local 7902 collective bargaining agreement and The New School, part-time faculty members and academic student workers are entitled to take safe and sick or emergency instance time off.
Part-Time Faculty
According to Article XX(A) of the collective bargaining agreement between ACT-UAW Local 7902, Article XXIX of the AFL-CIO Local 802 collective bargaining agreement and The New School, part-time faculty members are entitled to take safe and sick or emergency instance time off.
Part-time faculty are eligible to take Emergency Instance time off, accruing one (1) emergency absence per course per semester. There are no constraints around emergency instance time off. Accordingly, PTF can elect to use this elected time for any personal or professional reason and will not be prompted to enter a reason when submitting Emergency Instance time off.
If part-time faculty elect Emergency Instance time off for the semester, they will not be able to utilize Safe & Sick time in that same semester, but will continue to accrue Safe & Sick time off. If part-time faculty utilize more than the one (1) allotted emergency instance per course per semester, any additional time off hours will be reduced from the overall pay of that course.
Please note: In the event that a part-time faculty member was absent from teaching and neglected to make a NYC Safe and Sick or Emergency Instance election by the last business day of the semester, the university reserves the right to make a default election to Emergency Instance. Part-time faculty members will still accrue safe & sick time for the semester.
Academic Student Workers
According to Article XXI of the SENS UAW Local 7902 collective bargaining agreement and The New School, academic student workers are entitled to take safe and sick or emergency instance time off.
Each semester, ASWs who receive a stipend based assignment or a semester-long, course-based assignment(s) can elect to either:
- Accrue and take paid safe and sick leave during the semester (provided they meet the eligibility criteria under ESSLA), or
- Take one day of emergency instance leave per semester.
ASWs who elect to take emergency instance leave shall receive one (1) emergency absence per semester.
Once an ASW with a stipend based or semester-long, course-based assignment elects to take safe and sick leave or an emergency instance absence for the semester, they may not amend their elections until the following semester. ASWs with stipend based or semester-long, course-based assignments who:
- do not use either their accrued safe and sick leave or any emergency instance, or
- elect to use their safe and sick leave in a given semester, shall have any accrued and unused safe and sick leave carry over to the following semester up to a maximum of fifty-six (56) hours.
No ASW shall use more than fifty-six (56) hours of safe and sick leave in any one (1) fiscal year (which shall be equal to one (1) academic year).
Requesting Emergency Instance Time Off
Part-time faculty should use these instructions to request Emergency Instance time off in MyDay.
Academic student workers should use these instructions to request Emergency Instance time off using a Qualtrics Form or in MyDay, depending on their current position type.