Yes, if you are eligible to receive payment for your accrued sick or vacation leave, you or your survivor can elect to use the time for both eligibility and computation of your pension benefit, provided that no pension payments are received for any month during which the vacation and/or sick leave is being used. Service so credited may be used to establish eligibility for a service, disability, survivor or vested pension.

It depends on the collective bargaining unit you're in. Some units have a waiting period of six continuous months on pay status and some require completion of the probationary period. Unrepresented employees do not have a waiting period and can use vacation as soon as it has been earned. Check your policy or contract for specific rules on waiting periods. It depends on the collective bargaining unit you're in.

A-9: This refers to the amount of benefits that a participant has earned under a defined benefits pension plan as of any particular date and is usually stated in terms of a monthly pension annuity. It is generally based on the employee's years of service with the company and his/her final average compensation as of the calculation date.

No. There is no limit on the amount of credit you can receive. You are entitled to one additional month of pension service credit for each 22 days of unused sick leave. Additionally you may use up to 6 months of your unused sick leave credit towards meeting the Pension Plan's vesting requirements (10 years or 30 years). Yes.

No/yes. No. Employers are not required to pay unused sick time. Yes. Employers, however, must pay accrued and unused vacation pay.

If you have not received your check within seven (7) business days, please notify the Pension Office. Reissued checks cannot be processed until seven (7) business days from the last day of the month. Again, we are strongly encouraging you to participate in direct deposit, to avoid the above.

Can an employer adopt a vacation policy which provides that unused days at the end of the year are lost (rather than being carried over or paid?)

A. No. It runs concurrently. FMLA leave does not start after paid leave is used up. The FMLA designation is based on the reason you are taking the leave, not whether you are on paid leave or unpaid leave. The law gives you protection regardless of pay status. FMLA actually protects your job, unlike sick leave, because you cannot be disciplined for missing time for an FMLA reason. If you have questions about sick leave, refer to your Collective Bargaining Agreement or handbook.

A7: Light which reflects off any surface is polarised to some extent. The degree of polarisation is related to the angle of incidence of light and the refractive indices of the two materials. At a certain angle known as "Brewsters angle", light is 100% polarised. At other angles of incidence the light is partly polarised. Refractive indices of common materials (relative to air, n=1) Material refractive index Brewsters angle water n=1.333 53 glass n approx 1.

Usage is straightforward -- if you've used a search engine before, you'll find JotBot even easier. Just don't forget it remains open behind your larger window, and to get it back after your first search you must use the window menu of your browser -- you could do it the old way, but this is exactly 10 times faster (For those of you using Windows95, JotBot will also appear in its own icon along your start bar, clicking this is just as fast). Consult the full Usage Instructions if you're curious.

Simply bring your original NRIC/Passport/Work Permit/Employment Pass and valuables* to any SpeedCash branch. Present them to our Customer Service Officer and our Valuers will give you a quote. Upon your acceptance, our officer will hand you the cash instantly with a pledge ticket. There are no forms to be filled in the process. However, if the pledged amount of your valuables exceeds $200 and you do not have an original purchase receipt, a guarantor for your pledge is required by law.

A7. Different jurisdictions have different advantages. Depending on your goals, you may find it useful to use two or even three jurisdictions in your offshore structure. Using two or three jurisdictions in an average offshore structure is very common for substantial offshore investors - one for the corporations, one for the trust, and one for the bank account.

When the program is installed, a shortcut to the program is created on your desktop and in the Program menu. The program itself is set to install in the following default directory: [Your hard-drive]\CustomShorts\CustomShortMaker\CustomShortMaker.exe

Ever hear of a thermofoil turning yellow after the door has been in a kitchen for a month or year? Plasticizers are one of the factors that can contribute to this. This does not mean that all thermofoils that contain plasticizers will yellow but we have patented modifiers that enable our thermofoil to stretch and set without them. Is that the only reason that we don't use plasticzers? No.

Just about anything that is sensible for you. Many people need the money for things like home improvements, a car, debt consolidation or to pay for a holiday of a lifetime.

Quatech provides Windows CE drivers for the SPP-100. As Windows CE is implemented differently in different systems, the Quatech standard driver contains support files for only the most popular CE-based handheld devices. Click here for a list of supported devices. If the standard driver does not work with your equipment, please submit our Technical Support Request form to get the appropriate files for your system.

Full time employees accrue 1¼ days per scheduled month. Time begins to accrue after 1 full month of employment.

put the following two lines in your .procmailrc (make sure they precede any other 'recipe' in .procmailrc): To disable, delete your .forward. Or if you use procmail, remove the 2 lines above from your .procmailrc. Explanation The vacation program creates and initializes files that track who has sent you mail. This means you must run the vacation program. Simply changing your .forward or .procmailrc is not enough. The vacation program will create a .forward file for you if one does not exist.

To configure vacation so that it will automatically return a message to each person who sends you mail, you will need to perform the following steps one time only: Create/edit a ".vacation.msg" file. Create a .vacation.msg file in your home directory containing the message that you want vacation to return to each sender. It should be a complete message including headers. If your name was "John Brown", your username was "john", and your domain name was "cs.pitt.edu", you might create a .vacation.

Your vacation time is not available for use until you have been employed by SofTec for one year. Upon completing one year's employment, 10 days of vacation time will be made available for your use. This is based on the Service Contract Act (SCA).