6.2.5 Return from a Leave

Applications for reinstatement from a leave of absence must be made through an employee's immediate supervisor to Human Resources and on approval of the appropriate vice president/Provost before the leave expires. The University, at its option and without cost to the employee, may require that a physician or physicians of its choosing determine, by examination, the employee's fitness to return to work.

An employee returning to work from a leave of absence shall be placed in the former job or a job of like status and pay unless circumstances have so changed as to make it unreasonable to do so. An employee who has been on military leave of absence, however, must give notice to the University within thirty calendar days after release from service that the employee intends to return to work, in order to be eligible to return to work. (Board of Control Policy 5.6.5)