Vermont § 25 - Judicial Branch; furlough days; administrative leave

§ 25. Judicial Branch; furlough days; administrative leave

• (a) The Supreme Court is authorized to declare up to 12 unpaid Judicial Branch furlough
  days in a fiscal year and on those days may close the courts in the State. For purposes
  of implementing a furlough day, the Supreme Court is authorized to reduce on a daily
  or hourly basis all salaries established by 32 V.S.A. §§ 1003(c), 1141, and 1142 and all other salaries paid by the Judicial Branch. Furlough days declared under
  this section shall have the same effect as holidays under 1 V.S.A. § 371 for the purpose of counting time under the Rules of Court Procedure and the Vermont
  Statutes Annotated. (b) The Supreme Court is authorized to pay on an hourly basis all persons whose compensation
  is established by 32 V.S.A. §§ 1010, 1511, and 1551 and 4 V.S.A. §§ 23, 75, and 356. (c) The Supreme Court may allow Supreme Court Justices, Superior judges, Environmental
  judges, magistrates, hearing officers, Probate judges, Superior Court clerks, or any
  State-compensated employees of the Judicial Branch not covered by a collective bargaining
  agreement to take an administrative leave of absence without pay, or with pay if the
  person is called to active duty in support of an extended national or State military
  operation. These judicial officers and State employees shall be entitled to be compensated
  in the same manner as Judicial Branch employees covered by a collective bargaining
  agreement called to active duty. The Court Administrator, at the direction of the
  Supreme Court, shall include provisions in the personnel rules of the Judiciary to
  administer these leaves of absence. (Added 1991, No. 50, § 97a; amended 1991, No. 189 (Adj. Sess.), § 7; 2003, No. 66, § 114a; 2003, No. 122 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 99a, 100; 2005, No. 66, § 4; 2009, No. 1 (Sp. Sess.), § E.204.1, eff. June 2, 2009; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)