Earned Hours. All Benefit Eligible employees hired on or before date determined by employer to be not earlier than date of ratification and not later than January 1, 2015, who opted out of participating in the PTO plan and who have completed their probationary period shall accrue 0.04615 hours of sick leave for each hour paid up to a maximum of two thousand eighty (2,080) hours worked per year with a maximum accrual of seven hundred twenty (720) hours. Once the maximum accrual is reached, no additional sick leave hours will be accrued until the hours are reduced below the maximum. Sick leave benefits shall be paid out to Benefit Eligible employees based on the number of hours the employee was scheduled to work on that day. Employees shall be entitled to sick leave with pay during the period of any personal illness, and the length of sick leave to which an employee is entitled shall be that period of time which includes as many working hours as the number of hours accumulated and unused in the employee’s sick leave account. In addition, so long as required by Minn. Stat. § 181.9413 or successor statutes, in any rolling twelve month period, an employee may use up to one hundred sixty (160) hours of his/her accumulated sick leave benefits for absences due to an illness of or injury to the employee’s spouse, sibling, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, stepparent or adult child.
Earned Hours. All Benefit Eligible employees hired on or before September 2, 2014 who elected to not participate in the PTO plan and who have completed their probationary period shall accrue 0.04615 hours of sick leave for each hour paid (excluding call pay and sick leave hours) up to a maximum of 2,080 hours worked per year with a maximum accumulation of seven hundred twenty (720) hours. Once the maximum accrual is reached, no additional sick leave hours will be accrued until the hours are reduced below the maximum. Sick leave benefits shall be paid out to Benefit Eligible employees based on the number of hours the employee would have worked on the sick day. (Examples: an employee who was scheduled and would have worked 8 hours will be paid for 8 hours; an employee who was scheduled and would have worked 10 hours will be paid for 10 hours.) Employees shall be entitled to sick leave with pay during the period of any personal illness, and the length of sick leave to which an employee is entitled shall be that period of time which includes as many working hours as the number of hours accumulated and unused in the employee's sick leave account. Sick leave shall also include surgical procedures.
Earned Hours. The hours in which payment shall be based are as follows: ➢ Annual Vacation ➢ Straight-time hours worked ➢ Statutory Holidays ➢ Banked overtime hours if taken in pay ➢ Straight-time equivalent of overtime hours if not banked. ➢ Paid sick leave to include Short Term Disability*
