Paid Medical Leave. After 12 months of continuous service, a faculty member is eligible for eight (8) weeks of paid medical leave. Prior to accessing the paid medical leave, the faculty member must first use eighty (80) hours of PTO. This leave may be used in one-week increments and is available once every twenty-four (24) months.
Paid Medical Leave. 1. With the exception of The Xxxxxx School, during the fall 2020 term, the following special Paid Medical Leave provisions shall apply to Academic Year Unit 18 Faculty:
a. Unit 18 Faculty who have a full-time appointment for at least a full academic year (three quarters or two semesters) who are unable to work for reasons of personal illness, injury, or disability shall continue to be granted paid medical leave under the terms of the currently expired collective bargaining agreement. However, they may also use their Paid Medical Leave to care for a family member’s COVID-19 illness.
b. Xxxx 00 Faculty who have an appointment of 66% up to a 99.9% appointment for a full academic year will be eligible for the Paid Medical Leave described below due to the Unit 18 Faculty 's own COVID-19-related illness or that of a family member only.
c. An appointment average of 66% or greater is determined by a two-year look back period of six quarters/four semesters/twenty-four fiscal year months, not including teaching in summer session. Non-teaching terms are included and considered 0% appointment. The appointment percentage will be determined by the higher appointment percentage between the two years.
d. If the Unit 18 faculty member has a concurrent appointment, their eligibility for Paid Medical Leave will be determined by evaluating the combined percentages of all of their appointments. However, the amount of Paid Medical Leave available will be prorated based on the Unit 18 appointment only.
e. A Unit 18 faculty member shall be granted Paid Medical Leave for their own COVID-19 related illness or that of a family member as follows:
i. Eligible Unit 18 Faculty with fewer than ten (10) years of employment in the bargaining unit at the same campus who do not accrue sick leave shall be eligible for a maximum of twenty-two (22) weeks of consecutive or intermittent paid medical leave within a ten-year period.
ii. Eligible Unit 18 Faculty with ten (10) or more years of employment in the bargaining unit at the same campus who do not accrue sick leave shall be eligible for a maximum of thirty-six (36) weeks of consecutive or intermittent paid medical leave within each subsequent 10-year period.
iii. Any prior usage by a Unit 18 Faculty member of Paid Medical Leave shall count toward the maximum weeks of usage (22/36) and the balance remaining will be available for use.
f. Approval of Paid Medical Leave on an intermittent or partial reduction in time basis are subject to the out...
Paid Medical Leave. Paid medical leave provides regular full-time, part-time and introductory employees with paid time off to recover from illness or injury or to care for the medical needs of an ill or injured child, spouse/domestic partner (of same and/or opposite sex) or parent. Each regular, as well as introductory, employee will accrue 5.33 hours paid medical leave per month for a total of 64 hours (8 days) each calendar year. Full-time employees who have worked for more than three years will accrue eight (8) hours paid medical leave per month for a total of 96 hours (12days) each calendar year. Regular part-time employees will accrue a pro rata share of paid medical leave based on the percentage of forty (40) hours they are regularly scheduled to work in a work week. Temporary employees and consultants are not eligible for paid medical leave. Unused medical leave will carry over into the next year, but a full-time employee cannot accrue more than 26 days of paid medical leave, and a part- time employee cannot accrue more than a part-time proportion of 26 days, rounded to the nearest half day. When leave is used by an employee who has accumulated the maximum amounts stated above accrual will resume until the maximum amount has been accumulated again. Paid medical leave shall only be used for personal medical needs, including illness, doctor appointments, medical treatments, pregnancy and childbirth, as well as for medical care of an ill or injured child, spouse/domestic partner (of same and/or opposite sex), parent or close family member. A close family member is defined as a spouse, child, parent, sibling, sibling-in-law, grandparent, aunt, uncle, guardian, parent-in-law, grandparent-in- law or domestic partner. Employees must notify their supervisors no later than the morning of the day(s) they intend to utilize their paid medical leave and before their scheduled start time. No disciplinary action will be taken in the event of using leave, if conditions did not permit the employee to safely notify his/her supervisor. Employees should make all reasonable efforts to communicate clearly with their supervisors or other work colleagues regarding work commitments while they are absent on paid medical leave, to ensure that work responsibilities and commitments are responsibly rescheduled or adequately covered by other staff. An exception will be permitted in emergency circumstances. Furthermore, a supervisor cannot deny a staff member the right to take time paid sick medical ...
Paid Medical Leave. An employee shall be allowed paid leave of absence in order to attend to medical examinations requested by the Centre. Such paid leave of absence shall include any costs incurred by reason of physician’s fees that are not covered by benefit plans as provided for in the Collective Agreement.
Paid Medical Leave. 1. For purposes of crediting and debiting paid medical leave under this subdivision, entitled “Paid Medical Leave”, the term “day” or “one (1) day” shall be deemed to mean the total number of hours that the particular employee is normally assigned to work in a day. Each employee’s paid medical leave account will therefore be expressed in number of accrued hours, less debits for each medical leave day taken. Furthermore, the crediting of paid medical leave shall be made prospectively, according to the number of months remaining in the school year. Thus, by way of example, a new Full-Time Employee starting in a twelve month position on July 1 will be credited with 12 days of paid medical leave on July 1. A new Full-Time Employee starting in a twelve month position on May 1 will be credited with 2 days of paid medical leave on May 1, and another 12 days of paid medical leave on July 1. Each employee shall receive a tabulation of his accumulated paid medical leave, less debits for each medical leave day taken as of the employee’s first paycheck of each school year.
2. Full-Time ten month (10) month Employees shall be credited with ten (10) paid sick leave days per school year and each Full-Time eleven (11) month employee shall be credited with twelve (12) paid sick leave days per school year, and each twelve (12) month employee shall be credited with thirteen
Paid Medical Leave. 13.4.1 Paid medical leave is the status on which an employee is placed by METRO while the employee uses accrued medical leave time for authorized absences because of illness, injury, medical quarantine, appointment with a licensed medical practitioner, California licensed psychotherapist, or in the event of a serious illness of a member of the immediate family requiring the care of the employee.
13.4.2 Family member for the purpose of this section shall include parent, spouse, child, brother or sister of the employee, including the employee‟s domestic partner and that person‟s child or children in the immediate household.
13.4.3 An employee shall accrue paid medical leave at the rate of .0462 hours per hour of active service [approximately twelve (12) days per year for a full-time employee]. Unused paid medical leave may be accumulated without limit.
13.4.4 Pay for medical leave shall be paid at the employee‟s base hourly rate for the time absent from the employee‟s regularly scheduled work shift.
13.4.5 An employee must notify his/her department prior to shift starting time if the employee will be absent due to illness, injury, incapacity to work or lateness. Shift workers may be required to call in at least one (1) hour in advance if required by written department policy, except in bona fide emergencies. Should any employee be late for one of the reasons allowed by the Personnel Rules and Regulations Section 30.B.2.b he/she may use his/her accruals to make up for the lost time.
13.4.6 An employee absent for any of the following:
1. five (5) consecutive working days or more, or 2. seven (7) absences in a fiscal year (excluding industrial accident/illness leave, and any partial day absence due to a medical appointment) due to illness, injury or physical incapacity, or
Paid Medical Leave. If an employee with at least one (1) year of service is absent from work due to disability, sickness and accident benefits are payable. The disability must prevent the employee from performing the duties of the job because of a non-occupational sickness or injury. This benefit is payable if confined to a hospital or home. After a waiting period of one (1) week (waived if the employee is hospitalized as an in-patient), the disability benefits are payable at a rate of fifty-five dollars ($55) per day for a maximum of five days per week. A disabled employee may receive weekly sickness and accident benefits during the period of disability not to exceed five (5) months. It is the employee's responsibility to make application for this benefit and the attending physician must document the nature of the disability and expected date of return to work. While an employee is off work due to a disability and is receiving weekly sickness and accident benefits, that employee will not be required to pay the monthly contribution for group medical/dental insurance. No benefits shall be payable for the following:
1. disability which you are not under the direct care of a licensed physician. 2. sickness or injury which is purposefully self-inflicted while sane or insane.
