Common use of Security Department Clause in Contracts

Security Department. (a) Pay for sick leave is for the sole and only purpose of protecting full-time employees against loss of income when they are legitimately ill. (b) Full-time seniority List employees shall be credited with three quarters (¾) day per month of sick credits for each month. Probationary employees shall, upon completion of the probationary period, be credited with one (1) day's sick credit. Effective May 1, 1999 sick leave credits accrue on the basis of time worked. (c) Accumulated sick leave credits may be utilized from day one of the accident or illness until the number of days accumulated have been exhausted. The Employer will allow an employee to utilize his sick leave credits to top-up the weekly indemnity payments from the insurer. (d) Upon request, employees will receive notification of their accumulated sick days. There will be no carry-over of sick day credits from year to year. At each year end or at seasonal layoff, whichever occurs first, there will be a pay out at the rate of fifty (50) per cent for every unused sick day credit accrued in that calendar year. Such payments will be included on the last paycheque prior to layoff. (e) A medical certificate verifying the illness may be requested by the Employer. (f) Existing accrued sick day credits, up to and including April 30, 1999, which will not be eligible for payout, may be utilized for medically verifiable non- occupational illness or long-term disability defined as a disability in excess of one (1) week. These accrued sick day credits may be used only as described in this clause of Article 43, and may be carried over until used.