Sick Leave Sample Clauses

The Sick Leave clause establishes an employee's right to take time off from work due to illness or injury. Typically, it outlines the amount of paid or unpaid leave available, the process for notifying the employer, and any documentation required, such as a doctor's note for extended absences. This clause ensures that employees can recover from health issues without fear of losing their job or income, thereby promoting workplace well-being and providing clear guidelines for both employers and employees regarding absences due to sickness.
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Sick Leave. The employee is eligible for long term disability benefits if provided for in the Collective Agreement. An employee will not receive pay for the first two (2) weeks of any period of absence due to a legitimate illness. The employee may utilize the paid holiday bank as income replacement for absences due to illness, as described in Article (c) above. An employee who is eligible may apply for Employment Insurance for weeks three (3) through seventeen (17) for any absence due to a legitimate illness. The Home will provide the employee with Disability Income Protection as per Article 14.01 (c) for weeks eighteen (18) through thirty (30) for any absence due to a legitimate illness. Employees may be required to provide medical proof of illness for any absence of a scheduled shift, which is neither vacation nor an approved leave of absence.
Sick Leave. 7.2.1 Sick leave shall be for illness and injury absences or for a legally established quarantine. 7.2.2 Employees who are employed for 40 hours per week for a complete fiscal year shall be entitled to 96 hours of leave of absence annually for illness or injury. Employees shall receive full pay for sick days thus allowed in any fiscal year, and the number of days not used shall accumulate from year to year. Every employee who works less than 40 hours per week and/or less than a complete fiscal year shall be entitled to sick leave in the same ratio that his/her employment bears to full time annual employment (40 hours per week for 12 full months). Credit for personal illness or injury leave, as provided for in this section, need not be accrued prior to taking such leave by the employee and such leave of absence may be taken at any time during the year. However, a new employee of the District shall not be eligible to take more than six (6) days, or the proportionate amount to which he/she may be entitled to under this section, until the first day of the calendar month after completion of the employee’s probationary period. 7.2.3 Illness leave may be utilized for pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, or recovery therefrom as set forth 7.13.3. The date of commencement of absence from and return to duties because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, or recovery there from shall be determined by the employee and the employee's physician. The physician's verification for the commencement of absence from duties and resumption of duties shall be based on the employee's medically determined ability to perform assigned duties. 7.2.4 An employee who terminates employment prior to earning sick leave taken in advance of accrual shall have the appropriate amount deducted from his/her final warrant. 7.2.5 ▇▇▇▇ leave shall not be transferable from one employee's accumulated balance to that of another employee's except as provided for under Section 7.14. 7.2.6 Any unused sick leave credit may be used by the employee for sick leave purposes, as defined, without loss of compensation. An employee may be eligible to receive State Disability Insurance benefits after five consecutive days of illness. It is the responsibility of the employee to apply to the appropriate state agency in order to receive such benefits. In the event that an employee has exhausted all accumulated sick leave credit, the District will apply accrued and unused vacation days to supplement the exhausted sic...
Sick Leave. Sick leave days should be entered in the absence management system by the Employee no later than twenty-four (24) hours from the use of the sick day. Each full-time Employee shall be granted 12 (twelve) sick leave days. An Employee employed after the beginning of a school year or terminated before the end of their contract period shall be granted a sick leave bank adjusted according to the following: a. All sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall be credited to them. Any sick leave days not used by the end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for the following year, up to a maximum of 150 days. b. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days by an Employee shall be: i. Personal illness, injury, quarantine or medical appointments; ii. Serious illness in the immediate family, i.e., spouse/partner, child, father or mother that requires the presence of the Employee. iii. For the birth of a biological child, a maximum of ten (10) sick days may be used in order to care for the individual who gave birth. c. The Employee shall notify the administrator of their impending absence stating the period of leave and where they can be contacted during the day. Each Employee shall give such notification prior to their scheduled on-the-job starting time. d. The Employee may be required by the Superintendent to give a written, signed statement from the Employee’s physician or from the Employee indicating the reason for such absence when reporting to work on the first working day following their absence. Additionally, the Employee may be asked to complete paperwork to assist the Agency in determining if the use of sick time qualifies as a serious health condition under the Family Medical Leave Act. Failure to comply with this provision can result in the withholding of pay for such leave days. e. Accumulated sick leave time shall terminate upon termination of employment. f. Upon notification to the Agency of retirement by the end of February, up to 50 sick days shall be reimbursed at a rate of $75 per day upon the Employee’s retirement.
Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.
Sick Leave. Effective with the initial date of employment, every seniority employee shall be granted eight (8) hours sick leave allowance for each completed calendar month of service from which shall be subtracted any particular sick leave actually used since that date. Such sick leave allowance may only be used by an employee when incapacitated to perform his duties due to sickness, injury, when quarantined. If the injury is of a nature, as determined by a doctor, that the employee can perform available work and if the Chief determines that work is available which the employee can perform, as determined by a doctor, then the employee will report for said available work. Employees, with prior approval, may use earned sick leave off in case of serious illness of an employee’s immediate family. In the event of sick leave for such purpose, the Chief may require a certificate from a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to the circumstances involved. In the event of death in an employee's immediate family, sick leave may be used, upon approval of the Chief, in addition to bereavement leave. The immediate family for this purpose shall be defined as in Section 6.5. All foreseeable leaves for such purposes shall require specific prior approval of the Department Head. It is understood and agreed that sick leave will not be abused. A medical certificate will not be required to substantiate a request for approval of sick leave for three (3) consecutive days or less, unless the employee has been notified in writing about excess use or abuse of sick leave within the previous twelve (12) month period. An employee will not receive a written notice unless he has first been verbally cautioned by his supervisor on at least one occasion during the previous twelve (12) month period. The continued excessive use or abuse of sick leave may be grounds for disciplinary action. Sick leave usage shall be deducted from earned sick leave accrual to the nearest 1/10 of an hour as shown on the employee time record. A. An employee shall notify the Employer at the Employer's office prior to the start of the shift, or as soon thereafter as the employee's circumstances will permit, if he is going to be absent. B. In order to accumulate sick leave for any given month, the employee must actually work or be on authorized paid leave, (excluding sick leave), vacation, Worker's Compensation, or holiday for one hundred twenty (120) or more hours in said month. C. An ...
Sick Leave. Each employee shall accrue sick leave at the rate of one and one-quarter (1-1/4) days or the equivalent per completed calendar month of continuous full-time service, including authorized leave with pay, provided that:
Sick Leave. (1) An employee on maternity leave or parental leave shall not be entitled to sick leave during the period of leave. (2) Subject to paragraph (d)(1), an employee on maternity leave or parental leave who has notified the Department Head of their intention to return to work pursuant to paragraph (b)(5) and who subsequently suffers any illness or disability which prevents them from returning to work as scheduled, whether or not such illness or disability is related to pregnancy, shall be entitled to sick leave benefits commencing on the first day on which the employee would otherwise have returned to work.
Sick Leave. Sick Leave/Short Term Leave and Disability Plan
Sick Leave. The parties agree that any current collective agreement provisions and/or Board policies/practices/procedures related to Sick Leave that do not conflict with the clauses in the Sick Leave article in the Central Agreement shall remain as per August 31, 2014. Such issues include but are not limited to:
Sick Leave. 22.01 Sick leave is provided by the Employer as a form of insurance, for the purpose of maintaining regular earnings during absences due to illness or accidents for which compensation is not payable under the Workers’ Compensation Act or for quarantine by a Medical Officer of Health. 22.02 The Employer recognizes that alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness are illnesses which can respond to therapy and treatment, and that absences from work due to such therapy shall be considered sick leave. 22.03 After an Employee has completed their probationary period, they shall be allowed a credit for sick leave from the date of employment at the rate of one (1) working day for each full month of employment up to a maximum credit of forty-five (45) working days, provided however, that an Employee shall not be entitled to apply sick leave credit prior to the completion of their probationary period. Sick leave shall not accrue during periods of the following absences, which exceed thirty (30) calendar days: (a) illness; (b) injury; (c) layoff; (d) leave of absence; (e) unpaid leave while in receipt of weekly indemnity as provided for by the Short Term Disability Insurance Plan or the Long Term Disability Insurance Plan; (f) periods while in receipt of compensation from the Workers’ Compensation Board. 22.04 Employees reporting sick shall advise the Employer as soon as possible and regularly thereafter as required by the Employer. After three (3) consecutive days of sick leave, or upon mutual agreement between the Union and the Employer, to which the Union shall not reasonably deny, Employees may be required to substantiate, in the form prescribed by the Employer, any claim for sick leave. The Employee shall be reimbursed for the fee incurred by the Employee for submitting satisfactory proof of any claim for sick leave. 22.05 Subject to Clauses 22.01, 22.02 and 22.03 above, an Employee granted sick leave shall be paid, at their Basic Rate of Pay for regularly scheduled shifts absent due to illness, and the number of hours thus paid shall be deducted from their accumulated sick leave credits up to the total amount of their accumulated credits at the time the sick leave commenced. 22.06 When an Employee has accrued the maximum sick leave credit identified in 22.03 they shall no longer accrue sick leave credits until such time as their total accumulation is reduced below the maximum. At that time they shall recommence accumulating sick leave credits. 22.07 If an Empl...