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. Absence due to personal illness, excluding pregnancy, shall be allowed up to fifteen (15) working days per fiscal year, July 1 through June 30, and shall be accumulative from year to year without limitation. Absence of less than one (1) full day shall be charged to the nearest quarter hour of absence. Personal illness of more than five (5) consecutive working days duration shall be verified by a statement from a health care provider, advising that the person is physically able to return to work. The health care provider’s statement shall verify the illness from the first day of absence to the date of return to work. The employee must furnish this statement upon return to work and is not able to return to work until such statement is provided to Human Resources and/or the Supervisor, Manager, Principal and/or Administrator. In cases of excessive absence or when abuse of sick leave is evident, following previous counsel with the employee, the Supervisor, Manager, Principal and /or Administrator may request in writing that the employee furnish a health care provider’s statement to verify any future absence of less than five (5) working days. When all sick leave accruals are exhausted, the employee is placed on "Difference Leave" if covered by a statement from a health care provider. An employee on "Difference Leave" is paid the difference between his/her salary and that paid his/her substitute. This is paid for a maximum period of five (5) months. The five (5) month period is calculated from the first days of sick leave utilization. When difference leave is exhausted, the employee with three (3) years of service shall be allowed to apply for a health leave; an employee with less than three (3) years of service is placed on a reemployment list for a period of thirty-nine (39) months. At any time during the prescribed thirty-nine (39) months, an employee is able to assume the duties of their position when the employee provides a statement from a health care provider stating that the employee may return to full duty. The employee shall be reemployed in the first vacancy in the classification of his/her previous assignment. His/her reemployment will take preference over all other applicants except those laid-off for lack of work or funds, in which case he/she shall be ranked according to his/her proper seniority. Upon resumption of his/her duties, the break in service will be disregarded and the employee shall be fully restored as a permanent employee. During the...
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. 21.01 An Employee is eligible for sick leave with pay when they are unable to perform their duties because of illness or injury.
21.02 Employees whose appointments are one-hundred and thirty (130) hours are entitled to a maximum of fifteen (15) hours of paid sick leave per term after commencement of their appointment. Employees whose appointments are fewer than one-hundred and thirty (130) hours are entitled to paid sick leave on a pro- rated basis. ▇▇▇▇ leave will not be accumulated from one term to the next. Unused sick leave has no monetary value and will not be paid out at the end of a term. To qualify for paid sick leave, Employees must notify their Supervisor in writing as soon as possible in advance of the leave commencing.
21.03 In cases of severe illness or injury where a TA is fully restricted from performing their TA duties and subject to the Employee providing satisfactory medical documentation to support their request for leave, a TA may be granted up to 10 hours of additional paid sick leave subject to the Employee having a future priority TA appointment.
21.04 An Employee is not eligible for sick leave with pay during any period in which they are on leave without pay or under suspension.
21.05 Where an Employee is absent because of illness in excess of their sick leave entitlement, leave without pay may be granted until the end of the term, subject to the Employee providing satisfactory medical documentation to support their request for leave. Priority status shall not be forfeited.
21.06 The Employer shall reimburse Employees for any costs associated with obtaining medical certificates or documentation up to a maximum of seventy-five dollars ($75).
21.07 It is understood that, on the Employee's return to work, it may not be practicable to return the Employee to the same position; in such cases, alternative duties shall be assigned, and Article 13.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis.
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. Any sick leave applied for in this section that qualifies for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Article of this Agreement shall be used in conjunction with the rules of that Article of this Agreement.
a. All bargaining unit employees shall be eligible for sick leave as provided in this Article.
b. All full time employees working forty (40) hours per week shall be entitled to 32 hours of sick leave on the last day of the first month of each school year and will earn eight (8) hours sick leave for each additional completed month of continuous, uninterrupted service. This leave shall be credited at the end of that month and shall not be used prior to the time that it is earned and credited. No employee shall be entitled to earn more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. All employees working less then forty (40) hours per week will earn sick leave prorated in relation to the hours they regularly work.
c. Sick leave cannot be utilized before it is earned and credited to the employee.
d. Sick leave earned shall be credited to the employee on the last day of the pay period, or, in the case of separation on the last day the employee is on the payroll.
e. There shall be no limit on the number of hours of unused sick leave an employee may accrue.
f. Sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because the employee is unable to perform his/her duty on account of personal sickness, accident disability, or extended personal illness, or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative or member of his/her own household. Personal illness shall include disability caused or contributed by a pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery.
g. Any employee who finds it necessary to be absent from his/her duties because of illness, as defined in this Article, shall notify his/her immediate supervisor before the beginning of the work day on which he/she must be absent except for emergency reasons recognized by the Superintendent as valid. The employee shall, before claiming and receiving compensation for the time absent from his/her duties while absent because of such leave, make and file within five (5) working days following his/her return from such absence with the Superintendent a leave form which shall set forth the day or days absent, that such absence was necessary, and that he/she believes he/she is entitled or not entitled to rec...
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. 24:01 Except as provided in 24:02 an employee shall be entitled to and shall receive sick leave without loss of pay only where the employee is unable to be at work and perform her regular duties as a result of personal illness or injury.
24:02 An employee may utilize up to five (5) days of accumulated sick leave per year where the employee is required to be absent to care for an ill child who resides in the employee’s home.
24:03 The sick leave to which an employee is entitled shall accumulate at the full-time rate of ten (10) working hours per month and the unused portion may be accumulated by that amount each per month up to a maximum of two thousand, nine hundred and twenty (2,920) hours.
24:04 A newly hired employee shall accumulate sick leave credits from the first working day of the full bi-weekly pay period following the date of her hiring.
24:05 At the Employer’s discretion, a new employee may be granted up to forty (40) working hours of sick leave in advance of it being
24:06 Sick leave shall not accumulate during periods when an employee is:
(a) absent without leave; or
(b) absent on a leave of absence without pay for more than one
(1) week; or
(c) absent on a maternity leave; or
(d) absent on sick leave and/or Workers Compensation for a period of more than twelve (12) consecutive calendar months.
24:07 Where an employee is to be absent on sick leave, she shall endeavour to notify her immediate supervisor or the unit, as soon as possible and communication permits but at least one (1) hour prior to the start of her shift, to facilitate arranging for relief coverage.
24:08 An employee who has been absent because of sickness for a period of more than three (3) consecutive working days shall furnish the Employer a medical certificate or sworn statutory declaration certifying that the employee is unable to be present at work because of illness. Where an employee fails to produce such medical certificate or sworn statutory declaration to the Employer, she shall not be paid for the period of absence.
24:09 If a paid holiday falls on a day on which an employee is receiving sick leave benefits, such day shall be paid as a holiday and not deducted from the employee’s sick leave credits.
24:10 As of March 31st of each year, employees will be notified in writing of the balance of his/her unused accumulated sick leave credits.
Sick Leave. Full-time Employees shall be credited with 3.70 hours of sick leave for each pay period worked to a maximum accumulation of nine hundred sixty (960) hours. Part-time employees shall accrue sick leave benefits on a pro-rata basis based on the number of hours the Employee normally works during a calendar month. Non- Exempt employees shall take sick-leave in one quarter (1/4) hour increments. Exempt Employees shall take sick-leave in one (1) hour increments. Sick leave cannot be granted or tolled prior to its accrual. Sick leave shall be approved for absences for the following reasons: • Because of illness or injury which prevents the Employee from performing job duties and responsibilities. • Because of medical or dental care which cannot be scheduled at a time other than during the Employee's normal work day. • To make necessary nursing care arrangements because of illness or injury to a member of the Employee's immediate family, not to exceed three (3) days. Immediate family shall be defined as the Employee's spouse, parent, child, step child, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandchild or grandparent or step- grandparent or a bona fide person living as a contributing member that is considered part of the family unit and not a tenant, renter or boarder. Additional sick leave may be used for illness or injury of an immediate family member upon approval of the Employee's supervisor. • Employees may use their accrued personal sick leave for absences due to the illness of the Employee's child for such reasonable periods as the Employee's attendance may be necessary, on the same terms as the Employee is able to use sick leave benefits for the Employee's own illness. • Employees may use their accrued personal sick leave for absences due to the illness of the regular caregiver for an Employee’s child for reasonable periods as necessary to make other arrangements to provide care for the employee’s child. Sick leave usage shall be subject to approval and verification by the Employer. The Employer reserves the right to request medical verification from the employee at the employer's expense in the event of an absence of three (3) days or more or in the case of repeated or systematic absence of an Employee. In the case of an extended illness or injury the Employer may require, at its expense, written medical verification that an Employee is able to perform the duties of employment before the Employee is allowed to return to work. Misuse of sick leave sh...
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. (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.