Emergency/Bereavement Leave Clause Samples

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. A. Thirty six hours (36) of leave may be granted to an employee at the discretion of the district superintendent for the purpose of dealing with an extreme emergency including but not limited to bereavement of immediate family. This leave will be charged to the employee’s accrued sick leave. B. A teacher may use an additional nine (9) hours of sick leave for bereavement not otherwise covered. These hours are non-cumulative. A teacher may use an additional nine (9) hours of sick leave in the event roads are closed by the Montana Department of Transportation.

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. Employees shall be granted up to five (5) days of paid leave per year for purposes of an emergency/bereavement nature. These days shall not be accumulative from year to year. Such leave may be used for the following: a.) Bereavement in the case of death in the immediate family. b.) An employee may use a maximum of two (2) days for bereavement purposes with no restrictions. When used these days will be deducted from the maximum of five

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. Emergency leave may be granted by the appointing authority or designee without loss of pay for emergency purposes, which shall include: critical illness or death in the immediate family; if an employee is subpoenaed to appear before a court and such other situations considered meritorious by the appointing authority or designee who shall certify allowance or disallowance of the emergency leave sought. Emergency leave shall be supplementary to and not in restriction of, annual leave as herein provided. Use of emergency leave shall not replace the provisions of FMLA leave referenced under Article 25.2 of this contract. Employees whose emergency leave event qualifies for FMLA leave under current federal law, must apply for FMLA leave and provide the necessary documentation to determine the need. Pay for FMLA qualifying events will be covered by the applicable provisions of FMLA leave. For the purposes of this section, immediate family shall be defined as being a spouse, and children of the employee, children of the spouse, grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, sister and brother of either the employee or the employee’s spouse, or others at the discretion of the appointing authority or designee. This provision shall not be construed to supersede the payment of wages at the overtime rate in accordance with Article 15 of this contract for subpoenas related to the employee’s work for the Town of Goffstown.

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. Three (3) days per year may be granted without loss of pay for emergencies including bereavement and attendance at funerals. The Superintendent must approve payment for all emergency/bereavement days taken. Requests for additional emergency/bereavement days in any one year shall be made to the Superintendent or his/her designee.

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. Will be granted for death, emergency school closing or other emergency circumstances approved by the Superintendent or designee, not to exceed the maximum days shown in the schedule below: Full Year 5 Extended School Year 4 School Year 3 a. Additional days may be granted by the Superintendent or designee. b. In case of an emergency or school closing, the staff member shall notify his/her supervisor as soon as possible and the request shall be submitted to the supervisor on the following workday. Misuse of this benefit may result in discipline up to and including dismissal.

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. The Employee may take up to the amount of paid leave stated on the Employee Assignment Document during the term of this Agreement for any emergencies or deaths in the Employee’s immediate family. (The amount will be adjusted proportionately according to FTE with a 1.0 FTE receiving 32 hours.) For purposes of this Agreement, “immediate family” is defined as the Employee’s spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, grandparent or the child, parent, brother, sister, grandchild or grandparent of the Employee’s spouse. Upon termination of this Agreement, the Employee will have no right to be paid for unused days of emergency/bereavement leave.

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. 35.1 Teachers shall be granted up to five (5) days each year for bereavement in the case of a death of a member of the teacher’s immediate family or for events of an emergency nature. An emergency is defined as an event of catastrophic or unforeseen nature which would keep a teacher from performing their duties. Emergency/Bereavement leave is granted with full pay. IMMEDIATE FAMILY DEFINITION: This includes both first and second degree relations by affinity and consanguinity (by blood and marriage). First degree relations are defined as father, mother, husband, wife, and children. Second degree relations are defined as grandfather, grandmother, grandchildren, brothers, and sisters. For all leave purposes, any leave more than one (1) hour and less than three (3) hours will be considered ½ day charged to the appropriate leave category. Any leave of one hour or less is not chargeable and will be worked out with the principal. 35.2 For deaths outside the immediate family (or additional days for deaths within the immediate family), a teacher may apply to the Principal who is authorized to grant leave chargeable to sick leave. 35.3 For deaths outside the state, additional time up to three (3) days may be granted by the Principal.

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. When death occurs in an employee’s immediate family, the employee, upon request, shall be granted up to three days leave within the first ten calendar days after the death. An employee excused from work under this Section shall receive the amount of wages he would have earned by working during his straight time hours on such scheduled days of work for which he is excused. “Immediate family” shall mean the employee’s spouse, child, stepchild, grandchildren, mother, father, stepparents, sister, brother, stepbrother, stepsister, mother- in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, and grandparents. An additional two

Emergency/Bereavement Leave. Administrators shall be granted ten (10) days leave plus travel time for each emergency in case of: 1. Death(s) within the immediate family. The "immediate" family is defined per the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) as the employee's child, spouse, parent or person for whom the employee has guardianship. 2. Serious illness or accident, which requires hospitalization of a member of the immediate family. Documentation from a health care provider will be required. 3. Exceptions to the immediate family definition, cause for, or duration of emergency leave use will be by petition to the Superintendent. 4. This emergency leave will be charged to available sick leave or personal leave. If there is no sick leave or personal leave available then it will be charged to leave without pay.