Extended Ill Time. (EIT) Extended Ill Time constitutes days which the employee is absent from work with pay due to long term illness or disability. An employee is eligible for EIT unless the employee is designated as casual. Employees will 12 accrue EIT based on each hour worked. When EIT is paid it will be used to replace normally scheduled hours. EIT ACCRUAL RATE SCHEDULE Completed Years Of Service All Years 80 Hr. Accrual Rate Per Year 7 Days 80 Hr. Accrual Rate of Accrual Rate Per Pay Period Per Hr. Worked 2.16 Hrs. .0270 Maximum accrual level for EIT is 75 days (600 Hrs.) Extended Ill Time is available: • For illness or disability of more than four scheduled days. • For use from the first day of an employee's inpatient hospitalization or outpatient surgery if the employee is unable to work for four (4) consecutive work days or more. • After the fourth day of illness or injury to the employee's child, who is under 18 years of age or under age 20 and is still attending secondary school in accordance with Minn. Stat. § 181.9413 for such reasonable periods as the employee's attendance with the child may be necessary. • Only to replace normally scheduled hours. Extended Ill time is not available: • To be used whenever an employee chooses. • To be used for routine medical and dental check ups. • To be used for illness on a scheduled day off. • To be used unless proper notification has been given to the employee's department manager. When EIT is utilized the following steps must be followed: • An employee shall notify supervisor before the scheduled shift or as soon as possible if an emergency. • Indicate the date on which the health condition began. • Indicate the probable duration of the health condition. • When returning, report to Station One nurse's station. • The department manager will record on the employee's time card the amount of EIT to be paid. EIT is available upon successful completion of 90 days' employment. For purposes of this Article, the term "disability" shall be defined as follows: A mental or physical illness, injury, or condition which renders an employee unable to safely perform normal work duties as evidenced by a physician's statement which:
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