Common use of Additional Leave for Non-Industrial Accident or Illness Clause in Contracts

Additional Leave for Non-Industrial Accident or Illness. RE-EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE- BISS 1. A permanent BISS unit member who has exhausted all entitlement to sick leave, vacation, compensatory overtime, or other available paid leave and who is absent because of non-industrial accident or illness may be granted additional leave, paid or unpaid, not to exceed six (6) months. The Board may renew the leave of absence, paid or unpaid, for two (2) additional six (6) month periods or such lesser leave periods that it may provide but not to exceed a total of eighteen (18) months. 2. A BISS unit member, upon ability to resume the duties of a position within the class to which they were assigned, may do so at any time during the leaves of absence granted under this section and time lost shall not be considered a break in service. They shall be restored to a position within the class to which they were assigned and if at all possible to their position with all the rights, benefits and burdens of a permanent unit member. 3. If at the conclusion of all leaves of absence, paid or unpaid, the unit member is still unable to assume the duties of their position, they shall be placed on a re-employment list for a period of thirty-nine (39) months. 4. At any time, during the prescribed thirty-nine (39) months, the unit member is able to assume the duties of their position, they shall be re-employed in the first vacancy in the classification of their previous assignment. Their re-employment will take preference over all other applicants except for those laid off for lack of work or funds in which case they shall be ranked according to their proper seniority. Upon resumption of their duties, the break in service will be disregarded and they shall be fully restored as a permanent unit member.

Additional Leave for Non-Industrial Accident or Illness. RERe-EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE- BISSemployment Preference: 1. A permanent BISS unit member employee of the classified service who has exhausted all entitlement to sick leave, vacation, compensatory overtime, or other available paid leave and who is absent because of non-industrial accident or illness may be granted additional leave, paid or unpaid, not to exceed six (6) months. The Board may renew the leave of absence, paid or unpaid, for two (2) additional six (6) six-month periods or such lesser leave periods that it may provide but not to exceed a total of eighteen (18) months. 2. A BISS unit memberAn employee, upon ability to resume the duties of a position within the class to which they were he/she was assigned, may do so at any time during the leaves of absence granted under this section and time lost shall not be considered a break in service. They He/she shall be restored to a position within the class to which they were he/she was assigned and if at all possible to their his/her position with all the rights, benefits benefits and burdens of a permanent unit memberemployee. 3. If at the conclusion of all leaves of absence, paid or unpaid, the unit member employee is still unable to assume the duties of their his/her position, they he/she shall be placed on a re-employment list for a period of thirty-nine (39) months. 4. At any time, during the prescribed thirty-nine (39) months, the unit member employee is able to assume the duties of their his/her position, they he/she shall be re-employed in the first first vacancy in the classification classification of their his/her previous assignment. Their His/her re-employment will take preference over all other applicants except for those laid off off for lack of work or funds in which case they he/she shall be ranked according to their his/her proper seniority. Upon resumption of their his/her duties, the break in service will be disregarded and they he/she shall be fully restored as a permanent unit memberemployee.