Common use of Allowance/Attendance Clause in Contracts

Allowance/Attendance. All regular employees shall be entitled to sick leave pay at the employee's regular rate when they are incapacitated for performance of their duties as resulting from an employee's mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition; to accommodate the employee's need for medical diagnosis, care, or treatment of a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition; or an employee's need for preventive medical care. Additionally, to allow the employee to provide care for a family member with a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition; care of a family member who needs medical diagnosis, care, or treatment of a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition; or care for a family member who needs preventive medical care or any other reason or condition as defined in RCW 49.46.020 and RCW 49.76. Family member is defined as: • A child, including a biological, adopted, or xxxxxx child, stepchild, or a child to whom the employee stands in loco parentis, is a legal guardian, or is a de facto parent, regardless of age or dependency status; • A biological, adoptive, de facto, or xxxxxx parent, stepparent, or legal guardian of an employee or the employee's spouse or registered domestic partner, or a person who stood in loco parentis when the employee was a minor child; • A spouse; • A registered domestic partner; • A grandparent; • A grandchild; or • A sibling. Each employee shall be responsible for being present at the correct time each day. On occasion employees may have reason to be absent from work. On these occasions, employees are expected to contact their Supervisor at a reasonable time before their scheduled starting time on the first day and each subsequent day of an unscheduled absence, i.e., due to a personal or dependent illness or an emergency. Employees must indicate the reason and probable duration of the absence. Any employee contracting or incurring any non-service connected sickness or disability which renders such employee unable to perform the duties of his/her employment, shall receive sick leave with pay up to the amount of sick leave accumulated or accumulated.