Critical Care Leave. In situations where an employee’s spouse, or where the employee’s parent or child who permanently resides with the employee, experiences a critical illness or injury such as the following: • Heart Attacks/Heart Surgeries • Organ Failure/Transplant • Cancer requiring inpatient surgery or multiple treatments • Stroke or other cerebral vascular accident • Neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer’s disease or Multiple Sclerosis • Injuries resulting from a serious vehicle accident • Care following an extended period of hospitalization An employee may request to use up to a maximum of thirty (30) days/240 hours of his/her accrued Sick Leave per rolling twelve- (12-)month period to care for the ill/injured family member. Such time shall be pro-rated for employees working less than a 100% appointment.
Critical Care Leave. 11.01 In the case of critical illness to the teacher’s mother, father or adult child, the teacher shall be granted leave with pay up to five (5) days per year when the teacher provides the Employer with a medical certificate, satisfactory to the Employer, confirming that the teacher’s mother, father or adult child is suffering from a life threatening condition.
Critical Care Leave. Teachers may make written request to the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources for certain critical medical situations and additional leave may be granted for up to one-hundred nineteen (119) workdays or until such time as they become eligible for long-term disability benefits, whichever is the lesser provided that:
Critical Care Leave a) The Employer shall grant, upon request, unpaid Critical Care Leave in accordance with the Employment Standards Act, as amended from time to time.
Critical Care Leave shall be specifically defined as permission for teachers to be absent from duty in the event of critical illness, critical accident, illness, or accident requiring emergency medical treatment of an immediate member of their family as defined in clause 14.1.2.
