Leave With Pay for Family-Related Responsibilities (a) For the purpose of this clause, family is defined as any relative permanently residing in the employee’s household or with whom the employee permanently resides, the employee’s spouse, (or common-law partner resident with the employee), children (including xxxxxx children and children of legal or common-law partner) or parents (including step-parents or xxxxxx-parents). (b) The Council shall grant leave with pay under the following circumstances: (i) When alternate arrangements are not possible, an employee shall be granted up to one (1) scheduled working day’s leave for a medical or dental appointment when the dependent family member is incapable of attending the appointment by himself/herself, or for appointments with appropriate authorities in schools or adoption agencies. An employee requesting leave under this provision must notify his/her supervisor of the appointment as far in advance as possible; (ii) To provide for the immediate and temporary care of a sick member of the employee's immediate family and to provide an employee with time to make alternate care arrangements where the illness is of a longer duration; (iii) Fifteen (15) hours’ leave with pay for needs directly related to the birth or to the adoption of the employee's child. (c) The total leave with pay which may be granted under sub-clause (c) (i), (ii) and (iii) shall not exceed thirty- seven decimal five (37.5) hours in a fiscal year. ** (d) Seven decimal five (7.5) hours out of thirty-seven decimal five (37.5) hours stipulated in clause 19.16 (c) above may be used: (i) to attend school functions, if the supervisor was notified of the functions as far in advance as possible; (ii) to provide for the employee’s child in the case of an unforeseeable closure of the school or daycare facility; (iii) to attend an appointment with a legal or paralegal representative for non- employment related matters, or with financial or other professional representative, if the supervisor was notified of the appointment as far in advance as possible. (e) Where, in respect of any period of compensatory leave, an employee is granted leave with pay for illness in the family under sub-paragraph (b) (ii) above, on production of a medical certificate, the period of compensatory leave so displaced shall either be added to the compensatory leave period, if requested by the employee and approved by the Council, or reinstated for use at a later date.
In-Service Education The parties recognize the value of in-service both to the employee and the Employer and shall encourage employees to participate in in-service. All employees scheduled by the Employer to attend in-service seminars shall receive regular wages.