Extended Family Leave. (a) An Employee who is the Primary Caregiver and has exhausted all parental leave entitlements may apply for unpaid Extended Family Leave as a continuous extension to their parental leave taken in accordance with this clause. The total amount of leave, inclusive of parental leave taken in accordance with this clause cannot exceed seven years.
(b) The Employee must make an application for Extended Family Leave each year.
(c) An Employee will not be entitled to paid parental leave whilst on Extended Family leave.
(d) Upon return to work the Employer may reallocate the Employee to other duties.
Extended Family Leave. An Employee who is the Primary Caregiver and has exhausted all parental leave entitlements may apply for unpaid Extended Family Leave as a continuous extension to their parental leave taken in accordance with this clause. The total amount of leave, inclusive of parental leave taken in accordance with this clause cannot exceed seven years from the commencement date of parental leave.
Extended Family Leave. An Employee who is the Primary Caregiver and has exhausted all parental leave entitlements may apply for unpaid Extended Family Leave as a continuous extension to their parental leave taken in accordance with this clause. The total amount of leave, inclusive of parental leave taken in accordance with this clause cannot exceed seven years. The Employee must make an application for Extended Family Leave each year. An Employee will not be entitled to paid parental leave whilst on Extended Family leave. Upon return to work the Employer may reallocate the Employee to other duties. A replacement Employee is an Employee specifically engaged or temporarily acting on higher duties or transferred, as a result of an Employee proceeding on parental leave. Before an Employer engages a replacement Employee the Employer must inform that person of the temporary nature of the employment and of the rights of the Employee who is being replaced. The limitation in clause 15.6 on the use of fixed term employment to replace the Employee does not apply in this case.
Extended Family Leave. Subd. 1. A family leave may be granted by the School District subject to the provisions of this section and in accordance with the Family Medical Leave Act, P.L. 103-3. Family leave may be granted because of personal illness, the need to prepare and provide parental care for a minor child or children of the teacher, or for the serious illness of a teacher's spouse, life partner, adult child or parent for an extended period of time.
Subd. 2. A teacher making application for family leave shall inform the Superintendent in writing of his/her intention to take the leave at least thirty (30) days before commencement of the intended leave if possible. A teacher intending to return from an extended family leave at the start of or during the next school year must notify the District in writing by February 1 of either confirmation of or a request to change the date of their return or they shall forfeit their reinstatement rights for that school year.
Subd. 3. If the reason for the family leave is occasioned by pregnancy, the Superintendent may require a statement from the teacher's physician for use in determining the expected date of delivery.
Subd. 4. The School District may adjust the proposed beginning or ending date of a family leave so that the dates of the leave are coincident with some natural break in the school year, i.e., winter vacation, spring vacation, semester break, or quarter break, end of a grading period, end of the school year, or the like, in accordance with the Family Medical Leave Act.
Subd. 5. In making a determination concerning the commencement and duration of a family leave, the School District shall not, in any event, be required to:
a) Grant any leave more than eighteen (18) months in duration if the purpose of the leave is to care for the teacher's minor child or twelve (12) weeks in all other cases.
b) Permit the teacher to return to employment prior to the date designated in the request for family leave.
Subd. 6. A teacher returning from family leave shall be re-employed in a position for which he or she is licensed unless previously discharged or placed on unrequested leave.
Subd. 7. Failure of the teacher to return pursuant to the date determined under this Section shall constitute grounds for termination unless the School District and the teacher mutually agree to an extension of the leave.
Extended Family Leave. To care for the Employee’s spouse, child or parent with a serious illness.
Extended Family Leave. Employees may request time off with pay to attend to a personal emergency and/or family matters caused by the serious illness of a family member subject to the legitimate operational requirements of the Local. Local Representatives will be granted up to a further ninety (90) days unpaid leave in this situation and requests for extensions to this leave will not be unreasonably denied.
Extended Family Leave. Family leave to care for a child, spouse, domestic partner or parent, or to care for a newborn or newly placed xxxxxx or adopted child may be extended in the discretion of the Hospital for an additional three months, without loss of earned benefits to the date such leave commenced. If earned annual leave is available, it shall be used during this extended family leave. In the case of a serious health condition, any accrued sick leave shall be used as set forth above. Otherwise, the leave will be unpaid. Nurses shall be returned to the same unit, shift and former full-time or part-time status, or equivalent position whenever possible. Where not possible, upon return from this extended leave, the nurse shall be offered the first available comparable opening for which the nurse is qualified.
Extended Family Leave. In the event an employee depletes all family illness days, he/she may convert personal sick leave into family illness days under the following conditions.
Extended Family Leave. Upon mutual agreement with PVNA, a nurse may be granted an extension of unpaid leave up to a total of six (6) months. If a nurse is granted such an extension of his or her family leave, for a period not to exceed three (3) months following the conclusion of the FMLA, a nurse shall be offered the first available position for work for which he or she is qualified.
Extended Family Leave. (a) An employee who is the primary caregiver, and has exhausted all parental leave entitlements, may apply for unpaid extended family leave, provided that such leave will:
(i) immediately follow the parental leave approved under this clause 40; and,
(ii) cannot exceed seven years, inclusive of the parental leave approved under this clause 40, and any annual leave and long service leave.
(b) The employee must make an application for extended family leave each year.
(c) An employee will not be entitled to paid parental leave whilst on extended family leave.
(d) Upon return to work, following a period of extended family leave, the employer may assign the employee to another nurse position.
