Extended Illness Bank (EIB. Employees shall accrue forty-eight (48) hours per year (prorated for part-time employees) into the Extended Illness Bank (EIB) for use in the event of extended illness. The accrual shall be at the rate of 1.85 hours per pay period or .023 hours per hour worked. The maximum accumulation to the EIB bank shall be five hundred (500) hours. Employees who reach the five hundred (500) hour cap will not accrue additional EIB hours until their accrual drops below five hundred (500) hours. Employees with existing (as of the date of contract ratification) accrued EIB hours in excess of five hundred (500) hours will retain and utilize those hours first, and will not accrue additional hours until their accrual is below five hundred (500) hours. EIB hours may be used in the event of an illness lasting longer than sixteen (16) consecutive scheduled work hours (prorated for part-time employees). The first sixteen (16) consecutive hours of scheduled work time (prorated for part-time employees) missed due to an illness shall be deducted from the employee’s PTO account. As an example of pro-ration, an employee assigned a 0.5 FTE may access EIB after the first eight (8) consecutive hours of scheduled work are missed due to an illness. (0.5 FTE x 16 work hours = 8 hours.) Employees will use sixteen (16) consecutive hours of PTO (pro-rated for FTE) for each occurrence of illness or certified health condition for the employee or the employee’s qualified family member before using EIB hours. For example: An employee has been certified as having asthma. As a result, the employee is absent for three (3) eight (8)- hour days due to asthma. PTO is used for the first two (2) eight (8)-hour days and EIB is used for the third (3rd) eight (8)-hour day. Two (2) weeks later, the employee has another asthma attack or a different illness or qualifying family illness that requires an absence of another three (3) days. Because this is a different occurrence, the employee will use another sixteen (16) consecutive PTO hours, and available EIB hours will be used beginning on the third (3rd) day. There are five (5) exceptions for which EIB hours may be used for the first day of absence due to illness:
1. Occupational Injury – Occupational Injuries covered by Workers’ Compensation go to 1st day in EIB if requested by the employee. Otherwise, employees may use PTO or have the time be unpaid.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. Employees will accrue EIB at the rate of four (4) days per year, pro-rated for part time, based on hours paid excluding overtime hours, not to exceed eighty (80) ppp. EIB time can only be used for employee illness after the employee has been absent on unscheduled PTO or other unscheduled absence for one (1) week. For the purposes of this policy, this “one week” of absence shall be the equivalent of one half of the employee’s regular schedule of hours/standard hours for the pay period; e.g., for an employee whose standard hours per pay period is fifty-six (56), EIB may be used after twenty-eight (28) hours of unscheduled PTO or unscheduled absence have been used. During that week of absence the employee must use PTO if available. If no PTO is available, the employee will be in an unpaid status. Negative EIB balances will not be permitted. There is no maximum accrual of EIB. Healthcare Provider Certification Form must be provided for illnesses of three (3) days or more unless deemed unnecessary by Occupational Health, and the employee must clear back to work through Occupational Health. Employees may receive TDI while on EIB or PTO.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. Individual Employee Account with accrued hours designed for specific short- term illnesses or severe or long-term illness for self or family members (as defined by the California Family Rights Act (CFRA)) for continuity of pay.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. Time off with pay for reasons of illness or accident will be made available subject to the Program’s policies which may be revised from time to time.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. Revise to read:
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. Employees shall accrue four (4) hours for each month worked, up to a maximum of forty-eight (48) hours in 12 months (prorated for part-time employees) for use in the event of extended illness. EIB hours may be used after twenty-four (24) hours of PTO usage (or leave without pay if PTO is exhausted) for illness. Employees with accrued EIB are required to use this time for his/her own illness, or to care for a dependent child of any age, a spouse/domestic partner, a parent, a parent- in-law or grandparent who has a health condition that requires supervision or treatment. If EIB is exhausted, employees are required to use any remaining PTO for covered extended leave unless allowed by law to take as unpaid leave. Accrued and unused EIB balances are carried into the following fiscal year, up to a maximum of 480 hours as of June 30th. There are two (2) exceptions for which EIB hours may be used for the first day of absence due to illness:
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. Each nurse shall maintain the hours 2 accrued in their EIB as of the end of the last pay period of 2007. Existing EIB 3 balances shall be frozen, as of that date, and may be used to supplement STD to 4 100% pay. Up to sixteen (16) hours of EIB may be utilized during the seven (7) 5 day waiting period to qualify for STD after a nurse has utilized twenty-four (24) 6 hours of PTO, unless otherwise required by law.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. When a unit member exhausts his or her paid sick 10 leave, the member may request paid leave from an EIB to be administered by the 11 District as follows:
12 a. Membership in the EIB is mandatory for all unit members.
13 b. A request for EIB days will be granted providing the unit member meets the
16 1. The unit member shall provide medical documentation that the unit member is 17 physically unable to perform his/her duties due to a serious illness or injury resulting 18 in continuous absence as provided below.
20 2. The unit member must be absent for: 20 consecutive work days if the unit 22 work days if the unit member is in the 4th through 10th year of employment with the 23 District and 40 consecutive work days if the unit member has been employed by the 24 District for more than 10 years.
26 c. After a unit member has exhausted current and accumulated sick leave and 27 personal leave, EIB days will be granted for qualifying illness or injury in amounts 28 not to exceed forty days per application. For a continuing illness or injury, if more 29 days are needed beyond the original application, additional applications 30 accompanied by supporting documentation from the member’s physician may be 31 submitted. There is a lifetime maximum withdrawal of 186 EIB days.
33 d. EIB days will be available immediately if the applicant has used at least 40 days of 34 leave time (sick and personal) during the period immediately prior to the requested 35 EIB leave period. For applicants who had less than 40 days, the waiting period will 36 be 20 days, which will be reduced by one half day for each day of the applicant’s 37 own leave time used during the period immediately prior to the EIB leave period.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. Employees shall accrue 6 days/48 hours per year (pro- rated for part-time employees) into the Extended Illness Bank (EIB) for use in the event of
1. Occupational Injury: In the event an employee has exhausted his/her PTO, and incurs an occupational injury for which the employee is eligible for workers’ compensation insurance, then the employee will have access to his/her EIB accrual at the first day of absence due to the occupational injury.
Extended Illness Bank (EIB. A. Nurses will accrue six (6) EIB days per year (pro-rated for eligible part- time nurses as indicated in the PTO Accrual Chart attached hereto as Appendix C). Nurses with 25+ years of service with the Hospital shall accrue two (2) additional EIB days (pro-rated for eligible part-time nurses as indicated in the PTO accrual chart). EIB accrual is capped at 520 hours.
B. After a nurse is absent for a period of one week or more due to his/her own personal illness or injury, the nurse may begin applying EIB time to the leave. The one-week waiting period will be calculated according to the nurse’s scheduled hours (e.g., a 24 hour nurse must be absent for 3 consecutively scheduled work days). During the waiting period PTO time may be applied. Should a Nurse remain out after she/he has exhausted her/his EIB bank the Nurse will be required to use any remaining accrued PTO. In the event that a Nurse’s PTO bank is insufficient to cover the anticipated remainder of her/his leave, the Nurse may seek approval from Human Resources to apportion accrued time across the remainder of the leave. In the case of approved intermittent FMLA leave for the Nurse’s own serious health condition, the one week waiting period need not be consecutive days but instead one week of time used cumulatively on an intermittent basis. Once the one week requirement has been satisfied, the nurse can apply her/his EIB time for intermittent FMLA absences for the Nurse’s own serious health condition, provided that the absences are covered by the approved FMLA certification. In order to apply EIB time to intermittent leave, it is the employee’s responsibility to promptly notify and verify to the Hospital that an absence is covered as approved intermittent FMLA leave.
C. A full-time or part-time nurse on Worker’s Compensation may elect to draw on her/his EIB or PTO bank for the difference between her/his compensation payment and her/his regular salary.
D. Unused time in the nurse’s EIB is not eligible for pay out upon termination.
