Common use of Extended Illness Time Clause in Contracts

Extended Illness Time. 2 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 3 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave. 5 B. Accrual: Through January 4, 2020, regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours 6 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period 7 (approximately seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time 8 nurse). A paid hour under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under 9 the PTO program. Accrual will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused 10 EIT accrual. Effective with the pay period that begins Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, no 11 further EIT accruals will occur. All existing EIT accruals for then-current nurses 12 shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an Extended Illness bank for 13 each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after January 2, 2020 will not accrue 14 or participate in EIT. 16 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 17 regularly scheduled shift and charge nurse differentials provided under Appendix 18 A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. 20 D. 1. Use: (through January 4, 2020): Effective through January 4, 2020, EIT 21 continues to be available as follows: 22 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 23 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period when 24 accrued. 26 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following: 27 (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 28 as an inpatient or outpatient, for (1) one or more days and any necessary 29 absence immediately following hospitalization. When a nurse receives outpatient 30 procedures under conscious sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a 31 free-standing surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.

Extended Illness Time. 2 5 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 3 6 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave. 5 8 B. Accrual: Through January 4, 2020, regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 .0270 EIT hours 6 9 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period 7 (approximately 10 seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time 8 nurse). A paid hour 11 under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under 9 the PTO program. Accrual 12 will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused 10 EIT accrual. Effective with the pay 13 period that begins Sunday, Jan. 5, 20201/5/2020, no 11 further EIT EIB accruals will occur. All existing EIT 14 accruals for then-current nurses 12 shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an 15 Extended Illness bank Bank for 13 each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after January 25, 16 2020 will not accrue 14 or participate in EIT. 16 18 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 17 19 regularly scheduled shift and charge nurse differentials provided under Appendix 18 A, at the time of use. EIT 20 pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. 20 22 D. 1. Use: Use – (through Through January 4, 2020): Effective through January 4, 2020, EIT 21 23 continues to be available as follows: 22 25 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 23 26 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period when 24 27 accrued. 26 29 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to any of the following: 27 (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 28 32 as an inpatient or outpatient, for (1) one or more days and any necessary 29 33 absence immediately following hospitalization. 1 If, during the term of this Agreement, Home Health and Hospice makes any 2 improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of Home 3 Health and Hospice's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the 4 improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees. 6 (b) When a nurse receives outpatient 30 procedures under conscious 7 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a 31 free-standing surgical 8 center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.

Extended Illness Time. 2 18 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) ). program encompasses time taken in 3 19 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave. 5 21 B. Accrual: Through January 4, 2020. Effective through the final pay period in February 2021, regular 22 nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours 6 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid 23 hours per two-week pay period 7 (approximately seven (7) days of EIT per 24 year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time 8 nurse). A paid hour under this section 25 is defined the same as a paid hour under 9 the PTO program. Accrual will 26 cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused 10 EIT accrual. Effective with 27 the first full pay period that begins Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020in March 2021, no 11 further EIT leave accruals will 28 occur. All existing EIT leave accruals for then-current nurses 12 shall be frozen 29 as of that date and shall be placed in an Extended Illness extended illness bank for 13 each 30 respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after January 2March 1, 2020 2021 will not accrue 14 or 31 participate in EIT. 16 33 C. Pay: . EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 17 34 regularly scheduled shift and charge nurse Charge Nurse differentials provided under 1 Appendix 18 A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the 2 EIT is used. 20 D. 1. Use: 4 D-1. Use (through January 4the pay period including February 28, 2020): 2021). Effective through January 45 the pay period including February 27, 20202021, EIT 21 continues will continue to be available 6 as follows: 22 7 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) 8 months of 23 employment and then in or after the pay period following 9 the pay period when 24 accrued. 26 11 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following: 27 (12 a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery 13 unit, 28 as an inpatient or outpatient, for (1) one or more days and any 14 necessary 29 absence immediately following hospitalization. If, 15 during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes 16 any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph 17 for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are 18 not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided 19 to bargaining unit employees. 21 b) When a nurse receives outpatient 30 procedures under conscious 22 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a 31 free-standing 23 surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office. 25 c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed 26 work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of 27 three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive 28 scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the 29 Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered 30 by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's 31 other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the 32 improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit 33 employees. 1 d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, 2 without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a 3 waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is 4 equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly 5 scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours. 7 e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above 8 and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, 9 when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such 10 condition. 12 f) Approved parental leave under applicable law. 14 g) Approved leaves under OFLA, after exhausting all accrued and 15 available PTO. 17 3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation 18 pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is 19 otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to 20 bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation 21 and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the 22 missed hours. 24 D-2. Use of EIT (March 2021 – December 31, 2022). Effective the first full pay 25 period in March 2021 and until December 31, 2022, accrued EIT may be 26 used for the following purposes: 27 1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100% 29 2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100% 30 31 3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100% 1 4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA, 2 after a waiting period of missed work that is equal to three (3) days up 3 to a maximum of twenty-four (24) hours. 5 5. For absences shorter than seven (7) days, EIT can be used as 6 described in Section D-1. above. 8 6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for 9 scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for 10 short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether short-term 11 disability (STD) is approved or denied).

Extended Illness Time. 2 26 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 3 27 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave. 5 29 B. Accrual: Through January 4, 2020, R regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT 30 hours 6 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period 7 31 (approximately seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time 8 32 nurse). A paid hour under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under 9 33 the PTO program. Accrual will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused 10 34 EIT accrual. Effective with the pay period that begins Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, no 11 1 further EIT accruals will occur. All existing EIT accruals for then-current nurses 12 2 shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an Extended Illness bank for 13 3 each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after January 2, 2020 will not accrue 14 4 or participate in EIT. 16 6 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 17 7 regularly scheduled shift and charge nurse differentials provided under Appendix 18 8 A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. 20 D. 1. 10 D-1. Use: (through January 4, 2020): Effective through January 4, 2020, EIT 21 11 continues to be available as follows: 22 12 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 23 13 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period 14 when 24 accrued. 26 15 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following: 27 16 (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 28 17 as an inpatient or outpatient, for (1) one or more days and any 18 necessary 29 absence immediately following hospitalization. 20 (b) When a nurse receives outpatient 30 procedures under conscious 21 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a 31 free-standing 22 surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.

Extended Illness Time. 2 12 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 3 13 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave. 5 15 B. Accrual: Through January 4, 2020, regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours 6 16 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 eighty (80) paid hours per two-week pay period 7 17 (approximately seven ([7) ] days of EIT per year with 56 fifty-six [56] hours’ pay for a full-time 8 18 nurse). A paid hour under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under 9 the 19 PTO program. Accrual will cease when a nurse has 1,040 one thousand forty (1,040) hours of 20 unused 10 EIT accrual. Effective with the pay period that begins Sunday, Jan. January 5, 2020, 21 no 11 further EIT accruals will occur. All existing EIT accruals for then-current nurses 12 shall 22 be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an Extended Illness bank for 13 each 23 respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after January 21, 2020 will not accrue 14 or participate 24 in EIT. 16 26 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 17 27 regularly scheduled shift shift, certification, Clinical Ladder, and charge nurse Charge Nurse differentials 28 provided under Appendix 18 A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after 29 the EIT is used. 20 D. 1. Use: 31 D-1. Use (through January 4, 2020): Effective through January 4, 2020, EIT 21 continues 32 to be available as follows: 22 33 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 23 34 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period 35 when 24 accrued. 26 1 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following: 27 2 (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 28 3 as an inpatient or outpatient, for (1) one or more days and any 4 necessary 29 absence immediately following hospitalization. When If, during 5 the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any 6 improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a nurse receives outpatient 30 procedures under conscious sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia 7 majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a 31 free-standing surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office8 bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining 9 unit employees.