Extended Sick Leave for Mental or Physical Illness. Employees with ten (10) or more years in a full-time position shall be eligible, after they have used their accumulated sick leave, to ask for an extended health leave without pay of up to one (1) year.
Extended Sick Leave for Mental or Physical Illness. 1. Employees with five (5) or more years in a full-time ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) month position shall be eligible, after they have used their accumulated sick leave, to ask for an extended health leave without pay of up to two (2) years.
2. An employee, who requested a health leave of up to eighty-four (84) calendar days, shall be re- employed in the same position, and return to the same step and lane as at the time of granting of the leave. An employee, who requested a health leave of eighty-five (85) days through two (2) years who seeks to return to work, shall be re-employed in the same position if vacant, or in a comparable position if his/her former position has been filled. The returning employee shall return to the same salary and lane step as that person held at the time the leave was originally granted.
