Health Care Leave. The Board may grant leaves of absence to teachers for reasons of health. Such leaves shall be granted for a minimum of one year, plus any unfinished year, at the end of which leave the employee must either return or resign, unless a special extension is recommended by the superintendent. Such leave shall be granted upon the recommendation of a physician’s statement. It shall be within the right of the Board to have the employee examined by a physician designated by the Board. A notice of intent to return must be given at least 90 days prior to the expiration of the leave of absence or extension sought; otherwise, the absentee’s resignation will become automatic. He/she shall be notified fifteen days in advance of the 90-day period regarding this policy. Upon acceptance of a teacher’s application for return to position, said teacher shall be assigned to the same position or to one for which he/she is qualified. Should there be no such vacancy existing at the time of the indicated return to service, the teacher will be offered the next position for which the teacher is qualified.
Health Care Leave. After the worker has exhausted all sick leave, the worker may request a long-term, unpaid health leave subject to approval of the Board for up to 12 months in addition to using, at the option of the employee, earned vacation. Compensatory time will be paid in accordance with Article 17.5.
8.7.1 A health leave may be granted to workers who are permanent workers and who document their request with medical support.
Health Care Leave. A teacher who is unable to teach because of personal illness or disability and who has exhausted all sick leave available, shall be granted a leave of absence without pay for the duration of such illness or disability up to one year; and the leave may be extended upon written request by the teacher. A teacher on health care leave who is notified by the superintendent via certified mail requesting information on that teacher's condition and intention to return to work, must respond to this request by May 1 by supplying such information to the superintendent. The teacher's failure to notify conclusively and irrefutably constitutes the teacher's resignation. It is the employee's responsibility to keep his/her address with the school district current. A teacher returning from health care leave shall be restored to his position with full seniority, status, and pay. If a teacher begins a health care leave prior to the beginning of school, or before his sick leave has been exhausted, the accrued sick leave shall survive the leave of absence. Health care leave will count for teacher's seniority.
Health Care Leave. The Company will grant leave with pay to an employee for medical, dental and eye appointments where sufficient notice for rescheduling is given by the employee. Employees shall, whenever possible, schedule such appointments for times other than their scheduled work hours.
Health Care Leave.
(a) The Employer recognizes there are occasions when an employee is unable to work due to illness or injury of the employee or an immediate family member and provides a benefit called "Health Care Leave". Full-time employees accrue seven (7) hours of Health Care Leave per month. Part-time employees, accrue health care leave on a prorated basis.
(b) Employees shall accumulate "Health Care Leave" to a maximum of seven hundred (700) hours.
(c) In the case of a sudden illness of an immediate family member (as defined in Article 18.1), where the employee is the only person in the home capable of dealing with the emergency, Health Care Leave may be used by the employee to care for the family member. Proof of illness may be requested by the Employer.
(d) Employees are entitled to use Health Care Leave to top up wage indemnity benefits.
(e) Employees are entitled to use Health Care Leave for necessary travel outside of Xxxxxx River or Texada Island to obtain medical or dental treatment as recommended by a physician or dentist.
(f) Where an employee's spouse or dependent child must attend medical or dental appointments outside the Xxxxxx River or Texada area, the employee is entitled to use Health Care Leave subject to the following:
(1) It was not possible to schedule the appointment in a timely way outside regularly scheduled working hours.
(2) As much notice as possible will be provided to the Employer.
(3) The spouse and/or dependent child requires assistance to attend said appointment.
(4) The Employer may request an employee provide a report from a qualified medical practitioner.
(5) Operational concerns must be addressed however requests will not be unreasonably denied.
(g) All employees are required to advise their Employer of intended absences and anticipated dates of return, as soon as practical.
(h) The Employer may require proof of illness.
(i) If the absence is covered by Workers' Compensation Board benefits, Health Care Leave will not apply.
(j) If, on the day of any resignation or termination, an employee has exceeded his or her earned Health Care Leave credit, the Employer shall be entitled to recover any overpayment from the employee by deduction from the monies owed to the employee.
Health Care Leave. 21 Up to a maximum of 24 hours of accumulated sick leave may be taken 22 within each contract year in the event that an employee’s full attention 23 is necessary to care for a member of the immediate family, a dependent, 24 or a member of the immediate household. Regular part-time employees 25 may take the prorated equivalent. Health care leave that is not used by 26 the end of the contract year will remain as unused sick leave. 27 28 Where health care leave is used for an emergency, the employee’s 29 supervisor must be notified as soon as possible. Health care leave for 30 purposes other than an emergency requires advance permission of the 31 employee’s supervisor. 32 33 Supervisors may require verification of the health care or emergency 34 causing an employee to request use of this leave time. 35
Health Care Leave. 20.01 Every Full time Employee who has completed her probation shall receive a credit of 7 hours of Health Care leave for each month of service, such credits to be cumulative and shall be allocated on a monthly basis.
(a) Notwithstanding any payments provided to part-time employees in lieu of benefits and subject to any pension eligibility affecting such payments, part-time employees shall be entitled to accrue Health Care Leave entitlement, according to hours worked in a month, proportionate to full time employees working thirty-five (35) hours per week.
(b) Temporary employees shall have their entitlement pro-rated based on the number of hours worked.
(c) In order to qualify for pay for absences due to sickness by drawing on accumulated sick leave credits, the employee shall provide a medical certificate to the Employer upon demand for any such absences in excess “ of” three (3) consecutive days. Such medical certificate shall provide sufficient medical information in the judgment of the employer to satisfy its statutory obligations and rights pursuant to policy and this agreement. Failure or refusal to furnish such medical certificate will result in the employee not being paid for the time away from work and may result in disciplinary action.
(d) Pay for absence(s) due to illness or injury as discussed in this Article is provided for the sole and only purpose of protecting employees against loss of income for absences due to illness or injury which are not compensatory under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, the Employment Insurance Act or from any other source. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is specifically understood that any sick leave entitlement shall only be used for such purposes of illness or injury not compensatory as referred to in the foregoing and for no other or improper purpose.
(e) Unused sick credits respectively may be carried over to the following calendar year and shall be capped at eighty-four (84) hours and no employee can use more than 84 hours sick leave credit in any one calendar year. Notwithstanding any carry over and/or loss of sick credits, it is understood that sick credits, whether used or not, shall not have any monetary value and no employee shall be entitled to a payout for any unused sick leave credit nor shall a sick leave credit be the subject of a payout at any time either during the currency of employment or termination of the employment relationship by either party for any reason.
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Health Care Leave. Health care or disability leave shall accrue at the rate of one day per month. Health care leave may be taken only for the health reasons of the employee or members of he employee’s immediate family, including domestic partners, whose health requires the presence of the employee. Employees may request to use health care leave for a person beyond the employee’s immediate family if that person requires the presence of the employee, and the request may be granted at the discretion of the executive director. Unused health care leave may be carried over from year to year, up to a total of 30 days. Temporary employees do not receive health care leave. Employees do not receive any payment for unused health care leave at termination of employment. For purposes of these Policies, immediate family members include the spouse, parent (including step-parents or in-laws), siblings (including step-siblings or in-laws), children (including step- or adopted children or in-laws), and others at the discretion of the Executive Director. The Executive Director may require a statement from the treating healthcare provider verifying illness or the ability to return to work following seven days of health care leave.
Health Care Leave. Whenever a Teacher suffers from a serious health condition that makes the Teacher unable to perform the functions of the Teacher’s job, the Teacher may have leave rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Information on the FMLA may be obtained from the school’s policy manual or from the superintendent.
Health Care Leave. The Board will, upon request, grant a leave of absence without pay of CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF FLINT and CHARTER V-1 OF LOCAL 1918 COUNCIL #25, A.F.S.C. & M.E., AFL-CIO up to one (1) year for the purpose of caring for a member of the employees immediate family during a chronic illness.
