ILLNESS TREATMENT. 32.1 Sick Pay Program, effective January 1, 2018 Windstream provides sick pay of up to 8 days (64 hours maximum) in a calendar year for absences due to the employee’s own injury or illness and routine doctor appointments unless state law requires otherwise. Up to three
ILLNESS TREATMENT. 32.1 Provisions of this Article shall only apply to Regular Full-time employees. Payment for absence because of personal illness shall be as follows: a. For employees who have more than one (1) year of net credited service but less than five (5) years, the waiting period shall be three (3) consecutive workdays. b. For employees who have five (5) years or more of net credited service, but less than ten (10) years, the waiting period shall be two (2) 62 <PAGE> consecutive workdays. c. For employees who have ten (10) years or more of net credited service, but less than fifteen (15) years, the waiting period shall be one (1) consecutive workday. d. For employees who have fifteen (15) years or more of net credited service, there will be no waiting days. e. Employees who have less than fifteen (15) years of net credited service shall have no waiting period provided the employee has not been absent due to illness for six (6) months immediately preceding the first day of absence, or the employee is admitted into a hospital, or the employee has outpatient surgery. 32.2 The following benefits shall apply for absence due to sickness or accidental injury occurring outside of employment. Successive sickness benefit periods are added together in computing the period for which benefits are payable, except that sickness occurring after thirteen (13) weeks of continuous employment is considered as a new sickness. a. If the term of employment has been one (1) year but less than five (5) years - Full pay four (4) weeks, half pay nine (9) weeks. b. If term of employment has been five (5) years but less than ten (10) years - Full pay thirteen (13) weeks, half pay thirteen (13) weeks. c. If term of employment has been greater than ten (10) years but less than fifteen (15) years - Full pay thirteen (13) weeks, half pay thirty-nine (39) weeks. d. If term of employment has been greater than fifteen (15) years or more - Full pay twenty-six (26) weeks, half pay twenty-six (26) weeks. 32.3 If an employee reports for duty and is forced by reason of illness to leave work after having worked at least 2 hours of the regularly assigned session, payment at the basic wage rate plus applicable differentials and/or premium payments shall be made for the remainder of the regularly assigned session. Illness benefit payments shall be paid beginning with the next regularly assigned session in accordance with the waiting periods set forth above. 32.4
