Leave for Pressing Necessity and Personal Family Responsibilities. Pressing Necessity An employee may be granted leave with pay for pressing necessities. Requests for this purpose shall be made to the immediate supervisor and granted by the Employer to an extent considered to be fair and reasonable. Personal/Family Responsibilities Leave of Absence for Personal/Family Responsibilities is drawn from an employee’s accumulated sick leave credits for carrying out a personal or a family responsibility where the employee has an obligation or duty and where the employee may be held accountable or answerable in some manner if the obligation is not met. This leave does not apply to purely discretionary personal or family matters. The individual employee’s judgment should be tempered with good faith reasoning and an understanding that if abused the ability to take time off with pay for important personal or family responsibilities may be denied. In order to meet the Employer’s need and patient’s need for effective, efficient Cancer treatment and research programs and services, there needs to be a balance between personal/family responsibilities and service delivery to the patients. Employees should provide reasonable notice when they intend to utilize personal/family leave to minimize the negative effect on service delivery and co-worker workload. Requests for leave of absence for Pressing Necessity and/or Personal/Family Responsibilities shall be made in writing to the employee’s immediate supervisor. Granting leave of absence for Personal/Family Responsibilities is restricted to a portion of the employee’s accumulated sick leave credits due to the Federal Government Employment Insurance Regulations. An employee who maintains a minimum balance of seventy-five (75) sick leave credits may be permitted by the Employer to use up to five
Leave for Pressing Necessity and Personal Family Responsibilities
