Master Sick Bank Eligibility. Any employee shall be eligible to make application to the Sick Bank Committee for sick days of benefit after the employee has been employed and worked a minimum of six months and has at least one half of the employee’s current annual sick leave allowance at the commencement of the first illness during any one contract year. The employee must be incapacitated for at least fifteen
Master Sick Bank Eligibility. Any bargaining unit employee shall be eligible to make application to the Sick Bank Committee for sick days of benefit after the employee has been employed and worked a minimum of six months and has at least one half of the employee’s current annual sick leave allowance at the commencement of the first illness during any one contract year. The employee must be incapacitated for at least fifteen (15) consecutive working days and must have exhausted all days available in the employee’s personal sick leave accumulation before drawing on the Master Sick Bank. If a bargaining unit employee is incapacitated for at least fifteen (15) working days (not necessarily consecutive working days) in any one year and there is a further incapacitation which appears to be a recurrence of the same illness or accident and the same licensed physician who originally handled the case verifies by written statement that such incapacitation is a recurrence, then the fifteen (15) consecutive day eligibility requirement can be waived in such instance at the discretion of the Sick Bank Committee. In the instance of a recurrence of an illness, the employee may change physicians provided that prior approval is obtained from the Executive Director of Personnel Services.
