PERSONAL CRITICAL LEAVE. BANK (PCLB) It is recommended that the employee establish a PCLB, on her leave progression date, by depositing some number of hours of her PTO into the PCLB. The PCLB is used for the seventeenth (17) consecutive hour and beyond of absence due to any injury/illness of the employee or when an employee is needed to care for a member of the employee’s immediate family (defined as spouse, dependent child[xxx], mother, father, or certified or registered domestic partner) who is ill or injured or for the birth, placement, adoption of a child, or bonding/well newborn care after such, in the year between their leave progression dates. Documentation by a certified physician, hospital or Employee Health Services may be required as determined by her Manager/designee. For the purpose of this Article, dependent children are defined as the employee’s unmarried, natural, adopted, or step-child[ren], or a child for whom the employee has been appointed legal guardian, or the natural or adopted child[ren] of the employee’s current certified or registered domestic partner who are under the age of nineteen (19) or who are handicapped children as defined in the City’s health insurance policy.
