Pressing Necessity and Personal. Family Leave shall be administered as follows:
1. an employee who maintains a minimum of seventy-five (75) sick leave credits may be permitted by the Employer to use sick leave credits for pressing necessity, and to a maximum of five (5) days per fiscal year for personal/family responsibilities;
2. an employee with less than seventy-five (75) sick leave credits may be granted up to three (3) days sick leave by his immediate supervisor to be used for pressing necessity or personal/family responsibilities, cumulative from year to year until a minimum of seventy-five (75) sick leave credits have been accumulated (and subject to using a maximum of five (5) days per fiscal year for personal/family responsibilities);
3. an employee with less than seventy-five (75) sick leave credits who requires leave with pay in excess of permitted limits, may be granted an advance to a maximum of three (3) sick leave credits (subject to using a maximum of five (5) days per fiscal year for personal/family responsibilities). This advance shall be charged against the employee's sick leave credits in the following year;
Pressing Necessity and Personal. Family Leave shall be administered as follows:
a) an employee who maintains a minimum of seventy-five (75) sick leave credits may be permitted by the Employer to use sick leave credits for pressing necessity, and to a maximum of five (5) days per fiscal year for personal/family responsibilities.
b) an employee with less than seventy-five (75) sick leave credits may be granted up to three (3) days sick leave by his immediate supervisor to be used for pressing necessity or personal/family responsibilities, cumulative from year to year until a minimum of seventy-five (75) sick leave credits have been accumulated (and subject to using a maximum of five (5) days per fiscal year for personal/family responsibilities);
c) an employee with less than seventy-five (75) sick leave credits who requires leave with pay in excess of permitted limits, may be granted an advance to a maximum of three (3) sick leave credits (subject to using a maximum of five (5) days per fiscal year for personal/family responsibilities). This advance shall be charged against the employee's sick leave credits in the following year.
d) unless there are unusual circumstances, leave for personal/family responsibilities should be utilized one day at a time.
e) leave with pay for pressing necessity or personal/family responsibilities shall be granted in response to verbal requests provided that a written request shall be submitted after the leave has been granted.
f) requests will be granted by the immediate supervisor to an extent considered to be fair and reasonable and in accordance with the Employer’s policies and preamble above.
g) the Employer reserves the right, in exceptional cases, to request evidence from the employee that the leave is for matters of pressing necessity or personal/family responsibilities. An explanation will be provided to the employee where an employee is refused leave under this article;
h) employees who are not eligible to access leave with pay for pressing necessity or personal/family responsibilities from sick leave credits, may use time-in-lieu, vacation leave, banked EDOs or other leave provisions;
i) if paid leave is not available, leave of absence without pay may be granted by an employee's immediate supervisor for reasons of pressing necessity or personal/family responsibilities.
