Purpose of Sick Leave. The primary purpose of paid sick leave is to ensure employees against loss of pay for temporary absences from work due to illness or injury. It is a benefit extended by the County and may be used only as authorized; it is not paid time off which employees may use for personal activities.
Purpose of Sick Leave. Sick leave shall not be considered as a privilege which an employee may use at the employee's discretion, but shall be allowed only in case of sickness or disability of the employee or in the case of serious illness within the immediate family of the employee. Not more than fifteen (15) working days (120 hours prorated for part- time benefited employees) in any calendar year may be taken as sick leave because of the illness of a member of the employee's immediate family. The immediate family of an employee, for the purpose of this Section, shall be defined as: a dependent residing in the employee’s household or parent, spouse, child, legal guardian or xxxx, grandparent, grandchild, register domestic partner, or sibling. If the employees has no spouse or registered domestic partner, the employee may designate one person as to whom the employee may use paid sick leave to aid or care for the person. The opportunity to make such a designation shall be extended to the employee no later than the date on which the employee worked 30 hours after paid sick leave gains to accrue pursuant to Section 20.2 and
Purpose of Sick Leave. Xxxx leave shall not be considered as a privilege which an employee may use at his or her discretion, but shall be allowed only in the case of his or her sickness or disability or in the case of serious illness within the immediate family of the employee. Not more than twelve
Purpose of Sick Leave. Employees covered under this Labor Contract shall use sick leave when an employee is incapacitated for the performance of assigned duties by sickness or injury, or by pregnancy, childbirth and recovery from them, or periods of time required for medical, surgical, dental or optical examination or treatment, or where through exposure to contagious disease the presence of the employee on duty would jeopardize the health of others. Loss of time due to an illness of the employee’s spouse, children, other relatives or members of the employee’s household, which requires the employee’s personal care and attention shall be charged against the employee’s accumulated sick leave. The final decision concerning the granting of leave under this section shall rest with the Employer and shall be based upon the degree to which the employee is responsible for providing personal care and attention. Denial of sick leave use by the Employer shall not be inconsistent, arbitrary or discriminatory. No employee shall be disciplined for proper sick leave usage in compliance with this Section.
Purpose of Sick Leave. The primary purpose of a sick leave allowance is to cover the absence of a Union member from school because of personal illness sufficiently severe that it would make his/her presence in school inadvisable. Sick Leave applies only to absences resulting from illness of the employee, except as otherwise expressed in this agreement.
Purpose of Sick Leave. Sick leave shall not be considered as a privilege which an employee may use at the employee's discretion, but shall be allowed only in case of sickness or disability of the employee or in the case of serious illness within the immediate family of the employee. Not more than fifteen (15) working days (120 hours prorated for part- time benefited employees) in any calendar year may be taken as sick leave because of the illness of a member of the employee's immediate family. The immediate family of an employee, for the purpose of this Section, shall be defined as: spouse or domestic partner, son, daughter, parent, grandparent living in the employee’s household. In addition, grandchildren in families where no parents are present who reside in the employee’s household. A dependent who resides in the employee’s household other than those listed in the preceding sentence are also considered to be immediate family members under this Section.
Purpose of Sick Leave. Paid sick leave is for the sole and only purpose of protecting the employee against loss of income when the employee himself/herself is legitimately ill and is unable to attend work due to health reasons or non work-related injury. Notwithstanding the paragraph above, a permanent full-time employee shall be entitled to use up to three (3) days (21 hours or 24 hours for Building Custodians) of any sick leave accrued per calendar year under Article 20.02 for family/home responsibility issues. If these days are not used in a calendar year, they revert back to sick leave at the end of the year. These days cannot be carried over as family/home responsibility leave from year to year. It is the Employer’s intent to have employees who have been absent return to work and resume their regular duties and full-time hours as soon as it is reasonably possible and the Employee and Union have an obligation to cooperate in that regard.
Purpose of Sick Leave. 1. Xxxx Leave is not a right which a unit employee may use at his or her discretion. Xxxx leave is leave from duty necessitated by illness or injury to the unit employee or illness or injury of a member of the unit employee’s immediate family requiring the unit employee’s attendance, and medical appointment to the extent that such appointment cannot be scheduled outside the work day.
2. For the purposes of this section, immediate family means employee’s spouse or domestic partner, child, step-child, father, mother, step-father, step-mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, or other individual residing in the same household whose relationship to the unit employee is that of a dependent.
3. The maximum amount of accrued sick leave that can be used by a unit employee for use for their immediate family shall be forty-eight (48) hours per fiscal year.
4. All sick leave requires approval by Police Management and such request will not be unreasonably denied.
Purpose of Sick Leave. 10.1.1 The purpose of sick leave with pay is to afford an employee a degree of protection against the loss of pay which he would otherwise incur because of absence from his position by reason of an injury or disease other than an occupational injury or disease. Sick leave with pay is not to be granted for any other purpose except as this Article 10 says otherwise. Interpretation of the provisions of this Article 10 must be consistent with the principles expressed in this paragraph.
10.1.2 Sick leave with pay shall be granted for absence resulting from attendance at workmen's compensation hearings.
10.1.3 Sick leave with pay shall be granted for absence resulting from an employee's having been isolated or quarantined as a result of exposure to a communicable disease even though the employee has not himself contracted the disease; however, if the isolation or quarantine is the direct result of an on-duty experience, the absence will not be charged against the employee's available sick leave.
Purpose of Sick Leave. All regular full time employees will be allowed sick leave with regular pay. Each of the parties recognize that sick leave is designed to provide some measure of protection to an employee who is unable to perform their duties by reason of actual permissible usage of sick leave. Each of the parties realize that abuse of sick leave hinders the employee's production and Employer's ability to fully staff the service and, therefore, abuses of sick leave will be the basis for disciplinary action.
