Reasons for Sick Leave. Bargaining Unit Employees may use sick leave for absence due to personal illness, illness in the immediate family, maternity reasons, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to students or other employees, and illnesses, injury, disability or death in the Bargaining Unit Employee’s immediate family. Paid sick leave entitlement also may be used for reasons as provided in the following sections of this Article.
Reasons for Sick Leave. Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated 33 by: 1) illness or injury to the employee; 2) exposure by the employee to a contagious disease 34 communicable to other employees; and/or 3) serious illness, injury where the employee’s 35 presence is reasonably necessary.
Reasons for Sick Leave. Sick leave for members of the Fire Department shall be granted for the following defined reasons:
a. Personal illness or physical incapacity, not voluntarily caused, to such an extent as to be rendered thereby unable to perform the duties of his or her present position or for some other position in the Department if said employee is found capable of other work by a qualified physician.
b. Enforced quarantine when established and declared by the Department of Health or qualified physician for the period of such quarantine.
Reasons for Sick Leave. Sick leave covers those situations in which an employee is absent from work due to:
1) Physical injury or illness of the employee;
2) The need to care for immediate family members who are ill or recovering from a temporary disability or child birth;
3) Medical or dental appointments for the employee or dependent child. Employees should try their best to schedule such appointments at times that least interferes with the work day;
4) Exposure to a contagious disease where on-the-job presence of the employee would jeopardize the health of others;
5) Use of prescription or non-prescription medication that impairs job performance or safety;
6) Periods of temporary disability directly associated with pregnancy or childbirth;
7) Additional leave beyond bereavement leave for a death in the immediate family, if authorized by the City Manager. The City may require a doctor’s certificate that the employee is able to perform the duties of his/her job and is released to return to work.
Reasons for Sick Leave. Personal illness (Administration may request certification of illness from physician), illness in the immediate family, or death in the immediate family.
Reasons for Sick Leave. It is agreed that the only reason for a sick day is personal sickness. In case of family illness, the Town Manager, or his authorized subordinate, will be the sole authority in granting absence from work with leave or otherwise governed by FMLA.
Reasons for Sick Leave. Xxxx leave may be requested for the following reasons:
A. illness of the Employee or illness of the Employee's immediate family that requires the Employee's presence;
B. exposure of an Employee or a Member of the Employee's immediate family to a contagious disease which would have the potential of jeopardizing the health of the Employee or the health of others, and where the presence of the Employee is reasonably necessary;
C. medical, dental, or optical examinations or treatment of an Employee;
D. childbirth and/or related medical conditions; and E. injury of the Employee.
Reasons for Sick Leave. Sick leave for members of the Fire Department shall be granted for the following defined reasons:
Reasons for Sick Leave. A. Sick leave shall be granted for:
1. Personal illness or injury of an employee to such extent as to be unable to perform his/her duties. Personal sick time shall be used, when called in, as 24-hour blocks and count as two (2) (10.5 hour) sick days;1
2. Attendance upon members of the employee's family within the household, whose illness requires the care of such employee provided that not more than six (6) working days with pay shall be granted to the employee for this purpose in any one calendar year. A family sick day can be used in either ten (10) hour or fourteen (14) hour instances. A full twenty-four (24) hour instance will count as two (2) family sick days, A half shift shall equal one day (10.5 hours) regardless if it is a night or day for the purpose of computing sick time usage;
3. Enforced quarantine when established by the Health Department;
4. Subject to the discretion of the Chief or designated representative, sick leave may be used in the event of the death of an employee's spouse, child, mother, father, brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandmother, grandfather, grandmother-in-law, grandfather-in-law, aunt, uncle, grandchildren daughter-in-law, son-in-law, immediate step relatives or other relatives living in the household;
5. Employees may take one (1) sick leave day each calendar year (January 1st to December 31st) as an excused leave of absence without the necessity of providing a doctor's slip. Such time off will be deducted from the employee's sick leave balance, but shall not count in the calculation of the fourth (4th) absence (see Article 23) nor an employee's performance evaluation. Such an excused sick leave absence, however, cannot create overtime at the time that it is requested and requires the permission of the Deputy Chief. Once the employee receives approval, the approval cannot be revoked. Such leave under this paragraph may not be requested or scheduled more than thirty (30) days in advance of the requested day off, nor less than forty eight (48) hours prior to the beginning of the shift the employee wishes to have off.
6. Employees will be eligible to utilize up to four (4) calendar days for paternal leave immediately following the birth or adoption of a child. Said time shall be charged to an employee's sick leave balance and will be counted as a single illness in the calculation of sick days for the "Sick Leave List" as described in Article 23.
Reasons for Sick Leave. Sick leave shall be granted to an employee upon 38 approval of the Employer and for the following reasons:
40 1. illness or injury of the employee, or an immediate family member as defined 41 herein*;
42 2. death of a member of his immediate family, as defined below;
1 3. medical, dental, or optical examination or treatment of employee which 2 cannot be scheduled during non-working hours;
3 4. if a member of the immediate family is afflicted with a contagious disease 4 and when, through exposure to a contagious disease, the presence of the 5 employee at his job would jeopardize the health of others; and
6 5. pregnancy and/or childbirth and other conditions related thereto. 8 * Spouse, significant other, child**, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles who 9 reside with the employee and the employee's presence is medically 10 substantiated. 12 ** Step-child if resides with employee.
