Serious Illness Leave. In the event an employee’s presence is required to attend to a spouse’s, parent’s, or child’s serious illness, injury or physical or mental condition that requires medical care, leave of absence with pay up to three (3) days will be granted. Eligible time includes time to be with the family member while they are undergoing medical treatment in a medical facility and/or time to attend to the family member at home after such treatment. Where major travel or special circumstances are involved, approval may be given to extend the three (3) day limit to five (5) days. Use will be monitored and may be withheld at the discretion of the Company if excessive.
Serious Illness Leave. In the event of serious illness in the immediate family, an employee may be allowed up to a maximum of three (3) days leave of absence, provided the illness of the member of the immediate family is certified by a doctor. The employee may, under extenuating circumstances, apply to the Board for pay during a Serious Illness Leave. The decision of the Board is final.
Serious Illness Leave. In the event of serious illness in the immediate family, a teacher may be allowed up to a maximum of three (3) days leave of absence, provided the illness to the member of the immediate family is certified by a doctor. The teacher may, under extenuating circumstances apply to the Board for pay during a Serious Illness Leave. The decision of the Board is final.
Serious Illness Leave. Employees are entitled to Serious Illness Leave after successful completion of the probation period. In the event of a serious illness of any family member as outlined in Article 15.02, approval must be granted in advance by the employee's Department Head and/or the Chief Administrative Officer. Approval for paid days, when granted, will not exceed ten (10) days total in a calendar year.
Serious Illness Leave. 14.6.1 A teacher may have up to 15 weeks of unpaid leave with eight weeks benefits to care for a seriously ill family member. Serious illness is a condition that negatively impacts quality of life and daily function, and/or is burdensome in symptoms, treatments, or caregiver stress. Supporting documentation from the attending physician will be required.
Serious Illness Leave. Subject to the approval of the appropriate Officer or Administrator, an employee may be granted time off with pay up to (3) working days to arrange or provide for the care of an immediate family member who is hospitalized or seriously ill. Suchtime off is not intended for casual or routine family illnesses. Employees who require leave to care for a member of their immediate family who is gravely ill, shall be entitled to up to eight
Serious Illness Leave. (a) For the purpose of attending to a serious illness of an immediate family member for whom they have a reasonable expectation of a duty of care, namely spouse (including common- law relationships that have been maintained for a period of at least one year and equivalent same-gender relationships), child or parent, a regular full time or regular part time Employee may be granted a maximum of four (4) days without loss of regular pay per fiscal year. Serious illness shall mean illness involving hospitalization or any illness that a medical doctor certifies to be critical. The Employee shall provide proof of illness if requested.
(b) Where a regular full time or regular part time Employee is unable to arrange for the care of a child who is sick but not seriously ill, the Employee may, at the supervisor's/manager's discretion, be grant d sick leave from their existing sick leave credits for the purpose of caring for the child. The maximum allowable usage of sick leave credits for this purpose is three (3) days in any fiscal year.
(c) An employee may be required to submit satisfactory proof to the Employer demonstrating the need for Special Leave.
Serious Illness Leave. (A) The City shall provide Serious Illness Leave as outlined in Exhibit A.
(B) The following requirements determine when Serious Illness Leave may betaken:
1. Officers on probationary status with the Laredo Police Department will be ineligible to participate in the Serious Illness Leave. Non-Probationary Officers with less than four (4) years of service after being sworn in as a police officer with the Laredo Police Department may use up to seven hundred and twenty (720) hours of Serious Illness Leave after forty (40) hours non-job-related illness or injury. The first forty (40) hours shall be charged to the officer's accumulated sick leave, or if personal sick leave has been exhausted, then to other leave time.
2. All other officers may use Serious Illness Leave after forty (40) hours of continuous non-job-related illness or injury. Provided, however, in addition, before being entitled to use hours, such officer must first use all his/her accumulated personal sick leave in excess of one thousand and eighty (1080) hours.
3. No officer shall be permitted to use more than one thousand four hundred and forty (1,440) Serious Illness Leave hours for a single illness or injury.
4. Serious Illness Leave may not be used for injuries or illnesses sustained in the line of duty.
5. Serious Illness Leave shall be solely for the benefit of officers with a non-job- related injury or illness or disability which incapacitates (including but not limited to confining the officer to his/her residence or medical facility). Serious Illness Leave hours shall not revert to the accumulated sick leave of individual officers. An officer qualifies for Serious Illness Leave for conditions such as:
a) cancer;
b) heart attack or stroke;
c) a non-work accident that incapacitates the officer (including butnot limited to confining the officer to his/her residence);
d) surgery which is followed by a period of recovery requiring the officer to remain bed-ridden; and
e) other conditions will be considered and evaluated on an individual basis in accordance with applicable City personnel policies.
6. Pregnancy is not usually considered a serious illness. However, when the attending physician certifies that the patient must remain in bed or lose the baby and/or endanger the mother's health, the condition may qualify for Serious Illness Leave. Provided the officer is eligible time-wise, up to four hundred and eighty (480) hours may be approved from Serious Illness Leave for those officers who ha...
Serious Illness Leave. In the event of a serious illness of a spouse, parent, or child, which requires the attendance of an employee, leave as provided for in Article will be granted. Employees appointed by the Union as representatives of the Union shall have their regular salaries maintained when they attend meetings outlined below if their attendance results in these employees being absent from their positions during their regular working hours. Employees participating in any of the following meetings or activities during regular working hours will request permission to be absent from work from their first-line supervisor and such permission will not be unreasonably withheld.
