Leave Without Pay for Personal Needs 35.15.1 Leave without pay will be granted for personal needs, in the following manner: 35.15.1.1 Subject to operational requirements, leave without pay for a period of up to three (3) months will be granted to an employee for personal needs. 35.15.1.2 Subject to operational requirements, leave without pay of more than three (3) months but not exceeding one (1) year will be granted to an employee for personal needs. 35.15.1.3 An employee is entitled to leave without pay for personal needs only once under each of 35.15.1.1
Leave of Absence Without Pay (a) Full or part-time leave of absence without pay may be granted at the discretion of the Employer. Faculty members may apply for job-sharing under the provision for part-time leave of absence. Applications shall be made in writing to the administrator responsible. All applications will be dealt with promptly and will not be unreasonably denied, nor dealt with in a discriminatory manner. The reply to an application for leave will be in writing. Except in the case of leaves for short-term emergencies of thirty (30) days or less, the Employer may, at its discretion, require that the length of a leave coincide with the beginning or end of a semester or term of instruction. (b) Where a leave is granted, the faculty member's performance evaluation shall be extended accordingly. (c) No salary increment is payable for a period of leave of absence without pay unless the University President, upon written request from the faculty member concerned, decides the leave is spent in the activities relevant to the University curriculum. In this case, the faculty member will receive any salary adjustments for which he/she would normally be eligible. In the event that the University President judges that the activities are not relevant to the University curriculum, he/she will advise the faculty member as to the reasons for his/her decision in writing before the leave commences. (d) No benefits shall be payable by the Employer for faculty members on leave without pay, except as provided in this Agreement. For faculty members on part- time leave without pay, benefit premiums shall be payable by the Employer on a pro rata basis. If a faculty member proceeding on leave without pay makes a prior payment to the Employer of both the faculty member's share and the Employer's share (pro- rated, if applicable) of any or all of the following benefits, the Employer shall remit these payments to ensure continuous coverage: Life Insurance, Medical Services Plan of BC, Extended Health, Dental, Short and Long Term Disability and AD&D. (e) For leaves of longer than four (4) months, the faculty member, no later than four
Personal Leave Without Pay Leave of absence without pay may be granted by the College for legitimate personal reasons.
Leaves of Absence Without Pay Section 13.
Maternity Leave Without Pay (1) An employee who becomes pregnant shall, upon request, be granted maternity leave without pay for a period beginning before, on or after the termination date of pregnancy and ending not later than eighteen (18) weeks after the termination date of pregnancy. (a) Notwithstanding 35.7(A)(1): (i) where the employee’s new-born child is hospitalized within the period defined in 35.7(A)(1); and (ii) where the employee has proceeded on maternity leave without pay and then, upon request and with the concurrence of the Council, returns to work for all or part of the period during which her new- born child is hospitalized; the period of maternity leave without pay defined in 35.7(A)(1) may be extended beyond the date falling eighteen (18) weeks after the date of termination of pregnancy by a period equal to that portion of the period of the child’s hospitalization during which the employee returned to work, to a maximum of eighteen (18) weeks. (b) The extension described in 35.7(A)(1)(a) shall end not later than fifty-two (52) weeks after the termination date of pregnancy. (2) At its discretion, the Council may require an employee to submit a medical certificate certifying pregnancy. (3) An employee who has not commenced maternity leave without pay may elect to: (a) use earned vacation and compensatory leave credits up to and beyond the date that her pregnancy terminates; (b) use her sick leave credits up to and beyond the date that her pregnancy terminates, subject to the provisions set out in the Sick Leave Article. For purposes of this clause, illness or injury as defined in the Sick Leave Article shall include medical disability related to pregnancy. (B) An employee shall inform the Council in writing of her plans for taking leave with and without pay to cover her absence from work due to the pregnancy at least four (4) weeks in advance of the initial date of continuous leave of absence during which termination of pregnancy is expected to occur. (C) Leave granted under this clause shall be counted for the calculation of “continuous employment” or “service” as applicable for the purpose of calculating severance pay and vacation leave. Time spent on such leave shall be counted for pay increment purposes.
Reliance as a Safe Harbor For purposes of this Agreement, and without creating any presumption as to a lack of good faith if the following circumstances do not exist, Indemnitee shall be deemed to have acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company if Indemnitee’s actions or omissions to act are taken in good faith reliance upon the records of the Company, including its financial statements, or upon information, opinions, reports or statements furnished to Indemnitee by the officers or employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries in the course of their duties, or by committees of the Board or by any other Person (including legal counsel, accountants and financial advisors) as to matters Indemnitee reasonably believes are within such other Person’s professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Company. In addition, the knowledge and/or actions, or failures to act, of any director, officer, agent or employee of the Company shall not be imputed to Indemnitee for purposes of determining the right to indemnity hereunder.
Parental Leave Without Pay (a) Where an employee has or will have the actual care and custody of a new- born child (including the new-born child of a common-law spouse), the employee shall, upon request, be granted parental leave without pay for a single period of up to thirty-seven (37) consecutive weeks in the fifty-two (52) week period beginning on the day on which the child is born or the day on which the child comes into the employee’s care. (b) Where an employee commences legal proceedings under the laws of a province to adopt a child or obtains an order under the laws of a province for the adoption of a child, the employee shall, upon request, be granted parental leave without pay for a single period of up to thirty-seven (37) consecutive weeks in the fifty-two (52) week period beginning on the day on which the child comes into the employee’s care. (c) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b): (i) where the employee’s child is hospitalized within the period defined in the above paragraphs, and the employee has not yet proceeded on parental leave without pay, or (ii) where the employee has proceeded on parental leave without pay and then returns to work for all or part of the period during which his or her child is hospitalized, the period of parental leave without pay specified in the original leave request may be extended by a period equal to that portion of the period of the child’s hospitalization during which the employee was not on parental leave. However, the extension shall end not later than one hundred and four (104) weeks after the day on which the child comes into the employee’s care. (d) An employee who intends to request parental leave without pay shall notify the Employer at least four (4) weeks in advance of the expected date of birth of the employee’s child (including the child of a common-law spouse), or the date the child is expected to come into the employee’s care pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b). (e) The Employer may, (i) defer the commencement of parental leave without pay at the request of the employee; (ii) grant the employee parental leave without pay with less than four
Special Leave Without Pay Section 1. Employees may participate in a Special Leave Without Pay Program as established by the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners. The Special Leave Without Pay Program period is from date of County Board Approval through December 31, 2021. Section 2. Upon the request of either party, the EMPLOYER and the UNION shall meet and confer on the extension of this Special Leave Without Pay Program each year through 2021. Section 3. The EMPLOYER's policy on use of Special Leave Without Pay (SLWOP) provides that employees may use SLWOP in cases where they would otherwise not take the leave. The EMPLOYER will therefore interpret its policy on SLWOP to allow SLWOP for Union Leave and Parenting Leave in cases where the employee would not otherwise take the leave.
Short Term Leaves Short Term Leaves are designed to allow Teachers who have to apply for short term personal leaves of absence not otherwise covered by this Collective Agreement.
Short Term Leave Members who are LTD trustees and Union stewards or designates may apply in writing to the Employer for short term leaves of absence for; attendance at union conventions, union courses, and union committees. The employee will give reasonable notice, which will be at least seven (7) days. The Employer will make every reasonable effort to accommodate such leave, and shall grant it subject to the ability to maintain the operational needs of the department. With the exception of members of the Union's executive, the employer is not required to grant more than twenty (20) days LOA per calendar year under this provision.
