Sick Leave Accrual and Use a) On July 1st of each year, each classified employee shall be eligible for thirteen (13) sick leave days per year. Hours shall be available for use on July 1 of each year. When an eligible employee is absent from his or her job because of illness or injury and makes application for sick leave by completing the request in TimeClock Plus, the employee shall receive sick pay at his or her regular hourly rate for the time lost, and such time shall be deducted from the balance in the employee’s sick leave allotment. Sick leave may be used in increments of one half (1/2) hour.
b) Employees are required to use TimeClock Plus as the method for requesting Sick or Vacation time.
c) All employees shall be entitled to use sick leave allocated for the upcoming year on a prorated basis. New employees will accrue1.083 days of sick leave for each month of employment from date of hire until the end of the fiscal year in the first year of employment. Unaccrued sick leave will not be paid out upon termination.
d) Sick leave hours may be used in the event the College declares an emergency situation to exist. An emergency situation shall be deemed to exist where conditions (e.g., a blizzard, power failure, etc.) do not require closing the College, but may prevent the employee from reporting to work or may require the employee to leave before the end of his or her regular shift. The sick leave allotment minimum shall not apply in the case of College declared emergency situations.
e) Up to three (3) working days may be taken as personal leave each year from the employee's sick leave bank, provided that appropriate arrangements are made in advance with the employee's supervisor.
f) When an employee is unable to report for work due to illness, he or she must call his or her supervisor at least one (1) hour before his/her shift begins.
g) In the event an employee is sent home after reporting to work due to illness, such employee may use sick leave time if available, and shall not be subject to the discipline procedure for absenteeism.
Sick Leave Accrual and Use. Each full-time employee in a regular, allocated position shall accrue and accumulate sick leave at the rate of 3.680 in-service hours for each completed eighty (80) hour paid in-service hours. In-service hours include all hours in paid status excluding overtime. This rate shall be adjusted to reflect any unpaid time in each pay period. Part-time employees in allocated positions shall be eligible to receive sick leave on a pro-rata basis. Usage and accrual of said benefits shall be governed by the same rules and regulations applicable to full-time employees.
Sick Leave Accrual and Use. Each full-time member earns one hundred twenty (120) hours of sick leave per year, at the rate of 13.333 hours for each month, or 6.67 hours for each pay period, of the academic year. Sick leave is cumulative without limit. Sick leave may be used in increments of one (1) hour. When using sick leave, whenever possible, the faculty member will promptly notify their Department Chair prior to the absence and advise of the estimated duration of absence. Additional provisions regarding the use of sick leave are described below:
i. Sick leave may be used during any period of time in which the faculty member is under contract to perform services for the University.
ii. A continuous period of sick leave commences with the first day of absence and includes all subsequent days until the employee returns to work. Saturdays and Sundays (if the employee is not scheduled to perform services), and official holidays established and/or observed by the University shall not be counted. During any week, the maximum number of days of sick leave charged against any employee shall be five.
iii. The University reserves the right to require a physician’s certification or other verification in instances of five or more consecutive days of paid sick leave. When such certification or verification is required, it shall be provided to the Benefits area of the Office of Human Resources.
iv. All unused sick leave accumulated before the date of this Agreement shall be available for use by the employee pursuant to state law.
Sick Leave Accrual and Use. Employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of .345 days per week (equivalent to an annual rate of eighteen (18) days) for each full week of active service, with a maximum accumulation of 120 days. No employee shall be entitled to sick leave without loss of pay, as provided in SECTION 1 of this Article, unless the employee has notified his/her immediate supervisor or designee of his/her absence and the cause thereof before the expiration of the first thirty (30) minutes of absence or as soon thereafter as practicable. Any employee who has reached the maximum of 120 sick days will be allowed to accumulate an additional nine (9) days per year. In the event that the employee utilizes sick days and the balance drops below 120 days, he/she will begin to accrue at the rate of eighteen (18) days per year until they accumulate 120 sick days again, at which point, the accrual rate will revert back to nine (9) days per year. Any buyout related to 6A or 6B will be calculated on a maximum of 120 days Sick leave is to be used only for illness or disability which is not job related which incapacitates the employee from performing his work duties. Employees who engage in sick leave abuse, including patterned sick leave use, shall be subject to discipline, up to and including dismissal. Patterned sick leave use includes but is not limited to 1) multiple single day absences, or 2) absences on days before and/or after days off. When the Town Administrator or the Department Head has reason to believe that an employee has engaged in patterned sick leave use or other forms of sick leave abuse, he may require the employee to provide medical documentation satisfactory to the Town Administrator, documenting the medical necessity of the employee's absence. This documentation may include without limitation a medical examination by a physician, psychologist or other specialist retained by the Town and/or the production of a physician's certificate from the employee's physician. When an employee uses sick leave for three (3) or more consecutive work days, the Town Administrator or the Department Head may require a physician's certificate documenting the medical necessity of the employee's absence and determining the employee's fitness to return to duty. The Town Administrator or the Department Head may also require the employee to be examined by the Town's physician for the purpose of obtaining an opinion from the Town's physician on the same issues. Where the employee's physician ex...
Sick Leave Accrual and Use. A regularly scheduled full-time nurse shall accumulate sick leave pay at the rate of one-half (1/2) the normal shift, not to exceed twelve (12) hours per month. Accumulated sick leave pay shall be payable for absences on a regularly scheduled workday at the nurse's regular rate of pay for the day at the straight-time rate. Sick leave pay is not available for double posted (or traded) shifts (i.e., not regularly scheduled shifts). AMR agrees to administer sick leave according to Federal and Washington state law.
Sick Leave Accrual and Use. The allowable annual rate of sick leave accrual shall be determined by the separate but parallel Agreement between King County and the Union. Permissible purposes for the use of accrued sick leave shall also be determined by the separate Master Coalition Labor Agreement between King County and the King County Coalition of Unions.
Sick Leave Accrual and Use. Employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of .345 days per week (equivalent to an annual rate of eighteen (18) days) for each full week of active service, with a maximum accumulation of one hundred twenty (120) days. No employee shall be entitled to sick leave without loss of pay, as provided in SECITON 1. of this Article, unless the employee has notified his/her immediate supervisor or designee of his/her absence and the cause thereof before the expiration of the first thirty (30) minutes of absence or as soon thereafter as practicable.
Sick Leave Accrual and Use. The allowable annual rate of sick leave accrual shall be determined by the separate but parallel Agreement between King County and the Union. Permissible purposes for the use of accrued sick leave shall also be limited to the following reasonsdetermined by the separate Master Labor Agreement between King County and the King County Coalition of Unions.:
A. Employee illness;
B. To care for the employee’s child or the child of an employee’s domestic partner, provided that the following conditions are met: (i) child is less than eighteen (18) years old; (ii) the employee is the natural parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, legal guardian, person having legal custody and control of the child, or stands in loco parentis to the child; (iii) the child has a health condition that requires the employee’s personal supervision during the employee’s work hours; and (iv) the employee actually attends to the child during the absence from work;
C. Employee injury, provided that an employee on time loss can only utilize sick leave to supplement time loss.
D. Employee disability due to pregnancy or childbirth;
E. Employee exposure to contagious diseases and resulting in quarantine;
F. Employee keeping medical, dental, or optical appointments and reasonable travel time to and from such appointments;
G. Up to three (3) working days may be used for attending school functions or volunteering at a school attended by the employee’s child or grandchild.
H. One day of sick leave may be used to attend memorial services for a close relation not covered under the bereavement policy.
I. As otherwise required by law, including the Washington Family Care Act.
Sick Leave Accrual and Use.
22.1 Sick leave shall be accrued at a rate of 8.66 hours per calendar month for each month that a probationary or regular Employee has worked regularly scheduled hours. There shall be no maximum accumulation of sick leave. Sick leave shall be allowed and used only in cases when the Employee is too sick or disabled to safely and effectively perform his/her duties, for medical or dental treatment, or as authorized for funeral/emergency leave, family illness and injury (including state-registered domestic partners) as outlined in Section 22.2; and as an income supplement to worker's compensation benefits. In order to receive sick leave compensation while absent, an eligible Employee who is unable to report to work due to illness or injury shall notify his/her department head or supervisor, either in person or by voice mail, prior to or within one (1) hour after the time set for reporting to work.
22.2 Family sick leave may be taken and if taken, shall be charged to sick leave or, with the concurrence of the department head, to vacation or discretionary leave where the presence of the Employee elsewhere is essential because of illness, or disability of immediate members of his/her family. Immediate family means parent, spouse, state-registered domestic partner, dependent child, parent, parent-in-law, sibling, grandparent or grandchild. No more than half of the Employee’s annual accrual may be granted for family sick leave in any one calendar year. Any additional absences due to family illness or for other family members shall be charged to discretionary leave balances (e.g., vacation, compensatory time off, etc.).
22.3 Employees may be entitled to additional leave upon request, pursuant to Federal and State Family Leave laws.
22.4 The patterns of use, frequency of occurrence, total hours used, and hours available compared to hours accrued for each Employee will be periodically and routinely reviewed by department management. Department standards will be communicated and applied to evaluate the individual use of this benefit. An improvement plan may be developed and implemented with approval of the department head, considering factors such as Employee's circumstances, the operational impact of the unscheduled absences and the obligation to provide consistency within the department.
22.5 Employees covered by this MOU are eligible to participate in a catastrophic leave donation program in accordance with the City/District's Catastrophic Leave Donation Policy.
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