Common use of Sick Leave Coverage Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave Coverage. (A) Sick leave shall be granted for the express purpose of protecting the employee within the limits of this policy against loss of income and other benefits that might normally accrue as result of his/her absence for reasons of personal illness, disability due to pregnancy, or illness of his/her immediate family, defined herein to include spouse and children, which requires that he/she be absent from work. The Employer may request a physician's report verifying the illness to insure against abuse of the sick leave privilege. The expense of such physician's report shall be borne by the Employer. The Employer shall select the physician. (B) Credit for sick leave shall be made upon assuming regular employee status or at the beginning of the fiscal year, as appropriate, for all of the remaining months of the fiscal year, at a rate of one day per month, in addition to those days previously credited and not used, except that the total accumulation shall be unlimited. (C) Probationary employees accumulate sick leave but are not credited with or granted said leave until they achieve regular employee status. (D) An employee injured on any other gainful employment, outside of East Lansing Public Schools employment, shall not be eligible for sick benefits. (E) The Employer may request a physician's statement verifying the use of sick leave when there exists a reasonable suspicion of abuse. It is agreed by the parties that if any adverse action should result, the employee will be afforded the opportunity to obtain a second opinion. The report issued by the second opinion physician shall be placed in the employee’s personnel file at the employee’s request. The Employer may request a physician’s report to verify that an employee is fit to work including performing food handling when appropriate. Employees shall notify the Employer of the necessity for taking sick leave, providing time for the Employer to arrange for substitutes where required. Other than in extraordinary circumstances the Employer will be notified no later than one (1) hour (no later than 2 hours for shifts starting on or after 12:00 p.m.) prior to the beginning of the employee’s shift. Employees who will be absent longer than the first anticipated shift must notify their supervisor on the day following the first missed shift.

Sick Leave Coverage. (A) Sick Xxxx leave shall be granted for the express purpose of protecting the employee within the limits of this policy against loss of income and other benefits that might normally accrue as result of his/her absence for reasons of personal illness, disability due to pregnancy, or illness of his/her immediate family, defined herein to include spouse and children, which requires that he/she be absent from work. The Employer may request a physician's report verifying the illness to insure against abuse of the sick leave privilege. The expense of such physician's report shall be borne by the Employer. The Employer shall select the physician. (B) Credit for sick leave shall be made upon assuming regular employee status or at the beginning of the fiscal year, as appropriate, for all of the remaining months of the fiscal year, at a rate of one day per month, in addition to those days previously credited and not used, except that the total accumulation shall be unlimited. (C) Probationary employees accumulate sick leave but are not credited with or granted said leave until they achieve regular employee status. (D) An employee injured on any other gainful employment, outside of East Lansing Public Schools employment, shall not be eligible for sick benefits. (E) The Employer may request a physician's statement verifying the use of sick leave when there exists a reasonable suspicion of abuse. It is agreed by the parties that if any adverse action should result, the employee will be afforded the opportunity to obtain a second opinion. The report issued by the second opinion physician shall be placed in the employee’s personnel file at the employee’s request. The Employer may request a physician’s report to verify that an employee is fit to work including performing food handling when appropriate. Employees shall notify the Employer of the necessity for taking sick leave, providing time for the Employer to arrange for substitutes where required. Other than in extraordinary circumstances the Employer will be notified no later than one (1) hour (no later than 2 hours for shifts starting on or after 12:00 p.m.) prior to the beginning of the employee’s shift. Employees who will be absent longer than the first anticipated shift must notify their supervisor on the day following the first missed shift. (F) The Board shall provide without cost to the employees regularly scheduled to work twenty (20) hours or more per week who are covered by this Agreement an insured income continuation plan for disability extending beyond the employee’s accumulated sick leave. The Board will guarantee 60% of the employee’s income from the base salary beginning from the tenth working day following the exhaustion of sick benefits and continuing to the ninety days at which time the LTD policy will activate. Individuals eligible for this benefit must be certified by the carrier and remain certified for this benefit and the insurance coverage. The benefits of the plan will be consistent with the UNUM policy 12453 and the certificate booklet dated October 2004 which consists of the following levels of benefits. If a discrepancy exists, policy 12453 and the October 2004 certificate booklet shall prevail. - 60% minimum (reduced by primary social security, worker’s compensation, or any other employer-sponsored benefit) - 90% maximum (increased above 60% by certain income) - freeze on social security offset - $5,000 maximum monthly benefit - continuation to age 65 (or older for those over 60 on date of disability) - 90 calendar day waiting period or exhaustion of accumulated sick leave whichever is greater - 24 month own occupation waiver - 2 year survivor benefit All insurance coverage is subject to the terms and conditions of the respective policy. Employees first receiving LTD benefits on or after July 1, 2006 will continue to have their health insurance premiums paid by the Employer for up to a maximum of twenty-four months after the commencement of LTD benefits. Employees shall be responsible for reimbursing the Employer for any premium share amounts as defined in Article 39 (Insurance). Employees who first received LTD benefits prior to July 1, 2006 and who were also enrolled in health insurance for which premiums are paid by the Employer on July 1, 2010 shall continue to be enrolled in that coverage, at the expense of the Employer, to and including January 31, 2011 at which time the Employer’s obligation to continue to enroll those individuals (and their eligible dependents) in that coverage at the Employer’s expense shall cease.

Sick Leave Coverage. (A) Sick leave shall be granted for the express purpose of protecting the employee within the limits of this policy against loss of income and other benefits that might normally accrue as result of his/her absence for reasons of personal illness, disability due to pregnancy, or illness of his/her immediate family, defined herein to include spouse and children, which requires that he/she be absent from work. The Employer may request a physician's report verifying the illness to insure ensure against abuse of the sick leave privilege. The expense of such physician's report shall be borne by the Employer. The Employer shall select the physician. (B) Credit for sick leave shall be made upon assuming regular employee status or at the beginning of the fiscal year, as appropriate, for all of the remaining months of the fiscal year, at a rate of one (1) day per month, in addition to those days previously credited and not used, except that the total accumulation shall be unlimited. (C) Probationary employees accumulate sick leave but are not credited with or granted said leave until they achieve regular employee status. (D) An employee injured on any other gainful employment, outside of the School District of the City of East Lansing Public Schools employment, shall not be eligible for sick benefits. (E) The Employer may request a physician's statement verifying the use of sick leave when there exists a reasonable suspicion of abuse. It is agreed by the parties that if any adverse action should result, the employee will be afforded the opportunity to obtain a second opinion. The report issued by the second opinion physician shall be placed in the employee’s personnel file at the employee’s request. The Employer may request a physician’s report to verify that an employee is fit to work including performing food handling when appropriate. Employees shall notify the Employer of the necessity for taking sick leave, providing time for the Employer to arrange for substitutes where required. Other than in extraordinary circumstances the Employer will be notified no later than one (1) hour (no later than 2 hours for shifts starting on or after 12:00 p.m.) prior to the beginning of the employee’s shift. Employees who will be absent longer than the first anticipated shift must notify their supervisor on the day following the first missed shift.

Sick Leave Coverage. (A) Sick leave shall be granted for the express purpose of protecting the employee within the limits of this policy against loss of income and other benefits that might normally accrue as result of his/her absence for reasons of personal illness, disability due to pregnancy, or illness of his/her immediate family, defined herein to include spouse and children, which requires that he/she be absent from work. The Employer may request a physician's report verifying the illness to insure ensure against abuse of the sick leave privilege. The expense of such physician's report shall be borne by the Employer. The Employer shall select the physician. (B) Credit for sick leave shall be made upon assuming regular employee status or at the beginning of the fiscal year, as appropriate, for all of the remaining months of the fiscal year, at a rate of one (1) day per month, in addition to those days previously credited and not used, except that the total accumulation shall be unlimited. (C) Probationary employees accumulate sick leave but are not credited with or granted said leave until they achieve regular employee status. (D) An employee injured on any other gainful employment, outside of East Lansing Public Schools employment, shall not be eligible for sick benefits. (E) The Employer may request a physician's statement verifying the use of sick leave when there exists a reasonable suspicion of abuse. It is agreed by the parties that if any adverse action should result, the employee will be afforded the opportunity to obtain a second opinion. The report issued by the second opinion physician shall be placed in the employee’s personnel file at the employee’s request. The Employer may request a physician’s report to verify that an employee is fit to work including performing food handling when appropriate. Employees shall notify the Employer of the necessity for taking sick leave, providing time for the Employer to arrange for substitutes where required. Other than in extraordinary circumstances the Employer will be notified no later than one (1) hour (no later than 2 hours for shifts starting on or after 12:00 p.m.) prior to the beginning of the employee’s shift. Employees who will be absent longer than the first anticipated shift must notify their supervisor on the day following the first missed shift.

Sick Leave Coverage. (A) Sick leave shall be granted for the express purpose of protecting the employee within the limits of this policy against loss of income and other benefits that might normally accrue as result of his/her absence for reasons of personal illness, disability due to pregnancy, or illness of his/her immediate family, defined herein to include spouse and children, which requires that he/she be absent from work. The Employer may request a physician's report verifying the illness to insure against abuse of the sick leave privilege. The expense of such physician's report shall be borne by the Employer. The Employer shall select the physician. (B) Credit for sick leave shall be made upon assuming regular employee status or at the beginning of the fiscal year, as appropriate, for all of the remaining months of the fiscal year, at a rate of one day per month, in addition to those days previously credited and not used, except that the total accumulation shall be unlimited. (C) Probationary employees accumulate sick leave but are not credited with or granted said leave until they achieve regular employee status. (D) An employee injured on any other gainful employment, outside of East Lansing Public Schools employment, shall not be eligible for sick benefits. (E) The Employer may request a physician's statement verifying the use of sick leave when there exists a reasonable suspicion of abuse. It is agreed by the parties that if any adverse action should result, the employee will be afforded the opportunity to obtain a second opinion. The report issued by the second opinion physician shall be placed in the employee’s personnel file at the employee’s request. The Employer may request a physician’s report to verify that an employee is fit to work including performing food handling when appropriate. Employees shall notify the Employer of the necessity for taking sick leave, providing time for the Employer to arrange for substitutes where required. Other than in extraordinary circumstances the Employer will be notified no later than one (1) hour (no later than 2 hours for shifts starting on or after 12:00 p.m.) prior to the beginning of the employee’s shift. Employees who will be absent longer than the first anticipated shift must notify their supervisor on the day following the first missed shift. (F) The Board shall provide without cost to the employees regularly scheduled to work twenty (20) hours or more per week who are covered by this Agreement an insured income continuation plan for disability extending beyond the employee’s accumulated sick leave. The Board will guarantee 60% of the employee’s income from the base salary beginning from the tenth working day following the exhaustion of sick benefits and continuing to the ninety days at which time the LTD policy will activate. Individuals eligible for this benefit must be certified by the carrier and remain certified for this benefit and the insurance coverage. The benefits of the plan will be consistent with the UNUM policy 12453 and the certificate booklet dated October 2004 which consists of the following levels of benefits. If a discrepancy exists, policy 12453 and the October 2004 certificate booklet shall prevail. - 60% minimum (reduced by primary social security, worker’s compensation, or any other employer-sponsored benefit) - 90% maximum (increased above 60% by certain income) - freeze on social security offset - $5,000 maximum monthly benefit - continuation to age 65 (or older for those over 60 on date of disability) - 90 calendar day waiting period or exhaustion of accumulated sick leave whichever is greater - 24 month own occupation waiver - 2 year survivor benefit All insurance coverage is subject to the terms and conditions of the respective policy. Effective July 1, 2006, employees covered under the LTD plan will continue to receive health insurance while on LTD for up to a maximum of twenty-four (24) months. Employees on LTD prior to July 1, 2006 are protected under the previously negotiated contract as written.

Sick Leave Coverage. (A) Sick Xxxx leave shall be granted for the express purpose of protecting the employee within the limits of this policy against loss of income and other benefits that might normally accrue as result of his/her absence for reasons of personal illness, disability due to pregnancy, or illness of his/her immediate family, defined herein to include spouse and children, which requires that he/she be absent from work. The Employer may request a physician's report verifying the illness to insure ensure against abuse of the sick leave privilege. The expense of such physician's report shall be borne by the Employer. The Employer shall select the physician. (B) Credit for sick leave shall be made upon assuming regular employee status or at the beginning of the fiscal year, as appropriate, for all of the remaining months of the fiscal year, at a rate of one (1) day per month, in addition to those days previously credited and not used, except that the total accumulation shall be unlimited. (C) Probationary employees accumulate sick leave but are not credited with or granted said leave until they achieve regular employee status. (D) An employee injured on any other gainful employment, outside of East Lansing Public Schools employment, shall not be eligible for sick benefits. (E) The Employer may request a physician's statement verifying the use of sick leave when there exists a reasonable suspicion of abuse. It is agreed by the parties that if any adverse action should result, the employee will be afforded the opportunity to obtain a second opinion. The report issued by the second opinion physician shall be placed in the employee’s personnel file at the employee’s request. The Employer may request a physician’s report to verify that an employee is fit to work including performing food handling when appropriate. Employees shall notify the Employer of the necessity for taking sick leave, providing time for the Employer to arrange for substitutes where required. Other than in extraordinary circumstances the Employer will be notified no later than one (1) hour (no later than 2 hours for shifts starting on or after 12:00 p.m.) prior to the beginning of the employee’s shift. Employees who will be absent longer than the first anticipated shift must notify their supervisor on the day following the first missed shift.