Sick Leave Use Restriction Sample Clauses

Sick Leave Use Restriction. Accumulated paid sick leave may be used for illness, disability, or injury of the employee, appointments with professional medical practitioners, chiropractitioners, psychologists or mental therapists, and in the event of illness, disability or injury of a member of the employee's immediate family. (The term immediate family member is defined as a spouse, child, or parent but not parent‐in‐law. The term “child” means a son or daughter under the age of eighteen (18). Adult children are not included unless the adult child is incapable of self‐care due to a physical or mental disability.) Accumulated paid sick leave shall be used in increments of no less than fifteen (15) minutes increments at a time. The Employer may require evidence of use of sick time for the purposes contained within this Article if there exists a reasonable suspicion of abuse. When the number of incidents reaches a time when suspension is being considered by the employer, the employer shall take into consideration the mitigating circumstances surrounding each incident. The employer may require the employee to submit to a return to work physical examination by a physician of the employer's choice for any condition arising out of a non‐occupational illness, accident or disability and the employer shall pay the full costs of such examination. When an employee exhausts all accrued sick hours, he may utilize any other accrued benefit hours. (i.e. comp, personal, vacation, etc.) at the discretion of the Chief of Corrections.