Time-Off Benefit Enhancement. Labor and management have agreed to establish a new benefit design to improve attendance by providing economic incentives for appropriate use of sick leave, as well as flexible personal days. This benefit design includes three key components: flexible personal days, annual sick leave and banked sick leave. This benefit does not affect vacation, and does not apply to employees covered by ETO/PTO plans.
Time-Off Benefit Enhancement. 1179 Full-time Employees shall accrue Life Balance Days of three and one third (3.33) hours per month to a maximum of forty (40) hours per year, at any given time. Parttime Employees will accrue Life Balance Days on a prorated basis based on hours paid (up to a maximum of eighty (80) hours per pay period) in the previous two (2) pay periods. 1180 Life Balance Days may be used for any reason the employee chooses without restriction and may be used for less than a full day. In the event an employee elects to utilize Life Balance Days in conjunction with vacation, those Life Balance Days may be granted only after the vacation selection process outlined in this Agreement. The Life Balance Days will, insofar as possible, be granted on the day(s) most desired by the employee. Requests for Life Balance Day(s) will be made seventy-two (72) hours in advance and subject to Departmental Approval. The Employer, at its option, may also approve requests made less than seventy-two (72) hours in advance. Employees will have preference as to their choice based upon department seniority. Life Balance Days requests will be considered for anytime of the calendar year and shall be granted in an emergency situation. In the event that a request(s) for a Life Balance Day(s) is continuously denied and not rescheduled by the Employee, the parties will meet, upon the Union’s request, to determine the appropriate resolution. Life Balance Days may be donated to another benefited employee. Life Balance Days that are accrued, and not used, are paid out upon termination, retirement or transfer to an ineligible status. 1181 Once granted, a more senior employee shall not be able to displace the granted individual. 1200 ARTICLE XII – LEAVES OF ABSENCE 1201 Eligibility 1202 Leaves of absence without pay may be granted to full-time and part-time employees at the discretion of the Employer. All requests for leaves of absence by employees shall be requested in writing on the form provided by the Employer. In order to be eligible for a leave of absence, an employee must have at least six (6) calendar months of continuous service. However, in the case of disabilities related to pregnancy, the six (6) month eligibility requirement is waived for the purpose of the Medical Leave of Absence. 1203 Personal Leave of Absence 1204 Personal Leaves of Absence without pay, may be granted for justifiable reasons, subject to the eligibility requirements and with adequate notice, for a period of up to sixty (6...
Time-Off Benefit Enhancement. Labor and management have agreed to establish a new benefit design to improve attendance by providing economic incentives for appropriate use of sick leave, as well as flexible Personal Days. This benefit design includes three key components: flexible Personal Days; Annual Sick Leave; and Banked Sick Leave. This benefit does not affect vacation, and does not apply to employees covered by ETO/PTO plans. flexible personal days. Each local collective bargaining agreement may designate from two to five flexible personal paid days off (Personal Days) that employees may use for personal needs in increments of not less than two hours. Currently existing Work-Life Balance days, floating holidays, birthday holidays or personal days contained in local agreements may be designated as Personal Days. In addition, sick leave days may be converted to Personal Days by mutual agreement, provided that the total number of Personal Days, (including floating holidays or the equivalent) does not exceed five days. The designation/conversion of the above to Personal Days will only occur in local bargaining. Requests for a single Personal Day off, or for hours within a single shift, shall be granted upon receipt of at least two weeks’ notice. Last-minute notice is acceptable for personal emergencies. Requests with less than two weeks’ notice, requests for consecutive days off, for days before or after a holiday, or for other days designated by mutual agreement, will be reviewed and approved or denied on a case-by-case basis in order to meet core staffing needs. Denials will be tracked and compiled, by department, on a quarterly basis. All unused Personal Days will be converted at 50 percent of value to cash at the end of each year. Personal Days may not be cashed out upon resignation or termination; however, upon retirement Personal Days may be cashed out at 50 percent of value. For the purposes of this Section 1.C.3, retirement means that the employee has retired from the organization pursuant to the terms of a qualified Xxxxxx Permanente retirement plan. These provisions will not supersede local collective bargaining agreements with superior conditions regarding notice requirements, granting of requests or cash-out provisions. siCk leave benefit. There are two types of sick leave benefits. Annual Sick Leave is the sick leave days credited each year to each employee in accordance with the provisions of the local collective bargaining agreements. Banked Sick Leave is previously ac...
