Unpaid Leave Affecting Benefits. Any employee granted unpaid leave(s) of absence totaling up to twenty (20) work days in any year shall continue to accumulate seniority and all benefits and shall return to her/his former job. Unless otherwise mutually agreed, if unpaid leave(s) of absence exceed twenty (20) working days in any year, the employee shall not accumulate benefits from the twenty- first (21st) day of the unpaid leave to the last day of the unpaid leave, but shall accumulate benefits and receive credit for previously earned benefits upon expiration of the unpaid leave.
Unpaid Leave Affecting Benefits. Any employee of Absence totaling up to one hundred forty (140) working hours in any year shall continue to accumulate seniority and all benefits and shall return to former job and increment step. Unless otherwise mutually agreed, if Unpaid of Absence exceed one hundred forty (140) working hours in any year, the employee shall not accumulate benefits for any additional hours of unpaid leave but shall accumulate benefits and receive credit for previously earned benefits upon expiration of the unpaid leave. Compassionate Leave of Absence of twenty-one (21) working hours with pay shall be granted to employees in the event of death of a member of the employee's immediate family. This will include parent (or alternatively step- parent or xxxxxx-parent), spouse or common-law spouse, child, stepchild, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, legal guardian, xxxx and relative permanently residing in the employee's household or with whom the employee permanently resides.
