Unplanned PTO. (a) Employees may opt to use PTO for any unplanned absences including, but not limited to, absences due to illness or injury. Employees shall not be required to use PTO for special leaves under Clauses 20.1 – Compassionate Care Leave and 20.2 – Bereavement Leave.
Unplanned PTO. Each employee may use up to four (4) days per year of unplanned PTO as “personal days.” Employees who are not able to fulfill their shift due to any unplanned event shall make a reasonable effort to notify their program manager or the on-call manager at least eight (8) hours in advance for night and swing shift and four (4) hours in advance for day shift. However, if the reason for the unplanned use of PTO is due to any of the uses listed in Appendix B and is unforeseeable, such as an emergency or accident, the employee shall provide notice before the start of the employee’s shift or, when circumstances prevent the employee from providing notice before the start of the employee’s shift, as soon as is practicable. In all cases, whether and when an employee can practicably provide notice depends on the individual facts and circumstances of the situation. An excess of four (4) instances per year of unplanned PTO may be just cause for formal corrective action. However, use of PTO for any of the uses described in Appendix B will not count toward this cap so long as the employee has provided proper notice for such use, as described above. The Employer shall not, under any circumstances, subject an employee to formal corrective action for use of PTO for any of the purposes listed in Appendix B up to 40 hours in a rolling 12-month period. Leaving a shift two (2) or more hours early without supervisor approval will count as an instance of an absence with the exception of the purposes listed in Appendix B up to 40 hours in a rolling 12-month period.
Unplanned PTO. In the event that a bargaining unit member requires the use of unplanned PTO, meaning the use of PTO with less than two weeks’ notice, the bargaining unit member must notify his or her supervisor as soon as he or she becomes aware of the need to use unplanned PTO and must do so no less than one and one-half (1.5) hours prior to the start of the workday. In the event that the use of unplanned PTO by a bargaining unit member exceeds three (3) consecutive workdays or occurs on the day before or after a school holiday or instructional break, the Employer may require the bargaining unit member to furnish documentation from a healthcare professional to support a basis for the member’s continued absence.
