Use of EIB. EIB may be used after the first sixteen (16) hours of an unscheduled absence, or when on a qualified leave of absence (the first sixteen (16) hours shall be paid from the employee’s PTO bank). For part-time employees, the number of hours will be prorated, based on the employee’s approved hours. EIB may only be used for the following situations:
a. Employee’s illness, injury, or temporary medical disability.
b. Absences to care for the employee’s child, spouse, registered domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law or grandparent who has either a serious health condition or an emergency situation, as allowed under the Washington Family Care Act.
c. For approved leaves to care for the employee’s children, spouse or parent with a serious health condition under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
d. If the employee is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking to take care of legal or law enforcement needs or get medical treatment, social services assistance or mental-health counseling. In addition, family members of a victim may also take reasonable leave to help the victim obtain treatment or seek help. Family members are defined as child, spouse, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent or person the employee is dating.
e. Other circumstances required by applicable law.
f. EIB may be used immediately upon hospitalization of the employee, or the employee’s minor child, spouse or parent.
Use of EIB a. Accrued EIB may first be used as described below only after completion of the employee’s probationary period.
b. EIB will be used for absences from work due to the following:
(1) When the employee is hospitalized, or has an invasive procedure in a hospital, provided the Human Resources Department is notified as soon as possible.
(2) In all other cases of the nurse’s disability due to extended illness or injury, after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to 24 consecutively scheduled work hours. The employee in such cases must submit a verification from a physician, describing the nature of the disability and the dates it prevented the employee from reporting to work. After meeting the criteria in this subparagraph, the nurse may utilize EIB while on a continuous FMLA leave.
(3) Subject to the eligibility provisions above, a nurse who suffers a non-work related injury or illness and who returns to work at less than his or her normal FTE may supplement the nurse’s wages with EIB to 100 percent of his or her normal wages.
Use of EIB. EIB benefits shall be paid at the nurse’s normal rate of pay for regularly scheduled work hours lost due to an illness or injury which has actually incapacitated the nurse and prevented the nurse from performing normal duties, including actual inability to work due to pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion and childbirth (but excluding nonmedical child care and breast feeding) and leave necessary for the care of a seriously ill spouse or spousal equivalent or a child under the age of eighteen (18) with a health condition requiring treatment or supervision only after sixteen (16) consecutive scheduled hours are lost from the nurse’s regular work schedule. In addition, an employee shall have access to PTO and EIB to care for:
(1) An employee’s child who has a health condition requiring treatment or supervision [“Child” means a biological, adopted, or xxxxxx child, a step child, a legal xxxx, or child of a person standing in loco parentis who is: under eighteen
Use of EIB. EIB benefits shall be paid at the employee’s normal rate of pay plus shift differential and lead pay as appropriate for regularly scheduled work hours lost due to an illness or injury which has actually incapacitated the employee and prevented the employee from performing normal duties, including actual inability to work due to pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion and childbirth (but excluding nonmedical child care and breast feeding) and leave necessary for the care of a seriously ill spouse or spousal equivalent or a child under the age of eighteen (18) with a health condition requiring treatment or supervision only aftersixteen
Use of EIB. An Extended Illness Bank (EIB) will not accrue additional 13 hours and is administered as follows:
14 a. Accumulated but unused hours in a nurse’s EIB may be used 15 after a continuous two (2)-working day waiting period for a full- 16 time nurse or a one (l)-working day waiting period for a part-time 17 or relief nurse during which the nurse is absent from work due to 18 an injury or illness. PTO must be used during this waiting 19 period if available. EIB hours must be requested in writing.
20 b. After becoming eligible to use EIB hours, such hours may also 21 be used to supplement any Worker’s Compensation or disability 22 insurance payments during a period of disability up to the 23 nurse’s Appendix A hourly rate of pay.
Use of EIB. EIB may be accessed after 16 consecutive scheduled hours due to:
a) employee’s illness or injury;
b) to care for his/her minor dependent(s) under the age 18 who has a health condition that requires treatment or supervision;
c) to care for a seriously ill spouse, parent, grandparent, or adult child incapable of self-care (if the employee has been approved for a leave under the Family Medical Leave Act, or requests time off in accordance with the Washington State Family Care Act).
11.12.1 EIB hours may be accessed immediately on the first day of hospitalization (either the employee’s or their child’s or spouse) when documentation is provided.
Use of EIB. Employees with unused EIB that accrued prior to termination of the EIB benefit program effective January 1, 2016, may continue to use unused EIB through December 31, 2020, in accordance with Xxxxxx policy in effect for other employees of the Medical Center.
Use of EIB. EIB benefits shall be paid at the nurse’s normal rate of pay for regularly scheduled work hours lost due to an illness or injury which has actually incapacitated the nurse from work and prevented the nurse from performing normal duties, including actual inability to work due to pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth (but excluding nonmedical child care and breast feeding) and leave necessary for the care of a child with a health condition requiring treatment or supervision or for the care of a spouse, domestic partner (per Section 5.9, Domestic Partner), parent, parent-in-law, grandchild (for whom the nurse has established to the Hospital’s satisfaction that the nurse is the primary caregiver), or grandparent of the employee who has a serious health condition or an emergency condition. In all cases, EIB benefits shall only be paid after twenty-four (24) consecutive scheduled hours are lost from the nurse’s regular work schedule. [The Employer may require reasonable written proof, including a health care provider’s (as defined in the FMLA) statement at the Employer’s discretion.] EIB shall be accessed immediately when the nurse’s absence is required for hospitalization or surgery. In all cases, EIB shall only be payable for regularly scheduled days of work. Consecutive scheduled hours will be those hours regularly scheduled for a nurse, not to be mistaken for a normal five (5) day work week schedule. For example, if an eight (8) hour nurse is scheduled to work Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday in a given week, and the nurse reports sick for Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, EIB will be accessed on the twenty-fifth (25th) hour of illness on the regularly scheduled Friday.
Use of EIB. 28 a. Accrued EIB may first be used as described below only after 29 completion of the employee‟s probationary period.
31 b. EIB will be used for absences from work due to the following:
1 (1) When the employee is hospitalized, or has an 2 invasive procedure in a hospital, provided the Human Resources 3 Department is notified as soon as possible.
Use of EIB. An employee who has an invasive diagnostic or therapeutic 5 procedure performed in a hospital or invasive diagnostic or invasive therapeutic 6 procedure in a clinic setting as an outpatient with resultant time loss will utilize EIB 7 immediately, if the employee has an Extended Illness Bank.
