Medical and Dental Appointments. An employee may attend a medical consultation, receive dental treatment or be absent because of sickness for less than one-half day without reduction of sick leave credits and/or pay.
Medical and Dental Appointments. An employee may use paid sick leave credits:
1. For working time used in keeping medical and dental appointments for the employee's own care; and
2. For working time used by an employee for prescheduled medical and dental appointments for an immediate family member.
Medical and Dental Appointments. (a) Employees shall be entitled to time off with pay for medical and dental appointments, but will make every effort to arrange them at the beginning or end of the working day. An employee shall advise his/her supervisor as soon as he/she is aware that such leave is required.
(b) Requests to accompany a dependent child or dependent parent to a medical or dental appointment will be granted by the Employer. The employee may use banked overtime or reschedule their workday/week or use available vacation entitlement or take leave without pay. Employees are expected to schedule such appointments in advance where possible. Leave will be granted on short notice for situations requiring immediate attention.
Medical and Dental Appointments. With the permission of their supervisor, employees may be allowed an early departure from or late arrival at work to attend medical and dental appointments. Permission for such absences of no more than two (2) hours per occasion shall not be unreasonably withheld. Early consultation with supervisors on each occasion is required to permit supervisors to organize the workforce. It is understood that employees will attempt to schedule appointments wherever possible to minimally disrupt normal departmental work schedules.
Medical and Dental Appointments. Time off to attend medical, dental and eye appointments requires authorization by the Department Head in advance and shall be scheduled to least interfere with the Employee’s regular hours of work.
Medical and Dental Appointments. Where it is not possible to schedule medical and/or dental appointments outside regularly scheduled working hours, time off for medical and dental appointments for employees or for dependent family members shall be permitted. Deductions shall be made from sick leave entitlement for medical and dental appointments, for an employee or for the dependent family members of an employee.
Medical and Dental Appointments. Employees shall make every effort to schedule medical and dental appointments outside of working hours. Where this is not reasonably possible, appointments should be made so as to minimize absence from work. Employees shall notify their supervisor of such appointments as far in advance as possible. Such required absences shall be paid. In cases where such absences become excessive, the employee may be required to make up the time, take the leave without pay, use vacation credits, or use banked overtime.
Medical and Dental Appointments. (a) Where it is not possible to schedule medical and/or dental appointments outside regularly scheduled working hours, reasonable time off for medical and dental appointments for employees and for dependent children shall be permitted, but where any such absence exceeds one hour, the additional time off shall be charged to employees' sick leave credits.
(b) Employees in areas where adequate medical and dental facilities are not available shall be allowed to deduct from their sick leave credits the necessary return travelling time to receive personal or immediate family medical and dental care at the nearest medical/dental centre.
(c) OC may request a certificate of a qualified medical or dental practitioner, as the case may be, stating that treatment could not be provided by facilities or services available at the employee's place of residence.
Medical and Dental Appointments. (a) Where appointments cannot be arranged during non-work time, employees shall be entitled to take time off with pay for medical and dental appointments, but will arrange them at the beginning or end of the working day. Appointments made other than at the beginning or end of the working day will be the exception.
(b) Requests to accompany a spouse, dependent child or parent to a medical or dental appointment will be granted by the Employer subject to departmental requirements. The employee may use banked overtime or reschedule their workday/week or use available vacation entitlement or take leave without pay. Employees are expected to schedule such appointments in advance where possible. Leave will be granted on short notice for situations requiring immediate attention subject to departmental requirements. Verification of appointments may be requested by the University.
(c) Employees on modified or flexible hour work schedules shall make an effort to arrange for such appointment during non-work time.
Medical and Dental Appointments a) Non-emergency medical and dental appointments that the employee can anticipate must be scheduled in such a way as to conflict as little as possible with the work of the employee's department. The employee shall be required to provide their supervisor with adequate notice of such an appointment. An Employee may request that their schedule be altered to minimize any absence from work. The Employer shall decide if the operation of the department can accommodate the request. Any absence from work shall be considered as unpaid leave.
b) Medical and dental appointments required to treat an emergency, cannot be anticipated or planned. Any absence from work for medical or dental emergencies shall be considered under the Sick Leave provisions above. Medical and dental appointments involving specialized treatments and consultations with specialists shall be eligible for compensation under the sick leave provisions.
c) Any absence due to injury that qualifies for WCB coverage shall be covered by the WCB provisions of this Agreement.
