Sick Leave Donation 10.3.1 A worker may donate days of sick leave to individual District workers who, due to a serious health condition, have exhausted all accumulated sick leave. Donating workers must retain a sixty (60) day balance of sick leave after their donation. No worker may receive more than 40 days of donated leave per year.
10.3.1.1 A “serious health condition” is defined as an illness, injury, impairment or physical or mental condition which involves inpatient care in a hospital, hospice, or residential health care facility, or continuing treatment or continuing supervision by a health care provider as defined in 29 USC 825.114(a) and as certified by a worker’s physician or other qualified medical practitioner.
10.3.1.2 The Vice Chancellor of Human Resources and the Chief Stewards by mutual agreement will verify the certification for eligibility. If the certification from the worker’s physician is insufficient, a certification by a physician of the District’s choosing may be required, at District expense. The District may require additional medical opinions.
10.3.2 Donated leave must be in one-day increments (no less than 8 hours). Recipients of donated sick leave shall be solely responsible for any state and federal taxes on the donated time. Such taxes shall be withheld at the normal rate for the recipient worker. In the event that the state or federal governments rule that tax liability is due other than as taxed, the recipient shall be solely liable for such liabilities.
10.3.2.1 The donated sick leave may be used only when the worker has exhausted accumulated sick leave and either is not eligible for long- term disability or is eligible but has not begun to receive the long-term coverage.
10.3.2.2 The Vice Chancellor of Human Resources shall be notified of solicitation of donations. Solicitations of donations may be made by the individual or their representative(s).
10.3.2.3 Donation of sick leave shall be authorized by a signed pledge form prepared by and filed with the District Office of Human Resources. In the event several workers donate sick leave, the sick leave shall be used in the order in which the signed pledge forms are filed with Human Resources.
10.3.2.4 If the worker does not use all donated sick leave, the sick leave shall be returned to the donating worker(s).
Sick Leave Effective with the initial date of employment, every seniority employee shall be granted eight (8) hours sick leave allowance for each completed calendar month of service from which shall be subtracted any particular sick leave actually used since that date. Such sick leave allowance may only be used by an employee when incapacitated to perform his duties due to sickness, injury, when quarantined. If the injury is of a nature, as determined by a doctor, that the employee can perform available work and if the Chief determines that work is available which the employee can perform, as determined by a doctor, then the employee will report for said available work. Employees, with prior approval, may use earned sick leave off in case of serious illness of an employee’s immediate family. In the event of sick leave for such purpose, the Chief may require a certificate from a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to the circumstances involved. In the event of death in an employee's immediate family, sick leave may be used, upon approval of the Chief, in addition to bereavement leave. The immediate family for this purpose shall be defined as in Section 6.5. All foreseeable leaves for such purposes shall require specific prior approval of the Department Head. It is understood and agreed that sick leave will not be abused. A medical certificate will not be required to substantiate a request for approval of sick leave for three (3) consecutive days or less, unless the employee has been notified in writing about excess use or abuse of sick leave within the previous twelve (12) month period. An employee will not receive a written notice unless he has first been verbally cautioned by his supervisor on at least one occasion during the previous twelve (12) month period. The continued excessive use or abuse of sick leave may be grounds for disciplinary action. Sick leave usage shall be deducted from earned sick leave accrual to the nearest 1/10 of an hour as shown on the employee time record.
A. An employee shall notify the Employer at the Employer's office prior to the start of the shift, or as soon thereafter as the employee's circumstances will permit, if he is going to be absent.
B. In order to accumulate sick leave for any given month, the employee must actually work or be on authorized paid leave, (excluding sick leave), vacation, Worker's Compensation, or holiday for one hundred twenty (120) or more hours in said month.
C. An employee who makes a false claim for paid sick leave shall be subject to disciplinary action or dismissal depending on the circumstances involved.
D. For employees promoted into this unit effective on or after January 1, 2012, if the employee retires and is eligible for immediate pension benefits pursuant to the Employer’s retirement program, the employee shall be entitled to be paid up to four hundred eighty (480) hours of his accumulated unused sick leave. For employees promoted into the unit before January 1, 2012, if an employee retires, and is eligible for immediate pension benefits pursuant to the Employer’s retirement program, the employee shall be entitled to be paid fifty (50%) percent of his accumulated unused sick leave credits, up to a maximum of fourteen hundred forty (1440) hours accumulation. If an employee is discharged, is laid off, or quits, he shall not be entitled to payment of any portion of this accumulated unused sick leave.
E. Paid time Off Program – The Union and Management agree to form a joint Labor Management Committee to explore the development of a paid time off program to replace the existing sick leave, personal time and vacation programs. The Committee is to make recommendations for the City of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and the Union to consider during the first year of this agreement.