Extended Illness Time. A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in connection with illness, injury, and parental leave. B. Accrual: Effective through the final pay period in February 2021, R regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period (approximately seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time nurse). A paid hour under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under the PTO program. Accrual will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused EIT accrual. Effective with the first full pay period in March 2021, no further EIT leave accruals will occur. All existing EIT leave accruals for then-current nurses shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an extended illness bank for each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after March 1, 2021 will not accrue or participate in EIT. C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including regularly scheduled shift and Charge Nurse differentials provided under Appendix A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. D-1. Use: (through the pay period including February 28, 2021): Effective through the pay period including February 27, 2021, EIT will continue to be available as follows: 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period when accrued. 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following: (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, as an inpatient or outpatient, for one or more days and any necessary absence immediately following hospitalization. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees. (b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office. (c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees. (d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours. (e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such condition. (f) Approved parental leave under applicable law. (g) Approved leaves under OFLA, after exhausting all accrued and available 3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the missed hours. D-2 Use of EIT March 2021 – December 31, 2022): Effective the first full pay period in March 2021 and until December 31, 2022), accrued EIT may be used for the following purposes: 1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100% 2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100% 3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100% 4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA. 5. For absences shorter than seven (7) day, EIT can be used as described in Section D- 1. above. 6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether STD is approved or denied).
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Extended Illness Time. 6 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 7 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave.
9 B. Accrual: Effective through the final pay period in February 2021Through January 4, R 2020, regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 .0270 EIT hours 10 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period (approximately 11 seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time nurse). A paid hour 12 under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under the PTO program. Accrual 13 will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused EIT accrual. Effective with the first full pay 14 period in March 2021that begins Sunday, 1/5/2020, no further EIT leave EIB accruals will occur. All existing EIT leave 15 accruals for then-current nurses shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an extended illness bank 16 Extended Illness Bank for each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after March 1January 5, 2021 17 2020 will not accrue or participate in EIT.
19 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 20 regularly scheduled shift and Charge Nurse differentials provided under Appendix A, at the time of use. EIT 21 pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used.
23 D. 1. D-1. Use: Use – (through the pay period including February 28Through January 4, 20212020): Effective through the pay period including February 27January 4, 20212020, EIT will continue 24 continues to be available as follows:
26 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 27 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period when 28 accrued.
30 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to any of the following:
(a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 33 as an inpatient or outpatient, for one or more days and any necessary 34 absence immediately following hospitalization. .
1 If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center Home Health and Hospice makes any 2 improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical CenterHome 3 Health and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇'s other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the 4 improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
. 6 (b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious 7 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing surgical 8 center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.
(c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
(d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours.
(e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such condition.
(f) Approved parental leave under applicable law.
(g) Approved leaves under OFLA, after exhausting all accrued and available
3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the missed hours. D-2 Use of EIT March 2021 – December 31, 2022): Effective the first full pay period in March 2021 and until December 31, 2022), accrued EIT may be used for the following purposes:
1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100%
2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100%
3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100%
4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA.
5. For absences shorter than seven (7) day, EIT can be used as described in Section D- 1. above.
6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether STD is approved or denied).
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Extended Illness Time. 26 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 27 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave.
29 B. Accrual: Effective through the final pay period in February 2021Through January 4, 2020, R regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT 30 hours per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period 31 (approximately seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time 32 nurse). A paid hour under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under 33 the PTO program. Accrual will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused 34 EIT accrual. Effective with the first full pay period in March 2021that begins Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, no 1 further EIT leave accruals will occur. All existing EIT leave accruals for then-current nurses 2 shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an extended illness Extended Illness bank for 3 each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after March 1January 2, 2021 2020 will not accrue 4 or participate in EIT.
6 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 7 regularly scheduled shift and Charge Nurse charge nurse differentials provided under Appendix 8 A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. 10 D-1. Use: (through the pay period including February 28January 4, 20212020): Effective through the pay period including February 27January 4, 20212020, EIT will continue 11 continues to be available as follows:
12 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 13 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period 14 when accrued.
15 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following:
16 (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 17 as an inpatient or outpatient, for (1) one or more days and any 18 necessary absence immediately following hospitalization. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
20 (b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious 21 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing 22 surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.
(c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
(d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours.
(e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such condition.
(f) Approved parental leave under applicable law.
(g) Approved leaves under OFLA, after exhausting all accrued and available
3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the missed hours. D-2 Use of EIT March 2021 – December 31, 2022): Effective the first full pay period in March 2021 and until December 31, 2022), accrued EIT may be used for the following purposes:
1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100%
2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100%
3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100%
4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA.
5. For absences shorter than seven (7) day, EIT can be used as described in Section D- 1. above.
6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether STD is approved or denied).
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Extended Illness Time. 2 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 3 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave.
5 B. Accrual: Effective through the final pay period in February 2021Through January 4, R 2020, regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours 6 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period 7 (approximately seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time 8 nurse). A paid hour under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under 9 the PTO program. Accrual will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused 10 EIT accrual. Effective with the first full pay period in March 2021that begins Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, no 11 further EIT leave accruals will occur. All existing EIT leave accruals for then-current nurses 12 shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an extended illness Extended Illness bank for 13 each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after March 1January 2, 2021 2020 will not accrue 14 or participate in EIT.
16 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 17 regularly scheduled shift and Charge Nurse charge nurse differentials provided under Appendix 18 A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. D-1.
20 D. 1. Use: (through the pay period including February 28January 4, 20212020): Effective through the pay period including February 27January 4, 20212020, EIT will continue 21 continues to be available as follows:
22 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 23 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period when 24 accrued.
26 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following:
27 (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 28 as an inpatient or outpatient, for (1) one or more days and any necessary 29 absence immediately following hospitalization. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
(b) When a nurse receives outpatient 30 procedures under conscious sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a 31 free-standing surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.
(c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
(d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours.
(e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such condition.
(f) Approved parental leave under applicable law.
(g) Approved leaves under OFLA, after exhausting all accrued and available
3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the missed hours. D-2 Use of EIT March 2021 – December 31, 2022): Effective the first full pay period in March 2021 and until December 31, 2022), accrued EIT may be used for the following purposes:
1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100%
2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100%
3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100%
4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA.
5. For absences shorter than seven (7) day, EIT can be used as described in Section D- 1. above.
6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether STD is approved or denied).
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Extended Illness Time. 5 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 6 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave.
8 B. Accrual: Effective through the final pay period in February 2021Through January 4, R 2020, regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 .0270 EIT hours 9 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period (approximately 10 seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time nurse). A paid hour 11 under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under the PTO program. Accrual 12 will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused EIT accrual. Effective with the first full pay 13 period in March 2021that begins Sunday, 1/5/2020, no further EIT leave EIB accruals will occur. All existing EIT leave 14 accruals for then-current nurses shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an extended illness bank 15 Extended Illness Bank for each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after March 1January 5, 2021 16 2020 will not accrue or participate in EIT.
18 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 19 regularly scheduled shift and Charge Nurse differentials provided under Appendix A, at the time of use. EIT 20 pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used.
22 D. 1. D-1. Use: Use – (through the pay period including February 28Through January 4, 20212020): Effective through the pay period including February 27January 4, 20212020, EIT will continue 23 continues to be available as follows:
25 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 26 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period when 27 accrued.
29 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to any of the following:
(a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 32 as an inpatient or outpatient, for one or more days and any necessary 33 absence immediately following hospitalization. .
1 If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center Home Health and Hospice makes any 2 improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical CenterHome 3 Health and Hospice's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the 4 improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
. 6 (b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious 7 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing surgical 8 center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.
(c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
(d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours.
(e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such condition.
(f) Approved parental leave under applicable law.
(g) Approved leaves under OFLA, after exhausting all accrued and available
3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the missed hours. D-2 Use of EIT March 2021 – December 31, 2022): Effective the first full pay period in March 2021 and until December 31, 2022), accrued EIT may be used for the following purposes:
1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100%
2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100%
3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100%
4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA.
5. For absences shorter than seven (7) day, EIT can be used as described in Section D- 1. above.
6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether STD is approved or denied).
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Extended Illness Time. 18 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) ). program encompasses time taken in 19 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave.
21 B. Accrual: . Effective through the final pay period in February 2021, R regular 22 nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid 23 hours per two-week pay period (approximately seven (7) days of EIT per 24 year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time nurse). A paid hour under this section 25 is defined the same as a paid hour under the PTO program. Accrual will 26 cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused EIT accrual. Effective with 27 the first full pay period in March 2021, no further EIT leave accruals will 28 occur. All existing EIT leave accruals for then-current nurses shall be frozen 29 as of that date and shall be placed in an extended illness bank for each 30 respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after March 1, 2021 will not accrue or 31 participate in EIT.
33 C. Pay: . EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 34 regularly scheduled shift and Charge Nurse differentials provided under 1 Appendix A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the 2 EIT is used. 4 D-1. Use: Use (through the pay period including February 28, 2021): ). Effective through 5 the pay period including February 27, 2021, EIT will continue to be available 6 as follows:
7 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) 8 months of employment and then in or after the pay period following 9 the pay period when accrued.
11 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following:
(12 a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery 13 unit, as an inpatient or outpatient, for one or more days and any 14 necessary absence immediately following hospitalization. If, 15 during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes 16 any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph 17 for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are 18 not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided 19 to bargaining unit employees.
(21 b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious 22 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing 23 surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.
(25 c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed 26 work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of 27 three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive 28 scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the 29 Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered 30 by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's 31 other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the 32 improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit 33 employees.
(1 d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, 2 without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a 3 waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is 4 equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly 5 scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours.
(7 e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above 8 and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, 9 when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such 10 condition.
(12 f) Approved parental leave under applicable law.
(14 g) Approved leaves under OFLA, after exhausting all accrued and available15 available PTO.
17 3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation 18 pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is 19 otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to 20 bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation 21 and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the 22 missed hours. D-2 24 D-2. Use of EIT (March 2021 – December 31, 2022): ). Effective the first full pay 25 period in March 2021 and until December 31, 2022), accrued EIT may be 26 used for the following purposes:
27 1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100%
% 29 2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100%% 30
31 3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100%
1 4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA, 2 after a waiting period of missed work that is equal to three (3) days up 3 to a maximum of twenty-four (24) hours.
5 5. For absences shorter than seven (7) daydays, EIT can be used as 6 described in Section D- 1D-1. above.
8 6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for 9 scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for 10 short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether STD short-term 11 disability (STD) is approved or denied).
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Extended Illness Time. A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in connection with illness, injury, and parental leave.
B. Accrual: Effective through the final pay period in February 2021Through January 4December 31, R regular 2020, Rregular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours per paid hour, not to exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period (approximately seven (7) days of EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time nurse). A paid hour under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under the PTO program. Accrual will cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused EIT accrual. Effective with the first full pay period in March 2021that begins Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, no further EIT leave accruals will occur. All existing EIT leave accruals for then-current nurses shall be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an extended illness Extended Illness bank for each respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after March January 1, 2021 2020 will not accrue or participate in EIT.
C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including regularly scheduled shift shift, certification, Clinical Ladder, and Charge Nurse differentials provided under Appendix A, at the time of usedifferentials
D.1. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. D-1. Use: Use (through the pay period including February 28January 4, 20212020): Effective through the pay period including February 27January 4, 20212020, EIT will continue continues to be available as follows:
1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period when accrued.
2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following:
(a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, as an inpatient or outpatient, for one or more days and any necessary absence immediately following hospitalization. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
(b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.
(c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
(d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours.
(e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such condition.
(f) Approved parental leave under applicable law.
(g) Approved leaves leave under the Oregon Family Leave Act (“OFLA”), after exhausting all accrued and availableas outlined in the provisions of OFLA.
3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the missed hours.
D.2. D-2 Use of EIT March 2021 – (January 5, 2020 - December 31, 20222021): Effective the first full pay Jan. 5, 2020 and for a period in March 2021 and of two (2) years (until December 31, 20222021), accrued EIT may be used for the following purposes:
1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100%
% 2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100%
3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100%
4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA, after a waiting period of missed work that is equal to the short of the equivalent of three (3) regularly scheduled work shifts or twenty-four (24) scheduled hours.
5. For absences shorter than seven (7) day, EIT can be used as described in Section D- 1D.1. above.
6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether STD is approved or denied). D.3. Use (January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022): Between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2022, accrued EIT may be used for an approved OFLA/FMLA to care for a family member after the twenty-four (24) hour elimination period unless a paid family leave plan is otherwise provided by statute.
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Extended Illness Time. 12 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 13 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave.
15 B. Accrual: Effective through the final pay period in February 2021Through January 4, R 2020, regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours 16 per paid hour, not to exceed 80 eighty (80) paid hours per two-week pay period 17 (approximately seven ([7) ] days of EIT per year with 56 fifty-six [56] hours’ pay for a full-time 18 nurse). A paid hour under this section is defined the same as a paid hour under the 19 PTO program. Accrual will cease when a nurse has 1,040 one thousand forty (1,040) hours of 20 unused EIT accrual. Effective with the first full pay period in March 2021that begins Sunday, January 5, 2020, 21 no further EIT leave accruals will occur. All existing EIT leave accruals for then-current nurses shall 22 be frozen as of that date and shall be placed in an extended illness Extended Illness bank for each 23 respective nurse. Nurses hired on or after March January 1, 2021 2020 will not accrue or participate 24 in EIT.
26 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 27 regularly scheduled shift shift, certification, Clinical Ladder, and Charge Nurse differentials 28 provided under Appendix A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after 29 the EIT is used. 31 D-1. Use: Use (through the pay period including February 28January 4, 20212020): Effective through the pay period including February 27January 4, 20212020, EIT will continue continues 32 to be available as follows:
33 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 34 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period 35 when accrued.
1 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to the following:
2 (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 3 as an inpatient or outpatient, for one or more days and any 4 necessary absence immediately following hospitalization. If, during 5 the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any 6 improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a 7 majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a 8 bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining 9 unit employees.
(b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.
(c) The nurse’s disabling illness after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of three (3) consecutive scheduled work shifts or 24 consecutive scheduled hours. If, during the term of this Agreement, the Medical Center makes any improvement in the benefit covered by this subparagraph for a majority of the Medical Center's other employees who are not in a bargaining unit, the improvement will also be provided to bargaining unit employees.
(d) Partial day absences related to a single illness of the nurse, without an intervening full scheduled shift being worked, after a waiting period of missed work due to such condition which is equal to the shorter of the equivalent of three regularly scheduled work shifts or 24 scheduled hours.
(e) After qualification for use under subsections (c) or (d) above and a return to work for less than one (1) scheduled full shift, when the nurse misses work due to recurrence of such condition.
(f) Approved parental leave under applicable law.
(g) Approved leaves under OFLA, after exhausting all accrued and available
3. EIT may be used when the nurse is receiving workers’ compensation pay after the normal workers’ compensation waiting period and is otherwise eligible for EIT use, but such EIT use will be limited to bringing the nurse’s total compensation from workers’ compensation and EIT to two-thirds (2/3) of the nurse’s straight-time pay for the missed hours. D-2 Use of EIT March 2021 – December 31, 2022): Effective the first full pay period in March 2021 and until December 31, 2022), accrued EIT may be used for the following purposes:
1. Top-up short-term disability pay to 100%
2. Top-up paid parental leave pay to 100%
3. Top-up Workers’ Compensation pay to 100%
4. Use to care for a family member when out on an approved FMLA.
5. For absences shorter than seven (7) day, EIT can be used as described in Section D- 1. above.
6. For absences longer than seven (7) days, EIT can be used for scheduled shifts missed during the 7-calendar day waiting period for short-term disability benefits (regardless of whether STD is approved or denied).
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement