Common use of Extended Illness Time Clause in Contracts

Extended Illness Time. 15 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 16 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave. 18 B. Accrual: Regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 EIT hours per paid hour, not to 19 exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period (approximately seven (7) days of 20 EIT per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time nurse). A paid hour under this 21 section is defined the same as a paid hour under the PTO program. Accrual will 22 cease when a nurse has 1,040 hours of unused EIT accrual. 24 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 25 regularly scheduled shift and charge nurse differentials provided under Appendix 26 A, at the time of use. EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. 28 D. Use: 29 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 30 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period 31 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. 6 (b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious 7 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing 8 surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.

Extended Illness Time. 15 33 A. The Extended Illness Time (“EIT”) program encompasses time taken in 16 34 connection with illness, injury, and parental leave. 18 . 1 B. Accrual: Regular nurses will accrue 0.0270 .0270 EIT hours per paid hour, not to 19 2 exceed 80 paid hours per two-week pay period (approximately seven (7) days of 20 EIT 3 per year with 56 hours’ pay for a full-time nurse). A paid hour under this 21 section is 4 defined the same as a paid hour under the PTO program. Accrual will 22 cease when a 5 nurse has 1,040 hours of unused EIT accrual. 24 7 C. Pay: EIT pay will be at the nurse’s straight-time hourly rate of pay, including 25 8 regularly scheduled shift and charge nurse differentials provided under Appendix 26 A, at the time of use. 9 EIT pay is paid on regular paydays after the EIT is used. 28 11 D. Use: 29 12 1. Accrued EIT may first be used in the pay period following six (6) months of 30 13 employment and then in or after the pay period following the pay period 31 when accrued. 1 15 2. EIT will be used for any absence from work due to any of the following: 2 16 (a) The nurse’s admission to a hospital, including a day surgery unit, 3 17 as an inpatient or outpatient, for one or more days and any 4 necessary absence 18 immediately following hospitalization. 6 (b) When a nurse receives outpatient procedures under conscious 7 sedation, spinal block, or general anesthesia in a free-standing 8 surgical center or in a surgical suite at a physician's office.