Personal/Carer’s Leave 18.1 Entitlement to paid personal/carer’s leave
a) Paid personal leave will be available to an Employee (other than casual Employees) when they are absent due to:
(i) personal illness or injury (sick leave); or
(ii) for the purposes of caring for an immediate family or household member who is sick and requires the Employee's care and support (carer's leave).
b) The amount of personal leave to which an Employee is entitled is as follows:
(i) Upon commencement of employment Employees will automatically be credited with 5 days Personal and/or ▇▇▇▇▇’s leave. After 6 months of employment, the leave will begin to accrue progressively up until it reaches 10 days at the conclusion of 12 months employment.
(ii) Once the Employee has completed one year of continuous employment, the Employee shall be credited with a further ten days personal leave entitlement at the beginning of the Employee's second and subsequent year, which subject to clause 18.1(f) hereof, shall commence on the anniversary of engagement.
c) In any year unused personal leave accrues.
d) An Employee will inform the Company of the Employee's inability to attend for duty, and need to take personal leave, as soon as practicable.
e) An Employee shall prove to the Company's satisfaction that the Employee’s Personal/▇▇▇▇▇’s leave is/was justified. Such evidence may be a medical practitioner’s certificate, or a statutory declaration. An Employee will not be required to provide such evidence for single days of absence but only where two or more consecutive days of absence are taken.
f) If an Employee’s employment is terminated by the Company and is re-engaged within a period of six months, then the Employee's unclaimed balance of sick leave shall continue from the date of re-engagement. In such case the Employee's next year of service will commence after a total of twelve months has been served with that Company excluding the period of interruption in service from the date of commencement of the previous period of employment or the anniversary of the commencement of the previous period of employment, as the case may be.
g) Unpaid carer’s leave will be in accordance with the NES.
18.2 Immediate family or household
a) The entitlement to use personal leave for the purpose of carer's or compassionate leave is subject to the person being either:
(i) a member of the Employee's immediate family; or
(ii) a member of the Employees' household.
b) The term immediate family includes:
(i) a spouse, de facto partner, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the Employee; or
(ii) a child, parent, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of a spouse or de facto partner of the Employee.
Personal Leave With Pay Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to a maximum of six days personal leave with pay per year provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's currently accrued sick leave. This leave is non-cumulative.
Family Medical Leave or Critical Illness Leave a) Family Medical Leave or Critical Illness leaves granted to a permanent teacher, long-term occasional teacher or teacher hired into a term position under this Article shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act, as amended.
b) The teacher will provide to the employer such evidence as necessary to prove entitlement under the Employment Standards Act.
c) A teacher contemplating taking such leave(s) shall notify the employer of the intended date the leave is to begin and the anticipated date of return to active employment.
d) Seniority and experience continue to accrue during such leave(s).
e) Where a teacher is on such leave(s), the Employer shall continue to pay its share of the benefit premiums, where applicable. To maintain participation and coverage under the Collective Agreement, the teacher must agree to provide for payment for the teacher’s share of the benefit premiums, where applicable.
f) In order to receive pay for such leaves, a teacher must access Employment Insurance and the Supplemental Employment Benefit (SEB) in accordance with g) to j), if allowable by legislation. An employee who is eligible for E.I. is not entitled to benefits under a school board’s sick leave and short term disability plan.
g) The Employer shall provide for permanent teachers, long-term occasional teachers and teachers hired into a term position who access such Leaves, a SEB plan to top up their E.I.
Bereavement Leave With Pay For the purpose of this clause, the definition of immediate family will include the relatives of a common law spouse in the same manner as would be applied to the relatives of a spouse. For the purpose of this clause, immediate family is defined as father, mother (or alternatively stepfather, stepmother or ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent), brother, sister, spouse, child, stepchild, child adopted through Indigenous custom adoption practices, or ▇▇▇▇ of the employee, father-in-law, mother- in-law, grandparents, employee’s grandchild, and other relatives permanently residing in the employee's household or with whom the employee permanently resides, and also includes anyone for whom the employee holds a legally executed “Power of Attorney”.
a) When a member of the employee's immediate family dies, the employee shall be entitled to bereavement leave with pay for a period of five (5) days for purposes relating to the bereavement and may, in addition, be granted up to three (3) days’ leave with pay for the purposes of travel related to the death.
b) In special circumstances and at the request of the employee, bereavement leave with pay may be extended beyond the day following the day of the funeral but the total number of days granted shall be consecutive, shall not exceed the number provided for in paragraph (a) above, and must include the day of the funeral.
c) An employee is entitled to two (2) days' bereavement leave with pay for the purpose related to the death of his/her son-in- law, daughter-in-law.
d) An employee is entitled to one (1) day's bereavement leave with pay for purposes relating to the death of her brother-in- law or sister-in-law, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew. One (1) day’s leave with pay will be granted for an indigenous employee to attend funeral of an indigenous community member.
e) If, during a period of compensatory leave, an employee is bereaved in circumstances under which she would have been eligible for bereavement leave with pay under paragraph (a), (b), (c), or (d) of this clause, she shall be granted bereavement leave with pay and her compensatory leave credits shall be restored to the extent of any concurrent bereavement leave with pay granted.