UC/ACBCTC Agreement
ARTICLE 17
SICK LEAVE
- Sick
leave is to be used for personal illness or disability, medical
appointments, and, as provided below, for illness or death of
a family member. An employee who is out three days or more, or
whose sick leave usage is determined by the UNIVERSITY to be excessive
or patterned, may be required to submit satisfactory proof of
the event occasioning the use of sick leave.
- An
employee on pay status for at least one-half of the working hours
of the month shall earn sick leave for that month. The number
of hours earned shall be based on the number of hours on pay status
that month up to a maximum of eight (8) hours per month for full-time
employment. Overtime hours shall not be counted in calculating
monthly sick leave earnings.
- Sick
leave may be accumulated without limit. Sick leave shall accrue
on the first day of the following month except that an employee
terminating service who is eligible for sick leave shall accrue
proportionate sick leave through the last day on pay status according
to the following table:
Table F
Percent of Time on Pay Status
Hours of Sick Leave Earned
0-49
0
50-56
4
57-68
5
69-80
6
81-93
7
94-100
8
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(a) Sick leave shall not be used prior to the time it is accrued nor shall sick leave be used beyond a predetermined date of separation or leave without pay. Sick leave is allowed for pregnancy-related illness or disability, but not beyond a predetermined date of separation or during leave without pay. A pregnant employee on approved leave without pay on the date certified by her doctor as the date on which she can no longer work, or the date of delivery (whichever is earlier) is entitled to use accrued sick leave beginning at that time and continuing through the period she is physically unable to perform the normal duties of her job.
(b) An employee shall be allowed to use not more than thirty (30) calendar days of accrued sick leave in any calendar year when required to be in attendance or to provide care, because of the illness of the employee's spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, or grandchild. In-laws and step-relatives in the relationships listed are also covered. This paragraph also covers other related persons residing in the employee's household.
(c) Up to forty (40) hours of accrued sick leave per year may be used when the employee's attendance is required due to the death of the employee's mother, father, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother or sister; or of any other related person who is residing in the employee's household.
(d) If, while on vacation, an employee becomes ill and is under the care of a physician and submits a physician's statement, the employee may use accrued sick leave for that personal illness. Illness of a family member is not covered during the employee's vacation.
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An employee who leaves this unit shall have any accrued sick leave transferred if the employee is moving to a position where sick leave is accrued and can be transferred. An employee who leaves this unit to a position which does not accrue sick leave or to which sick leave cannot be transferred shall have the employee's accrued sick leave held in abeyance. If the employee should subsequently return to a position within the bargaining unit, the previously accrued sick leave will be restored.
An employee who enters this unit shall retain the sick leave accumulations earned in the UNIVERSITY position held prior to the movement.
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An employee who is recalled from layoff within the employee's period of recall eligibility shall have all accrued sick leave from prior service reinstated. An employee re-employed into a bargaining unit position after a break in service of fifteen (15) calendar days or less shall have all sick leave accrued from prior service reinstated. If reemployment reoccurs after a break in service of sixteen (16) calendar days or more, but less than 180 calendar days, prior sick leave up to a maximum of eighty (80) hours shall be reinstated. If a break in service is of 180 calendar days or more, the prior accrued sick leave shall not be reinstated.
- If sick leave is to be used as part of an approved medical or family leave, the request for the use of sick leave must comply with the notice and certification requirements for requesting medical or family leave.
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