CBA Rights – Sick Leave

Purpose: To establish policy and procedures concerning employee leaves.

Policy:

Only (a) Sick Leave is in this post. Next week: Job-Related Illness/Injury

Accrual

• Full-time employee receives 4 hours of sick leave for each pay period
• Part-time receives sick leave at rate proportionate to the percent of time employed

Uses

• Personal illness or exposure to contagious disease which would endanger others
• Personal health care provider appointments
• Illness/Injury of immediate family including same-sex domestic partner
• Death of immediate family member including Bereavement Leave

Certification

• If sick leave request exceeds 4 consecutive days or if pattern of absence is documented,
  FIU may require certification by health care provider for the absences

Payment

• Employee with less than 10 years of service shall not be paid for unused sick leave
• Compensation shall not be given if employment begins after July 1, 2006
• Compensation is at the current regularly hourly rate of pay for 1/8 of all unused sick leave
  accrued prior to October 1, 1973, plus 1/4 of all unused sick leave accrued after October 1, 1973
  provided that accrued leave since 1973 does not exceed 480 hours
• Employee may request in writing that sick leave be retained pending re-employment
• Payments shall be made in lump sum
• In the event of death, payment for unused sick leave shall be made to employee’s
  beneficiary, estate, or as provided by law

See: page 74 of
CBA 2015 – 2018
for further information

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