Daughters of Charity - SEIU-UHW Healthcare Workers West

Daughters of Charity - SEIU-UHW Healthcare Workers West Daughters of Charity - SEIU-UHW Healthcare Workers West

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2. Extended Sick Leave (ESL) Account: Individual account containing accrued hours designated for the severe or long-term illness/injury. 3. Benefited Employee: Regular Full-time and Part-time employees scheduled to work twenty (20) hours or more per week. 4. Accrual Rate: The rate at which the employee accrues PTO/ESL that includes hours for vacation, legal holidays and sick time. Time is accrued on the basis of service and normally scheduled hours worked. 5. Cap: Maximum number of hours that can be accrued in the PTO and ESL accounts. 6. Base Rate: Straight time rate of pay. G. Use of PTO/ESL. 1. PTO will be used for all paid time off with the exception of Jury Duty, Bereavement Leave, Military Leave, paid Education Leave and other paid leaves in this agreement. 2. Employees have the option of using PTO for hours of Reduction of Staff (HC Time) or holidays. With the exception of Workers’ Compensation, holiday time and HC Time, employees cannot take a day(s) without pay until PTO has been exhausted. Personal leaves of absences will be governed according to Article 25, Leaves of Absence. 3. PTO and ESL will be paid at the base rate and will include shift differentials. 4. Employees begin accruing PTO and ESL on the first day of employment, but are not eligible to use PTO and ESL until the successful completion of the probationary period. As an exception, employees will be eligible to use PTO for the holidays after thirty (30) days of employment. 5. Employees on an unpaid status will not accrue PTO/ESL. 6. Employees moving from per diem to benefited status may use PTO/ESL ninety (90) days from the date of the status change. H. Scheduling of PTO/ESL. 1. PTO may be used for vacation, holidays, religious observance, dental or doctor appointments, physical disability/illness (including caring for seriously ill family members) and as a supplement to state Disability or Workers’ Compensation. 72

2. PTO requests must be scheduled with the Manager. Managers have the right to deny PTO requests based on staffing requirements or hospital business necessity. However, such requests will not be unreasonably denied, and every effort will be made to encourage and schedule employees to use earned PTO. PTO is normally scheduled in one-week increments, with the exception of incidental days off, e.g. doctor’s appointments. 3. Employees are required to reduce their PTO account to a minimum of eighty (80) hours per calendar year, based on a full year of employment. 4. ESL may be used under the following circumstances, if the employee: a. Is unable to work due to injury or illness for seven consecutive calendar days; or b. Is in the first (1st) day of hospitalization; or c. Is placed in the status of “Observation Patient, overnight stay, 23 hour hold”; or d. Is admitted to Outpatient Surgery (including oral surgery) on the first (1st) day with physician verification for recovery period; or e. Begins receiving Temporary Disability for a Workers’ Compensation illness/injury; or f. Suffers a relapse of a qualifying illness/injury. I. Maximum Accrual Rate (CAP) for PTO. Eligible employees will accrue up to a maximum of four hundred (400) hours. PTO accounts reaching this level do not accrue additional hours until the PTO balance is reduced below 400 hours. J. Maximum Accrual Rate (CAP) for ESL. Eligible employees may accrue up to a maximum of seven hundred twenty (720) hours in their ESL account. For employees absent from work due to disability or illness and who are eligible for State Disability or Workers’ Compensation, the Employer will consider these benefits as primary for the purpose of paying the employee. PTO and ESL benefits may be used to supplement these benefits up to the employee’s regular earning level. K. PTO and ESL Accrual Rates. Employees will accrue PTO and ESL at the following hourly rates per pay period based on hours worked not to exceed eighty (80) hours: Length of Service PTO Hours per pay period PTO Days per year ESL Days per year First 2 years 8.31 27 4 3-4 years 10.46 34 4 5 years 11.38 37 4 73

2. PTO requests must be scheduled with the Manager. Managers have the<br />

right to deny PTO requests based on staffing requirements or hospital business<br />

necessity. However, such requests will not be unreasonably denied, and every<br />

effort will be made to encourage and schedule employees to use earned PTO.<br />

PTO is normally scheduled in one-week increments, with the exception <strong>of</strong><br />

incidental days <strong>of</strong>f, e.g. doctor’s appointments.<br />

3. Employees are required to reduce their PTO account to a minimum <strong>of</strong><br />

eighty (80) hours per calendar year, based on a full year <strong>of</strong> employment.<br />

4. ESL may be used under the following circumstances, if the employee:<br />

a. Is unable to work due to injury or illness for seven consecutive<br />

calendar days; or<br />

b. Is in the first (1st) day <strong>of</strong> hospitalization; or<br />

c. Is placed in the status <strong>of</strong> “Observation Patient, overnight stay, 23<br />

hour hold”; or<br />

d. Is admitted to Outpatient Surgery (including oral surgery) on the<br />

first (1st) day with physician verification for recovery period; or<br />

e. Begins receiving Temporary Disability for a <strong>Workers</strong>’<br />

Compensation illness/injury; or<br />

f. Suffers a relapse <strong>of</strong> a qualifying illness/injury.<br />

I. Maximum Accrual Rate (CAP) for PTO. Eligible employees will accrue up to<br />

a maximum <strong>of</strong> four hundred (400) hours. PTO accounts reaching this level do not accrue<br />

additional hours until the PTO balance is reduced below 400 hours.<br />

J. Maximum Accrual Rate (CAP) for ESL. Eligible employees may accrue up to<br />

a maximum <strong>of</strong> seven hundred twenty (720) hours in their ESL account.<br />

For employees absent from work due to disability or illness and who are eligible for State<br />

Disability or <strong>Workers</strong>’ Compensation, the Employer will consider these benefits as<br />

primary for the purpose <strong>of</strong> paying the employee. PTO and ESL benefits may be used to<br />

supplement these benefits up to the employee’s regular earning level.<br />

K. PTO and ESL Accrual Rates. Employees will accrue PTO and ESL at the<br />

following hourly rates per pay period based on hours worked not to exceed eighty (80)<br />

hours:<br />

Length <strong>of</strong> Service PTO Hours per pay period PTO Days per year ESL Days per year<br />

First 2 years 8.31 27 4<br />

3-4 years 10.46 34 4<br />

5 years 11.38 37 4<br />

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