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SICK LEAVE POLICY




PAY FOR ILLNESS

Employees will become eligible to participate in the paid time for illness program as follows:

If employed prior to [DATE], employees will be allowed up to [NUMBER] days in the following year

If employed between [DAQTE] and [DATE], employees will be allowed up to [NUMBER] days in the following year, and up to [NUMBER] days in the succeeding years.

In addition to illness, sick leave may also be granted for medical, dental, or optical examinations or when a member of your household requires your personal care and attention due to illness.


PAY AND BENEFITS DURING SICK LEAVE

Illness pay will be based on a regular eight-hour day at straight time and at the employees base rate. Illness absence of less than [NUMBER] hours in a day will not be considered for payment. Saturdays, Sundays, daily overtime hours, paid holidays, and paid vacation time are excluded as time for which payment will be made under this program.

Weekly insurance benefits will continue to be paid commencing with the first day of certified disability due to accidents and the fourth day due to illness. Thus, in accident and illness cases, the insurance benefit will be paid rather than the paid illness allowance, and any unused illness allowance will be available for use later in the year as needed.


CERTIFICATION OF ILLNESS

Certification of illness by a physician will not normally be required to qualify for payment under this program.


EFFECT ON PERFORMANCE

While the company pays you for authorized sick days, we expect you to be honest with us in taking days off only when you are actually ill. Any abuse of this benefit will be taken into account in evaluations of your performance. The company reserves the right to require a statement from your doctor.


AT TERMINATION

When termination of employment occurs, no payment for sick leave will be made.


ACCRUAL OF SICK LEAVE

Starting with the first day of employment, sick leave will accumulate at the rate of [NUMBER] day per month. Sick leave may accumulate to a maximum of [NUMBER] days.

An employee may receive compensation for his/her sick leave that has accumulated in excess of [NUMBER] days at the rate of [NUMBER] days pay for each two [NUMBER] of sick leave accumulated in excess of [NUMBER] days. Payment for unused sick leave will be made during the month of [MONTH] each year, or at other times as designated by [PERSON WHO APPROVES SICK LEAVE].

One day of sick leave for those employees who normally work a [NUMBER]-hour week shall be [NUMBER] hours. A day of sick leave for employees working [NUMBER] or more hours per week shall be [NUMBER] hours.

Permanent part-time employees are entitled to sick leave as earned on a pro rata basis. No sick leave shall accumulate to seasonal or temporary employees. All sick leave payments are to be approved by [PERSON WHO APPROVES SICK LEAVE]. Thus, any employee who is ill is responsible for reporting his or her absence to the appropriate person within one hour after his or her designated time for reporting to work.


 


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