1. The Employer shall continue to grant reasonable sick leave with full pay through the signing of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Employees receiving reasonable sick pay as of May 13, 2008, the date of ratification, will continue to receive reasonable sick pay for the duration of their current leave.
2. Effective June 6, 2008, the Employer agrees to allocate seven (7) sick days to employees for the balance of this calendar year. Part-time employees shall have a pro-rated benefit for sick pay to be used in 2008 in accordance with Article V, Section 4 a. (2).
3. Effective each subsequent January 1st, all regular full-time employees will be allocated a total of seven (7) paid sick days per year to be used in the calendar year. New hires will receive the pro-rated number of days following the completion of their probation period. Part-time employees will be allocated a pro-rated sick pay benefit in accordance with Article V, Section 4 a. (2).
Short-term Disability
4. All regular full-time employees will be covered under short-term disability. The balance of sick time will be used prior to commencing short-term disability.
First 7 days: remaining sick time Day 8 through week 9: paid time at 100% Week 10 through week 14: paid time at 80% Week 15 through week 20: paid time at 70% Week 21 through week 26: paid at 60%
5. Short-term disability will run concurrent with Family Medical Leave (federal or state). Short-term disability will be up to a total of one hundred and eighty (180) consecutive days of an injury/illness.
6. Employees who are within their probationary period shall not be entitled to sick pay.
7. An employee may access any remaining sick time while on short-term disability to make themselves whole until sick time is exhausted beginning week 10.
8. The Employer agrees to a rollover of two (2) sick days into a new year, if available, with a cap of nine (9) per year.
9. The proceeds from any workers' compensation insurance and from any company health and accident plan shall be considered part of full sick leave pay.
10. Any employee claiming benefits under this Article shall, upon the request of the Employer, submit to an examination by such doctor or doctors as the Employer designates, the cost of such examination to be borne by the Employer.
11. Pregnancy-Related Disability: Disability caused or contributed to by pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriage, abortion or related medical conditions and recovery therefrom, for all job-related purposes, shall be treated the same as disabilities caused or contributed to by other medical conditions under any health or disability insurance or sick leave plan available in connection with employment.
12. Long Term Disability: A full-time or part-time employee working a minimum of sixty percent (60%) of the workweek for six (6) months or more, off work due to a bona fide illness or injury verified by the employee’s physician for more than twenty-six (26) consecutive weeks shall be eligible for long-term disability leave in accordance with the terms of the Long Term Disability Plan. The Employer, if it so elects, may have such employee examined by a physician of its own choosing. The terms of the Plan and the conditions of eligibility are set forth in the insurance plan contract document in effect as of January 1, 2003. The Employer reserves the right to change insurance carriers but the terms of any new disability insurance plan shall be substantially equivalent to those of the Long Term Disability Plan in effect as of the effective date of this Agreement.
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