R2017-48 Contract Pay and Benefits AFSCME Local 268 and Decatur Public Library

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Section 1. Sick Leave Bargaining unit members are entitled to sick leave as follows: (A) Sick leave is to be used only for appointments with doctors, dentists and other professional medical practitioners and in cases of illness or injury of an employee or the employee's child, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent or any relative domiciled in the employee's home. (B) Sick leave for full-time employees accrues at the rate of eight (8) hours per month to a maximum of two hundred forty (240) days, except that accrual of sick leave for regularly employed part-time employees shall be as stated in Section 8 of Article XXIII. Sick leave may be taken in increments of one-tenth of an hour. Sick leave does not accrue during leaves of absence. (C) The Employer may require medical evidence verifying the illness or injury if reasonable grounds exist to suspect abuse or if the leave exceeds three (3) consecutive days. However, in all cases where four consecutive duty days are missed by an employee due to illness, injury or disability, a physician's statement will be required before sick leave pay is paid. Such statements shall set forth reasons for the employee's inability to perform his duties and shall become a part of the employee's personnel record. Physician's statements will be used in determining from time to time whether or not an employee is able to continue the performance of his/her duties. (1) "Medical Documentation," for the purposes of this Agreement, shall mean a written statement signed by a person licensed to practice medicine (or their designee) that the employee was medically determined unable to perform his or her duties on the date for which sick leave credit is sought. (2) After forty (40) hours of sick leave being used by a full-time employee, or after twenty (20) hours of sick leave being used by a part-time employee, in any fiscal year, for which no Medical Documentation, is provided, no sick leave credit may be used by that employee for the first eight (8) hours (or the first four (4) hours in the case of a part-time employee) of the next or any succeeding sick leave day, or any part thereof, for which no Medical Documentation, is provided. An office or hospital visit to, or pursuant to the orders of a physician or dentist or licensed medical practitioner, or their designee, shall not be considered as part of the forty (40) sick leave hours, as herein described. (3) After a full-time employee has utilized forty (40) hours of sick leave or a part-time employee has utilized twenty (20) hours of sick leave, in any fiscal year, for which no Medical Documentation is provided, Employer shall provide employee a reminder to the employee of the availability of the Employee Assistance Program ("EAP"). Notwithstanding, if employee is otherwise ineligible to participate in the EAP this provision creates no obligation on Employer to expand the existing scope Page 17 of 29