Sick Leave at Kaiser Permanente — Northern California RNs & NPs

Starts fringe benefit accumulation at prorated basis as of date of change in status. However, if the Nurse previously had been a Regular full-time or Regular part-time Nurse with no break in service, the Nurse retains for fringe benefit accumulations the same date the Nurse had when a Regular full- time or Regular part-time Nurse, adjusted forward for the length of time in Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem status. The Nurse also in such cases retains any unused sick leave and Education Leave accumulated while in Regular full-time or Regular part-time status. ARTICLE VII – HOURS OF WORK Section A – Payroll Week, Work Week and Payroll Day Payroll Week “Payroll week” as used in this Article shall mean and consist of the seven (7) day period beginning at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, or at the shift change hour nearest that time. Work Week The “work week” means the “payroll week” for all purposes, inc …

Annual Sick Leave is the sick leave days credited each payroll year in accordance with Article XXVI, paragraph 2601 of the Agreement. Banked Sick Leave is previously accumulated unused sick leave to which unused Annual Sick Leave may be added at the end of each payroll year. a. Banked Sick Leave will consist of a pre-2007 account (last date of the payroll year end 2006) for any unused sick leave hours accumulated prior to 2007, and a post-2006 (beginning of payroll year 2007) account for any hours rolled over at the end of2007 and years thereafter. There is no limit in the amount that may be accumulated on Banked Sick Leave. 3. Use of Sick Leave: Annual Sick Leave will ordinarily be used when an RN or NP is sick or injured. Banked Sick Leave will be used when an RN or NP is sick or injured after Annual Sick Leave is exhausted. Banked Sick Leave may also be used first SIDE LETTER Z SICK …

SIDE LETTER Z SICK LEAVE CASH OUT 2022 ADDENDUM TO THE 2008 LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN KAISER PERMANENTE AND CALIFORNIA NURSES ASSOCIATION SICK LEAVE CASH OUT In accordance with the agreements and commitments made during 2022 Contract Bargaining, the parties agree to the following changes with respect to the Retirement Conversion: Letter of Understanding between Kaiser Permanente and California Nurses Association Sick Leave Cash Out March 5, 2008 In accordance with agreements and commitments made during 2006 Contract Bargaining, the parties agree that time off benefits that protect Nurses from loss of income if they are ill or injured promote employee well-being and security. In order to optimize the value of these benefits, and to further the goals of enhancing the quality and continuity of care provided to our patients and promoting work/life satisfaction for Nurses, the parties a …

a combination of the two. These options will be exercised annually as follows: 1. Full Time RNs or NPs regularly scheduled to work forty (40) hours per week may cash out up to eighty (80) hours of unused Annual Sick Leave at fifty percent (50%) of value, provided they have at least eighty (80) hours in the combined Banked Sick Leave accounts. Part Time benefited RNs or NPs regularly scheduled to work less than forty (40) hours per week may cash out unused Annual Sick Leave on a pro rated basis, and based on a pro rated number of hours to meet the above-referenced threshold. 2. RNs or NPs may choose to roll over all their unused Annual Sick Leave hours to their post-2006 Banked Sick Leave account at 100% (one hundred percent) of the hours value. 3. RNs or NPs may select either option, or a combination of the two, provided they meet the eligibility described above. 4. All unused Annual Sic …

Payroll is not able to verify an error within the designated time period, the Nurse(s) who reported the error shall be informed within the designated time period of the reasons for the delay in resolving the error. Employee vacation, sick, and education leave accrual hours and balance will be displayed on Employee payslips. ARTICLE VIII – SENIORITY Section A – Seniority, Accumulation and Application Regular Nurses and Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses shall have equal seniority for transfers, promotions, and layoffs based upon their bargaining unit seniority. Regular Nurses shall accumulate seniority based upon length of continuous service with the Employer under this Agreement. Effective September 1, 2002, Short-Hour, Temporary and Per diem Nurses shall accumulate seniority on the basis of eighty-seven (87) hours of work equaling one (1) month's seniority credit, for hours worke …

Orientation for floating purposes only: 6. Nurses subject to floating will be thoroughly oriented into the designated float unit by a designated Staff Nurse Orienteer prior to taking a patient assignment. The Staff Nurse Orienteer will not have a patient assignment during orientation. If needed, Nurses will be provided up to 8 hours of orientation to the paired float unit, if necessary, with the exception of ICU to CMU, ICU nurses will be provided up to 4 hours of orientation. Orientation is defined as those elements contained in the normal orientation of Nurses new to the unit and is not intended to include clinical competence training. It is expected that Nurses to be oriented to the new/additional unit/clinic already possess the required clinical competencies. Such orientation will be conducted in small groups. No more than 4 RNs will be assigned to one Staff Nurse Orienteer for orien …

Pay for sick leave shall be base rate plus any shift differential to which the Nurse would have been entitled had the Nurse worked the regular schedule on the day or days of illness. Paid sick leave shall be counted as time worked for purposes of computing weekly overtime.

board access shall not be unreasonably denied. A designated Association representative shall be responsible for posting material submitted by the Association, a copy of which shall be furnished to the Employer before posting. The Association agrees that no controversial material shall be posted. It is further agreed that the Employer shall post position vacancies as provided in Article IX of the contract on such bulletin boards. ARTICLE V – PERSONNEL CATEGORIES Section A – Probationary Nurses Regular Registered Nurses may be discharged without recourse to the grievance procedure within the first ninety (90) days of employment. Short- Hour, Temporary and Per diem Registered Nurses may be discharged without recourse to the grievance procedure until such Nurse has been employed for six (6) months or worked three hundred (300) hours, whichever comes first. Section B – Regular Nurses A Regula …