Leaves of Absence — Lucile Packard Children's Hospital RNs

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -48- 18.4.1 Personal – One-hundred eighty (180) days with a possible one-hundred eighty (180) day extension. 18.4.2 Educational – One (1) calendar year. 18.4.3 Military – A leave will be granted in accordance with federal law. 18.4.4 State and Federal Family and Medical Leave – As required by Federal and State laws. 18.4.5 Medical (including pregnancy related disability) – Up to one-hundred eighty (180) days. A personal leave of absence may be requested up to an additional one-hundred eighty (180) days. 18.4.6 Parental leave – One-hundred eighty (180) days. 18.5 Combinations of Leaves of Absences. Excluding military and educational leaves of absence, no combination of leaves shall be granted within any three hundred sixty-five (365) day period, measured from the first day of the first such leave, which considered together exceed one hundred eighty (1 …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -49- 18.8.2 A Regular Nurse who is granted a leave of absence will be informed on the Leave of Absence Request and Authorization the dates of the Leave, benefit limitations, insurance procedures, and the requirements for and the conditions under which the Nurse may return to work. 18.8.3 At the discretion of the Nurse’s Manager it is not necessary for a Regular Nurse to completely exhaust PTO before a personal leave is granted. 18.9 A Regular Nurse shall not forfeit any accrued benefits during an authorized leave of absence, or accrue any benefits during such leave. A Regular Nurse’s Adjusted Hire Date will be changed for a leave of absence of more than six (6) months, except as provided in 18.10, below. 18.10 Subject to the terms and conditions established by the Employer’s insurance plans, Regular Nurses on authorized Medical leave of absence or St …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -47- Letter signed by the Regular Nurse’s personal physician. A clearance must be obtained by the employee from Occupational Health Services, or from another entity the Employer has informed the Nurse is responsible for providing clearance, for work related injury and illness, or infectious disease prior to return to work. At the discretion of the employee’s supervisor an authorization for return to work may be required for other injury or illness prior to the employee’s return to work. The Nurse cannot return to work until cleared in accordance with the above. 18.3.4 Pregnancy Related Disability Leave. All female Regular Nurses covered by this Agreement are eligible for pregnancy related disability leave. The leave is granted at the request of the Regular Nurse, for the period of time during which they are incapable of performing their job because o …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -46- relatedness of any particular education program is to be determined by the definitions set forth in Section 13 of this Agreement. b. Regular Nurses who have satisfactorily completed one (1) year of regular full- time employment, or eighteen (18) months of part- time employment of at least 0.5 time, or eighteen (18) months of combined full-time and part-time employment of at least 0.5 time, are eligible to apply for educational leave. c. Educational leave must be approved by the Nurse’s supervisor and the Vice President of Patient Care. d. If an educational leave of absence exceeds one-hundred eighty (180) calendar days, the Regular Nurse’s hire and review dates will be adjusted forward for the entire period of unpaid time off which exceeds one-hundred eighty (180) calendar days. 18.3.2 State and Federal Family and Medical Leave. Nurses who have …

18.1 Eligibility. Regular Nurses covered by this Agreement who have successfully completed the trial period and who expect to be absent for family, personal, medical (including pregnancy related disability), military, or educational reasons are eligible to apply for a leave of absence. Requests for review of leaves of absence by trial period Regular Nurses will be considered by the Employer on a case by case basis. Granting or denying such requests shall be at the sole discretion of the Employer unless otherwise required by law and not otherwise reviewable under the terms of the Agreement. A granting of a leave to a Regular Nurse in the trial period shall be considered as an automatic extension of the trial period for the period of leave granted. If an approved leave of absence is granted for a period that is less than seven (7) days and the absence exceeds seven (7) days, a leave of abs …

2019 A. Purpose. The purpose of this Side Letter is to provide eligible Nurses the opportunity to move to a Relief B position temporarily to allow them to pursue a BSN or MSN degree while continuing to work at the Employer. B. Eligibility and Qualifications. All 0.8 time or more Regular Nurses with five (5) or more years of continuous service with the Employer and who are enrolled in an accredited educational program culminating in a BSN or MSN degree are eligible to request a temporary Relief B position and to apply for a posted temporary Relief B position under this Side Letter. C. Number of Temporary Relief Positions. In each unit with at least ten (10) Regular Nurses, one temporary Relief Nurse position will be made available under this Side Letter, with one (1) additional temporary Relief Nurse position made available for every seventy-five (75) Regular Nurses who are regularly assi …

23.1 Voluntary Requested Reduction in Scheduled Commitment. Any Regular Nurse may submit a request in writing to their Nurse Manager requesting a voluntary reduction in schedule commitment. The Nurse Manager will consider the request and will respond in writing to the Nurse within thirty (30) calendar days of the submission of the request. When the Nurse Manager determines in their discretion that a reduction in schedule commitment may be appropriate, the reduced commitment position shall be posted pursuant to the Internal Transfers procedures contained in Section 22 of the Agreement. The parties recognize that, even when the Nurse Manager agrees to post a reduced commitment position, the Nurse who obtains the position may not be the Nurse whose request prompted the posting of the reduced commitment position. 23.2 Vacant part time positions that the Employer decides in its discretion to …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -40- The three hundred fifty (350) hours worked must include meeting the appropriate holiday and weekend commitments as specified above. An eligible Relief Nurse may request up to a total of 8 weeks off (“off-call”) with a limit of 4 weeks during the period from June 1-September 30 and 1 week during the period of November 15 to January 15. “Off-call” will be considered only applicable to requested periods comprising at least seven (7) consecutive days and when the Nurse’s commitment is not met in that pay period. “C” Relief Nurses on an “off-call” period of four weeks or more will be ineligible for Employer-paid benefits during the “off-call” period, but may pay the required premium if they wish to maintain continuous group coverage for themselves, their spouse and dependents. The “off call” period is defined yearly from January 1, to December 31. Fa …