Sick Leave — Lucile Packard Children's Hospital RNs

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -27- Account, may pre-elect to receive payment in lieu of paid time off for up to eighty (80) hours of PTO to be accrued in the following calendar year, which cash out payment will be made in November of the following calendar year. In order to receive such payment in lieu of paid time off, the Nurse must have the accrued but unused PTO necessary to cover the payment at the time the payment is to be made. If the Nurse does not have enough accrued but unused PTO at the time the payment is to be made, the Nurse will be paid for such portion of the elected amount as their accrued but unused PTO will cover, if any. Payments made in lieu of paid time off will be at the Nurse’s base wage rate and will not include shift differential. The Employer will notify the Nurse that the payment has been made. o. A Nurse changing their status from Regular to Relief wi …

9.1 Paid Time Off (PTO). 9.1.1 Purpose and Rate of Pay. Paid Time Off (PTO) allows individual flexibility in time off, subject to the Employer’s reserved right to determine scheduling and ensure the continuity of patient care. PTO compensates Regular Nurses at their hourly base wage rate of pay when they are absent from work for such purposes as vacation, illness, holidays, family emergencies, religious observances, preventive health and dental care, and other approved elective absences. A Regular Nurse permanently assigned to evenings or nights at the time of payment will receive a full shift differential. See Section 7.5.7. 9.1.2 Eligibility. All Regular Nurses (excludes Relief) who are categorized as regular or trial period, whether full-time or part-time, are eligible for PTO. 9.1.3 Accrual. a. PTO is accrued on the basis of paid hours, on a maximum of eighty (80) hours in a pay peri …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -28- 9.2.3 Accumulation of ESL. Effective the beginning of the pay period following ratification of this Agreement, Nurses will begin accumulating ESL hours for use in the case of extended illness or injury. Nurses will accumulate ESL at the rate of .0116 hours per hour worked (the equivalent of 24 hours per year for a full-time employee). ESL will be accumulated on the basis of productive hours worked, including overtime, on PTO and ESL hours taken, and for paid jury duty and paid bereavement leave hours, to a combined maximum of eighty (80) such hours in a biweekly pay period. There is no limit on the accumulation of ESL. 9.2.4 Use of ESL. ESL must be used for any absence for which its use is intended, until exhausted. ESL hours for a full day’s absence will be taken in the same manner as the Nurse is normally scheduled to work (e.g. in 8 hour incr …

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 -26- accrual will cease until the Nurse utilizes PTO hours and reduces the accrual to below five hundred twenty (520) hours. As an exception, if a Nurse who accrues a balance of four hundred eighty (480) hours of PTO has made three (3) or more attempts within a calendar year to schedule PTO in advance, in writing and in accordance with departmental procedures, including alternative date requests, and all of the Nurse’s requests for PTO within that same calendar year were denied, then upon the Nurse’s prompt request, he/she will be granted PTO in an amount equal to the greatest amount of PTO requested in any one of the previously denied requests, up to eighty (80) hours. The PTO will be granted within ninety (90) days, but at a time consistent with operational needs to the extent possible, and not during the period between December 10th and January 5t …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -25- d. PTO or an absent day may be offered to and accepted by a Regular Nurse if such Nurse is extra on their respective unit and cannot in the determination of the Employer be utilized elsewhere to meet a staffing need. e. In units where there is prolonged low census, those Regular Nurses who have depleted their PTO will be eligible, depending on operational needs, for up to two weeks of vacation annually without pay. CRONA and Nursing Administration will mutually agree on the definition of a period of prolonged low census. f. PTO shall be granted to Regular Nurses having Herpes who are assigned to specialty units (Delivery Room, Nurseries), and cannot be utilized in other areas of the Employer. g. Nurses not allowed to work because of on-the-job exposure to a communicable disease are entitled to be compensated under the terms of the workers’ compe …

LPCH/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -24- Accrual Rates for Full-Time 12-hour shift Nurse Years of Service Time Accrued Per Hour Worked Projected Annual Hours For Full-Time 12-Hr Employee Projected Annual Days For Full-Time 12-Hr Employee First year of employment .1000 187.2 15.6 2nd through 3rd year .1193 223.33 18.6 4th through 9th year .1385 259.27 21.6 10th & subsequent years .1500 280.80 23.4 9.1.4 Use of PTO. a. PTO may be used as soon as it is earned. PTO may not be used in advance and may not be used on regularly scheduled days off. All PTO hours will be taken in the same manner as the Nurse is normally scheduled to work: e.g., In 8 hour increments for 8 hour shifts, and in 12 hour increments for 12 hour shifts. b. PTO, as with all other time off such as absent time, must, except in unusual circumstances, be requested in writing in advance of the time off desired, and approved i …