Sick Leave — Stanford Health Care RNs

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -28- documentation. If approved by the Director of Employee and Labor Relations, payment will be made to the Nurse. Employer decisions to approve or deny requests for cash outs shall be final and binding and not reviewable under the terms of this Agreement. p. A Nurse changing status from Regular to Relief will receive an immediate cash-out of all PTO hours accrued at their hourly base wage rate, in their PTO Account, and in their Cashout PTO Account, if applicable, (not including any applicable relief per diem). q. The Employer will make a good faith effort to grant each Nurse two (2) consecutive weeks of vacation per year, if requested, without requiring the Nurse to find coverage. 10.1.5 Holidays. The following holidays are built-in components of the PTO accrual rates: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, L …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -27- m. Cash Out PTO Account. Thirty (30) days prior to implementation of the Cash Out PTO Account, the Employer will distribute to Nurses a written explanation, written in a manner intended to be readily understandable, of the accrual cap and the Cash Out PTO Account how they will work, how to check PTO and Cash Out PTO balances, and where to call with questions. Any Nurse who, as of the one hundred twentieth (120th) day following ratification of this Agreement, has accrued but unused PTO in an amount in excess of two hundred sixty (260) hours, will have the accrued but unused PTO hours that exceed two hundred sixty (260) hours transferred into a Cash Out PTO Account. The hours so transferred shall thereafter be paid out to the Nurse annually, on the last payday of August, in an amount up to one hundred (100) hours until the Cash Out PTO Account has …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -51- 19.3.4 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 of medical disability resulting from pregnancy, delivery, or post-childbirth recovery. The Regular Nurse may take the leave without pay or use accrued PTO during any waiting period before ESL or state Disability becomes available, and may use PTO for any period after ESL is exhausted, or integrated with any State Disability income received, not to exceed the Regular Nurse’s normal pay. The leave may be as long as six (6) months when a verified disability exists. If the Nurse remains disabled following the end date of the leave the situation will be treated as …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -26- coverage shall not result in premium pay for the Nurse who has agreed to work the shift in question. g. 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. h. 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’ compensation policy provided by the Employer for the duration of the incubation period or until such time that the Employer determines is appropriate for protecting the health and safety of the Nurse, coworkers- workers, and patients. Accrued PTO may be used during the waiting period for workers’ compensation until the Regular Nurse becomes eligible for ESL, and may be used to supplement any such workers’ compensation payments to equal the Nurs …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -29- hours, to a combined maximum of eighty (80) such hours in a biweekly pay period. There is no limit on the accumulation of ESL. 10.2.4 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 increments for 8 hour shifts, in 12 hour increments for 12 hour shifts, etc.) and will include applicable shift differential. a. A Nurse changing status from Regular to Relief status will lose all accumulated but unused ESL. b. Accumulated but unused ESL is not paid out upon a Nurse’s termination of employment. 10.2.5 Integration of ESL. In cases where a Nurse is receiving disability benefit payments, ESL will be integrated (e.g., SDI Workers’ Compensation, or Supplemental Short Term Disability). T …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -53- 19.10 Subject to the terms and conditions established by the Employer’s insurance plans, Regular Nurses on authorized Medical leave of absence or on State and Federal Family and Medical leaves of absence and who have Employer-paid premiums under the Employer’s Group Medical, Dental, and Basic Life Insurance, described in Section 9, will continue to have such group coverage premiums paid by the Employer if they continue to pay employee contributions. Regular Nurses on any other authorized leave do not receive Employer contributions but may pay the entire required premium for continuous group coverage for themselves, their spouse/domestic partner and dependents. The Regular Nurse may arrange for continued coverage by making monthly premium payments through the Benefits Office, subject to the terms and conditions established by the Employer’s insura …

SHC/CRONA CBA • 4/1/2025 – 3/31/2028 -52- 19.5 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 (180) days unless a personal leave of absence extension of up to six (6) months is granted at the sole discretion of the Regular Nurse’s supervisor with the approval of the Vice President of Patient Care. Regular Nurses with fifteen (15) years or more of service shall be granted an additional thirty (30) days of medical leave if the Nurse’s evaluations have been satisfactory and there are no corrective actions in the Nurse’s personnel file. 19.6 Reinstatement Rights. 19.6.1 In the case of State and Federal Family and Medical leaves of absence, Medical, pre …

10.1 Paid Time Off (PTO). 10.1.1 Purpose and Rate of Pay . Paid Time Off (PTO) allows more flexibility and individual management of 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 excused elective absences. A Regular Nurse permanently assigned to evenings or nights at the time of payment will receive a differential of ten percent (10%) or eighteen percent (18%), respectively, based upon the hourly base wage rate. Permanent assignment