M&P Sick Time
Paid sick days provide income protection when employees are ill, injured or caring for an ill family member (child, spouse, parent, parent-in law and same sex domestic partner). This time cannot be used for other purposes. If faced with an extended period of illness or injury, the employee may apply for an unpaid disability leave and/or the Long-Term Disability benefit (see Disability section).
Eligibility
Any regular employee scheduled to work 20 hours or more each week, who has completed three months of continuous employment, and who is required to be absent from work because of the employee's illness or injury, is eligible for sick time with pay; additionally, an employee may also use sick time to care for an ill family member (see the Extended Sick Time Policy). Paid sick days are computed at the normal base rate of pay. Paid sick days are computed at the normal base rate of pay.
Eligible part-time employees scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week are paid for sick days on a prorated basis.
Annual Allowance and Accumulation
The annual sick day allowance for eligible employees is 12 days and is an advance entitlement available for use at the beginning of the fiscal year. Any unused sick days in a fiscal year are also carried forward to the next fiscal year and succeeding fiscal years. The maximum accumulation of sick days is 204 days.
In the fiscal year of hire, new employees will be credited with sick time at the rate of one day for any month in which they have been employed 15 calendar days. Employees who exhaust their sick day allowance and need additional days may use vacation or personal days or apply for a disability leave of absence.
Part-year employees will be credited at the beginning of the fiscal year with one sick day for each month in which the employee is scheduled to work at least 15 days.
Reporting Absences Due to Illness
Employees are expected to report all absences due to illness or injury directly to their supervisors or department heads and should indicate probable length of absence so that schedule adjustments may be made.
Employees absent for prolonged periods should communicate with their supervisors weekly. Sick time can be used in increments of 1/2 day or full days only.
Medical Certification or Examination
Supervisors may require certification of illness from an employee's physician or a medical examination with another physician to verify the need for continued absence.
To be certain that an employee's health permits his or her safe return to work, the University may require medical certification or an examination by Yale University Health Services in appropriate cases.
