3.9.2 Holidays During Vacation or Paid Time Off
If a Company observed holiday occurs during a scheduled vacation or paid time off and employees are otherwise eligible for holiday pay, such employees will be paid for the holiday rather than a vacation day and will be expected to return to work on the date originally authorized by their Supervisor.
3.9.3 Absence Due to Illnesses and Injuries or Personal Reasons
The Company does not provide a separate paid sick leave to employees. Accordingly, employees are to use their available PTO benefits when they take time off from work because of absences due to a verifiable illness, injury or doctor/dental appointments for themselves as well as for other absences such as personal appointments, school or daycare activities, family matters, or other personal reasons. Medical, dental and other personal appointments should be scheduled around your assigned work schedule. Employees may use up to one-half of their yearly PTO accruals to care for an illness of an employee’s child, parent, spouse, domestic partner, or domestic partner’s child (e.g., an employee who accrues 13 PTO days a year may use up to 6.5 PTO days/52 hours for “kin care” for the year), unless otherwise determined or approved by management that an employee may use any additional unused PTO for kin care purposes. Employees will not be paid for time off from work due to personal reasons, except when they use their available PTO benefits that has been approved for an excused absence.
Employees are to notify their Supervisor at least 48 hours in advance of any sick or personal time off day(s) to be taken in order for it to be approved. For an emergency situation that is unforeseeable, employees are to notify their Supervisor of an intended absence as soon as possible before their scheduled workday begins. Your Supervisor must also approve and sign a request form for PTO pay for any unplanned days off. Unless prior approval has been granted in writing or a verified absence of an employee has been excused from working a scheduled workday, you will not be eligible for PTO pay.
Employees who are absent for three (3) or more consecutive days due to illness or injury are required to submit a physician’s statement or other written verification to substantiate the absence. Further, the Company may require proof of illness, injury and/or a doctor or dental appointment in connection with any medically related absence of a shorter duration, including any absence taken on a day immediately prior to or immediately after a holiday or weekend, in order to verify the absence or to be compensated under this policy. The Company may also require employees to provide a doctor’s written verification that it was necessary to care for their sick or injured parent, spouse, child, domestic partner, or domestic partner’s child for the entire period of absence from work.