Your RightsYour union contract contains hundreds of provisions designed to protect your rights. Article 8.2 – Sick leave describes your right to be absent from work—with pay—for medical reasons.
Your SEIU Local 1000 contract guarantees:
- Paid sick leave when you are ill or injured.
- Paid time off to care for an ill or injured child, mother, father, husband, wife, domestic partner, brother, sister or person living in your home.
- Sick leave to attend medical appointments or to take a dependent to a medical appointment.
- Eight additional hours of sick-leave after working 11 or more days in a month.
- No discipline for appropriate use of sick leave.
- Sick leave can be accumulated without limit.
- Sick leave may be taken in 15 minute increments.