ARTICLE 6 - LEAVES OF ABSENCE

Section 1.      Sick Leave.

(a)      Earning of Sick Leave: Full-time, non-probationary employees shall earn
sick leave on a pro-rata monthly basis (for each month during which they receive compensation
for one-half (½) their normal working days) at the following annual rates:

(b)      Use of Earned Sick Leave:

(i)      Employees who have forty (40) days accumulated as of October 1
of each contract year can use accumulated sick days for the
purposes set forth in Article 6(1)(d) below, without the limitation
set forth in Article 6(1)(b)(ii) below.

(ii)      Employees who have less than forty (40) days accumulated as of
October 1 of each contract year can use ten (10) days on an
intermittent basis for the purposes set forth in Article 6(1)(d)
below.

(iii)      Any days banked (beyond those which may be used on an
intermittent basis in accordance with Article 6(1)(b)(ii)) can be
used only: (A) for hospitalization; or (B) in connection with
absences exceeding ten (10) consecutive workdays, beginning on
the eleventh (11th) day of absence.

(c)      Probationary employees do not earn sick leave during their probationary
period, but will be credited with pro-rata sick leave upon successful completion of their
probationary period and transfer to non-probationary status.

(d)      Sick leave shall be used only for illness of the employee, except that up to
the following number of days per contract year (which time may be extended at the discretion of
the President) may be used for the following purposes (provided the employee has not used all of
the sick days which he or she may use on an intermittent basis in accordance with Article
6(1)(b)(ii) above): (i) to care for a sick member of the employee's immediate family, or (ii) to
attend the funeral of specified family members as permitted under Article 6(11) below:

"Immediate family" for the purposes of use of sick leave to care for a sick
family member is defined to include the employee's spouse, spouse equivalent, mother, father,
son or daughter, a sibling for whose care the employee is solely responsible, and parents-in-law

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