Union News - December 2017
In the September 2016 issue of Union News an article was featured regarding Leave With or Without Pay for other reasons. This is in respect to employees who were either unable to report to work or were late in reporting, usually as a result of inclement weather.
Article 53.01 provides for the opportunity to have employees paid for the hours of work missed in specific circumstances. To be clear these are not cases in which members will be required to take vacation or other forms of leave, but rather that a special leave code should be available as leave with pay for other reasons.
Unfortunately, many members are unaware of this collective agreement clause or at times have been dissuaded by the employer to access such leave.
There are certain criteria and obligations the employee must meet in order to be granted this leave. All of this information is contained in the article from the September 2016 issue of Union News, which can be found on our website at ute-sei.org under News and Events. We strongly suggest members refer to the article and seek the assistance of their local executive if they encounter circumstances where they were either late or could not attend work due to severe weather conditions and are being told by the employer they need to use vacation or personal leave.
For your information the article can be found on page 2 and continued on page 4 of the newsletter.
Note: in the newsletter article referenced above the reference is to Article 54.01. As a result of changes in the last collective agreement the article was renumbered to 53.01, however there are no changes to any of the wording.