Appropriate Form Required:
The appropriate NPD Form shall be completed for all usage of bereavement leave.
Immediate Family Defined:
The immediate family includes your spouse and the following relatives of you or your
spouse: Children, Stepchildren, Brother, Stepbrother, Sister. Stepsister, Parents,
Stepparents, Grandparents, Step-Grandparents, Grandchildren, Mother-in-Law, Father-in-
Law, Brother-in-Law, Sister-in-Law, Daughter-in-Law. Son-in-Law, or Ward/Relative
living in the home.
Domestic Partner:
The immediate family may also include an employee's domestic partner; however.
Management reserves the right to determine the circumstances under which a "domestic
partner” qualifies under this Article.
Disputes:
Disputes concerning Bereavement Leave shall be subject to the Grievance Procedure
through STEP 2 at which point the decision shall be final and binding upon the parties.
ARTICLE 19
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
Military Leave of Absence:
If a regular full-time employee or Detention Specialist must leave city employment to
enter directly into active service in the armed forces of the United States involuntarily. he
shall be granted a military leave of absence for the anticipated length of such service.
The employee will be allowed seniority credit for the time spent in the armed forces.
The employee is entitled to reinstatement to the position he held or one of like status and
pay if a vacancy is open within the city, provided that the employee accepts release from
active service at the earliest possible date and request reinstatement within ninety (90)
days after release.
If a regular full-time employee is called to serve not more than a seventeen-day annual
training tour of duty with the National Guard or Armed Forces Reserve, he shall be patd
the difference between his pay for such government service and the amount of straight
time earnings lost by him by reason of such service, if any, based on the employee's
regularly scheduled straight time rate. Such payments shall be made following the
showing of satisfactory evidence of the amount of pay received for such service. The
