A. Full-time employees that have been employed with the City for at least six months of service and are not eligible for FMLA shall be entitled to take personal leave up to a maximum of six months and shall have the right to return to the same or an equivalent position. When possible, the request for personal leave should be submitted to the Human Resources Department and certification from a attending physician must be provided to support and substantiate the need for the requested leave.
B. Personal leave shall be granted if related to a serious health condition as defined under FMLA (illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves one of the following):
(1) Hospital care. Inpatient care.
(2) Absence plus treatment. A period of incapacity for more than three consecutive calendar days.
(3) Pregnancy or childbirth. Any period of incapacity due to pregnancy, or for prenatal care
(4) Chronic serious health condition. Any period of incapacity or treatment for such incapacity due to a serious health condition.
(5) Permanent/long-term conditions requiring supervision. A period of incapacity that is permanent or long-term due to a contention for which treatment may not be effective.
(6) Multiple treatments. Any period of absence to receive multiple treatments (including any period of recovery therefrom).
C. Accrued pension and seniority rights as outlined in the employee handbook, shall remain in place.
D. While personal leave is an unpaid leave (as is FMLA), an employee is entitled to use accrued sick leave as well as accrued vacation leave for the period that he/she is unable to work as certified by a physician. Upon the exhaustion of all accrued paid leave, the balance of the personal leave period will be considered as leave without pay.
E. Said provisions shall be consistent with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act of 1969, P.L. 133. No. 56, 43 P.S. § 951 et seq., and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1963.
15. Editor's Note: Amended during codification (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Part 2).