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exam protocols have been established for each position or
job group, where necessary, to ensure the health of staff and provided the employee is able to present proof of illness
animals. Some physical exams may be required to satisfy
legal requirements from agencies such as OSHA, USDA,
CDC, DOT, and IDOT.
Newly hired employees or employees transferred into
certain occupations are required to pass a post offer phys-
ical exam, including any required testing, vaccinations, or
inoculations, before they may start work. This exam ensures
that employees are able to handle the physical demands of
the job, to determine the presence of any pre-existing condi- ary 1. Nonunion employees are allotted four personal days
tions, to provide a baseline of information, and to protect
the employee from illness.
Under the Employee Occupational Health Program,
the Society may require any employee to take and pass a
physical examination to determine the employee’s fitness for
duty. Such physicals include post offer physicals; preplace-
ment, return-to-work, or fitness-for-duty physicals; health
surveillance physicals; second opinion physicals; and all
physicals that may be legally required.
Holidays The Society provides all regular, full-time
nonunion employees with eight (8) paid holidays each
calendar year. These holidays are New Year’s Day, Memori-
al Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day,
the day after Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and the
employee’s birthday.
The Society provides all full-time union employees with
(ten) 10 paid holidays each calendar year. These holidays
are New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Presi-
dents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day,
Veterans’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and the
employee’s birthday.
To be eligible for holiday pay, you must work your last
scheduled work day before the holiday and your first sched-
uled work day following the holiday. Employees may be
required to work on scheduled holidays, and any employee
scheduled to work a holiday must work in order to receive
holiday pay, in addition to other eligibility requirements.
Employees may request to float a holiday to another date
after the observed holiday. You must request and obtain
advance approval from your manager to float a holiday. If
approved, the same eligibility requirements apply to the
“floated” holiday as would otherwise have applied to the
original holiday. Floated holidays must be used no later
than December 15 of each year, or the floated
holiday will be paid for hourly staff. If a
full-time employee is sick on any holiday
the employee is scheduled to work,
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the employee will be paid for a sick day instead of a holiday
satisfactory to the Society if requested. Please refer to the
Holiday Pay Policy No. 2002 for additional information
and requirements.
Personal Time Full-time employees receive a certain
number of personal days each calendar year. Union em-
ployees are allotted two personal days per year each Janu-
each calendar year on January 1. Personal time for newly
hired employees is prorated for the first year of employ-
ment based on the employee’s hire date. Employees with 20
or more years of service receive an additional personal day
each year.
Except in emergency or unusual circumstances, personal
time is to be scheduled with the management supervisor as
far in advance as possible, the same as vacation time. Gen-
erally, personal time is not to be used to extend vacations
or holidays. Personal time cannot be carried over from
one year to the next and is payable upon separation from
employment. If the time is not used in the calendar year,
it is lost. Employees who voluntary terminate employment
with the Society may not use personal days to extend their
last day of employment.
Sick Time An important element of the Society’s
benefits program is the sick time benefit. Sick time protects
employees in the event of illness. Sick time may be used
for those periods when the long-or short-term disability
insurance does not apply or during any required waiting
periods for other benefits that apply due to accident or
illness. Sick time is accrued starting with the first day of
full-time employment. All full-time employees earn sick
time at the rate of 10 days per year, which is earned on a
pro-rata basis each pay period. Sick time may be used only