Short-Term Disability
Leave for Illness
Article XIII.C.1

a. Full-time members of the bargaining unit who are on the payroll shall receive full compensation (one ninth of the academic year compensation per month for nine-month employees) for periods of disability of up to one month plus an additional number of months equal to the number of years of service completed, the total of such benefits shall not exceed in any twelve-month period: 44 working days after one year of employment but no more than two years of employment; 66 working days after two years of employment but no more than three years of employment, 88 working days after three years of employment but no more than four years of employment, 110 working days after four years of employment but no more than five years of employment, and 132 working days after five years of employment. Persons who enter the bargaining unit after July 31, 1986, who have an accumulated sick bank acquired under an accrual system at Wayne State University will have the number of days in their old sick bank added to the 22 short-term disability days to which they are entitled as members of the bargaining unit—the total not to exceed 132 days. The former sick bank will be canceled. 

     Short-term disability benefits shall accrue to fractional-time members in proportion to the fraction of time worked. Nine-month bargaining-unit members on the summer payroll who become disabled during the summer will begin receiving short-term disability compensation at the time the disability occurs. The disability compensation will be at the summer rate and will not extend beyond the period of the summer appointment. If the bargaining-unit member is still disabled at the beginning of the Fall Term s/he may continue on short-term disability in the normal manner. Bargaining-unit members shall be responsible for promptly notifying their department chair, dean, or immediate supervisor of each day of illness absence. 

b.  Any member of the bargaining unit, as defined in l.a, must provide, when requested by his/her direct supervisor, a release-to-return-to-work form from his/her attending physician if surgery has been performed, or if s/he has been absent for five consecutive business days. The University may require additional medical reports by the bargaining-unit member's physician to be filed periodically, regardless of the number of consecutive days of absence, and the bargaining-unit member may be required to take periodic medical examinations given by (or authorized by) the Employee Health Services of the University Health Center or by a physician mutually agreeable to the University and the member. 

c.  Any member of the bargaining unit who has undergone surgery, who has been hospitalized, or who, because of illness, has been absent over a period of fourteen consecutive calendar days may be required to take and pass a medical examination given by (or authorized by) the Employee Health Services of the University Health Center before s/he may return to work. 

d.  Any member of the bargaining unit, as defined in 1.a, who has five or more years of continuous full-time service in the bargaining unit and who has exhausted his/her short-term disability bank and vacation days and for whom there is a likelihood for eligibility for long-term disability insurance benefits, shall be maintained on the University payroll at one-half compensation for the remainder of the six-month short-term disability period. 

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