UPI Employee Handbook
Extended Illness (EI) Time
Extended Illness (EI) time provides an employee paid-time benefits in the event of a serious illness. All regular full and part-time employees are currently eligible for paid EI time. EI time accrual is based on all regular hours paid per month regardless of length of employment. This accrual equates to a maximum of seven (7) days per year.
In the event of extended illness, EI time may be used as follows:
- After an employee has been ill for longer than two (2) consecutive workdays*. The first two workdays are drawn from the PAL bank, and workdays thereafter may be drawn from accrued EI time. In the event an employee does not have accrued PAL time available, the first two workdays will be processed as time-off without pay.
- The EI bank may be drawn upon immediately if the employee is admitted to the hospital, requires medically necessary outpatient surgery (excluding elective or oral) or is on a medical leave of five (5) consecutive workdays or more. A health care provider must substantiate all medical leaves.
UPI reserves the right to require a “Certification of Health Care Provider” to substantiate all Extended Illness (EI) occurrences.
* A workday is defined as eight (8) scheduled work hours. Employees not working a traditional eight (8) hour workday will be eligible for EI after sixteen (16) consecutive scheduled work hours.