Step 4 Settlement Agreement: Article 19; Handbooks and Manuals (1984)

The grievance concerns whether local management may establish a practice whereby employees on restricted sick leave must not appear on the PDC quarterly listing for two consecutive quarters before they will be removed from the restricted sick leave list. We mutually agreed that the term “quarterly listings”, as used in 513.373, ELM, does not represent an unequivocal requirement than more than one quarterly listing must be reviewed in order to determine if there has been a
substantial decrease in absences charged to sickness warranting an employee’s removal from the restricted sick leave list.
Accordingly, this grievance is remanded to Step 3 for further processing as appropriate.