Employee Benefits Leave and Holidays Maternity Leave Policy Number: C.E.S.P. 7-13 Date Revised: 4-14-2005 Supersedes: 4-20-2001

Summary:   Establishes policies and procedures concerning granting of maternity leave to mothers.

Maternity leave for mothers will be treated as any other leave for sickness or disability, except that an employee who is not able to work because of pregnancy may elect to take leave of absence without pay without exhausting accumulated sick leave and annual leave. Upon return from maternity leave, the employee will be given the same or comparable position to the one she occupied prior to the leave.

The employee is expected to give her supervisor at least two weeks written notice by completing E.B.E.N. - 107, Application for Maternity Leave. The employee should  also give two weeks notice before returning to work.

The Payroll Department will return the form to the employee indicating the amount of leave available and how it will be applied.

Forms

E.B.E.N. - 107: Application for Maternity Leave

E.B.E.N. - 230: Certification of Physician or Practitioner (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993)

E.B.E.N. - 231: Request for consideration under the Family and Medical Leave Act (F.M.L.A.)

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