2015 GNYADA Employee Handbook

Nursing Mothers

A nursing mother may take reasonable unpaid break time or paid break or meal time to express

breast milk in the workplace for up to three years after the birth of a child. Nursing mothers are

provided leave of 20/30 minutes of paid/unpaid leave every three hours to express breast milk.

In certain situations, GNYADA may determine that appropriate employee coverage is

unavailable, in which case GNYADA may require the employee to delay her leave for a period

of up to 30 minutes until coverage is available. GNYADA will make reasonable efforts to

provide a private area or room that the employee can use for this purpose. An employee

wishing to take this leave must provide GNYADA with advance notice.

Voting Leave

Employees may be entitled to two hours of paid time to vote in any election, if the employee

does not have sufficient time outside of work hours to do so. The law defines “sufficient time”

as four consecutive hours either between the opening of the polls and the beginning of the

employee’s work shift or between the end of the employees work shift and the closing of the

polls. Employees must notify his or her manager of the need to take time to vote, not more

than 10 days from the election nor less than 2 days before the election. Time off for voting is

only allowed at the beginning or end of a work shift, as designated by GNYADA.

Bereavement Leave

In the event of a death in the family (spouse, same-sex committed partner, parent, brother, sister, child, niece, nephew, grandparent, grandchild, parent-in-law, step-parent, step-child) GNYADA provides up to 3 days of consecutive work days off with pay to full-time employees.

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