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Bulletin Board With INMO director of industrial relations Tony Fitzpatrick
Reply Under the revised provisions for the CIP you can now continue to access the limits of the protocol within 12 months of your return to work even when you are not critically ill, provided that: • You previously had been absent because of a critical illness/injury • You are now absent from a non-critical illness/injury within the 12 months of your return to work. The original ‘protective year’ provided that an employee could avail of the limits of the CIP within 12 months of the first date of absence so this revised protective year will enhance the sup- port to those who return to work following a serious illness/ injury who may then suffer from a routine illness/injury in the following year. Query frommember I am working in the public health service and was out sick under the Critical Illness Protocol (CIP) scheme for six months. Since my return to work I have been out sick with a non-critical illness and was advised that I have no paid sick leave remaining because I had previously been absent under the CIP. Is this correct?
Reply Your entitlement to public holidays is set out in the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. To be entitled to the public holiday if you are part-time or job shar- ing you must have worked at least 40 hours in the five weeks before the public holiday. Job-sharing nurses/ midwives who work Monday to Friday and who are not scheduled to work on the day on which the public holiday falls, are entitled to one-tenth of their normal fortnightly pay for the public holiday. aware that I am not benefiting from any of the public holidays that fall when I am not scheduled to work. Prior to this I had been working full time and so was receiving my public holidays. The service is usually closed on the day of the public holiday and if I work that day, I get a paid day off. Query frommember I am currently working as a community RGN job sharing with another colleague. I have become
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