RESTAURANT TEAM MEMBER HANDBOOK - EthicsPoint

disability or prenatal care (pregnancy disability leave); or to care for a sick
child who does not have a serious health condition, but requires home
care when no other family member is willing or able to provide care (sick
child leave).
OFLA allows parents who have taken a full 12 weeks of parental leave to
take up to an additional 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a sick child
requiring home care. Up to an additional 12 weeks of unpaid leave is also
available to women for an illness, injury or condition related to pregnancy or
childbirth. Eligible team members may take up to 14 regular working days
of unpaid leave for a spouse or registered same sex domestic partner’s
deployment to, or leave from, active duty in the Armed Forces,
National Guard or Reserves during periods of military conflict (deployment
leave). Team members must be allowed to use any available accrued
vacation or sick time during any OFLA leave. Time taken for purposes of a
workers’ compensation injury will not be considered as OFLA leave if the
injury qualifies as a serious health condition under OFLA.
To be eligible to take leave to care for a newborn or newly adopted or placed
child, team members must be employed for at least 180 days. To be eligible
for deployment leave, the team members must have worked at least 180 days
and at least an average of 20 hours per week preceding the leave. For all
other types of OFLA leave, team members must have worked at least 180
days and at least an average of 25 hours per week preceding the leave.
Team members must provide their General Manager with 30 days written
notice of a request for leave, unless it is an emergency. Upon return from an
approved leave, BJ’s will return the team member to his or her former job or
place the team member in an equivalent job if the former position no longer
exists.
Domestic Violence and Other Crime Victim Leave
BJ’s provides reasonable accommodations to domestic violence victims,
including a reasonable safety accommodation requested by a team member
who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. BJ’s will
not discriminate or retaliate against an applicant or team member because
s/he is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Team
members, who have worked an average of 25 hours per week for at least 180
days immediately prior to the leave and who are victims of
domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, or whose children are victims
of such crimes, may take reasonable unpaid time off from work to get legal
help, medical treatment, or counseling, to heal from their injuries, to move
to safety, or to obtain medical treatment or mental health counseling for their
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January 2012