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With cold and flu season here, please ensure you are recording your time away in myAvanti appropriately. CUE continues to provide salary continuance for COVID-19 time away from work, as described below.

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Covid information for Albertans: https://www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-info-for-albertans.aspx

Influenza – the Flu information for Albertans: https://www.alberta.ca/influenza-the-flu.aspx

For Faculty and Academic Service Officers

For medical appointments and medical leave due to non COVID-19 illness, please record time away in myAvanti as Medical Leave.

For illness that is non COVID-19 related, please record time away in myAvanti as Medical Leave.

When you have been advised by a health care provider to self-isolate or are aware you have been exposed to COVID-19:

• Faculty and Academic Service Officers are to contact their supervisor via email or phone call, advising of the absence and estimated return to work date. Do Not Attend Campus.
• Faculty and Academic Service Officers will continue to receive regular pay during the self-isolation period
• Faculty and Academic Service Officers are not required to provide a medical certificate for the absence
• Faculty and Academic Service Officers will not be requested to record time as medical leave taken, so the time will not be charged against annual medical leave entitlements
• Faculty and Academic Service Officers will be required to record the self-isolation absence in myAvanti as COVID Paid Leave code

If you have tested positive for COVID-19:

• Faculty and Academic Service Officers are to contact their supervisor advising of the absence and estimated return to work date. Do Not Attend Campus.
• Faculty and Academic Service Officers will participate in the short-term disability process. Human Resources will assist with this process.
• Faculty will continue to receive their regular salary paid by CUE
• Academic Service Officers will receive salary through short-term disability provider Equitable Life at 66% of regular salary. CUE will top-up to 100% of salary for the first four weeks of short-term disability related to the COVID-19 illness.
• Faculty and Academic Service Officers will be required to record the COVID -19 absence in myAvanti as COVID Paid Leave code

For Staff 

For medical appointments due to non COVID-19 absences, please record time away in myAvanti as Personal and Family Responsibility Leave.

For illness that is non COVID-19 related, please record time away in myAvanti as Medical Leave.

For medical appointments related to COVID-19, please record time away in myAvanti as COVID Paid Leave.

When you have been advised by a health care provider to self-isolate or are aware you have been exposed to COVID-19:

• Staff are to contact their supervisor via email or phone call, advising of the absence and estimated return to work date. Do Not Attend Campus.
• Staff will continue to receive regular pay during self-isolation period
• Staff are not required to provide a medical certificate for the absence
• Staff will not be requested to record time as medical leave taken, so the time will not be charged against annual medical leave entitlements
• Staff will be required to record the self-isolation absence in myAvanti as COVID Paid Leave code

If you have tested positive for COVID-19:

• Staff are to contact their supervisor advising of the absence and estimated return to work date. Do Not Attend Campus.
• Permanent Staff will participate in the short-term disability process. Human Resources will assist with this process. Non-permanent Staff will continue to receive their regular salary and benefits as per their terms and conditions of employment.
• Permanent Staff will receive salary through short-term disability provider Equitable Life at 66% of regular salary. CUE will top-up to 100% of salary for the first four weeks of short-term disability related to the COVID-19 illness.
• Staff will be required to record the COVID -19 absence in myAvanti as COVID Paid Leave code

For Hourly Staff

When you have been advised by a health care provider to self-isolate, or are aware you have been exposed to COVID-19, or test positive for COVID-19:

• Hourly Staff who were scheduled to work will receive their pre-scheduled hours as pay. The supervisor must enter the hours for the Hourly Staff into my-Avanti in order for the Hourly Staff to be paid.
• Hourly Staff who were scheduled to work and cannot due to self-isolation will receive their pre-scheduled hours as pay. The supervisor must enter the hours for the Hourly Staff into myAvanti in order for the Hourly Staff to be paid.

Hourly staff, or their supervisor, will record pre-scheduled time that the hourly staff member is unable to work due to COVID-19 as COVID Paid Leave in myAvanti.

For Academic Colleagues (Sessional Instructors)

When you have been advised by a health care provider to self-isolate, or are aware you have been exposed to COVID-19, or have tested positive for COVID-19:

• The Academic Colleague is to contact their supervisor via email or phone call, advising of the absence and estimated return to work date. Stay in contact with your supervisor during this time. Do Not Attend Campus.
• Academic Colleagues will continue to receive regular pay during the COVID-19 self-isolation period.
• Academic Colleagues are not required to provide a medical certificate for the absence.