Effective January 1, 2024 the City of Chicago Sick Leave Policy Addendum will end. This is ONLY the Sick Leave Policy Addendum. The COVID-19 Vaccination Policy will remain in effect and unchanged.
In short what this means is that employees will no longer be paid if they contract COVID and will have to use their own benefit time to cover any absence due to COVID.
This is just the latest gamesmanship the City has played to try and weaken the position of the Union to our members. We have been fighting the implementation of the COVID policy since it’s inception and have two decisions from the ILRB confirming that the City was wrong and it must rescind the policy, yet they continue to appeal these decisions. We will remain diligent and continue to battle them in the courts until a fair and just decision is achieved for our members. But for now keep in mind that you will no longer be paid for a COVID a related absence, the same as any other illness, such as the flu, etc., and you must use your own benefit time to cover those absences.