Women without someone to watch their children would be excused from work without penalty.
He saw a colleague plunge to his death, and others deliberately injured themselves to be excused from work.
When the work load does not prohibit their absence, authorized officials should be excused from work for these purposes (paid or unpaid as described below).
If a Steward or other official is excused from work for any reason other than those discussed above, the absence should be treated as a leave without pay.
The employees involved in these essential services are excused from work only with the specific authorization of their supervisors, regardless of MIT Alert, webpages, radio, or other announcements.
Reviewing Authority: Accused had orders from his commanding officer that only a certain percentage of the prisoners could be excused from work; but, he only sent slightly ill prisoners to work.
The amendment, part of the victims' bill of rights that Mr. Gore proposed today, would allow victims to leave work to attend legal proceedings, much the way jurors are excused from work.
Grievance investigation is a legitimate function for which the Steward should be excused from work, subject to the needs of the supervisor, to insure that the total time spent on this activity is not excessive and that the work of the Steward and other employees in the work group is not unduly impaired.
The question of whether a Steward or other union official should be excused from work to engage in union activities cannot be answered fully in a brief statement of policy, since the answer may depend upon the nature of the activity, the union official's responsibilities in that connection, the demands of the work, and other factors.
He also said his proposed amendment, which is considered dead for the year, did not guarantee the right of an employee to attend a trial, that is, to be excused from work, but did guarantee that a victim could not be excluded from a trial.
