A publication of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association
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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 58 of 217 the employee will be released. b. Requests for excused absence to attend this conference shall be submitted to the Agency by the Union at the national level at least forty - five (45) days prior to the conference. c. The Agency will not pay travel, per diem, tuition, or other related costs. Section 8. An employee must be granted funeral leave as needed and requested not to exce ed three (3) workdays to make arrangements for, or to attend the funeral or memorial service of a family member who died as the result of a wound, disease, or injury incurred while serving as a member of the armed forces in a combat zone. All permanent ful l - time or part - time, temporary for a year or more, and indefinite employees are eligible for funeral leave. For the purpose of this Section, family member is defined as: spouse, and parents thereof; children, including adopted children, and spouses thereo f; parents; brothers and sisters, and spouses thereof; and any individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with the deceased was such as to have been the equivalent of a family relationship. Funeral leave is granted without loss of or reduction in pay, or leave to which the employee is otherwise entitled, or credit for time in service. Funeral leave is granted only from a regularly scheduled tour of duty, including regularly scheduled overtime. Section 9. The Parties recognize that the U.S. is a global aviation leader in terms of innovation, complexity, efficiency and safety. Through partnerships, associations, and collaborative efforts, the Parties are working with the rest of the world towards the goal of achieving the highest standar ds of safety and efficiency globally. Once annually the Union may provide the name(s) of up to two (2) employees that are designated as members of standing committees of the International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Association (IFATCA). Each de signated IFATCA participant shall be granted up to one hundred twenty (120) hours of excused absence annually, provided the Union gives forty - five (45) days advance notice of the scheduled meeting(s). Additionally, the Union may provide the name of the in dividual that is designated as the IFATCA representative on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Air Navigation Committee. Upon request, this individual shall be granted up to sixteen (16) weeks of excused absence annually. Requests for exc used absences shall be made at least twenty - eight (28) days in advance. This representative will provide periodic updates to a designated Agency point - of - contact, if requested. Section 10. Employees returning from active military service in connection wit h the Global War on Terror (Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, or any other military operations subsequently established under Executive Order 13223) are granted five (5) workdays of excused absence before they retu rn to work, without charge to leave, upon notification to their employing agency of their intent to return to Federal civilian employment. All employees who were activated for any such military service are eligible for this leave provided that: a. the employ ee has served at least forty - two (42) consecutive days of active military service. Multiple periods of active duty service less than forty - two (42) days cannot be combined or accumulated to meet this requirement;