hour of UNPAID sick time for every 30 hours of work performed by the employee within the. geographic boundaries of the City of Portland. âºAn employee may earn up to 40 hours of sick time per leave year unless allowed more by the. employer. âº An employee may use accrued sick time: ï· To cover all or part of a shift. ï· In increments of one hour, unless a lesser time is allowed by the employer or it is physically.
atmospheric pressure. noun, Meteorology. 1. the pressure exerted by the earth's atmosphere at any given point, being the product of the mass of the atmospheric column of the unit area above the given point and of the gravitational acceleration at the given point.
The pressure at any location on the Earth, caused by the weight of the column of air above it. At sea level, atmospheric pressure has an average value of one atmosphere and gradually decreases as altitude increases. Also called barometric pressure.