Absence Due to Personal Injury. Workers Compensation Whenever a Professional employee is temporarily absent from school due to a personal injury suffered on the job and is temporarily unable to perform the Professional Employee’s duties, and the injury is not the result of the Professional Employee’s own negligence, the Professional Employee may, at the Employee’s option, use current year and/or accumulated sick leave to supplement their income beyond the worker’s compensation payments or award made for temporary disability because of said injury, not to exceed the Professional Employee’s regular daily rate of pay.
Absence Due to Personal Injury. In the event a unit member is absent from work because of a personal injury caused in the discharge of his/her duties within the scope of his/her employment and receives Workers’ Compensation payments1 for such absences, such unit member will be paid in full for such loss of time equal to his/her sick leave accumulation not to exceed a period of six (6) school calendar months following such injury less the amount of any paid weekly disability award resulting from compensation, retirement, or social security. Such paid absence shall not be deducted from any sick leave to which such unit member is entitled under this agreement. Any Workers’ Compensation benefit shall be payable to the school district. The District shall reimburse a unit member for the reasonable cost of replacing or repairing dentures, eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, or similar body appurtenances not covered by Workers’ Compensation, which are damaged, destroyed or lost as a result of any injury sustained in the discharge of his/her duties within the scope of his/her employment. The District shall reimburse a unit member for the reasonable cost of any clothing or other personal property damaged or destroyed while the unit member was acting in the discharge of his/her duties within the scope of his/her employment.
