Common use of Access to and Operation of the Sick Leave Pool Clause in Contracts

Access to and Operation of the Sick Leave Pool. 1. Teachers who have enrolled shall have membership limited to up to thirty (30) days of access during their probationary period. Teachers who have enrolled shall be granted full membership upon successful completion of probation. The use of Sick Leave Pool days during the probationary period shall deduct such number of days from their life-time total allowance. 2. Teachers are not eligible to use accumulated Sick Leave Pool days until five (5) consecutive duty days after the depletion of their individual accumulated sick leave in each instance. If however, the illness is of a recurring nature, the five (5) day waiting period may be waived. A recurring illness is one which recurs within six (6) months. 3. Sick Leave Pool days shall be used only for personal illness of teachers. 4. To access the Sick Leave Pool, the teacher shall complete an application. An attending physician’s statement must be completed by the teacher's attending physician (licensed psychiatrist if applying for mental/nervous conditions) verifying that the teacher is/was unable to work. The application and attending physician’s statement shall be submitted to the Third Party Administrator within thirty (30) days of the teacher exhausting her/his sick leave. All claims and claims procedures will be administered by the claims administrator hired by the District. 5. Sick leave days from the Sick Leave Pool may be drawn for only those weeks of the school year that the teaching contract is in force. 6. Teachers on personal and study leaves of absence are not eligible for benefits from the Sick Leave Pool.

Access to and Operation of the Sick Leave Pool. 1. Teachers who have enrolled shall have membership limited to up to thirty (30) days of access during their probationary period. Teachers who have enrolled shall be granted full membership upon successful completion of probation. The use of Sick Leave Pool days during the probationary period shall deduct such number of days from their life-time life-­time total allowance. 2. Teachers are not eligible to use accumulated Sick Leave Pool days until five (5) consecutive duty days after the depletion of their individual accumulated sick leave in each instance. If however, the illness is of a recurring nature, the five (5) day waiting period may be waived. A recurring illness is one which recurs within six (6) months. 3. Sick Leave Pool days shall be used only for personal illness of teachers. 4. To access the Sick Leave Pool, the teacher shall complete an application. An attending physician’s 's statement must be completed by the teacher's attending physician (licensed psychiatrist if applying for mental/nervous conditions) verifying that the teacher is/was unable to work. The application and attending physician’s 's statement shall be submitted to the Third Party Administrator within thirty (30) days of the teacher exhausting her/his sick leave. All claims and claims procedures will be administered by the claims administrator hired by the District. 5. Sick leave days from the Sick Leave Pool may be drawn for only those weeks of the school year that the teaching contract is in force. 6. Teachers on personal and study leaves of absence are not eligible for benefits from the Sick Leave Pool.