Additional Paid Sick Leave. 11.5.1 After exhaustion of paid sick leave, an employee who is ill, injured or disabled may, upon submission, use accumulated vacation leave to avoid leave without pay.
11.5.2 Per Ed Code 88196, regular classified employees shall be credited once a year with a total of not less than one hundred (100) working days of paid sick leave, including days to which he or she is entitled under Section 88191. These days of paid sick leave, in addition to those required by Section 88191, shall be compensated at not less than fifty percent (50%) of the employee’s regular salary. The paid sick leave authorized under such a rule shall be exclusive of any other paid leave, holidays, vacation, or compensating time to which the employee may be entitled.
11.5.3 When all applicable leaves of absence, paid or unpaid, have been exhausted, and if the employeeis not medically able to assume the duties of the employee's position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a re-employment list for a period of thirty-nine (39) months. When medically available during the thirty-nine
Additional Paid Sick Leave. 11.5.1 After exhaustion of paid sick leave, an employee who is ill, injured or disabled may, upon submission, use accumulated vacation leave to avoid leave without pay.
11.5.2 Per Ed Code 88196, regular classified employees shall be credited once a year with a total of not less than one hundred (100) working days of paid sick leave, including days to which he or she is entitled under Section 88191. These days of paid sick leave, in addition to those required by Section 88191, shall be compensated at not less than fifty percent (50%) of the employee’s regular salary. The paid sick leave authorized under such a rule shall be exclusive of any other paid leave, holidays, vacation, or compensating time to which the employee may be entitled.
11.5.3 When all applicable leaves of absence, paid or unpaid, have been exhausted, and if the unit member is not medically able to assume the duties of the unit member's position, the unit member shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a re-employment list for a period of thirty-nine (39) months. When medically available during the thirty- nine (39) month period, he/she shall be employed in a vacant position in the class of his/her previous assignment over all other available candidates except for a re- employment list established because of lack of work or lack of funds, in which cases, he/she shall be listed in accordance with appropriate seniority regulations.
Additional Paid Sick Leave. The District and CSEA recognize the importance of employees staying home when they have symptoms of COVID-19 in order to protect other employees and the community at large. The District shall provide each unit member with an additional ten (10) days of paid sick leave to be utilized if the employee is experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 and seeks a medical diagnosis from a physician or a COVID-19 test within the first 24 hours of their absence.
i. This additional paid sick leave shall be used when an employee is not permitted to work by a Supervisor or other District Administrator due to safety-screening (e.g. high temperature or positive report of key symptom) or perceived COVID- 19 symptoms during the employee’s workday so long as the unit member seeks a medical diagnosis from a physician or a COVID-19 test within the first 24 hours of their absence. Upon return from absence, the unit member shall provide a statement from an attending physician or proof of COVID-19 test. Unit member is not required to provide the results of COVID-19 test but is encouraged to inform Human Resources of positive results to assist with the contact tracing of infected individuals and to limit community spread.
ii. This additional paid sick leave shall be deducted prior to any Emergency Paid Sick Leave available under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”). After the exhaustion of the additional paid sick leave and Emergency Paid Sick Leave, other personal accrued sick leave will be utilized and upon its exhaustion, Extended Sick Leave. This additional paid sick leave is subject to the same effective date restrictions as leaves provided under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) and as such, must be used by December 31, 2020. Any unused time will not carry over into 2021. Extensions to the FFCRA will be automatically granted to this additional paid sick leave. Employees are not entitled to reimbursement for any unused additional paid sick leave upon termination, resignation, retirement, or other separation from employment.
