Additional Sick Leave. The District shall provide additional sick leave for full-time teachers who have exhausted accumulated sick leave days prior to the commencement of long-term disability benefits. A teacher will become eligible for the additional sick leave days after the teacher has been continually disabled and unable to teach for 25 consecutive days as certified by a medical doctor. If the 25 consecutive days are not met due to a District-approved break in the school year, the days on break will count toward the 25 consecutive days, exclusive of any weekends and legal holidays. A teacher will be granted additional days of sick leave up to the number necessary to permit disability income benefits to become effective. Additional sick leave payments shall be retroactive to the day that regular sick leave payments expire and shall continue only for a period during which the teacher remains continuously disabled and unable to work or the date the long-term disability benefits become effective, whichever comes first. Additional sick leave benefits shall cease in any event after the sixty-fifth (65) duty day of absence.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
