Common use of Central Sick Leave Bank Clause in Contracts

Central Sick Leave Bank. 1) The Central Sick Leave Bank (CSLB) shall be funded by teacher and BOARD contributions in the following manner: a) Effective at the commencement of each school year, all teachers shall contribute one (1) day of their current year’s leave allocation to the CSLB. b) When the total number of days in the CSLB drops below twenty five (25) for the first time during an academic year, teachers will be assessed one additional day each of sick leave. Teachers who have no remaining sick days (in their personal bank or from their regular annual allotment) will be charged one (1) day’s pay at their daily rate, or one (1) additional day from their thirteen (13) Paid Time Off days (PTO) for the next school year, at the teacher’s option. If the full amount of teachers’ first or second round contribution is not used during one school year, it will be carried over to following years until it is used up. c) The BOARD shall fund excess days required by the CSLB to the extent that the number of days contributed to the CSLB by teachers is insufficient for any year’s usage. 2) A teacher must be out of work due to sickness or injury for at least twenty (20) consecutive days. The twenty (20) days can come from the current year’s leave days, personal banked days or unpaid days before s/he is eligible to receive any days from the CSLB. It is understood that if a teacher returns to work during the same school year and is subsequently absent because of the same or a directly related sickness or injury, the days of absence shall be considered to have been consecutive if by the terms of the BOARD’S Long Term Disability (LTD) insurance policy such absences would be deemed to have been consecutive for purposes of qualifying for LTD insurance. Any subsequent related absences must be verified by a doctor and the BOARD may exercise its option under Article VII, Xxxxxxx 0, X, 0 d, below, of this provision. 3) A teacher shall make written application, on forms provided by the BOARD, to the Executive Director of Human Resources when requesting days from the CSLB. Such application must be submitted during the period the teacher is out of work; moreover, it is understood that days may not be drawn from the CSLB until the application and supporting information is received by the Executive Director of Human Resources and the requirements listed in Article VII, Section 3. G, 4, below have been met. The application shall include the following information. a) The date the teacher became disabled due to sickness or injury. b) The date the teacher would begin drawing days from the CSLB. c) A doctor’s statement detailing the extent of the disability and indicating the approximate time the teacher must refrain from working. If surgery is to be performed the doctor must include a statement that there is some immediate necessity that the surgery be performed at the present time. d) If the BOARD chooses, it may appoint a BOARD physician, at its own expense, to ascertain and verify the doctor’s statement in Article VII, Xxxxxxx 0, X 0 x, xxxxx. x) Xx is agreed that the medical report from the BOARD’s physician chosen from Article VII, Section 3, G 3 d, above, shall be final and binding on the parties. 4) Once the teacher has been absent for 20 consecutive days, and has exhausted his/her current leave days, and has met all of the above application requirements, s/he may begin drawing a day from the CSLB for each consecutive day s/he remains absent from work thereafter due to illness or injury. S/he may continue drawing days from the CSLB until such time as s/he qualifies for LTD insurance as set forth in Article VIII, Section 5, A.