Common use of Daily Leave Clause in Contracts

Daily Leave. A. Each teacher shall be credited with a twelve (12) day leave allowance to be used for absences caused by illness or physical disability to the teacher, or for personal business. After having been on duty at least one (1) workday of the school year, each teacher having one (1) or more years of seniority shall be credited with his/her twelve (12) day leave allowance. Probationary teachers who have less than one (1) year of seniority shall be credited with six (6) leave days after having worked at least one (1) workday of the first semester and an additional six (6) days after having worked at least one (1) workday of the second semester. B. Each teacher will be able to establish a maximum accumulation of either ninety (90) days or the total number of workdays in a given school year or any number of days between (90) and the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year. C. Teachers will designate a maximum accumulation of ninety (90) days of leave or between (90) days and either one hundred eight-nine (189) days and the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year if higher than one hundred eighty-nine (189). If a teacher has not made a designation through the business office in writing, the teacher will be assumed to have selected the highest number of teacher workdays option. Designations will remain in effect from year to year unless the teacher provides notice to the business office by November 1 requesting a change. Teachers making a designation of over ninety (90) days who want to cash in the accumulated days in excess of ninety (90) days, will provide notice in writing to the business office by November 1 each year and will be paid for the days in excess of ninety (90) days at one-half of the current third-party substitute rate for each day or forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($42.50) per day, whichever is higher. Payment will be made on the first pay in December. D. Teachers who are above their designated maximum accumulation at the end of the school year under section C due to the credit of the twelve (12) days under section A for that year, will be paid for these excess accumulated leave days above the teacher’s designated maximum at the current third-party substitute rate or eighty-five dollars ($85.00) per day, whichever is higher. Excess accumulated leave is that number of days remaining over an accumulation maximum in a given year. The payment will be made on the last pay in June. E. Documentation regarding an absence of two (2) consecutive days may be required by the Board. F. The Board will allow the following leave days without charge against the teacher’s allocated leave allowance: 1. Teachers required to report for jury duty or as a result of a subpoena to appear in court (unless such subpoena is served by the Association or any of its attorneys or representatives) shall receive their regular rate minus any sums allocated from the court or as a fee for appearing. 2. Visitations to other schools, conferences and conventions approved by the Administration. 3. Time necessary to take selective service exams. 4. Absence with mumps, scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, scabies, lice, strep, or pink eye. 5. A maximum of three (3) days per occurrence for death in the immediate family. (Time may be extended for long distance upon request). 6. Immediate family shall include the teacher’s spouse, children, grandchildren, parents or xxxxxx parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, brothers, sisters, or any person for whose financial or physical care the teacher is principally responsible. 7. When a student (or parent/guardian of a student) passes away, one teacher representative shall be allowed to attend the funeral and shall not be charged a day to attend. G. A teacher planning to use a personal business day shall arrange with the teacher’s principal at least one (1) day in advance, stating reasons. 1. Requests for personal business days of one to two (1-2) days in length will require a written statement of “personal business” only. 2. Requests for personal business days of more than two (2) consecutive days in length will require specific reasons for consideration by the principal. 3. No personal business/leave days are to be used for the purpose of vacation. H. The District administration will develop a standard form for leave days that will be used in each building. I. Any teacher who has completed fifteen (15) or more years of service as defined by the seniority list and whose employment with the Board is severed due to death (paid to the employee’s estate) or retirement under the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement system, shall receive one (1) day’s pay at the current substitute rate for every two (2) days of accumulated leave. The payment under this section is understood by the parties to qualify as a nonelective employer contribution under the internal revenue code in order to exempt the payment form FICA contributions. As such and for as long as it qualifies, all payments will be made exclusively to an IRS qualified 403B plan of the teacher’s election that is available in the business office. In the event the internal revenue code limit for the tax year toward section 403B plans will be exceeded for a teacher by payment of the foregoing, that portion of the payment creating the excess will be delays until the first month of the next tax year.

Daily Leave. A. Each teacher shall be credited with a twelve (12) day leave allowance to be used for absences caused by illness or physical disability to the teacher, or for personal business. After having been on duty at least one (1) workday of the school year, each teacher having one (1) or more years of seniority shall be credited with his/her twelve (12) day leave allowance. Probationary teachers who have less than one (1) year of seniority shall be credited with six (6) leave days after having worked at least one (1) workday of the first semester and an additional six (6) days after having worked at least one (1) workday of the second semester. B. Each teacher will be able to establish a maximum accumulation of either ninety (90) days or the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year or any number of days between ninety (90) and the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year. C. Teachers will designate a maximum accumulation of ninety (90) days of leave or between ninety (90) days and either one hundred eighteighty-nine (189) days and the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year if higher than one hundred eighty-nine (189). If a teacher has not made a designation through the business office in writing, the teacher will be assumed to have selected the highest number of teacher workdays work days option. Designations will remain in effect from year to year unless the teacher provides notice to the business office by November 1 requesting a change. Teachers making a designation of over ninety (90) days who want to cash in the accumulated days in excess of ninety (90) days, will provide notice in writing to the business office by November 1 each year and will be paid for the days in excess of ninety (90) days at one-half of the current third-party substitute rate for each day or forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($42.50) 32.50 per day, whichever is higher. Payment will be made on the first pay in December. D. Teachers who are above their designated maximum accumulation at the end of the school year under section C due to the credit of the twelve (12) days under section A for that year, will be paid for these excess accumulated leave days above the teacher’s designated maximum at the current third-party substitute rate or eighty-five dollars ($85.00) 65.00 per day, whichever which ever is higher. Excess accumulated leave is that number of days remaining over an accumulation maximum in a given year. The payment will be made on the last pay in June. E. Documentation regarding an absence of two (2) consecutive days may be required by the Board. F. The Board will allow the following leave days without charge against the teacher’s 's allocated leave allowance: 1. Teachers required to report for jury duty or as a result of a subpoena to appear in court (unless such subpoena is served by the Association or any of its attorneys or representatives) shall receive their regular rate minus any sums allocated from the court or as a fee for appearing. 2. Visitations to other schools, conferences and conventions approved by the Administrationadministration. 3. Time necessary to take selective service exams. 4. Absence with mumps, scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, scabies, scabies or lice, strep, or pink eye. 5. A maximum of three (3) days per occurrence for death in the immediate family. (Time may be extended for long distance upon request.). 6. Immediate family shall include the teacher’s 's spouse, children, grandchildren, parents or xxxxxx parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, brothers, sisters, or any person for whose financial or physical care the teacher is principally responsible. 7. When a student (or parent/guardian of a student) passes away, one teacher representative shall be allowed to attend the funeral and shall not be charged a day to attend. G. A teacher planning to use a personal business day shall arrange with the teacher’s principal at least one (1) day in advance, stating reasons. Reasonable restrictions may be imposed on personal leaves immediately before and after a holiday or vacation period. 1. Requests for personal business days of one to two (1-2) 2 days in length will require a written statement of “personal business” only. 2. Requests for personal business days of more than two (2) consecutive days in length will require specific reasons for consideration by the principal. 3. No personal business/leave days are to be used for the purpose of vacation. H. 4. The District district administration will develop a standard form for leave days that will be used in each building. I. H. Any teacher who has completed fifteen (15) or more years of service as defined by the seniority list in article 34 and whose employment with the Board is severed due to death (paid to the employee’s employees estate) or retirement under the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement system, shall receive one (1) day’s 's pay at the current substitute rate for every two (2) days of accumulated leave. The payment under this section is understood by the parties to qualify as a nonelective employer contribution under the internal revenue code in order to exempt the payment form FICA contributions. As such and for as long as it qualifies, all payments will be made exclusively to an IRS qualified 403B plan of the teacher’s election that is available in the business office. In the event the internal revenue code limit for the tax year toward section 403B plans will be exceeded for a teacher by payment of the foregoing, that portion of the payment creating the excess will be delays until the first month of the next tax year.two

Daily Leave. A. Each teacher shall be credited with a twelve (12) day leave allowance to be used for absences caused by illness or physical disability to the teacher, or for personal business. After having been on duty at least one (1) workday of the school year, each teacher having one (1) or more years of seniority shall be credited with his/her twelve (12) day leave allowance. Probationary teachers who have less than one (1) year of seniority shall be credited with six (6) leave days after having worked at least one (1) workday of the first semester and an additional six (6) days after having worked at least one (1) workday of the second semester. B. Each teacher will be able to establish a maximum accumulation of either ninety (90) days or the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year or any number of days between ninety (90) and the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year. C. Teachers will designate a maximum accumulation of ninety (90) days of leave or between ninety (90) days and either one hundred eighteighty-nine (189) days and the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year if higher than one hundred eighty-nine (189). If a teacher has not made a designation through the business office in writing, the teacher will be assumed to have selected the highest number of teacher workdays workday’s option. Designations will remain in effect from year to year unless the teacher provides notice to the business office by November 1 requesting a change. Teachers making a designation of over ninety (90) days who want to cash in the accumulated days in excess of ninety (90) days, will provide notice in writing to the business office by November 1 each year and will be paid for the days in excess of ninety (90) days at one-half of the current third-party substitute rate for each day or forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($42.50) 37.50 per day, whichever is higher. Payment will be made on the first pay in December. D. Teachers who are above their designated maximum accumulation at the end of the school year under section C due to the credit of the twelve (12) days under section A for that year, will be paid for these excess accumulated leave days above the teacher’s designated maximum at the current third-party substitute rate or eighty-five dollars ($85.00) 75.00 per day, whichever is higher. Excess accumulated leave is that number of days remaining over an accumulation maximum in a given year. The payment will be made on the last pay in June. E. Documentation regarding an absence of two (2) consecutive days may be required by the Board. F. The Board will allow the following leave days without charge against the teacher’s 's allocated leave allowance: 1. Teachers required to report for jury duty or as a result of a subpoena to appear in court (unless such subpoena is served by the Association or any of its attorneys or representatives) shall receive their regular rate minus any sums allocated from the court or as a fee for appearing. 2. Visitations to other schools, conferences and conventions approved by the Administrationadministration. 3. Time necessary to take selective service exams. 4. Absence with mumps, scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, scabies, scabies or lice, strep, or pink eye. 5. A maximum of three (3) days per occurrence for death in the immediate family. (Time may be extended for long distance upon request.). 6. Immediate family shall include the teacher’s 's spouse, children, grandchildren, parents or xxxxxx parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, brothers, sisters, or any person for whose financial or physical care the teacher is principally responsible. 7. When a student (or parent/guardian of a student) passes away, one teacher representative shall be allowed to attend the funeral and shall not be charged a day to attend. G. A teacher planning to use a personal business day shall arrange with the teacher’s principal at least one (1) day in advance, stating reasons. 1. Requests for personal business days of one to two (1-2) 2 days in length will require a written statement of “personal business” only. 2. Requests for personal business days of more than two (2) consecutive days in length will require specific reasons for consideration by the principal. 3. No personal business/leave days are to be used for the purpose of vacation. H. 4. The District district administration will develop a standard form for leave days that will be used in each building. I. H. Any teacher who has completed fifteen (15) or more years of service as defined by the seniority list in article 34 and whose employment with the Board is severed due to death (paid to the employee’s employees estate) or retirement under the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement system, shall receive one (1) day’s 's pay at the current substitute rate for every two (2) days of accumulated leave. The payment under this section is understood by the parties to qualify as a nonelective non- elective employer contribution under the internal revenue code in order to exempt the payment form from FICA contributions. As such and for as long as it qualifies, all payments will be made exclusively to an IRS qualified 403B plan of the teacher’s election that is available in the business office. In the event the internal revenue code limit for the tax year toward section 403B plans will be exceeded for a teacher by payment of the foregoing, that portion of the payment creating the excess will be delays delayed until the first month of the next tax year.

Daily Leave. A. Each teacher shall be credited with a twelve (12) day leave allowance to be used for absences caused by illness or physical disability to the teacher, or for personal business. After having been on duty at least one (1) workday of the school year, each teacher having one (1) or more years of seniority shall be credited with his/her twelve (12) day leave allowance. Probationary teachers who have less than one (1) year of seniority shall be credited with six (6) leave days after having worked at least one (1) workday of the first semester and an additional six (6) days after having worked at least one (1) workday of the second semester. B. Each teacher will be able to establish a maximum accumulation of either ninety (90) days or the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year or any number of days between ninety (90) and the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year. C. Teachers will designate a maximum accumulation of ninety (90) days of leave or between ninety (90) days and either one hundred eighteighty-nine (189) days and the total number of teacher workdays in a given school year if higher than one hundred eighty-nine (189). If a teacher has not made a designation through the business office in writing, the teacher will be assumed to have selected the highest number of teacher workdays work days option. Designations will remain in effect from year to year unless the teacher provides notice to the business office by November 1 requesting a change. Teachers making a designation of over ninety (90) days who want to cash in the accumulated days in excess of ninety (90) days, will provide notice in writing to the business office by November 1 each year and will be paid for the days in excess of ninety (90) days at one-half of the current third-party substitute rate for each day or forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($42.50) 32.50 per day, whichever is higher. Payment will be made on the first pay in December. D. Teachers who are above their designated maximum accumulation at the end of the school year under section C due to the credit of the twelve (12) days under section A for that year, will be paid for these excess accumulated leave days above the teacher’s designated maximum at the current third-party substitute rate or eighty-five dollars ($85.00) 65.00 per day, whichever is higher. Excess accumulated leave is that number of days remaining over an accumulation maximum in a given year. The payment will be made on the last pay in June. E. Documentation regarding an absence of two (2) consecutive days may be required by the Board. F. The Board will allow the following leave days without charge against the teacher’s 's allocated leave allowance: 1. Teachers required to report for jury duty or as a result of a subpoena to appear in court (unless such subpoena is served by the Association or any of its attorneys or representatives) shall receive their regular rate minus any sums allocated from the court or as a fee for appearing. 2. Visitations to other schools, conferences and conventions approved by the Administrationadministration. 3. Time necessary to take selective service exams. 4. Absence with mumps, scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox, scabies, scabies or lice, strep, or pink eye. 5. A maximum of three (3) days per occurrence for death in the immediate family. (Time may be extended for long distance upon request.). 6. Immediate family shall include the teacher’s 's spouse, children, grandchildren, parents or xxxxxx parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, brothers, sisters, or any person for whose financial or physical care the teacher is principally responsible. 7. When a student (or parent/guardian of a student) passes away, one teacher representative shall be allowed to attend the funeral and shall not be charged a day to attend. G. A teacher planning to use a personal business day shall arrange with the teacher’s principal at least one (1) day in advance, stating reasons. 1. Requests for personal business days of one to two (1-2) 2 days in length will require a written statement of “personal business” only. 2. Requests for personal business days of more than two (2) consecutive days in length will require specific reasons for consideration by the principal. 3. No personal business/leave days are to be used for the purpose of vacation. H. 4. The District district administration will develop a standard form for leave days that will be used in each building. I. H. Any teacher who has completed fifteen (15) or more years of service as defined by the seniority list in article 34 and whose employment with the Board is severed due to death (paid to the employee’s employees estate) or retirement under the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement system, shall receive one (1) day’s 's pay at the current substitute rate for every two (2) days of accumulated leave. The payment under this section is understood by the parties to qualify as a nonelective non- elective employer contribution under the internal revenue code in order to exempt the payment form from FICA contributions. As such and for as long as it qualifies, all payments will be made exclusively to an IRS qualified 403B plan of the teacher’s election that is available in the business office. In the event the internal revenue code limit for the tax year toward section 403B plans will be exceeded for a teacher by payment of the foregoing, that portion of the payment creating the excess will be delays delayed until the first month of the next tax year.