Common use of Emergency Days Clause in Contracts

Emergency Days. An “emergency day” is hereby defined as a day of absence which is necessitated by any of the following events which prevents the administrator from reporting to work as scheduled: (a) Marriage of self or children or of parents, siblings or siblings of spouse where attendance at ceremony requires absence of administrator from school; (b) Serious illness within the administrator’s immediate family (defined as the administrator’s spouse, parent (including in-laws), child (including in-laws), grandchild, grandparent, sibling (including in-laws), stepchild or xxxxxx child) for whose care the administrator is responsible; (c) High school or college graduation exercises for graduation of self, spouse, son, daughter, or siblings where attendance at ceremony requires absence of administrator from school; (d) Birth of child by wife, requiring absence of administrator from school; (e) Obligatory legal reasons requiring the absence of administrator from school; (f) Personal matters which are necessary and unavoidable and which cannot be scheduled outside of the school day upon approval of the Superintendent; (g) Religious observances which require that no work be performed during the hours of the administrator’s work day. No administrator may use more than three (3) emergency days in any employment year. Additional emergency days may be granted in extreme cases subject to approval of the Superintendent. Permission for emergency days must be requested in writing setting forth the reasons therefore, and must be submitted to the Superintendent at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the requested use. If the emergency is so urgent as to make twenty-four (24) hours notice impossible, the request shall be made orally as soon as practicable either in person or by telephone, to the Superintendent and must later be confirmed in writing. Necessity will be decided by the Superintendent in response to each individual request for permission to use an emergency day or days.

Emergency Days. An “emergency day” is hereby defined as a day of absence which is necessitated by any of the following events which prevents the administrator from reporting to work as scheduled:Three (3) days per year. (a) Marriage of self or children or of parents, siblings or siblings of spouse where attendance at ceremony requires the absence of administrator the teacher from school; (b) Serious illness within of the administrator’s teacher's spouse, child or other member of the teacher's immediate family (defined as the administrator’s spouse, parent (including in-laws), child (including in-laws), grandchild, grandparent, sibling (including in-laws), stepchild or xxxxxx child) for whose care the administrator teacher is responsible; (c) High school School or college College graduation exercises for graduation of self, spouse, sonchild, daughterstep-child, or siblings where attendance at the ceremony requires the absence of administrator the teacher from school; (d) Birth of child by wife, requiring the absence of administrator the teacher from school; (e) Obligatory legal reasons Attendance at a funeral (other than as outlined in Funeral Leave) requiring the absence of administrator the teacher from school; (f) Personal Handling of legal matters which are necessary and unavoidable and which cannot be scheduled outside requiring the absence of the school day upon approval of the Superintendentteacher from school; (g) Religious observances which require that no work be performed during the hours of the administrator’s work day. No administrator may use more than three (3) Other emergency days in any employment year. Additional emergency days may be granted in extreme cases subject to approval of reasons approved by the Superintendent. Permission for emergency days must be requested in writing setting forth the reasons thereforetherefor, and must be submitted to the Principal (or, in the case of subsection (g), to the Superintendent ) at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the requested use. If the emergency is so urgent as to make twenty-four (24) hours hours’ notice impossible, the request shall be made orally as soon as practicable practicable, either in person or by telephone, to the Principal or Superintendent and must later be confirmed in writing. Necessity will Permission to use an emergency day or days shall be decided granted or denied on the basis of necessity as determined by the Principal or Superintendent in response to each individual request for permission to use an request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, one emergency day may be taken at the discretion of the teacher for personal business requiring the teacher's absence from school, with notice as above to the Principal. It is expressly agreed that this day shall not be used for extension of vacation periods, recreation or daysholidays.