FAMILY MEDICAL HARDSHIP LEAVE Sample Clauses

FAMILY MEDICAL HARDSHIP LEAVE. The purpose of Family Medical Hardship Leave is to help alleviate the financial distress a teacher may face when confronted with the necessity of caring for a catastrophically ill family member. The leave must be used only for an event involving a member of a teacher's immediate family, household, or someone for whom a teacher has guardianship. The leave may not be utilized for a teacher's personal illness. The transfer of sick days from teacher to teacher is prohibited unless approved by the Family Medical Hardship Leave Committee (hereafter called the FMHLC). The purpose of the FMHLC is to review on a case-by-case basis the need to transfer sick days from one GKB teacher to another. A teacher requiring additional paid days to care for a critically ill family member may submit his or her request to the FMHLC, following the procedure below. A teacher must exhaust all of his or her available sick and personal days, as well as miss ten (10) unpaid school days, before potentially qualifying for Family Medical Hardship Leave. Because the availability of leave days is based upon the willingness of other teachers to donate their sick leave, no guarantee can be made about the number of days that may be granted. Xxxx donated to help a teacher will lose all identity. Any unused donated days will be recorded and used to help a future applicant. Leave granted may be used in half- or full-day increments. The Family Medical Hardship Leave Committee will be comprised of three (3) teachers to be appointed by the Executive Committee of the Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxx-Xxxxxx Education Association. The term of the members of will be two (2) years. The members may succeed themselves. To apply for Family Medical Hardship Leave, a teacher will fill out a Request for Transfer of Sick Days form and submit to the Committee Chair in a timely fashion. A teacher may make a request for days from the Bank before all of his/her accumulated sick leave days are exhausted. Within three (3) days after receiving the form, the Committee will meet to review the request. The Committee will inform the teacher of its decision, in writing, the next school day. Upon granting a request, the Committee Chair will make a corporation-wide request for teachers to voluntarily transfer a specified number of sick leave days to another teacher. The teacher(s) agreeing to donate must notify the Committee Chair in writing of their decision to donate days within three (3) school days of the request. The Committee Chair wil...
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Related to FAMILY MEDICAL HARDSHIP LEAVE

  • Hardship Leave The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated vacation leave to a co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or injury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.

  • Family Medical Leave or Critical Illness Leave a) Family Medical Leave or Critical Illness leaves granted to a permanent Teacher or long-term Occasional Teacher under this Article shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act, 2000, as amended.

  • Family Medical Leave Act The Board shall pay its share of the premiums for up to a total of twelve (12) weeks per year during an approved, qualifying leave in accordance with the Family Medical Leave Act.

  • Family Medical Leave (a) An employee is entitled to family medical leave in accordance with the provisions of the Employment Standards Act.

  • Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA A. The State acknowledges its commitment to comply with the spirit and intent of the leave entitlement provided by the FMLA and the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) referred to collectively as "FMLA." The State and the Union recognize that on occasion it will be necessary for employees of the State to take job- protected leave for reasons consistent with the FMLA. As defined by the FMLA, reasons for an FMLA leave may include an employee's serious health condition, for the care of a child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health condition, and/or for the birth or adoption of a child.

  • Child or Elder Care Emergencies Leave without pay, compensatory time or paid leave may be granted for child or elder care emergencies.

  • Maternity Disability Leave 14.1.13.1 This leave commences with the onset of disablement due to pregnancy. The employee may claim sick leave pay and/or extended disability pay for no more than that limited period of time when the employee’s physician certified in writing on the form provided by the District that she was actually physically disabled from performing her duties because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, or recovery there from.

  • Qualifying Exigency Leave A covered employer must grant an eligible employee up to a total of 12 workweeks of unpaid leave during the normal 12-month period established by the employer for FMLA leave for qualifying exigencies arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is on active duty, or has been notified of an impending call or order to active duty, in support of a contingency operation. Under the terms of the statute, qualifying exigency leave is available to a family member of a military member in the National Guard or Reserves; it does not extend to family members of military members in the Regular Armed Forces.

  • Pregnancy Disability Leave A. Leave for pregnancy or childbirth related disability is in addition to any leave granted under FMLA or WFLA.

  • Personal Illness or Disability The teacher may use all or any portion of his leave to recover from his own illness or disability.

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