Guaranteed Leave. Any teacher shall, upon written request, be granted an unpaid leave of absence for up to one (1) year for the following reasons:
Guaranteed Leave. The District shall grant a continuous leave of absence of up to 6 months without pay to an employee with 10 or more years of aggregate District service and guarantee a return to the classification held at the time the leave commences. Such leave shall be limited to once each 5 years.
Guaranteed Leave. (1) Two times during each matrix semester period, personnel assigned to the patrol matrix may submit a request for guaranteed leave, which request will be honored, subject to the following conditions and procedures: No more than eight (8) guaranteed leave requests will be honored for any single date. This limit applies city-wide, and for all shifts combined. Guaranteed leave requests may not be submitted for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving, and July 4th. Requests must be submitted no less than fifteen (15) calendar days before the date requested to be off, but no more than sixty (60) calendar days before the date requested to be off. Requests are to be submitted to the Duty Office, to be date and time stamped by Duty Office personnel when received. Requests will be honored on a first-come, first-served basis, to the above stated maximum of eight. Guaranteed leaves may be taken using vacation time only. Guaranteed leaves may only be for one (1) work shift per request. Once submitted, guaranteed leave slots may not be transferred from one member to another.
