Illness and Disability Bank. Purpose: An illness and disability bank shall be established to assist teachers who, as a result of catastrophic or extended illness or injury have exhausted the teacher’s accumulated emergency leave, by providing those teachers eligible with additional emergency leave days from the bank. The Bank: At the beginning of each school year, the Board of Education will provide a total of 125 days to the bank to be used as set forth herein. Eligibility For participation: In order to be eligible to participate in withdrawals from the bank, a teacher must meet all of the following criteria:
Illness and Disability Bank. 1. On the first teacher duty day of each school year, employees who have accrued thirty (30) or more days of personal illness and disability leave may contribute two (2) of such days to a Unified School District 294 Illness and Disability Bank, such bank to be administered by a committee pursuant to guidelines it has established. All current employees having less than thirty (30) day of earned illness and disability leave and all employees hired subsequent to adoption of this Agreement may contribute one (1) day of illness and disability leave to said bank.
