Illness/Disability. Physical illness or disability verified by a physician's statement, not to exceed
(1) one year. The Superintendent or his/her designee may grant an additional year.
Illness/Disability. An employee who is unable to work because of a personal illness or disability and who has exhausted accumulated sick leave may be granted an unpaid leave of absence of up to one (1) year for the purpose of recovery from such illness or disability. Employees eligible for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) will be granted unpaid leave for the purposes and to the extent required by that statute.
1. An unpaid leave of absence taken due to personal illness/disability which is a serious health condition of the employee, as defined by the FMLA, shall be taken concurrently with this leave provision to the extent of the employee’s eligibility under the FMLA.
2. The Board has the right to receive medical certification from the employee’s health care provider regarding the necessity for leave taken under this section. The employee will facilitate and cooperate in the furnishing of such information, which shall include, for leaves taken under FMLA, responses to the inquiries contained in the Department of Labor form entitled “Certification of Physician or Practitioner.”
3. The Board has the right to require that a second medical opinion, at the Board’s expense, be obtained. If that opinion differs from that of the employee’s health provider, the employee and Board, in consultation with the Association if requested by the employee, shall mutually designate a third health provider whose opinion relative to leave eligibility or initial fitness to return to work shall be considered final and binding on the Board, the employee and the Association. The cost of this examination shall be paid by the Board.
4. The Board shall have the right to require re-certification during the leave period and medical certification of the employee’s fitness to return to duty at the expiration of the leave period.
Illness/Disability. Disability leave is available to cover all absences due to disability caused by illness or injury.
9.2.1 Unit members absent because of illness or injury for three (3) days or more shall be required to furnish a written release from a licensed health care practitioner excusing their absence and allowing their return to work.
9.2.2 Unit members employed on a full‐time basis will be entitled to accumulate ten (10) days per school year of sick leave, available to the unit member for the first work day of each year. If a unit member shall leave the employ of the district before the end of the year, any monies drawn for sick leave in excess of the rate of one day per month will be refunded to the District.
9.2.2.1 Unit members who work less than full-time will be entitled to accumulate and use sick leave for all such service at a rate that is in the same proportion to the full-time entitlement as their part-time employment bears to full-time employment.
9.2.2.2 The District will provide each unit member with an accounting of the number of days of sick leave they have accumulated, plus the number of days to which the unit member is entitled for the current school year. The District will normally provide an accounting of such days to unit members by November 1 of each school year.
9.2.2.3 A unit member is required to report absences as soon as practicable but no less than one hour prior to their start time using the District’s absence management system. It is the professional responsibility of each employee to enter their own absence, unless circumstances preclude them from doing so.
Illness/Disability. Others
(1) Paraprofessionals: Up to five (5) days may be authorized for serious illness or medical care or nursing care arrangements for the immediate family. (Immediate family is defined as spouse, children, parents, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, dependents, in-law relations of the same categories.) Additional paid days may be granted upon request of the employee for emergency or unusual needs.
(2) Administrative Assistant and Clerical: Serious illness, medical care or nursing care arrangements in the immediate family. (Immediate family is as defined in 1 (b) (1), above.)
(3) Custodial/Maintenance: Serious illness, medical or nursing care arrangements, in the immediate family. (Immediate family is as defined in 1 (b) (1), above.)
Illness/Disability. A. At the beginning of each school year, each employee shall be credited with eight (8) TEN (10) days of sick leave BASED ON THE BASE 184 DAY CONTRACT. THE ALLOCATION WILL BE INDIVIDUALLY PRO-RATED BASED ON SCHEDULED CONTRACT DAYS. The ANY unused portion of which OF THE SICK LEAVE will accumulate up to a total of one hundred and twenty (120) days. For accounting purposes, one (1) full day is equivalent to six and one-half (6½) THE EMPLOYEE’S REGULARLY SCHEDULED hours. Employees working under extended contracts shall be credited with additional sick leave at the rate of one (1) day per month or a prorated portion thereof. Negative days resulting from sick bank assessment may be carried until such time as a balance of days has accrued. The employee may use all or any portion of the sick leave to recover from:
1. His/her own illness or disability.
2. Emergency leave may be used for the following:
a. Illness in the immediate family.
b. To arrange medical or nursing care for a member of the immediate family.
c. Immediate family shall be defined as: spouse, children, parents, in-laws, brothers, sisters, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and others living within the employee's household.
B. The Board shall provide each employee with a statement at the beginning of each school year setting forth the total number of sick leave days in his/her account. The Employer agrees to record the employee's accumulated sick leave allowance on each paycheck stub. Deductions shall be made for all absences during work hours.
C. If an employee resigns or retires with a negative accumulation of sick days which will not be covered by the Short-Term Disability Bank (see Section D below), an amount equal to the employee’s daily rate times the negative sick day accumulation may be deducted from any pay owed to the employee prior to issuing a final paycheck.
D. A Short-Term Disability Committee is hereby established for the purpose of creating additional illness days and determining both the parameters and the individual cases for disbursing such days.
1. The committee will be composed of two (2) administrators, and three (3) Association Representatives all of whom shall be selected in accordance with the respective parties' procedures. The committee will operate on a majority rule basis.
2. The Board has contributed the initial thirty (30) days, when the leave bank days are reduced to fifteen (15) days upon separation of employment not due to death or retirement, all the employee's unused p...
Illness/Disability. The following shall apply in regard to disability or illness:
a) Employees absent due to illness or disability shall inform a designated management member of their absence as soon as possible and shall state the cause of their absence and the expected time they will report back to work.
b) Employees shall provide a medical certificate of their illness or disability, if requested to do so by the Company.
c) The Company may require employees to immediately undergo a medical examination by the employees’ physician and to authorize that physician to discuss the employees’ medical condition and test results with a physician selected by the Company. This may be necessary in order to establish the state of health of an employee, as a safeguard for other members of staff, or to determine the cause of excessive absenteeism. It is agreed that the Company’s physician will respect the medical confidentiality of the employees and will simply state in the report to the Company whether the employee is well enough to return to work, and/or will not affect the health of others, or whether the excessive absenteeism has cause. Each time the Company requests a medical examination, it will advise its physician, in writing, of the above confidentiality restrictions. If this procedure is not followed, the employee cannot be disciplined. The report shall also provide a prognosis regarding the employee’s condition. This Article does not supercede the requirements of the Company ’s insurance carrier.
d) Disability Income obtained fraudulently shall be considered as sufficient grounds for discipline of an employee by the Employer. Excessive Disability Income obtained fraudulently shall be considered as sufficient grounds for dismissal of an employee by the Company.
e) Employees in receipt of Disability Income may be required to return to work to perform their job duties subject to the Company providing their physician with a description of the duties to be performed and the physician’s concurrence that the employee can perform the described duties.
f) Inability to work because of pregnancy shall not be considered as illness; however, should illness occur as a result of pregnancy, then it shall be covered under Article 11. If a physician verified illness predates the commencement of maternity leave, then disability income applies until the illness is physician verified as over; if the illness postdates the commencement of maternity leave, then no disability income will be paid until ...
Illness/Disability. An employee who is unable to work because of a personal illness or disability and who has exhausted accumulated sick leave may be granted an unpaid leave of absence of up to one (1) year for the purpose of recovery from such illness or disability. Employees eligible for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) will be granted unpaid leave for the purposes and to the extent required by that statute.
1. An unpaid leave of absence taken due to personal illness/disability which is a serious health condition of the employee, as defined by the FMLA, shall be taken concurrently with this leave provision to the extent of the employee’s eligibility under the FMLA.
2. The Board has the right to receive medical certification from the employee’s health care provider regarding the necessity for leave taken under this section. The employee will facilitate and cooperate in the furnishing of such information, which shall include, for leaves taken under FMLA, responses to the inquiries contained in the Department of Labor form entitled “Certification of Physician or Practitioner.”
Illness/Disability. Employees who by reason of bona fide illness or disability require time off shall be granted appropriate leave of absence for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days. Such leaves shall be extended beyond thirty (30) days upon written request from the employee together with written recommendation from his/her physician.
Illness/Disability. If during the term of Employee's employment hereunder Employee shall be prevented, in the Company's judgement, from effectively performing all his duties hereunder by reason of illness or disability, then the Company may on 90 days' written notice terminate Employee's employment hereunder. Upon delivery to Employee of such notice, together with payment of any salary accrued under Article 1.03 hereof, Employee's employment and all obligations of the Company under Article 1 hereof, shall forthwith terminate.
Illness/Disability. If during the term of Employee's employment hereunder Employee shall be prevented, in the company's judgment, from effectively performing all his duties hereunder by reason of illness or disability, then the Company may, by written notice to Employee, terminate Employee's employment hereunder. Upon delivery to Employee of such notice, together with payment of any salary accrued under Section 1.03 hereof, Employee's shall receive $37,500 per annum during the remaining term of this contract and the Company shall continue to pay the health insurance premiums of Employee during the remaining term hereof.
