ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. 15.01 In cases of personal hardship to a bargaining unit employee brought on by catastrophic illness or injury, where the employee has exhausted all accumulated, unused paid leave as a result of the catastrophic illness or injury, the BOARD and the UNION may enter into an agreement pursuant to the following guidelines to assist the affected employee through the donation of accumulated unused sick leave by other bargaining unit employees who volunteer to do so. Any decisions made by the BOARD and the UNION through the Joint Committee established under this section shall be final, and the same shall not be subject to the grievance and arbitration procedure.
A. For purposes of this agreement, the term "catastrophic illness or injury" shall include only those illnesses or injuries which are calamitous in nature, constituting a great misfortune. The "catastrophic illness or injury" must be unusual, extraordinary, sudden, an unexpected manifestation of the forces of nature which cannot be prevented by human care, skill, or foresight.
B. A Joint Committee shall be appointed. The Superintendent will appoint three administrators on an annual basis. The union will appoint three (3) Union Officers on an annual basis. The Joint Committee will meet to review requests for additional paid leave under this section. Any decision of the Joint Committee shall be final, and it shall not be the subject of a grievance or arbitration.
C. Applications for catastrophic illness/injury sick leave donation must be submitted to the Executive Director of Personnel Services. Applications will include, but not be limited to the following information:
1. The nature of the claimed catastrophic/illness or injury;
2. Physician(s) diagnosis and prognosis of the catastrophic illness or injury;
3. Projected date of return to duty;
4. Explanation of previous leave usage; and
5. Any other pertinent information the applicant can submit to the committee for its consideration.
D. Upon receipt of the application, the Executive Director of Personnel Services shall notify the Joint Committee. The Joint Committee will meet as soon as practicable after receipt of a request and make a determination regarding the request. In order to approve a request for catastrophic illness/injury sick leave donation, two-thirds (2/3) vote of the entire committee must prevail. The employee will be informed of the committee's decision, and their reasons therefor in writing. The decision of the committee shall be final.
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ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. A catastrophic illness or injury shall be defined as a medical condition not covered by Workers' Compensation, requiring absence from work greater than fifty (50) working days of consecutive absence for a single illness or injury. Any employee who sustains a catastrophic illness or injury may apply for and receive for use on a matching basis supplementary catastrophic illness or injury leave not to exceed the number of regular, unused sick leave days that the employee had accumulated on the first day of the regular sick leave applied to the catastrophic illness or injury. Two (2) medical verifications of such catastrophic illness or injury shall be required. The employee shall fully cooperate with the Board and shall authorize the release of any medical records necessary. The District shall satisfy itself that any claim for catastrophic illness or injury leave is legitimate and correctly states the facts. The Board may at its expense require an independent medical examination. Catastrophic illness or injury leave shall begin the fifty-first (51) day of consecutive absence and is not to be awarded retroactively.
ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. 17.1 Unit members employed on a full-time basis shall be entitled to accumulate ten (10) days per school year of illness/injury leave available to the unit member from the first work day of each year. Illness/injury leave, which is not used, shall accumulate from year to year without limit. Any used but unearned sick leave shall be deducted from final pay warrant upon termination.
17.2 Unit members who work less than full-time shall be entitled to accumulate and use illness/injury leave for all such service at a rate that is in the same proportion as their part-time employment bears to full-time employment.
17.3 In addition to all illness/injury leave entitlement that a unit member may accumulate within the District, he/she shall also be entitled to all unused illness/injury leave which may have been accumulated while employed in a position requiring certification qualifications in another California school district according to the Education Codes.
17.4 The District shall annually provide each teacher with a written statement of his/her accrued sick leave no later than October 15 of each year.
17.5 Unit members may use accumulated illness/injury leave and extended illness leave as set forth in this Article for disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage or childbirth and recovery there from. The length of such disability leave, including the date on which the leave is to begin and the date on which the duties are to be resumed, shall be determined by the unit member and her physician or a licensed medical practitioner.
17.6 Certificated employees on extended regular contracts will be granted sick leave in addition to regular sick leave, at the rate of one (1) day per month or partial month(s), as long as the increment is at least one-half (1/2) of the school days. This provision does not apply to extra-curricular assignments and/or summer school.
17.7 Personnel teaching Adult Evening High School in addition to their full-time position within the District shall be allowed to use one-half (1/2) day per semester of their accumulated District injury/illness leave for every semester three hour class taught. Each absence from the Adult School assignment shall be charged at the rate of one- half of a full day of sick leave.
17.8 No salary or sick leave deduction is made for absence due to a verifiable contagious disease contacted during the performance of school duties with other persons having a contagious disease, for the period of isolatio...
ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE.
SECTION 1 Personal Leave of Absence
ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. 1. Each support staff member covered by this Agreement will receive one (1) Illness/Injury Leave day on the 15th of each month accumulative to one-hundred twenty (120) days and will also be granted two (2) additional non-earned Illness/Injury Leave days at the beginning of each new work year. However, a support staff member hired on or after January 1st of any year will be granted only one (1) additional non-earned Illness/Injury Leave day for that year. School year support staff members shall not accrue Illness/Injury leave days during the summer.
2. Not later than thirty days following January 1st and July 1st, each support staff member will be notified in writing of his/her total accumulated illness/injury leave as of the first of that month.
3. A support staff member may utilize his/her Illness/Injury Leave days for absences due to illness or injury of him/herself, or up to five (5) days per incident for illness or injury of a resident member of his/her immediate family that requires his/her personal care and attention. (Immediate family shall be defined as spouse, children residing at home, parents and stepparents residing in the home.) In addition, a support staff member may also use up to three (3) illness/injury leave days per incident for absences due to the illness or injury of a parent, stepparent or child not residing in the support staff member’s home. Extension of these time limits may be granted by the Superintendent or his designate upon submission of medical verification justifying the need for such extension. For purposes of clarification, it is understood that the terms “Children/Child” refer to one of the following relationships to the support staff member:
a. Natural (By Birth)
b. Adopted
c. Stepchild
d. Guardianship (Court appointed with all legal rights as if support staff member was a natural parent.)
4. In case of illness or injury, a support staff member shall call the Substitute Employee Management System and his/her immediate Supervisor, if required, not later than one and one- half (1 1/2) hours before his/her regular scheduled workday begins, to report his/her absence and the reason for same. Failure to comply as stated above may result in a loss of pay for the date at the discretion of the Superintendent or his designate.
5. Any support staff member who has been absent from work because of illness or injury must complete and submit an “Absence Report” postmarked or personally delivered to his/her immediate supervisor on the f...
ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. 14.2.1 Unit members employed on a full-time basis shall be entitled to accumulate eleven (11) days per school year of illness/injury leave all of which is available to the unit member from the first work day of each year. Illness/injury leave which is not used shall accumulate from year to year without limit.
14.2.2 Unit members who work less than full-time shall be entitled to accumulate and use illness/injury 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.
14.2.3 In addition to all illness/injury leave entitlement that a unit member may accumulate within the District, he/she shall also be entitled to all unused illness/injury leave which may have been accumulated while employed in a position requiring certification qualifications in another school district. The unit member is entitled, but must submit a request in writing from the former employer to transfer accumulated leave within one (1) year of the date of hire.
14.2.4 Beginning with the September pay period, the District shall provide unit members a monthly accounting of the number of days of illness/injury leave they have accumulated, plus the number of days of leave to which unit members are entitled for the current school year.
14.2.5 A unit member may choose to make an irrevocable donation of his/her accumulated sick leave days to any unit member who has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave.
ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. 16.1.1 Each unit member shall be entitled to ten (10) days leave of absence for illness or injury during the school year, available to the unit member from the first work day of each year. Any days not used by the unit member shall be accumulated and carried over to the succeeding year. Part-time employees shall earn sick leave credit on a pro-rated basis consistent with their percentage assignment.
16.1.2 When the unit member's absence exceeds the earned sick leave, the unit member shall be paid the difference between the unit member's regular salary and the amount actually paid a substitute employee employed to fill the unit member's position during his/her absence, or, if no substitute was employed, the amount which would have been paid had a substitute been employed. This salary rate shall commence when the sick leave ends and shall continue up to a period of five (5) school months.
16.1.3 The District may request verification from a doctor or other recognized practitioner after the unit member has been absent five (5) consecutive days.
16.1.4 The District shall provide each unit member with an accounting of the number of days of illness/injury leave s/he has accumulated, plus the number of days to which the unit member is entitled for the current school year. An accounting of such days shall be available to unit members as requested throughout the school year.
16.1.5 A unit member shall have the right to utilize illness/injury leave provided for in this Article and the benefits provided for by Section 44977 of the Education Code for absences necessitated by pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth and recovery therefrom.
16.1.6 The use of sick leave for pregnancy disability shall be treated the same as any other disability for which sick leave is granted.
ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. A full-time unit employee is entitled to one (1) day of illness or injury leave for each month of employment. Part-time permanent or probationary unit employees who work five (5) days a week but who are employed for less than a twelve (12) month period shall be entitled to that proportion of twelve (12) days illness or injury leave as the number of months the unit employee is employed bears to twelve (12). Part-time unit employees who are employed for less than eight (8) hours per day are entitled to that proportion of illness/injury leave per month of employment as the number of hours employed per day bears to eight (8). A full-time unit employee is entitled to annually utilize two (2) half days of sick leave or personal necessity leave with prior approval from the site administrator and logged in the district database system (AESOP). A full-time unit employee is entitled to annually utilize two (2) half days of sick leave or personal necessity leave, with prior approval from the site administrator, and logged in the district database system. At the beginning of each fiscal year the full amount of sick leave granted under this Article shall be credited to each unit employee. However, a newly employed probationary unit employee of the District shall not be eligible to take more than six (6) days until the first day of the calendar month of completion of six (6) months of active service with the District. If a unit employee does not take the full amount of accumulated illness/injury leave allowed in any one year under this Article, the amount not taken shall be accumulated from year to year. Unit members who are absent from their duties on account of illness or accident shall, for a period not to exceed five (5) calendar months or less, be entitled to such salary differential as will be provided in the difference between the salary of the regular employee and a substitute. For non-industrial illness or injury, this provision shall begin to run and be counted concurrently with the eleventh (11), twelfth (12), or thirteenth (13) day of absence for ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) month employees respectively. For industrial illness or injury, this provision shall begin with the first day of absence. By October 20 of each year, the District shall provide each unit employee with a statement of accrued sick leave and vacation as of June 30 of the previous fiscal year and the entitlement for the current year. If a permanent or probationary unit employee has ...
ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. At the beginning of the school year, regular employees shall be granted nine (9) days leave from duty. Leave time available under this provision shall be used if needed for personal illness or injury without deduction from salary. All bargaining unit members shall have unlimited accumulation. (Driver’s formula - day’s time’s hours worked per day equal total hours of leave time per year accumulation.) The Board has the right to be reimbursed for all used, but unearned, sick or personal pay from employees terminated/quit.
ILLNESS/INJURY LEAVE. (a) All employees shall be entitled to five paid sick days per year after 90 days of service. Employees also are entitled to three days of unpaid sick leave.
(b) The Employer may request a medical certificate after an employee has been absent for 5 consecutive days. Should the Employer request a medical certificate, the employee will be reimbursed the cost of the certificate. Where it appears that a pattern of consistent or frequent absence from work is developing the Employer may request a medical certificate at the Employer's expense.
