LEAVE PAY. A. At the beginning of each school year each teacher shall be credited with twelve (12) days of leave to be used as needed. The leave days may be taken by a teacher for the following reasons and subject to the following conditions: 1. Personal illness or disability, the teacher may use all or any portion of the leave to recover from the teacher's own illness or disability, which shall include childbirth, complications of pregnancy and adoption procedures. In addition, a teacher may use leave under this Paragraph for illness or disability of a child or spouse. In case of excessive absences, the Board of Education shall have the right to have an examination by an agreed to physician. 2. Death in the immediate family which includes parents, spouse, parents of spouse, brothers, sisters, children, grandparents and grandchildren. 3. To care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition, as defined by the Family Medical Leave act, 29 USC Chapter 28. The Board is to have discretionary authority in unusual cases. Effective September 1, 1996, for all sick days that an employee would have accumulated up to sixty-five (65) days a year (ninety (90) days for those teachers grand fathered in1970-1971), the district shall credit the employee with a twenty-five dollar ($25) credit per sick day upon retirement or resignation. B. At the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year during open enrollment in the fall, teachers will have the option to sign up to receive payment by the district in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25) a day for six (6) of the twelve (12) sick days they receive. The district would deposit the payment into an approved 403 (b) vendor of the teacher’s choice on the last day of that same school year. If, during the school year the teacher was required to use some or all of the six (6) days for which they opted to receive payment, the teacher will receive payment on the last day of that same school year for the portion of the six (6) days they did not use. For example:
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