Common use of LEAVES General Conditions Covering All Types of Leave Clause in Contracts

LEAVES General Conditions Covering All Types of Leave. If any leave is taken that cannot be substantiated under the Negotiated Agreement or the Board Policies and Rules, a deduction will be made from the employee’s salary equal to the fractional part each day’s absence bears to the total contract days. Section A. Leave (Revised April 2003, May 2015 and June 2021) Full-time certified personnel shall be credited with twelve days of leave at the beginning of each school year upon reporting for work on the contract date. Days not used shall accumulate to a maximum of sixty days. Part-time certified employees working at least half-time are entitled to a proportionate part of full- time sick leave. A person who has acquired leave credit in this District the previous year and who is unable to report for work on the specified date of the current contract because of illness but who is able to begin work at some later date is entitled to use the benefits of previously accumulated leave. Leave credit for the current year shall not be added until the employee has reported for work. No person in the first year of employment in the District will receive leave credit until reporting for work. If an employee reports for work later than the first day of the school year, the days will be prorated to the nearest half-day. If a person discontinues employment in the District for any reason except an approved leave of absence or retirement, all accumulated sick leave credit will be forfeited. The building principals, Superintendent, and/or Board of Education reserve the right to require a report from a Doctor of Medicine or osteopath indicating the nature and severity of any employee’s illness, or that of a family member’s, non-relative’s, or non-traditional family relationship’s illness before leave is approved for payment. The certified employees may establish a sick leave pool of 60 days. The sick leave pool shall be used for emergency illness or extended illness of an employee, a family member or a non-traditional family member as designated above. It can only be used with a written confirmation from a doctor excusing the employee until a work order has been issued by the doctor. To be eligible to use the sick leave pool, the employee must contribute one or more days to the pool. New employees have ten (10) duty days from their first duty day to contribute to the sick leave pool. Returning employees wishing to contribute to the sick leave pool have ten (10) duty days from the first duty day and the last ten (10) duty days of the current school year. Certified personnel who have first exhausted their own sick leave and four (4) personal days may make a request to the Superintendent to use sick leave days from the pool. The employee may use the same number of days from the pool as they had sick days at the beginning of the school year provided that there are adequate days available. (Revised May 2008 and July 2018) If an employee has used a day or more from the sick leave pool in a certain year, the employee must contribute a day the following year to be eligible to use the sick leave pool again.

LEAVES General Conditions Covering All Types of Leave. If any leave is taken that cannot be substantiated under the Negotiated Agreement or the Board Policies and Rules, a deduction will be made from the employee’s salary equal to the fractional part each day’s absence bears to the total contract days. Section A. Leave (Revised April 2003, May 2015 and June 2021) Full-time certified personnel shall be credited with twelve days of leave at the beginning of each school year upon reporting for work on the contract date. Days not used shall accumulate to a maximum of sixty days. Part-time certified employees working at least half-time are entitled to a proportionate part of full- time sick leave. A person who has acquired leave credit in this District the previous year and who is unable to report for work on the specified date of the current contract because of illness but who is able to begin work at some later date is entitled to use the benefits of previously accumulated leave. Leave credit for the current year shall not be added until the employee has reported for work. No person in the first year of employment in the District will receive leave credit until reporting for work. If an employee reports for work later than the first day of the school year, the days will be prorated to the nearest half-day. If a person discontinues employment in the District for any reason except an approved leave of absence or retirement, all accumulated sick leave credit will be forfeited. The building principals, Superintendent, and/or Board of Education reserve the right to require a report from a Doctor of Medicine or osteopath indicating the nature and severity of any employee’s illness, or that of a family member’s, non-relative’s, or non-traditional family relationship’s illness before leave is approved for payment. The certified employees may establish a sick leave pool of 60 days. The sick leave pool shall be used for emergency illness or extended illness of an employee, a family member or a non-traditional family member as designated above. It can only be used with a written confirmation from a doctor excusing the employee until a work order has been issued by the doctor. To be eligible to use the sick leave pool, the employee must contribute one or more days to the pool. New employees have ten (10) duty days from their first duty day to contribute to the sick leave pool. Returning employees wishing to contribute to the sick leave pool have ten (10) duty days from the first duty day and the last ten (10) duty days of the current school year. Certified personnel who have first exhausted their own sick leave and four (4) personal days may make a request to the Superintendent to use sick leave days from the pool. The employee may use the same number of days from the pool as they had sick days at the beginning of the school year provided that there are adequate days available. (Revised May 2008 and July 2018) If an employee has used a day or more from the sick leave pool in a certain year, the employee must contribute a day the following year to be eligible to use the sick leave pool again.