New Dependent Leave. A teacher may elect to use up to ten (10) illness days within a year of the birth of the teacher’s child. New dependent leave may not be used if the teacher has used a maternity or adoptive leave for that child. However, the administration, in its discretion, may allow a teacher to take additional sick days in unusual situations, such as the child’s illness or the illness/incapacity of the child’s birth mother.
New Dependent Leave. A teacher may elect to use up to thirty (30) sick days within a year of a child’s birth or xxxxxx or adoptive placement with the teacher. The thirty (30) day maximum applies regardless of the number of births or placements in a given year. New dependent leave cannot be used in conjunction with maternity leave. New dependent leave runs concurrently with FMLA and applicable FMLA regulations will apply.
New Dependent Leave. Upon the birth of a child who is a new dependent of a teacher, the teacher shall be granted ten (10) consecutive contractually paid days. These days will not be charged against the teacher’s available sick leave and shall commence on the day following the birth of the new dependent child. This 10 consecutive day new dependent leave benefit may be used only one time in a school year. Nothing will prevent a teacher after exhausting this benefit in a school year from using his/her own accrued time off or any time off the teacher may have available through the FMLA. It is understood that in the event of a birth over the summer break, the granting of ten (10) benefit days under this provision will not apply unless the number of allowable days overlaps with the beginning of the next school year. A teacher who uses the 15 day adoption leave benefit or the 15 day maternity leave benefit pursuant to this Contract will be ineligible to also take “New Dependent Leave.”
New Dependent Leave. 1. A bargaining unit member may elect to use up to twenty (20) sick days within a year of a child’s birth or xxxxxx or adoptive placement with the bargaining unit member. The twenty (20) day maximum applies regardless of the number of births or placements in a given year.
2. New dependent leave cannot be used in conjunction with maternity leave. New dependent leave runs concurrently with FMLA and applicable FMLA regulations and School Board Policy will apply.
3. Tentative advance written notice of the anticipated birth or placement should be given to the bargaining unit member's building principal. This notice should be given as soon as reasonably possible. It is not binding on the bargaining unit member or Corporation.
4. The bargaining unit member shall apply in writing to the Superintendent to use new dependent leave. Such application shall be made as soon as the bargaining unit member is aware of a date the birth or placement is anticipated to take place. This application shall specify the dates the bargaining unit member would like to begin and end the leave.
5. Provided the bargaining unit member has met the conditions set forth here, the Superintendent or her designee shall not unreasonably deny the bargaining unit member's application for this leave.
6. The above notwithstanding, the Superintendent or designee shall have the discretion to grant new dependent leave for what the Superintendent or designee determines to be mitigating circumstances beyond the control of the bargaining unit member, e.g. a change in adoption dates that might change the time the bargaining unit member would have need to begin the leave.
7. Sick Leave Bank is not available to be used for this purpose.
