Common use of Notification of Return from Leave Clause in Contracts

Notification of Return from Leave. The staff must notify the Director of Human Resources or designee in person or in writing by U.S. mail, certified mail, email, or on the appropriate form, their date of return no later than March 1 if intending to return the next school year or two (2) months prior to the originally-scheduled date of the leave termination, whichever is earlier, of their specific intent to return to active service at the specified date or request an extension of the leave. Extensions are not routinely granted. Subd. 1. Return with Guarantee of Same Position 1.1 Teachers on short-term non-compensatory leaves of absence shall return to their same position. 1.2 Teachers on a parental leave of up to twenty 20 weeks in the same school year, including all compensatory sick leave time taken at the conclusion of pregnancy, birth or adoption may return to their same position. 1.3 Teachers returning from a general non-compensatory leave who have been guaranteed a right to return to their same position will return to their same position, except in situations of staff reduction and/or discontinuance of position, where return to same position will be determined per 1.4 of this article. 1.4 If during the period of leave the site has become subject to layoff because of staff reduction and/or discontinuance of position, the least senior teacher in the affected area of licensure at the site shall be laid off. A teacher returning from leave who is guaranteed a same position will be laid off only if he/she is least senior in the license area to be laid off at the site.

Notification of Return from Leave. The staff must notify the Director of Human Resources or designee in person or in writing by U.S. mail, certified mail, email, or on the appropriate form, their date of return no later than March 1 if intending to return the next school year or two (2) months prior to the originally-scheduled date of the leave termination, whichever is earlier, of their specific intent to return to active service at the specified date or request an extension of the leave. Extensions are not routinely granted. Subd. 1. Return with Guarantee of Same Position 1.1 Teachers on short-term non-compensatory leaves of absence shall return to their same position. 1.2 Teachers on a parental leave of up to twenty 20 weeks in the same school year, including all compensatory sick leave time taken at the conclusion of pregnancy, birth or adoption may return to their same position. 1.3 Teachers returning from a general non-compensatory leave who have been guaranteed a right to return to their same position will return to their same position, except in situations of staff reduction and/or discontinuance of position, where return to same position will be determined per 1.4 of this article. 1.4 If during the period of leave the site has become subject to layoff because of staff reduction and/or discontinuance of position, the least senior teacher in the affected area of licensure at the site shall be laid off. A teacher returning from leave who is guaranteed a same position will be laid off only if he/she is least senior in the license area to be laid off at the site. 2.1 All leaves, except for leaves identified in Article 12,