Common use of Occupational Leave Clause in Contracts

Occupational Leave. A unit member who has been employed for one (1) year (except substitute and limited term employees) who is absent from duty because of illness or injury resulting from an accident or condition which qualified under State Workers' Compensation Law, shall be granted an occupational leave for each such accident. The number of days for any one such leave or the total number of days in one school year for more than one such leave shall not exceed sixty (60) days. Only absences which are supported by a doctor's certificate and have been verified by the District's Workers' Compensation Administrator to be the result of work-connected injury or illness can be paid under the occupational leave policy. During the period an employee is receiving his/her regular salary from the District, he/she is required to assign to the District all temporary disability payments received from the District's Workers' Compensation Administrator. During the previously referenced sixty (60) days of occupational leave, changes to the unit member’s sixty day occupational leave balance shall be reduced by one (1) day for each day of authorized absence regardless of temporary disability payment paid by the District. Should the sixty day period be exhausted, subsequent deductions to an employee’s personal illness leave, earned vacation leave, and compensatory time, if any, shall be reduced only by that amount necessary to provide a full day’s wage or salary when added to temporary disability benefits. When all available leaves of absence, paid or unpaid, have been exhausted and if the employee is not medically able to assume the duties of his/her position, he/she shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of thirty-nine (39) months. He/she may be placed on unpaid leave of absence at which time he/she shall be granted paid health insurance benefits in the same manner as though he/she were an active regular employee of the District. When available, during the thirty-nine (39) month period, he/she shall be employed in a vacant position in the class of his/her previous assignment over all other available candidates except for a reemployment list established because of lack of work or lack of funds, in which case, he/she shall be listed in accordance with appropriate seniority regulations. An employee while receiving occupational leave benefits must remain in the state of California unless the Board of Education authorizes travel outside the state.

Occupational Leave. a. A unit member who has been employed for one (1) year (except substitute and limited term employees) who is absent from duty because of a temporary disability caused by an on the job injury or illness or injury resulting from an accident or condition contracted on the job which qualified qualifies under State Workers' Workers Compensation LawInsurance, shall be granted an occupational leave for each such accident. The number of a period not to exceed 60 days in any fiscal year or for any one such leave single injury or the total number of days in one school year for more than one such illness. b. Occupational leave shall not exceed sixty (60) days. Only absences which are supported by a doctor's certificate and have been verified by the District's Workers' Compensation Administrator to be the result of work-connected injury or illness can be paid under the occupational leave policy. During the period an employee is receiving his/her regular salary granted from the District, he/she is required to assign to first day of disability but shall not extend beyond the District all last date for which temporary disability payments indemnity is received from the District's Workers' State Compensation AdministratorInsurance Fund. During the previously referenced sixty (60) days of occupational leave, changes to the unit member’s sixty day occupational Occupational leave balance shall be reduced by one (1) day for of each day of authorized absence regardless of temporary disability payment paid payments made by the DistrictState Compensation Insurance Fund. c. Only absences which are supported by a certificate from a licensed physician and which have been verified by the State Compensation Fund to be the result of a duty- connected injury or illness shall be eligible for payment under the provisions of this section. Any absence that cannot be verified shall be charged against the unit member’s sick leave and other appropriate leave. Eligible absences shall include absences caused by exposure to childhood communicable diseases when supported by a physician’s certificate and verified by the State Compensation Insurance Fund as being work connected. Childhood communicable diseases are measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, mumps, German measles, and scarlet fever. d. Should a unit member’s disability due to an occupational injury or illness extend beyond 60 days, the sixty day period unit member shall be eligible to use accrued sick leave and/or extended sick leave until temporary disability payments cease, until the unit member returns to work, or until sick leave and extended sick leave are exhausted, subsequent deductions whichever comes first. e. No unit member on occupational leave shall be entitled to an employeereceive salary payments from the District which, when added to the temporary disability payments received from the State Compensation Insurance Fund, exceed the unit member’s personal illness leave, earned normal daily and monthly rates. Sick leave and/or vacation leave, and compensatory time, if any, leave shall be reduced only by that the amount necessary to provide a full day’s wage or salary when added to temporary disability benefits. When all available leaves of absence, paid or unpaid, have been exhausted and if the employee During any period in which a unit member is not medically able to assume the duties of receiving his/her position, he/she shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of thirty-nine (39) months. He/she may be placed on unpaid leave of absence at which time he/she shall be granted paid health insurance benefits in the same manner as though he/she were an active full regular employee of wage or salary from the District. When available, during the thirty-nine (39) month period, he/she shall endorse over to the District all temporary disability payments received from the State Compensation Fund. f. Absences due to occupational leave shall not be employed considered interruption in service for the purpose of computing a vacant position in the class of his/her previous assignment over all other available candidates except for a reemployment list established because of lack of work or lack of funds, in which case, he/she shall be listed in accordance with appropriate seniority regulations. An employee while unit member’s entitlement to benefits. g. A unit member receiving occupational leave benefits must shall remain in within the state State of California unless the Board of Education authorizes travel outside the stateState is authorized in advance and in writing by the District.