Personal Business Leave. Unit members shall receive a total of three (3) work days per year with no loss in salary that may be used for personal business. Unit members employed on or after February 1 shall receive one (1) work day of personal business leave. Effective July 1, 2006, unused personal business leave days may be accumulated up to no greater than five (5) days. On July 1 of each year any personal business days in excess of five (5) will be converted to sick leave days. Personal business leave may be requested, with at least three (3) work days advance notice, through the appropriate principal or department head who shall not require a reason for the leave. If, however, an unforeseen circumstance requires the member’s absence which could not be approved three days in advance, the reason for the absence shall be stated and the principal or department head may, at his/her discretion, approve the absence as a day of personal business leave. Personal business leave may be denied when, in the judgment of the principal or supervisor, the member’s absence would impair the educational process. Personal business leave shall not be taken immediately before or immediately after a holiday or weekday when school is closed on the master calendar, or on an in-service day for teachers, or at the beginning (first five scheduled work days) or the end of the school year (last five scheduled work days). If, however, a circumstance requires the member’s absence on one or more of the foregoing days, the member may request use of personal business leave through the principal. The principal or supervisor may, at his/her discretion, approve the absence as a day of personal business leave. In normal circumstances a member shall not use more than three (3) consecutive personal business days at one time. Exceptions to the foregoing restrictions on days to be used for personal business leave may be made by the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources for circumstances which require the member’s absence on these days.
Personal Business Leave. 13.8.1 Each employee shall be entitled to one (1) day of paid leave annually for the purpose of conducting personal business. New employees must be employed six (6) months before personal business leave is granted. Leave under this section shall be granted when the employee notifies his/her supervisor in writing forty-eight (48) hours in advance. This leave is in addition to Personal Necessity Leave and Discretionary Personal Necessity Leave, and does not accumulate from year-to-year.
Personal Business Leave. A. An employee shall be granted one (1) day leave of absence each year for necessary personal business without loss of pay. If unused, such personal business leave shall be accumulated as sick leave, but not subject to annual sick leave conversion.
B. Each employee shall be permitted to use up to three (3) days per year of accumulated sick leave for necessary personal business which shall be non-cumulative from year-to-year and shall be treated as sick leave.
C. A request for personal business leave either on the day before or after a holiday or on the two
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Personal Business Leave. A regular full-time employee shall be granted three (3) days of non-cumulative personal business leave with pay to be used each year. Personal business leave is available only when the employee cannot attend to necessary personal business on non-working hours. Personal business leave days are calculated on a fiscal year basis (July 1 to June 30). Personal business leave shall be taken in no less than one (1) hour increments, effective January 3, 2022. An employee requesting personal business leave must provide three (3) work days (Monday through Friday) prior notice and have the advance approval of their supervisor except in an emergency when such approval shall be requested as soon as possible thereafter. Personal business leave will not be granted for the work day immediately before or after a holiday, vacation, or sick leave. Nor shall personal business leave be allowed during an employee's first six-months of her/his probationary period or during the last two (2) weeks of employment. Personal business leave days which are unused each year shall be added to the employee’s accumulated sick leave.
Personal Business Leave. Each teacher shall be entitled to three (3) days for the transaction of personal business and/or the conduct of personal or civic affairs during each year of employment. The Parties strongly urge teachers not to take Personal Leave on the day before or the day after any breaks in the regular school schedule. To provide the building principal a better opportunity to secure a qualified substitute, a request for Personal Leave should be presented to the building principal no later than the day before the leave is to be taken. In the event of an emergency where prior notice is not possible, teachers may make this request verbally. The Personal Leave form must be submitted on the day he/she returns to work. One unused personal day from the prior school year will automatically be added to the current year for a total of four (4) personal days. If no personal days are available for retention, then only three (3) days of personal business would be available for the current school year. Any other unused personal days roll into sick days. The statement “personal business” is sufficient reason to warrant use of this leave.
Personal Business Leave. Each full-time teacher employed under regular or temporary contract shall be entitled to three (3) days of absence per school year without loss of pay for family emergency or for the transaction of personal business and/or the conduct of personal or civic affairs. If in any one school year the teacher shall be absent for reasons covered in this provision for fewer than three (3) days, the remaining days shall accumulate to a total of six (6) days. Days accumulated beyond six (6) shall be transferred to the teacher's accumulated sick leave. A teacher employed under regular or temporary contract for only a portion of the school year shall be entitled to only a proportionate number of personal leave days. On days immediately prior to or following vacation days, no more than three (3) staff members in any one building will be granted leave on the same date. The total granted district wide, on any one date immediately prior to or following vacation days, will not exceed fifteen (15) people.
Personal Business Leave. 18 Permission to be absent without pay may be granted for urgent personal reasons for a 19 maximum of one (1) month in any school year. Personal business leaves are not granted 20 to extend a vacation period or to provide additional days off immediately preceding or 21 following a holiday. Personal business leave may be granted for the following reasons:
22 1) Unavoidable transportation delay. (Notification by telephone must be made as
Personal Business Leave. A unit member shall be allowed to take up to one (1) day per year of accrued vacation leave for personal business purposes, with the prior scheduling approval of the department head. Normally, the leave shall be taken in one-half (1/2) day increments; however, smaller increments may be granted in justified cases by the department head.
Personal Business Leave. Each teacher shall be awarded three (3) personal days, with pay, for the transaction of personal business or civic affairs. Certified employees will be allowed to bank up to two (2) personal unused personal days potentially providing access to a maximum of five (5) days in the following year.
a. Any leftover personal days at the end of each school year will be rolled over into personal days for use in the next school year, but not exceeding the allotment of two (2) banked personal days. Any personal days over the allotted two (2) banked personal days will roll over to sick days.
b. For employees who have reached the 185 sick leave day cap, unused personal days will be purchased back at the current licensed substitute rate.
c. Employees may use up to all five (5) days consecutively with prior approval of building principal, but not more than one (1) day to extend any scheduled school break or holiday. Personal day requests adjacent to a scheduled break will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. Such requests may be denied based upon the availability of substitutes at the discretion of the superintendent.
d. Personal leaves requested with less than twenty-four hours notice (24) may be denied on the basis of substitute availability.
e. Personal business leave may not be divided into less than half-day units.
f. All personal business days must be used prior to submitting a request, to the Superintendent, for unpaid leave. Personal Unpaid Leave Employees who require additional days of personal leave for reasons not included in this contract, upon written request to the superintendent, may be granted additional days for which they will sacrifice pay as defined below for that period of time at the rate at which they have been contracted. Definition of pay: In the event that an employee is granted unpaid leave, the employee will surrender 1.17 x his/her daily rate.
