Common use of Personal Business Leave Days Clause in Contracts

Personal Business Leave Days. 1. Personal Business is an absence necessitated by circumstances that are of a personal nature to the employee and cannot be attended to outside the normal working day. Personal Business days shall be approved without substantiation or explanation except for the periods of time delineated on the "Request for Personal Business Leave" form. Due to the difficulty of securing substitutes on Fridays, employees are encouraged to plan for prearranged Personal Business days on days other than Friday. Employees may be contacted to request a rescheduling of Personal Business days contingent upon substitute availability. 2. All employees covered by this Agreement earn two (2) days off per work year, with pay, for the purpose of attending to personal business. Personal Business days can accumulate to four (4) days. Any in excess of four (4) will transfer to accumulated sick leave. A person employed during the period from February 1 through the end of the employee’s work year shall be granted only one (1) day for that period. A person employed less than one full work year or on a part-time basis shall have the days prorated, based upon their percentage of time employed. 3. The day(s) must be requested by presenting the "Request for Personal Business Leave" form (Appendix D) to the building principal. The leave may be of such a nature that a request in writing ahead of time is not practical. In this event, the building principal should be contacted by telephone prior to the absence and the request shall be put in writing after return. 4. It is the district's intent that Personal Business Days are appropriate and typical of the following obligations, although these are not all inclusive: court appearances, scheduled medical examinations, religious holidays, college graduation exercises, real estate transactions, honors convocations honoring the employee or members of his or her immediate family, legal or financial matters, moving, registration at a university, marriage, and other personal matters of a business nature. Personal Business Days may not be used for vacation or hunting. 5. One emergency day per year will be granted or allowed to be used in two-hour increments. This day is deductible from sick leave. 6. Personal Business days shall not be used in increments that exceed the workday being covered by the leave provision (i.e. employees cannot earn more in leave than they earn while on the job).

Personal Business Leave Days. 1. Personal Business is an absence necessitated by circumstances that are of a personal nature to the employee and cannot be attended to outside the normal working day. Personal Business days shall be approved without substantiation or explanation except for the periods of time delineated on the "Request for Personal Business Leave" form. Due to the difficulty of securing substitutes on Fridays, employees are encouraged to plan for prearranged Personal Business days on days other than Friday. Employees may be contacted to request a rescheduling of Personal Business days contingent upon substitute availability. 2. All employees covered by this Agreement earn two (2) days off per work year, with pay, for the purpose of attending to personal business. Personal Business days can accumulate to four (4) days. Any in excess of four (4) will transfer to accumulated sick leave. A person employed during the period from February 1 through the end of the employee’s work year shall be granted only one (1) day for that period. A person employed less than one full work year or on a part-time basis shall have the days prorated, based upon their percentage of time employed. 3. The day(s) must be requested by presenting the "Request for Personal Business Leave" form (Appendix D) to the building principal. The leave may be of such a nature that a request in writing ahead of time is not practical. In this event, the building principal should be contacted by telephone prior to the absence and the request shall be put in writing after return. 4. It is the district's intent that Personal Business Days are appropriate and typical of the following obligations, although these are not all inclusive: court appearances, scheduled medical examinations, religious holidays, college graduation exercises, real estate transactions, honors convocations honoring the employee or members of his or her immediate family, legal or financial matters, moving, registration at a university, marriage, and other personal matters of a business nature. Personal Business Days may not be used for vacation or hunting. 5. One emergency day per year will be granted or allowed to be used in two-hour increments. This day is deductible from sick leave. 6. Personal Business days shall not be used in increments that exceed the workday being covered by the leave provision (i.e. employees cannot earn more in leave than they earn while on the job). 7. All bargaining unit members who were in the bargaining unit as of July 1, 1986, receive one (1) additional personal day each year which will be taken in accordance with the terms of the contract, excluding the first and last day of school, the day before or after holidays, and the first and last day of their work year.