Personal/Family Illness or Disability 1. At the beginning of every school year, a teacher shall be credited with ten (10) days of sick leave minus any days needed for the Association to assess for the Sick Leave Bank (SLB). The unused portion shall accumulate as determined in Article 19, Section H. 2. New hires commencing work after the beginning day of school, and teachers working less than the normal school year (including a teacher who goes on unpaid leave during the school year), in a regular program, shall be credited sick days on the pro- rata basis of one day per every month worked during the teacher work year. (e.g. a teacher hired in January will be credited 6 days total, one for each month January- June) Further, in situations where teachers begin the year using days advanced by the Sick Leave Bank as referenced below, the Sick Leave Bank will be credited with days based on the same proration. 3. Teachers working full year assignments which are less than full time will be credited sick days prorated to the same percentage as their assignment. (e.g. a teacher assigned to a 30% position would receive 3 sick days annually based on 30% x 10 = 3.) 4. A teacher absent from duty because of personal illness or temporary disability which shall include illness in the immediate family shall be paid his/her full salary for the period of such absence, not to exceed the individual's advanced and accumulated sick leave time and granted sick bank days. 5. Immediate family shall include the employee's spouse, children, father, mother, brother, sister or any other person whose relationship is equivalent to that of a household relative. In addition, sick leave credit may be used by the teacher for critical illness or death of his/her grandparents or grandchildren, son-in-law daughter- in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law. 6. If, at the beginning of any school year, a teacher is ill and unable to resume his/her teaching duties in this school system, and such teacher has accumulated sick leave, he/she will be allowed to use such previously accumulated sick leave days while he/she remains ill and unable to work, provided he/she is not otherwise employed. Such a teacher will not be credited with any additional leave days until he/she has returned to his/her teaching duties. Upon return the teacher will be credited with days pursuant to the pro-rata basis specified previously minus any days assessed that school year by the SLB prior to the teacher’s return to work (such assess...
Personal/Family Illness or Disability 1. At the beginning of every school year, a teacher shall be credited with ten (10) days of sick leave minus any days needed for the Association to assess for the Sick Leave Bank (SLB). The unused portion shall accumulate as determined in Article 19, Section H. 2. New hires commencing work after the beginning day of school, and teachers working less than the normal school year (including a teacher who goes on unpaid leave during the school year), in a regular program, shall be credited sick days on the pro- rata basis of one day per every month worked during the teacher work year. (e.g. a teacher hired in January will be credited 6 days total, one for each month January- June) Further, in situations where teachers begin the year using days advanced by the Sick Leave Bank as referenced below, the Sick Leave Bank will be credited with days based on the same proration. 3. Teachers working full year assignments which are less than full time will be credited sick days prorated to the same percentage as their assignment. (e.g. a teacher assigned to a 30% position would receive 3 sick days annually based on 30% x 10 = 3.)
