Personal Illness. Employees may use accumulated sick leave for hours off due to personal illness. The employee may be required to furnish a medical certificate from a qualified physician as evidence of illness or physical disability in order to qualify for paid sick leave as per District practice. Accumulated sick leave may also be granted for such time as is actually necessary for office visits to a doctor, dentist, optometrist, etc.
Personal Illness. Childcare Leave 5. Bereavement Leave
Personal Illness. Every teacher shall have 70 hours sick leave during his/her first year in the system and 56 hours sick leave each year thereafter. Sick leave may also be used due to illness of any member of the teacher's immediate family (as defined in Article I, Section 2). A teacher may accumulate unused sick leave without limit, which accumulated leave shall be used for sick leave purposes only. Any teacher who is initially contracted on or after the first day of the second semester of any school year shall be entitled to one-half (1/2) of the foregoing annual amount of sick leave for that school year.
Personal Illness. Each employee shall be entitled to salary not withstanding absence from duty on account of sickness certified to by a physician or on account of acute inflammatory condition of the teeth or gums certified by a licentiate of dental surgery.
Personal Illness. Personal illness of the student or when attendance in school would endanger the health of the student or the health of others is excused. Upon the student’s return to school, appropriate medical documentation is required within three days of the absence(s). Your parent or guardian should call the school each morning you are home ill. When you return to school, you must bring an explanatory note from your parent or guardian or it will be an unexcused absence. The school may require a doctor's confirmation if the student has 3 or more medical excused absences.
Personal Illness. 1) The Superintendent may require a doctor's certificate of illness or a letter of explanation from the employee if a doctor was not in attendance whenever there is reason to believe that an absence is not due to a bona fide illness.
2) An employee shall, at their request, be allowed to use sick leave for an absence due to disability connected with or resulting from pregnancy as authorized under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). A physician's statement verifying that they are disabled due to causes contributed to by pregnancy shall be required. If the Board has reasonable cause to believe that the employee's health would be endangered by continued employment, it may require the employee to obtain a physician's verification stating that they are physically able to continue their duties. The employee must return to work as soon as their health permits unless they resign or request a leave of absence. Before returning to duty, the employee may be required to present a physician's certificate stating that they are physically able to resume duties.
3) An employee who is a parent may utilize FMLA as defined in Article VIII, Paragraph E below.
4) An employee shall, at their request made via the electronic absence reporting system, be allowed to use sick leave for an absence due to an illness of an immediate family member(spouse, parent, child, or sibling).
5) Any employee who suffers an injury or illness verified to be job- related (based on the Report of Injury, Employee Statement Form, and the Supervisor Accident Report form completed by the employee or supervisor) and is able to continue work with medical treatment for such injury or illness, will be granted administrative leave for up to four visits for related medical appointments required during the duty day. A doctor’s receipt or note will be required for verification of required appointments.
6) Employees may submit a request in writing to the Superintendent to transfer up to five days of sick leave to other employees who are legal members of their immediate family (spouse, parent, child, or sibling) to be used for eligible sick leave purposes if the immediate family member has exhausted their sick leave. The employee cannot transfer more than five days to any one immediate family member per school year. Unused sick leave that was previously transferred under this provision and not used for the defined eligible sick leave purposes will be returned to the donating employee.
Personal Illness. Personal illness requires a physician's off work order 5 and runs concurrent with one-hundred (100) day long-term illness leave.
Personal Illness. In any one calendar year, regular employees shall be entitled, after notifying his/her supervisor, to a maximum of six (6) working days at one hundred (100) percent of pay for absences due to personal illness. Employees who exhaust all or part of their six (6) working days entitlement at one hundred (100) percent of pay in a calendar year shall have it reinstated in the following calendar year upon return to work.
Personal Illness. Injury or Disability: The District shall grant the use of sick leave to employees for reasons of personal injury, illness, or disability. The District may request a physician’s certificate or other suitable proof of illness acceptable to the District. An employee who knows in advance that he or she will be absent for medical purposes should notify the immediate building supervisor and/or Superintendent as soon as possible to insure proper planning for substitute teachers.
Personal Illness. For absences caused by illness or physical disability of the teacher or physician appointments during the term of illness, but shall not be utilized for routine, or continuing conditions except where the physician verifies such condition would render the teacher unable to teach, each teacher shall be allowed ten (10) days each year, accumulative without limit. A teacher who teaches less than a full school year shall be credited with a proportional number of sick leave days. In the event a new teacher shall have accumulated three (3) or more sick leave days in a prior school corporation of this state, then after his/her first year of teaching, and upon the signing of his/her second consecutive teaching contract with the Merrillville Community Schools, he/she will be eligible for the regular ten (10) days plus three (3) additional days each succeeding year until his/her previously accumulated sick leave days are exhausted. Summer school teachers shall be entitled to all sick leave rights to which they are normally entitled and have remaining from the preceding school year. Teachers shall be given an accounting of their accumulated sick leave once each year. If a teacher is absent five (5) consecutive school days or longer he/she will specify on the appropriate form the nature of the illness or physical disability. If the personal illness leave use has been frequent or suspicion of abuse exists, the administration may require the submission of a physician's statement certifying illness of the teacher involved. At any time school is canceled, there will not be personal illness days deducted.
