Common use of Personal Illness and Injury Leave Clause in Contracts

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 Full-time employees shall be entitled to ten (10) days leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less than full-time shall be entitled to prorated leave calculated on a comparable full-time contract. 9.2 If an employee does not utilize the full amount of earned illness leave authorized above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year. An employee may be required to present a medical doctor's certification verifying the personal illness or injury after five (5) consecutive absences. 9.2.1 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when the illness or injury impacts the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leave. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during each school year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school year. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, when a certificated employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his or her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the certificated employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977. 9.5 An employee or his/her authorized representative must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee and report the absence on the Subfinder System in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitute, if applicable, as soon as the need to be absent is known but no less than two (2) hours prior to the start of the workday to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s service. If due to an emergency or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her absence in the Subfinder System, the employee must contact his/her program designee. An employee who is absent for one-half (1/2) day or less shall have deducted one-half (1/2) day from the accumulated leave; and if the absence exceeds more than one-half day, a full day shall be deducted from accumulated leave. However, if a substitute is not secured, the employee’s leave shall be deducted based on the actual length of absence in 15-minute increments. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise, an employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office of the employee's intent to return to work if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School sick leave shall be available, limited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day of sick leave shall only be used during ESY or Summer School sessions and is non-transferable to the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use only. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than the provisions stated above, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated sick leave cannot be used by an employee while working ESY or Summer School shall apply. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available as Appendix C.

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 12.1.1 Full-time employees unit members shall be entitled to ten (10) days of leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less than full-time shall be entitled to prorated leave calculated on a comparable full-time contract. 9.2 12.1.2 If an employee a unit member does not utilize the full amount of earned illness leave as authorized above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year. 12.1.3 Unit members who work less than full-time shall be entitled to that portion of the ten (10) days leave as the number of hours per week of scheduled duty relates to the number of hours for a full-time unit member. 12.1.4 After all earned leave, as set forth above, is exhausted, additional non- accumulated leave shall be available for a period not to exceed five (5) school months beginning on the eleventh (11th) day of absence due to illness or injury. An The amount deducted for leave purposes from the unit member’s salary, after all fully paid sick leave has been utilized, shall be the amount actually paid a substitute employee employed to fill the position during the absence, or, if no substitute is employed, the amount which would have been paid to a substitute, but shall, in no event, exceed fifty percent (50%) of the unit member’s regular salary. 12.1.5 If there is evidence of misuse of paid leave, a unit member may be required to present a medical doctor's certification ’s certificate verifying the personal illness or injury after five (5) consecutive absencesinjury. 9.2.1 12.1.6 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when the illness or injury impacts the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leave. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during each school year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school year. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, when a certificated employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his or her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the certificated employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977. 9.5 An employee or his/her authorized representative unit member must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee and report the absence on the Subfinder System in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitute, if applicable, District’s sub-caller system as soon as the need to be absent is known known, but in no less event later than two (2) hours prior to the start 7:00 A.M. of the workday that work day to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s servicereplacement. If due Failure to an emergency provide adequate notice shall be grounds for denial of leave with pay or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her absence in the Subfinder System, the employee must contact his/her program designee. An employee other disciplinary action. 12.1.7 A unit member who is absent for one-half (1/2½) day or less shall have deducted one-half (1/2½) day from the accumulated leave; and if the absence exceeds more than one-half (½) day, a full day shall be deducted from accumulated leave. HoweverGrade Level ¼ Daily Rate ½ Daily Rate ¾ Daily Rate Full K-5 Up to 1 hour of instruction Over 1 hour, if up to and including 3 hours Over 3 hours, up to 4 hours More than 4 hours Grade Level ¼ Daily Rate ½ Daily Rate ¾ Daily Rate Full 6-8 Up to 1 period of instruction Over 1 period to and including 3 period or 2 periods and a substitute is not securedprep Over 3 periods, the employee’s leave up to and including 4 periods or 3 periods and a prep More than 4 periods 9-12 Up to 1 period of instruction Over 1 period, up to 3 periods or 2 periods and a prep Over 3 periods, up to 5 periods and including 3 periods and a prep or 4 periods and a prep More than 4 periods 12.1.8 Each unit member shall be deducted based on the actual length notified of absence in 15-minute incrementstheir accumulated leave quarterly. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise12.1.9 Should a unit member retire, an employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office of the employee's intent to return to work if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School all unused sick leave shall be available, limited credited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day of sick leave shall only be used during ESY or Summer School sessions and is non-transferable to the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use onlyhis/her retirement. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than the provisions stated above, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated sick leave cannot be used by an employee while working ESY or Summer School shall apply. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available as Appendix C.

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 A. Full-time certificated employees shall be are entitled to ten (10) days days, fully-paid leave with full pay of absence for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injuryinjury (sick leave) per school year. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less Less than full-time employees shall be entitled granted comparable leave in proportion to prorated leave calculated on a comparable full-the time contractthey are employed. 9.2 If an employee does not utilize the full amount 1) Whenever a District administrator reasonably suspects improper use of earned illness leave authorized above in any school yearpersonal illness/injury leave, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year administrator may require the employee to year. An employee may be required to present provide a medical doctor's certification verifying the personal ’s written verification of illness or injury after for any such day(s) of absence. That direction shall be given to the employee prior to the day(s) of absence. Failure to provide the doctor’s written verification shall result in the employee being placed in unpaid status for the days of absence for which a doctor’s verification was required until such verification is received by the District. 2) An employee shall, at the earliest reasonable time, inform school administration, the certificated substitute program, or such other person as may be designated, of his/her absence(s). B. An additional five (5) consecutive absences. 9.2.1 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when the months of differential-paid leave is available for personal injury or illness or injury impacts the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leave. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during each school year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications an employee has exhausted all available fully-paid sick leaves, including current year allocation and amount accumulated. This leave including all accumulated sick leave, runs concurrently with the Family and continues to Medical Leave provisions. 1) Compensation shall be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed ’s regular daily pay less: a) the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her the employee’s position during his or his/her absence or, if no substitute (or to replace another regular employee was employed, who temporarily replaces the absent employee), b) the amount that would have been paid a substitute had a substitute been employed. 2) For extended leaves due to a serious health condition, the employee shall provide a health care provider’s certification that due to the substitute had he or she been employed (howeverserious health condition, the amount deducted shall not exceed employee is unable to perform the standard daily or long-term substitute rateessential functions of his/her job, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services probable duration of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leavethe condition, and the date on which the serious health condition commenced. 3) The five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school begins immediately after the use of the employee’s current year terminates before the five-month period is exhaustedillness/injury leave allocation and accumulated leave. 4) Prior to returning to work, the employee may take shall provide a health care provider’s certification that the balance employee is able to perform the essential functions of his/her job. 5) If the employee remains absent after use of the five-month period differential pay leave, the employee shall be in unpaid status and placed on a subsequent school yearreemployment list. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, 6) A leave shall be granted for a disability caused by pregnancy when a certificated the attending physician certifies in writing that the employee has exhausted is physically disabled and cannot perform regularly assigned duties. 7) The period of paid leave shall be limited to the period of medical disability as verified by the physician. 8) The employee shall first use all available sick leave for this purpose. 9) If the period of verified disability extends beyond the available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able entitled to resume up to five additional months of differential paid leave as detailed in Section 2 above. C. Industrial accident and illness leaves are available to employees for injury or illness arising directly out of and in the duties course and scope of his their employment. In each fiscal year, allowable leave for certificated employees for any single industrial accident or her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the certificated employee illness shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977sixty (60) days. 9.5 An employee or his/her authorized representative must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee and report the absence on the Subfinder System in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitute, if applicable, as soon as the need to be absent is known but no less than two (2) hours prior to the start of the workday to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s service. If due to an emergency or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her absence in the Subfinder System, the employee must contact his/her program designee. An employee who is absent for one-half (1/2) day or less shall have deducted one-half (1/2) day from the accumulated leave; and if the absence exceeds more than one-half day, a full day shall be deducted from accumulated leave. However, if a substitute is not secured, the employee’s leave shall be deducted based on the actual length of absence in 15-minute increments. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise, an employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office of the employee's intent to return to work if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School sick leave shall be available, limited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day of sick leave shall only be used during ESY or Summer School sessions and is non-transferable to the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use only. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than the provisions stated above, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated sick leave cannot be used by an employee while working ESY or Summer School shall apply. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available as Appendix C.

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 12.1.1 Full-time employees shall be entitled to ten twelve (1012) days leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less than full-time (i.e. less than 8 hours per day, 5 days a week, 12 months a year) shall be entitled to prorated that portion of the twelve (12) days leave calculated on as the number of scheduled work days relates to twelve months for a comparable full-time contractemployee in a comparable position. 9.2 12.1.2 The amount deducted for leave purposes from the employee’s salary shall be 50% of the employee’s regular rate of pay, once all sick leave has been exhausted. When an employee is absent from their duties on account of illness or accident for a period of 100 workdays or less per fiscal year, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of employment and whether or not a substitute is hired, the employee shall be compensated at 50% of the employee’s regular salary. The 100 workdays shall commence on the first day of illness, excluding industrial accident and illness leave of up to sixty (60) workdays in any one (1) fiscal year. The 100 workdays may be intermittent throughout the fiscal year. The 100 workdays shall not accumulate from year to year. This extended leave shall be limited to a maximum of 100 workdays per illness or accident per fiscal year. The 100 workdays for part-time employees shall be limited to the average hours scheduled per day. At the exhaustion of all leaves, the employee will be placed on the 39-month reemployment list.‌‌ 12.1.3 If an employee does not utilize the full amount of earned illness leave as authorized in 12.1.1 above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year. An employee may be required to present a medical doctor's certification verifying the personal illness or injury after five (5) consecutive absences. 9.2.1 A medical authorization to return to work 12.1.4 If the Employer doubts the existence of illness, he/she may be required when the illness or injury impacts require verification from the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leavephysician of any absence. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 4497712.1.5 Whenever possible, during each school year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school year. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, when a certificated employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his or her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the certificated employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977. 9.5 An employee or his/her authorized representative must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee and report the absence on in the Subfinder System Absence Management (formerly Aesop) system in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitute, if applicable, substitute as soon as the need to be absent is known known, but no less than two one (21) hours hour prior to the start of the workday to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s substitutes’ service. School Bus Drivers are required to call the designated person who is responsible for securing a substitute by 5:00 a.m. or no less than one (1) hour prior to the start of the workday. Failure to provide adequate notice may be grounds for denial of leave with pay. If due to an emergency or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her experiences technical difficulties when reporting an absence in the Subfinder SystemAbsence Management (formerly Aesop) system, the employee he/she must contact his/her program designee. the designated Human Resources employee and/or voicemail (662-6239) no less than one (1) hour prior to the start of the workday.‌‌‌‌ 12.1.6 An employee who is absent for onein transportation may not be allowed to return to work on half-half (1/2) day increments in the event notification in Sections 12.1.5 or less shall have deducted one-half (1/2) day from the accumulated leave; 12.1.7 has not been given and if the absence exceeds more than one-half day, a full day shall be deducted from accumulated leave. However, if a substitute is not was secured, the employee’s leave shall be deducted based on the actual length of absence in 15-minute increments. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise, an 12.1.7 An employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office Employer of the employee's ’s intent to return to work at least two (2) hours prior to the close of the preceding work day if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School sick leave shall be available, limited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day of sick leave shall only be used during ESY or Summer School sessions and is non-transferable to the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use only. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than the provisions stated above, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated sick leave cannot be used by an employee while working ESY or Summer School shall apply. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available as Appendix C.

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 Full-1.1 Unit employees regularly employed on a full time employees shall basis who are compelled to be entitled absent from assigned duty due to ten (10) days leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal their own illness or injury. Employees working 200 days , shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less than full-time shall be entitled to prorated leave calculated on a comparable full-time contract. 9.2 If an employee does not utilize the full amount of earned allowed personal illness leave authorized above in any without loss of salary as follows for a school yearyear of service, the amount not utilized shall earned but unused portion of such leave to be accumulated from year to year. : ● 10 work days for 10 school-month/10 calendar time assignments (185-187 contract days) ● 10-1/2 work days for 10-1/2 calendar-month time assignments (190-194 contract days) ● 11 work days for 11 calendar-month time assignments (200-215 contract days) ● 12 work days for 12 calendar-month time assignments (220 contract days) Unit employees serving less than a full school year, and/or employed on less than full time basis, shall be entitled to personal illness leave in proportion that the time served bears to a school year of full time service. 1.2 An employee may employee's sick leave shall be exclusive of all days they are not required to present a medical doctor's certification verifying render service to the personal illness or injury after five (5) consecutive absencesDistrict. 9.2.1 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when the illness or injury impacts the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leave. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during 1.3 During each school year, when if a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave leave, including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her their duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from employee will receive differential pay. The differential pay due to the employee will be the salary due him or her minus the cost of the substitute employee for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if occurs. If no substitute employee was employed, the differential pay to the employee will be reduced by the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she that substitute been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school yearemployed. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, when 1.4 When a certificated employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Education Code Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his or her their position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list an unpaid leave of absence for a period of 24 twenty-four (24) months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 thirty-nine (39) months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, able during the 24- 24-month or 39-month period, the certificated employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is they are credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Education Code Section 44977. 9.5 An 1.5 If a unit employee who has no accumulated sick leave for previous years takes all or his/her authorized representative must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee a portion of the sick leave allowable for the current school year and report subsequently fails to serve the absence on District for the Subfinder System in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitutefull school year, if applicable, as soon as the need to be absent is known but no less than two (2) hours prior an amount equivalent to the start number of the workday to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s service. If due to an emergency or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her absence in the Subfinder System, the employee must contact his/her program designee. An employee who is absent for one-half (1/2) day or less shall have deducted one-half (1/2) day from the accumulated leave; and if the absence exceeds more than one-half day, a full day days of used but unearned sick leave shall be deducted from accumulated leave. However, if a substitute is not secured, the final salary warrant drawn payable to said employee’s leave shall be deducted based on the actual length of absence in 15-minute increments. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise, an employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office of the employee's intent to return to work if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School sick leave shall be available, limited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day of sick leave shall only be used during ESY or Summer School sessions and is non-transferable to the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use only. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than the provisions stated above, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated sick leave cannot be used by an employee while working ESY or Summer School shall apply. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available as Appendix C.

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 Full-time employees shall be entitled to ten (10) days X. Xxxx leave with full pay for each school year for purposes is the authorized paid absence of personal illness or injury. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less than full-time shall be entitled to prorated leave calculated on a comparable full-time contract. 9.2 If an employee does not utilize the full amount because of earned illness leave authorized above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year. An employee may be required to present a medical doctor's certification verifying the personal illness or injury after or exposure to contagious disease. B. Full-time, eight (8) hours a day and five (5) consecutive absencesdays a week, classified employees are entitled to one day of paid sick leave for each month of service, not to exceed twelve (12) days a year. Classified employees working less than eight (8) hours a day and/or five (5) days a week, are entitled to sick leave that shall be computed on a prorated basis. Unused sick leave may be accumulated without limit. 9.2.1 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when C. At the illness or injury impacts the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leave. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during beginning of each school fiscal year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave including all accumulated the employee shall be credited with the number of days or hours of paid sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not which the absence arises out of or employee would normally earn in the course of the employment of the employee, ensuing fiscal year. Adjustment in the amount deducted from of sick leave will be made if a change in assignment alters the salary due him or her amount of sick leave earned. X. Xxxx leave may be taken at any time, provided that new employees with probationary status may use only six (6) days of paid sick leave during their initial probationary period. E. Pay for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school year. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, when a certificated employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his or her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the certificated employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977. 9.5 An employee or his/her authorized representative must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee and report the absence on the Subfinder System in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitute, if applicable, as soon as the need to be absent is known but no less than two (2) hours prior to the start of the workday to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s service. If due to an emergency or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her absence in the Subfinder System, the employee must contact his/her program designee. An employee who is absent for one-half (1/2) day or less shall have deducted one-half (1/2) day from the accumulated leave; and if the absence exceeds more than one-half day, a full day shall be deducted from accumulated leave. However, if a substitute is not secured, the employee’s leave shall be deducted based on the actual length of absence in 15-minute increments. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise, an employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office of the employee's intent to return to work if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School sick leave shall be available, limited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day of sick leave shall only be used the same rate that the employee would have received if he/she had worked that day except as provided by the Education Code for part-time personnel. F. In order to receive compensation while on sick leave, the employee must notify the supervisor of his/her absence no later than the end of the first scheduled working hour of the first day absent, unless there is a legitimate reason why an employee can not call his employer during ESY this period. G. The Director of Personnel may request medical verification of illness absence. The statement of a licensed physician should include the nature of the illness or Summer School sessions injury and the day on which the employee is non-transferable able to return to work. X. Authorized paid holidays occurring during the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular period in which an employee is on paid sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use only. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, counted as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than X. Xxxx leave is not earned for overtime or during any period of leave of absence without pay. Student helpers, temporary (provisional), and emergency employees do not earn sick leave. X. Xx employee who is on sick leave may not continue to receive income from the provisions stated aboveschool district if he/she accepts other employment. 1) When an employee is on sick leave or a leave of absence without pay because of illness and wishes to accept other employment, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated employee must resign from the classified service of the District. 2) Accepting other employment without notifying the school district is grounds for dismissal. K. Attendance Recognition Award – A member of the bargaining unit who has accrued twenty-five (25) or more sick leave candays by June 30th of a given year shall receive during September of the subsequent year a cash award in accordance with the following schedule. For full-time employees, employed 10 or more months a year, the stipend will be: Number of Days Cash Award 25 – 49 days $50 50 – 74 days $100 75 – 99 days $150 100 – 124 days $200 125 – 149 days $250 150 – 174 days $300 175 – 199 days $350 200 days & over $400 1) For part-time employees, the stipend will be prorated according to their full-time equivalency. 2) A member who uses all of his/her annual allotment of sick leave during any one fiscal year will not be used by eligible for this attendance award during the subsequent fiscal year. However, if an employee while working ESY can provide to the Assistant Superintendent, Personnel, a physician’s verification of a prolonged or Summer School shall applychronic illness, the employee will be paid the award for the number of days as of June 30th of a given year. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available 3) Incentives are considered income and, as Appendix C.such, subject to normal taxes. 4) On or about October 1 of each year covered by this Agreement, the District shall provide each unit member with a written statement of accrued vacation and sick leave, including the current year’s entitlement.

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 Full-time employees shall be entitled to ten (10) days A. Sick leave with full pay for each school year for purposes is the authorized paid absence of personal illness or injury. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less than full-time shall be entitled to prorated leave calculated on a comparable full-time contract. 9.2 If an employee does not utilize the full amount because of earned illness leave authorized above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year. An employee may be required to present a medical doctor's certification verifying the personal illness or injury after or exposure to contagious disease. B. Full-time, eight (8) hours a day and five (5) consecutive absencesdays a week, classified employees are entitled to one day of paid sick leave for each month of service, not to exceed twelve (12) days a year. Classified employees working less than eight (8) hours a day and/or five (5) days a week, are entitled to sick leave that shall be computed on a prorated basis. Unused sick leave may be accumulated without limit. 9.2.1 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when C. At the illness or injury impacts the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leave. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during beginning of each school fiscal year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave including all accumulated the employee shall be credited with the number of days or hours of paid sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not which the absence arises out of or employee would normally earn in the course of the employment of the employee, ensuing fiscal year. Adjustment in the amount deducted from of sick leave will be made if a change in assignment alters the salary due him or her amount of sick leave earned. D. Sick leave may be taken at any time, provided that new employees with probationary status may use only six (6) days of paid sick leave during their initial probationary period. E. Pay for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school year. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, when a certificated employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his or her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the certificated employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977. 9.5 An employee or his/her authorized representative must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee and report the absence on the Subfinder System in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitute, if applicable, as soon as the need to be absent is known but no less than two (2) hours prior to the start of the workday to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s service. If due to an emergency or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her absence in the Subfinder System, the employee must contact his/her program designee. An employee who is absent for one-half (1/2) day or less shall have deducted one-half (1/2) day from the accumulated leave; and if the absence exceeds more than one-half day, a full day shall be deducted from accumulated leave. However, if a substitute is not secured, the employee’s leave shall be deducted based on the actual length of absence in 15-minute increments. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise, an employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office of the employee's intent to return to work if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School sick leave shall be available, limited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day of sick leave shall only be used the same rate that the employee would have received if he/she had worked that day except as provided by the Education Code for part-time personnel. F. In order to receive compensation while on sick leave, the employee must notify the supervisor of his/her absence no later than the end of the first scheduled working hour of the first day absent, unless there is a legitimate reason why an employee can not call his employer during ESY this period. G. The Director of Personnel may request medical verification of illness absence. The statement of a licensed physician should include the nature of the illness or Summer School sessions injury and the day on which the employee is non-transferable able to return to work. H. Authorized paid holidays occurring during the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular period in which an employee is on paid sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use only. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, counted as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than I. Sick leave is not earned for overtime or during any period of leave of absence without pay. Student helpers, temporary (provisional), and emergency employees do not earn sick leave. J. An employee who is on sick leave may not continue to receive income from the provisions stated aboveschool district if he/she accepts other employment. 1) When an employee is on sick leave or a leave of absence without pay because of illness and wishes to accept other employment, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated employee must resign from the classified service of the District. 2) Accepting other employment without notifying the school district is grounds for dismissal. K. Attendance Recognition Award – A member of the bargaining unit who has accrued twenty-five (25) or more sick leave candays by June 30th of a given year shall receive during September of the subsequent year a cash award in accordance with the following schedule. For full-time employees, employed 10 or more months a year, the stipend will be: Number of Days Cash Award 25 – 49 days $50 50 – 74 days $100 75 – 99 days $150 100 – 124 days $200 125 – 149 days $250 150 – 174 days $300 175 – 199 days $350 200 days & over $400 1) For part-time employees, the stipend will be prorated according to their full-time equivalency. 2) A member who uses all of his/her annual allotment of sick leave during any one fiscal year will not be used by eligible for this attendance award during the subsequent fiscal year. However, if an employee while working ESY can provide to the Assistant Superintendent, Personnel, a physician’s verification of a prolonged or Summer School shall applychronic illness, the employee will be paid the award for the number of days as of June 30th of a given year. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available 3) Incentives are considered income and, as Appendix C.such, subject to normal taxes. 4) On or about October 1 of each year covered by this Agreement, the District shall provide each unit member with a written statement of accrued vacation and sick leave, including the current year’s entitlement.

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 13.2.1 Full-time employees unit members shall be entitled to ten (10) days of leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees Unit members who work less than full-time shall be entitled to prorated that portion of the ten (10) days of leave calculated on as the number of hours per week of schedule duty relates to the number of hours for a comparable full-time contractunit member in a comparable position. 9.2 13.2.2 After all earned leave as set forth in 13.2.1 and all accumulated sick leave as set forth in 13.2.3 are exhausted, additional non-accumulated leave shall be available beginning on the eleventh (11th) day of absence due to illness or injury for a period not to exceed five (5) school months (or one hundred (100) school days), provided that the provisions of 13.2.4 are met. The amount deducted for leave purposes from the unit member‘s salary shall be the amount actually paid a daily substitute employed to fill the position during the leave, or if no substitute is employed, the amount which would have been paid to a daily substitute. In no event shall additional non-accumulated leave exceed one hundred (100) days in any school year. Only one (1) such non-accumulated leave shall be allowed for any single and continuous absence that extends into the next school year. The unit member and the Association are to be notified in writing by the Superintendent when sixty (60) workdays have been expended. 13.2.3 If an employee a unit member does not utilize the full amount of earned illness leave as authorized above in 13.2.1 in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year. An employee The Board shall provide each unit member with a written statement of (1) his/her accrued sick leave total and (2) his/her sick leave entitlement for the school year. Such statement shall be provided no later than the third week of each school year. 13.2.4 After a unit member has had a continuous absence of five (5) days, the unit member, upon request by District management, may be required to present a physician's release authorizing return to work. The District may also require a medical doctor's certification verifying report to the personal illness Superintendent or injury after five (5) consecutive absences. 9.2.1 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when designee that the illness or injury impacts is sufficiently severe to warrant continued absence. If such finding does not warrant continued absence, the employee’s ability District, after notice to perform the essential job duties or after unit member, may refuse to grant such leave. When required to have a prolonged medical leavedoctor's report, the District will pay doctor's expenses for the report. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during each school year, when 13.2.4.1 Upon documented reasonable cause; the District may require a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications unit member who has exhausted all available claimed sick leave including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account submit a physician's verification of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable)illness. The Office District shall make every reasonable effort to secure reimburse the services unit member for the cost of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school yearsuch verification. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.113.2.5 Whenever possible, when a certificated employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his or her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the certificated employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977. 9.5 An employee or his/her authorized representative unit member must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee and report (through the absence on the Subfinder System in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitute, if applicable, Substitute Service) as soon as the need to be absent is known known, but in no event less than two one and one-half (21-1/2) hours prior to the start of the workday work day, to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s substitute service. If due to an emergency or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her absence in the Subfinder System, the employee must contact his/her program designee. An employee . 13.2.6 A unit member who is absent for three and one-half (3.5) hours or less per day, inclusive of the one-half (1/2) day or less hour before and after the instructional day, shall have deducted one-half (1/2) day from the accumulated leave; and if the absence exceeds more than one-half day, a full day shall be deducted from accumulated leave. However, if a substitute is not secured, the employee’s leave shall be deducted based on the actual length of absence in 15-minute increments. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise, an employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office of the employee's intent to return to work if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School sick leave shall be available, limited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day of sick leave shall only be used during ESY or Summer School sessions and is non-transferable to the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use only. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than the provisions stated above, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated sick leave cannot be used by an employee while working ESY or Summer School shall apply. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available as Appendix C.exceeds

Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 Full12.1.1 Full time unit members shall earn seventy-time employees shall be entitled to ten five (1075) hours (10 days at 7.5 hours per day) of leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less than full-time shall be entitled to prorated leave calculated on a comparable full-time contract. 9.2 12.1.2 If an employee a unit member does not utilize the full amount of earned illness leave as authorized above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year. 12.1.3 Unit members who work less than full-time shall be entitled to that portion of the ten (10) days leave as the number of hours per week of scheduled duty relates to the number of hours for a full-time unit member. 12.1.4 After all earned leave, as set forth above, is exhausted, additional non- accumulated leave shall be available for a period not to exceed five (5) school months beginning on the eleventh (11th) day of absence due to illness or injury. An The amount deducted for leave purposes from the unit member’s salary, after all fully paid sick leave has been utilized, shall be the amount actually paid a substitute employee employed to fill the position during the absence, or, if no substitute is employed, the amount which would have been paid to a substitute, but shall, in no event, exceed fifty percent (50%) of the unit member’s regular salary. 12.1.5 If there is reasonable belief of misuse of paid leave, a unit member may be required to present a medical doctor's certification ’s certificate verifying the personal illness or injury after five (5) consecutive absencesinjury. 9.2.1 12.1.6 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when the illness or injury impacts the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leave. 9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during each school year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school year. 9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, when a certificated employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his or her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status, or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the certificated employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he or she is credentialed and qualified. The 24-month or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period provided pursuant to Section 44977. 9.5 An employee or his/her authorized representative unit member must contact his/her immediate supervisor or designee and report the District’s absence on the Subfinder System in order to track employee attendance and to secure a substitute, if applicable, reporting system as soon as the need to be absent is known known, preferably prior to 5:30 AM, but no less later than two (2) hours prior to the start 7:00 AM of the workday that work day to permit the employer time to secure a substitute’s servicereplacement. If due a unit member experiences an urgent or emergency circumstance which cannot reasonably be ignored, notification must be made to an emergency the assigned school site administration as soon as possible. Failure to provide adequate notice may be grounds for denial of leave with pay or unforeseen situation the employee is unable to record his/her absence in the Subfinder System, the employee must contact his/her program designee. An employee who is absent for one-half (1/2) day or less shall have deducted one-half (1/2) day from the accumulated leave; and if the absence exceeds more than one-half day, a full day shall be deducted from accumulated leave. However, if a substitute is not secured, the employee’s leave shall be deducted based on the actual length of absence in 15-minute incrementsother disciplinary action. 9.5.1 Unless Administration determines otherwise, an employee shall not be allowed to return to work and shall be placed on leave without pay if the employee fails to notify the Office of the employee's intent to return to work if such failure results in a substitute being secured. 9.5.2 When a substitute is secured and the employee returns to work prior to the end of the workday, the designated administrator (not the employee) will determine whether or not to release the substitute. 9.6 One (1) day of Extended School Year (ESY) or Summer School sick leave shall be available, limited to regular employees of MCSOS who work ESY or Summer School. This day 12.1.7 Use of sick leave shall only will be based upon an hour used during ESY or Summer School sessions and is non-transferable equals an hour charged, rounded up to the employees’ regular sick leave account. Regular sick leave shall not be used during ESY or Summer School. Unused ESY or Summer School sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year for ESY or Summer School use only. 9.7 Employees who earn and retain ESY or Summer School sick leave credit, as provided for above, for long-term accrual purposes, may add the accumulated ESY or Summer School sick leave to the employees' regularly accumulated sick leave for the following purposes: A. Expanding sick leave credit which would be applied for retirement purposes; B. Transferring total accumulated sick leave to another California school district, when changing employment; and C. For purposes of emergency and involving catastrophic illness where regular accumulated sick leave has expired and additional time is needed for sick leave. 9.7.1 Other than the provisions stated above, the prior contract terms whereby regular accumulated sick leave cannot be used by an employee while working ESY or Summer School shall apply. 9.8 A “Leave Requests Quick Reference – Certificated Employees” is available as Appendix C.nearest fifteen (15)