Personal Injury Leave. 1. Teachers shall report immediately to their principal or acting principal in all cases of personal injury suffered by them in connection with their employment. 2. Whenever a teacher is absent from school as a result of physical injury arising out of and/or in the course of his/her employment, he/she shall be paid his/her full salary for the period of such absence for up to six (6) months after such injury without having such absence charged to the annual sick leave or accumulated sick leave. 3. Any amount of salary payable pursuant to this Section shall be reduced by the amount of any Worker's Compensation awarded for temporary disability due to the said injury for the period for which such salary is paid. 4. The Board shall have the right to have the teacher examined by a physician designated by the Board for the purpose of establishing the length of time during which the teacher is temporarily disabled from performing his/her duties; and in the event there is no adjudication in the appropriate Worker's Compensation proceedings for the period of temporary disability, the opinion of the said physician as to the said period shall control. 5. If a teacher is injured in the course of his/her obligated duties, whether written or unwritten, the administrator and Board of Education will do all that is legally possible to see that the perpetrator of the injury is punished in accordance with Rolling Hills Local School Board of Education policy and state or federal laws and statutes.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
