Purpose of the Sick Leave Bank. The purpose of the Catastrophic Illness or Event Sick Leave Bank is to create a bank of sick days from which participants may apply for additional sick leave days when a catastrophic illness or event occurs and results in the unit member exceeding accumulated sick leave days. A unit member shall exhaust all accrued sick leave prior to utilizing any leave days received from the Bank. Accrued sick leave does not include differential sick leave benefits provided for in this Article.
Purpose of the Sick Leave Bank. There shall be a Sick Leave bank, the purpose of which is to enable all qualified employees upon exhaustion of their individual sick leave, compensatory days if any, and personal days, both annual and cumulative, to receive extended sick leave without loss of income during prolonged illness or other incapacitation. It is recognized that the Sick Leave bank may be used with a prolonged illness or other disability or in a series of intermittent but prolonged disabilities in which the employee never became eligible for disability insurance coverage or Workers Compensation Coverage.
