Pursuant to Education Code. section 44977, when a unit member, because of illness or accident, has used all regular and accumulated sick leave, he/she is then placed on statutory sick leave for a period of not more than five (5) school months (100 working days) in any fiscal year. Illness leave is limited to five (5) school months (100 days) of illness leave for each illness. During this period, a unit member shall be paid either fifty percent (50%) of his/her contracted salary rate or substitute differential pay, whichever is greater. In determining substitute differential pay, the amount deducted from the salary due the unit member in any month in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the amount actually paid the substitute employee employed to fill his/her position or, if no substitute is employed, the amount which would have been paid to the substitute had one been employed.
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