Requests for additional leave. Company approval for additional personal leave of absence in a calendar year or an extension of his leave shall be granted at the Company's discretion and subject to the Company's ability to maintain a satisfactory working schedule and a qualified work force.
Requests for additional leave. When unusual circumstances make additional leave necessary for an employee, the employee may submit a request to the board of education to grant additional day(s) or additional type(s) of leave. The employee will make such a request in writing and will file it with the building principal for transmission to the superintendent and the board of education. Such requests may be made in advance of the leave or may be made retroactively; they will be considered on a case-by-case basis in regard to number of additional days allowed, salary to be deducted, and the like. The board may see fit to contract teachers for presently unforeseen services, and compensate those selected at a reasonable amount above the salary schedule. When the service is established as a permanent part of the school program, it will be placed in a category and the compensation for such services printed in the supplementary pay schedule. The board reserves the right, if circumstances deem it necessary, to employ an instructor above the adopted salary schedule. If there are questions regarding whether or not this procedure has been practiced, the chairman of the salary committee may request such information from the board of education and dispense it to the faculty if (s)he desires.
Requests for additional leave resulting from complications after delivery shall be accompanied by certification of the disability from the unit member’s physician including the anticipated length of absence. When such requests are made, the District reserves the right of medical review. In cases where the District feels there is no disability, the District may refer the unit member to its medical consultant. If the District consultant’s determination is contrary to the unit member’s physician’s determination, the consultant and the physician may select a mutually agreed upon third physician to determine the employee’s condition; or a physician, competent in the area of concern, may be selected by the employee and the District from a list of three (3) physicians supplied by the medical association of Alameda county, to determine the employee’s fitness to return to work. The cost of such examination shall be borne by the District.
