S ick Leave. 1. Sick leave days with pay shall be granted each regular full-time employee according to the following schedule: The first year of employment 11 days The second year of employment 12 days The third year of employment 13 days The fourth year of employment 14 days The fifth year of employment 15 days The sixth and subsequent years of employment 16 days The above sick leave entitlement shall apply only to consecutive years of employment in the Mid-Prairie Community School District. Sick leave may accumulate from year to year to a maximum of one hundred thirty (130) days. The administration will supply each employee with a written statement of accumulative sick leave by October 15.
2. When an employee will be absent from work, he or she shall, irrespective of whether the employee is entitled to receive sick leave benefits, give notice to the principal or the person designated by the principal to receive such notice. If the absence is for consecutive days, the principal or his/her representative shall be notified of the probable date of return.
3. An employee returning from any illness, whether or not sick leave benefits have been paid, may be required to furnish a medical doctor’s certificate of health prior to returning to work in order to protect the health and well-being of students and fellow employees. If required, the district will pay the employee’s cost of obtaining the required certificate.
4. The Board may require substantiation by medical examination of any illness or injury and/or the period of time the illness or injury renders the employee incapable of performing the employee’s assigned duties. The Board will assume the cost incurred by the employee in securing such substantiation.
5. All sick leave benefits shall terminate and/or be forfeited upon termination of employment.
6. If a physical injury (but not an illness) is incurred in the course of employment, precluding the employee from performing assigned duties, said injury is compensated under xxxxxxx’x compensation insurance, the Board will pay the difference between the xxxxxxx’x compensation benefits and the per diem salary for days lost on account of the injury which prevented the performance of duties, but in no extent extending beyond a ninety (90) day calendar period. Any such payments of differences shall be charged against sick leave.
7. If employee has 130 sick days at the end of the contract year, then one Wellness Day is granted to be used in the following school year.
S ick Leave. A. A member will notify the Human Resources Department as soon as reasonably practicable if she or he believes she or he may be absent from work for more than five (5) days due to personal injury, illness or a medical condition.
B. If a member is absent for six (6) or more consecutive working days, the Human Resources Department and/ or the member's supervisor may request adequate medical evidence. Employees must continue to follow their school absence reporting procedures until their direct supervisor or the Human Resources Department informs them otherwise. The District may investigate any suspicion of abuse of sick time, including requiring an Independent Medical Exam (IME). A member may be subject to discipline for an abuse of sick time.
C. If the Human Resources Department requests it, the member must supply the Human Resources Department with either FMLA form WH380-E or medical documentation on letterhead with an official signature that includes area of specialty, with the following information:
1. Employee's name 2. Approximate date the illness or injury commenced,
S ick Leave. S ection 5: Xxxx leave with pay is intended to cover the employee’s own incapacitation due to sickness or injury, with the following exceptions: An employee covered by this Agreement may use up to seven (7) of his or her fifteen (15) annual sick days for an immediate family member’s illness or injury. ● Effective September 1, 2019, allow members to carry over unused “Urgent Personal Days” as sick days. Effective for the 2019-2020 school year and thereafter. This provision will not apply to carry-over days for school years prior to the 2019-2020 school year.
S ick Leave. A. There shall be a sick leave bank for use by eligible members covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave. Eligible t members who qualify under one of have the following circumstances: a member with a serious illness; members who gave birth and are considered disabled due to the birth of the child; and members who are the primary adoptive parents within the first six months of the adoption (adoptive primary parent includes a primary parent via surrogacy).
S ick Leave. In the case of sickness or disability, all employees shall be entitled to benefits as follows:
a) Employees shall earn and accumulate sick leave credits on the basis of one and one-quarter (1¼) days per month of continuous service from commencement of employment.
b) Employees who are entitled to payment of wages/salaries during sick leave shall be paid at the rate of pay that would apply if the employee were not absent on sick leave to the limit of his/her accumulated sick leave credits and to a maximum of fifteen (15) days per calendar year.
c) All sick leave usage under this Plan shall be deducted from accumulated sick leave credits.
d) Sick leave allowance payments shall not extend beyond normal retirement age.
e) When sick leave allowance payments have expired, an employee may be granted leave of absence without pay as provided for in Article 13.
f) Sick leave allowance payments for the first day of any sickness may be withheld at the discretion of the Company.
g) All recipients of sickness and disability allowance payments must provide on request of the Company, medical reports of their condition.
h) An employee on sick leave shall only accumulate vacation credits for the first two (2) months of sick leave.
i) Sickness and disability allowance payments under this Plan will not apply to any employees receiving compensation under The Workers’ Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxx, 0000.
S ick Leave. 011 A bargaining unit member shall be allowed to accumulate an unlimited number of sick leave days. A member shall receive notification of accumulated sick leave to date on a monthly basis.
S ick Leave. BANK The District shall initiate a voluntary Sick Leave Bank.
1. The Sick Leave Bank is established for the purpose of providing a teacher income protection in the event an illness or injury exhausts accumulated sick leave before income protection insurance begins or the teacher recovers and can return to work.
a. A teacher may apply if they have been absent at least five consecutive work days for a catastrophic/serious illness or injury.
b. The bank is not available for day-to-day occasional absences except for follow-up treatments or tests for catastrophic/serious illness or injury.
2. Those wishing to participate will enroll in September. Each year during the month of April, bargaining unit members may contribute one (1) or more days (up to a maximum of ten (10) days per year) of accumulated sick leave for the purpose of funding a Sick Leave Bank. This contribution must be made in writing by May 1.
3. For days borrowed beginning October 1, 2013: If the teacher owes 15 days or less, the teacher will pay back three (3) days per year at the daily rate of BA Step 1 at the time of borrowing. If the teacher owes 16 to 30 days, the teacher will pay back five (5) days per year at the daily rate of BA Step 1 at the time of borrowing. If the teacher owes 31 days or more, the teacher will pay back ten (ten) days per year at the daily rate of BA Step 1 at the time of borrowing. Teachers will pay the amount owed through payroll deduction beginning with the first paycheck after the first day is borrowed. The deduction will be spread over the remaining paychecks for the school year and continue with future school years until the balance is paid back in full. The number of days paid back each year will not be reduced. For example, if a teacher borrows 40 days, the number and rate of days paid back will not be reduced from 10 days per year to 5 days per year when the balance falls below 31 days. For days borrowed prior to October 1, 2013, the teacher shall repay the Bank for the days owed (number of days borrowed minus number of days contributed) at the rate of three (3) days per year. When a teacher’s accumulated sick leave days reach twenty (20) or more days, she/he shall pay back at the rate of 5 days per year. If a member retires, resigns or for other reasons plans to leave the district before repaying the Bank, the teacher will repay the district, prior to departure, for the number of days still owed at the daily rate of the BA Base Step 1 of the current year...
S ick Leave. 1. Sick leave will be granted monthly at a rate of ten (10) days each year. Sick leave shall be accumulated up to one hundred (150) days.
2. Sick Leave shall be granted for the following purposes:
a. Personal illness of such a nature as to render the member unfit for service, or for reason of medical, optical or dental injury or for purposes of treatment and/or examination.
b. Quarantine of member.
c. Illness of an immediate family member; limited to parents, siblings, spouse, guardian, child or xxxx.
d. Illness or disability due to pregnancy.
3. Allowance for sick leave for staff members employed less than one (1) year will be prorated on the basis of time served.
4. The Employer may require an Employee to provide medical verification when the Employer has a reasonable basis to question the fitness of the Employee's ability to work or the Employee is suspected of abusing sick leave. The verification will be at District expense to the extent not covered by insurance and the Employee was not otherwise going to the doctor.
5. Paid sick leave time for transportation Employees will be computed and charged on a per run basis. Transportation Employees who are docked for unpaid work time will be computed and charged on an hourly basis.
6. If an Employee calls in sick the night before a day when school is cancelled due to an act of God, a day shall not be deducted from the Employee's sick leave accumulation.
7. A driver may use any of the leave provisions of this Agreement in one-run/route segments.
S ick Leave. S ection 5: Xxxx leave with pay is intended to cover the employee’s own incapacitation due to sickness or injury, with the following exceptions: An employee covered by this Agreement may use up to eleven (11) of his or her fifteen (15) annual sick days for a close family member’s or dear friend’s illness or injury.
S ick Leave. PERSONAL LEAVE 64 - A SSOCIATION LEAVE 65 - S ABBATICAL LEAVE 65 - T XXXX PARTY PAID LEAVE 67 - A RTICLE XVII 68 - U NPAID LEAVES 68 -
1 7.1 P ROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT LEAVE 68 -
1 7.2 M ILITARY LEAVE - 69 -
1 7.4 A SSOCIATION OFFICERSHIP LEAVE 70 - P UBLIC OFFICE LEAVE 71 -
