Sick Bank Guidlines Sample Clauses

Sick Bank Guidlines. 1. The purpose of the RSGEA Sick Bank is to provide extended sick leave to employees who incur a personal period of prolonged illness or hospitalization. 2. Employees wishing to join the sick bank must donate two sick days in order to join. Membership requests will be due by September 15 of the school year or within 2 weeks of hire if after September 15 of the school year. 3. If an employee joined the sick bank prior to May 2016, he or she may have only donated one day. These members of the sick bank will have the maximum benefit reduced by fifty percent. If an employee donated one day, he or she may increase it to two days. This must be done by September 15 of the school year to receive the maximum benefit. 4. The employee must have exhausted all their time off including personal days, accumulated sick leave, and vacation days prior to accessing the sick bank. 5. Prior to accessing the bank, the employee must not be able to qualify for any short-term or long-term disability or worker’s compensation through TRS, IMRF, FLMA, Nippersink District 2, or any other entity. 6. The sick bank shall be applicable only to an employee’s (not family’s) prolonged illness or hospitalization. 7. The sick bank shall not be applicable for elective surgery or a surgery which may be safely deferred until a vacation or recess. 8. The sick bank shall not be applicable to any maternity leave before or after the birth of a child. 9. Requests for days from the sick bank should be sent to the Sick Bank Committee, via the building representative, and must include the following information: a. the original note from the doctor verifying the disability and the inability to work. b. number of days the member is requesting. c. expected date of return to work. 10. Requests for days from the sick bank will be considered at a Sick Bank Committee meeting. All decisions of the Sick Bank Committee are considered final unless further documentation is provided. 11. If days are given, the district’s financial office will be notified, and the days will be transferred to the member’s account. 12. If additional days are required for the same illness/incident, the employee must follow the same procedure as detailed in step 9. 13. A maximum of 15 days will be transferred to any one member per school year. A maximum of 30 days will be transferred to any one member in two consecutive years. Under extreme circumstances a member may be eligible for additional days as determined by the Sick Bank Committee...
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(6) If all the donated days are used during a given school year, the Bank shall be declared open and additional donations of a maximum of two (2) days by each tenured unit member may be made. (7) Unit members using sick leave days from the Bank will not have to replace those days. (8) No days may be donated to a specific individual, nor may they be donated to teachers exclusively in a certain school. (9) A unit member withdrawing from membership in the Bank shall not be allowed to withdraw contributed days. (10) Procedure for processing requests for Sick Bank days: (a) The unit member requesting Sick Bank days shall obtain from the Association or from the Human Resources Department a copy of the SEA Sick Bank Request form. (b) The unit member shall submit a completed Request form, including a completed Physician Statement, to the Human Resources Department who will promptly provide a copy to the Association. 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(e) The unit member and the Association will be notified in writing of the decision of the Sick Bank Committee. Should the committee refer the unit member to an independent Medical Review Officer (MRO), the unit member shall be notified in writing and can decline, forfeiting the use of the Sick Bank. (This provision shall not impact the right of the Board to require an employee to submit to an Independent Medical Examination (IME) at Board expense as permitted by applicable law). (11) A committee consisting of two unit members selected by the SEA, three persons designated by the Board, and the Human Resources Director who shall act as the non- voting chairperson, shall be established to set up guidelines, review implementation, and update procedures. 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