Common use of Sick Bank Clause in Contracts

Sick Bank. The Sick Leave Bank is a program where regular-contract teachers contribute personal illness or business hours to a bank, to use if their individual personal illness and business hours are exhausted and they experience a long-term illness or surgery. Teachers may join the Sick Leave Bank only during an open- enrollment period. Human Resources shall send the Sick Leave Bank Letter to all teachers reminding them of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within the first thirty (30) workdays of each school year. The open-enrollment period is defined as two weeks immediately following the date the Sick Bank Letter is sent, or for newly-hired teachers, the teacher’s first thirty (30) days of employment. During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotment. Only participants in the Bank are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply to the Joint Sick Leave Committee for consideration of the request. The criteria that must be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted all of their personal illness and business hours before they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank; b. In order to be eligible to use Sick Leave Bank hours, teachers shall have been absent due to personal illness at least ten (10) consecutive school days immediately prior to the day they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten (10) consecutive school day absences at which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to days prior to the date when the teacher's long-term disability insurance could or would commence, and d. The Sick Leave Bank hours shall take effect immediately following the exhaustion of the teacher's personal sick leave and personal business providing the above conditions have been met. e. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours along with a medical document from their doctor stating the reason for the request. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting of the Director of Human Resources or designee and the Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. The Board will provide the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting of the number of hours and the names of participating teachers in the Sick Leave Bank as requested by the Joint Sick Leave Committee. Any hours left over at the end of the school year shall carry over to succeeding years. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 320 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers with less than six FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 160 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Temporary and substitute teachers are not regular-contract teachers and are not eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Bank.

Sick Bank. There shall be a Sick Leave Bank available to bargaining unit members who have exhausted their individual sick, vacation, and personal leave accruals for legitimate, prolonged personal illness that cause either consecutive or frequent, but intermittent absences from work. The Sick Leave Bank is a program where regular-contract teachers contribute personal illness or business hours shall be subject to a bank, to use if their individual personal illness the following rules and business hours are exhausted and they experience a long-term illness or surgery. Teachers may join the procedures: The Sick Leave Bank only during an open- enrollment period. Human Resources shall send the be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Letter Committee comprised of two Union representatives and two management representatives to all teachers reminding them be selected by the Union and the Town of Belchertown, respectively. Each bargaining unit member shall have deducted from their annual sick leave accrual 24 hours of sick leave as of the first day of each fiscal year beginning July 1 2022, unless the sick leave bank has reached it maximum balance. Employee who do not have 24 hours of sick leave available on any given Jul l st will have their next sick leave accruals directed to the Sick leave Bank by the Town of Belchertown. If any bargaining unit member wishing to contribute additional sick leave hours can do so. The process will be done in writing to the members of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within committee. If an employee has reached the first thirty (30) workdays of each school yearmaximum allotted sick time this excess sick time will be directed to the Sick Leave Bank. The open-enrollment period is defined as two weeks immediately following the date the Sick Leave Bank Letter is sent, or shall have a maximum balance to 2200 hours. Request for newly-hired teachers, the teacher’s first thirty (30) days of employment. During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity to participate in leave from the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotment. Only participants shall be made in the Bank are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply writing to the Joint Town Administrator, who will convene a meeting of the Sick Leave Bank Committee for consideration of to determine whether or not to approve the request. Any requirement for a note supporting the need for sick leave or FMLA leave, if applicable, shall also apply. The criteria that must be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted all of their personal illness and business hours before they Committee will no act on a request hours for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank; b. Bank until any such requirements have been met and the leave of absence has been approved. In order determining whether to be eligible to use grant the request, the Sick Leave Bank hoursCommittee may consider any factors it deems relevant including, teachers shall have been absent due to personal illness at least ten (10) consecutive school days immediately but not limited to, the circumstance of the employee's illness, medical documentation supporting the request, the employee's prior sick leave use, the duration of the employee's employment, the expected duration and/or frequency of the employee's absence, the hardship to the employee and the availability of other income replacements benefits (e.g., short-term or long-term disability insurance). The Sick Leave Bank Committee may deny a request if the employee does not provide any requested documentation. Rather than granting or denying a request, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may elect to grant the employee's request in part (e.g., award 15 days of sick leave when 30 has been requested), and may consider the employee's regular schedule in determining how many day they request hours to award. No individual may receive more than 90 days of sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank in any 12 month period. Employees receiving workers' compensation benefits shall not be eligible for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten (10) consecutive school day absences at which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to days prior to the date when the teacher's long-term disability insurance could or would commence, and d. The Sick Leave Bank hours shall take effect immediately following the exhaustion All decisions of the teacher's personal sick leave and personal business providing the above conditions have been met. e. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours along with a medical document from their doctor stating the reason for the request. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting of the Director of Human Resources or designee and the Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. The Board will provide the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting of the number of hours and the names of participating teachers in the Sick Leave Bank as requested by the Joint Sick Leave Committee. Any hours left over at the end of the school year shall carry over to succeeding years. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 320 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers with less than six FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 160 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Temporary and substitute teachers Committee are not regular-contract teachers final and are not eligible for participation in subject to the Sick Leave Bankgrievance and arbitration procedure.

Sick Bank. The Sick Leave Bank is a program where regular-contract teachers contribute personal illness or business hours to a bank, to use if their individual personal illness and business hours are exhausted and they experience a long-term illness or surgery. Teachers may join the Sick Leave Bank only during an open- enrollment period. Human Resources shall send the Sick Leave Bank Letter to all teachers reminding them of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within the first thirty (30) workdays of each school year. The open-enrollment period is defined as two weeks immediately following the date the Sick Bank Letter is sent, or for newly-hired teachers, the teacher’s first thirty (30) days of employment. During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotment. Only participants in the Bank are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply to the Joint Sick Leave Committee for consideration of the request. The criteria that must be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted all of their personal illness and business hours before they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank; b. In order to be eligible to use Sick Leave Bank hours, teachers shall have been absent due to personal illness at least ten six (106) consecutive school days immediately prior to the day they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten six (106) consecutive school day absences at which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to days prior to the date when the teacher's long-term disability insurance could or would commence, and d. The Sick Leave Bank hours shall take effect immediately following the exhaustion of the teacher's personal sick leave and personal business providing the above conditions have been met. e. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours along with a medical document from their doctor stating the reason for the request. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting of the Executive Director of Human Resources or designee and the Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. The Board will provide the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting of the number of hours and the names of participating teachers in the Sick Leave Bank as requested by the Joint Sick Leave Committee. Any hours left over at the end of the school year shall carry over to succeeding years. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 320 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers with less fewer than six FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 160 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts will be provided an additional 160 hours for a maximum of 320 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Temporary and substitute teachers who are not regular-contract teachers and are not eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Bank. The Joint Sick Leave Committee may grant access to the Sick Leave Bank due to catastrophic illness or injury of a teacher’s dependent on a case-by-case basis. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting the special exception and provide medical documentation of the injury or illness. Teachers must have exhausted all of their family illness leave, five days (40 hours) of their personal illness leave for a family member, and all of their personal business leave before requesting leave from the Sick Leave Bank. If the Committee grants the exception, all other Sick Leave Bank rules pertaining to consecutive absences and maximum allowable hours shall apply.

Sick Bank. The FORMATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE BANK- Sick Leave Bank is days donated by Bargaining Unit Members will be banked in a program where regular-contract teachers contribute personal illness or business hours to a bank, to pool for use if their individual personal illness and business hours are exhausted and they experience a long-term illness or surgeryby other Bargaining Unit Members. Teachers may join Payment for the Sick Leave Bank only during an open- enrollment periodwill come from the exchange of two (2) days for one (1) bank day from all Bargaining Unit Members. Human Resources shall send The bank was originally established with a two (2) day donation by every Bargaining Unit Member. All new Bargaining Unit Members will donate 2 days at the beginning of their contract or a prorated amount based on length of contract. If the Sick Leave Bank Letter goes lower than twenty-five (25) days, an additional day will be taken from each Bargaining Unit Member, but no more than two (2) days per year. Bargaining Unit Members on long term or critical bank leave at the time of replenishing the bank are exempt from donation, Bargaining Unit Members using the loaner bank at the time of donation will donate their day to all teachers reminding them the bank upon the next years granting of new sick days. Any abuse or misuse of said bank may exclude a Bargaining Unit Member from future use of the sick bank as determined by the Sick Bank Committee. Bargaining Unit Members requesting days from any of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within the first thirty (30) workdays of each school year. The open-enrollment period is defined as two weeks immediately following the date the Sick Bank Letter is sent, or for newly-hired teachers, the teacher’s first thirty (30) days of employment. During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotment. Only participants in the Bank are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply to the Joint Sick Leave Committee for consideration of the request. The criteria that Banks must be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted exhaust all of their personal illness and business hours before they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank; b. In order to be eligible to use Sick Leave Bank hours, teachers shall have been absent due to personal illness at least ten (10) consecutive school days immediately prior to the day they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten (10) consecutive school day absences at which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to own sick days prior to gaining days from one of the date when banks, and should notify the teacher's long-term disability insurance could or would commence, and d. Administration the type and number of days intending to be used as soon as possible. SICK BANK COMMITTEE- The Sick Leave Bank hours shall take effect immediately following Committee will be formed by volunteers appointed by the exhaustion Association (President/Vice-President or designee, and a Bargaining Unit Member from each building level). The administration of days to be granted will be at the sole discretion of the teacher's personal sick leave Association and personal business providing their representatives. The Association and the above conditions have been met. e. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours Employer, along with their representatives are exempt from legal action by a medical document from their doctor stating the reason for the requestBargaining Unit Member denied sick bank access. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting sick bank is intended for protection of the Director Association Bargaining Unit Members and extension of Human Resources or designee and the Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bankbenefits. The Board will provide the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting of the number of hours and the names of participating teachers Misuse in the Sick Leave Bank as requested by the Joint Sick Leave Committeeform of liberal granting of days could require future negotiations regarding guidelines for use. Any hours left over at RECONCILIATION OF THE SICK BANK- At the end of the school year shall carry over to succeeding years. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 320 hours from year, the Sick Leave BankBank Committee chair and a Central Office staff member will meet to reconcile the sick bank. Teachers with less than six FWCS contracts The Committee will be provided a notify Bargaining Unit Members if they have hit the maximum number of 160 hours from days. The Bargaining Unit Member may choose to not donate their excess days to the Sick Leave BankBank by notifying Central Office. Temporary and substitute teachers are Human Resources will report the number of days to the Bargaining Unit Member by April 1. If a Bargaining Unit Member does not regular-contract teachers and are not eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Bankwant to donate their days they must notify Human Resources by June 1st.

Sick Bank. A Sick Bank shall be established through the contribution of earned sick days by active employees represented by the Utica Teachers Association. Under no circumstances at any time shall the District contribute days to the bank. The Sick Leave Bank is a program where regularshall be available to teachers only in the case of catastrophic, long-contract teachers contribute personal illness term, or business hours to a bank, to use if their individual personal terminal illness and business hours cannot be used until an individual teacher’s accrued sick time has been exhausted. (a) Rules and regulations for the administration of the Sick Bank shall be drawn and adopted by a committee appointed by the UTA; said committee will also be responsible for the administration of the Sick Bank. Following each meeting, the committee shall issue a written report of items under discussion to the Director of Human Resources, including the number of sick days awarded, and an explanation of the criteria for eligibility for an award of sick days upon which the sick days were awarded, including the medical basis therefor. (b) The following criteria shall be used by the Sick Bank in making determinations for granting leave under this Article: i. Only illnesses and injuries that are exhausted and they experience long-term, catastrophic or terminal will be considered as acceptable for Sick Bank use. ii. For purposes of this provision a long-term illness or surgeryinjury shall be defined as any disabling injury, illness or surgery requiring a disability period of longer than twenty (20) continuous work days. iii. Teachers may join For purposes of this provision, a catastrophic illness or injury shall be defined as a severe condition, or combination of conditions, that affects the physical or mental health of the employee, or results in a life-threatening or life function altering condition; and requires a medically supported extended period of absence from work. Such life functions include, but are not limited to, loss of physical senses, loss of physiological senses or loss of limb. Pregnancy is not considered a catastrophic illness or a long-term illness or injury. High risk pregnancies or complications arising from a pregnancy may, however, be considered as a catastrophic illness or condition. iv. Employees receiving Workers’ Compensation benefits, except as specified in Article 17 of the collective bargaining agreement, and employees receiving short-term disability, long-term disability (LTD), or Social Security disability benefits shall not be eligible to receive benefit payments from the Sick Leave Bank. (c) The Sick Bank only during may initially award an open- enrollment period. Human Resources shall send individual a maximum of fifty (50) sick days for any illness and/or ongoing medical condition that meets the requirements for consideration of eligibility for Sick Leave Bank Letter Days. (d) If an employee on leave covered by Sick Bank anticipates the need for leave time beyond the original fifty (50) days, they must apply to all teachers reminding them of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within the first thirty (30) workdays of each school year. The open-enrollment period is defined as two weeks immediately following the date the Sick Bank Letter is sent, or for newly-hired teachers, the teacher’s first thirty (30) days of employment. During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotment. Only participants in the Bank are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply to the Joint Sick Leave Committee for consideration an extension of the request. The criteria that must be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted all of their personal illness and business hours before they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank; b. In order to be eligible to use Sick Leave Bank hours, teachers shall have been absent due to personal illness leave time at least ten fourteen (1014) consecutive school days immediately prior to the day they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten (10) consecutive school day absences at which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to calendar days prior to the date when expiration of Sick Bank leave. If the teacher's long-term disability insurance could or would commenceemployee fails to meet this time line, and d. he/she may be subject to unpaid leave days pending a final determination on the request for an extension. Any pertinent medical information necessary for the Sick Bank Committee to make an informed recommendation should be supplied at this time. The Sick Leave Bank hours Committee shall take effect immediately following notify the exhaustion member of the teacher's personal sick leave and personal business providing Committee’s intent to submit the above conditions have been metrequest for extension to the Director of Human Resources, or the denial of an extension, within seven (7) calendar days of the employee’s written request for extension. e. Teachers must submit a letter (e) The Sick Bank Committee, upon submittal of supporting documentation from the employee, to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours along with a include all medical document from their doctor stating the reason for the request. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting of treatment records, may petition the Director of Human Resources or designee for awards of additional Sick Bank days, in incremental requests not to exceed thirty-five (35) days at any one time, for his/her review and approval. The Director of Human Resources shall issue a determination to the Association President or designee employee, in writing, prior to the day that the employee exhausts his/her Sick Bank time in order to avoid any unpaid days. Approval by the Director of Human Resources to extend Sick Bank leave days shall administer be for catastrophic and/or long-term illnesses only. (f) In order to permit an impartial decision making process without fear of litigation, the decision of the Sick Leave BankBank Committee and/or Director of Human Resources shall be final and binding relative to awarding Sick Bank leave days, and shall not be subject to the grievance and arbitration procedures set forth in this agreement. (g) Application for Sick Bank leave shall be made on a form attached to this agreement as Appendix “A”. (h) Funding of the bank shall occur using the following methods. i. Initial funding of the sick bank shall occur at the beginning of 1989-90 school year, by donation of one (1) accrued sick day from each member of the bargaining unit. ii. A second funding of the sick bank shall occur at the beginning of the 1990-91 school year, using the same method as outlined in paragraph (i). iii. The Board will provide sick bank shall not be funded again until such time the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting committee notifies the Superintendent that the banks accrued days have fallen below six hundred and fifty (650). At that time the Superintendent shall direct an additional funding of the number bank using the same system used for initial funding as outlined in paragraph (i) above. iv. Upon retirement any unused sick days for which teachers do not receive payment under the provisions of hours and the names of participating teachers in Article 11:01 (f) will be credited to the Sick Leave Bank. v. Upon retirement teachers may also donate to the Sick Bank as requested by any unused sick days for which they would otherwise receive payment under the Joint Sick Leave Committeeprovisions of Article 11:01 (f), e.g., a teacher has two hundred and fifty (250) unused sick days upon retirement and wishes to donate the first fifty (50) days. Any hours left over Payment will be made to the teacher at the end of contractual rate for days fifty-one to two hundred and fifty (51-250), with no payment for the school year shall carry over days donated to succeeding years. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 320 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers with less than six FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 160 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Temporary and substitute teachers are not regular-contract teachers and are not eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Bank.

Sick Bank. A. A custodial sick bank will be created on a voluntary basis by the custodial employees. The Sick Leave Bank sick bank will be available to provide an extra amount of sick days, for emergency reasons of ill health, for any custodial employee who has been employed in the system for one full year. A custodial employee may contribute from two to five days of sick leave per year to the cumulative sick bank. 1. A sick bank will be maintained for utilization by qualified members whose sick leave accumulation is a program where regular-contract teachers contribute personal exhausted through illness or business hours accident and who require additional leave to a bank, to use if their individual personal illness and business hours are exhausted and they experience a long-term make full recovery from an illness or surgeryaccident. 2. Teachers may join The sick bank shall be governed by a Sick Bank Committee consisting of three (3) members of the Sick Leave Bank only during an open- enrollment periodAssociation, two (2) members of the Committee and the Superintendent of Schools. Human Resources shall send the Sick Leave Bank Letter to all teachers reminding them The decision of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within Committee final and binding. In the first thirty (30) workdays event of each school yeara tie vote, the decision will be in favor of the applicant. 3. The open-enrollment period is defined as two weeks immediately following Each member of the date bargaining unit qualifies for benefits of the Sick Bank Letter is sent, or for newly-hired teachers, the teacher’s first thirty by submitting one (301) days day and only one (1) day per year of employment. During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity his/her personal sick leave accumulation to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotmentBank. Only participants in the Bank are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply to the Joint Sick Leave Committee for consideration of the request. The criteria that This day must be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted all of their personal illness and business hours before they request hours submitted no later than October 15th each year. First year employees cannot draw from the Sick Leave Bank; b. In order to be eligible to use Sick Leave Bank hours, teachers shall have been absent due to personal illness at least ten for the first sixty (1060) consecutive school days immediately prior to the day they request hours from the Sick Leave Bankdays. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten (10) consecutive school day absences at which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to days prior to the date when the teacher's long-term disability insurance could or would commencemay be used by professional employees who qualify and who have exhausted their own individual sick leave, andboth annual and accumulated and who have an emergency situation of ill health. d. The Sick Leave Bank hours shall take effect immediately following the exhaustion of the teacher's personal 4. Any sick leave and personal business providing granted under the above conditions have been met. e. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours along with a medical document from their doctor stating the reason for the request. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting provisions of the Director of Human Resources or designee and the Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. The Board Article II-B will provide the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting of the number of hours and the names of participating teachers in the Sick Leave Bank as requested by the Joint Sick Leave Committee. Any hours left over expire at the end of the school year shall year. A professional employee cannot be allowed to accumulate or carry over to succeeding yearssuccessive school years unused Sick Bank days beyond the applicable school year. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts Unused Sick Bank days will be provided a maximum of 320 hours from returned to the Sick Leave Bank. 5. Teachers with less than six FWCS contracts Application for benefits shall be made, in writing, to the Sick Bank Committee accompanied by a physician's certificate. 6. Application for benefits may be made prior to the employee's exhaustion of his/her own personal sick leave to accumulate benefits, but drawings upon the bank will not actually commence until after the employee's own sick leave days are exhausted and adequate medical notification has been provided. 7. The initial grant of sick leave by the Sick Bank Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed twenty (20) days. 8. Upon completion of the twenty (20) day period, additional entitlement may be extended by the Sick Bank Committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. 9. Subject to the foregoing requirements, the Sick Bank Committee will determine the eligibility for the utilization of the Bank and the amount of leave to be granted. The following criteria shall be considered by the Sick Bank Committee in administering the Bank and in determining the amount of leave: a. Medical evidence of illness. b. Exhaustion of eligible sick leave. c. Length of service in the Sandwich School system. d. Propriety of use of previous sick leave. Single sick leave days may be granted by the Sick Bank Committee under extraordinary circumstances, which will be provided determined by a maximum majority of 160 hours from the Sick Leave Bank Committee and which shall not be grievable or arbitrable under the terms of this Agreement. In extraordinary circumstance, days may be withdrawn to permit an individual to stay at home to care for other members of the family, which will be determined by a majority of the Sick Bank Committee and which shall not be grievable or arbitrable under the terms of this Agreement. 10. Upon return from extended leave during which benefits were received through the Sick Bank, the recipient shall be entitled to commence a new accumulation of individual sick leave in accordance with the provisions of Article II. 11. Temporary and substitute teachers Life Membership will be obtained after contribution of twenty (20) days to the Sick Bank. 12. If the Sick Bank is exhausted, the Sick Bank shall be renewed by the contribution of one (1) additional day of sick leave by each eligible member of the bargaining unit (except for Life Members) covered by the Agreement from his/her currently accumulated annual days of sick leave. To the extent that such additional days are not regular-contract teachers and are not eligible unused, they may be carried over to the Bank for participation the successive school year. 13. And professional employee who is a Life Member of the Sick Bank will continue as a member of the Sick Bank with no further contribution of personal sick leave days. 14. All Sick Bank days accumulated as of each contractual year will be carried forward to the following year. An accounting of the number of sick days available in the Sick Leave BankBank will be made by October 31st of each school year.

Sick Bank. The Sick Leave Bank is a program where regular-contract teachers contribute personal illness or business hours Teachers may elect to participate on an annual basis to a voluntary sick bank. Teachers build a sick bank by each contributing two (2) days during their first year of employment in Unit District #1 and one (1) day each year thereafter. If the bank has a balance of 500 (five hundred) days or more on the first day of school, then no contribution will be necessary from anyone except first-year employees. The 500 (five hundred) days will be considered a cap, and no days will be added above the cap to the bank except for first year employees. A teacher may elect to contribute unused sick days to the sick bank upon retirement. To qualify for use of the sick bank, to use if their individual personal illness and business hours are exhausted and they experience a long-term illness or surgery. Teachers may join the Sick Leave Bank only during an open- enrollment period. Human Resources teacher shall send the Sick Leave Bank Letter to all teachers reminding them of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within the first thirty (30) workdays of each school year. The open-enrollment period is defined as two weeks immediately following the date the Sick Bank Letter is sent, or for newly-hired teachers, the teacher’s first thirty (30) days of employment. During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotment. Only participants in the Bank are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply to the Joint Sick Leave Committee for consideration of the request. The criteria that must be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted all of their personal illness and business hours before they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank; b. In order personally accumulated sick leave. Applications for sick leave bank coverage are to be eligible submitted for review by a special committee comprised of teachers selected by the Association. The committee shall be responsible for verifying the validity of the prolonged illness or disability and determining the eligibility of the teachers to use Sick Leave Bank hours, teachers utilize sick leave bank days. The committee shall have been absent due to personal illness at least ten (10) consecutive school days immediately prior make recommendations to the day they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten (10) consecutive school day absences at ETA Executive Board which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to days prior to the date when determine the teacher's long-term disability insurance could eligibility for sick leave bank benefits. The sick leave bank shall be administered exclusively by the Association's Executive Board. The Association agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Board, its members, employees, and agents for and against any claims, grievances, actions, causes of action, or would commence, and d. The Sick Leave Bank hours shall take effect immediately following liability resulting from the exhaustion Association's operation and administration of the sick leave bank, including, but not limited to, any claims based upon the Executive Board's denial of a teacher's personal application for sick leave and personal business providing the above conditions have been met. e. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours along with a medical document from their doctor stating the reason bank benefits. The sick bank may be used only for the requeststaff member's severe medical condition or that of an immediate family member. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting A teacher may draw up to one school calendar year of days (equivalent to 185 school days) from the Director of Human Resources or designee and the Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. The Board will provide the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting of the number of hours and the names of participating teachers bank as long as there are contributed, unused days in the Sick Leave Bank as requested by the Joint Sick Leave Committeebank. Any hours left over at the end Priority for use of the school year shall carry over to succeeding years. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts bank days will be provided a maximum on the basis of 320 hours first come, first served. A teacher withdrawing from the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers with less than six FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 160 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Temporary membership and substitute teachers are not regular-contract teachers and are not eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Banksick leave bank shall not be able to withdraw the contributed days. In the event that a teacher becomes eligible, under TRS rules, for permanent disability, the teacher shall no longer qualify for sick days or sick bank. Upon retirement, any retiring teacher may withdraw any unused sick leave bank days they previously contributed to the bank for submission to TRS for TRS retirement service credits in accordance with TRS Rules.

Sick Bank. The East Aurora sick bank is open for voluntary participation to members of all bargaining units of East Aurora Council AFT Local 604. To participate, members must fill out the approved form by September 15th of that school year. Members hired after the start of the school year will have fifteen (15) workdays after the date of hire to participate in the sick bank. Members joining for the first time shall contribute two (2) sick days to the bank from their personal accumulated sick leave. Days donated to the sick leave bank are irrevocable. Provisions for the use of the sick bank are as follows: A. Application for its use must be submitted to the Union’s Sick Leave Bank Committee for consideration. Accepted applications will be subject to approval by the Union President and Superintendent or designee. B. A member’s sick and personal leave days must be used up, but an application may be submitted prior to exhausting such leave. X. A current physician’s letter indicating the member’s inability to adequately perform his/her job is required for final approval. D. Should the Board of Education require a consultation from another physician, this consultation shall be at the Board’s expense. E. Use of the sick leave bank shall be for long-term, serious illness or major disability of the employee, spouse, child, or parent. Maternity/paternity leave does not qualify, except in cases of medical complications. F. Should a member apply for and receive disability status from the Illinois TRS/IMRF/SS, all further benefits from the sick day bank relating to that illness will be disallowed and bank use will terminate when disability payments begin. G. Members can draw from the sick leave bank a number of days equal to the number of the member’s workdays remaining in the school year, subject to the following table: Years in East Aurora Sick Bank Maximum Allowable Time from Bank 2 10 days 3 15 days 4 20 days 5 25 days Thirty (30) days in one school year shall be the maximum allowed unless the Union’s Sick Leave Bank Committee believes there are extenuating circumstances. Any member who joins the sick bank at inception (September 15, 2021) will be grandfathered with the understanding for such members that “Maximum Allowable Time from Bank” corresponds to “Years in East Aurora D131”. Anyone who joins after September 15, 2021, will be joining with the understanding that the “Maximum Allowable Time from Bank” relates to “Years in East Aurora Sick Bank”. H. Should the number of days fall below fifty (50): 1. Members would be allowed to donate up to 2 days from their existing available sick time prior to requiring or assessing an additional day on the members of the sick bank, or 2. Each member of the bank shall contribute one (1) additional day of personal sick leave. Any member who chooses not to do so, may opt out of the sick leave bank, but will not be refunded for previously donated days. Members who have exhausted their sick leave when a contribution is required may continue membership in the bank by contributing a day from the next year’s allotment. I. After the initial membership contribution of two days, each continuing member will contribute one (1) sick day each September until the bank reaches five hundred (500) days. J. The Sick Leave Bank is committee will receive an annual update which will include a program where regular-contract teachers contribute personal illness or business hours to a banklist of sick bank members, to use if their individual personal illness and business hours are exhausted and they experience a long-term illness or surgery. Teachers may join the Sick Leave Bank only during an open- enrollment period. Human Resources shall send the Sick Leave Bank Letter to all teachers reminding them of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within the first thirty (30) workdays of each school year. The open-enrollment period is defined as two weeks immediately following the date the Sick Bank Letter is sent, or for newly-hired teachers, the teacher’s first thirty (30) days of employment. During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotment. Only participants in the Bank are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply to the Joint Sick Leave Committee for consideration of the request. The criteria that must be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted all of their personal illness and business hours before they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank; b. In order to be eligible to use Sick Leave Bank hours, teachers shall have been absent due to personal illness at least ten (10) consecutive school days immediately prior to the day they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten (10) consecutive school day absences at which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to days prior to the date when the teacher's long-term disability insurance could or would commence, and d. The Sick Leave Bank hours shall take effect immediately following the exhaustion of the teacher's personal sick leave and personal business providing the above conditions have been met. e. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours along with a medical document from their doctor stating the reason for the request. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting of the Director of Human Resources or designee and the Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. The Board will provide the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting of the number of hours days remaining in the bank, the number of members who drew from the bank and the names number of participating teachers in days granted during the Sick Leave Bank as requested by previous school year. X. If the Joint Sick Leave Committee. Any hours left over at parties mutually agree to dissolve the end sick leave bank during the life of the school year shall carry over agreement, remaining days will continue to succeeding years. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 320 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers with less than six FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 160 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Temporary and substitute teachers are not regular-contract teachers and are not eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Bankavailable to current sick leave bank members until exhausted.

Sick Bank. 1. A sick leave bank for all nurses and members of the bargaining unit with Professional Teacher Status shall be established. The Wareham School Committee shall make an initial contribution of one hundred (100) sick days. Eligible teachers who wish to be members of the sick leave bank shall become members by contributing one sick day of their accumulated sick leave each year until the bank contains five hundred (500) sick days. Teachers who enter the Wareham School Department and/or become Professional Teachers after the establishment of the sick leave bank shall become eligible by contributing one sick day to the bank. As of September 30 each year, if the sick bank contains fewer than 500 sick days, eligible teachers shall contribute one sick day in order to remain a member. Sick Leave bank members will remain active members unless they notify the clerk in writing by September 15 of the school year. New members must sign up by September 15. 2. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a joint committee consisting of two school committee members appointed by the Wareham School Committee, three (3) Wareham Education Association sick bank members appointed by the Wareham Education Association, and the Superintendent of Schools who shall be a non-voting member who serves as the Clerk of the Committee. School Committee members and Wareham Education Association members of the Sick Bank is a program where regular-contract teachers contribute personal illness or business hours Committee shall be appointed annually and limited to a maximum term of four (4) years. The Clerk shall be responsible for posting an annual list of available days in the bank, to use if their individual personal illness and business hours are exhausted and they experience a long-term illness or surgery. Teachers may join the Sick Leave Bank only during an open- enrollment period. Human Resources shall send the Sick Leave Bank Letter to all teachers reminding them The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank policies set forth herein within Committee shall be shared with the first thirty (30) workdays member requesting the sick bank leave. 3. Eligible members who have used up all of each school year. The open-enrollment period their accumulated sick leave may apply to use the sick leave bank provided that application is defined as two weeks immediately following the date made to the Sick Bank Letter is sentCommittee, or and said application states the nature of the disability and the anticipated period of recovery. A physician's letter confirming the disability and anticipated period of recovery shall accompany the application. 4. The minimum number of sick days that can be granted for newly-hired teachers, a single disability shall be five (5) and the teacher’s first thirty maximum number shall be fifty (30) days of employment50). During open-enrollment, every eligible teacher will be given the opportunity to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing eight (8) hours from their sick leave allotment. Only participants in the Bank bank members are eligible for access to Bank hours. Any teacher in need of additional sick leave hours may apply to the Joint Sick Leave Committee Bank up to two times per disability for consideration a total amount of days not to exceed one hundred (100). 5. In the request. The criteria that must event of a new contract or an extension of an existing contract, the balance of days in the sick leave bank will be met by the teacher applying for Sick Leave Bank hours are: a. Teachers must have exhausted all of their personal illness and business hours before they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank; b. In order to be eligible to use Sick Leave Bank hours, teachers shall have been absent due to personal illness at least ten (10) consecutive school days immediately prior carried over to the day they request hours from the Sick Leave Bank. If all benefit days have been exhausted, teachers will not be paid until they accumulate ten (10) consecutive school day absences at which time Sick Leave Bank would begin; c. The Sick Leave Bank hours requested shall apply to days prior to the date when the teacher's long-term disability insurance could or would commence, and d. The Sick Leave Bank hours shall take effect immediately following the exhaustion of the teacher's personal sick leave and personal business providing the above conditions have been metsucceeding contract. e. Teachers must submit a letter to Human Resources requesting Sick Leave Bank hours along with a medical document from their doctor stating the reason for the request. The Joint Sick Leave Committee consisting of the Director of Human Resources or designee and the Association President or designee shall administer the Sick Leave Bank. The Board will provide the Joint Sick Leave Committee with accurate accounting of the number of hours and the names of participating teachers in the Sick Leave Bank as requested by the Joint Sick Leave Committee. Any hours left over at the end of the school year shall carry over to succeeding years. Teachers with six or more FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 320 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Teachers with less than six FWCS contracts will be provided a maximum of 160 hours from the Sick Leave Bank. Temporary and substitute teachers are not regular-contract teachers and are not eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Bank.