Vacation Leave 11.1 Employees will retain and carry forward any eligible and unused vacation leave that was accrued prior to the effective date of this Agreement.
Sabbatical Leave 1. Upon written application, not later than April 1 of any school year, a unit member who meets the following qualifications shall be granted a sabbatical leave. 2. All applications for sabbatical leave will be reviewed by a committee consisting of three (3) representatives to be named by the Superintendent, and three (3) representatives to be named by the Association President. The committee shall consider, among other qualifications, the following: a. The proposed program of the applicant as related to professional graduate study, travel, writing, or research. b. The value of the proposed program to the Pickerington Schools, its pupils, and the individual applicant. c. The applicant’s total length of service with Pickerington Schools. 3. In order to be eligible for a sabbatical leave, a unit member must have been employed in the Pickerington School District for at least five (5) years. 4. Unit members requesting such leaves must accompany their applications with detailed plans for the proposed use of their sabbatical leaves. Within ninety (90) days after the expiration of his/her leave, the unit member will make a written report to the Superintendent detailing the use, which was made of his/her leave. If the leave was granted for graduate study, the unit member will present to the Superintendent a transcript from the university or college attended. 5. Unit members approved for a sabbatical leave will be notified of their approval by May 15th, or as soon thereafter as possible. A unit member on a sabbatical leave shall be given an employment contract for the year of leave and shall be entitled to a salary equal to the difference between their previous salary and the salary of the substitute teacher replacing them while on sabbatical leave. 6. As a condition of being granted a sabbatical leave, a unit member must agree to return to the Pickerington Schools for a period of one (1) year upon returning from leave. Failure to do so shall require the unit member to refund to the Board all payments received from the Board for sabbatical leave purposes during the leave period. Such refund shall be made within a four (4) month period beginning with the first full month said unit member was to have returned to duty. Such time limit may be extended by agreement of both parties. 7. Unit members on sabbatical leave shall be given full experience credit on the salary schedule and credit for seniority purposes for the period of the leave and shall return to their same or to a similar position as they held at the time the leave commenced. 8. A bargaining unit member on sabbatical leave may maintain health, life, and dental insurance benefits during the period of leave. Any member desiring continuation of such benefits must notify the Treasurer not less than thirty (30) days prior to the commencement of the leave and pay to the Treasurer an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the total monthly cost of the insurance not less than ten (10) days in advance of the time that the Board premium payment is due. 9. Any bargaining unit member who purchases retirement credit for the portion of their salary forfeited during the sabbatical leave will pay to STRS both the employee and employer share of retirement contributions. 10. All such sabbatical leaves shall be granted in conformity to the provisions of Section 3319.131 of the Ohio Revised Code.
Sick Leave 16.1 The Company shall provide paid sick leave benefits to all eligible employees for periods of temporary absence due to bona fide illnesses or injuries. Part-time employees shall receive sick time on a pro-rata basis. 16.2 Eligible employees shall accrue sick leave benefits at the rate of 72 (seventy-two) hours each calendar year, or a pro rata thereof. 16.3 Employees who are unable to report to work due to illness or injury are required to notify their direct supervisor before the start of their scheduled workday. 16.4 Before returning to work from a sick leave absence, an employee may be asked to provide a physician’s verification that he or she may safely perform all of the essential functions of his or her position, with or without reasonable accommodation. Such a request by the Company shall be made only where circumstances warrant such a request, as determined by the Company, and shall not be made capriciously. In addition, an employee who is ill for more than three (3) calendar days may be asked for some physician’s verification. 16.5 Sick leave benefits shall be calculated based on the employee’s base pay at the time of absence and shall not include any special forms of compensation, such as commissions or bonuses. 16.6 An employee on maternity leave who becomes ill or disabled because of pregnancy shall be entitled to sick leave pay for the duration of such illness or disability, but in no event shall the Company be required to provide paid sick leave in excess of an employee’s accumulated credit. The Company may require medical verification of illness or disability because of pregnancy. 16.7 If an employee is eligible for state disability or worker’s compensation benefits, sick pay shall supplement such benefits. The Company shall continue to pay the employee’s full salary, to the extent sick leave benefits are available until the employee actually begins receiving state disability or worker’s compensation benefits. At that point, the employee shall report to the Company the amount of each benefit check received. Such amounts will be deducted from subsequent paychecks. 16.8 Unused sick leave shall be cumulative and the unused portion of sick leave entitlement shall be carried over from year to year to a maximum of 416 (four hundred sixteen) hours. 16.9 Unused sick leave benefits shall not be paid to employees while they are employed or upon termination of employment. 16.10 In any calendar year, eligible employees may use up to one-half of their accrued and available sick leave to attend to the care of a sick child, parent, same-sex domestic partner or spouse, only to the extent that state law requires same. 16.11 The sick leave policy issued on June 24, 2015, which took effect on July 1, 2015, is included, by extension, into this agreement, with the understanding that each employee will receive full credit for all annual and banked sick leave accrued as of the date of this Agreement, and with the understanding that the sick leave benefits under the policy cannot be changed without agreement between the Guild and the Employer.
Unused Sick Leave The accrual of unused sick leave hours is unlimited. The City and the Union commit to the evaluation and establishment of a mutually beneficial non-use of sick leave incentive and pay-out policy. Until such time that a policy is established, accumulated sick leave shall be compensated as follows: Upon retirement from the City service, an employee shall be paid sixty percent (60%) of his accumulated sick leave, with the rate of payment based upon his regular pay at the time he retires. Upon the death of an employee, his beneficiary shall be paid sixty percent (60%) of his accumulated unused sick leave, with the payment based upon his regular pay at the date of his death.
