Common use of Sick Leave and Personal Leave Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave and Personal Leave. 1. All educators shall be credited with fifteen (15) days sick leave on September 1 of each school year. Such leave shall be with full pay. 2. All sick leave not used in the school year in which it was granted shall be accumulated up to a maximum of two hundred fifty (250) days. 3. Xxxx leave will be granted for personal or family illness or accident, medical appointments that cannot be scheduled outside work hours. No doctor’s certificate shall be required for any absence of not more than five (5) consecutive school days on account of illness or accident. A doctor’s certificate indicating the nature and continuance of the disability may be required beyond the sixth consecutive school day. Such certificate of fitness for service may be required as a condition of return to service. 4. Four (4) days per year will be granted as personal leave for the purpose of transacting or attending to personal, legal, business, household, or family matters which require absence during school hours. All educators are permitted to take half a personal day. Half a personal day is defined as missing less than three and a half (3 ½) hours in a work day. Personal leave may not be taken the day prior to or the day following any vacation (Thanksgiving Recess, December Vacation, February Vacation, and April Vacation), nor may three (3) personal days be taken consecutively except under special circumstances with the approval of the Superintendent. Except in the case of emergencies, notice of such leave shall be given to the principal at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance before taking such leave. The applicant for such leave need not state the reason for taking such leave other than that they/them is taking it under this paragraph. The personal days are to be deducted from the accumulated sick leave. Days taken for personal leave beyond four (4) days per year shall result in a deduction of one one-hundred eighty-fourth (1/184) of the educator’s salary for each such day. 5. The District will maintain a record of accrued or accumulated sick leave. This record will be made available through electronic means. It is the responsibility of the educator to check and verify sick leave each year and notify the Superintendent’s Office of any discrepancy by November 1 of that year or the sick leave shall be considered correct. 6. A sick bank shall be established for members of the bargaining unit. The bank shall be administered by two members appointed by the School Committee and two members appointed by the Association who shall establish the bank’s policies. Membership in the bank shall be voluntary however it shall be assumed that each educator will automatically donate one day per year to the Sick Bank unless the educator notifies the Superintendent to the contrary in writing by October 1 of each school year.

Sick Leave and Personal Leave. 1. All educators shall be credited with Each administrator is entitled to fifteen (15) days sick leave on September 1 of for personal illness each school year. Such leave Unused days will be accumulated. In case of absence because of personal illness, quarantine, or injury other than that arising out of and incurred in the course of employment, a substitute shall be with full pay. 2provided and no salary deduction will be made for a period not to exceed the administrator's accumulated sick leave. All If the illness, quarantine, or injury other than that arising out of and incurred in the course of employment requires a period of absence longer than that covered by accumulated sick leave, a deduction shall be made equal to the substitute's salary for a period of no longer than 45 school days. Beyond the 45 day period a deduction shall be made each day equal to 1/200 of the administrator's annual salary for the remainder of the school year. The Board may grant an extension either of sick leave not used in or of the school year in which it was granted shall be accumulated up to a maximum 45 day period, dependent on the nature of two hundred fifty (250) days. 3the illness, the circumstances involved, and the service record of the administrator concerned. Xxxx leave will be granted for personal or family illness or accident, medical appointments that cannot be scheduled outside work hours. No doctor’s certificate shall A physician's statement may be required for any illness. In case of absence because of any injury arising out of and incurred in the course of employment, a substitute shall be provided. The administrator will receive his/her full salary at the rate received at the time of occurrence of said injury for the length of his/her absence, but not more than five to exceed 180 school days, except that any compensation received under the Workers' Compensation Act will be deducted from his/her salary. No deduction shall be made from sick leave. Three (5) consecutive school days on account of illness or accident. A doctor’s certificate indicating the nature and continuance of the disability may be required beyond the sixth consecutive school day. Such certificate of fitness for service may be required as a condition of return to service. 4. Four (43) days per year will be granted as allowed for personal leave reasons. These days may accumulate to a total of five (5). Under no circumstances will an administrator be asked his/her reason for the purpose of transacting or attending to personal, legal, business, household, or family matters which require absence during school hours. All educators are permitted to take half taking a personal day. Half a personal day When school is defined as missing less than three and a half (3 ½) hours in a work day. Personal leave may not be taken the day prior to or the day following any vacation (Thanksgiving Recesssession, December Vacation, February Vacation, and April Vacation), nor may three (3) personal days be taken consecutively except under special circumstances with the before or after a holiday or vacation period, require approval of by the Superintendent. Except However Personal Days may be taken in the case of emergencies, notice of such leave shall be given to the principal at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance before taking such leaveconjunction with vacation days or holidays during school vacation periods. The applicant for such leave need not state the reason for taking such leave other than that they/them is taking it under this paragraph. The personal Personal days are to be deducted not deductible from the accumulated sick leave. Days taken for personal leave beyond four (4) days per year shall result in a deduction of one one-hundred eighty-fourth (1/184) of the educator’s salary for each such day. 5. The District will maintain a record of accrued or accumulated sick leave. This record will be made available through electronic means. It is the responsibility of the educator to check and verify sick leave each year and notify the Superintendent’s Office of any discrepancy by November 1 of that year or the sick leave shall be considered correct. 6. A sick bank shall be established for members of the bargaining unit. The bank shall be administered by two members appointed by the School Committee and two members appointed by the Association who shall establish the bank’s policies. Membership in the bank shall be voluntary however it shall be assumed that each educator will automatically donate one day per year to the Sick Bank unless the educator notifies the Superintendent to the contrary in writing by October 1 of each school year.

Sick Leave and Personal Leave. 1a) For the purpose of this Agreement, Sick Leave shall mean absences from regular work assignment of any supervisor within the Unit because of illness, accidental exposure to contagious disease, attendance upon a member of the supervisor’s immediate family, seriously ill and requiring the care or attendance of such supervisor, or absence caused by a death in the immediate family in excess of that prescribed under Article XIII, Section A, Paragraph 8, Death in Family. Prescribed forms and other reasonable proofs of the causes for the use of Sick Leave may be required by the Authority when it considers such proofs to be necessary. Leave of absence will be granted to female supervisors for reasons of maternity. The extent of Maternity Leave absence from commencement to termination of such absence will be determined by medical certification which the Authority will conduct in accordance with the Sick Leave Policy. The Authority reserves the right to conduct at its own expense a physical examination by a licensed medical doctor for the purpose of verifying sick leave use. Medical determinations which may result in an extension of Sick Leave with pay, reduced pay, or without pay, or in recommendation for involuntary retirement shall not be considered disciplinary actions, but may be appealed through the grievance procedure provided in this Agreement. b) The extent of absences with full pay shall be determined by the following schedule: (i) New supervisors, after 90 days of continuous service in the calendar year in which employment commences, will earn Sick time equal to 1.25 days per month of service. For this purpose, supervisors hired up to and including the 15th day of any month will be considered to have worked a full month. Supervisors who are hired after the 15th of any month will be considered to have been employed on the first of the following month. Although such supervisors are ineligible to take any days off with pay during the first ninety (90) days of employment, the prorated calendar year entitlement will be calculated from date of hire and banked up following 90 days of service. The supervisor will receive the full fifteen (15) day entitlement on January 1st of the second calendar year of employment. (ii) In the Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Finance/Budget, and Technology Administrative Services Departments, supervisors will receive five (5) personal leave days. In the Toll Collection Department, supervisors will receive six (6) personal leave days. If these personal days are not used by the end of the calendar year in which they were earned, they will be forfeited. New supervisors shall have their personal leave days prorated based upon their date of hire. All educators personal leave days are subject to the following restrictions: (a) None will be granted on a holiday. (b) Personal Leave days are not cumulative. (c) Personal Leave days will not be substituted for any prior excused or unexcused absences without pay. (d) No more than two (2) supervisors in Turnpike Division Toll Collection, one (1) supervisor in Operations, Engineering, Finance/Budget, and Technology and Administrative Services Departments and Turnpike Division Maintenance shall be credited granted personal leave at one time in each Section or Area, except with approval of Management. In Turnpike Division Maintenance, area is defined as individual District, Shift and Division. (e) Further restrictions concerning coverage guarantees for personal leave days in the Toll Collection Department shall be in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding set forth in Appendix B which was mutually agreed upon by the Association and the Authority. c) Subtraction will be made from the supervisors total established sick leave credit for absences caused by illness, accidental exposure to contagious disease or attendance upon a member of the supervisor’s immediate family. Subtraction will not be made for personal leave day absences. d) If upon separation of service from the Authority an employee has authorized accrued sick time earned in a previous year, the employee will receive sick time allowance at the present rate for such accrued sick time, except that employees hired after May 1, 2001 will be subject to a cap of $15,000. e) If a supervisor has had more absences than credit, such supervisor will have only fifteen (15) days sick paid leave on September 1 of each school for the current year. Such leave shall Only absences resulting from sickness and off-job injury will be with full paychargeable under this policy. 2. All sick leave not used in f) During the school year in which it was granted shall be accumulated up to a maximum of two hundred fifty (250) days. 3. Xxxx leave will be granted for personal or family illness or accident, medical appointments that cannot be scheduled outside work hours. No doctor’s certificate shall be required for any absence of not more than first five (5) consecutive school years of employment, a supervisor may at the conclusion of each year convert up to five (5) days on account of illness or accidentaccrued credits for that calendar year to cash payment. A doctor’s certificate indicating Starting with the nature and continuance sixth year of employment, the disability conversion option may be required beyond the sixth consecutive school day. Such certificate of fitness for service may be required as a condition of return increased up to service. 4. Four ten (410) days per year will be granted as personal leave for the purpose of transacting or attending to personal, legal, business, household, or family matters which require absence during school hours. All educators are permitted to take half a personal day. Half a personal day is defined as missing less than three and a half (3 ½) hours in a work day. Personal leave may not be taken the day prior to or the day following any vacation (Thanksgiving Recess, December Vacation, February Vacation, and April Vacation), nor may three (3) personal days be taken consecutively except under special circumstances with the approval of the Superintendent. Except in the case of emergencies, notice of such leave shall be given to the principal at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance before taking such leave. The applicant for such leave need not state the reason for taking such leave other than that they/them is taking it under this paragraph. The personal days are to be deducted from the accumulated sick leave. Days taken for personal leave beyond four (4) days per year shall result in a deduction of one one-hundred eighty-fourth (1/184) of the educator’s salary for each such day. 5. The District will maintain a record of accrued or accumulated sick leavedays. This record payment will be made available through electronic meanson or before December 10 and at the current year’s rate. It is In the responsibility event absences occur after the closing date for selection of these options, such absences will be charged to the educator to check and verify following year’s sick leave each year and notify the Superintendent’s Office of any discrepancy by November 1 of that year or the sick leave shall be considered correctbank. 6g) Interchange Managers will continue to receive five (5) personal leave days, to be used consistent with past practice. h) Supervisors who work a 40 hours per week schedule will earn a maximum of 120 sick hours per year. A Supervisors who work a 35 hours per week schedule will earn a maximum of 105 sick bank shall be established for members of the bargaining unit. The bank shall be administered by two members appointed by the School Committee and two members appointed by the Association who shall establish the bank’s policies. Membership in the bank shall be voluntary however it shall be assumed that each educator will automatically donate one day hours per year to the Sick Bank unless the educator notifies the Superintendent to the contrary in writing by October 1 of each school year.

Sick Leave and Personal Leave. 1. All educators full-time faculty shall be credited with fifteen granted 15 days (15120 hours) days sick of leave on September 1 of at full pay each school contract year. Such Full- time faculty who work less than a contract year shall have the number of days of leave prorated. Faculty members will notify their Associate Xxxx in advance of taking sick and personal leave through personal contact, email or phone call to their Associate Xxxx. The Leave Request/Absence Report form shall be with full pay. 2completed prior to taking personal leave, if possible, and upon return from sick leave. All sick If leave not used is for an emergency situation, notification should be made in a reasonable time period. Failure to provide notification as set forth above shall result in denial of paid leave. If an absence affects a family member’s office hours, the school year in faculty member shall have the option of rescheduling the affected office hours instead of using leave. If the member chooses to reschedule, he/she shall notify the Associate Xxxx as above, specifying which it was granted office hours will be missed and when they will be made up. The make-up time shall be accumulated within one student attendance week of the member returning from leave. The faculty member shall inform students about the absence and make-up to schedule in as timely a maximum of two hundred fifty (250) days. 3manner as practical. Xxxx Notification via in-class announcements, communications via the college Learning Management System, and/or signs on or by the office door shall be used. Sick and personal leave will be granted for assessed in a minimum of two (2) hour blocks. If sick or personal or family illness or accident, medical appointments that cannot be scheduled outside work hours. No doctor’s certificate shall be required for any absence of not leave extends more than five (5) consecutive school one week, full days on account of illness or accident. A doctor’s certificate indicating the nature and continuance of the disability may be required beyond the sixth consecutive school day. Such certificate of fitness for service may be required as a condition of return to service. 4. Four (4) days per year will be granted as personal leave for the purpose deducted regardless of transacting assigned classes or attending to personal, legal, business, household, or family matters which require absence during school office hours. All educators are permitted to take half a personal day. Half a personal day is defined as missing less than three and a half (3 ½) hours in a work day. Personal leave may not be taken the day prior to or the day following any vacation (Thanksgiving Recess, December Vacation, February Vacation, and April Vacation), nor may three (3) personal days be taken consecutively except under special circumstances with the approval of the Superintendent. Except in the case of emergencies, notice of such leave shall be given to the principal at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance before taking such leave. The applicant for such leave need not state the reason for taking such leave other than that they/them is taking it under this paragraph. The personal days are to be deducted from the accumulated sick leave. Days taken for personal leave beyond four (4) days per year shall result in a deduction of one one-hundred eighty-fourth (1/184) of the educator’s salary for each such day. 5. The District will maintain a record of accrued or accumulated sick leave. This record will be made available through electronic means. It is the responsibility of the educator to check and verify sick leave each year and notify the Superintendent’s Office of any discrepancy by November 1 of that year or the sick leave shall be considered correct. 6. A sick bank shall be established for members of the bargaining unit. The bank shall be administered by two members appointed by the School Committee and two members appointed by the Association who shall establish the bank’s policies. Membership in the bank shall be voluntary however it shall be assumed that each educator will automatically donate one day per year to the Sick Bank unless the educator notifies the Superintendent to the contrary in writing by October 1 of each school year.