Common use of Sick Leave Bank Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, there shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, there 18.01 There shall be established, or continued a Sick Leave Bank available to all members of the bargaining unit. The "bank" and membership in it shall be established in the case following way: 18.01.01 Each member of those Colleges having previously so established, a the bargaining unit will have one sick-leave day deducted from his yearly allotment to initially implement the bank. 18.01.02 All members of the bargaining unit will participate in and be eligible for the Sick Leave Bank. b. During 18.01.03 Should the term "bank" fall below 100 days, each member of the unit will be assessed to contribute a sick-leave day. 18.01.04 If a member has no sick leave days, he/she will automatically be assessed the day owed at the end of September of the following year. 18.01.05 Should a teacher leave the system owing a sick-bank day, he/she shall be liable for a substitute's daily pay. 18.01.06 When a teacher enters the system, he/she shall have one sick leave day deducted for the bank after thirty (30) days employment. This provision will not be applied to teachers entering after May 15. 18.02 THE SICK LEAVE BANK WILL BE ADMINISTERED AS FOLLOWS: 18.02.01 The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be comprised of six members. The President of the Malden Education Association shall appoint three members. The Superintendent shall be a member and two members of the School Committee, appointed by the School Committee, shall be members. The Bank shall be administered in accordance with the guidelines of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member Article. One of the Association representatives shall serve as chair of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 18.02.02 Before being eligible to draw on the Sick Leave Bank, all sick leave, current and accumulated, must be exhausted with the following exception: a teacher who, through illness, anticipates he will automatically become so during exhaust all available leave may apply ten days prior to exhaustion of his/her sick leave. 18.02.03 Members of the month bargaining unit who have extended illness and who have exhausted all of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal their sick leave accumulation will be assigned may apply in writing to draw on the sick leave “bank.” 18.02.04 The initial request from the bank shall not exceed ten (10) days. If a unit member does not want to be After the initial request has been exhausted, a member of can file for up to 30 days. All further requests from the sick leave ''bank, that unit member " shall provide not exceed 30 days in any request. Authorization or refusal for "bank" days must be in writing and signed by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member Chair of the Sick Leave Bank Committee, although only five votes shall be entitled needed to draw upon refuse or grant a sick-bank request. 18.02.05 The Superintendent of Schools shall bring any suspected case of sick leave bank abuse before the Sick Leave BankBank Committee. Should the Sick Leave Bank Committee, effective thereafter upon notice by majority vote of those present and voting, determine that an abuse pattern does exist, the matter will be remanded back to the President of Superintendent. Should the College. The granting of Superintendent take disciplinary action, such sick leave actions shall be subject to review as progressive discipline under the same criteria as regular sick leave days and just cause provisions of Article 14. 18.02.06 All requests from the "bank" shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for accompanied by a doctor's statement certifying the illness and the anticipated time needed for recuperation sufficient to return to work. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may, if it feels the situation warrants it, request a second doctor's opinion. 18.02.07 Members of the employee and unit may not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in draw from the Sick Leave Bank until they have exhausted their total accumulated sick leave, plus a three day period. Teachers will not collect from the bank for these days and are eligible to collect for the remaining days at a rate that is 80 percent of the teacher's daily pay rate (1/182* of the teacher's yearly salary) at the time the teacher last worked. *(Eff. 9/95) 18.02.08 The School Committee's cost in terms of workdays shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days]not exceed 300 workdays in any school year. This means that the Sick Leave Bank Committee may not award in excess of 375 sick leave bank days in any school year. The Association and, the President of the College Committee agrees that a pilot program for disability insurance, either through a city-wide policy or the President’s designee shall notify all members. ThereafterHealth and Welfare Fund, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned researched by a committee of three persons chosen by the School Committee and three persons chosen by the Association. The parties will return to the Bank unless a member notifies table to negotiate, with the President aid of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; providedthis Committee, howeverno later than August 31, that any member 1990. 18.02.09 Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank wishing Committee shall be made by a majority vote of those members present and voting. In the event of a tie vote, the issue will be resolved pursuant to remain a member thereof the arbitration section of this Agreement. 18.02.10 The modifications in 18.02.01, 18.02.05, 18.02.08 and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on 18.02.09 expire as of the expiration date of this Agreement. Unless the giving of such noticeCommittee and the Association agree to continue them or modify them, Article 18 shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after return to the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess language of the number Agreement expiring August 31, 1987.* *Note: A copy of days to which that unit member the 1987 agreement is entitled as determined by attached following the administrationside letters.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, there each Sick Leave Bank then existing at a State University shall be established, or continued in maintained for the case benefit of those Colleges having previously so establishedmembers of the bargaining unit who, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During pursuant to the term terms of this Agreement, a unit member are or become members thereof; provided, however, that any Sick Leave Bank that shall have existed at any University on the date immediately prior to the date of execution of this Agreement shall continue to exist from and after such date of execution, and any sick leave days then accumulated in such bank shall continue to be held thereby, and any administrators who are then members of such bank shall continue to be members thereof; and every such bank, together with the application and use of all such days, shall be governed solely by the provisions of this subsection (e). Within ninety (90) days after the effective date of this Agreement, an administrator who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically may become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.57.50) hours [(one (1) day] ) of his personal sick leave accumulation to the Bank, provided that unit member’s on the date of making such assignment he shall have accumulated not fewer than forty five (45.00) hours (six (6) days) of personal sick leave. During the term of this Agreement, an administrator who shall have accumulated forty five (45.00) hours (six (6) days) of sick leave and who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank may become so by assigning to the Bank, during the month of September, seven and one-half (7.50) hours (one (1) day) of his personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President ; except that, in the case of a provisional employee, such employee who shall have accumulated forty five (45.00) hours (six (6) days) of sick leave and is not a member of the College Bank may become a member by assigning to the Bank, during the month next following, seven and one-half (7.50) hours (one (1) day) of such personal sick leave days so accumulated. No administrator shall be entitled to become a member of the Sick Leave Bank save as in hereinbefore provided. Assignment by an administrator of a personal sick leave day to the Bank shall be made in writing to the University Personnel Officer. The University Personnel Officer or the President’s his designee shall maintain a register of the membership of the Sick Leave Bank and of the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five . Annually during the month of July, the University Personnel Officer shall give written notice to the local Association Representative of: (a) the total number of days accumulated in the Sick Leave Bank as of July; and (b) the names of all those administrators at the University who are members of such Bank on such date. At each University where a Sick Leave Bank shall have been established pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, there shall also be established a Sick Leave Bank Committee, which committee shall consist of two (2) persons chosen by the President of the University, and two (2) members of the bargaining unit chosen by the President of the Association. Once he has been off the payroll for thirty seven and one-half (37.50) hours (five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulationdays), every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled eligible to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria Bank as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policyneeded; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to draw upon the Bank shall first make application to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Committee shall determine and certify to the President of the University whether the applicant is eligible in accordance with the provisions of this subsection. The Committee may recommend to the President that such an applicant, and/or any unit member receiving sick leave benefits from the Bank, should be examined by a physician, and they shall do so upon the written request of the President of the Association. The Committee may also at reasonable times recommend that the President require an examination by a physician and/or require a physician’s report from an applicant or a person receiving benefits. The Committee may recommend to the President that benefits be provided, or continue to be provided, to any eligible applicant after such examination or certification or that they be terminated. The President may require that a unit member who is on leave of absence by reason of sickness be examined by a physician chosen by the President or his designee. Any unit member who thereafter fails or refuses such examination may not draw accumulated sick leave, or upon the Sick Leave Bank. The University will pay the costs of all physical examinations. The physician shall render a written report to the President of the University. The President shall provide a copy of the physician’s report to the Committee, to the unit member and to the President of the Association. The President may, upon receipt of such medical report and the recommendation of the Committee, terminate the sick leave benefits or deny eligibility, as the case may be. The decision of the President shall not be arbitrary or capricious. No member of the bargaining unit shall, during any five (5) year period commencing with the date on which he/she first draws upon the Sick Leave Bank, draw in the aggregate there from more than the equivalent of two (2) work years of sick leave for any single illness or injury. Whenever any person is drawing upon the Sick Leave Bank, and while doing so, is entitled to accumulate personal sick leave in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing paragraph (a), the amount of such sick leave that would otherwise accrue to such person shall be available only for accrue in its full amount to the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Sick Leave Bank. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-below twenty five (375) hours [fifty (5025) days], the President University Personnel Officer shall so notify the local Association Representative in writing, and any member of the College or Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof shall, within fifteen (15) days after the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereaftergiving of such notice, assign an additional seven and one-half (7.57.50) hours [(one (1) day) of his personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned accumulation to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a memberBank; provided, however, however that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s his personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days day within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is next entitled to personal sick leave leave; and provided further that such member shall retain all his rights in the Bank until such period of for assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon Whenever any administrator shall have given notice of his intention to retire pursuant to the provisions of Section F of this Article VII, he may, by giving notice thereof prior to the effective date of his notice of retirement, donate to the Sick Leave Bank at the University at which he is then employed, all of his accumulated personal sick leave; and any such donation, when so made, shall be a donation of all such administrator’s personal sick leave as of his last date of employment; provided, however, that no such donation shall include any accumulated sick leave for a percentage of which such administrator shall have been compensated pursuant to paragraph (h) below. No administrator shall be permitted to contribute any day or days of personal sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank except in excess such amounts as are provided in this subsection (e). Anything in the foregoing to the contrary notwithstanding, members of a sick leave bank shall continue to be eligible to draw upon such bank irrespective of the fact that the total number of days in such bank is less than twenty-five (25); provided, however, that if, pursuant to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administrationprovisions of this subsection (e), there are no members of a sick leave bank, those who were last members shall remain eligible to draw upon such bank, pursuant to the provisions of this subsection (e), until all the days accumulated therein shall have been exhausted.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, there A. There shall be establisheda voluntary sick leave bank to be administered by the College. B. Upon completion of two (2) full semesters of service to the Employer, all full-time regular and full-time adjunct employees shall be eligible for sick bank membership. Employees covered by this Article may become members of the bank by annually donating two of their own accumulated sick leave days to the bank during the first four years of their sick bank membership. Beginning with the fifth year of sick bank membership, employees may remain members of the bank by donating one sick leave day annually. Such donations shall be made in September, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so establisheda new employee, a Sick Leave Bankone full year after the time of employment, and membership in the sick leave bank shall continue until the member notifies the College of his/her voluntary withdrawal. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member C. Employees who is do not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s have sufficient personal sick leave accumulation will to donate to the bank as described, shall have their next accumulated days withheld, if they choose to become or remain members. D. The privileges of the sick leave bank shall be assigned available to a member thereof who meet the following criteria: 1. The employee is eligible pursuant to B, or C, above. 2. The employee is unable to perform his/her regular job due to a disabling non-work related illness and/or a non-work related injury. 3. The employee has exhausted all sick leave. 4. The application is made on the prescribed form. 5. The application is accompanied by a signed "employee leave certification form", bearing physician and employee signatures. E. Upon approval by the College of an application made pursuant to D above, a member shall be entitled to draw up to one hundred (100) days against the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want After twenty-five (25) days of sick leave have been utilized from the bank, an employee may be requested to provide an updated physician's statement. Up to an additional fifty (50) days may be a member granted at the discretion of the Board of Trustees or its designee. The College may grant partial days when an employee is capable of working part-time, and is recommended by the Department to work part-time. (e.g. light duty) F. When an employee is drawing paid time from the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice all benefits will continue to accrue in accordance with the President employment contract. G. If an employee has exhausted all sick leave accruals and is still incapacitated and unable to perform the duties of his/her position, or if the employee's physician recommends a period of rest or convalescence, the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is may grant a leave of absence without pay for a period not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [exceed one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationyear. c. H. Employees shall be encouraged to apply for disability retirement where applicable. I. The President of College shall provide the College or the President’s designee shall maintain Association with a register of the membership and the number statement of sick leave days accumulated available in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, on August 31st and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the CollegeMarch 31st. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation Any balance of sick leave days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave bank on August 31st shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights carried over for use in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administrationfollowing year, September 1st through August 31st.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon The Governing Board, in cooperation with the date of execution of this AgreementAssociation, there shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, establish a Sick Leave Bank to be administered by the Association. The Association shall establish rules for the implementation of the Bank which supplement and are not inconsistent with the following provisions: A. Membership in the Bank shall be voluntary. To be a member of the Bank, employees must join with an initial donation of two (2) days and rejoin each September by donating one (1) sick leave day for that school year to the Bank. Part-time employees contribute a half day. Each employee is limited to a total donation of two (2) days in any one school year. The total number of days available in the Bank shall not exceed 1,000 at the commencement of any school year. B. An employee may not withdraw days from the Bank for illness until the employee’s own accrued sick leave has been depleted, a three (3) day period has transpired without pay for each illness, and a written verification of illness from a licensed physician has been received by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Days withdrawn from the Bank by a given employee will be limited to a maximum of ninety (90) days and will not have to be replaced except as a regular yearly contributing member of the Bank. b. During C. The Bank shall be applicable only to the term illness of the employee. D. The Bank will be administered by a committee of employees: one (1) employee elected from each building and one (1) additional Committee member appointed by the Executive Board of the Association to chair the Committee. The rules and regulations governing the Sick Leave Bank will be formulated by this AgreementCommittee and all administrative contingencies not covered by these rules will be decided by a simple majority vote of the Committee, or a unit member who quorum thereof. The Governing Board and the Administration of SPEED will be provided with copies of these rules and regulations and of any addenda that result from such administrative decisions. E. The Committee will make a quarterly report to the Superintendent concerning days contributed to the Bank and all days withdrawn from the Bank. A copy of each written verification of illness from a licensed physician as submitted by an employee will be attached to the quarterly activity report. F. The employees shall not hold the Governing Board or the Administration of SPEED liable for any decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Association agrees to hold harmless the Governing Board and the Administration of SPEED for any claim, damages, or legal actions regarding the Bank. G. In the event that the Bank is not a member terminated by action of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during Committee or by the month dissolution of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation SPEED, the available days will be assigned prorated to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member contributing members of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide Bank as provided by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member rules of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon Committee, except that no employee may receive more than the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the total number of days the employee contributed to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administrationBank.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, there There shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, established a Sick Leave Bank to be available to all teachers and nurses as defined in the recognition statement in Article I of this agreement. There shall be a separate Sick Leave Bank established for Teaching Assistants defined in Article XVIII. The intention of this Sick Leave Bank is to protect the members from financial burden due to major illness or injury. It is not intended to be a solution to the problem of the exhaustion of a member's sick days. (Note: for the provisions of this article, "serious illness or injury" shall be defined as one which is generally regarded as such by those in the medical profession.) b. This Bank shall be administered by a committee consisting of two teachers, appointed by the President of the Association, and two administrators, appointed by the Superintendent. This committee shall review, and pass upon, applications for additional sick leave days submitted by the members of the Bank. The decisions of this committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the Grievance Procedure set forth in this agreement. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a c. Each member of the staff covered by this agreement shall have the opportunity to elect to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by filing a signed authorization statement no later than October 1 of each year. A teacher who begins employment after September 1 will automatically become so during have 30 days from the month beginning date of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned employment in which to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Banksign such authorization. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of Each teacher who elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled contribute one (1) day of accrued sick leave during each of their first two years of participation. After contributing two (2) days, a member need only sign indicating intention to draw upon the remain a Sick Leave BankBank member. In subsequent years of participation, effective thereafter upon notice to a member shall donate one (1) day per year, only if the President total number of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three falls below one hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] 150). e. A member will not withdraw days from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal until his/her own accumulated sick leave accumulation on is depleted. In any case, at least the date first 30 days of serious illness or injury must be covered by the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal person's own accumulated sick leave and or absence without pay. f. Concurrently with the submission of a written request for additional sick leave, the teacher shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon provide the Sick Leave Bank in excess Committee with a medical report setting forth the nature of the illness or date of initial incapacitation. In addition, the member shall supply a written report stating the number of accumulated sick days they have remaining on the date the request is submitted and the number of additional sick days they are requesting. All such forms shall be submitted to which that unit member is entitled as determined the Superintendent, who shall, within five school days, call the Committee into session. g. A teacher may request any or all of the ninety (90) day maximum offered by the administrationSick Leave Bank. Necessary additional days up to ninety (90) may be requested when the original request is for less than the full amount. h. Persons withdrawing from the Sick Leave Bank, retiring, or leaving the district must leave contributed days in the Sick Leave Bank. i. In the event that the Committee cannot reach a decision, they shall confer with the Superintendent who shall cast the decisive vote based on all available information.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date 1. Employees shall deposit one (1) day of execution of this Agreement, there shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a their Sick Leave Bank. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member of allowance in the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month each school year. Employees who have a serious or prolonged illness or injury and who have used all of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned their accumulated Sick Leave, may apply to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in draw on the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member 2. The operation of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled carried out in accordance with the following guidelines: a. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary. b. A member of the bargaining unit may participate in the Sick Leave Bank by agreeing to draw deposit one (1) day of his/her accumulated unused Sick Leave into the Bank. Once an employee elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank his/her participation in the Bank shall be for the duration of the current school year, and shall continue from year to year, unless the employee notifies the Superintendent in writing and no later than October 1st of his/her desire to opt out of the Bank. No days previously donated to the Sick Leave Bank will be returned to an employee who subsequently decides to end his/her participation in the Bank. c. All deposits must be made by October 1st of each year, or within thirty (30) days of an employee’s date of hire. d. Only employees who deposit into the Sick Leave Bank shall be permitted to make withdrawals from the Bank. e. All requests for withdrawals from the Sick Leave Bank must be made in writing accompanied by written medical evidence (e.g. a note from the employee’s doctor/physician/medical provider indicating the inability of the employee to perform his/her duties). The medical evidence must include the specific nature of the illness and/or injury, and the date the employee may be expected to return to work. f. The Sick Leave Bank may only be used for an employee’s illness or injury. g. Employees who withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank will be paid for each day at their current per diem (daily) rate of pay. h. A Sick Leave Bank Committee (SLBC) composed of two (2) members appointed by the Federation President, and two (2) members appointed by the Superintendent of Schools, shall meet to consider all requests to withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank. The decision of the SLBC to grant or deny a request shall be made by majority vote of the SLBC. In the event a vote of the SLBC results in a tie, the Superintendent shall review the request, including any medical evidence presented by the employee, and he/she shall cast a final vote to break the tie. The vote shall be final and binding on all parties and shall not be subject to appeal or arbitration, provided the decision of the SLBC is not arbitrary or capricious. i. Whenever the balance of the Sick Leave Bank exceeds one hundred and twenty-five (125) days, there will be no need to annually assess additional days. Members will automatically donate one (1) additional day whenever the balance of the Bank falls below one hundred and twenty-five (125) days. In no case will a member be assessed more than two (2) days in any given school year. Up to three (3) times per school year upon written request made by the Federation, the District shall produce a report listing the current balance of days in the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to as well as a detailed list of all deposits/donations and withdrawals to/from the President Sick Leave Bank. j. In the event of a new contract or an extension of the College. The granting existing one, the balance of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], is carried over. k. Changes in the President of the College regulations or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member operation of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administrationmust be made through collective bargaining.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution The intent of this Agreement, there plan is to provide extended sick leave to those bargaining unit members who incur a period of severe and/or life threatening illness and/or hospitalization and have utilized all of their personal sick leave. New members to the District shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [donate one (1) day] day of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation each of the first two (2) years of their employment in the district. A retiring member with sick days in excess of the number allowed by TRS will donate the extra days back to the sick bank. In the event that the sick leave bank is ever depleted, each member shall donate one (1) day to the bank from accumulated sick leave (except members in their first or second year of employment). In addition the Board shall donate one hundred (100) days to the bank. The following provisions shall control the operation of the sick leave bank: A. A member must have exhausted all individual accumulated sick leave. B. The first thirty (30) consecutive member attendance days of illness or disability will not be assigned to covered by the bank; those days must be covered by the person’s own accumulated sick leave, or absence without pay. C. Upon meeting provisions A and B, the member shall automatically draw from the sick leave bank. A member may draw up to ninety (90) days from the sick bank per school year. D. The member shall not have to pay back in any manner the number of days borrowed from the bank. E. No member shall draw upon the sick leave bank in two (2) successive years unless they return to work for at least sixty (60) school days prior to the drawing from the bank the second year. However, in the event of serious illness commencing after March 1, a person shall be allowed to draw up to sixty (60) days in the next school year. Individual cases can be reviewed and approved by a joint effort between the Executive Director of Human Resources and the Association President. F. The bank shall be applicable to member illness only. G. If the teacher falls under the provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act, the Workers’ Occupational Disease Act, The Veterans’ Administration or other sources, the teacher may need to follow the provisions of said Act(s). In any case the teacher will be made whole. H. All requests to draw from the sick leave bank must be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Human Resources and must be accompanied by a unit member does not want physician’s note. I. The Executive Director of Human Resources in consultation with the Association President must approve all requests to be a member draw from the sick leave bank. J. A sick leave statement reflecting activity of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice bank will be presented to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven Association by September 1st, November 30th, January 31st, March 31st and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationMay 31st. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, there There shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During . Said “Bank” shall function for the term use of this Agreementbargaining unit members who have been employed for at least three (3) years in the Revere Public Schools and who, a due to extraordinary illness, have exhausted their accumulated sick leave. Membership is open to all bargaining unit members who have been employed for at least three (3) years in the Revere Public Schools and who have accumulated at least twenty (20) days of sick leave prior to the beginning of the school year. A member who is not a member wishes to participate in the Bank will be required to provide the Superintendent with written notice of that intention on or before the last day of the Sick Leave Bank school year that precedes the school year during which the teacher desires to commence participation. Those agreeing to participate will automatically become so during the month have seven (7) days of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned to automatically deducted from their yearly allotment of sick days on the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member first day of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee first year that the unit member is not assigning to participates in the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation“Bank. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and ” Whenever the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five bank falls to sixty (560) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulationor fewer, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank there shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President an automatic deduction of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] day from each participating member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned . Once days have been “banked” they are not returnable. Membership will continue from year to the Bank year unless a member notifies chooses, in writing, to withdraw from the President Sick Bank before the first day of the College next year. The Bank will be administered by a committee consisting of three (3) persons designated by the Association and three (3) persons designated by the Superintendent. The committee will review whether to grant requests for sick days from the “Bank.” No grant of sick leave may commence before the member has utilized all of his/her accumulated sick leave. In no event will any grant of sick leave be permitted for the first forty (40) school days that a member is absent (whether such days are paid or unpaid). The initial grant of sick leave from the President’s designee in writing within “Bank” shall not exceed thirty (30) days. After the sick leave initially granted has been used, the member may reapply for an extension. In no event, however, may any member be granted more than five (5) thirty (30) day increments (or more than a total of one hundred and fifty (150) days of receipt sick leave) during any five (5) year period. In deciding whether to make an initial grant or an extension of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member such leave the Committee will consider the following factors: 1.) the seriousness of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that memberinjury/illness 2.) the teacher’s personal record of sick leave accumulation on the date usage during prior years The decision of the giving of such notice, committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled be final and binding and not subject to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administrationappeal or grievance.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution The intent of this Agreement, there plan is to provide extended sick leave to those bargaining unit members who incur a period severe and/or life threatening illness and/or hospitalization and have utilized all of their personal sick leave. New members to the District shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [donate one (1) day] day of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation each of the first two (2) years of their employment in the district. A retiring member with sick days in excess of the number allowed by TRS will donate the extra days back to the sick bank. In the event that the sick leave bank is ever depleted, each member shall donate one (1) day to the bank from accumulated sick leave (except members in their first or second year of employment). In addition the Board shall donate one hundred (100) days to the bank. The following provisions shall control the operation of the sick leave bank: A. A member must have exhausted all individual accumulated sick leave. B. The first twenty (20) consecutive member attendance days of illness or disability will not be assigned to covered by the bank; those days must be covered by the person’s own accumulated sick leave, or absence without pay. C. Upon meeting provisions A and B, the member shall automatically draw from the sick leave bank. A member may draw up to ninety (90) days from the sick bank per school year. D. The member shall not have to pay back in any manner the number of days borrowed from the bank. E. No member shall draw upon the sick leave bank in two (2) successive years unless they return to work for at least sixty (60) school days prior to the drawing from the bank the second year. However, in the event of serious illness commencing after March 1, a person shall be allowed to draw up to sixty (60) days in the next school year. Individual cases can be reviewed and approved by a joint effort between the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources and the Association President. F. The bank shall be applicable to member illness only. G. If the teacher falls under the provisions of the Workers’ Compensation Act, the Workers’ Occupational Disease Act, The Veterans’ Administration or other sources, the teacher may need to follow the provisions of said Act(s). In any case the teacher will be made whole. H. All requests to draw from the sick leave bank must be submitted in writing to the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources and must be accompanied by a unit member does not want physician’s note. I. The Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources in consultation with the Association President must approve all requests to be a member draw from the sick leave bank. J. A sick leave statement reflecting activity of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice bank will be presented to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven Association by September 1st, November 30th, January 31st, March 31st and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationMay 31st. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, there shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution Effective upon signing of this Agreementagreement, there shall be established, or continued in the case City and the Union agree that members who have at least thirty-five (35) shifts of those Colleges having accumulated sick leave are considered to have previously so established, contributed to the Sick Leave Bank and are eligible participants. The Sick Leave Bank will have a starting balance of three hundred (300) accumulated sick leave shifts. 1. The City agrees to establish a Sick Leave Bank. b. During the term . Members eligible and wishing to participate may contribute up to a maximum of this Agreement10 shifts but not fewer than 3 shifts of accumulated sick leave initially; thereafter, a unit member who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank each will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [contribute one (1) day] shift in order to maintain the seventy- five (75) shift minimum. Members shall be eligible to participate in said Bank if they have at least thirty-five (35) shifts of that unit member’s personal accumulated sick leave accumulation will be assigned at the time of initial contribution. Only members who have contributed to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled eligible to draw upon receive time from the Sick Leave Bank. 2. The Bank shall be administered by a committee of two (2) representatives appointed by the City and the President and Secretary / Treasurer of the Union to serve a one (1) year term. This committee shall administer and consider the eligibility of members to draw from the Bank. a. The Sick Leave Bank balance shall be maintained by the Secretary / Treasurer of the Union. b. The member’s accumulated sick leave balance shall be maintained by the City. c. On January 1st of each year or upon request, effective thereafter upon notice the Union and the City agree to provide the balance of these accounts. a. The member may submit an application for participation to the President Secretary / Treasurer of the College. Union. b. The granting of such Secretary / Treasurer will forward the application to the Sick Leave Bank committee for recommendation. c. Upon approval by the Sick Leave Bank committee, the member’s donation will be deducted from their personal accumulated sick leave shall be subject balance and applied to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the familySick Leave Bank balance. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in d. A donation into the Sick Leave Bank shall not be used in determining the Employee’s eligibility for Unused Sick Leave Incentive Pay. a. The Employee may submit an application to draw from the Sick Leave Bank to the Secretary / Treasurer of the Union. b. The Secretary / Treasurer will forward the application to the Sick Leave Bank committee for recommendation. c. Upon approval by the Sick Leave Bank committee, the Employee’s requested number of sick shifts will be deducted from the Sick Leave Bank and be deposited into their personal accumulated sick leave balance. 3. The following criteria shall be used by the Sick Leave Bank committee in determining the eligibility of a member to draw from the Bank and determining the amount of leave: a. A member must have fallen used up all of his / her accumulated sick leave; b. Members must submit competent and timely evidence that a request is necessary to three benefit the member who is suffering uncommon, life-threatening or serious or lengthy illness; c. A member’s prior utilization of the Sick Leave Bank. 4. Upon completion of the application process, the Sick Leave Bank committee may issue a grant of days from the Sick Leave Bank of no more than one hundred (100) shifts in each year. 5. The Sick Leave Bank shall have a minimum of seventy-five (37575) hours [fifty shifts in reserve. If the number of shifts falls below seventy-five (5075) days]then Section 1 shall be reapplied. However, the President total number of Sick Leave Bank shifts in reserve shall not exceed three hundred (300.) In the College or event the Presidentthree hundred (300) maximum would be exceeded, then Section 1 of this Article would not be reapplied. In the event a member’s designee shall notify all membersinitial contribution caused the bank to exceed the three hundred (300) maximum, those sick days in excess would be returned to the City and the member granted participation in the Sick Leave Bank. 6. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave There shall be assigned to the Bank unless no use of this benefit by a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member receiving IOD benefits. 7. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank wishing committee are final and binding and not subject to remain the Grievance procedure. 8. Member’s hours of work and overtime eligibility shall be restricted for a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.seven

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date The Board of execution of this Agreement, there shall be established, or continued Education will cooperate in the case operation of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. All P.R.E.S.P.A. personnel of the Bargaining Unit may participate in the bank on a voluntary yearly basis. First year Employees will have the option to place two (2) paid time off days in the Sick Leave Bank, exceptions to this Article will be individuals who are on short or long term disability. b. During The primary purpose of the term Sick Leave Bank is to protect an Employee’s earning power during periods of protracted and unavoidable absence due to his/her incapacity to perform the responsibilities of his/her assignment. Employees may request sick days from sick bank for the care of an ill immediate family member at the discretion of the sick bank committee. c. Each Employee may join the Sick Leave Bank only after he/she donates one (1) day, and only one (1) day, of his/her accumulated sick leave to the Bank and submit his/her authorization to join. The authorization to join must be made within the health insurance policy open enrollment period at the beginning of each participatory year. Employees opting to not enroll in a Sick Leave Bank during the open enrollment period shall be denied membership to the Bank for the duration of that school year. d. In the establishment of the Sick Leave Bank, each Employee that agrees to take part in the Sick Leave Bank will donate one (1) day as described in Section C of this AgreementArticle. The Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed three hundred (300) days. First year Employees may join with two (2) days regardless of accumulated days. e. A member will donate one (1) day of his/her paid time off leave to the bank only when the tabulation drops below one hundred-fifty (150) days. When the bank falls below the one-hundred fifty (150) days, an additional day will be taken from all participating members at the start of the following year. No days will be deducted from any Employee if the deduction of the days from any or all participating Employee’s causes the maximum, outlined in Section D. of this Article to be exceeded. f. A person withdrawing from membership in the bank will not be able to withdraw the contributed days. g. Upon depletion of a unit member member’s own accumulated sick leave, he/she must wait an additional five (5) school days before drawing from the Sick Leave Bank. The five (5) school days may be paid retroactively when or if the school bank committee has authorized a grant. h. Maximum withdrawal will not exceed one hundred (100) days per person per year. When and only when the Employee is eligible for LTD, the total amount of days that may be withdrawn shall be no more than the number of days needed between the member’s accumulated sick leave and the time period that is required before long term disability (LTD) takes effect. i. A person who is on lay off or on a non-compensated leave of absence shall not a be able to draw days from the Sick Leave Bank except as specified in Section J. of this Article. j. A member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during on a non-compensable leave of absence due to reason of disability is eligible to apply for coverage by the month bank and may use these non-compensable days to satisfy the waiting period of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days as mentioned in Section G of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of this Article. k. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will control the Sick Leave Bank wishing and retroactive withdrawals. The Committee shall consist of three (3) Bargaining Unit Members to remain a member thereof be elected by the Association, the Superintendent, and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date one (1) designee of the giving Superintendent. Granting of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess withdrawal and retroactive pay shall be secret ballot with each member of the number committee having one (1) and only one (1) vote. Simple majority of days the vote will rule. l. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may request documentation verifying incapacity to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administrationperform his/her employment responsibilities and his/her need to Sick Leave Bank withdrawal.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon (a) In the date event of execution an extended illness of this Agreementa regular or regular part-time Employee, there an additional source of aid shall be established, or continued in provided by the case establishment of those Colleges having previously so established, a General Sick Leave Bank. General Sick Leave Bank will be used to provide for additional days beyond those accumulated by the regular or regular part-time Employee under Section 13.1 (a), (b). b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member (b) Assets of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven be acquired from those regular and oneregular part-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal time Employees accruing sick leave accumulation under the aforementioned Section 13.1 (a), (b), who will be assigned to have the voluntary option of donating their accumulated sick leave bank. If days, or a unit member does not want to be a member portion of the their accumulated sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to days into the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationsaid General Xxxx Leave Bank. c. The President of (c) Rules and Regulations governing the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number depositing of sick leave days accumulated in into the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the General Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon established and posted so regular and regular part-time Employees may be aware of same. (d) A Sick Bank Committee shall be established, consisting of: Two (2) regular or regular part-time Employees and the Human Resources officer or their designee and a person from the community selected by the above. The awarding of sick leave by extensions from the General Sick Leave Bank will be governed by the Sick Bank Committee. (e) All sick days deposited and extended into the General Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to Bank will be properly recorded in the President Town’s accounting system and accounted for in an appropriate manner such that an accurate balance of all time in the CollegeGeneral Sick Leave Bank is available. The granting of such sick leave shall A report will be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days generated and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such a standing agenda item at the Labor Management Committee meetings. (f) A new sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to bank with Employees getting an additional three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (53) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen per month for working short no less than four (154) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administrationshifts per month.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date The Lakewood Local Board of execution of this Agreement, there shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, Education and LACE hereby agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank.Bank (SLB) on the following basis: b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a 1. An enrollment period shall be established annually between September 1 and September 30 for each member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during bargaining unit to voluntarily donate their accumulated, but unused, sick leave days to a SLB. Effective upon ratification of this2021-2024 Agreement, members previously enrolled in the month of October. Seven and oneSLB must re-half (7.5) hours [enroll by donating one (1) day] day of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation leave. Employees who had not previously enrolled will be assigned have thirty days from the date of Board ratification to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide enroll by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [donating one (1) day] day of that sick leave. All new bargaining unit member’s personal members shall be eligible for enrollment in the SLB. New members may enroll by donating one (1) sick leave accumulation. c. The President of day to the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five Bank within thirty (530) working days after the exhaustion date of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the Collegehire. 2. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank SLB shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [not less than fifty (50) days], . 3. Only individuals who have contributed to the President SLB beginning with the 2021- 2024 school year are eligible to withdraw sick days from the SLB. 4. A committee comprised of the College superintendent or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafterhis/her designee, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] non-teaching supervisor, the president of the Association, and two (2) Association members chosen by the Association president, shall administer the Bank. The Committee shall develop the approved form and shall approve applications at its discretion. 5. Use of days from each the SLB will be limited to unforeseen serious or catastrophic illness or injury of the bargaining unit member's , spouse or member’s dependent children. It may not be used for elective surgery. Bargaining unit members must have exhausted all of their accumulated sick leave shall be assigned and permissible advances prior to withdrawals from the Bank unless a member notifies SLB. Bargaining unit members who have exhausted all of their sick leave accumulation, who meet the President qualifications of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish this paragraph, and who have contributed to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal may request sick leave accumulation on days from the Bank. 6. Approved bargaining unit members shall be granted up to a maximum of twenty (20) days from the Bank. The Committee may grant up to an additional twenty (20) days at a time. 7. The Committee shall require bargaining unit members who have requested sick leave days from the Bank to provide a statement from their physician describing the nature of the illness and a prognosis relative to the member's probable period of absence from duty. 8. Members whose request for additional sick days and whose illness or injury is such that their physician cannot give a probable date of the giving of such noticereturn to duty and, who qualify, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled be required to personal sick leave and apply for disability retirement. 9. The SLB shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expirednot be used as a means for increasing retirement compensation. 10. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of Should the number of days in the SLB be exhausted, the Committee will meet to which that unit mutually agree upon additional contributions and the procedure for making such contributions. 11. Donations to the SLB shall not disqualify a member is entitled as determined by for incentive pay. 12. The decisions of the administrationSLB are final and not subject to the grievance procedure.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, there shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-one- half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership mem- bership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon up- on notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness ill- ness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned as- signed to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing wish- ing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon The purpose of the date Sick Leave Bank is to relieve Teachers from the financial burden of execution extended absence related to illness or injury that results in temporary disability and the inability of this Agreement, there shall be established, or continued the Teacher to perform the duties of employment. 1. Any Teacher is eligible to participate (“Participants”) in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During 2. The Sick Leave Bank is voluntary and Participants may withdraw at any time. 3. A Sick Leave Bank (“SLB”) shall be established as follows: a. Teachers may voluntarily become Participants of the term SLB. To enroll, the Teacher shall contribute at least one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the SLB Account (“Account”) within the first 30 work days of the Teacher’s current contract. Teachers will also be permitted to enroll within the 30 days following the ratification of this AgreementContract (in late fall 2021). b. Participants may withdraw, at any time, by notifying the Superintendent in writing. c. Teachers who do not voluntarily enroll according to paragraph 3(a.) herein and those who withdraw according to paragraph 3(b.) herein may not participate in the SLB. d. All Teachers who enroll and who do not withdraw from the SLB are automatically continued as Participants from year to year in the SLB. e. All days contributed to the Account are permanent. f. At such time that the number of days in the Account falls below twenty-five (25), an obligatory assessment of one (1) additional leave day shall be made upon all Participants. 1. Participants may donate up to two (2) additional days at the time of the assessment. 2. Participants who have no remaining leave to contribute may continue to participate without penalty. 4. Eligibility to request leave from the SLB shall be determined as follows: a. Participants must exhaust all current and accrued leave. b. Participants must make a unit member who is not request in writing to the Superintendent. i. This requirement may be met by a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during Participant’s immediate family or by the month Association on behalf of Octoberthe Participant. ii. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] A copy of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will this request shall be assigned provided to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the Association President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationdesignee. c. The President Participant must include a signed physician’s statement verifying the inability of the College Participant to perform the duties of employment. i. Where possible, this statement should also include the anticipated length of absence. ii. When the length of anticipated absence is unknown or longer than 15 days, the PresidentParticipant shall present a physician’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bankstatement reconfirming continued disability. d. Five (5) working days after Participants are not eligible if the exhaustion of absence is due to elective surgery or pregnancy in which the Participant has not been medically certified by a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria physician as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the familybeing temporarily or permanently disabled. e. Whenever Participants may not use the accumulation SLB to extend the period of sick leave days beyond the school year in which the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], leave commenced. f. Participants may use the President SLB during the elimination period of the College or Long Term Disability (“LTD”) coverage provided by the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a memberCorporation; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing once a Participant is eligible for LTD, Participants must elect LTD and are no longer permitted to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation use SLB while on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the LTD. g. The maximum number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by a Participant may draw from the administrationBank in any one school year shall be sixty (60) days.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon ‌ 1. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established for the bargaining unit members of the Xxxxxxxx Public Schools. To facilitate the GFT in administering the teachers’ sick leave bank, a list of newly hired teachers will be given to the GFT president and vice-president at the beginning of each semester. 2. All bargaining unit members who wish to join the Sick Leave Bank may do so by applying in writing to the Superintendent on or before September 30 of any school year. The Superintendent shall provide the Sick Leave Bank Committee with a list of bargaining unit members who have joined the bank by October 15. 3. If a bargaining unit member joins the Sick Leave Bank in his/her first year of eligibility, he/she shall deposit one (1) sick leave day in the bank. If he/she joins the sick leave bank in his/her second year of eligibility, he/she shall deposit two (2) sick leave days in the bank. If he/she does not join the Sick Leave Bank until his/her third year of eligibility, he/she shall deposit four (4) sick leave days in the bank. A bargaining unit member who has not joined the sick leave bank within three (3) year of the date he/she became eligible to do so shall have forfeited his/her right to do so. 4. A bargaining unit member who has joined the Sick Leave Bank shall continue to be a member year after year, until such time as he/she is no longer employed by the Xxxxxxxx Public Schools, or he/she submits a written statement to the Sick Leave Bank Committee requesting that he/she be removed from the rolls of execution participants in the bank or he/she is no longer a bargaining unit member. Sick leave days on deposit with the bank shall not be returned in any of this Agreementthese instances. 5. A Sick Leave Bank Committee, there consisting of three (3) bargaining unit members, to be selected by the executive board of the GFT, and three (3) school employer representatives shall be established, or continued in . 6. Application for withdrawal of sick days from the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave BankBank shall not be considered until: a. A member has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave. b. During A member has experienced a five-day ‘deductible period’ without pay covering a two-year period of time. c. A member has made written application to the term Sick Leave Bank Committee. d. An affidavit is provided by a physician stating the individual’s inability to fulfill his/her contractual duties beyond the automatic ten-day period (see 7a.) 7. The Sick Leave Bank will grant loans from the bank under the following rules: a. An automatic ten-day loan upon fulfillment of this Agreementrequirements 6a, 6b, and 6c. Said loan granted once in a unit member who is two-year period. b. Additional loans not to exceed fifty (50) days in a member two-year period, upon fulfillment of 6 above and approval of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationCommittee. c. The President of Sick day compensation shall be defined as the College or the Presidentmember’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership daily rate, excluding any and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bankall extra-curricular compensation schedule responsibilities which have not been performed. d. Five (5) working days after 8. If the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulationSick Leave Bank member is incapacitated and cannot make application for withdrawal, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member the Sick Leave Bank Committee may grant the withdrawal on his/her behalf. 9. The Sick Leave Bank is not designed to be used by persons experiencing normal pregnancies. 10. Members of the Sick Leave Bank who make withdrawal shall be entitled repay the bank at the rate of four (4) sick days per year. 11. In the event that the total number of days on deposit in the bank drops below seventy-five (75), each Sick Leave Bank member shall deposit an additional day in the bank. 12. Any retiree may donate up to draw upon one (1) day from his/her accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon When an employee exhausts all of his/her accumulated sick leave due to a serious illness or injury of the date of execution of this Agreementemployee and/or his/her immediate family and additional days are still needed, there then he/she may request through the WEA that the additional days be transferred from other bargaining unit members accumulated sick leave. A committee shall be establishedcomprised of the Superintendent, and administrative designee, WEA president, and a WEA designee. Any revisions made to the sick bank policy must be approved by the Western Board of Education and the Western Education Association. Serious illness or injury shall be defined as disease, injury, or continued illness which is life- threatening or requires a significant period of absence. Examples of qualifying conditions would include, but not be limited to, heart conditions, cancer or stroke. Examples of non-qualifying conditions are normal pregnancies (including cesarean section) and elective surgeries. All donations are one a volunteer basis and will remain anonymous except to the Treasurer, Superintendent, and the Clerk. a) A teacher who meets or will meet the criteria set forth above shall notify the Superintendent of his/her desire to request sick leave donations. If the request is approved by the Superintendent, he/she shall so advise the WEA President, in writing, who then shall notify the case bargaining unit members of those Colleges having previously so establishedthe donation opportunity. b) Teachers who have a balance of at least fifty (50) sick leave days may donate a maximum of two (2) sick days to a single applicant by submitting a signed sick leave donation form to the Treasurer. No employee shall donate more than five (5) sick days in a single school year. Donations must be received by the Treasurer within ten (10) calendar days of the Superintendent’s approval of the donation request referenced above. Donations will be accepted in units of up to twenty (20) days. c) Donated sick leave may not result in an increase in severance pay. d) Unused donated sick leave shall not be returned to the donor and will be removed from the recipient’s sick leave balance. e) Before applying for sick bank days, a Sick Leave Banksigned doctor’s statement detailing the reason(s) the employee cannot return to work; and an estimated number of additional days the employee may be off work, will need to be included with a member’s application to the sick bank committee. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5f) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned Contributions to the sick leave bank. If bank shall not count against a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationrecord of perfect attendance. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon The parties shall establish a sick leave bank to cover Employees starting the date second year of execution employment at Prospect Mountain High School in the event of this Agreement, there long-term illness. The sick leave bank shall be establishedadministered by a committee composed of three (3) members of the Association appointed by the Association President, or continued hereinafter called the Administrative Committee. Each member shall serve for one (1) year and/or until a successor shall be appointed. The Administrative Committee shall meet as needed. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum and a majority vote of those present and voting shall decide all questions. Every Employee who elects to participate in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, sick leave bank shall agree in writing to donate one (1) or two (2) days each year from the sick leave days that are allowed to accrue in a Sick Leave Bank. b. During one-year period to be deposited in said bank; such day(s) to be deducted from the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so Employee's accumulated sick leave. Enrollment shall be open only during the month of OctoberSeptember of each school year. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal Employees may enroll as soon as they have a sick leave accumulation will day to contribute. Each succeeding school year shall be assigned a new enrollment period and days contributed to the bank shall not accrue in excess of one hundred (100) days. An Employee shall become eligible to request extended benefits from the sick leave bankbank after an incapacitating illness or disability provided the Employee has exhausted all accrued sick leave. If a unit member does not want Upon presentation of satisfactory medical evidence of disability or illness to be the Administrative Committee and approval by said Committee, the Committee shall forward its recommendation to the Superintendent. Upon recommendation of the Superintendent and approval of the Board, a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice may be granted up to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and onetwenty-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.five

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement7.3.1 Effective November 1, there 1993, a sick leave bank shall be establishedmade available to full- time unit members (that is, unit members regularly assigned to work thirty [30] or continued in more hours per week) on the case following items: 7.3.1.1 Participation shall be voluntary and the District Treasurer shall keep a record of those Colleges having previously so established, a Sick Leave Bank. b. During the term of this Agreement, a all participants. An eligible unit member who is not may elect to participate by submitting a member signed Xxxx Leave Donation form to the District Treasurer between September 1 and September 30, inclusive, of any school year (beginning with the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during 1993-94 school year) authorizing the month donation to the bank of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] day of the participant's accumulated sick leave in October and an additional day of such leave in May of that unit member’s personal school year. Thereafter, if the total number of days in the bank falls below twenty (20), each current participant shall automatically donate one (1) additional day of accumulated sick leave accumulation will be assigned to the bank. A participant's donation shall not be construed as the use of sick leave for purposes of determining eligibility for the cash benefit for non-use of leave described in Section 7.4 of this Agreement. 7.3.1.2 The Association President (or designee) shall process all requests for use of sick days in the bank. Days may be used only with approval of the Association President (or designee), and the decision shall be final, being neither grievable under this Agreement nor otherwise subject to challenge. Days may be used only for a catastrophic illness or injury, documented by a physician as to nature and extent of the particular problem, after exhaustion of the participant's accumulated sick leave. If a unit member does request is granted, it must be for not want less than twenty (20) nor more than thirty (30) days during a particular school year. The Association must notify the District Treasurer whether the request has been granted or denied prior to the applicant’s exhaustion of other authorized leave. Days shall not be available to any non-participant or to a member participant who has applied for disability retirement or to enhance a participant's retirement/death payment under Article 8 of this Agreement. The Association President (or designee) shall notify the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide Treasurer of approved requests. 7.3.1.3 A participant may terminate his/her participation in the bank by October 30 submitting written notice to the Association President (or Designee) and District Treasurer, such termination to be effective on the date of receipt. Eligibility to use bank days ceases upon termination of participation, and no days donated to the College or bank, while a participant, are recoverable. 7.3.1.4 A participant's membership will be terminated if he/she has no accumulated sick leave to contribute to the President’s designee bank at the time contributions are to be made. 7.3.1.5 If, as of October 1 of any school year (beginning with the 1993-94 school year), the number of participants in the bank is less than twenty-five (25), the bank shall automatically terminate for the duration of this Agreement and the unused days donated to the bank shall be credited by the District Treasurer back to the individual accumulated sick leave accounts of those who elected to participate according to the level of contribution during the previous year (a maximum of two [2] days) and the balance will be liquidated. 7.3.1.6 If the number of days remaining in the bank at the time of termination is such that the unit member is remaining participants cannot assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [receive their previous year's contributions, each remaining participant's accumulated sick leave account will be credited one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal day sick leave accumulationwith any balance being liquidated. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of 7.3.1.7 If the number of days remaining in the bank at the time of termination is fewer than the number of remaining participants, the donated days will be credited to which that unit member is entitled as determined those members' accumulated sick leave accounts on an equal basis by the administrationone quarter (1/4) day increments with any balance being liquidated.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon A Sick Leave Bank shall be maintained at the date University, if 50% of execution the unit members subscribe to such bank or a minimum of one hundred (100) days is donated by the unit members, whichever is less. Such bank shall be maintained for the benefit of all those members of the bargaining unit who shall have chosen, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, there to become a member thereof. Any employee who is a member of this bank on the effective date of this Agreement shall be establishedremain a member thereof subject to the terms and conditions of this section. A unit member from UMass Extension, or continued in who was a member of the case of those Colleges having previously so established, a Non-Unit Sick Leave Bank. b. Bank on October 4, 1995, shall automatically become a member of the USA/MTA Sick Leave Bank without further contribution. During the term months of this AgreementOctober, a unit member February and May, an employee who is not already a member of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically may become so during the month of October. Seven and one-half (7.5) hours [a member by assigning one (1) day] or more full days of that unit member’s his/her personal sick leave accumulation will be assigned to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does not want to be a member of the sick leave bankBank; provided, however, that unit member on the date of making such assignment the employee shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President have accumulated not fewer than three (3) days of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulation. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every leave. A member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled eligible to draw upon the Bank five working days after the exhaustion of the member's personal sick leave, personal leave, and any compensatory time accumulation, and all but ten (10) days of accrued vacation leave. Once an employee has used up leave in accordance with this section, they shall immediately be eligible to draw days from the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a joint labor-management committee with equal representation between unit members and the administration. In order to maintain membership in the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to members must donate one (1) or more full days each year if the President balance in the Sick Leave Bank is less than two (2) times the number of the CollegeSick Leave Bank members. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; providedIf, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness balance of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five is greater than two (3752) hours [fifty (50) days]times the number of members in the Sick Leave Bank, the President annual assessment of days shall cease until such time as the College or balance of days in the President’s designee shall notify all Sick Leave Bank is less than the number of members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any Any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have has exhausted that member’s his/her personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional full day or days within fifteen (15) days after as of the date on which such member is next entitled to personal sick leave leave. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be authorized to establish the schedule for determining if and shall retain all rights in when the annual assessment will occur. To be approved to draw from the Sick Leave Bank, a Sick Leave Bank until such period member must submit a completed Sick Leave Bank Application form completed and signed by a physician, which states the nature of assigning an additional day shall have expiredthe employee’s illness or disability and its anticipated duration. No The Sick Leave Bank member must also submit a written statement requesting to use the Sick Leave Bank. After review and a majority affirmative vote by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, a unit member employee may draw upon the Bank. The Sick Leave Bank in excess Committee shall determine the period of time the member may draw from the Bank. After an employee has drawn from the Bank for the approved period of time, not to exceed ninety (90) days, his/her case shall be reviewed by the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon the written request of the number employee. The employee must provide additional medical documentation to support the continuation of days Sick Leave Bank use. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may, by majority affirmative vote, authorize the employee to which that unit member is entitled as continue drawing on the Bank. The duration of each participation shall be determined by a majority affirmative vote of the administrationSick Leave Bank Committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any employee drawing on the Sick Leave Bank may at any time be disqualified from continuing to draw on the Bank by majority vote of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Any personal vacation leave, sick leave or personal leave which accrues to an employee during a period in which he/she is drawing on the Sick Leave Bank shall be credited automatically to the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank is intended to be used for short term disabilities where the employee has a reasonable expectation of returning to work. It is not meant as a substitute for long term disability income protection. An employee who is hired into the unit covered by this Agreement, from a position at another Institution of Higher Education where he/she was an active member of the Sick Leave Bank may, within thirty (30) days of the date of such hire, become a member of the Bank at the University by assigning one or more full days of personal sick leave to the Bank. Benefits under this Article shall be prorated for part-time employees.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon A. The Board of Education, in cooperation with the date of execution of this AgreementRiver Ridge Education Association (RREA), there shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, establish a Sick Leave BankBank with record keeping by the school and the RREA. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member B. Members of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during certified teaching staff shall donate a maximum of two (2) of their sick leave days to the month bank at the beginning of Octobereach school year or upon signing a contract of employment with the District, whichever shall be later. 1. Seven and one-half Members who do not owe days to the bank shall donate two (7.52) hours [of their sick leave days per year until they have 10 days in the bank. The donation would be one (1) day] day for a member with nine (9) days in the bank. 2. Members, who owe days to the bank, shall donate two (2) of their sick leave days per year until they have replaced the borrowed days or their employment at River Ridge ends. If a member leaves the District before their borrowed days are replaced, their salary will be adjusted for the days they have remaining. X. A member of the certified teaching staff shall not withdraw days from the bank until he/she has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave. D. When a member's sick leave days have been exhausted, he/she may use the number of days he/she has in the bank. E. When a member has exhausted the days he/she had in the bank, he/she may borrow up to a maximum of fifty (50) days per school year, provided that unit the member 1. Provides, upon Board request, a doctor’s statement indicating the need for additional sick leave. 2. Has been unable to perform his/her duties for a waiting period of five (5) consecutive workdays. The member may use personal days to avoid losing pay for those days. 3. Provides, upon Board request, a doctor’s statement indicating that upon returning to work he/she is able to perform his/her duties. F. When a member’s personal employment at River Ridge ends, he/she may draw from the sick leave accumulation will be assigned bank up to the number of days the member has contributed to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does bank and has not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationused. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.

Sick Leave Bank. a. Upon A. The Board of Education, in cooperation with the date of execution of this AgreementRiver Ridge Education Association (RREA), there shall be established, or continued in the case of those Colleges having previously so established, establish a Sick Leave BankBank with record keeping by the school and the RREA. b. During the term of this Agreement, a unit member who is not a member B. Members of the Sick Leave Bank will automatically become so during certified teaching staff shall donate a maximum of two (2) of their sick leave days to the month bank at the beginning of Octobereach school year or upon signing a contract of employment with the District, whichever shall be later. 1. Seven and one-half Members who do not owe days to the bank shall donate two (7.52) hours [of their sick leave days per year until they have 10 days in the bank. The donation would be one (1) day] day for a member with nine (9) days in the bank. 2. Members, who owe days to the bank, shall donate two (2) of their sick leave days per year until they have replaced the borrowed days or their employment at River Ridge ends. If a member leaves the District before their borrowed days are replaced, their salary will be adjusted for the days they have remaining. C. A member of the certified teaching staff shall not withdraw days from the bank until he/she has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave. D. When a member's sick leave days have been exhausted, he/she may use the number of days he/she has in the bank. E. When a member has exhausted the days he/she had in the bank, he/she may borrow up to a maximum of fifty (50) days per school year, provided that unit the member 1. Provides, upon Board request, a doctor’s statement indicating the need for additional sick leave. 2. Has been unable to perform his/her duties for a waiting period of five (5) consecutive workdays. The member may use personal days to avoid losing pay for those days. 3. Provides, upon Board request, a doctor’s statement indicating that upon returning to work he/she is able to perform his/her duties. F. When a member’s personal employment at River Ridge ends, he/she may draw from the sick leave accumulation will be assigned bank up to the number of days the member has contributed to the sick leave bank. If a unit member does bank and has not want to be a member of the sick leave bank, that unit member shall provide by October 30 written notice to the President of the College or the President’s designee that the unit member is not assigning to the Employer seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) day] of that unit member’s personal sick leave accumulationused. c. The President of the College or the President’s designee shall maintain a register of the membership and the number of sick leave days accumulated in the Bank. d. Five (5) working days after the exhaustion of a sick leave bank member’s personal sick leave accumulation, compensatory time, and personal leave accumulation, every member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, effective thereafter upon notice to the President of the College. The granting of such sick leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be in all other respects consistent with Employer policy; provided, however, that such sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. e. Whenever the accumulation of sick leave days in the Sick Leave Bank shall have fallen to three hundred seventy-five (375) hours [fifty (50) days], the President of the College or the President’s designee shall notify all members. Thereafter, seven and one-half (7.5) hours [one (1) personal sick leave day] from each member's accumulated sick leave shall be assigned to the Bank unless a member notifies the President of the College or the President’s designee in writing within five (5) days of receipt of said notice that that member does not wish to remain a member; provided, however, that any member of the Sick Leave Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who shall have exhausted that member’s personal sick leave accumulation on the date of the giving of such notice, shall assign such additional days within fifteen (15) days after the date on which such member is entitled to personal sick leave and shall retain all rights in the Bank until such period of assigning an additional day shall have expired. No unit member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank in excess of the number of days to which that unit member is entitled as determined by the administration.