Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank. 1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total. 2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days. 3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave. 4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave. 5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank. 6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby. 7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109. 8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools. 9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave BankBank is a continuous year to year entity. Said bank of days shall be for the use of teachers who, after having first used all their annual and accumulated leave days may apply to the Superintendent for additional days leave with pay, to be deducted from the bank of days, in case of serious illness, major surgery or serious accident involving a teacher. The Bank may be used only by the individual contributor for his/her own illness/disability. The teacher must apply in writing to the Superintendent to qualify for these days and all medical documentation must be in place for these days to be granted. A teacher must be employed by Clay Community Schools for at least 12 months to be eligible to use the sick bank.
1. Days in excess A. Each member teacher of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I Sick Leave Bank must contribute one sick leave day to the Bank at the beginning of this Article the 2015-2016 school year. The Sick Leave Bank shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum sustained thereafter by voluntary participation and voluntary donations of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to day by teachers who then become members of the Sick Leave Bank. If the number balance of days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank drops account is below 250 days during the first 30 days at the beginning of a school year, an obligatory assessment of one (1) sick leave day shall be made upon all current members of the Bank. Any and all donated days lose their identity and become the property of the Sick Leave Bank. Any teacher who is leaving the teaching profession or leaving the state may contribute any number of his/her accumulated days to 25 the sick leave bank.
B. Any teacher in the bargaining unit as defined in the Recognition Clause of this Contract who has been employed by Clay Community Schools for at least 12 months shall be eligible to become a member of the Sick Leave Bank provided he/she complies with all rules of the Sick Leave Bank. The Bank shall be open for teachers to become members for thirty (30) working days or less, following the opening of school each licensed employee year. During the enrollment period teachers who have been employed by the School Corporation may become members by paying all back assessments due had the teacher joined the Bank when that teacher first had the opportunity.
C. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will contribute one additional day consist of three teachers appointed by the Association and the Human Resources Director for the Clay Community Schools. The three teachers on the Committee will have voting rights on the Committee. The Human Resources Director will be an ex-officio member of the Committee and will have no voting rights.
D. A teacher must make application to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes Committee to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank qualify for the receipt of said days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from Each application to the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated must be acted upon by the entire Committee, and any decision to grant sick leave.
5leave days must be decided by a majority vote of the Committee. A first year teacher will It shall be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days the responsibility of the Sick Leave Bank Committee to notify the teacher within five (5) working days as to whether his/her request is granted or denied. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final. Article III, Section 4 (Sick Leave Bank) is not subject to the Grievance Procedure.
6E. Use of the sick leave bank days must be supported by a written request for its use from the employee or by his designated representative. A physician’s statement shall be provided as to the nature of the illness and a prognosis report for returning to work. The use of sick leave bank shall not be retroactive. The medical statements must be on file before a grant of sick leave bank days can be authorized.
F. A teacher may begin to use the sick leave bank on the sixth consecutive day following the expiration of all sick and personal leave days. In addition, teachers receiving monetary benefits under a disability policy shall be ineligible to receive sick leave bank days. All other contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing from the sick leave bank.
G. Use of sick leave bank shall typically be limited to twenty-five (25) school days per teacher per school year and shall not extend beyond the contractual year. If a teacher uses the first twenty-five (25) sick leave bank days granted to him/her and desires to request additional sick leave bank days, then the teacher may make a request for additional days up to a maximum of twenty-five (25) additional days. The Sick Leave Bank will only grant additional days beyond the initial twenty-five (25) day limit in extraordinary circumstances. Under no circumstances will a teacher be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness granted more than fifty (50) school days of sick bank leave in a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, single school year.
H. Sick Leave Bank leave bank days may shall not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyduring summer school employment.
7. The Sick Leave Bank I. Provided a teacher has not reached the fifty (50) day limit in paragraph G above, a teacher may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment request in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow writing from the Sick Leave BankBank Committee additional sick leave bank days, not to exceed the member fifty (50) day limit, in full or half-day increments to cover periodic therapies needed as a result of serious illness, major surgery or serious accident. Such request must send be supported by medical documentation including a written application to the superintendent stated number of schoolstherapeutic treatments anticipated.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1Bank is a voluntary bank of teacher’s’ sick leave days administered by the district, which may be used for serious illness only by participating employees. Days in excess The official record of the maximum accumulation for Sick Leave Bank will be housed in the District Office. Only those employees as defined in Section I who donate a minimum of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave day will be members of the Sick Leave Bank during the same school year. Employees shall not be allowed to request days from the Sick Leave Bank unless they have exhausted all of their existing personal leave, and sick leave first. At the beginning of each school year, employees will have an opportunity to donate sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank. If Employees may donate up to 10 sick leave days at this time. Donation of sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank is final and irrevocable. Employees shall provide written notice of their decision to donate days to the Sick Leave Bank, and the number of sick leave days to be donated if they choose to donate sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank, to the Superintendent (District office) by the end of the 5th school day of each school year. Upon request by the Association to the Superintendent, the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank drops will be reported to 25 the Association. An account of the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank will be reported to the Association at the end of the school year, to be done no later than the final teacher SIP day. In the event that the Sick Leave Bank falls below 20 days during the school year, the Association President will be informed by the Superintendent (District office). All employees will be given the opportunity to donate at least one day, and no more than five days, to the Bank at this time. Any employee who was not previously a member of the Sick Leave Bank will immediately become a member of the Bank if they choose to donate at least one day under these circumstances. Days in the Sick Leave Bank shall be for serious illness on the part of themployee, spouse, parent or lesschild. It does not cover elective surgery. Employees who are drawing retirement benefits under the Teacher Retirement System will not be eligible to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. Doctor's verification of serious illness may be required by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Days from the Sick Leave Bank may be used non-consecutively pending approval by the Superintendent and the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Sick Leave Bank days used for serious illness of a employee, spouse, parent or child shall be limited to 20 days per request. A six (6) member committee consisting of one (1) Board Member/Administrator, the Superintendent, and four (4) members of the Association (made up of one teacher from each licensed employee will contribute one additional day building currently participating in the bank and the Association President) shall serve as member of the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall review all requests submitted to the Sick Leave Bank. Requests to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes must be made in writing (electronic mail is sufficient) to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee Superintendent and Association President who will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from then convene the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6Committee as soon as reasonably possible. The Sick Leave Bank will Committee may also be used only to cover absence due to convened for the employee’s personal injury or illness or purposes of reviewing procedures and provisions of the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery upon the request of either the Association or the Board/Administration. In the event of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The challenge by an employee to the Sick Leave Bank may not be used procedure, distribution, selection, or any other matter relevant to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from this section of the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bankcollective bargaining agreement, the member must send Association shall appear on behalf of the Board, defend the Board and hold the Board harmless against any loss or liability incurred as a written application to the superintendent function of schools.
9this language. The superintendent Association hereby acknowledges and agrees that the purpose of this language is to provide a privilege to employees which will notify be managed collaboratively by the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB)and Association and which the Association will be exclusively responsible for defending against loss. The Sick Leave Screening Association waives the grievance procedure against the Board shall consist for purposes of the superintendent, the teacher's building principalthis section, and twoagrees to defend the Board against any loss as a result of any grievances filed.
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Sick Leave Bank. A voluntary sick leave bank has been established for the benefit of any certified employees who elect to participate. The Board purpose of Republic County Unified School District Nothe sick leave bank shall be to provide a bank of days upon which participating certified employees may borrow in case of extended illness of the certified employee. 109 hereby establishes The following rules shall govern the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.operation of the sick leave bank:
1. Days Any certified employee may elect to participate in excess the sick leave bank by contributing two (2) of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited his/her accumulated sick leave days to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her The annual enrollment period for voluntary membership in the sick leave to bank shall be the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bankschool year. Any certified employee employed by the school corporation after the enrollment period has passed shall have ten (10) days from the date of employment in which to enroll in the sick leave bank.
3. Certified staff members who elect to become a member of the sick leave bank shall remain a member for the entire school year. Membership in the sick leave bank shall automatically continue from one school year to the next unless the member:
a. indicated in writing his/her election to withdraw from the sick leave bank. Such withdrawal must be indicated during the annual enrollment period, or
b. has withdrawn more days in one school year than he/she had contributed to the sick leave bank. In this case, the certified employee must contribute two (2) more days of his/her sick leave from his/her allocation of sick leave for the new school year in order to continue membership in the sick leave bank.
4. Members of the sick leave bank who leave the employment of the corporation or withdraw from the sick leave bank shall leave in the sick leave bank any days contributed. Under the above circumstances, such certified employees cease to be members of the sick leave bank.
5. Unused days in the bank shall carry forward from year to year. Whenever the total accumulated days in the sick leave bank fall below seventy (70) days, each member of the sick leave bank shall donate two (2) additional sick leave days to the sick leave bank in order to remain members of the sick bank. The president of the Association shall be notified when the bank has been depleted to seventy (70) days. If, after all members of the sick leave bank have been consulted, the request for days does not maintain the bank’s total days at ten (10), the bank shall be discontinued, and previously donated sick days cannot be claimed upon leaving the sick bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will Members may apply for loans from the sick leave bank within the following conditions:
a. All sick leave and personal leave accumulated by the individual has been exhausted.
b. An individual must be used only absent a minimum of ten (10) consecutive days when school was in session prior to cover absence due receiving a loan from the sick leave bank. (Days granted may be retroactive.)
c. Teachers who accumulate sick days beyond the total allowed may contribute them to the employee’s personal injury or sick leave bank. Also, a member of the sick leave bank may draw a maximum of twenty-five (25) days from the sick leave bank in any one school year. Maternity leave shall not be granted from the sick bank. (this shall not be construed to deny the use of the sick bank for any illness or injury incident to maternity).
d. A physician’s statement shall be provided by the member upon application to the bank, and the Board may request the physician to renew such statements, as to the nature of the illness of or incapacity and a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used prognosis report for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyreturning to work.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not sick leave bank shall be used administered by the Union-North United Board of School Trustees through the Superintendent. Application shall be made to cover participants the Superintendent of Schools who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from shall make a recommendation to the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109Board.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist President of the superintendent, Association shall be informed in writing by the teacher's building principal, and twoSuperintendent when the sick leave bank is being used.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board A. Purpose – To provide members with additional leave when such members have exhausted sick leave due to their personal catastrophic illness or injury or combination thereof, and have provided competent medical certification of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Banksaid catastrophic illness or injury or combination thereof.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation B. Process for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to activating the sick leave bank at – A member fitting the time criteria set forth above may request that the Superintendent/Association activate the sick leave for bank.
C. The bank shall be administered by the upcoming year is posted for employees Superintendent or his/her designee and an Association representative.
D. Upon receipt of a request from a member to activate the sick leave bank, the Superintendent and the designated Association representative shall use the following criteria to determine the eligibility of a maximum member to receive donations and to determine the number of 120 days totalto be donated:
1. A teacher must have a catastrophic illness or injury or combination thereof and must provide timely and competent medical certification of the catastrophic illness or injury or combination thereof.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's A teacher must have exhausted all accumulated sick leave.
43. No A teacher shall not be entitled to any other paid leave, remuneration from disability payments, workers’ compensation, and/or other such benefits.
E. If the Superintendent and the Association representative have agreed to activate the sick leave bank, donations will be accepted by the Board on a first come, first serve basis until the number of days donated to the eligible member totals sixty (60) days. Teachers who donate paid days to the eligible member shall have the days deducted from their total accumulated sick leave. Once donated, the days shall no longer be available to the teacher who donated them. Donations shall be voluntary. Once donated, the donated days do not revert to the donating teacher. Teachers may draw not donate if such donation reduces his/her available sick days to fewer than 15 days.
F. Once donations have been accepted in compliance with Section C above, the Superintendent and the Association representative may issue a grant of days from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use of no more than ten sixty (1060) days to any individual teacher. In the event of disagreement between the Superintendent and the Association representative regarding eligibility or the number of days to be granted, there shall be no grant of sick leave days from the bank.
G. The aggregate number of days that may be donated in any school year shall be a maximum of one hundred eighty (180) days.
H. The decisions of the Sick Leave BankSuperintendent and the Association representative shall be final and binding and not be subject to the grievance procedure or arbitration.
6. I. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to Superintendent shall notify the employee’s personal injury or illness or Board if the illness sick leave bank has been activated, including information regarding the number of a spouse or dependent child days that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty has been allocated from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109bank.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave BankBank is a continuous year to year entity, the purpose of which is to relieve teachers from undue financial burdens as a result of an absence from work due to personal illness, personal injury or personal incapacitation sufficiently severe that would make their presence in school inadvisable.
1. Days in excess b. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of the maximum accumulation for employees President of the Association, or his or her designee, a second representative of the Association, the Superintendent, and a second representative of the Board appointed by the Superintendent. The Association President shall be the chairperson of the Committee.
c. Organization and Membership
1) Any full-time teacher in the bargaining unit as defined in Section I B.1 of this Article I, shall be credited eligible to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to become a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. 2) The Sick Leave Bank shall be formed by voluntary participation and voluntary donation of two (2) unrestricted leave days by teachers who then become members.
3) The Bank will be used only for personal illness, and only for those working days that the member is contracted. Tentative Agreement
4) The Bank shall be open for teachers to cover absence due become members for thirty (30) working days following the opening day of school each year.
5) Teachers new to the employeeSchool Corporation may become members by donating two (2) unrestricted days within the thirty-day membership period or within thirty (30) days of the teacher’s personal injury initial contract obligation.
6) After the initial year of membership enrollment, teachers electing to continue membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall donate one (1) accumulated sick leave day within thirty (30) working days following the opening day of school each year. If a teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick leave days, then said teacher shall donate one (1) unrestricted leave day.
7) At such time the Sick Leave Bank account falls below fifty (50) days, an obligatory assessment of one (1) unrestricted leave day shall be made upon all current members of the bank who have unrestricted leave days remaining.
8) A teacher who has not been a member while employed in the School Corporation during prior school years may become a member by paying all back assessments due had the teacher joined the Bank when that teacher first had the opportunity.
9) Any and all donated days lose their identity and become the property of the Sick Leave Bank.
10) Upon retirement, a teacher may donate unused accumulated sick leave days.
11) A retirement checklist will be available at the Administration Office upon retirement decision.
d. Procedure to Request and Approve Days
1) Written application by the teacher or illness or a member of the illness teacher’s family, accompanied by a physician’s certificate stating the nature, length of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized the disability, and under prognosis of the care teacher’s condition, shall be submitted to the chairperson of a doctor. For clarificationthe Sick Leave Bank Committee for each request.
2) Each application must be acted upon by the entire Sick Leave Bank Committee, and any decision to grant Sick Leave Bank days must be decided by a majority vote of the Committee. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final. The chairperson shall inform the applicant (or where advisable, a member of the teacher’s family) of the Committee’s decision and shall also report the decision to xxxxx Xxxx Leave Bank days to the School Corporation Treasurer.
3) The maximum number of days that may not be granted to a teacher shall be twenty (20) days per application and forty (40) working days per school year.
4) The applicant must use all accumulated sick leave and unrestricted days as set forth in Sections E.1 of this Article IV, before Sick Leave Bank days shall be approved.
5) There must be a waiting period of five (5) working days after the teacher’s accumulated sick leave days and unrestricted days have expired before Sick Leave Bank days become effective.
6) Upon returning to work, the member shall repay the Sick Leave Bank the number of days used for maternity at the rate of two (2) unrestricted leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babydays per school year. Repayment shall begin with the school year immediately following the school year during which the Sick Leave Bank days were granted.
7. The ) If a member of the Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation retires, resigns, or KPERS disability while off duty from for other reasons leaves the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Corporation before Sick Leave BankBank days are repaid, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9debt shall be waived. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twoTentative Agreement
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Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board District will establish a sick leave bank. The purpose of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for sick leave bank shall be to extend additional sick leave to bargaining unit members when a Sick Leave Banklife-threatening or debilitating illness or injury exhausts the member’s sick leave account.
1B. Each member borrowing from the sick leave bank is required to repay the sick leave bank at a rate of one-half of their yearly sick leave allotment, but they may choose to contribute more, up to the total owed, until the sick leave bank is repaid in full the number of sick hours borrowed. Days in excess If the member owing the sick leave bank terminates employment, the sick leave bank absorbs the loss of hours owed.
X. Xxxx leave bank membership shall be open to all members of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited association who donate sick leave to the sick leave bank at in accordance with the time conditions of this article. Upon request, the District shall furnish the committee with a record of leave for accumulated by the upcoming year is posted sick leave bank including the pattern of usage over the last year. Donated sick leave hours are irrevocable and remain in the bank upon the end of employment with the District.
D. The Administrative Committee shall conduct a thirty (30) day open enrollment period from the last week in August to the last week in September annually when employees who have not joined the sick leave bank may become members. Additionally, a new employee may join the sick leave bank within thirty (30) days of his/her first day of hire. To enroll in the sick leave bank, each employee shall contribute eight (8) hours of sick leave, or for employees working less than full-time, an amount equivalent to their prorated FTE, to the sick leave bank during open enrollment. During open enrollment or at retirement sick leave bank members may donate additional sick leave hours to the bank. The maximum accumulated donation to the bank by any individual sick leave bank member during their employment is not to exceed a maximum total of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day per year of his/her District employment.
X. Once an employee enrolls in the sick leave bank, they remain a member, and do not need to contribute more sick leave to the Sick Leave Banksick leave bank until the committee determines that the sick leave bank’s reserve of sick leave is no longer sufficient to meet anticipated demand. At that time the committee shall set a deadline for each employee to contribute additional time to the sick leave bank. Failure to contribute time to the sick leave bank shall act as withdrawal from sick leave bank membership. If an employee is currently out of sick leave or not in a position to make a donation at the number time additional contributions are requested and the employee desires to remain a member of days the sick leave bank, the employee may borrow against his/her next year’s sick leave allotment.
X. Xxxx leave bank members may borrow up to three hundred twenty (320) sick leave hours (40 days), or for employees working less than full time , the amount equivalent to their prorated FTE in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days following criteria:
1. The illness or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to injury must be life-threatening or debilitating and does not include normal pregnancy.
2. District records must show that the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysmember has exhausted their sick leave account.
3. The Sick leave bank benefits shall be coordinated with Worker’s Compensation benefits, PERS disability benefits, District long-term disability, and the employee’s short-term disability. Sick leave bank hours may not be used in lieu of available disability benefits. Use of sick leave bank hours shall cease on the first day donated by that the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leaveshort-term or long-term disability insurance becomes effective.
4. No member may draw The member’s life-threatening or debilitating illness or injury has prevented him/her from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted performing his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no job requirements for more than ten (10) days, and a doctor has certified in writing that the illness or injury is life-threatening or debilitating or that surgery cannot be postponed or delayed until vacation time. When the member qualifies for benefits, the sick leave bank will cover the first ten (10) days of as well as all subsequent days approved by the Sick Leave BankAdministrative Committee.
5. There are sufficient hours in the sick leave bank to cover the request.
6. The Sick Leave Bank A second doctor’s opinion may be requested at District’s expense.
G. If the Administrative Committee denies a member’s request for benefits, the committee shall state its reason(s) for denial.
H. Membership in the sick leave bank shall be terminated by written request of the member, lack of required donation time, or by termination of employment. If an employee is laid off and recalled, the employee will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity required to rejoin the bank. If during the lay off period sick leave after delivery bank members were requested to donate more sick leave time, then the employee would be asked to donate a proportionate amount of a normal, healthy baby.
7sick leave. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used Failure to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty contribute at this time would serve as withdrawal from the professional assignment sick leave bank as described in Republic County Unified School paragraph E.
I. The Association will hold the District No. 109harmless against any claim or suit brought against the District on account of this provision including the full reimbursement for the cost of any back wages, sick leave reimbursement, or other actions which the District might be required to take in order to comply with a court order, settlement, or other resolution of any claim or suit, provided the District notifies the Association in a timely manner of any claim or suit that has been filed against it.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a PURPOSE AND PARTICIPATION A Sick Leave Bank (the "Bank.
1") shall be established and administered by the Board. Days The Sick Leave Bank shall provide additional paid sick leave to eligible teachers due to unforeseen personal catastrophic illness or injury. Participation in excess the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary and only available after a teacher has completed five (5) years of service with New London Public Schools. • Active teachers who desire to participate in the Sick Leave Bank shall notify the Business Office in writing by June 30th of the maximum accumulation school year preceding their enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank to be eligible for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited participation the following school year. • Only teachers who have donated to the sick leave bank will be eligible to receive donations. • Only teachers that have at the time least thirty (30) days of accumulated sick leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2may donate days. Each licensed employee initially contributed Teachers may contribute one (1) sick day to the bank each year. • At the start of his/her each school year, contributions to the bank will be deducted from participating teachers sick leave balance. • The sick leave bank will have a cap approximately equal to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of teachers at the beginning of the school year. No more days in will be added until the Sick Leave Bank drops bank is depleted to 25 days or less, each licensed employee ninety (90) days. The bank will contribute one additional day be built up to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 maximum cap again and the process repeated. Newly eligible employees shall be permitted to join the sick leave bank by donating one (1) day, even if he/she wishes the bank exceeds the number of teachers for that school year. • Once donated, sick days cannot be given back to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated the donating teacher, nor do they have any cash value if unused by the employee bank. • All unused days awarded through this provision, shall be returned to the bank or if the bank has reached the maximum, sick days will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leaveforfeited.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Teachers' Contract, Teachers' Contract
Sick Leave Bank. a. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for shall establish a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the voluntary sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to bank. Participating Teachers may borrow a maximum limited number of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavefor a Family Medical Leave (FMLA) approved event.
5. A first year teacher will b. In the event that a Teacher has not already submitted the statement of an attending physician verifying the nature of the illness in conjunction with a Board approved leave, the Teacher shall be entitled required to use no more than ten (10) submit such medical certification information prior to becoming eligible to borrow days of from the Sick Leave Bank.
6c. To establish the Sick Leave Bank, all participating Teachers must donate two (2) of their accumulated and credited sick leave days. The A Teacher wishing to participate must donate such days by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office on or before September 30th for the 2022-2023 school year. Teachers who are employed less than full-time shall donate days on a prorated basis and receive borrowed days on a prorated basis. If a participating Teacher’s bank of paid sick days is depleted at the time of enrollment, the Teacher may instead donate accrued personal business leave. However, no participating Teacher may borrow personal business days to enroll in the Sick Leave Bank. At the conclusion of each school year, the Sick Leave Bank’s unused days will be carried over to the next school year.
d. Participating Teachers will not be required to donate additional days to the Sick Day Bank unless the Board and the Association agree that additional donations are necessary to keep the Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due operative.
e. All donated days are a permanent contribution to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may and are not be used for maternity transferable to another school corporation should a participating Teacher leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babytheir employment with the Board.
7. f. The Board agrees to contribute to the Sick Leave Bank a matching number of sick leave days equivalent to one-half (1/2) of the total number of days that are donated by participating teachers.
g. Participating Teachers may not be used apply to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty borrow days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District NoSick Leave Bank by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office. 109.
8. To borrow The Teacher’s accumulated sick leave must be exhausted prior to borrowing days from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify h. A participating Teacher may borrow up to sixty (60) days per year, but not more than one hundred eighty (180) days during the Teacher’s employment by the Board.
i. All sick leave in excess of two hundred fifty (250) days that has been accumulated by a Teacher who retires shall be considered to have been donated to the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist Bank at the time of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and tworetirement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the authority for a bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
12. Days in excess Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be credited final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank at if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the time leave for depletion of the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individualrespective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. No member may draw from An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leaveleave from the Bank.
5. A first year teacher g. Sick days earned during the absence will be entitled accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to use no more than ten (10) days receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
63. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank will Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be used only to cover absence due to made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the employee’s personal injury or illness or request.
b. The decision of the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may Committee shall be final, binding and not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normalsubject to the grievance procedure, healthy babycourt action or any appeal.
7. c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used Committee shall take all necessary steps to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from insure the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109confidentiality of its decisions.
8. To borrow e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the member must send a written application to request on the superintendent of schoolsmember's behalf.
9g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. The superintendent will notify These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twoBank.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. At the beginning of each school term, all new teachers shall contribute two (2) days of the foregoing sick leave to a common bank. Request for use of bank days shall be made in writing to the Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources. Teachers who have exhausted their accumulated personal sick leave allowance may make withdrawals from the common bank in accordance with the schedule below. The Board following provisions shall control the operation of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.sick leave bank:
1. Days The teacher shall not have to pay back in excess any manner the number of sick days borrowed from the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article bank.
2. No teacher shall be credited to draw upon the sick leave bank at in excess of fifty (50) days. Upon return from a personal illness or injury, any member who has exhausted all available sick and personal days, and has already drawn fifty (50) days from the time sick bank, and needing no less than ten (10) days to avoid unpaid leave for due to such illness or injury, may request members to voluntarily contribute no more than two (2) personal or sick toward unpaid leave. Any such donated days shall be certified by WEA to the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her District, which amounts shall be deducted from the donors' accumulated personal or sick leave as directed by WEA. The District and WEA shall be held harmless to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed any employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysfor implementing this provision.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's A teacher must have exhausted his/her individual accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may A teacher can draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavebank after three school days without pay.
5. A first The teacher can draw from the sick leave bank the number of days equal to the remaining number of teacher work days remaining in the school year but shall be limited to the following provisions: 1st year teacher will can draw a maximum of 5 days 2nd year teacher can draw a maximum of 5 days 3rd year teacher can draw a maximum of 20 days 4th year teacher can draw a maximum of 30 days 5th year teacher can draw a maximum of 40 days 6th year teacher can draw a maximum of 50 days Maximum of 50 days
6. Part-time teachers shall be entitled to use no more than ten (10) the sick bank days of in the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only same fractional proportion as their assignment bears to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyfull time assignment.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may bank shall not be applicable to any person other than the teacher, and may only be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from for the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109teacher’s personal illness.
8. To borrow from Teachers who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave allowance may, in the Sick Leave Bankcase of serious extended illness of an immediate family member, the member must send apply for a written application to the superintendent leave of schoolsabsence without pay or occasional days without pay. “Immediate family” shall be defined as parents, husband, wife and children.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Professional Agreement, Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for shall establish a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the voluntary sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to bank. Participating Teachers may borrow a maximum limited number of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavefor a Family Medical Leave (FMLA) approved event.
5. A first year teacher will b. In the event that a Teacher has not already submitted the statement of an attending physician verifying the nature of the illness in conjunction with a Board approved leave, the Teacher shall be entitled required to use no more than ten (10) submit such medical certification information prior to becoming eligible to borrow days of from the Sick Leave Bank.
6c. To establish the Sick Leave Bank, all participating Teachers must donate two (2) of their accumulated and credited sick leave days. The A Teacher wishing to participate must donate such days by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office on or before September 30th for the 2020-2021 school year. Teachers who are employed less than full-time shall donate days on a prorated basis and receive borrowed days on a prorated basis. If a participating Teacher’s bank of paid sick days is depleted at the time of enrollment, the Teacher may instead donate accrued personal business leave. However, no participating Teacher may borrow personal business days to enroll in the Sick Leave Bank. At the conclusion of each school year, the Sick Leave Bank’s unused days will be carried over to the next school year.
d. Participating Teachers will not be required to donate additional days to the Sick Day Bank unless the Board and the Association agree that additional donations are necessary to keep the Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due operative.
e. All donated days are a permanent contribution to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may and are not be used for maternity transferrable to another school corporation should a participating Teacher leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babytheir employment with the Board.
7. f. The Board agrees to contribute to the Sick Leave Bank a matching number of sick leave days equivalent to one-half (1/2) the total number of days that are donated by participating teachers.
g. Participating Teachers may not be used apply to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty borrow days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District NoSick Leave Bank by submitting the appropriate form to the Business Office. 109.
8. To borrow The Teacher’s accumulated sick leave must be exhausted prior to borrowing days from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify h. A participating Teacher may borrow up to sixty (60) days per year, but not more than one hundred eighty (180) days during the Teacher’s employment by the Board.
i. All sick leave in excess of two hundred fifty (250) days that has been accumulated by a Teacher who retires shall be considered to have been donated to the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist Bank at the time of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and tworetirement.
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Samples: Employment Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. PURPOSE AND PARTICIPATION Purpose: The Board Sick Leave Bank shall be established to provide members with additional paid sick leave when such members have exhausted their sick leave accrual due to personal catastrophic illness and/or injury. A member shall provide competent medical certification of Republic County Unified said illness or injury. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary. • Any certified teacher in the Ledyard School District NoSystem may contribute to the Sick Leave Bank two (2) days of his/her sick leave from their accrual in each school year. 109 hereby establishes • Members may donate to the authority for Sick Leave Bank on a voluntary basis at the start of each school year. Once donated, sick days cannot be given back to the donating teacher, nor do they have any cash value if unused by the Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days • Any days donated to the sick leave bank in excess of any school year shall remain in the maximum accumulation bank for employees as defined only that school year. Any days remaining in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for end of the upcoming school year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2shall be forfeited. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her The sick leave shall commence in the following school year solely with donations from that year. • A donation to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September must be authorized no later than Oct. 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee for new and returning teachers and will be subtracted deducted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten newly hired teachers after completion of ninety (1090) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6service. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of • After a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarificationmember has been awarded sick days, Sick Leave Bank days may should they not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not they will be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application returned to the superintendent of schoolsbank.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. The Board agrees to the establishment of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank. In the event that there appear to be mitigating circumstances that require discussion, the Bank shall be administered by a committee consisting of an equal number of Association members and Board designees. The bank shall be established to provide for salary payments for members of the bargaining unit who have a catastrophic illness/disability and whose accumulated sick leave is exhausted. The bank may also be used in case of a catastrophic illness experienced by a teacher’s children or spouse that requires the presence of the teacher whose accumulated sick leave is exhausted. (Maternity leave shall not be considered "catastrophic illness/disability.") The definition of "catastrophic/illness disability" shall be mutually agreed upon by the Association and Board.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the b. The total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 bank shall be capped at 200 in any single year. Any unused days or lessremaining in the bank at the end of the year will not be carried over into the subsequent year (i.e., a new supply of days must be donated each licensed employee will year).
c. Teachers may voluntarily contribute one additional sick leave day to the Sick Leave Bank on bank by September 1 if he/she wishes 15 of the school year. Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section b herein, should the total days in the bank fall below ten during the course of a school year, the bank may be reopened for additional voluntary contributions of one day per unit member, not to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysexceed the 200-day limit.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted d. Under no circumstances may a teacher receive more than seventy-five (75) days of sick leave from the individual's bank, or from a combination of personally accumulated sick leave.
4leave and sick leave bank days. No member may draw from Teachers who do not contribute to the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will bank shall not be entitled to use no more than ten (10) seek grant days of from the Sick Leave Bank.
6bank. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days A teacher may not be used granted more days from the sick leave bank than are necessary for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babythat teacher to meet the 90 calendar day elimination period for the LTD plan.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not e. Each sick bank day shall be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent paid at 100% of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principalper diem salary.
f. The Board, at its expense, shall have the right to secure an independent medical verification of the teacher's condition.
g. The rules governing the procedures of the bank shall be mutually agreed upon by the Association and twothe Board.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes All Employees are eligible to participate in the authority for a “Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess ” by making a one-time contribution of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of from his/her sick leave or personal days or personal time off. Unused Sick Leave Bank days at the end of each fiscal year will carry over, not to exceed the cap as stated below, to the next fiscal year. A committee will be established to act as the governing body for administration of the Bank, consisting of three (3) Employees named by the BSEO Board. The committee will review all Employee applications and make all determinations as to the granting of such Sick Leave Bank days for an Employee’s serious illness. In order to be eligible to draw from the Sick Leave Bank, an Employee must be a contributor to the Bank, present a doctor’s certification of continuing illness to Human Resources, have used all accumulated sick leave, personal days, or personal time off, and have had deducted from the Employee’s pay two (2) days of salary. The maximum use of Sick Leave Bank days by any Employee will be four (4) days for each year of service in the District, to a total of forty (40) days per term of employment. A request for additional access for any Sick Leave Bank day(s), above the maximum allotment, will be considered on an individual basis by the BSEO Board. New members will be automatically enrolled and will donate one (1) day upon hire. Retiring Employees may contribute up to twenty-five (25) sick days in excess of the current IMRF Unused and Unpaid Sick Leave Service Credit amount to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank drops ever falls below two hundred (200) days, present members of the Sick Leave Bank will have the option to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one donate an additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate Bank. The total days banked for use in receiving the BSEO Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed four hundred (400) days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from If donations to the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled cause the bank to use no more than ten (10) exceed the indicated cap number of days in this Section of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Agreement, the Bank will be used only to cover absence due reset to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness cap limit of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery on July 1st of a normal, healthy babyeach year.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Classified Employee Work Agreement, Classified Employee Work Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board In order to provide insurance from loss of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for pay because of longer-term illness or injury, a Sick Leave Bank.
1Bank shall be established. Days in excess of Subject to the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I provisions of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in Section 4.b, the Sick Leave Bank drops shall be used to 25 pay the salary up to forty-five (45) days or lessbeyond the days eligible for an employee per work year but shall not exceed 185 days in the aggregate during the employee’s employment with the Harvard Public Schools. At the beginning of each year of the contract, if the balance is below one hundred days, each licensed employee teacher shall donate one day to the Bank. The Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed a total of one thousand (1,000) days. No days shall be withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank for use for any purpose other than prolonged or chronic illness or injury of the member of the unit. Days may not be withdrawn to permit an individual to stay at home to care for a member of the family. Days may be withdrawn for purposes of maternity only in extreme instances if unforeseen and serious medical complications arise. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four members. Two members shall be designated by the Administration to serve at its discretion, and two members shall be members of the unit and shall be designated by the Association. These members will contribute one additional day keep all matters presented to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6Committee confidential. The Sick Leave Bank will Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the Bank and the amount of leave to be used only to cover absence due to granted. In the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness event of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under tie vote, the care members of a doctor. For clarification, the Sick Leave Bank days may not Committee will agree upon a fifth person to break the tie. The following criteria shall be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The by the Sick Leave Bank Committee in administering the Bank and determining eligibility and amount of leave:
(1) A note providing adequate medical evidence of illness or injury, which shall include information detailing the diagnosis and potential duration of leave, on letterhead by a state-certified medical practitioner. In the event that a teacher does not wish to share this evidence with the Sick Leave Bank Committee, the teacher may elect to submit the evidence directly and confidentially to the Town’s HR Director, who will then make the determination of eligibility with respect to this item. If the teacher is not be used satisfied with the determination of the HR Director, the teacher may then elect to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from submit the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109documentation to the Sick Leave Bank Committee for review.
8. To borrow (2) Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave.
(3) Requests for days from the Sick Leave Bank, Bank must be submitted within 10 school days of the member must send a written application employee's return to work. All teachers shall be notified as to their number of accumulated days of sick leave on their earnings statements. The Administration will be responsible for an accounting of the additions and disbursements to and from the Bank and shall provide timely access to such accounts and an annual report to the superintendent of schoolsHTA as requested.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only established for the voluntary participation of all certificated school employees of the North Xxxxxxxx Community School Corporation.
2. Membership in the bank program will be open to cover absence due all certificated school employees. A member will be defined as a certificated school employee who has made a contribution of one (1) day sick leave to the employee’s personal injury bank at the appropriate time of enrollment and at any time where there is a requirement for donation of an additional day. Sick leave days donated to the bank are considered a permanent contribution and are not transferable to another school corporation or illness or usable as individual sick leave outside the illness provisions of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized this bank.
3. Persons new to the school system each year shall be given the opportunity to join the sick bank by donating one day to the bank by November 1 of the school year they become employees. They will indicate their desire to join by completing the appropriate form and under shall not be members in good standing until they have completed the care of a doctorapplication for membership. For clarification, A teacher who joins the Sick Leave Bank days may not will continue to be used for maternity leave after delivery a member until he or she files a written statement of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used his or her intent to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from drop out of the Sick Leave Bank, which will be effective at the member must send a written application conclusion of the school year.
4. Persons who shall have failed to join the sick leave bank in the year in which they first had the opportunity to join shall become members only by donating one day for each year that they were eligible but failed to join in addition to any additional days of donation required of bank members during that period.
5. Donations to the superintendent sick bank other than those described for initial membership shall be required only when at the beginning of schoolsany school year the number of days in the bank shall be less than three hundred sixty (360) days or in the event the sick bank becomes exhausted during the schoolyear because of applications for sick bank days by eligible members. In such event, each member of record for the currentschoolyearor the immediate past school year, as appropriate, shal donate an additional day in order to remain a member in goodstanding.
6. Any participating member who has exhau sted his or her accumulated sick leave and who has also used two (2) uncompensated sick leave days will be eligible to apply to the sick bank. The number of days granted to any member during any school year will be limited as follows: Years of Service toNLCS Number of Days 10+ 90
7. Use of leave from the sick bank shall be limited to any one teacher to ninety (90) days in any one period of three (3) school years in length. A member who qualifies for the Sick Leave Bank because of a serious illness or injury, who returns to work before exhausting his or her allocation from the Sick Leave Bank and who subsequently experiences a recurrence of the same illness or injury during the same school year will be permitted to continue to use sick leave bank xxxxxx the basis ofthe allocation at thetime he or she initially qualified for absences related to the illness orinjury.
8. The sick leave bank shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving worker's compensation benefits receive either more or less than the teacher's regular pay, nor shall it operate in any other circumstances such that the teacher receives on behalf of any particular day either more or less than the teacher would have received should that day have been worked.
9. The superintendent Applications will notify be made in writing to the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist Personnel Director and will be accompanied by a physician's statement describing the nature of the superintendent, disability. Application for a xxxxx may be made by a personal representative of the teacher's building principal, and twoapplicant in cases where the individual participant is unable to do so.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to Employees may deposit a maximum of 120 two (2) days totalof their Sick Leave allowance in the Sick Leave Bank each school year. Employees, who have a serious or prolonged illness or injury and who have used all of their accumulated Sick Leave, may apply to draw on the Bank.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed The operation of the Sick Leave Bank shall be 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 deposit one (1) day of his/her sick leave 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. If The decision of the number 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 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, as well as a detailed list of all deposits/donations and withdrawals to/from the Sick Leave Bank.
j. In the event of a new contract or an extension of the existing one, the balance of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days is carried over.
k. Changes in the regulations or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to operation of the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysmust be made through collective bargaining.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. Two sick leave banks shall be established by the Board; One for use by participating teachers and one for use by participating educational support employees.. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.teacher committee will be comprised of:
1. Days in excess of Two (2) Association members appointed by the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalAssociation president.
2. One (1) employee appointed by the Superintendent.
3. The Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. The educational support employees committee will be comprised of:
1. One
(1) SRPE member, who is an ESP, appointed by the president of SRPE.
2. One (1) Blue Collar member appointed by the president of xxx Xxxxxxxxxx Industrial Council, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
3. One (1) exempt educational support employee appointed by the Superintendent.
4. The Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources.
B. To be eligible for membership in the Sick Leave Bank, the employee:
1. Xxxxx have completed one year of employment as a full-time employee of the Board.
2. Be a full-time employee of the Board at the time of application.
3. Have a minimum of nine (9) days of accumulated sick leave and/or annual leave at the date of application.
4. Shall apply for membership on an approved form during the enrollment period. This form shall be submitted to the Assistant Superintendent Human Resources. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary on the part of each employee.
C. Each licensed participating member shall contribute one day of sick leave to the bank upon enrollment. Membership applications shall be submitted during the first twenty (20) workdays of a school calendar year. The committee shall act to approve or disapprove applications on basis of rules herein described. New members become eligible for participation in the Bank on October 1st. Deduction of the day for the new members will be reflected on the October Statement of Earnings and Deductions.
D. Each participating employee initially contributed shall contribute, by way of deduction from their official sick leave record, one day of sick leave anytime the balance in the Bank falls below twenty percent (20%) of the number of participants. No employee shall be required to contribute more than two (2) days in any one school year, after the initial membership contribution of one (1) day. The committee shall notify members in writing of the necessary contributions. Members shall have ten (10) working days in which to request withdrawal from the program rather than donate the requested day. Any participating member, who is unable to donate a day of his/her sick leave at the time for contribution to be made, shall contribute their next available sick leave day or be removed from membership. Any sick leave pooled pursuant to this article shall be removed from the accumulated sick leave balance of the employee donating such leave and shall not be available to the donating employee as sick leave.
E. Membership shall be on a continuing basis unless a letter requesting withdrawal from the Sick Leave BankBank is submitted to the Human Resources Department of the school district. If Upon receipt of said letter the number of committee shall be notified. Any member who chooses to withdraw from participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be able to withdraw any sick leave days already contributed.
F. Members needing to utilize days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 will request the needed number of days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the on a Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes Program Withdrawal Application form with the medical statement attached within seven (7) working days of return to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3work. The day donated by the application must be completed in full. A participating employee will may be subtracted eligible for sick leave from the individual's Bank only after having met the following conditions:
1. Has used all his/her accumulated sick leave.
2. Is not eligible for Worker's Compensation pay.
3. Is not eligible for Injury in Line-of-Duty pay as granted by rule of School Board.
4. No Has been absent from employment for at least five (5) consecutive working days.
5. The above condition number 4 may be waived to provide for intermittent or reduced schedule under the following conditions:
a. Illness has been judged by the Sick Leave Bank to be catastrophic in nature.
b. The days requested are directly related to the catastrophic illness.
6. Has an application approved by the Sick Leave Bank committee.
X. Xxxx leave credit, up to thirty (30) days, may be granted to a participating member may draw applicant at the discretion and upon the authority of the Sick Leave Bank committee after consideration by the committee of all outstanding eligible applications. Any sick leave awarded from the Sick Leave Bank until heto a participating employee shall be used for absence due to the employee's personal catastrophic illness, accident, or injury. Mental/she has exhausted hisemotional illnesses and pregnancy will not be considered catastrophic illnesses. However, complications from pregnancy or mental/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher emotional illnesses, which require hospitalization or institutionalization, will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of considered by the Sick Leave Bank.
6committee. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only committee, at its discretion, is authorized to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctorgrant fifteen (15) additional days in hardship situations. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank Once days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Banksick leave bank are granted, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist use of the superintendent, sick leave bank days will begin on the teacher's building principalfourth (4th) day without pay. These days without pay shall be in addition to, and twoshall start after, any days without pay as stipulated in Article XVII, Sections A.3.e; A.3.f; and A.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for Association shall maintain a Sick Leave BankBank for the Bargaining Unit members. A Sick Leave Bank Committee will be established which will consist of 1 member from each building and two (2) additional members and one (1) alternate appointed by the Association’s Executive Board.
A. All Bargaining Unit members shall be eligible to participate in a Sick Leave Bank program on a voluntary basis, provided that the member:
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the Has contributed a sick leave bank at day (the time leave for the upcoming year day is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalnon-returnable).
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave Agrees to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days rules and regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
63. Makes application on the provided form by November 1st of any school year. Bargaining Unit members hired after November 1st must apply within ten (10) business days of their hire.
B. If the member fails to join the Sick Leave Bank by November 1st of the given year, then the member is not eligible to withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank.
C. If a member of the Sick Leave Bank resigns membership, all days are forfeited. If that member wants to rejoin in a future year, he/she must contribute two (2) days to reinstate their membership.
D. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall notify the Business Manager within five (5) business days of November 1st as to the enrollment of the Sick Leave Bank.
E. Membership contributions will consist of one (1) sick day for the first two (2) years; future contributions will be based on criteria established by the Committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will be used only to cover absence due not call for additional donations to the employee’s personal injury or illness or bank unless the illness accumulated balance of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under days falls below ninety (90).
F. Days withdrawn from the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank by a given member will be limited to a maximum of sixty (60) days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyper school year.
7. The G. Resignation or dismissal from the school district shall terminate Sick Leave Bank may membership. A resigned or terminated member shall not be used entitled to cover participants claim days contributed to the Sick Leave Bank, nor shall such resigned or terminated member be eligible for any benefits of membership after the effective date of resignation or termination.
X. X Xxxx Leave Bank member who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty is on an authorized, unpaid leave from the professional assignment district shall be an inactive member in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow good standing who will not be eligible to withdraw days or benefits from the Sick Leave Bank, the . Such member must send a written application shall be required to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify contribute to the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Bank any days assessed on Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist Bank members during the time of the superintendentunpaid leave at the time of return to active membership.
I. All withdrawals from the Sick Leave Bank shall be authorized solely by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Authorized withdrawal by participating members from the Sick Leave Bank must be accompanied by:
1. A written application for benefits which shall have reasonable documentation, as may be required, evidencing a legitimate need for Sick Leave Bank days.
2. An individual must exhaust all sick and personal days which he/she has accumulated and have three non-paid days before accessing Sick Leave Bank days.
X. Xxxx Leave Bank benefits are limited to instances of personal illness of the Bargaining Unit member, the teacher's building principalBargaining Unit member’s spouse (includes party to a civil union) and/or dependent child, based on criteria set by the Sick Leave Bank Committee.
K. Any member who is receiving disability benefits from the Teachers’ Retirement System, or who is absent for illness due to a work-related injury (which is covered under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act), is not eligible for Sick Leave Bank benefits.
L. All decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final.
M. The Association shall hold harmless the School Board and twothe Administration for decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank Committee.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 13.2.1 The Board agrees to establish a sick leave bank to cover teachers in the event of Republic County Unified School District Noa catastrophic illness or disability. 109 hereby establishes A catastrophic illness or disability is a severe condition or combination of conditions affecting the authority mental or physical health of the employee. Such conditions typically require in-patient hospitalization or are expected to result in disability or death. Such conditions require the services of a licensed practitioner for a Sick Leave Bankprolonged period of time and that would force the employee to exhaust all leave time earned by that employee and to be placed in an unpaid leave status.
13.2.2 The Sick Bank rotation list is a list of members of the sick bank and was established in October 2006. The list of members was placed in alphabetical order by date of hire. The sick bank rotation list shall consist of names placed in the order employees first join the bank. New enrollees, after contributing one day, are added to the bottom of the list. New enrollees who join the bank on the same day shall be placed on the list in alphabetical order.
13.2.3 To join the sick leave bank, a teacher must sign a Sick Bank Membership Form by September 15th of each year and shall donate one (1) day from the twelve (12) days he/she receives in a one-year period to be deposited in said bank, such day to be deducted from the teacher's annual sick leave in the second pay period in October. Days The Administrative Committee will provide the SAU office with a copy of all membership forms as well as the current rotation list by October 1st. The days in the bank may accumulate up to one hundred seventy-five (175) days. When the bank reaches the maximum accumulation only new enrollees need to contribute to the bank. These days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited placed in reserve. Any days left in reserve at the end of the school year shall be lost. They shall neither continue to be held in reserve nor restored to the enrollee.
13.2.4 A member becomes eligible to request benefits from the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to if suffering from a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days catastrophic illness or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until disability provided he/she has exhausted all of his/her own accumulated accrued sick leave. Said member may request up to twenty-five (25) days per school year.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled 13.2.5 The request to use no more than ten (10) the sick leave bank shall be submitted in writing with supportive medical documentation to the Administrative Committee. The committee will determine whether
13.2.6 When the days of are drawn on the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to , the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank sick days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not held in reserve shall be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from restore the Sick Leave BankBank to its maximum of 175 days. If the bank falls below the maximum accumulation, participants must contribute only one of their sick days in the member must send a written application second pay period in October. Those days will be held to replenish the Sick Bank at the close of the school year in June, beginning with the top of the rotation list, until the Sick Bank is restored to the superintendent of schools.
9maximum allowed. The superintendent Those contributing individuals will notify then be placed at the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist bottom of the superintendent, rotation list. An accounting of the teacher's building principal, sick bank accrued and twoused days will be sent to the SAU office no later than June 1st of each year.
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess 13-6-1 Employees covered by this agreement may become members of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick Sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed Bank by voluntarily contributing one (1) day of his/her sick leave day for the establishment and operation of the Bank. This Bank is to assist employees and their immediate family, who have long term debilitating illnesses or disabilities with recovery time of more than fifteen (15) days which cause them to be unable to fulfill their job responsibilities with the District and who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave and all personal leave. Sick Leave Bank days shall not be used for elective surgery, personal business, extended family illness or maternity leave. Any employee who has been diagnosed with a debilitating or catastrophic injury or illness pre-existent to employment shall not draw from the Bank within the first year of employment.
a. Only individuals who have contributed to the Bank are eligible for benefits.
b. Application for benefits from the Sick leave Bank shall be made to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The committee shall be made of two members appointed by the Association President and one member appointed by the Board of Trustees. The decision of the committee shall be forwarded to the Board for approval, except when the days needed will occur before the next Board meeting. In such cases, the Superintendent may grant up to thirty (30) days upon the committee’s recommendation.
c. At the beginning of each school year there will be an open enrollment period during August 1st to September 30th and again January 1st to January 31st. Eligible staff must notify the District in writing of their desire to participate in the Bank.
d. Membership in the Bank shall continue automatically from year to year unless notice of withdrawal is given in writing to the District during the enrollment period. If Withdrawal will not result in reinstatement of the time contributed to the Bank.
e. When the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops falls below forty (40), the committee will inform the Bank membership that a special assessment of one (1) sick leave day per member will be made to 25 replenish the days or less, each licensed available.
f. The maximum number of days which may be granted from the Bank at any one time shall be thirty (30) days. Additional days may be granted only after additional application and review. The maximum number of days which any one person can be granted from the Bank during the period of employment with the Lyon County School District is one hundred twenty days (120) days.
g. One sick leave day may be transferred from any certified employee will contribute one additional day to the sick leave account of any other certified employee who has been deemed eligible for assistance by the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3Committee. The day donated maximum cumulative number of days, which any one person can be granted by other employees is sixty (60) days. This can occur only after the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she person has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.the one hundred twenty (120) day maximum benefit outlined in 13-6-1-f.
5. h. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days statement of participation in the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be included in the yearly sick leave accounting update given by the District to each participating employee.
i. An employee who has used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank shall reimburse the Bank when his/her accumulated sick leave exceeds one hundred (100) days. Upon leaving the District, an employee shall reimburse the Bank the remaining balance of days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty granted from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109Bank.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Professional Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 11.1 The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for shall provide a Sick Leave BankBank for all members of the bargaining unit. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary. A committee of one Administrator and two members of the bank shall certify the contributions thereto and rule on applications for use of the bank. The representatives of the members shall be appointed in August each year by CTA. The Board agrees to honor withdrawals there from upon proper certification by this committee.
1. Days in excess 11.2 The Board agrees to furnish thirty days as a start up for the sick leave bank (This will be a onetime contribution).
11.3 Each member of the maximum accumulation for employees bargaining unit who joins the bank will be assessed one day of sick leave upon initial enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank. Assessment of one day per year of a member's sick leave will be continued until the bank is built up to a minimum of 300 days. No more days will be added except from new enrollees until the bank is depleted to below 300 days. When the Sick Leave Bank total falls below the minimum 300 days, each active member will be assessed one day each. This assessment will be made at the time of enrollment as defined a Sick Leave Bank member, that being the first official school day.
11.4 Additions will be made to the bank at the beginning of each school year according to the above limitations.
11.5 A person withdrawing from membership in Section I the bank will not be able to withdraw those contributed days.
11.6 A retiring teacher with extra sick days may contribute those to the bank.
11.7 At the end of this Article shall the school year any unused personal days may be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for request of the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalemployee (See Article II - Personal Business Leave).
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day 11.8 Only those members of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days bargaining unit who are participants in the Sick Leave Bank drops shall be eligible to 25 withdraw days, and then only after his own sick leave has been exhausted, which includes the 20 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank dayssub-deduct.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw 11.9 Days withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveshall be used for absences resulting from personal illness, accidental injuries, maternity, or illness in the immediate family.
5. A first year teacher 11.10 Members withdrawing sick leave days from the bank will be entitled not have to use no more than ten replace those days except as a regular contribution member to the bank
11.11 In accordance with HB 1080, qualifying employees may receive up to one hundred (10100) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity donated sick leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principalduring total district employment, and twosick leave may even be shared by an employee in one district with an employee in another school district if the Boards of Education of both school districts agree.
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Samples: Contract Between Valliant Classroom Teachers and Board of Education
Sick Leave Bank. The purpose of the sick leave bank is to relieve its members from undue financial burdens due to absence from work on a long-term basis due to illness, injury or incapacitation sufficiently severe that it would make their presence at work inadvisable. Participation in the sick leave bank shall be voluntary. For the purpose of the sick bank the school work year begins on July 1 and end on June 30 of each year.
a) Employees who wish to participate must notify the Human Resources Office each year not later than October 1, unless they are continuing their membership from one (1) work year to the next as provided for in subsection e) below.
b) In the first year of a bus driver’s employment, a bus driver must work for a period of ninety (90) calendar days before becoming eligible for enrollment in the sick leave bank. Newly hired employees and newly eligible employees may enroll into the program when completing paperwork; however, they have until the end of their probationary period (ninety (90) days) to revoke their enrollment by submitting written notification to the department of human resources.
c) The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited will not contribute any days to the sick leave bank at bank. Only members’ actual days may be contributed to create the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2bank. Each licensed employee initially contributed new member of the bank shall contribute one (1) day of his/his or her accumulated sick leave at the start of a school year, and in the event that the sick leave bank balance drops below 115% of the number of all sick leave bank members, each continuing member of the bank shall contribute at least one (1) day of his or her accumulated sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank. If bank up to the number of days necessary to restore the bank to the 115% level. For example if 100 employees are participating in the sick leave bank, an assessment of a day will be taken when the bank drops below 115 days. In the event an employee does not have a day available to contribute at the time of assessment of days, the employee will not be eligible to participate in the bank until the first day of school the following school year when they can contribute a day.
d) Membership shall be on an annual basis, and the employee must be actively serving in his/her eligible position (full-time bus driver) at the time of enrollment to be eligible for membership, except as stated in subsection e), herein.
e) An employee’s enrollment in the sick leave bank shall continue from year to year, effective the first day of each work year, and one (1) day of sick leave shall be deducted from such employee’s individual accumulation, when appropriate under subsection c), above, unless such employee notifies the Human Resources Office by May 15 of a work year, of his or her decision not to enroll in the sick leave bank for the succeeding work year. If an employee continues his or her enrollment, such employee member need not be actively serving in his or her position for sick leave bank enrollment to become effective at the beginning of a work year, provided such employee continues to be employed by the School Corporation and has a sick leave day available to donate to the bank.
f) The sick leave bank may only be used for the illness of its members; no family privileges will be extended.
g) An individual member may not use more of the bank’s days during his/her work year than the total of his/her own individual cumulative sick leave at the time of enrollment for that work year, after deduction of the one (1) day of sick leave for enrollment in the sick leave bank.
h) An individual member wishing to use the bank must wait at least three (3) working days without pay, before use of the bank will be authorized; these days are not reclaimable from the bank.
i) Each use of the sick leave bank must be supported by a written request for its use from the member and medical certification substantiating the need for the absence from work.
j) Subject to the limitation described in subsection g) herein and assuming the driver’s medical condition continues to qualify, each driver who participates in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the shall have use of as many Sick Leave Bank on September 1 days as needed to reach the 120 calendar-day elimination period for application to the Long Term Disability (LTD) policy. In no instance will a driver who qualifies for LTD be able to use more days than the equivalent of the number of his/her own sick days that existed at the beginning of the school year.
k) The sick leave bank shall be administered by the Human Resources Office under the following guidelines:
1) To apply for days from the sick leave bank, a participating member must complete the classified sick bank request form indicating the start and end dates of the leave request and an estimate of the days potentially needed.
2) Subject to the conditions in this Contract, any participating member who has exhausted his or her accumulated sick leave is eligible to apply to the Human Resources Office for sick leave bank days to cover additional absences.
3) The Human Resources Office may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick leave bank days. Any grants will be retroactive except in cases of hospitalization, nursing home or similar confinement, in which case the Human Resources Office may grant days in advance when the need is supported by appropriate medical evidence. Each applicant automatically consents to submit to medical examination by a medical practitioner and/or review of his or her medical history, if he/she wishes it is deemed necessary by the Human Resources Office.
4) Persons withdrawing sick leave bank days will not be required to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank replace these days.
3. 5) The day donated by Human Resource Office shall inform the employee will be subtracted from President of the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw Association of all withdrawals from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/by bus drivers.
l) A joint sick leave bank committee shall be appointed under the guidelines set out below; this committee shall have authority only to hear and respond to any appeal by a sick leave bank member of a decision made by the Human Resources Office, including appeals for drivers who apply for, but are not approved for LTD, The committee shall be composed of:
(1) representative for the Facilities Department One (1) representative for the Bus Drivers (Selected by the NAFC Bus Drivers Association) One (1) representative for the Operations Department One (1) representative for Food Service Department Two (2) representatives for the Administration
1) The Bus Driver representative shall be appointed by the President of the Bus Driver Association, the Facilities, Operations, and Food Services representatives will be appointed by a collective conversation with these employee groups, and the Administrative appointments shall be made by the Superintendent.
2) Each committee member shall be appointed for one (1) year, however such member may be re-appointed for additional terms without limit. The names of those appointed to the committee shall be transmitted to the Human Resources Office as soon as possible after the appointments are made.
3) Vacancies on the committee shall be filled as quickly as possible, in the same manner that the original member was selected. Should any member of this committee become unable or unwilling to fulfill his or her own accumulated sick leaveduties, the remaining committee members may declare his or her position vacant by majority vote.
4) The entire membership of the committee shall meet as soon after all members have been appointed as is feasible and shall elect one (1) of their number to act as chair for the remainder of the year. The committee shall meet as needed; the chair, an administrative appointee, or a majority of the committee may convene the committee. A majority of committee members will constitute a quorum for any official action of the committee.
5) The sick leave bank committee shall issue a written decision in responding to the appeal. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days The committee may confirm the decision of the Sick Leave Bank.
6Human Resources Office, or make any other decision that the Human Resources Office is empowered to make in responding to the initial request for use of the bank. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist decision of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twosick leave bank committee on any appeal shall be final.
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Samples: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. 13.2.1 The Board agrees to establish a sick leave bank to cover teachers in the event of Republic County Unified School District Noa catastrophic illness or disability. 109 hereby establishes A catastrophic illness or disability is a severe condition or combination of conditions affecting the authority mental or physical health of the employee. Such conditions typically require in-patient hospitalization or are expected to result in disability or death. Such conditions require the services of a licensed practitioner for a Sick Leave Bankprolonged period of time and that would force the employee to exhaust all leave time earned by that employee and to be placed in an unpaid leave status.
13.2.2 The Sick Bank rotation list is a list of members of the sick bank and was established in October 2006. The list of members was placed in alphabetical order by date of hire. The sick bank rotation list shall consist of names placed in the order employees first join the bank. New enrollees, after contributing one day, are added to the bottom of the list. New enrollees who join the bank on the same day shall be placed on the list in alphabetical order.
13.2.3 To join the sick leave bank, a teacher must sign a Sick Bank Membership Form by September 15th of each year and shall donate one (1) day from the twelve (12) days he/she receives in a one-year period to be deposited in said bank, such day to be deducted from the teacher's annual sick leave in the second pay period in October. Days The Administrative Committee will provide the SAU office with a copy of all membership forms as well as the current rotation list by October 1st. The days in the bank may accumulate up to one hundred seventy five (175) days. When the bank reaches the maximum accumulation only new enrollees need to contribute to the bank. These days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited placed in reserve. Any days left in reserve at the end of the school year shall be lost. They shall neither continue to be held in reserve nor restored to the enrollee.
13.2.4 A member becomes eligible to request benefits from the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to if suffering from a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days catastrophic illness or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until disability provided he/she has exhausted all of his/her own accumulated accrued sick leave. Said member may request up to twenty five (25) days per school year.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled 13.2.5 The request to use no more than ten (10) the sick leave bank shall be submitted in writing with supportive medical documentation to the Administrative Committee. The committee will determine whether
13.2.6 When the days of are drawn on the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to , the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank sick days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not held in reserve shall be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from restore the Sick Leave BankBank to its maximum of 175 days. If the bank falls below the maximum accumulation, participants must contribute only one of their sick days in the member must send a written application second pay period in October. Those days will be held to replenish the Sick Bank at the close of the school year in June, beginning with the top of the rotation list, until the Sick Bank is restored to the superintendent of schools.
9maximum allowed. The superintendent Those contributing individuals will notify then be placed at the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist bottom of the superintendent, rotation list. An accounting of the teacher's building principal, sick bank accrued and twoused days will be sent to the SAU office no later than June 1st of each year.
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A voluntary sick leave bank has been established for the benefit of any certified employees who elect to participate. The Board purpose of Republic County Unified School District Nothe sick leave bank shall be to provide a bank of days upon which participating certified employees may borrow in case of extended illness of the certified employee. 109 hereby establishes The following rules shall govern the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.operation of the sick leave bank:
1. Days Any certified employee may elect to participate in excess the sick leave bank by contributing two (2) of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited his/her accumulated sick leave days to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her The annual enrollment period for voluntary membership in the sick leave to bank shall be the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bankschool year. Any certified employee employed by the school corporation after the enrollment period has passed shall have ten (10) days from the date of employment in which to enroll in the sick leave bank.
3. Certified staff members who elect to become a member of the sick leave bank shall remain a member for the entire school year. Membership in the sick leave bank shall automatically continue from one school year to the next unless the member:
a. indicated in writing his/her election to withdraw from the sick leave bank. Such withdrawal must be indicated during the annual enrollment period, or
b. has withdrawn more days in one school year than he/she had contributed to the sick leave bank. In this case, the certified employee must contribute two (2) more days of his/her sick leave from his/her allocation of sick leave for the new school year in order to continue membership in the sick leave bank.
4. Members of the sick leave bank who leave the employment of the corporation or withdraw from the sick leave bank shall leave in the sick leave bank any days contributed. Under the above circumstances, such certified employees cease to be members of the sick leave bank.
5. Unused days in the bank shall carry forward from year to year. Whenever the total accumulated days in the sick leave bank fall below seventy (70) days, each member of the sick leave bank shall be asked to donate one (1) additional sick leave day to the sick leave bank. The president of the Association shall be notified when the bank has been depleted to seventy (70) days. If, after all members of the sick leave bank have been consulted, the request for days does not maintain the bank’s total days at ten (10), the bank shall be discontinued.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will Members may apply for loans from the sick leave bank within the following conditions:
a. All sick leave and personal leave accumulated by the individual has been exhausted.
b. An individual must be used only absent a minimum of ten (10) consecutive days when school was in session prior to cover absence due receiving a loan from the sick leave bank. (Days granted may be retroactive.)
c. Teachers who accumulate sick days beyond the total allowed may contribute them to the employeesick leave bank. Also, a member of the sick leave bank may draw a maximum of twenty-five (25) days from the sick leave bank in any one school year.
d. A physician’s personal injury or statement shall be provided by the member upon application to the bank, and the Board may request the physician to renew such statements, as to the nature of the illness or the illness of incapacity and a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used prognosis report for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyreturning to work.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not sick leave bank shall be used administered by the Union-North United Board of School Trustees through the Superintendent. Application shall be made to cover participants the Superintendent of Schools who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from shall make a recommendation to the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109Board.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist President of the superintendent, Association shall be informed in writing by the teacher's building principal, and twoSuperintendent when the sick leave bank is being used.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No1. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a A Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation Bank has been established for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the use by a qualified unit member whose sick leave bank at the time accumulation is exhausted through prolonged illness and/or injury from an accident and who require additional leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to make a maximum of 120 days totalfull recovery from an extended illness or injury from an accident.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one qualified unit member shall donate two (12) day days of his/her the unit member’s personal accumulation of sick leave to the Sick Leave Bankbank each school year. If during the school year the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lessbank falls below twenty (20) days, each licensed employee will unit member shall contribute one an additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes bank. Any unused days shall carry over to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank dayssuccessive years.
3. The day donated by A unit member shall not qualify for benefits pursuant to the employee will be subtracted from Bank unless the individual's unit member initially accumulated at least twenty-five (25) sick leaveleave days as of the beginning of the school year in which the unit member enters the Bank.
4. No member may draw Any sick leaves granted under the provisions of this Article shall expire at the end of the school year for the individual involved. Any grant from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavemade by the Committee shall not exceed the number of actual workdays remaining in the work year and shall not extend into the next fiscal year. Any days granted but not utilized by the unit member shall be returned to the Bank.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave BankBank days are to be utilized by a unit member who qualifies and who has exhausted he unit member’s own individual sick leave, and who still has an extended illness or injury from an accident. Sick Leave Bank days shall be available upon exhaustion of a unit member’s personal sick leave and any available personal days.
6. The Sick Leave days drawn from the Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not shall be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyactual workdays.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not shall be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee (SLBC) consisting of two (2) members designated by the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109Superintendent and two (2) members designated by the Association.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a Application for benefits shall be made by sending written application to the superintendent Superintendent and the President of schoolsthe Association. The application shall be accompanied by a doctor's certificate as to need for and anticipated extent of extended recovery time from the illness.
9. Application for benefits may be made prior to the unit member’s exhaustion of the unit member’s own personal sick leave to expedite benefits.
10. The superintendent will notify initial grant of sick leave by the Sick Leave Screening Board bank Committee to an eligible unit member shall not exceed thirty (SLSB)30) days. Upon completion of the initial grant, additional entitlement may be extended by the SLBC upon demonstration of need by the applicant. An additional grant of three days of sick leave by the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be granted to a qualifying unit member who has returned to work from an extended medically certified absence in order to attend documented medical follow-up appointments that are related to the original medical condition that required the use of sick leave bank days.
11. Subject to the foregoing requirements, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will determine the eligibility for the use of the Bank and the amount of leave to be granted. The following general criteria shall be considered by the SLBC in administering the Bank and in determining the amount of leave:
a. Medical evidence of serious extended illness or injury due to an accident.
b. Prior utilization of eligible sick leave.
c. Length of membership in the Bank. All decisions of the Sick Leave Screening Board Bank Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall consist of be final and binding and not subject to appeal or to the superintendentgrievance and arbitration procedure as set forth in Article VI.
12. When entering the Rockport Educational Support Staff Association unit from a prior position in the Rockport School District, the teacher's building principal, and twonew unit member will be permitted to carry the unit member’s accumulated sick leave days into the Rockport Educational Support Staff Association unit.
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Samples: Contract Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District NoSick Leave Bank is for use by eligible teachers who have exhausted their own sick leave and who have serious personal illness. 109 hereby establishes the authority for The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave BankBank Committee consisting of six (6) members; three (3) designated by the Superintendent and three (3) designated by the Association. The operation of the Bank and withdrawals there from shall be carried out in accordance with the following provisions.
1. Days in excess A) Each school year each teacher may become a member of the maximum accumulation Sick Leave Bank for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited that year by depositing to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed Bank one (1) day of the sick leave to which he/she is entitled for that particular school year. All deposits to the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary. Once deposited, however, sick leave days shall become the property of the Bank and may not be withdrawn by the contributing member(s) for any reason other than those set forth below.
B) All deposits to the Bank will be credited on October 1 of each year. All eligible teachers will automatically become members of the Bank. Since membership in the Bank is voluntary, a teacher who does not wish to participate in the Bank during a particular school year must so notify the Human Resources Office in writing by September 30 of such year. Absence of such written notification shall be understood to have authorized Sick Leave Bank membership for that year. A teacher appointed after the opening of school in a given year shall have thirty (30) calendar days to decline Sick Leave Bank membership.
C) Only those teachers who deposit to the Bank in a given school year may be permitted to withdraw sick days from the Bank during that school year. Such withdrawals may be made only for serious personal illness or accident of the teacher except that a maximum of five (5) days may be requested in a case of extreme family emergency. These days can be applied only during the regular school year (184).
D) Any member of the Bank who seeks sick leave days from the Bank shall, by himself/herself or by another authorized person to act on his/her behalf, inform in writing the Sick Leave Bank Committee, with copies thereof to the President of the Association and to the Human Resources Office, setting forth the nature of his/her illness, an estimate of how long such illness shall continue in which his/her the school year in leave has been exhausted, and the amount of days that he/she seeks to withdraw from the Bank. Said application shall be accompanied by a written statement of a physician with personal knowledge which shall corroborate the nature of the illness and estimate the degree and duration of same. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall have the right to request of the applicant additional information as needed for the purpose of reaching a decision in a particular case.
E) The initial grant of sick leave by the Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible teacher shall not exceed thirty (30) days and may be made according to the following criteria:
1) adequate medical evidence of serious person illness
2) prior utilization of all eligible sick leave
3) length of service in the Concord Public Schools
4) propriety in the use of previous sick leave
F) A teacher who is still unable to perform his/her duties after the period for which sick leave has been granted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee may apply for an additional grant. Such request shall be subject to the provisions set forth above. In no case shall any teacher be granted sick leave to extend beyond the school year in which such leave has been granted. No teacher shall be granted more than 185 days by the Sick Leave Bank for the same illness. During the first year of employment, a teacher may not withdraw more than ninety (90) days from the Sick Leave Bank. If the number There shall be no allotment of days in the partial Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving days.
G) The duration of any use of Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated , in combination with other leave, including but not limited to sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarificationleave days, Sick Leave Bank days may shall not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twoexceed twenty-four
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Association may establish a voluntary sick leave bank. The sick leave bank shall provide that a teacher must have used all accumulative sick leave days before application can be made to the bank; that the teacher must have been sick five (5) consecutive days, or ten (10) non- consecutive days beyond the amount of current sick leave during one (1) contract year, and that the teacher must furnish a doctor's certificate as proof of illness or injury. The conduct of the affairs of the voluntary sick leave bank shall be under a committee or board appointed by the Association. When possible, the committee shall advise the Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes Trustees of its meeting dates, and if desired by the authority for Board, a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess representative of the maximum accumulation for employees Board may sit in on the meeting of the committee as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited a nonvoting member. Teachers who wish to join the sick leave bank at must do so within the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of each school year. New employees who wish to join the Sick Leave Bank.
6sick leave bank must do so within the first ten (10) days of initial employment. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due A participating teacher shall make an initial contribution of one day. Contributions to the employee’s personal injury or illness or sick leave bank may accumulate to a limit of 150 days. When the illness sick leave bank accumulation falls below 30 days, each member who wishes to remain as a member of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care bank must contribute another day. A total of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank 80 days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty drawn from the professional assignment sick leave bank in Republic County Unified School District Noany one year. 109.
8. To borrow Days from the Sick Leave Banksick leave bank may be recommended by the committee in accordance with these guidelines:
1) If the applicant has taught in this school district for less than three school years, he may be recommended for a maximum of 20 days from the member must send a written application sick leave bank;
2) If the applicant has taught in this school district three school years or more he may be recommended for 20 days or two-thirds of his own sick leave that had accumulated at the beginning of that school year, whichever is greater, but in no case shall he be recommended or more than 30 days;
3) The committee is not required to recommend to the superintendent Board of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify School Trustees the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist full amount of the superintendent, sick leave requested by the teacher's building principal, and two.
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Samples: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. a. The Board agrees to the establishment of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank. In the event that there appear to be mitigating circumstances that require discussion, the Bank shall be administered by a committee consisting of an equal number of Association members and Board designees. The bank shall be established to provide for salary payments for members of the bargaining unit who have a catastrophic illness/disability and whose accumulated sick leave is exhausted. The bank may also be used in case of a catastrophic illness experienced by a teacher's children or spouse that requires the presence of the teacher whose accumulated sick leave is exhausted. (Maternity leave shall not be considered "catastrophic illness/disability.") The definition of "catastrophic/illness disability" shall be mutually agreed upon by the Association and Board.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the b. The total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 bank shall be capped at 200 in any single year. Any unused days or lessremaining in the bank at the end of the year will not be carried over into the subsequent year (i.e., a new supply of days must be donated each licensed employee will year).
c. Teachers may voluntarily contribute one additional sick leave day to the Sick Leave Bank on bank by September 1 if he/she wishes 15 of the school year. Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section b herein, should the total days in the bank fall below ten during the course of a school year, the bank may be reopened for additional voluntary contributions of one day per unit member, not to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysexceed the 200-day limit.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted d. Under no circumstances may a teacher receive more than seventy-five (75) days of sick leave from the individual's bank, or from a combination of personally accumulated sick leave.
4leave and sick leave bank days. No member may draw from Teachers who do not contribute to the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will bank shall not be entitled to use no more than ten (10) seek grant days of from the Sick Leave Bank.
6bank. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days A teacher may not be used granted more days from the sick leave bank than are necessary for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babythat teacher to meet the 90 calendar day elimination period for the LTD plan.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not e. Each sick bank day shall be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent paid at 100% of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principalper diem salary.
f. The Board, at its expense, shall have the right to secure an independent medical verification of the teacher's condition.
g. The rules governing the procedures of the bank shall be mutually agreed upon by the Association and twothe Board.
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board purpose of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority sick leave bank shall be to extend additional sick leave hours for a Sick Leave Bankan employee should an illness or injury as described in this Article 13, Section A.3 below exhaust the employee's accumulated sick leave, vacation accruals, and personal leave.
1. Days New employees may elect to participate in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at within 30 (thirty) calendar days of the time initial hire date. If they choose not to participate in the sick leave bank, they must wait until the next open enrollment for the upcoming year is posted for employees another opportunity to a maximum of 120 days totaljoin.
2. Each licensed Probationary employees may enroll in the Sick Leave Bank but are not eligible to access the benefit until after their probationary period ends.
3. Current employees who have not participated previously shall be permitted to enroll not later than October 31st of any year with an effective eligibility date of November 1st of that year.
4. On or before October 31st each employee initially contributed may contribute one (1) individual work day of their accumulated sick leave to a common bank. Further yearly contributions shall be limited to the number of days necessary to bring bank level to one (1) day per member of his/her sick leave the bank. Such contributions are irrevocable. Only employees who have contributed days to the Sick Leave Bankbank may apply for days from the bank. If the number of days Participation in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will bank shall be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavevoluntary.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no Upon depleting accumulated sick leave, vacation leave, and compensatory time, and after obtaining a healthcare provider’s statement certifying a life-threatening or debilitating physical or mental illness or injury preventing the member from performing the duties of their job for more than ten 10 (10ten) workdays, a member may request days from the bank. A committee composed of three (3) members representing the administration and three (3) members appointed by the Association will act immediately on the request. The committee may grant the request if:
a. District records show that the member has exhausted their accumulated sick leave, vacation leave, and compensatory time;
b. the member is not eligible for a PERS disability benefit, or under the District's disability insurance;
c. the member is a contributing member to the sick leave bank;
d. the member has experienced a life-threatening or debilitating physical or mental illness or injury that has prevented them from performing their job requirements for more than 10 (ten) workdays and a healthcare provider has certified in writing this illness or injury; and
e. there are sufficient days in the sick leave bank to cover the request.
6. If the request is denied, the member shall be informed in writing as to the reason for the denial. The actions of the Committee shall not be subject to any further appeal through grievance procedure or otherwise.
7. If the request is approved, the Committee shall notify the Human Resources office, and subsequent days of absence due to the illness or injury, including the first 10 (ten) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank illness or injury, if the employee's accumulated sick leave was not available for those days, will be used only to cover absence due charged to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness bank until further notice. However, in no case will more than a total of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care 50 (fifty) days of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity sick leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment sick leave bank be approved per individual member in Republic County Unified School District No. 109any one (1) school year.
8. To borrow from The District shall keep accurate records of leave accumulated by the Sick Leave Bankbank and of sick leave used by the bank, which shall not be greater than one (1) hour multiplied by the member must send a written application number of unit members per school year. These records shall be available at all times for review by the Committee members and by the Association. Annually the District shall notify the Association in writing of the accumulated days and days charged to the superintendent of schoolsbank that year.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board Membership shall consist be terminated by written request of the superintendent, member or by the teacher's building principal, and twoend of employment with the District. Previously donated days shall remain in the bank.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board Xxxxxx Council Union shall maintain a sick leave bank for council members who, as a consequence of Republic County Unified School District Noa prolonged illness or hospitalization and recovery, have exhausted their accumulated sick leave. 109 hereby establishes For the authority for purpose of Article 17.F., member is defined as a dues paying member who has a signed membership form on file with the MCU. The Xxxxxx Council Sick Leave Bank.Bank is subject to the following guidelines:
1. Days All Council bargaining unit members will participate in excess the sick leave bank after the second year of continuous service.
2. The MCU Sick Leave Bank Committee will administer the sick leave bank. The committee will be composed of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined Council President or designee, the Clerical Vice-President or designee, two (2) Certified staff appointed by the Xxxxxx Council Executive Board, and the Superintendent, or designee. The Superintendent or designee may not participate in Section I a vote on the dispersal of this Article days from the bank.
3. Each council member shall be credited contribute three (3) sick days to the sick leave bank at the time leave for beginning of their third year of service. When two hundred fifty (250) days or less remain in the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 bank, the Union shall notify Human Resources and every Council member will contribute two (2) days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leavebank.
4. No Council member may draw will be able to withdraw days from the sick leave bank until their own accrued sick days, personal days and/or vacation days (if applicable) have been depleted and a request has been presented to the Xxxxxx Council Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated Committee for sick leaveleave bank withdrawal accompanied by a doctor’s written verification of the Council member’s medical condition.
5. A first year teacher Each clerical bargaining unit member will be entitled eligible to use no more than ten withdraw from the sick leave bank a maximum of fifty (1050) working days of in any one school year, or enough school days to complete the school year, whichever is less. Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank leave bank days may not be used from one school year to the next for maternity the same illness unless the clerical employee has returned to work for one full semester.
6. Each clerical bargaining unit member may use as many as fifty (50) sick leave after delivery of bank days over a normal, healthy babyrevolving twelve (12) month period.
7. A council bargaining unit member whose application for sick leave bank days is denied, may appeal the committee’s decision to the full Xxxxxx Council Executive Board. The Sick Leave Bank may not Executive Board’s decision shall be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109final.
8. To borrow from The Xxxxxx Council Union shall maintain the records of the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send Bank account. The Xxxxxx Council Union shall immediately provide a written application report to the superintendent Human Resources Department upon issuance of schools.
9sick leave bank days to a Xxxxxx Council Union employee. The superintendent will notify Human Resources Department shall issue a written report of sick leave bank activity to the Xxxxxx Council Union President or designee on a quarterly basis. The Xxxxxx Council Union and the Human Resources Department shall meet annually in August to review the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB)Bank and mutually agree on the status of the account. The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of Xxxxxx Council Union is responsible for rectifying any discrepancies between the superintendent, District records and the teacher's building principal, and twoUnion records.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board District will establish a sick leave bank. The purpose of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for sick leave bank shall be to extend additional sick leave to bargaining unit members when a Sick Leave Banklife-threatening or debilitating illness or injury exhausts the member’s sick leave account.
1B. Each member borrowing from the sick leave bank is required to repay the sick leave bank at a rate of one-half of their yearly sick leave allotment, but they may choose to contribute more, up to the total owed, until the sick leave bank is repaid in full the number of sick hours borrowed. Days in excess If the member owing the sick leave bank terminates employment, the sick leave bank absorbs the loss of hours owed.
X. Xxxx leave bank membership shall be open to all members of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited association who donate sick leave to the sick leave bank at in accordance with the time conditions of this article. Upon request, the District shall furnish the committee with a record of leave for accumulated by the upcoming year is posted sick leave bank including the pattern of usage over the last year. Donated sick leave hours are irrevocable and remain in the bank upon the end of employment with the District.
D. The Administrative Committee shall conduct a thirty (30) day open enrollment period from the last week in August to the last week in September annually when employees who have not joined the sick leave bank may become members. Additionally, a new employee may join the sick leave bank within thirty (30) days of his/her first day of hire. To enroll in the sick leave bank, each employee shall contribute eight (8) hours of sick leave, or for employees working less than full-time, an amount equivalent to their prorated FTE, to the sick leave bank during open enrollment. During open enrollment or at retirement sick leave bank members may donate additional sick leave hours to the bank. The maximum accumulated donation to the bank by any individual sick leave bank member during their employment is not to exceed a maximum total of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day per year of District employment.
X. Once an employee enrolls in the sick leave bank, they remain a member, and do not need to contribute more sick leave to the sick leave bank until the committee determines that the sick leave bank’s reserve of sick leave is no longer sufficient to meet anticipated demand. At that time the committee shall set a deadline for each employee to contribute additional time to the sick leave bank. Failure to contribute time to the sick leave bank shall act as withdrawal from sick leave bank membership. If an employee is currently out of sick leave or not in a position to make a donation at the time additional contributions are requested and the employee desires to remain a member of the sick leave bank, the employee may borrow against his/her next year’s sick leave allotment.
X. Xxxx leave bank members may borrow up to three hundred twenty (320) sick leave hours (40 days), or for employees working less than full-time , the amount equivalent to their prorated FTE in accordance with the following criteria:
1. The illness or injury must be life-threatening or debilitating and does not include normal pregnancy.
2. District records must show that the member has exhausted his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysaccount.
3. The Sick leave bank benefits shall be coordinated with Worker’s Compensation benefits, PERS disability benefits and District long-term disability. Use of “sick bank” hours shall cease on the first day donated by that the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leaveDistrict’s Long Term Disability insurance becomes effective.
4. No member may draw The member’s life-threatening or debilitating illness or injury has prevented him/her from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted performing his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no job requirements for more than ten (10) days, and a doctor has certified in writing that the illness or injury is life-threatening or debilitating or that surgery cannot be postponed or delayed until vacation time. When the member qualifies for benefits, the sick leave bank will cover the first ten (10) days of as well as all subsequent days approved by the Sick Leave BankAdministrative Committee.
5. There are sufficient hours in the sick leave bank to cover the request.
6. The Sick Leave Bank A second doctor’s opinion may be requested at District’s expense.
G. If the Administrative Committee denies a member’s request for benefits, the committee shall state its reason(s) for denial.
H. Membership in the sick leave bank shall be terminated by written request of the member, lack of required donation time, or by termination of employment. If an employee is laid off and recalled, the employee will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity required to rejoin the bank. If during the lay off period sick leave after delivery bank members were requested to donate more sick leave time, then the employee would be asked to donate a proportionate amount of a normal, healthy baby.
7sick leave. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used Failure to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty contribute at this time would serve as withdrawal from the professional assignment sick leave bank as described in Republic County Unified School paragraph F
I. The Association will hold the District No. 109harmless against any claim or suit brought against the District on account of this provision including the full reimbursement for the cost of any back wages, sick leave reimbursement, or other actions which the District might be required to take in order to comply with a court order, settlement, or other resolution of any claim or suit, provided the District notifies the Association in a timely manner of any claim or suit that has been filed against it.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days a. All employees covered by this Agreement shall participate in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank.
2b. Each year, each bargaining unit member will contribute days from his/her paid time off which will be deposited in the bank until the bank is built up to at least two hundred and thirty (230) days. Each licensed employee initially The number of days contributed by each member will be on the following basis: bargaining unit members with at least twenty four (24) paid time off days will contribute one (1) day day; bargaining unit members with at least thirty six (36) paid time off days will contribute 2 days; bargaining unit members with at least forty eight (48) paid time off days will contribute 3 days. If, within a given school year, the bank is depleted to fewer than seventy-five (75) days, the Superintendent and the Association President will meet to discuss ways to replenish the bank. Teachers in their first year of his/her sick leave teaching in Armada will not be required to contribute any of their paid time off days to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysunit bank.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more c. For teachers with less than 4 years of experience in Armada, ten (10) school days of illness or disability will not be covered by the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will unit bank but must be used only to cover absence due to covered by the employee’s personal injury 's own accumulated PTO or absence without pay days. Following the tenth (10th) day of absence for the teacher's own extended illness (or the extended illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care age of 18), a doctorteacher may withdraw days from the unit sick bank. A statement from a physician is required before a teacher can withdraw such days.
d. For clarificationteachers with 4 or more years of experience in Armada, Sick Leave Bank a minimum of twenty (20) school days may of illness or disability will not be used for maternity leave after delivery covered by the unit bank but must be covered by the employee's own accumulated PTO or absence without pay. Teachers with more than 20 days of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty accumulated PTO must use all but 30% of her/his accumulated PTO before withdrawing days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District Nounit sick bank. 109.
8. To borrow from Following the Sick Leave Banktwentieth (20th) day of absence, the member must send a written application to the superintendent or use of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist all but 30% of the superintendentaccumulated PTO, for the teacher's building principalown extended illness (or extended illness of a dependent child under the age of 18), a teacher may withdraw days from the unit sick bank. A statement from a physician is required before a teacher can withdraw such days.
e. A Person withdrawing sick leave days from the unit sick leave bank will not be required to replace such days except as a regular contributing member of the bank.
f. The president of the Association shall be apprised annually as to the status of the bank and twoshall certify as to the accuracy of the additions or deductions from the bank.
g. A maximum of forty-five (45) days for an extended illness (or extended illness of a dependent child under the age of 18) may be drawn by one individual from the bank during one school year. Should a teacher, returning to work without using the total forty-five (45) days, experience a relapse from the same illness as certified by his/her physician, he/she shall be granted access to the unused portion without waiting an additional twenty (20) day period. Teachers with less than 4 years of service will be able to use a maximum of 55 days from the bank.
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board purpose of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave BankBank is to relieve its members of undue financial burdens due to illness, injury, or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make his/her presence in school inadvisable.
1. Days A. Membership in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article Sick Leave Bank shall be credited open to all certificated school personnel in the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to Cloverdale Community School Corporation. Participation shall be on a maximum of 120 days totalvoluntary basis.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed B. To become a member, certificated school personnel shall contribute one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. A Sick Leave Bank contribution form shall be signed and filed in the superintendent's office. New members must file the form by October 1st.
C. The total number of sick leave bank days shall be set at 100 in the bank and 50 in escrow. Additional days may be added to the escrow by teachers joining the sick leave bank. In the event that days held in escrow are insufficient to return the bank to one hundred (100) days, members will donate another day.
D. Days not used and those held in escrow will be carried over to the next year.
E. Only members of the Sick Leave Bank may qualify for the use of the days in it.
F. A member shall not use more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank in a contractual year with a lifetime cap of one hundred twenty (120) days. Members of the Sick Leave Bank may apply for no more than twenty (20) days at one time. If more days are needed once the number first twenty (20) days have been used, the member may apply for up to twenty (20) more. The Sick Leave Bank committee will reconvene to determine if additional days will be granted. Each time days are granted, the member must first go five (5) days without pay. This process can occur three times in one contractual year. Sick Leave Bank days shall not be used during the summer employment in the Cloverdale Community Schools.
G. A member shall not collect from the Sick Leave Bank while collecting under Xxxxxxx'x Compensation provision in Article III, paragraph 6 (Employment Injury Leave) of the Master Contract.
X. A member on maternity leave may use accumulated sick leave days as part of her leave if necessary. Once a member on maternity leave meets the criteria in paragraph 17-I below, she may apply for sick leave bank days to extend her leave to six weeks after the birth. The teacher will not be eligible for using sick leave bank days beyond six weeks after the birth of the child unless a doctor documents a medical complication after birth.
I. A member may apply for use of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 ONLY after the following terms are met: (1) his/her own sick leave and personal leave days or lesshave been used, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysand (2) five consecutive school days have passed and consequent loss of pay has occurred.
3. The day donated by J. All applications for the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw use of days from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavemust be submitted in triplicate on the Sick Leave Bank request form with one
(1) copy to be returned to the applying member with the Governing Board's decision, one (1) copy to remain in the files of the Secretary of the Cloverdale Education Association, and one (1) copy for the files of the Superintendent of the Cloverdale Community School Corporation. In cases of serious illness, making it impossible for the requesting member to complete the request form, the next of kin may make the application.
5. X. A first year teacher will be entitled doctor's statement of the illness and an estimation of time needed before the member can return to use no more than ten (10) days work must accompany the application.
L. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave BankBank shall consist of the Superintendent of the Cloverdale Community School Corporation, one School Board Member, and three members (one from each building) of the Sick Leave Bank to be appointed by the Executive Committee of the Cloverdale Education Association. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave Bank shall elect a Chairperson who shall be responsible for calling all meetings when notified of a request by the Superintendent's office.
6. M. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury Governing Board may grant, deny, or illness or the illness suspend grants of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank sick leave days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent . Its judgment and/or decision shall be final. Three members of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Bank Governing Board (SLSB). The shall constitute a majority.
N. A copy of accumulated Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of Bank days as established in this contract will be kept in the superintendent, Superintendent's office and with the teacher's building principal, and twoCEA President.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the A sick leave bank at is available on a voluntary basis in accordance with the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum terms and conditions of 120 days totalthis Agreement.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one This bank is for the protection of the individual participating teacher during a long term extended illness or disability of the teacher, their spouse, or child causing an absence from regularly assigned duties which extend more than three (13) days beyond the number of leave days which an individual participating teacher has accumulated.
3. The sick leave bank cannot be used for court mandated drug or alcohol treatment.
4. The teacher must have exhausted all available leave after which the teacher will have a three (3) day of his/her waiting period, during which time the teacher will be on leave without pay. After returning to work, the teacher may re-enter the sick leave to bank, after demonstrating another three (3) day waiting period without pay. APPROVED
5. The total number of days of sick leave bank cannot exceed forty- five (45) days in the Sick Leave Bankcurrent school year.
6. If To participate in the sick leave bank, teachers must complete and file a contribution form with the business manager on or before the first Monday in September.
7. In the event the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lesssick leave bank falls below one hundred eighty-two (182) days, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes teacher desiring to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The the sick leave bank is required to contribute at least two (2) additional day donated by of sick leave during each year of employment until the employee will be subtracted from the individual's bank has accumulated a total of one hundred eighty-two (182) or more days of sick leave.
48. No member may draw from All sick leave bank records shall be kept by Human Resources Department which shall handle the Sick Leave Bank until he/she administration of the sick leave bank. On or before the 15th of each month, the Human Resources Department shall provide a written listing to the Association president of the number of days granted and the number of persons to which those days were granted for that month. Additionally, that listing will certify that no employee has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no received more than ten forty-five (1045) days of in the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolscurrent school year.
9. The superintendent will notify Days in the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board bank shall consist be withdrawn on a first-come, first-served basis and, if the total days in the bank are exhausted in any year, use of the superintendent, bank is ended for that year. Unused days in the teacher's building principal, and twobank shall be carried over to the next succeeding school year.
10. Days withdrawn from the sick leave bank shall be paid at the per diem rate for the individual participant for the applicable school year.
11. A doctor’s statement is required to enter the sick leave bank.
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days Employees in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited Association who wish to belong to the sick leave bank at shall contribute one (1) sick leave day upon joining the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to bank and a maximum minimum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day as needed as explained in paragraph 7 below. Employees must have completed their probationary period in order to belong to the sick leave bank. Upon completion of the probationary period, bargaining members will be given the opportunity to join the sick leave bank. Bargaining unit members who do not contribute to the sick leave bank cannot use the sick leave bank. Donated days will not be returned to the donor if there are unused sick leave bank days at the end of the school year. Such days will remain in the sick leave bank.
2. Sick leave bank days shall be donated and taken out in whole day units, based on the employee’s typical number of hours worked.
3. Sick leave bank days may only be used for serious illnesses and serious injuries, and shall not be used for voluntary disabilities (for example, but not limited to, cosmetic surgery).
4. A unit member may use sick leave bank days only after he/she has exhausted all of his/her accrued paid leave time (i.e., sick, vacation and personal).
5. The first fifteen (15) days of illness or disability will not be covered by the bank and must be covered by that person’s own accumulated sick leave to or absence without pay. For purposes of meeting the Sick Leave Bankfifteen (15) day threshold, such days are not cumulative and must have been exhausted for the illness or disability for which sick leave bank days are sought.
6. If The maximum number of sick leave bank days that an individual unit member may use in the school year is twenty (20) days. The maximum number of sick leave bank days that an individual unit member may use in a lifetime is one hundred twenty (120) days.
7. The maximum number of sick leave bank days allowed in the bank in any school year shall be one hundred (100) [750 hours]. This maximum may only be exceeded in the event that donated days by all members of the bank raise the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 bank above one hundred (100) [750 hours]. Unused days at the end of the school year shall be carried forward into the next school year. If the sick leave bank becomes depleted, or lessfalls below twenty (20) days [150 hours], each licensed employee will contribute one additional day donations can be made to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due bank, subject to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109rules set forth herein.
8. To borrow A request to use the sick leave bank must be made in writing. The decision to grant a request to use sick leave bank days shall be made jointly by the Association President and Superintendent. The Association President and/or Superintendent may request information, including medical documentation, from the Sick Leave Bankapplicant to make a decision. In the event there is a disagreement between the Association President and Superintendent regarding the granting of a sick leave bank request, the member must send a written application decision will be subject to the superintendent of schoolsgrievance procedure only if the Superintendent is the one who has decided against the request.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The In cases of serious prolonged illness or injury (excluding common conditions such as cold, flu, routine pregnancy delivery, or sinusitis) when an individual has used up all of his/her available personal sick leave, (sick leave shall mean the leave a staff member has for that year plus his/her accumulation), he/she will be permitted to draw sick leave from the sick leave bank established by the WEA and the Board of Republic County Unified School District NoEducation. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.The days will be voluntarily donated by staff on behalf of those who under extreme circumstances may need assistance. The following guidelines shall apply:
1. Days Each teacher choosing to enroll in excess the bank will donate one day of his/her accumulated sick leave to the bank annually by the first day of school for students. New employees will be permitted to enroll during the first week of their employment, if starting work other than at the beginning of a school year. No additional days shall be added until the bank is depleted, at which time the bank will be re-established.
2. Initially a teacher may be permitted on written application to draw no more than fifteen (15) days from the sick leave bank for each year of service to a maximum of 45 days. Thereafter, the committee will review each applicant’s need on a monthly basis and may grant additional necessary days. The total maximum lifetime eligibility for sick bank leave shall be 187 days. Additional leave requested may be granted by the Board in accordance with section 3.08 of the maximum accumulation personal policies (Section 3.08 of the collective bargaining agreement).
3. A teacher withdrawing from membership in the Sick Leave Bank will not be able to withdraw his/her contributed days.
4. Participating teachers who withdraw sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member to the bank.
5. No days may be donated to a specific individual.
6. The WEA and the Board are responsible for employees as defined in Section I the administration of this Article shall bank, through one (1) WEA member appointed by the President of the WEA and two (2) delegates appointed by the Chairperson of the Board of Education to serve until replaced, with appointments stated in writing by the President of the WEA and the Superintendent of Schools or Chairperson of the Board of Education.
a. Written application must be credited made to the sick leave bank at committee ten (10) working days before the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalanticipated need whenever possible.
2b. Medical verification of said serious prolonged illness or injury shall be forwarded to the Superintendent upon initial application by a participating teacher for Sick Leave Bank benefits and upon any subsequent application for additional benefits. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day The committee shall have the right to have any teacher applying to the Sick Leave Bank for benefits permit a consult between the Board Medical Director and the teacher’s provider and/or be examined any time by a doctor designated by the committee. The committee shall use the report of any such examination to verify the teacher’s medical condition for eligibility for sick leave benefits. The Board of Education shall pay for any portion of the cost of any such exam not covered by insurance. If the teacher fails to submit to such an exam, he/she shall immediately be denied eligibility for sick Leave Bank benefits.
c. The Sick Leave Bank committee will provide each person requesting sick leave days with a written response to his/her sick leave request.
d. If illness or disability spans two (2) years, members must reapply each school year.
e. A teacher is no longer eligible for Sick Leave Bank benefits if he/she is medically determined to be permanently disabled.
7. The WEA/Board Committee shall be empowered to apply on behalf of an incapacitated member.
8. If a beneficiary of the Sick Leave Bank recovers damages from another party for the condition which he/she is receiving Sick Leave Bank benefits, one component of which damages is lost compensation, then to the extent of such recovery the beneficiary shall reimburse the Board of Education to the extent that he/she received compensation from the Sick Leave Bank. If the number The Board of days in Education shall replenish the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, for each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3that it recovers payment. The day donated This provision shall include all insurance payments except those which result from coverage paid for by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolsbeneficiary.
9. The superintendent Committee will notify annually supply the WEA and the Board of Education with statistics regarding the status of the bank, i.e., number of participants, numbers of days contributed for the current school year, number of WEA members withdrawing days from the bank, number of days remaining in the bank, and other such information requested by the WEA and/or the Board.
10. Any costs of administering the Sick Leave Screening Bank shall be born equally by the WEA and the Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twoEducation.
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Samples: Employment Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The purpose of the sick leave bank is to relieve its members from undue financial burdens due to absence from work on a long-term basis due to illness, injury or incapacitation sufficiently severe that it would make their presence at work inadvisable. Participation in the sick leave bank shall be voluntary. For the purpose of the sick bank the school work year begins on July 1 and end on June 30 of each year.
a) Employees who wish to participate must notify the Human Resources Office each year not later than October 1, unless they are continuing their membership from one (1) work year to the next as provided for in subsection e) below.
b) In the first year of a bus driver’s employment, a bus driver must work for a period of ninety (90) calendar days before becoming eligible for enrollment in the sick leave bank. Newly hired employees and newly eligible employees may enroll into the program when completing paperwork; however, they have until the end of their probationary period (ninety (90) days) to revoke their enrollment by submitting written notification to the department of human resources.
c) The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited will not contribute any days to the sick leave bank at bank. Only members’ actual days may be contributed to create the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2bank. Each licensed employee initially contributed new member of the bank shall contribute one (1) day of his/his or her accumulated sick leave at the start of a school year, and in the event that the sick leave bank balance drops below 115% of the number of all sick leave bank members, each continuing member of the bank shall contribute at least one (1) day of his or her accumulated sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank. If bank up to the number of days necessary to restore the bank to the 115% level. For example if 100 employees are participating in the sick leave bank, an assessment of a day will be taken when the bank drops below 115 days. In the event an employee does not have a day available to contribute at the time of assessment of days, the employee will not be eligible to participate in the bank until the first day of school the following school year when they can contribute a day.
d) Membership shall be on an annual basis, and the employee must be actively serving in his/her eligible position (full-time bus driver) at the time of enrollment to be eligible for membership, except as stated in subsection e), herein.
e) An employee’s enrollment in the sick leave bank shall continue from year to year, effective the first day of each work year, and one (1) day of sick leave shall be deducted from such employee’s individual accumulation, when appropriate under subsection c), above, unless such employee notifies the Human Resources Office by May 15 of a work year, of his or her decision not to enroll in the sick leave bank for the succeeding work year. If an employee continues his or her enrollment, such employee member need not be actively serving in his or her position for sick leave bank enrollment to become effective at the beginning of a work year, provided such employee continues to be employed by the School Corporation and has a sick leave day available to donate to the bank.
f) The sick leave bank may only be used for the illness of its members; no family privileges will be extended.
g) An individual member may not use more of the bank’s days during his/her work year than the total of his/her own individual cumulative sick leave at the time of enrollment for that work year, after deduction of the one (1) day of sick leave for enrollment in the sick leave bank.
h) An individual member wishing to use the bank must wait at least three (3) working days without pay, before use of the bank will be authorized; these days are not reclaimable from the bank.
i) Each use of the sick leave bank must be supported by a written request for its use from the member and medical certification substantiating the need for the absence from work.
j) Subject to the limitation described in subsection g) herein and assuming the driver’s medical condition continues to qualify, each driver who participates in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the shall have use of as many Sick Leave Bank on September 1 days as needed to reach the 120 calendar-day elimination period for application to the Long Term Disability (LTD) policy. In no instance will a driver who qualifies for LTD be able to use more days than the equivalent of the number of his/her own sick days that existed at the beginning of the school year.
k) The sick leave bank shall be administered by the Human Resources Office under the following guidelines:
1) To apply for days from the sick leave bank, a participating member must complete the classified sick bank request form indicating the start and end dates of the leave request and an estimate of the days potentially needed.
2) Subject to the conditions in this Contract, any participating member who has exhausted his or her accumulated sick leave is eligible to apply to the Human Resources Office for sick leave bank days to cover additional absences.
3) The Human Resources Office may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick leave bank days. Any grants will be retroactive except in cases of hospitalization, nursing home or similar confinement, in which case the Human Resources Office may grant days in advance when the need is supported by appropriate medical evidence. Each applicant automatically consents to submit to medical examination by a medical practitioner and/or review of his or her medical history, if he/she wishes it is deemed necessary by the Human Resources Office.
4) Persons withdrawing sick leave bank days will not be required to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank replace these days.
3. 5) The day donated by Human Resource Office shall inform the employee will be subtracted from President of the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw Association of all withdrawals from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/by bus drivers.
l) A joint sick leave bank committee shall be appointed under the guidelines set out below; this committee shall have authority only to hear and respond to any appeal by a sick leave bank member of a decision made by the Human Resources Office, including appeals for drivers who apply for, but are not approved for LTD, The committee shall be composed of:
(1) representative for the Facilities Department One (1) representative for the Bus Drivers (Selected by the NAFC Bus Drivers Association) One (1) representative for the Operations Department One (1) representative for Food Service Department Two (2) representatives for the Administration
1) The Bus Driver representative shall be appointed by the President of the Bus Driver Association, the Facilities, Operations, and Food Services representatives will be appointed by a collective conversation with these employee groups, and the Administrative appointments shall be made by the Superintendent.
2) Each committee member shall be appointed for one (1) year, however such member may be re-appointed for additional terms without limit. The names of those appointed to the committee shall be transmitted to the Human Resources Office as soon as possible after the appointments are made.
3) Vacancies on the committee shall be filled as quickly as possible, in the same manner that the original member was selected. Should any member of this committee become unable or unwilling to fulfill his or her own accumulated sick leaveduties, the remaining committee members may declare his or her position vacant by majority vote.
4) The entire membership of the committee shall meet as soon after all members have been appointed as is feasible and shall elect one (1) of their number to act as chair for the remainder of the year. The committee shall meet as needed; the chair, an administrative appointee, or a majority of the committee may convene the committee. A majority of committee members will constitute a quorum for any official action of the committee.
5) The sick leave bank committee shall issue a written decision in responding to the appeal. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days The committee may confirm the decision of the Sick Leave BankHuman Resources Office, or make any other decision that the Human Resources Office is empowered to make in responding to the initial request for use of the bank. The decision of the sick leave bank committee on any appeal shall be final.
6. ) The Sick Leave Bank will Human Resources Office shall prepare a listing of the sick leave bank membership and provide that list to any of its members upon request and shall be used only to cover absence due provided directly to the employee’s personal injury or illness or Association at the illness beginning of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under each school year once the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used bank has been updated for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babythe new school year (typically in October).
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. The Board purpose of Republic County Unified School District Nosick leave bank benefits is to provide compensable leave coverage to teachers who are absent due to extended disability because of serious personal illness or injury. 109 hereby establishes the authority Teachers shall become eligible to receive sick leave bank benefits when they have been absent from work for ten (10) consecutive working days AND have exhausted all of their personal accumulated sick leave days. The requirement of being absent for ten (10) consecutive days is waived for individuals eligible for a Sick Leave Bank.
1FMLA or disability leave. Days in excess The sick leave bank shall contain a maximum of 270 days. An eligible teacher shall receive the current contractual rate of pay while disabled for a period not to exceed 180 contracted teaching days, with committee review every forty five (45) school days. The sick leave bank committee will consist of three (3) representatives designated by the Association and two (2) representatives of the maximum accumulation Board and the superintendent. In the case of a tie the issue will be heard by the full board of education. Application for employees as defined in Section I of this Article sick leave bank benefits shall be credited made in writing to the sick leave bank committee through the Superintendent and shall include medical verification. The Superintendent shall convene the committee within five (5) work days. When a determination is made, the applicant will be informed in writing, with copies to the Superintendent, business manager and committee members. The administration office shall do all paperwork and record keeping. No eligible applicant will be denied the days that he/she has contributed. A record of each teacher's contribution shall be maintained by the administration office. The administration office shall furnish the association with a written statement at the time leave for beginning of each school year setting forth the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 sick leave bank and the number of sick leave days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day member has contributed to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3bank. The day donated by teacher shall pay back to the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten leave bank a minimum of three (103) days per year for each year worked until all days borrowed are repaid to the bank or the bank becomes full. Payment shall begin at the commencement of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only school year that the teacher returns to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank work by deducting three (3) days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principalyearly allotment for that year and from succeeding years until the amount borrowed is repaid. All payments of loaned sick leave bank days will be waived if the teacher is laid off, or retires due to illness, age, or death prior to payment in full. If a teacher resigns or is dismissed for any other reason while in debt to the sick leave bank, that teacher must pay the school district the equivalent of substitute pay during time of illness for each day owed to the bank. The days paid for by the teacher will revert to the sick leave bank. used: To establish and twocontinue the sick leave bank, the following procedures will be
a. Each teacher shall contribute two (2) sick leave days at the beginning of each school year of this master agreement.
b. Should the bank be depleted to a point where the Association wishes to add more days, all teachers shall contribute an additional day(s) to the bank for the duration of this master agreement.
c. Teachers whose accumulated sick leave exceeds the maximum referred to in Article 11, Paragraph A may voluntarily contribute fifty percent (50%) of their sick leave days over the maximum of 100 to the sick leave bank. Their voluntary contributions shall be in writing to the Superintendent and the Superintendent shall notify the committee members within five (5) work days.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. There shall be a Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Board Committee shall consist of Republic County Unified the Vice-Chairperson of the Northampton School District NoCommittee, the Superintendent of Schools, and the President of the Northampton Association of School Employees. 109 hereby establishes In addition to the authority for President, the Committee shall include a non-voting representative from each of the bargaining units that make up the Association. The unit representative will participate only in the meetings that review the request from their unit. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will administer the provisions of the Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess b. The Sick Leave Bank will depend upon voluntary contributions from employees covered by this Agreement.
c. Bargaining unit members may become a member of the maximum accumulation Sick Leave Bank by donating two (2) days within ninety (90) working days of the date that they first reported for employees as defined in Section I of work, provided that they have accrued days available for this Article purpose. If they have not accrued days, they shall be credited to assessed the sick leave bank at days as soon as they are accrued. To join, the time leave for member will notify the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalHuman Resources Department, using the approved form.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed d. After the initial donation, each year one (1) day will be added to the Sick Leave Bank by each member of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If Any member of the Sick Leave Bank may withdraw from the Bank for a school year by giving written notice, using the approved form, to the Human Resources Department by November 1 of the school year during which she/he no longer desires membership.
e. The number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops cannot exceed four (4) times the number of employees in the bargaining units. If the sick leave days in the Bank exceed three-fourths (3/4) of the maximum number of days at the end of any school year, the members of the Bank will not be required to 25 make the annual one (1) day donation at the start of the school year. If the number of sick leave days in the Bank are depleted to one-half (1/2) or lessless of the maximum number of days, each licensed employee will contribute one (1) additional day to for the Bank may be assessed each member.
f. If an employee who has not become a member of the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if hedecides to join in a year subsequent to the year in which she/she wishes he could first have become a member, the member will notify the Human Resources Department by November 1, using the approved form. Their initial donation to participate in receiving Sick Leave the Bank must equal the total number of days that she/he would have donated through the years had they joined when first eligible. If they have not accrued days, they shall be assessed the days as soon as they are accrued.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. g. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due denied continuation of membership in the Bank if a long-term illness has caused exhaustion of their individual sick leave benefits, thus preventing annual required donations to the employee’s personal injury or illness or Bank.
h. A member of the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days who has exhausted their individual sick leave benefits may not be used apply for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow benefits from the Sick Leave Bank. Such benefits are intended to augment an employee’s sick leave benefit in cases involving catastrophic or long-term illness or accident not covered by Workers’ Compensation. In assessing any application, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist Bank Committee may request such medical documentation as it deems appropriate and shall, in addition, consider the following criteria:
i. Demonstrated need of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twoapplicant ii. Prior sick leave usage
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the A sick leave bank at shall be established by members of the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed bargaining unit voluntarily contributing one (1) day of their accumulated sick leave days for use by a participating employee whose sick leave is exhausted through the employee’s prolonged illness.
1. The sick leave bank will only be used when an employee is prevented from working because of the employee’s own illness or injury and when this disability is of a prolonged nature, that is, fifteen (15) consecutive working days or more.
2. Any employee who has met the eligibility requirements for participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to submit a doctor’s certificate using the prescribed forms. This must be accompanied by a detailed medical statement by the attending physician stating the exact nature of the incapacitation and the projected time of recovery beyond the employee’s own accrued sick leave.
3. In order to access the sick leave bank, all eligible employees must first exhaust their accumulated sick days. Eligible employees may not apply for sick leave bank benefits more than fifteen (15) school days in advance of the anticipated termination date of earned sick leave. Sick days are considered actual work days in which school is in session and for which the individual would have been compensated if he/she had not exhausted his/her sick leave.
4. The initial grant of days from the sick leave bank will cover up to thirty (30) working days for any one prolonged illness, and the grant will end on the last school day of the school year in which the prolonged illness began. Consideration will be given for additional days beyond thirty (30) in the event that the prolonged illness continues. No employee shall be eligible to receive more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank over the duration of the employee’s career in either District, or both.
5. All eligible employees must apply for membership on a form provided by the sick bank administrators. Employees wishing to join the sick leave bank must submit an application for membership by no later than September 30th of each school year. Only employees who have been employed by the Somerset School Committee or Somerset Berkley Regional School Committee for one (1) year or more may contribute to and participate in the Sick Leave Bank.
6. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lessreaches thirty (30) days, each licensed employee will contribute the bank shall be replenished by the contribution of one (1) additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted of sick leave from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No each member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank Such additional day will be used only to cover absence due to deducted from the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyemployees’ accumulated sick leave.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not will be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the administered by a Sick Leave Bank, Bank Committee comprised of four individuals: two (2) members representing the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, Union and two
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Samples: Paraprofessional Contract
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a RTHSEA Sick Leave Bank.
1Bank is intended for assistance to teachers experiencing long- term medical conditions which prevent them from working and who have exhausted their own allotted sick leave. Teachers shall donate one sick leave day each school year to a sick leave bank consecutively for ten (10) years. If the sick leave bank drops below 2000 total days as of June 30th, then all teachers, who want to remain a member of the bank, with more than 10 years of service will contribute an additional sick leave day as of the first day of the new school year. Teachers who do not contribute an additional day will no longer be members of the sick bank and will not be eligible to rejoin. Days previously donated to the bank shall remain in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall bank and will not be credited back to the donor. Retiring teachers may donate sick leave days to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totaltheir discretion.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day A teacher applying for sick leave from the bank must have exhausted his/her own sick leave and must present written verification of his/her sick leave own personal on-going illness from a physician licensed to practice in Illinois or Indiana. There shall be no obligation upon the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops receiving teacher to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysrepay suchleave.
3. The day donated administering Committee will be appointed by the employee will Rich Township High School Education Association. The Committee shall promptly report all donations and all grants of sick leave to the District Business Manager. The granting of leave shall be subtracted from in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the individual's accumulated sick leaveCommittee.
4. No member may draw from The teacher shall not hold the Board or Administration of School District 227 liable for decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveCommittee of the Rich Township High School Education Association.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled who wants to use access sick leave bank must submit written notification of their need for leave no more later than ten five (105) days prior to the exhaustion of the his/her personal sick leave allotment. Sick Leave Bankleave bank days shall be taken in full day increments only.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to Teachers may access sick leave bank days in accordance with the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twofollowing parameters: Consecutive Years of
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Samples: Professional Negotiations Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation One quarter (1/4) day per month for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall each employee will be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her Total sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank bank accumulations shall not exceed eight hundred (800) days.
3. The day donated Human Resources shall maintain a record of contributions and withdrawals from the sick leave bank.
4. Employees may claim days from the bank only after all their sick leave days are exhausted. An employee using the sick bank shall retain the use of his/her personal days; however, personal days must also be exhausted before an employee makes any subsequent use of the sick bank. Sick bank leaves covered by the provisions of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) shall run concurrently with FMLA required leave. At no time should an employee be required to use vacation time such that less than one week (5 days) will be remaining.
5. Claims may not be made against the bank for illness or injury resulting from a job connected condition which is being treated under Worker’s Compensation Claim.
6. No employee may claim more than ninety (90) days from the bank during any twelve month period. Once an employee through one illness or a combination of ill- nesses has used a total of ninety (90) days during any twelve month period he or she is not eligible for further withdrawals from the bank for a period of twelve months of continuous service.
7. An employee who has at least one continuous year of service with the College may present a claim only in cases of absences which involve a minimum of five (5) con- secutive working days beyond those days covered in No. 4 above. No partial days may be claimed.
8. Upon presenting a claim to the sick leave bank, the employee or his designated rep- resentative must present a medical certificate signed by a licensed Medical Doctor indicating the nature of the illness or injury and an indication of when the employee will be subtracted able to return to normal duties. The College reserves the right to employ its own Medical Doctor to render an independent judgment. Claims validated as above will be honored for the total number of days of abscence from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4work with eighty (80) percent of salary for those who have at least one (1) continuous year of service. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank partial days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolsclaimed.
9. The superintendent will notify Childbearing is considered to be an illness under the Sick Leave Screening Board terms of this article, within the limitations of section 8 above.
10. Over and above the provisions of Section 6 of this article but consistent with the requirements stated in Section 4, an employee suffering from a terminal illness who has completed seven (SLSB)7) consecutive years of service may present a claim to the sick leave bank for fifty (50) percent of the days of absence for a maximum of twenty (20) weeks. Such claims must be documented by the submission of a medical certificate signed by a licensed medical doctor indicating the nature and prognosis of the illness.
11. In the event of a serious illness/or illnesses (or combination of) that prevents the employee from completing a full year of employment after using the maximum available days from the sick bank, an appeal may be made to the President of the College for an additional 90 days. The Sick Leave Screening Board President’s decision shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, be final and twoshall not be grievable under this contract.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes Education will cooperate in the authority for operation of a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess All certified professional personnel of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined bargaining unit may participate in Section I the bank on a voluntary yearly basis. First year teachers will have the option to be granted 10 sick days of which two (2) will be placed in the Teacher Sick Leave Bank. Exceptions to this Article shall will be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalindividuals who are on short or long-term disability.
2. The primary purpose of the Sick Leave Bank is to protect an employee’s earning power during periods of protracted and unavoidable absence due to his/her incapacity to per- form the responsibilities of his/her assignment.
3. Each licensed individual teacher, except first year teachers, may join the Sick Leave Bank only after she/he 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’s open enrollment period at the beginning of each par- ticipatory year. Teachers opting to not enroll in the Sick Leave Bank during the open en- rollment period shall be denied membership to the bank for the duration of that school year.
4. In the establishment of the Sick Leave Bank, each employee initially contributed that agrees to take part in the Sick Leave Bank will donate one (1) day as described in section C of this article. The Sick Leave Bank shall not exceed three hundred (300) days. First year teachers may join with two (2) days regardless of accumulated days.
5. A member will donate one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the bank only when the tabula- tion drops below two hundred (200) days. When the bank falls below the two hundred days (200), 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 employees causes the maximum, outlined in Section D of this article, to be exceeded.
6. A person withdrawing from membership in the bank will not be able to withdraw the con- tributed days.
7. Upon depletion of a member’s own accumulated sick leave, he/she must wait an addition- al ten (10) school days before drawing from the Sick Leave Bank. If The ten (10) school days may be paid retroactively when or if the Sick Leave Bank Committee has authorized a grant.
8. Maximum withdrawal will not exceed ninety (90) days per person per year. When, and only when, the teacher is eligible for LTD, the total amount of days that may be withdrawn shall be no more than the number of days in needed between the member’s accumulated sick leave and the time period that is required before LTD takes effect.
9. A person who is on layoff or on a non-compensated leave of absence shall not be able to withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to except as specified in section J of this article.
10. A member of the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes a non-compensable leave of absence due to participate reason of disability is eligible to apply for coverage by the bank and may use these non-compensable days to satisfy the waiting period of (10) days as mentioned in receiving Section G of this article.
11. The Sick Leave Bank daysCommittee will control the Sick Leave Bank and retroactive with- drawals. The committee shall consist of the President and Vice President of the Associa- tion, the Superintendent, and the employee’s immediate supervisor. Granting of Sick Leave Bank withdrawal and retroactive pay shall be secret ballot with each member of the committee having exactly one (1) equal vote. Simple majority of the vote will rule.
312. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leaveSick Leave Bank Committee may request documentation verifying incapacity to per- form his/her teaching responsibilities and his/her need to Sick Leave Bank withdrawal.
413. No member may draw Any participating teacher who has used days from the Sick Leave Bank until will not be re- quired to pay back those days the first time he/she utilizes the Sick Leave Bank. Any par- ticipating teacher who has exhausted requested to withdraw days two (2) or more times will repay the number of days used by donating no less than three (3) of his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher These three (3) days will apply toward repayment, plus one (1) additional day will be entitled to donated from his/her accumulated sick leave, which is needed for Sick Leave Bank par- ticipation. This one (1) day does not apply toward repayment of day(s) used. Donations will be at the start of the contract year until all withdrawn days are replaced. Teachers who use no more than ten days from the Sick Leave Bank and do not continue participation will repay Sick Leave Bank days used by forfeiting seven (107) days of accumulated sick leave days per year until repayment equals the days withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be operated by Trustees made up of officers of the Association.
2. Any Association member may voluntarily join the Bank who is willing to contribute two (2) of his/her personal sick days to the Bank during the enrollment period to be determined by the Trustees from time to time when the Trustees determine the Bank so requires. Said enrollment period shall be from September 1 to September 30 of any school year. New Association members must apply within thirty (30) days of initial employment.
3. Participation withdrawal from the Bank may be at any time after donation. Said individual may not withdraw his/her donated sick days. Withdrawal must be done in writing.
4. Individuals may withdraw Bank days from the Bank only after all personal sick days have been used and withdrawal is authorized by the Trustees of the Association and approved by the Board.
5. Application for Bank days may be made only when an individual is affected by a catastrophic illness or accident determined by medical certification. Application will be made to cover absence due the Trustees.
6. Beginning each school year, an individual unable to return to active duty that is entitled to annual sick leave must draw from his/her annual sick leave accumulation before reapplying to the Bank.
7. At the end of the school year, any unused sick days remaining in the Bank will be carried over to the next year.
8. If, in the judgment of the Trustees, the employee qualifies, the Trustees shall submit the request to the Board of Education. If the Board agrees with the Trustees, the Board will arrange payment to the employee’s personal injury or illness or . If the illness Board rejects the request, the Board will notify the Trustees of the Bank.
9. A contributor will be entitled to withdraw up to ninety (90) Bank days in a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctorschool year at which time an individual may reapply. For clarification, N.J.S.A. 18:30-6 will apply when Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyhave been exhausted.
710. The Should the Bank be dissolved, each contributing member will receive an equal amount, or fraction thereof, of the remaining Sick Leave Bank may days not to exceed the original amount each individual contributed.
11. The parties acknowledge that the decision of the Board shall be final and binding and shall not be used reviewable by a court or agency of competent jurisdiction or subject to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109grievance procedure of the Agreement.
812. To borrow The cost of the substitute or the estimated cost of the substitute shall be deducted from each additional sick day granted. A day’s salary is defined as 1/200th of the Sick Leave annual salary.
13. The Board and the Association shall maintain a current accounting of the Bank, to include members who have joined, sick leave days utilized and sick leave days on deposit in the member must send a written application to the superintendent Bank. A joint accounting will take place in June of schoolseach year.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the A sick leave bank at shall be established to provide sick leave benefits to members of the bank who incur a prolonged, life-threatening personal illness or injury. Any full-time leave teacher is eligible for membership in the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) A teacher shall be eligible for the bank beginning the first employment day of the third full year of employment by the district. The review committee shall notify, in writing, each newly eligible teacher of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes eligibility to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysthe bank prior to the start of such year. Upon such notification, the teacher shall have fifteen (15) working days after the start of the year to elect to participate in the bank.
3. The day donated Teachers electing not to join the bank by the employee will be subtracted required time, or resigning from the individual's accumulated sick leavebank, shall be ineligible for its benefits at any other time.
4. Membership in the bank is automatically terminated upon effective dates of resignation, retirement, or dismissal. Any granted leave shall be considered as a leave from the bank as well. Upon returning to full time employment, all benefits will be reinstated and that individual will be assessed only the current year's donated day(s), if any.
5. Participating members shall have deducted from accumulated sick leave, two (2) days of credited sick leave as their initial contribution to the bank. An additional day shall be donated by the members anytime the bank falls below 100 days. Such donation will take place at the beginning of the next school year.
6. During the term of this contract, all members of the bank, employed ten (10) years or more in the district shall have the right to voluntarily donate their unused accumulated sick leave days to the bank upon termination by resignation or retirement.
7. A member shall not be eligible to draw on the bank until the member has depleted all his/her accumulated sick leave days and personal leave days and has been absent for a continuous period of twenty (20) school days.
8. Applications for use are submitted to the Superintendent for review by a committee consisting of the Superintendent, local Association president, and a mutually agreed upon person at large from the Association. Members shall produce a doctor's written note to prove the need of sick leave. The decisions of this committee shall be final.
9. Requests for sick leave bank usage shall be in accordance with the School Code and local contract definitions.
10. Bank usage shall be limited to a continuous personal illness or injury of five (5) work days or more. No member may draw from use more than twenty-five (25) school days per year. The total bank usage shall not exceed one hundred (100) school days per year. Application for bank usage will include a physician's statement as to the Sick Leave nature of the illness. Bank until usage may be allowed more than one time per year.
11. After a grace period of one year, each member who has used the bank must replace 50% of the days used by donating 50% of his/her unused sick and personal days per year he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveleft at the end of each year until the debt is paid.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes (a) At the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess commencement of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article 1978-79 school year a sick leave bank shall be credited established to assist participating teachers who have exhausted all current and accumulated sick leave. Each teacher who joins will contribute two (2) days to the plan by executing a form provided by the Association and submitting it to the District Business Office no later than October first. Once any days are contributed to the bank by a teacher, they cannot be withdrawn. If a member of the bank leaves the employ of the District for any reason whatsoever, the total number of days contributed will not revert to the teacher but will remain in the bank. A committee composed of one District representative and two Association members will be established to determine the eligibility of a teacher to draw from the sick leave bank. Withdrawals from the sick leave bank shall be allowed only for personal illness or physical disability of the contributing teacher. As a final determinant of eligibility, the committee may require that a school physician, in consultation with the teacher's doctor, determine and certify the teacher's inability to return to duty because of illness or physical disability. The decision of the school physician, after consultation with the teacher's doctor, will be final. The teacher's condition may be reviewed at any time in the same manner at the time leave for request of the upcoming year is posted for employees Association President or the Superintendent to determine continued eligibility. The committee will authorize a maximum of 120 fifteen (15) days total.from the bank at any one time but this does not preclude the authorization of consecutive periods, provided that a member may not draw more than forty-five (45) days per year from the bank unless the vote of the committee is unanimous. A non-tenured teacher on probationary appointment may draw from the sick bank according to the following limits: 1st Year - 0 Days, 2nd Year - 15 Days or 3rd Year - 30 Days
(b) The sick leave bank shall be established when the countable sick leave days contributed by eligible teachers reaches a total of fifty (50) days. When the bank is depleted to fifty (50) days the Association will petition each sick leave bank member to contribute two (2) more days. Each licensed No member may contribute more than two (2) days and each member of the bank must contribute the two days in order to remain a member. If a member of the bank fails to contribute the two days when petitioned to do so, he or she will be removed as a member of the bank and all days previously contributed will remain with the bank. If the accrued number of days does not reach fifty (50) after the Association has petitioned the eligible teachers, the bank will become non-existent until the accrued number of days reaches the total of fifty (50) days or more. The first thirty days of absence due to illness or physical disability shall not be eligible for sick bank coverage. The employee initially contributed one (1) day of must use his/her accumulated benefit time and/or be on unpaid leave status during this time.
(c) The exception to paragraph (b) is as follows: If a teacher is using the sick leave bank when the Association must petition its membership to re-establish the bank due to depletion, the District shall contribute to the Sick Leave Banksick bank two (2) days for his/her use to re-establish membership within the bank. Upon return to active employment to the District the teacher shall give the District two (2) sick days. If for any reason the teacher does not return to active employment the sick bank shall give the District two (2) days.
(d) The District shall notify the President of the Association no later than the last week of August each year as to the number of days that are currently in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank dayssick leave bank.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board A. At the beginning of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes each school year, an open enrollment period, commencing on the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article first student day and concluding on September 30, shall be credited made available for teachers to enroll in the sick leave bank. New teachers, hired after the open enrollment period, shall have twenty (20) days to enroll in the sick leave bank. Each teacher enrolling in the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed will contribute one (1) day of his/her his sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days sick leave bank.
B. Teachers opting to not enroll in the Sick Leave Bank drops sick leave bank during the open enrollment period, or within twenty (20) days of their hiring, shall be denied membership to 25 the sick leave bank for the duration of that school year.
C. Teachers opting to terminate their membership in the sick leave bank may do so only during the open enrollment period. Days contributed by the member withdrawing shall remain in the bank.
D. Teachers, who have not repaid the days or lessborrowed from the sick leave bank and are requesting to terminate their membership in the bank, each licensed employee shall be obligated to repay those days at the rate of five (5) days per year until all days borrowed are repaid. In the event of the death of a teacher, the estate will not be required to repay the sick days.
E. Teachers, who elect to become members of the sick leave bank, borrow days from the bank and terminate their employment with the Chelsea School District before all days borrowed from the bank are repaid, shall have their per diem pay withheld from their remaining payroll entitlement for all days not repaid. The sick leave bank shall be credited with the repaid days.
F. When the sick leave bank is depleted to fifty (50) days, members will contribute one additional (1) day of their sick leave. Necessary additions will be made at the beginning of each school year and are to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank be made after all repayments have occurred. The sick leave bank shall have a cap of two-hundred-fifty (250) days.
3G. The sick leave bank will be controlled by a committee composed of five (5) CEA members elected by the CEA membership. The day donated sick leave bank will be administered by the employee will be subtracted committee in accordance with the following procedures and guidelines:
1) Any teacher enrolled in the sick leave bank may apply for a loan from the individual's accumulated sick leaveleave bank for disability caused by personal illness or accident.
2) A teacher must first exhaust all his sick days before utilizing days from the sick leave bank.
3) All requests for use of sick leave bank days must be in writing. The committee shall maintain a copy of the request, as well as a record of the committee’s action on the request.
4. No member may draw from ) The teacher must give the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick committee adequate notice of the request to allow the committee time to meet prior to the needed days of leave.
5. ) A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than maximum of ten (10) days of per request may be granted by the Sick Leave Bankcommittee.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will ) If a second request for days from the sick leave bank is made by the teacher, it must be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of accompanied by a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used ’s statement explaining the need for maternity the leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babytime.
7. The Sick Leave Bank ) A teacher may not be borrow up to a maximum of twenty (20) days in one contract year (July 1 – June 30).
8) A teacher, who has been granted and used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty sick days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow sick leave bank during a contract year, is not eligible for further allotments from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolssick leave bank in succeeding contract years until all sick days have been paid.
9. The superintendent ) A teacher borrowing sick leave days from the bank will notify be required to repay those days with a minimum of three (3) days for the Sick Leave Screening Board first two (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent2) years and, the teacher's building principal, and twothereafter five
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board A Sick Leave Bank was established during the 1991 – 1992 school year. All those individuals continuously employed and eligible for sick leave benefits as of Republic County Unified School District Nothe first day of school in the fall of 1991 are vested members of the Sick Leave Bank. 109 hereby establishes All other individuals become members of the authority for a Sick Leave Bank upon their first date of employment. As of July 1, 2010 there are 2,596 days in the Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days A Sick Leave Bank Committee will act in excess all matters that concern the policies and the administration of the maximum accumulation Sick Leave Bank and report its decisions in writing to the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel and Planning prior to any payment for employees as defined in Section I of this Article extended sick leave. The committee shall be credited made up of the Association Chairperson and six Association members (all of the seven to be appointed by the sick leave bank at Association President), and two district representatives (appointed by the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalSuperintendent).
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed Employees will enroll in the Sick Leave Bank by donating one (1) sick day to the Bank at the beginning of each school year for five consecutive years. These days will be automatically deducted from the employee’s sick leave day entitlement. Employees who are not eligible for sick leave benefits are not entitled to membership in the district’s Sick Leave Bank.
3. The intent of the Sick Leave Bank is to provide extended sick leave to those members, who experience an extended absence due to the employee’s own prolonged illness or hospitalization, or the prolonged illness or hospitalization of an employee’s immediate family member. For the purposes of this policy, “immediate family member” shall be defined as spouse, children, parents, parent-in-laws, son- in-law, and daughter-in-law. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be available for use in conjunction with any illness due to elective surgery or cosmetic surgery. In order to be eligible to draw from the Bank, a member must: • Be a contributor to the Bank. • Present a doctor’s certificate of continuing illness, including the date that they are anticipated to return to work. • Have used all of his/her accumulated sick leave and all other available compensation days (i.e. personal business days, vacation days, comp time, etc…).
4. A maximum number of days available annually to an eligible member shall be as follows: Members Years of Experience in District 25 Number of Available Sick Leave Bank Days Each member may make application to draw from the Sick Leave Bank the number of sick leave days equal to the lesser of: 1) the number of days remaining until the employee’s anticipated date of return to work; 2) the number of teacher work days remaining in the term; or 3) the maximum number of available Sick Leave Bank days set forth in the above chart not to exceed twenty days. An employee whose years of experience qualifies him/her to more than twenty days on the above chart, shall be entitled to such additional days upon the submission of a doctor’s certificate of continuing illness, including an anticipated date of return to work, to the Sick Leave Bank Chairperson. Upon a doctor’s release to return to work, any unused sick days granted to the employee from the Sick Leave Bank shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
5. If Should the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops ever fall below 200 days, members of the Association and School District 25 representatives shall meet to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to assess the viability of the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes and the potential need for additional days to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated be contributed by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days members of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The It shall be noted that any medical documentation required herein is requested at the direction of the Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to Committee for the employee’s personal injury or illness or purpose of determining eligibility for sick leave bank benefits. Notwithstanding the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank Committee’s approval of an employee’s request to draw days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application Board does not waive any right to request medical documentation and/or to require employees to submit to medical examinations, subject only to any limitations existing under applicable law.
7. The Association following the procedures outlined above shall have the sole right to determine how Sick Leave Bank days shall be utilized and in addition shall indemnify and hold harmless the Board from any and all claims arising from any and all decisions by the Association in relation to the superintendent use or denial of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify use of the Sick Leave Screening Board Bank. This obligation to hold harmless shall only be applicable if the District gives the Association written notice within fifteen (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist 15) days of the superintendentreceipt of any charge, the teacher's building principal, and twolawsuit or claim arising under this section.
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Samples: Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes A voluntary sick leave bank to which a teacher may contribute unused sick days and from which a contributing teacher may draw sick days when his/her accumulated sick days are exhausted will be administered according to the authority for a Sick Leave Bankpolicies set forth in this Article.
1. Days in excess The purpose of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to relieve teachers from undue financial burden due to absence from work on a maximum long-term basis as a result of 120 days totala severe illness, injury, or incapacitation.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed The sick leave bank will be administered by a committee of five teachers and the superintendent. The superintendent may cause an additional administrator to be present in an advisory capacity. The teachers shall be selected as follows:
a. two (2) from Eastern Pulaski Elementary School
b. one (l) from Winamac Community Middle School
c. two (2) from Winamac Community High School The chairperson of the committee will be appointed by the president of the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association. The chairperson and the EPTA president will select the members of the committee. These committee appointments will require approval of the EPTA Executive Committee.
3. The sick leave bank will be administered by both the EPTA president and a representative from the Administration Building (Superintendent, Business Manager, etc.). All sick leave bank documentation will be kept in the Administration Building and will be checked by the EPTA president on a periodic basis.
4. The maximum number of days to be held in the bank shall be one hundred eighty (180). The maximum number of days to be held in the bank may be allowed to increase to allow new teachers to join and at any time. The Eastern Pulaski Community School Board and Eastern Pulaski Teachers’ Association mutually agree to do so under special circumstances.
5. To enroll and be eligible for the sick leave bank, a teacher will be required to donate one (1) of their sick days every three (3) school years. First-year teachers will automatically be enrolled in the program during their first year of teaching in the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation without a sick day donation; however, such teachers must donate one (1) of his/her their sick leave every three (3) school years after their first year being employed in our school corporation to remain in the program. Once a teacher is enrolled and active in the sick leave bank, they will be automatically enrolled each year (and donate a day as stated earlier) unless they choose to opt out of the program. Those wishing to opt out of the program must complete and submit an “opt out” form to either the EPTA president or to the Administration Building by October 15th.
6. Each teacher choosing to enroll in the sick leave bank must complete and submit a Sick Leave BankBank Request form no later than October 15th of each school year to be eligible for that school year. Those current members wishing to opt out of the program must also complete the opt out form and submit it by October 15th of the school year.
7. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops bank is at the maximum at the start of a school year, member teachers will not be required to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one donate an additional day for that year if they are scheduled to donate at that time. All active members of the program (who are up to date on donation) will remain active that school year.
8. Any days previously donated by past members (current inactive members, retired members, members who left the Corporation, etc.) will remain in the sick leave bank and be labeled as general days for accounting purposes. Once days are donated to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysthey are not refundable for any reason.
39. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted Any contributing teacher is eligible to withdraw days from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from bank if: (1) the teacher has completed the Sick Leave Bank until heApplication and Agreement form, (2) the teacher has submitted the appropriate medical information to the Sick Leave Bank Committee that establishes a sufficiently severe physical/she mental illness or injury, and (3) plus being absent three consecutive work days and the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days and personal days. A person may withdraw days only until the end of the school year. At the beginning of a new school year the teacher must have a contract to teach in the school system and re-apply to the Sick Leave bank Committee if more days are needed.
10. In consideration of the benefits of participating in the sick leave bank, each applicant for membership in the bank shall, as a condition to such application, agree in writing substantially as follows: "I specially acknowledge and agree that the granting of days from the sick leave bank shall be at the sole discretion of the sick leave bank committee or, in the event of an appeal, the executive board of the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association will be final and binding and not subject to grievance. I further agree to abide by such decision and to indemnify and hold harmless the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association and the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation and all of their agents for any loss they may sustain as a result of any claim or legal proceedings I may bring against them with respect to a decision made by any of them concerning this application."
11. Persons withdrawing sick leave days from the bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member to the sick leave bank.
12. An applying teacher may appeal the decision of the sick bank committee to the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association Executive Board. The EPTA Board will consider all appeals and exceptional cases which do not fit the above guidelines on an individual basis.
13. The sick leave bank committee or executive board, if called upon, may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick days from the bank. Their judgment or decision will be final. Each applicant automatically consents to submit to a medical examination and/or review of his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5medical history if it is deemed necessary by the committee. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10DATE FILED: NAME OF OTHER EMPLOYEE(S) days INVOLVED, IF ANY: IDENTIFICATION OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS OF AGREEMENT VIOLATED OR MISINTERPRETED: STATEMENT OF FACTS GIVING RISE TO THE GRIEVANCE AND CONTENTION OF THE GRIEVANT WITH RESPECT TO THE GRIEVANCE: SPECIFIC RELIEF REQUESTED: SIGNATURE OF TEACHER(S) SEEKING RELIEF Superintendent of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarificationSchools Eastern Pulaski Schools Winamac, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twoIndiana 46996
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Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board will cooperate in the operation of Republic County Unified School District Noa sick leave bank. 109 hereby establishes All certified professional personnel of the authority for a Sick Leave Bankbargaining unit are eligible to participate in the bank as of their first day of work.
1. Days in excess B. The primary purpose of the maximum accumulation for employees sick 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 their assignment.
C. Individual teachers are automatically enrolled as defined in Section I members of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at unless the time leave for teacher exercises his/her right to opt out of the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalsick bank.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed D. Members will each donate one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bankbank on the first day of each semester. Donations will be made after the teacher receives his/her paid leave days for that semester. However, if the sick leave bank is above 3,000 days at the beginning of any semester, donation by each member will not be made. If the number of days a member is in the Sick Leave Bank drops thirty (30) working-day sick leave bank waiting period pursuant to 25 days Article XVI. F. or lessis in the sick bank when the day is taken, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day that member is covered for that illness or disability.
E. A teacher who wishes to opt out of sick bank membership shall notify the human resources office and the association. an opt-out form must be submitted to both the human resources office and the association prior to the Sick Leave Bank donation of day(s) for that semester. A person withdrawing from membership in the bank will not be able to withdraw his/her previously donated days.
F. The first thirty (30) work days of illness or disability will not be covered by the bank, but must be covered by the person's own accumulated sick leave or absence without pay.
1. In the first thirty (30) days of disability, members use their own accumulated sick leave days. However, if a member is using sick leave days and an Act of God day occurs, the day of sick leave is restored to the member and the Act of God day does not count as part of the thirty (30) day waiting period.
2. Members who do not have thirty (30) accumulated days of sick leave to use will be placed on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysunpaid medical leave until the thirty (30) day waiting period is completed. If during that unpaid medical leave status an Act of God occurs, it will be an unpaid day for the member and will count as part of the thirty (30) day waiting period.
3. The day donated Sick leave days that are clearly identified by the employee doctor as related to the same disability and are within a one (1) year window will count toward the fulfillment of the thirty (30) day waiting period.
G. A maximum of one hundred fifty-four (154) days for each incident shall be subtracted allowed. A person who is on lay-off or on a non-compensated leave of absence shall not be able to withdraw days from the individual's accumulated sick leavebank except as specified in Article XV.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for shall establish a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess Bank for the full and part-time teachers of the maximum accumulation District to be used for employees illnesses of a serious nature as defined identified in Section I 105 ILCS 5/24-6 of this Article the Illinois School Code, which precludes him/her from performing the essential functions of his/her teaching position. The sick leave bank shall be credited to funded solely by donations from full and part-time teachers. Participation in the sick leave bank at is voluntary for all full and part-time teachers employed in the School District. All full and part-time teachers may apply to participate in the sick leave bank within 20 working days of the beginning of the school year. No full or part-time teacher may apply for sick leave from the upcoming year is posted for employees sick leave bank unless he/she agreed to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of participate and contributes his/her sick leave days as described below. Any full or part time teacher may voluntarily choose to participate in the sick leave bank by donating a minimum of two (2) non-redeemable sick leave days equivalent to two (2) of that teacher’s work days. Any such teacher choosing to participate shall continue to participate by donating a minimum of one (1) sick day per year, unless such teacher notifies the Superintendent and Sick Leave Bank Committee that he or she elects not to participate within twenty (20) working days of any subsequent school year. Any teacher first choosing to voluntarily participate in a subsequent year must notify the Superintendent and Sick Leave Bank Committee that he or she elects to participate within twenty (20) working days of any subsequent year. If the bank is decreased to 20 days or less in any given school year, each participating teacher shall contribute one non-redeemable sick leave day equivalent to one of that teacher’s work day. The bank is capped at 100 days. Any teacher who elects to participate in the sick leave bank and all teachers hired after June 1, 2012, who are employed in the District shall be entitled to draw sick leave days from the Bank, provided the teacher has used all his/her accumulated sick and personal leave days. The maximum number of any days that can be granted to a teacher is twenty-five (25) days per school year. In no case will the granting of leave from the Bank cause a teacher to receive more than his or her annual salary. Sick Leave may not be granted for the period of disability when monies are paid to the teacher under the Worker’s Compensation Law. Time spent on such sick leave days shall be considered as continuous service. A Sick Leave Committee will be established to act as the governing body for the administration of the sick leave bank. The Committee shall consist of three (3) employees named by the Association. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall have the responsibility of reviewing member applications, initially verifying the validity of applications, recommending approval or denial of the applications, and communicating its recommendation to the teacher and the Superintendent’s office. The Committee shall also maintain the records of all applications and use of the Sick Leave Bank. If the number The Committee shall develop rules of days in procedure for administration of the Sick Leave Bank drops and annually review the guidelines. The Committee shall have the responsibility to 25 days maintain records of the status of the bank to verify information regarding the sick leave of the teacher and to make the final decision on the application. The Committee shall report the status of the Sick Leave Bank and any decision upon the request of the Superintendent. The Committee shall provide all documents to the Superintendent pertaining to the teacher’s application for sick leave bank and the Committee’s decision and, any other records or less, each licensed employee data the Committee has maintained in its file with regard to the usage of the Sick Leave Bank. Any records or data in the Committee’s possession will contribute one additional day be maintained in a confidential manner. Application for use of the bank shall be submitted in writing to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3Committee by the teacher or designated representative. The day donated application must be accompanied by a physician’s statement confirming the employee will application. If an application is for other than consecutive days of illness, a separate application including a physician’s statement should be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4submitted for each separate period of illness. No member may draw from As a condition of participation, a teacher must consent to release his/her physician’s statements to the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5Committee. A first year If a teacher does not use all of the days granted, the unused days will be entitled returned to use no more than the bank. All requests to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank must be made in writing and submitted to the Committee at least ten (10) calendar days prior to the teacher’s anticipated use of the Bank. (Note: In extreme and unusual cases, exceptions may be approved.) The existence of the Sick Leave Bank.
6Bank does not negate or eliminate any other sick leave policies of District #327 nor does it in any way negate a member’s right to other sick leave benefits included in this Agreement. The Association agrees with respect to the operation of the Sick Leave Bank that it will be used only to cover absence due to hold harmless and defend the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave BankDistrict, the member must send a written application to Board, its members, administrators, employees and/or agents, as regards any action, complaint or suit of any type, provided only that the superintendent Board or District shall fulfill its responsibilities as set forth above. In the event any action, complaint or suit of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify any type in any form shall be brought against the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendentDistrict, the teacher's building principalBoard its members, and twoadministrators, employees and/or agents, the Board or District shall retain the exclusive right to select counsel, to defend such action, complaint or suit and/or to determine whether such action, complaint or suit should be compromised or settled.
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Sick Leave Bank. 1. The purpose of the sick leave bank is to relieve certified school employees and teachers from undue financial burdens due to absences from work on a long-term basis due to illness, injury or incapacitation sufficiently severe that it would make their presence at school not advisable. The sick leave bank may only be used for the illness of its members.
2. The Board of Republic County Unified School District Nowill not contribute any days to the sick leave bank. 109 hereby establishes Only member's actual days may contribute to create the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1sick leave bank. Days Membership in excess of the maximum accumulation for sick leave bank will be open to all certificated school employees as defined in Section I of this Article and teachers. A member shall be credited defined as a certified school employee and teacher who has made a contribution of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank at the appropriate time leave for of enrollment. Enrollment shall be open until September 30th of each school year. No current member will be required to contribute a day if the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum total number of 120 days totalin the bank exceeds eighty (80) days.
23. Each licensed If a certified school employee initially contributed and teacher has accumulated two hundred (200) unused sick days, then he/she may voluntarily contribute up to three (3) additional days of the unused sick days to the bank, in addition to certified school employee’s and teacher’s normal contribution. In the event that the sick leave bank is not open, the certified school employees and teachers who accumulate two hundred (200) unused sick days may voluntarily contribute up to three (3) days per year to the sick leave bank.
4. In the event that the sick leave bank exhausts all of the unused sick days during the school year, the sick leave bank committee will contact participating members and request that they contribute one (1) day of his/her in order to maintain membership in the bank. The sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute bank committee can request only one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted (1) re-enrollment from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveits membership during a particular school year.
5. A first year certified school employee and teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days that is a member of the Sick Leave Bank.
6sick leave bank may not use more of the sick leave bank’s days during a contract year than the total of his/her own individual accumulated sick leave days that the certified school employee and teacher had at the beginning of the school year. However, certified school employees and teachers with major medical problems verified by their physicians, who have used up their regular sick leave as well as their sick leave bank days for which they were eligible, shall be able to make a subsequent request for sick days from the second tier sick leave bank. The Sick Leave Bank second tier sick leave bank will allow certified school employees and teachers to donate days to another certified school employee and teacher who has used all his/her sick days and sick leave bank benefits for a catastrophic event and/or illness and who no longer has any benefits. Participation in the second tier sick leave bank shall be used only subject to cover absence due approval by the sick leave bank committee and shall be completely voluntary. The second tier sick leave bank will always remain empty until such catastrophic event and/or illness happens to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child certified school employee and teacher that is hospitalized and under a member of the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity sick leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7bank. The Sick Leave Bank may not maximum number of days that can be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty drawn from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board second tier sick leave bank shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twonot exceed ninety
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Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall A. In order to be credited eligible to use the sick leave bank at bank, a teacher must donate two (2) days of accumulated sick leave to the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank.
2B. The bank will be open for donations between the opening of school and September 30. Each licensed employee initially contributed one A teacher hired after the official opening of school in September will have a period of thirty (130) day days after the date of his/her sick leave employment to join the bank. Forms for donating to the Sick Leave Bank. If bank will be supplied to the teachers by the District Office.
C. The bank will contain only the number of days donated, but at no time can accept more than two times the number of people covered under the recognition clause of this contract.
D. To be eligible to use the bank, a person must have exhausted their accumulated sick days, and have a prolonged certified illness of twenty-five (25) days or greater and must apply to use the bank in writing to the Superintendent. This application which must specify the number of sick days requested will be reviewed by a committee consisting of the Chief School Officer and the Association President, a member appointed by the Chief School Officer and another member of the Association appointed by the Association President. Upon review of the application, the committee will determine whether or not a member is eligible and how many bank days may be used. In the event the allocated sick days are used up, the teacher may reapply to the committee for additional sick days. If the additional days are granted by the committee there will be no interruption of sick day benefits.
E. Once in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lessbank, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day a member cannot withdraw except in writing to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes Superintendent, and the days contributed would be forfeited. If a member leaves the district, the sick days contribution to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysthe bank goes with the member.
3F. Twice a year, in September and February, the bank will be replenished from a list of new members and then an alphabetical listing of members already in the bank at the rate of one per day until the limit of the bank is reached.
G. The accounting and administration of the bank other than stated above, is the responsibility of the District. The day donated Association shall indemnify and protect the District against liability and claim which arise by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days reason of the Sick Leave BankDistrict's compliance with this Article.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes A voluntary sick leave bank program shall be provided for faculty who meet the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess eligibility criteria of the maximum accumulation sick bank. Human Resources will be responsible for employees as defined in Section I the administration of this Article shall be credited to the sick bank procedures. The purpose of the sick leave bank shall be to provide extended sick leave for faculty members who have exhausted their individually accumulated sick leave and due to personal or immediate family or household illness or injury are unable to return to work. Participation in the sick leave bank shall be voluntary. No faculty member who submits application within the specified time limits shall be denied membership. New faculty shall be given a membership application by the Human Resources office at the time leave for of their benefits orientation to participate in the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave bank. They must complete the application and return it to the Sick Leave BankHuman Resources office within 60 days of their hire date. Copies of the application forms signed by participating faculty shall be submitted to the Association President or designee. Upon receipt of the application, the Human Resources office shall be empowered to deduct the appropriate number of days (0, 1, 2, as specified below) from each faculty member’s individually accumulated sick leave and deposit same in the sick leave bank. Membership is continued automatically unless a faculty member who wishes to withdraw from the sick leave gives written notice to the Human Resources office by August 16. A faculty member who voluntarily withdraws from the sick leave bank cannot resume participation at a later date. New faculty who choose to participate in the sick leave bank shall contribute 2 days the first year of their employment. If during any year of operation the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lessbank falls below 120, each licensed employee will participating faculty member shall contribute one additional 2 days to the bank. If during any year of operation the number of days in the bank ranges from 120 through 300, each participating faculty member shall contribute 1 day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes bank. If in any year the number of days is over 300, no contribution shall be required of participating faculty. Days deposited shall not be withdrawn when a faculty member ceases to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3be a member of the bank. The day donated by number of days in the employee bank at the end of one year shall carry over to the following year. Should the total of days withdrawn from the bank equal the balance at any time, the bank shall cease operations until it can be replenished at the start of the next school year. Human Resources will be subtracted from responsible for the individual's administration of the sick bank procedures. No faculty member shall be allowed to withdraw more than 30 days during one academic year. Should the faculty member be unable to make the application, the Association President or designee may do so on his or her behalf. Before granting the request, the Human Resources office elicit affirmative answers to the following questions:
a. Is the faculty member presently a member of the sick leave bank?
b. Has the faculty member exhausted his or her individually accumulated sick leave?
c. Is the absence from work due to catastrophic illness or injury to the faculty member or a member of his or her immediate family or household? Examples would include, but not be limited to, heart attack, cancer, car accident, major surgery, etc. The sick leave bank is not intended to provide for short-term illnesses such as 2-day influenza or other minor or short term maladies.
4. No d. Is the faculty member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank medical professional? The Board shall pay the faculty member’s full salary at such faculty member’s base rate of pay for all days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7granted from the bank. The Sick Leave Bank may not number of days paid shall be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty subtracted from the professional assignment balance in Republic County Unified School District Nothe bank. 109.
8. To borrow If a faculty member becomes eligible for leave through the sick leave bank due to an incapacitating injury, and such faculty member is, as a consequence of such injury, eligible for disability benefits from worker’s compensation, then the Sick Leave Bank, Human Resources office will facilitate payment of the member must send a written application difference between the amount of benefits paid to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify faculty member through worker’s compensation and the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist amount of the superintendent, faculty member’s regular pay. It is the teacher's building principal, and twointention of this provision that no faculty member shall receive more pay through worker’s compensation in combination with payments received through the sick leave bank than such faculty member would have received in regular pay had such incapacitating injury not occurred.
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Sick Leave Bank. 1) The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at was established by a one-time contribution from the time Board of Education of 150 days and a contribution from the teachers of 150 days. Sick leave bank days shall accumulate from year to year.
2) Any participating teacher who has exhausted his/her accumulated paid sick leave shall be eligible to draw upon this bank for the upcoming year is posted for employees such additional leave as may be needed to a maximum of 120 thirty (30) school days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed per school year following one (1) day of his/her participation in the sick leave bank, thirty-five (35) school days per school year following two (2) years of participation in the sick leave bank, forty (40) school days per school year following three (3) years of participation in the sick leave bank, or forty-five (45) school days per school year following four (4) years of participation in the sick leave bank increasing by 5 days per additional year of participation in the sick leave bank to a maximum of 75 days as long as there are unused days left in the bank. When all of the days contributed to the Sick Leave Bankbank have been used, the benefits of the bank shall no longer be available. Priority for use of sick leave bank days will be on the basis of first come, first served.
3) If a teacher is disabled and commences to draw benefits under the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lessstate retirement system, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes will cease to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted draw benefits from the individual's accumulated sick leaveleave bank.
4. No member may draw from ) All eligible teachers must declare intent to contribute within five (5) days after the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavebeginning of each school year.
5. A first year ) Days drawn from the sick leave bank may be used by that teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days only for personal illness of the Sick Leave Bankthat teacher.
6) A committee shall be established to act as the governing body for the administration of the sick leave bank. Its powers shall include: • Approval or denial of use of sick leave bank days, • Setting rules for additional contributions of days by teachers to the bank, • Setting criteria to define what a teacher must do to be "a participant in the sick leave bank" as that term is used in paragraph 2 above. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board committee shall consist of two (2) teachers named by the superintendent, the teacher's building principalassociation, and twotwo (2) administrators named by the Board. The committee shall develop rules of procedure for administration of the sick leave bank.
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Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess The purpose of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at is to provide income protection for second year probationary or continuing contract teachers who are members of the time sick leave for bank who, because of prolonged illness, have exhausted their accumulated sick leave benefits and are unable to return to work, including the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum performance of 120 days totalalternative work assignments.
2. The sick leave bank will be administered by a continuing committee composed of the Superintendent, a Board member, and two (2) teachers designated by the Association. A majority vote of the committee shall be required for any days to be granted. The sick leave bank committee (“committee”) shall annually report to the RSU 23 Board of Directors (“Board”), the Association and the members of the sick leave bank, indicating the use of the sick leave bank regarding the days used, balances available, and/or general operation procedures. The committee may submit recommendations for modification to the operation of the sick leave bank to the Board and the Association. If the recommendations are ratified by the Board and the Association, the recommendations shall be implemented.
3. At the beginning of each school year, a ten (10) day notice will be provided from the Superintendent’s office to allow teachers to enroll or discontinue membership in the sick leave bank. Absent a request to discontinue membership in the sick leave bank, participating teachers will automatically continue to be enrolled. If a teacher opts to discontinue membership, he/she shall not be a participating member and shall not be eligible for the sick leave bank.
4. Each licensed employee initially contributed second year teacher will be automatically enrolled in the sick leave bank and one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave to will be placed in the Sick Leave Banksick leave bank and the teacher shall be provided written notification by the central office. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops teacher does not want to 25 days or lessparticipate, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate will notify the central office in receiving Sick Leave Bank dayswriting on the sick leave bank form within ten (10) day of its receipt.
35. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's When an eligible teacher has used all of his/her accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until , he/she has exhausted may draw on the sick leave bank, provided he/she meets the conditions established below. To qualify for sick leave from the sick leave bank, a teacher must have:
a) Contributed one (1) day of his/her own accumulated personal sick leave and be a current sick leave bank member;
b) Used all of his/her personal sick leave.;
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10c) days of Provided a doctor’s certificate regarding the Sick Leave Bankillness that prevents the individual from attending work.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank Members withdrawing sick leave days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bankbank will not have to replace those days, the except as a regular contributing member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twobank.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The a. There shall be a sick leave “bank” (bank) to which the Board shall credit three hundred fifty (350) sick leave days at the start of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes each of the authority for a Sick Leave Bankthree school years during the 2010-2013 contract.
b. All teachers employed within the Region prior to July 1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article , 2010 shall be credited to members of the sick leave bank unless the teacher gives written notice to the Superintendent or his designee and the PEA President prior to September 1, 2010 of his or her desire to not participate in the bank. A teacher withdrawing his/her membership in the bank will not be able to withdraw any contributed days. Teachers hired after July 1, 2010 shall join the bank unless they execute an “opt out” form at the time of their initial hire. New hires joining the sick leave for bank shall contribute one (1) sick leave day to the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed c. In the event the number of sick leave days in the bank drops below one hundred eighty (180), each member of the bank shall contribute one (1) day of his/her from their available sick leave accumulation to replenish the Sick Leave Bankbank. If However, a teacher shall not be required to contribute more than two (2) sick leave days per school year.
d. A sick leave bank committee consisting of two representatives selected by the Superintendent and two selected by the Association shall be established to determine applicant’s eligibility for sick leave days from the bank and the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day be granted. The committee shall be responsible for keeping all records related to the Sick Leave Bank sick leave bank. An affirmative vote by at least three of the four persons on September 1 if he/she wishes the committee is needed to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysgrant sick leave bank days to an applicant.
3e. A teacher may be granted up to ninety (90) sick leave days from the bank per school year and up to an additional thirty (30) days from the bank per school year with his/her pay reduced by the compensation paid to his/her substitute.
f. Eligibility for sick leave days from the bank shall be based on a serious prolonged illnesses or injury preventing the teacher from working. The day donated presence of a serious prolonged illness or injury shall be documented by a medical report from the teacher’s physician.
g. No days may be granted from the bank unless the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year However, if it appears imminent a teacher will exhaust his/her accumulated leave, the request for days may be entitled to use made in advance so that no more than ten (10) days of interruption in the Sick Leave Bank.
6teacher’s regular pay occurs. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may bank shall not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyin conjunction with any other leave.
7. h. The Sick Leave Bank may decisions of the sick leave bank committee shall not be used subject to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation a grievance or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109any other collateral attack.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send i. No days may be donated to a written application to the superintendent of schoolsspecific individual.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. PURPOSE AND PARTICIPATION A Sick Leave Bank (the "Bank") shall be established and administered by the Board. The Sick Leave Bank shall provide additional paid sick leave to eligible teachers due to unforeseen personal catastrophic illness or injury. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary and only available after a teacher has completed five (5) years of service with New London Public Schools. • Active teachers who desire to participate in the Sick Leave Bank shall notify the Business Office in writing by June 30th of the school year preceding their enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank to be eligible for participation the following school year. New London Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited Education -and- New London Education Association 2022-2025 18 • Only teachers who have donated to the sick leave bank will be eligible to receive donations. • Only teachers that have at the time least thirty (30) days of accumulated sick leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2may donate days. Each licensed employee initially contributed Teachers may contribute one (1) sick day to the bank each year. • At the start of his/her each school year, contributions to the bank will be deducted from participating teachers sick leave balance. • The sick leave bank will have a cap approximately equal to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of teachers at the beginning of the school year. No more days in will be added until the Sick Leave Bank drops bank is depleted to 25 days or less, each licensed employee ninety (90) days. The bank will contribute one additional day be built up to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 maximum cap again and the process repeated. Newly eligible employees shall be permitted to join the sick leave bank by donating one (1) day, even if he/she wishes the bank exceeds the number of teachers for that school year. • Once donated, sick days cannot be given back to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated the donating teacher, nor do they have any cash value if unused by the employee bank. • All unused days awarded through this provision, shall be returned to the bank or if the bank has reached the maximum, sick days will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leaveforfeited.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Employment Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for Association agrees to establish a voluntary Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess Bank for the use of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited office personnel who have exhausted their accumulated and annual sick leave days and require additional leave to make full recovery from illness and would otherwise lose pay through such continued illness. A member must work one (1)year before he/she can request sick leave bank pay. New members are eligible to contribute to the sick leave bank at after their probationary period. Members who wish to participate in the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed bank shall contribute one (1) day of his/her initially to the bank. The total accumulated sick leave in the Bank shall not exceed one hundred and eighty (180) days. When the accumulated sick leave in the Bank falls below ninety (90) days, each member shall contribute one (1) day per contract year until the Bank is replenished. Individual bargaining unit members will be allowed to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of transfer up to twenty (20) sick days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day total over their career to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes a member has reached their individual sick leave accrual cap. Transfers may be made multiple times until the twenty (20) sick day limit is reached. Those who have reached the 180/220 maximum accrual amount and who have already contributed 20 sick days to participate in receiving Sick Leave the bank may contribute up to an additional twenty (20) sick days to replenish the Bank if it falls below ninety (90) days.
3. The day donated by days deposited in the employee Bank will be subtracted from used to provide members of the individual's accumulated Bank extended sick leave.
4leave at full pay upon exhaustion of their own individual sick leave both annual and accumulated. No member Members may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated bank as many additional sick leave.
5leave days with full pay as may be necessary to make full recovery from extended illness. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days Members may receive benefits of the Sick Leave BankBank subject to the following rules:
A. Application for benefits shall be in writing to the Superintendent of Schools accompanied by a doctor's certificate as to the need for extended recovery time for the illness.
6. B. Application for benefits may be made prior to the member’s exhaustion of her/his own personal sick leave benefits and adequate medical certification has been provided.
C. Sick days drawn from the bank shall be actual work days on which the individual is scheduled to work.
D. Days placed in the bank and unused at the end of the school year shall remain in the bank and shall accumulate from year to year for use by members in subsequent years.
E. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of administered by a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank Committee composed of four individuals: two (2) members representing the Association, one (1) School Committee member and the Superintendent or designee. All requests for use of days may not shall be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The directed to the Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109Committee.
8F. The initial grant of sick leave by the sick leave bank shall not exceed fifteen (15) days. To borrow from Upon the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist completion of the superintendent15-day period, additional entitlement may be extended by the teacher's building principal, and twosick leave bank committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes Education, in cooperation with the authority for East Dubuque Education Association will maintain and govern a Sick Leave Bank.
1b. All certified employees will only be eligible to join at the beginning of their employment. Days If the employee does not join at that time, he/she forfeits the right to join in excess of the future. If an employee leaves the bank, he/she forfeits his/her right to join again. No days will be added to the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall until the Bank is depleted to three hundred (300) days. The Bank will then be credited built up again to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum four hundred (400) days or closest proximity by each teacher’s contribution of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave or two (2) days as necessary.
c. Additions will be made to the Sick Leave Bank. If Bank at the number beginning of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day fiscal year according to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes above limitations.
d. An employee who withdraws from the district will not be allowed to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank withdraw the contributed days.
3. e. The day donated by intent of the employee will be subtracted from the individual's plan is to provide extended leave to those teachers who incur a period of prolonged illness or hospitalization and have exhausted all of their personal accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw f. A teacher who has contributed will not be able to withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank bank until he/she has exhausted all of his/her own accumulated sick leaveleave followed by an intervening period of five (5) consecutive unpaid days before use of the Bank is available.
5. g. The maximum number of days that a teacher may withdraw from the Bank will be one hundred (100) days.
h. Persons who withdraw sick leave days from the Bank will not be required to replace those days except as a regular contributing member of the Bank.
i. A first year teacher will not be entitled eligible to use no more than ten (10) days of utilize the Sick Leave BankBank in two (2) successive years unless he or she has been actively employed and working full-time for at least sixty (60) days prior to drawing from the Bank in said second year.
6. j. The Bank will be applicable only to the illness of the teacher and not to the serious illness or death of any other person.
k. The Bank will not be applicable to illness or disability resulting from cosmetic surgery or any surgical or other procedures which may be safely deferred until a vacation or recess period.
l. Nothing in this article will be construed as placing any obligation on the Board to advance or loan additional sick leave days to the Bank should all days be used up in any period or periods of its operation.
m. The Sick Leave Bank will not be used only available under any circumstances to cover absence due any teacher on leave of absence, notwithstanding that sick leave under any section of the article hereof should be construed or held to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of be available to a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days teacher on leave.
n. A teacher may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow benefits from the Sick Leave Bank, Bank and benefits from the member must send a written application Teacher’s Retirement System at the same time (double dipping).
o. Application for use of the Bank will be made in writing to the superintendent of schools.
9approval committee. The superintendent three-member approval committee, consisting of appointed members of the East Dubuque Education Association, will have the responsibility of reviewing requests and recommending approval of the East Dubuque Education Association. The East Dubuque Education Association will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twopertinent district employees as needed.
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Samples: Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board A. At the beginning of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes each school year, an open enrollment period, commencing on the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article first student day and concluding on September 30, shall be credited made available for teachers to enroll in the sick leave bank. New teachers, hired after the open enrollment period, shall have twenty (20) days to enroll in the sick leave bank. Each teacher enrolling in the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed will contribute one (1) day of his/her his sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days sick leave bank.
B. Teachers opting to not enroll in the Sick Leave Bank drops sick leave bank during the open enrollment period, or within twenty (20) days of their hiring, shall be denied membership to 25 the sick leave bank for the duration of that school year.
C. Teachers opting to terminate their membership in the sick leave bank may do so only during the open enrollment period. Days contributed by the member withdrawing shall remain in the bank.
D. Teachers, who have not repaid the days or lessborrowed from the sick leave bank and are requesting to terminate their membership in the bank, each licensed employee shall be obligated to repay those days at the rate of five (5) days per year until all days borrowed are repaid. In the event of the death of a teacher, the estate will not be required to repay the sick days.
E. Teachers, who elect to become members of the sick leave bank, borrow days from the bank and terminate their employment with the Chelsea School District before all days borrowed from the bank are repaid, shall have their per diem pay withheld from their remaining payroll entitlement for all days not repaid. The sick leave bank shall be credited with the repaid days.
F. When the sick leave bank is depleted to fifty (50) days, members will contribute one additional (1) day of their sick leave. Necessary additions will be made at the beginning of each school year and are to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank be made after all repayments have occurred. The sick leave bank shall have a cap of two-hundred-fifty (250) days.
3G. The sick leave bank will be controlled by a committee composed of five (5) CEA members elected by the CEA membership. The day donated sick leave bank will be administered by the employee will be subtracted committee in accordance with the following procedures and guidelines:
1) Any teacher enrolled in the sick leave bank may apply for a loan from the individual's accumulated sick leaveleave bank for disability caused by personal illness or accident.
2) A teacher must first exhaust all his sick days before utilizing days from the sick leave bank.
3) All requests for use of sick leave bank days must be in writing. The committee shall maintain a copy of the request, as well as a record of the committee’s action on the request.
4. No member may draw from ) The teacher must give the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick committee adequate notice of the request to allow the committee time to meet prior to the needed days of leave.
5. ) A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than maximum of ten (10) days of per request may be granted by the Sick Leave Bankcommittee.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will ) If a second request for days from the sick leave bank is made by the teacher, it must be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of accompanied by a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used ’s statement explaining the need for maternity the leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babytime.
7. The Sick Leave Bank ) A teacher may not be borrow up to a maximum of twenty (20) days in one contract year (July 1 – June 30).
8) A teacher, who has been granted and used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty sick days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow sick leave bank during a contract year, is not eligible for further allotments from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolssick leave bank in succeeding contract years until all sick days have been paid.
9) A teacher borrowing sick leave days from the bank will be required to repay those days with a minimum of three (3) days for the first two (2) years and, thereafter five (5) days per year until all days borrowed from the bank are repaid. The superintendent Payback will notify be made at the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist onset of the superintendent, contract school year. Decisions and actions of the teacher's building principal, committee shall be final and twonot subject to the grievance procedure.
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board (1) At the commencement of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for 1989-1990 professional work year, a fund of days shall be established to be called a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess The fund of days shall be established as follows: During the first year of the maximum accumulation Agreement, each teacher eligible for employees Sick Leave as defined in Section I of this per Article 12.01(A) shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed donate one (1) day to the Sick Leave Bank within fifteen (15) days of the beginning of the school year. Newly hired teachers in the District shall donate one (1) day to the Sick Leave Bank within fifteen (15) days of employment. A teacher may, at his/her sick leave own discretion, contribute up to three (3) additional days during the 1989-1990 school year and in each following year to the Sick Leave Bank. If the The maximum number of days accumulating in the Sick Leave Bank drops cannot exceed three (3) times the number of full-time teachers employed by the Regional School District. A teacher shall be eligible to 25 apply for the use of days from the Sick Leave Bank when he/she has exhausted his accumulated and current Sick Leave days. The day or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day days contributed by a teacher to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving shall not count as days absent for the purpose of 12.01(C).
(2) The Sick Leave Bank days.
shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of six (6) members: a member of the School Committee appointed by the Chairman of the School Committee, the Superintendent or his designee, a School Building Principal appointed by the Superintendent, and three (3) members of the Association (one from each school building) appointed by the President of the Association. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from term of the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveCommittee shall be from October 1st through September 30th each year and such members shall be designated by the parties during September each year. The duties of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall include but not be limited to:
(a) Establishing rules, regulations, and procedures to govern operation of the bank.
5(b) Approving or denying the application for use of Sick Leave Bank days in accordance with its established rules and regulations. A first year teacher will The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall not be entitled subject to use no more than the Grievance Procedure. Within ten (10) days following notification of a Sick Leave Bank Committee decision, an applicant or his representative may present an appeal in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Such appeals shall consist of a request that the Sick Leave Bank Committee review its decision and shall present the applicant’s reasons for such a review.
(c) When the number of days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank is less than the days requested by an applicant, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may request the School Committee to donate additional days to the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The (3) Any unused days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank will be used only at the end of a school year shall remain in the bank and shall accumulate from year to cover absence year to the established limit identified in 12.01 (D)(1).
(4) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the normal illness due to the employee’s personal injury or illness pregnancy, child-birth, or the illness of recuperation therefrom, except when such request is accompanied by a spouse or dependent child physician’s written certification that is hospitalized and under said teacher could not perform the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyduties appropriate to her position.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board A. At the beginning of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes each school year, an open enrollment period, commencing on the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation first student day and concluding on September 30, shall be made available for employees as defined to enroll in Section I of this Article the sick leave bank. New employees, hired after the open enrollment period, shall be credited have twenty (20) days to enroll in the sick leave bank. Each employee enrolling in the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed will contribute one (1) day of his/her the employee’s sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days sick leave bank.
B. Employees opting to not enroll in the Sick Leave Bank drops sick leave bank during the open enrollment period, or within twenty (20) days of their hiring, shall be denied membership to 25 the sick leave bank for the duration of that school year.
C. Employees opting to terminate their membership in the sick leave bank may do so only during the open enrollment period. Days contributed by the member withdrawing shall remain in the bank.
D. Employees, who have not repaid the days or lessborrowed from the sick leave bank and are requesting to terminate their membership in the bank, each licensed employee shall be obligated to repay those days at the rate of five (5) days per school year until all days borrowed are repaid. In the event of the death of an employee, the estate will not be required to repay the sick days.
E. Employees, who elect to become members of the sick leave bank, borrow days from the bank and terminate their employment with the Chelsea School District before all days borrowed from the bank are repaid, shall have their per diem pay withheld from their remaining payroll entitlement for all days not repaid. The sick leave bank shall be credited with the repaid days.
F. When the sick leave bank is depleted to fifty (50) days, members will contribute one additional (1) day of their sick leave. Necessary additions will be made at the beginning of each school year and are to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank be made after all repayments have occurred. The sick leave bank shall have a cap of two-hundred-fifty (250) days.
3G. The sick leave bank will be controlled by a committee composed of five (5) CEA/Professional staff members. The day donated sick leave bank will be administered by the committee in accordance with the following procedures and guidelines:
1) Any employee will be subtracted enrolled in the sick leave bank may apply for a loan from the individual's accumulated sick leaveleave bank for disability caused by personal illness or accident.
2) An employee must first exhaust all the employee’s sick days before utilizing days from the sick leave bank.
3) All requests for use of sick leave bank days must be in writing. The committee shall maintain a copy of the request, as well as a record of the committee’s action on the request.
4. No member may draw from ) The employee must give the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick committee adequate notice of the request to allow the committee time to meet prior to the needed days of leave.
5. ) A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than maximum of ten (10) days of per request may be granted by the Sick Leave Bankcommittee.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to ) If a second request for days from the sick leave bank is made by the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of , it must be accompanied by a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used ’s statement explaining the need for maternity the leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babytime.
7. The Sick Leave Bank ) An employee may not be borrow up to a maximum of twenty (20) days in one contract year.
8) An employee, who has been granted and used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty sick days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow sick leave bank during a contract year, is not eligible for further allotments from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolssick leave bank in succeeding contract years until all sick days have been repaid.
9) An employee borrowing sick leave days from the bank will be required to repay those days with a minimum of three (3) days for the first two (2) school years and, thereafter five (5) days per school year until all days borrowed from the bank are repaid. The superintendent Payback will notify be made at the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist onset of the superintendent, school year. Decisions and actions of the teacher's building principal, committee shall be final and twonot subject to the grievance procedure.
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board On September 1 of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess each year of the maximum accumulation for contract, all employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited eligible to voluntarily contribute a maximum of two (2) of their accumulated sick days to a sick leave bank. Once an employee elects to join the bank and thereby makes an initial contribution, such employee shall automatically continue as a member of the bank and such two (2) days each year sick leave contribution shall be made to the bank on September 1 of each year until the employee signifies in writing to Human Resources their desire to cease contributions the bank. The maximum number of days in the bank shall be five hundred (500) days. It is understood and agreed that sick leave days deposited into the bank become the sole and exclusive property of the bank. No employee may claim entitlement to such days at the time of retirement, termination, etc. It is further understood that this Section will in no way affect the annual payout for unused sick days (Section 21.4). As soon as possible, after October 1, but no later than January 1 of each year, an updated list of active sick leave bank members and total number of days in the bank shall be sent to each member of the sick leave bank. Employees requesting the use of the bank at must be on extended leave due to personal illness and must use all of their own sick leave and personal days before drawing from the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees bank. Employees donating two (2) days may request up to a maximum of 120 days total.
2sixty (60) days. Each licensed employee initially contributed Employees donating one (1) day of his/her may request up to thirty (30) days. The sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee bank year will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on run from September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5August 31. A first year teacher will be entitled to waiting period of five (5) working days must pass following the use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to all the employee’s personal injury or illness or earned days and the illness beginning of a spouse or dependent child the sick leave bank. Before the start of the sick leave bank, an attending physician must certify that the individual is hospitalized unable to perform regular duties. Application to use days from the bank may be made on the appropriate form, along with the doctor’s statement, and under forwarded to Human Resources. Within five (5) working days of receipt of an application, the care Bank Committee composed of a doctortwo (2) members of the Service Association and Human Resources, shall act upon each application. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not A meeting of the Committee shall take place should there be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7questions regarding an approval. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist decision of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, Committee shall be final and twobinding.
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Samples: Employment Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The Board purpose of Republic County Unified School District Nothe Sick Leave Bank is to relieve teachers from the financial burden of extended absence related to illness or injury that results in temporary disability and the inability of the teacher to perform the duties of employment.
2. 109 hereby establishes Any teacher, as defined in Article I of this agreement as eligible for the authority for a bargaining unit, is eligible to participate ("Participants") in the Sick Leave Bank.
13. Days in excess The Sick Leave Bank is voluntary and Participants may withdraw at any time.
4. A Sick Leave Bank ("SLB") shall be established as follows:
a. All teachers eligible under (2.) who are employed for the 2015-2016 school year, prior to the ratification of this agreement are automatically enrolled as Participants without additional contribution of days. All SLB days from the 2014-2015 bank will be rolled into this Sick Leave Bank.
b. Teachers hired after the ratification of this contract may voluntarily become Participants of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article SLB. To enroll, the teacher shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed contribute one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave BankSLB Account ("Account") within the first 30 work days of their employment.
c. Participants may withdraw, at any time, by notifying the Superintendent in writing.
d. Teachers who are not enrolled according to (a) or (b) and those who withdraw according to (c) may not participate in the SLB.
e. All teachers who enroll and who do not withdraw are automatically continued as Participants from year to year.
f. All days contributed to the Account are permanent. If Once a day is placed in the bank it remains in the bank and can only be used under the terms of the SLB.
g. At such time that the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops Account falls below thirty (30) an obligatory assessment of one (1) additional leave day shall be made upon all Participants.
1. Participants may donate up to 25 two additional days or less, each licensed employee will at the time of the assessment.
2. Participants who have no remaining leave to contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes may continue to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank dayswithout penalty.
35. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted Eligibility to request leave from the individual's accumulated sick SLB shall be determined as follows:
a. Participants must exhaust all current and accrued leave.
41. No Participants must make a request in writing to the Superintendent.
2. This requirement may be met by a member of the Participant's immediate family or by the Association on behalf of the Participant.
b. Participant must include a signed physician's statement verifying the inability of the Participant to perform the duties of employment.
1. Where possible, this statement should also include the anticipated length of absence.
2. When the length of anticipated absence is unknown or longer than 15 days, the Participant shall present a physician's statement reconfirming continued disability.
c. Participants are not eligible if the absence is due to elective surgery.
d. Participants may not use the SLB to extend the period of leave beyond the Regular Teacher Contract year in which the leave commenced.
e. Participants may use the SLB during the elimination period of the Long
1. The maximum number of days that a Participant may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavein any one school year shall be thirty (30) days.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes A voluntary sick leave bank to which a teacher may contribute unused sick days and from which a contributing teacher may draw sick days when his/her accumulated sick days are exhausted will be administered according to the authority for a Sick Leave Bankpolicies set forth in this Article.
1. Days in excess The purpose of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to relieve teachers from undue financial burden due to absence from work on a maximum long-term basis as a result of 120 days totala severe illness, injury, or incapacitation.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed The sick leave bank will be administered by a committee of five teachers and the superintendent. The superintendent may include an additional administrator to be present in an advisory capacity. The teachers shall be selected as follows:
a. two (2) from Eastern Pulaski Elementary School
b. one (l) from Winamac Community Middle School
c. two (2) from Winamac Community High School The chairperson of the committee will be appointed by the president of the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association. The chairperson and the EPTA president will select the members of the committee. These committee appointments will require approval of the EPTA Executive Committee.
3. The sick leave bank will be administered by both the EPTA president and a representative from the Administration Building (Superintendent, Business Manager, etc.). All sick leave bank documentation will be kept in the Administration Building and will be checked by the EPTA president on a periodic basis.
4. The maximum number of days to be held in the bank shall be one hundred eighty (180). The maximum number of days to be held in the bank may be allowed to increase to allow new teachers to join and at any time. The Eastern Pulaski Community School Board and Eastern Pulaski Teachers’ Association mutually agree to do so under special circumstances.
5. To enroll and be eligible for the sick leave bank, a teacher will be required to donate one (1) of their sick days every three (3) school years. First-year teachers will automatically be enrolled in the program during their first year of teaching in the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation without a sick day donation; however, such teachers must donate one (1) of his/her their sick leave every three (3) school years after their first year being employed in our school corporation to remain in the program. Once a teacher is enrolled and active in the sick leave bank, they will be automatically enrolled each year (and donate a day as stated earlier) unless they choose to opt out of the program. Those wishing to opt out of the program must complete and submit an “opt out” form to either the EPTA president or to the Administration Building by October 15th.
6. Each teacher who is not enrolled may choose to enroll in the sick leave bank and must complete and submit a Sick Leave BankBank Request form no later than October 15th of each school year to be eligible for that school year. Those current members wishing to opt out of the program must also complete the opt out form and submit it by October 15th of the school year.
7. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops bank is at the maximum at the start of a school year, member teachers will not be required to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one donate an additional day for that year if they are scheduled to donate at that time. All active members of the program (who are up to date on donation) will remain active that school year.
8. Any days previously donated by past members (current inactive members, retired members, members who left the Corporation, etc.) will remain in the sick leave bank and be labeled as general days for accounting purposes. Once days are donated to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysthey are not refundable for any reason.
39. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted Any contributing teacher is eligible to withdraw days from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from bank if: (1) the teacher has completed the Sick Leave Bank until heApplication and Agreement form, (2) the teacher has submitted the appropriate medical information to the Sick Leave Bank Committee that establishes a physical/she mental illness or injury, and (3) being absent three consecutive work days and the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days and personal days. A person may withdraw days only until the end of the school year. At the beginning of a new school year the teacher must have a contract to teach in the school system and re-apply to the Sick Leave bank Committee if more days are needed.
10. In consideration of the benefits of participating in the sick leave bank, each applicant for membership in the bank shall, as a condition to such application, agree in writing substantially as follows: "I specially acknowledge and agree that the granting of days from the sick leave bank shall be at the sole discretion of the sick leave bank committee or, in the event of an appeal, the executive board of the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association will be final and binding and not subject to grievance. I further agree to abide by such decision and to indemnify and hold harmless the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association and the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation and all of their agents for any loss they may sustain as a result of any claim or legal proceedings I may bring against them with respect to a decision made by any of them concerning this application."
11. Persons withdrawing sick leave days from the bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member to the sick leave bank.
12. An applying teacher may appeal the decision of the sick bank committee to the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association Executive Board. The EPTA Board will consider all appeals and exceptional cases which do not fit the above guidelines on an individual basis.
13. The sick leave bank committee or executive board, if called upon, may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick days from the bank. Their judgment or decision will be final. Each applicant automatically consents to submit to a medical examination and/or review of his/her own accumulated sick leavemedical history if it is deemed necessary by the committee.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Master Contract Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for parties agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at which will be administered by the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2Association. Each licensed employee initially contributed Teachers shall contribute one (1) day of his/her their sick leave allowance to this bank; thereafter the Sick Leave Bank. If contribution of additional days shall be determined by the Association and only when the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 bank is sixty (60) days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day . In no case shall the total number of days contributed to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate bank in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3a given contract year exceed twice the membership. The day donated Association will notify the District by the employee September 30th each year whether this provision of sick bank will be subtracted from used for that year. A teacher may also: Voluntarily contribute day(s) to the individual's sick bank if they have more than one hundred (100) accumulated days of sick leave; and/or Voluntarily contribute day(s) to the sick bank to a specific teacher as long as the contributing teacher maintains at least one hundred (100) days of accumulated sick leave.
4leave in their own personal sick leave accumulation. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she A teacher who has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5leave and is unable to return to work, due to his/her personal illness, injury, or disability may make a written request to the Association for days from the sick leave bank. A first year teacher This written request will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of reviewed for approval by the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Association's Sick Leave Bank Committee. In no event will a teacher be used only allowed to cover absence due draw days from the sick leave bank after he/she has qualified for long term disability. Any teacher that can anticipate a prolonged disability (such as scheduled surgery, other confinement to home or hospital, including maternity) shall notify the building principal and Human Resources in writing at least thirty (30) calendar days in advance as to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness projected period of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7confinement. The Sick Leave Bank may not notification shall contain the projected dates of confinement and be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from accompanied by written medical verification. It is understood that use of sick leave shall be only for the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist duration of the superintendent, actual incapacity. Xxxxxx Public Schools will comply with the teacher's building principal, and twoprovisions of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
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Samples: Contractual Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board Any bargaining unit member covered under the terms of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes this contract shall be eligible to participate in the authority for a VOLUNTARY Sick Leave Bank. The bank may only be used for a prolonged illness, a grave or extraordinary medical condition, or a catastrophic injury suffered by a teacher, or that teacher’s significant other or child, that is a member of the sick leave bank. A person will be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits beginning with the fourth (4th) consecutive unpaid day after the employee has exhausted all of his/her leave as required in the paragraphs numbered 1 and 2 below. The individual also agrees to abide by all accords included in this section.
1. Days All accrued personal and vacation days shall be used before eligibility to request sick bank days.
2. No employee shall be required to use more than 2x their annual allotment in excess order to be eligible. For example, an employee who earns 14 sick days at the beginning of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article current school year shall be credited required to use 28 sick days from those the employee has accrued and saved. Certified personnel or designated representative of the teacher shall contact in writing the Governing Committee with two (2) days’ advance notice prior to the need to draw upon the Bank. All full-time members of the bargaining unit may join the sick leave bank, and only members of the sick leave bank at are eligible to use days from the bank. The last day to join the sick leave bank shall be two (2) weeks after the start of the school year, or two (2) weeks after a full-time leave for the upcoming certified staff member is employed. Membership is on a school- year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2basis. Each licensed new employee initially contributed electing to participate in the bank shall contribute one (1) sick day to the sick bank. In case of depletion of the sick leave bank below 200 days all employees enrolled will automatically have one (1) sick day deducted and added to the sick bank. The bookkeeper will notify all members of the sick bank in writing of the depletion of sick bank days and that an automatic one (1) sick day will be taken out of their personal sick days on said date that it will occur. An employee may be eligible to draw a maximum of forty (40) days in one (1) school year and a maximum of one hundred eighty (180) days during his/her employment in the District. An employee must notify in writing the Sick Leave Bank Committee and the Superintendent or his/her designee at least five (5) working days before returning to work. A Governing Committee made up of three (3) teachers elected by all teachers and two (2) administrators appointed by the Board, shall act in all matters of interpretation of use of the sick leave bank. All decisions must be made by a majority vote of the committee. There will be no repayment of days requested of those employees who use the Bank. Any retiring member of the sick bank may donate a maximum of thirty (30) days of his/her unused sick days to the sick bank. The voluntary sick leave bank shall not be subject to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days grievance procedure contained in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysthis Agreement.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The Board of Republic County Unified California Area School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for shall establish a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of Bank to be administered by the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalAssociation.
2. Each licensed Eligibility for membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall be limited to members of the professional staff of the California Area School District, which includes members of the bargaining unit, first-line supervisors, principals, central office administrators, and Business Manager.
3. To be eligible to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, one of the aforementioned employees must:
a. Have exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave days because of a serious, long term illness or disability which precludes his/her attending school; and
b. Present a physician’s statement verifying the seriousness of the illness or disability and attesting to the employee’s inability to return to work.
4. Employees receiving Worker’s Compensation benefits due to work-related illness or disability shall not be eligible to apply for sick leave bank benefits.
5. Upon receipt of application for an employee initially contributed for Sick Leave Bank benefits and the presentation of a physician’s verification, Association Review Committee shall post, within five (5) calendar days, the request of an eligible employee in all of the schools and offices of the California Area School District.
6. Any employee eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank may donate one day of his or her accumulated sick leave days to the employee requesting Sick Leave Bank benefits. Donation of sick leave days shall be on a voluntary basis and must be made within ten (10) working days of the date of the posting. All donated sick leave days shall be subtracted from the eligible employees accumulated total sick days. The forms of application to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank and to donate to the Sick Leave Bank shall be affixed to and become a part of this contract. Such forms shall be available in the Office of the Superintendent of Schools and the office of all school buildings.
7. Upon receipt of the names of the eligible employees donating one day to the ill or disabled employee, the Review Committee of the Association, shall conduct a random drawing to determine the rank order in which the eligible employees shall donate one day of accumulated sick leave to the eligible ill or disabled employee. The names of those employees donating to the Sick Leave Bank shall remain confidential. Upon completion of the drawing the Review Committee will report to the District, the names of those donating one sick day from their accumulated sick leave to the sick bank and the name of the employee that is to be the recipient of the day(s). The Review Committee will also notify all employees that have been chosen in the drawing that they will lose one (1) day of his/accumulated sick leave.
8. If the eligible ill or disabled employee should return to work, be declared fit to work by his or her physician, die, take a leave permitted by the Public School Code or by this contract, or resign before using all of the days assigned to him by the Sick Leave Bank, those employees who donated one day of accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank whose days were not used, as determined by the rank order list, shall not have the sick leave days subtracted from their accumulated total.
9. Sick Leave Bank days will apply only to working days as determined by the eligible employee’s work schedule. However, a portion of the salary payment will be withheld to provide summer payments to employees on the same basis as regular sick leave days.
10. Sick Leave Bank days shall be paid at the full salary of the employee to which they have been donated.
11. There shall be no limit on the number of times an eligible employee donates one day of accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank.
12. If the The number of days in the times an eligible employee will be able to apply for Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee per incident will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysbe six (6).
313. The California Area Education Association and all employees eligible under this portion of the agreement agree to indemnify, save and hold harmless the California Area School District and its agents of and from any and all claims, demands, suits, or other forms of liability at law or equity, including legal fees and court costs, which shall or may rise out of, or by reason of the application of the Agreement. All employees eligible under this portion of the Agreement agree to indemnify, save and hold harmless the California Area Education Association/PSEA and its agents of and from any and all claims, demands, suits, or other forms of liability at law or equity, including legal fees and court costs, which shall or may rise out of, or by reason of the application of the Agreement.
14. The various forms for the sick leave bank are included as Appendix F and made a part of this Agreement.
15. Each year on or before the first day donated by of school in that school year the employee President of the Association will be subtracted appoint a three (3) member Review Committee made-up of one person from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from High School, Middle School, and the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled Elementary School to use no more than ten (10) days execute the provisions of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Requests for use of the Sick Leave Bank will shall be used only to cover absence due made using the appropriate form directly to the employee’s personal injury Review Committee, which may grant or illness or refuse such requests according to the illness provisions of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized the Agreement. They will conduct drawings and under administer the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery and perform the duties as defined in Article XIV, I., of a normal, healthy baby.
7the Agreement relating to the Review Committee. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist decision of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, Review Committee shall be final and twobinding.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board purpose of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave BankBank is to relieve its members of undue financial burdens due to illness, injury or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make his/her presence in school inadvisable.
1. Days A. Membership in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article Sick Leave Bank shall be credited open to all certificated school personnel in the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to Area 30 Career Center. Participation shall be on a maximum of 120 days totalvoluntary basis.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed B. To become a member, certificated school personnel shall contribute one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If A sick leave contribution form shall be signed and filed in the Director’s office. New members must file the form by October 1st.
C. The total number of sick leave bank days shall be set at 200. Until the number of days contributed by teachers reaches the 200 day level the Board will “under write” the bank by holding 100 in escrow. Additional days, after the 200 day level has been met, may be added to the bank by teachers joining the sick leave bank. In the event that days held in the bank fall below two hundred (200) days, members will be asked to donate another day.
D. Days not used and those held in escrow will be carried over to the next year.
E. Only members of the Sick Leave Bank may qualify for the use of days in it.
F. A member shall not use more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank in a contractual year. Sick Leave Bank days shall not be used during the summer employment in the Area 30 Career Center.
G. A member shall not collect from the Sick Leave Bank while collecting under Xxxxxxx'x Compensation provision in IV, 6, A of the Master Contract.
X. A member may apply for the use of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 only after the following terms are met: (1) his/her own sick leave and personal leave days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank dayshave been used up and (2) five consecutive school days have passed and consequent loss of five (5) days pay has occurred.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw I. All applications for use of days from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavemust be submitted in triplicate on the Sick Leave Bank request form with one (1) copy to be returned to the applying member with the Governing Board's decision, one (1) copy to remain in the files of the Secretary of the A30EA, and one (1) copy for the files of the Director of the Area 30 Career Center. In cases of serious illness, making it impossible for the requesting member to complete the request form, the next of kin may make the application.
5. X. A first year teacher will be entitled doctor's statement of the illness and an estimation of time needed before the member can return to use no more than ten (10) days work must accompany the application.
K. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave BankBank shall consist of the Director of the Area 30 Career Center, one Board member, and three members of the Sick Leave Bank to be appointed by the Executive Committee of the Area 30 Employee Organization. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave Bank shall elect a Chairperson who shall be responsible for calling all meetings when notified of a request by the Director’s office.
6. L. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury Governing Board may grant, deny, or illness or the illness suspend grants of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank sick leave days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent . Its judgment and/or decision shall be final. Three members of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Bank Governing Board (SLSB). The shall constitute a majority.
M. A copy of accumulated Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of Bank days as established in this contract will be kept in the superintendent, Director’s office and with the teacher's building principal, and twoA30EA President.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board Xxxxxx Council Union shall maintain a sick leave bank for council members who, as a consequence of Republic County Unified School District Noa prolonged illness or hospitalization and recovery, have exhausted their accumulated sick leave. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a The Xxxxxx Council Sick Leave Bank.Bank is subject to the following guidelines:
1. Days All Council bargaining unit members will participate in excess the sick leave bank after the second year of continuous service.
2. The MCU Sick Leave Bank Committee will administer the sick leave bank. The committee will be composed of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined Council President or designee, the Clerical Vice- President or designee, two (2) Certified staff appointed by the Xxxxxx Council Executive Board, and the Superintendent, or designee. The Superintendent or designee may not participate in Section I a vote on the dispersal of this Article days from the bank.
3. Each council member shall be credited contribute three (3) sick days to the sick leave bank at the time leave for beginning of their third year of service. When five hundred (500) days remain in the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 bank, every Council member will contribute two (2) days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leavebank.
4. No Council member may draw will be able to withdraw days from the sick leave bank until their own accrued sick days, personal days and/or vacation days (if applicable) have been depleted and a request has been presented to the Xxxxxx Council Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated Committee for sick leave.leave bank withdrawal accompanied by a doctor’s written
5. A first year Each teacher bargaining unit member will be entitled eligible to use no more than ten withdraw from the sick leave bank a maximum of fifty (1050) working days of in any one school year, or enough school days to complete the school year, whichever is less. Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank leave bank days may not be used from one school year to the next for maternity the same illness unless the teacher has returned to work for one full semester.
6. Each clerical bargaining unit member may use as many as fifty (50) sick leave after delivery of bank days over a normal, healthy babyrevolving twelve (12) month period.
7. A council bargaining unit member whose application for sick leave bank days is denied, may appeal the committee’s decision to the full Xxxxxx Council Executive Board. The Sick Leave Bank may not Executive Board’s decision shall be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109final.
8. To borrow from The Xxxxxx Council Union shall maintain the records of the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send Bank account. The Xxxxxx Council Union shall immediately provide a written application report to the superintendent Human Resources Department upon issuance of schools.
9sick leave bank days to a Xxxxxx Council Union employee. The superintendent will notify Human Resources Department shall issue a written report of sick leave bank activity and sick leave bank days remaining to the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB)Xxxxxx Council Union President or designee on a quarterly basis. The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of Xxxxxx Council Union is responsible for rectifying any discrepancies between the superintendent, District records and the teacher's building principal, and twoUnion records.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a A. Sick Leave Bank.
1Bank – A sick leave bank will be established to relieve Union physical plant employees and hourly bus drivers from undue financial burdens as a result of an absence from work due to the employee’s illness, injury, or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make the performance of their duties impossible. Days in excess An employee member of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article sick bank who has exhausted his or her personal leave and sick leave days, shall be credited eligible to apply to the committee for an extension of sick leave benefits. The Committee shall consist of three (3) administrators to be appointed by the Superintendent and three (3) physical plant employees/hourly bus drivers to be appointed by the Union. Sick bank days shall not be granted beyond the period when an employee would or could be eligible to receive the benefits of the School Corporation’s long-term disability program. Unused days in the sick leave bank at shall be carried forward to the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalfollowing year.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the B. The Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.established and administered as follows:
41. No Any physical plant employee or hourly bus driver shall be eligible to become a member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
62. The bank shall be established by a Board contribution of any days in the bank at the end of the 2007-2008 school year, by a Board contribution of one hundred (100) days at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, and the voluntary participation and voluntary donations of one (1) sick day by employees who then become members.
3. The Bank will have an enrollment period for current employees to become members for thirty (30) working days following the distribution of the sick bank contribution election form. This shall be a one time opportunity to establish membership.
4. New employees must become members and their first contribution of one (1) sick day will be made on the first pay day.
5. When the Sick Leave Bank will account falls below fifty (50) days, an obligatory assessment of one (1) sick leave day shall be used only made upon all members of the Bank who have accumulated sick leave days. Members shall be notified prior to cover absence due to this assessment. Members who do not have accumulated sick leave days shall contribute one (1) day from their individual sick day allotment the employee’s personal injury or illness or following school year.
6. When the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bankaccount falls below fifty (50) days, the member must send a written application Board shall contribute one hundred (100) days to the superintendent of schoolsBank.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Physical Plant Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District NoA voluntary teacher sick leave bank is in existence. 109 hereby establishes A new member must contribute one (1) sick leave day each year for three years. In order to qualify for membership in the authority for sick leave bank, a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess teacher wishing to participate shall notify the designee of the maximum accumulation Board in writing of his/her intention to participate on or before the last school day of September. Such authorization shall remain in force until the participating teacher withdraws from the program in writing. In order to qualify for employees as defined sick leave benefits pursuant to Schedule A, a teacher must begin to participate in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bankfirst opportunity for enrollment. If the number teacher fails to participate in the sick leave bank during the first year of eligibility, his/her benefits under the sick leave bank shall be governed by Schedule B. Upon exhaustion of accrued personal illness days, any member may borrow additional personal illness days according to whether he/she qualifies for Schedule A benefits or Schedule B benefits. 0 - 5 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 10 day 6 - 8 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 25 days 9 - 12 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 35 days 13 - 16 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 45 days 17 - 20 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 55 days Over 20 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 65 days 0 - 5 years participation in sick leave bank - 10 days 6 - 8 years participation in sick leave bank - 25 days 9 - 12 years participation in sick leave bank - 35 days 13 - 16 years participation in sick leave bank - 45 days 17 - 20 years participation in sick leave bank - 55 days Over 20 year’s participation in sick leave bank - 65 days Requests for the use of the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lessshall be made by presentation of sufficient medical evidence (i.e., each licensed employee will contribute one additional day a medical slip) to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3Committee here under provided. The day donated by the employee will Additional Days may be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw borrowed from the Sick Leave Bank until if and only if, a teacher has repaid any previously borrowed days. Upon resumption of employment, said teacher will repay the Sick Leave Bank the personal illness days owed as noted below. On October 1 of each school year (beginning with 2003-2004), a teacher shall repay days to the Sick Leave Bank based on their accumulated sick leave at that time, and the following schedule: 21 or more 5 At any time a teacher wishes to pay a greater number of days, or all the days owed, he/she may do so. If a teacher dies or retires before his debt is repaid, any days remaining in his sick leave account shall be placed in the sick leave bank up to the number of days owed. After those days are placed in the sick leave bank, the debt shall be considered repaid. Said teacher must have contributed, or will contribute, three (3) sick leave days total to remain a member of the sick leave bank. When the days in the bank drop below 200 days, contributions at the rate of one (1) sick day per member per year will begin the next school year. Such contributions shall continue until the bank has exhausted his/her own accumulated amassed at least 300 sick leave.
5days at the end of the school year. A first year teacher The members will be entitled not have to use no more contribute again until the sick bank has fewer than ten (10) 200 days at the end of the school year. As of June 30, 2002, data relative to the Sick Leave Bank.
6Bank will be maintained in the Central Office with utilization reports to the Union due on October 31 of each year, beginning with October 31, 2002. A Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of three (3) Union members appointed by PEPC and one (1) administrator appointed by the Superintendent will be established. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will be used only review all applicants desiring to cover absence due to borrow personal illness days from the employee’s personal injury or illness or bank. The decision of the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not Committee shall be used for maternity leave after delivery final. It is specifically agreed that illnesses or ailments due to prior existing conditions, which existed within a period of a normaltwo (2) years prior to the teacher’s enrollment in the bank, healthy baby.
7. The are specifically excluded and the Sick Leave Bank may Committee shall not be used allow applicants to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty borrow personal illness days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send bank for a written application condition that existed within a period of two (2) years prior to the superintendent of schools.
9applicant’s enrollment in the bank. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board administration shall consist provide each new teacher with a sick leave bank application not later than their first contract day of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twoemployment.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The MSAD #31 Board of Directors and the MSAD #31 Educator’s Association have mutually agreed to establish a sick bank for the purpose of income protection for members who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave benefits and are unable to work.
2. The bank will be administered by a continuing SLBC (Sick Leave Bank Committee) composed of the Superintendent, the Association President, one (1) Administrative Representative appointed annually by the Superintendent and one (1) Association Representative appointed annually by the Association and the school nurse.
3. The Board shall provide the President of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for Association at the beginning of each school year with a Sick Leave Bankstatement indicating who belongs to the sick bank and the total number of days accumulated in the sick bank.
14. Days in excess The sick leave bank shall be available to teachers who have been awarded continuing contract status. At the time of initial enrollment, the teacher shall contribute two days from their accumulated sick leave to the bank. The sick bank annual enrollment period for continuing contract teachers shall be September 1st through September 30th. Continuing contract teachers will be given a sick bank enrollment form when they receive their contract.
5. The initial startup of the sick bank will be at a minimum of 120 days in the bank. After reaching the mark of 180 days, the bank will be increased by contributions of one day from each participating member whenever it falls below that number. The sick bank committee may elect to not award the maximum accumulation for employees as defined number of days referred to in Section I of this Article shall be credited number 7 below until the 180 mark is reached.
6. Eligible teachers who contribute to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will shall be entitled to use no more than ten days from the sick leave bank subject to the following conditions:
a. Exhaustion of all teachers’ personal sick leave,
b. Maximum use by any one person in any year of sixty (1060) days or three (3) times the individual’s accumulation in sick leave as of 9/1 of the Sick Leave Bankyear, whichever is less. By mutual agreement of the Board and the Association, this maximum may be waived.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will c. Members wishing to borrow days from the sick leave may be used only required to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of submit a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby’s certificate.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist decision of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, SLBC shall be final and twois not grievable.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall A. In order to be credited eligible to use the sick leave bank at bank, a teacher must donate two (2) days of accumulated sick leave to the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank.
2B. The bank will be open for donations between the opening of school and September 30. Each licensed employee initially contributed one A teacher hired after the official opening of school in September will have a period of thirty (130) day days after the date of his/her sick leave employment to join the bank. Forms for donating to the Sick Leave Bank. If bank will be supplied to the teachers by the District Office.
C. The bank will contain only the number of days donated, but at no time can accept more than two times the number of people covered under the recognition clause of this contract.
D. To be eligible to use the bank, a person must have exhausted their accumulated sick days, and have a prolonged certified illness of twenty-five (25) days or greater, and must apply to use the bank in writing to the Superintendent. This application which must specify the number of sick days requested will be reviewed by a committee consisting of the Chief School Officer and the Association President, a member appointed by the Chief School Officer and another member of the Association appointed by the Association President. Upon review of the application, the committee will determine whether or not a member is eligible and how many bank days may be used. In the event the allocated sick days are used up, the teacher may reapply to the committee for additional sick days. If the additional days are granted by the committee there will be no interruption of sick day benefits.
E. Once in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lessbank, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day a member cannot withdraw except in writing to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes Superintendent, and the days contributed would be forfeited. If a member leaves the district, the sick days contribution to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysthe bank goes with the member.
3F. Twice a year, in September and February, the bank will be replenished from a list of new members and then an alphabetical listing of members already in the bank at the rate of one per day until the limit of the bank is reached.
G. The accounting and administration of the bank other than stated above, is the responsibility of the District. The day donated Association shall indemnify and protect the District against liability and claim which arise by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days reason of the Sick Leave BankDistrict's compliance with this Article.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The Board of Republic County Unified School District NoEducation, in cooperation with the Council, has established a Sick Leave Bank. 109 hereby establishes All employees covered by the authority for a Professional Agreement are eligible to participate.
2. The Administration will administer the Sick Leave Bank. The Executive Board of the Council will function as an advisory board in matters that concern the policies and the administration of the Sick Leave Bank.
13. Days in excess Each new eligible employee will donate one day of their sick leave with the Board contributing an equal number to the Bank at the beginning of the maximum accumulation school year. The necessity for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall further contributions will be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalreviewed annually.
24. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day The intent of his/her the Sick Leave Bank is to provide extended sick leave to those members who incur a major illness or major disability.
5. In order to be eligible to draw from the Sick Leave Bank an employee shall:
a. be a member of the Council bargaining unit;
b. present a doctor’s certificate of a continuing illness;
c. have used all the employee’s accumulated sick leave;
d. have been absent twelve (12) consecutive school days prior to each usage due to a major illness or major disability which is unrelated to any previous usage;
e. have had deducted from their pay the cost of a substitute for three (3) days; and
f. be limited to drawing from the Sick Leave Bank until they become eligible for disability insurance benefits as provided by the District or the State of Illinois Teacher Retirement System, whichever is sooner.
6. Persons withdrawing days from the Sick Leave Bank will not have to replace those days, except as a regular contributing member to the Bank.
7. At the time of retirement, a member of the Sick Leave Bank may withdraw from the Sick Leave Bank a number of days equal to their contribution to establish the necessary days accumulation for retirement benefit purposes.
8. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 becomes less than fifty (50) percent of the total participation membership, the advisory board may request additional contributions by members and matching contributions by the Board of Education during the school year.
9. A retiring bargaining unit member may contribute a maximum of one hundred seventy-five (175) unused sick leave days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daystheir final year of employment with the District.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Professional Services
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The Board shall establish a Sick Leave Bank which full-time non-probationary employees are eligible to participate in on a voluntary basis, provided that at least 50% of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a full-time bargaining unit employees participate or continue to participate in the Sick Leave Bank.
12. Days in excess The intent of this plan is to provide extended sick leave to those participants who incur a catastrophic illness or disability which necessitates prolonged continuous absence from work. The Bank shall be used only for the personal illness of the maximum accumulation participant and not for employees as defined in Section I illness, disability or death of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalany other person.
23. Each licensed A full-time employee initially contributed may enroll in the Bank by signing an authorization form agreeing to contribute one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave BankBank at the beginning of each year. If When the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops equals twice the number of participants, no yearly contribution will be required until such time that the Bank is depleted to 25 the number of days equal to the number of participants.
4. An employee who has contributed shall be able to utilize days from the Bank after all his/her own accrued sick leave days have been depleted, a three (3) day salary deduction period has transpired, and the employee has presented satisfactory documentation from his/her doctor verifying the catastrophic and prolonged nature of the illness/disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform his/her assigned duties; provided that the Board retains the right to have the employee examined by a doctor selected by the Board at the Board’s expense if there is any question raised by the doctor’s statement submitted by the employee.
5. The maximum number of days allowed for any single catastrophic prolonged illness shall be sixty (60) days. A participant will not be eligible to use the Bank again until the participant has returned to work for at least the equivalent of one full trimester. In no event shall a participant be allowed more than sixty (60) days in any one school year or lessone hundred twenty (120) days in any five consecutive year period.
6. Participants utilizing sick leave days from the Bank will not be required to replace those days.
7. An employee withdrawing from the Bank or the bargaining unit for whatever reasons will not be allowed to withdraw the contributed days.
8. At the time of retirement, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to a participant in the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes may withdraw from the bank up to participate in receiving the number of days that the participant has contributed to the bank and not used (i.e., the number of days contributed minus the number of Sick Leave Bank daysdays used) if needed to maximize the amount of additional service credit for IMRF purposes.
39. The day donated A two-member committee appointed by the employee will be subtracted from PRTAA shall serve as an Advisory Board to the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled Administration with respect to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board will cooperate in the establishment of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a voluntary Sick Leave Bank. Any employee whose position requires a teaching certificate is eligible to participate.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. B. Each licensed eligible employee initially contributed will automatically donate one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave BankBank on September 30th of each school year, or within thirty (30) days of initial employ- ment, whichever is later. He/She will continue to be a member of the Bank unless he/she withdraws in writing prior to the donation date. If the Bank at the beginning of the new school year has a balance of 100 or more days, only newly hired eligible employees will have sick leave days deducted. The membership may donate additional days up to a total equal to three times the number of members. Such voluntary donations must be made before the end of the school year.
C. In the event that the Bank becomes depleted during the school year, each member of the Bank will donate an addi- tional day up to a maximum donation of two (2) days per year per participating employee. Teachers who have no personal sick leave days to donate and teachers who are on approved leaves of absence will donate required days on their first day of employment of the next school year.
D. A person withdrawing from membership in the Bank shall not be refunded any donated days.
E. The total number of days available for withdrawal in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee any one year will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank be no more than 400 days.
3. The F. A member will not be able to withdraw days from the Bank until his/her own sick leave is depleted.
G. After the condition of "F" above is satisfied, the first work day donated of illness will not be covered by the employee will Bank but shall be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leavecharged to personal leave or, if no personal leave is available, to leave without pay.
4. No H. Sick leave bank days cannot be used for elective surgery, routine medical examinations, teeth cleaning, and similar medical choices that could be scheduled during vacations or when school is out for the summer.
I. A member may draw from only withdraw twice the Sick Leave Bank until number of sick leave days that he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveaccrued before the first day of con- tracted employment in any school year, or twenty-four (24) days whichever is greater.
5J. Persons withdrawing sick leave days from the Bank will not have to replace those days except as required as a regular contributing member of the Bank.
K. Sick leave days can only be withdrawn from the Bank for the individual member's illness. For the purposes of this paragraph, medically necessary absence from work for mater- nity shall be a proper use of such days.
L. Requests for use of Bank days must be accompanied by a letter from the attending physician or health aide acting in consultation with a physician.
M. A first year Joint Sick Leave Bank Committee composed of two (2) members, one (1) teacher will appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the Superintendent shall be established to implement, administer, oversee and approve withdrawals from the Bank. The Committee shall transact its business in writing, by phone or by radio and shall not expend any travel funds or be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of per diem unless approved in advance by the Sick Leave BankSuperintendent in writing.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave BankBank is a continuous year to year entity, the purpose of which is to relieve teachers from undue financial burdens as a result of an absence from work due to personal illness, personal injury or personal incapacitation sufficiently severe that would make their presence in school inadvisable.
1. Days in excess b. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of the maximum accumulation for employees President of the Association, or his or her designee, a second representative of the Association, the Superintendent, and a second representative of the Board appointed by the Superintendent. The Association President shall be the chairperson of the Committee.
c. Organization and Membership
1) Any full-time teacher in the bargaining unit as defined in Section I B.1 of this Article I, shall be credited eligible to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to become a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. 2) The Sick Leave Bank shall be formed by voluntary participation and voluntary donation of two (2) unrestricted leave days by teachers who then become members.
3) The Bank will be used only for personal illness, and only for those working days that the member is contracted.
4) The Bank shall be open for teachers to cover absence due become members for thirty (30) working days following the opening day of school each year.
5) Teachers new to the employeeSchool Corporation may become members by donating two (2) unrestricted days within the thirty-day membership period or within thirty (30) days of the teacher’s personal injury initial contract obligation.
6) After the initial year of membership enrollment, teachers electing to continue membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall donate one (1) accumulated sick leave day within thirty (30) working days following the opening day of school each year. If a teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick leave days, then said teacher shall donate one (1) unrestricted leave day.
7) At such time the Sick Leave Bank account falls below fifty (50) days, an obligatory assessment of one (1) unrestricted leave day shall be made upon all current members of the bank who have unrestricted leave days remaining.
8) A teacher who has not been a member while employed in the School Corporation during prior school years may become a member by paying all back assessments due had the teacher joined the Bank when that teacher first had the opportunity.
9) Any and all donated days lose their identity and become the property of the Sick Leave Bank.
10) Upon retirement, a teacher may donate unused accumulated sick leave days.
11) A retirement checklist will be available at the Administration Office upon retirement decision.
d. Procedure to Request and Approve Days
1) Written application by the teacher or illness or a member of the illness teacher’s family, accompanied by a physician’s certificate stating the nature, length of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized the disability, and under prognosis of the care teacher’s condition, shall be submitted to the chairperson of a doctor. For clarificationthe Sick Leave Bank Committee for each request.
2) Each application must be acted upon by the entire Sick Leave Bank Committee, and any decision to grant Sick Leave Bank days must be decided by a majority vote of the Committee. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final. The chairperson shall inform the applicant (or where advisable, a member of the teacher’s family) of the Committee’s decision and shall also report the decision to grant Sick Leave Bank days to the School Corporation Treasurer.
3) The maximum number of days that may not be granted to a teacher shall be twenty (20) days per application and forty (40) working days per school year.
4) The applicant must use all accumulated sick leave and unrestricted days as set forth in Sections E.1 of this Article IV, before Sick Leave Bank days shall be approved.
5) There must be a waiting period of five (5) working days after the teacher’s accumulated sick leave days and unrestricted days have expired before Sick Leave Bank days become effective.
6) Upon returning to work, the member shall repay the Sick Leave Bank the number of days used for maternity at the rate of two (2) unrestricted leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babydays per school year. Repayment shall begin with the school year immediately following the school year during which the Sick Leave Bank days were granted.
7. The ) If a member of the Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation retires, resigns, or KPERS disability while off duty from for other reasons leaves the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Corporation before Sick Leave BankBank days are repaid, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolsdebt shall be waived.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a A. Sick Leave BankBank shall be established for members of the bargaining unit.
1. Days in excess B. Any full time member of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article bargaining unit shall be credited to eligible for membership in the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming after one (1) full year is posted for employees to of employment provided that such employee has accrued a maximum minimum of 120 four (4) days totalof unused sick leave.
C. Each new member of the sick leave bank shall contribute two (2) days of his/her personal accrued sick leave. There shall be two (2) enrollment periods established during the first twenty (20) days of each semester. Each licensed employee initially contributed continuing member of the sick leave bank shall contribute one (1) day of his/her accrued sick leave to when the Sick Leave Banktotal number of contributed days has dropped below one (1) day per member. If the number sick leave bank falls below fifty (50) days during the school year each continuing member except for persons currently using the sick leave bank shall donate one (1) day from his/her accrued sick leave or withdraw membership from the sick leave bank. In the event where a member has exhausted all accrued sick leave, one (1) day from his/her leave will be withdrawn the following month. Forms for enrollment in the sick leave bank shall be available in each school office or departments. The payroll department will notify the C.W.A. and the continuing members ten (10) days prior to the deducting one (1) assessed day from sick leave bank members.
D. Two (2) enrollment periods shall be established during the first twenty (20) days of each semester.
E. Any sick leave pooled pursuant to this section shall be removed from the personally accumulated sick leave balance of the employee donating such leave.
F. The Personnel and Payroll Department shall establish and all members of the C.W.A. bargaining unit will comply with procedures for identifying and recording contributions to the bank and for complying with applicable governmental regulations of sick leave, sick leave banks or associated recording keeping.
G. The following conditions shall control the operation of the sick leave bank and the rights of the employees to utilize the bank:
1. After a participant is a member of the sick leave bank for a minimum of sixty (60) days and upon depletion of his/her sick leave and vacation leave he or she shall be eligible to draw days from the sick leave bank not to exceed thirty (30) days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 course of a three (3) year employment period with the Board.
2. An employee must have exhausted all of his/her individual accumulated sick leave and vacation leave and have been absent from employment without pay at least four (4) consecutive working days as consequence of the illness, accident or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to disability for being eligible for use of the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank dayssick leave bank.
3. The day donated by employee shall not have to pay back in any manner, the employee will be subtracted number of days used from the individual's accumulated sick leaveleave bank.
4. No The use of the sick leave bank shall be applicable to the illness, accident, or injury of only the eligible employed member. A member may draw shall not use days from the sick leave bank for maternity purposes and or during the period he/she is receiving worker’s compensation. A doctor’s written verification is required and must be submitted with the Application for Use of the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6form. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to member must also complete and submit a “Request/Reason for Absence.” (Letter of Understanding February 18, 2009)
H. The Board and C.W.A. acknowledge that the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness utilization of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment sick leave bank results in Republic County Unified School District No. 109expenditure of funds by the Board that would not otherwise be required.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave BankBank is a continuous year to year entity, the purpose of which is to relieve teachers from undue financial burdens as a result of an absence from work due to personal illness, personal injury or personal incapacitation sufficiently severe that would make their presence in school inadvisable.
1. Days in excess b. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of the maximum accumulation for employees President of the Association, or his or her designee, a second representative of the Association, the Superintendent, and a second representative of the Board appointed by the Superintendent. The Association President shall be the chairperson of the Committee.
c. Organization and Membership
1) Any full-time teacher in the bargaining unit as defined in Section I B.1 of this Article I, shall be credited eligible to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to become a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
62) The Bank shall be formed by voluntary participation and voluntary donation of two (2) unrestricted leave days by teachers who then become members. Tentative Agreement
3) The Sick Leave Bank will be used only for personal illness, and only for those working days that the member is contracted.
4) The Bank shall be open for teachers to cover absence due become members for thirty (30) working days following the opening day of school each year.
5) Teachers new to the employeeSchool Corporation may become members by donating two (2) unrestricted days within the thirty-day membership period or within thirty (30) days of the teacher’s personal injury initial contract obligation.
6) After the initial year of membership enrollment, teachers electing to continue membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall donate one (1) accumulated sick leave day within thirty (30) working days following the opening day of school each year. If a teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick leave days, then said teacher shall donate one (1) unrestricted leave day.
7) At such time the Sick Leave Bank account falls below fifty (50) days, an obligatory assessment of one (1) unrestricted leave day shall be made upon all current members of the bank who have unrestricted leave days remaining.
8) A teacher who has not been a member while employed in the School Corporation during prior school years may become a member by paying all back assessments due had the teacher joined the Bank when that teacher first had the opportunity.
9) Any and all donated days lose their identity and become the property of the Sick Leave Bank.
10) Upon retirement, a teacher may donate unused accumulated sick leave days.
11) A retirement checklist will be available at the Administration Office upon retirement decision.
d. Procedure to Request and Approve Days
1) Written application by the teacher or illness or a member of the illness teacher’s family, accompanied by a physician’s certificate stating the nature, length of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized the disability, and under prognosis of the care teacher’s condition, shall be submitted to the chairperson of a doctor. For clarificationthe Sick Leave Bank Committee for each request.
2) Each application must be acted upon by the entire Sick Leave Bank Committee, and any decision to grant Sick Leave Bank days may not must be used for maternity leave after delivery decided by a majority vote of a normal, healthy baby.
7the Committee. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank may not Committee shall be used final. The chairperson shall inform the applicant (or where advisable, a member of the teacher’s family) of the Committee’s decision and shall also report the decision to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from xxxxx Xxxx Leave Bank days to the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109Corporation Treasurer.
8. To borrow from 3) The maximum number of days that may be granted to a teacher shall be twenty (20) days per application and forty (40) working days per school year.
4) The applicant must use all accumulated sick leave and unrestricted days as set forth in Sections E.1 of this Article IV, before Sick Leave Bank days shall be approved.
5) There must be a waiting period of five (5) working days after the teacher’s accumulated sick leave days and unrestricted days have expired before Sick Leave Bank days become effective.
6) Upon returning to work, the member shall repay the Sick Leave Bank, Bank the member must send a written application to number of days used at the superintendent rate of schools.
9two (2) unrestricted leave days per school year. The superintendent will notify Repayment shall begin with the school year immediately following the school year during which the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB)Bank days were granted. The Tentative Agreement
7) If a member of the Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of Bank retires, resigns, or for other reasons leaves the superintendentSchool Corporation before Sick Leave Bank days are repaid, the teacher's building principal, and twodebt shall be waived.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board A. At the beginning of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes each school year, an open enrollment period, commencing on the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation first student day and concluding on September 30, shall be made available for employees as defined to enroll in Section I of this Article the sick leave bank. New employees, hired after the open enrollment period, shall be credited have twenty (20) days to enroll in the sick leave bank. Each employee enrolling in the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed will contribute one (1) day of his/her the employee’s sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days sick leave bank.
B. Employees opting to not enroll in the Sick Leave Bank drops sick leave bank during the open enrollment period, or within twenty (20) days of their hiring, shall be denied membership to 25 the sick leave bank for the duration of that school year.
C. Employees opting to terminate their membership in the sick leave bank may do so only during the open enrollment period. Days contributed by the member withdrawing shall remain in the bank.
D. Employees, who have not repaid the days or lessborrowed from the sick leave bank and are requesting to terminate their membership in the bank, each licensed employee shall be obligated to repay those days at the rate of five (5) days per year until all days borrowed are repaid. In the event of the death of an employee, the estate will not be required to repay the sick days.
E. Employees, who elect to become members of the sick leave bank, borrow days from the bank and terminate their employment with the Chelsea School District before all days borrowed from the bank are repaid, shall have their per diem pay withheld from their remaining payroll entitlement for all days not repaid. The sick leave bank shall be credited with the repaid days.
F. When the sick leave bank is depleted to fifty (50) days, members will contribute one additional (1) day of their sick leave. Necessary additions will be made at the beginning of each school year and are to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank be made after all repayments have occurred. The sick leave bank shall have a cap of two-hundred-fifty (250) days.
3G. The sick leave bank will be controlled by a committee composed of five (5) CEA members elected by the CEA membership. The day donated sick leave bank will be administered by the committee in accordance with the following procedures and guidelines:
1) Any employee will be subtracted enrolled in the sick leave bank may apply for a loan from the individual's accumulated sick leaveleave bank for disability caused by personal illness or accident.
2) An employee must first exhaust all the employee’s sick days before utilizing days from the sick leave bank.
3) All requests for use of sick leave bank days must be in writing. The committee shall maintain a copy of the request, as well as a record of the committee’s action on the request.
4. No member may draw from ) The employee must give the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick committee adequate notice of the request to allow the committee time to meet prior to the needed days of leave.
5. ) A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than maximum of ten (10) days of per request may be granted by the Sick Leave Bankcommittee.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to ) If a second request for days from the sick leave bank is made by the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of , it must be accompanied by a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used ’s statement explaining the need for maternity the leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babytime.
7. The Sick Leave Bank ) An employee may not be borrow up to a maximum of twenty (20) days in one contract year (July 1 – June 30).
8) An employee, who has been granted and used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty sick days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow sick leave bank during a contract year, is not eligible for further allotments from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolssick leave bank in succeeding contract years until all sick days have been paid.
9) An employee borrowing sick leave days from the bank will be required to repay those days with a minimum of three (3) days for the first two (2) years and, thereafter five (5) days per year until all days borrowed from the bank are repaid. The superintendent Payback will notify be made at the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist onset of the superintendent, contract school year. Decisions and actions of the teacher's building principal, committee shall be final and twonot subject to the grievance procedure.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A Sick Leave Bank was established during the 1991 – 1992 school year. All those individuals continuously employed and eligible for sick leave benefits as of the first day of school in the fall of 1991 are vested members of the Sick Leave Bank. All other individuals become members of the Sick Leave Bank upon their first date of employment.
1. A Sick Leave Bank Committee will act in all matters that concern the policies and the administration of the Sick Leave Bank and report its decisions in writing to the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel and Planning prior to any payment for extended sick leave. The Board committee shall be made up of Republic County Unified School District Nothe Association Chairperson and six Association members (all of the seven to be appointed by the Association President. 109 hereby establishes Additionally, the authority Sick Leave Bank Committee will function pursuant to the “Protocols” attached to this Agreement as Exhibit A.
2. Teachers will enroll in the Sick Leave Bank by donating one sick day to the Bank at the beginning of each school year for a five consecutive years. These days will be automatically deducted from the employee’s sick leave day entitlement. Teachers who are not eligible for sick leave benefits are not entitled to membership in the district’s Sick Leave Bank.
13. Days in excess The intent of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I Sick Leave Bank is to provide extended sick leave to those members, who experience an extended absence due to the teacher’s own prolonged illness or hospitalization, or the prolonged illness or hospitalization of this Article an employee’s immediate family member. For the purposes of the Sick Leave Bank, “immediate family member” shall be credited defined by the Illinois School Code. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be available for use in conjunction with any illness due to elective surgery or cosmetic surgery. In order to be eligible to draw from the Bank, a teacher must: · Be a contributor to the sick leave bank at Bank. · Present a doctor’s certificate of continuing illness, including the time leave for date the upcoming year teacher is posted for employees anticipated to a maximum of 120 days total.
2return to work. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day · Have used all of his/her accumulated sick leave and all other available paid leave (i.e. personal business days, etc…).
4. A maximum number of days available annually to a teacher member shall be as follows: Members Years of Experience in District 25 Number of Available Sick Leave Bank Days Each teacher may make application to draw from the Sick Leave Bank the number of sick leave days equal to the lesser of: 1) the number of days remaining until the employee’s anticipated date of return to work; 2) the number of teacher work days remaining in the term; or 3) the maximum number of available Sick Leave Bank days set forth in the above chart not to exceed twenty days. An employee whose years of experience qualifies him/her to more than twenty days on the above chart, shall be entitled to such additional days upon the submission of a doctor’s certificate of continuing illness, including an anticipated date of return to work, to the Sick Leave Bank Chairperson. Upon a doctor’s release to return to work, any unused sick days granted to the employee from the Sick Leave Bank shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
5. If An employee’s use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be based upon a “rolling calendar year”. For example, an employee approved for and using Sick Leave Bank days beginning on September 1st, shall not be eligible for approval and use additional Sick Leave Bank days until the following September 1st.
6. Should the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lessever fall below 200 days, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to members of the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes Committee shall meet to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by assess the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from viability of the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will and the potential need for additional days to be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days contributed by members of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may not be used require medical documentation for the purpose of determining eligibility for sick leave bank benefits. Additionally, the Board may require medical documentation and/or require employees to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from submit to a medical examination in addition to any documentation required by the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109Sick Leave bank Committee, subject to the requirements of Illinois law.
8. To borrow The Association following the procedures outlined above shall have the sole right to determine how Sick Leave Bank days shall be utilized and in addition shall indemnify and hold harmless the Board from any and all claims arising from any and all decisions by the Association in relation to the use or denial of use of the Sick Leave Bank. This obligation to hold harmless shall only be applicable if the District gives the Association written notice within fifteen (15) days of receipt of any charge, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolslawsuit or claim arising under this section.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for Section 1 Effective July 1, 2005, a Sick Leave BankBank will be established for use by qualified bargaining unit members who are unable to work due to an extended catastrophic or terminal illness or injury, and who have exhausted their own sick leave, both annual and accumulated.
1. Days Section 2 Membership in excess the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary for all bargaining unit members, but a member must remain for a full year of operation once s/he commences participation.
Section 3 A bargaining unit member must have at least twenty (20) days of unused sick leave in his/her account at the beginning of a school year to be eligible to become a member of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall Sick Leave Bank that year. No member who is receiving Workers' Compensation benefits will be credited eligible to use the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year Bank while s/he is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalreceiving such benefits.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed Section 4 At the start of the school year, each bargaining unit member who is eligible and elects to participate will contribute one (1) sick day of from his/her sick leave personal accumulation to the Sick Leave Bank as a premium for membership. If during the school year, the Sick Leave Bank becomes depleted, the Bank will be replenished by the contribution of one (1) additional day from each eligible participant, provided that the School Committee will have no obligation to cause the Bank to be replenished more than once during a school year. Only those who deposit to the Bank will be eligible to withdraw from it. This section shall take effect only when the balance in the Sick Leave Bank as of July 1, 2005 drops below two hundred (200) days, as described in Section 5 below.
Section 5 Effective July 1, 2005, there shall be deemed to be one thousand four hundred (1,400) days in the Sick Leave Bank. If At the end of each school year, the balance of days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank will be carried over for use in future years, provided that no days shall be added to the Sick Leave Bank until the balance drops below two hundred (200) days, and, thereafter, the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank may not exceed a maximum of two hundred (200) days. Once the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops below two hundred (200), any additional balance of days remaining at the completion of each school year thereafter will be forfeited, will not be cumulative for future use, and will not be returned to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysparticipants.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. Section 6 The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of administered by a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not Committee consisting of four (4) members. Two (2) members will be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7designated by the School Committee to serve at its discretion and two (2) members will be designated by the Association. The Sick Leave Bank may not Committee will determine the eligibility for use of the Bank and the amount of leave to be granted.
A. The following criteria will be used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee in administering the Bank and in determining eligibility and the amount of leave to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation be granted:
i. adequate medical evidence of extended catastrophic illness or KPERS disability while off duty from injury;
ii. prior utilization of all annual and accumulated sick leave;
iii. propriety in the professional assignment use of sick leave;
iv. length of service in Republic County Unified School District Nothe Melrose school system;
v. prior utilization of the Sick Leave Bank
B. A decision by the members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee may be reconsidered within two (2) weeks after the initial vote is taken, except that a decision may be reconsidered thereafter only if the applicant produces new evidence that was not available to the applicant at the time of the initial vote. 109In the event of a tie vote following reconsideration, the Mayor will cast the deciding vote. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement is final and binding and is not subject to appeal.
8. To borrow Section 8 No days may be withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank, Bank for any reason other than personal illness or injury. Days may not be withdrawn to permit an individual to stay at home to care for other members of the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolsfamily who may be suffering from extended catastrophic or terminal illness or injury.
9. The superintendent will notify Section 9 Application for benefits must be made in writing on the appropriate application form to the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist Bank Committee, accompanied by a doctor's certificate as to the need for and anticipated extent of extended recovery time from the superintendentillness or injury.
Section 10 Application for benefits may be made prior to the applicant's exhaustion of his/her own personal sick leave to expedite benefits, but drawings upon the teacherBank will not actually commence until after the applicant's building principalown sick leave has been exhausted and adequate medical documentation has been received, and twoin no event until the extended catastrophic illness or injury has exceeded twenty
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a) A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby bargaining unit employees who are absent from assigned duty due to illness and who have utilized all of their sick leave, personal leave, and all other paid leave benefits of whatever nature, may petition a committee, as established herein, for sick leave days from the bank under the provisions of this Section. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes sick leave bank will be coordinated through Madison Teachers Association to the authority for a Sick Leave BankSuperintendent’s Office.
b) The following provisions will govern membership in the sick leave bank:
1. Days ) Membership in excess the sick leave bank will be open to all bargaining unit employees of the maximum accumulation School Corporation.
2) New employees will have 30 days to elect in writing to join the sick leave bank.
3) After the first year of enrollment, membership will be on a continuing basis so that if a member has previously elected to be a member of the sick leave bank, he/she will remain a member if otherwise eligible until he/she provides written notice of withdrawal from the sick leave bank prior to October 1 of any respective school year.
4) Each participant in the sick leave bank shall contribute one (1) day the first year of his/her membership and one (1) day in the first year of re-enrollment if the employee withdraws or has his/her membership terminated and thereafter chooses to re-enroll.
5) Any time the number of the bank’s accumulated days drops below the minimum of fifty (50) days, each member shall donate an additional day. The failure of an employee to have sufficient days to meet this assessment will result in the termination of membership for employees as defined that school year. The employee would be eligible for re-enrollment the following school year.
c) The member may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
1) The member, or in Section I the event of this Article shall be credited extreme illness the member’s designee, must apply in writing to the sick leave bank at the time committee after exhaustion of all paid leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbenefits.
2. Each licensed ) The certificated employee initially contributed must have chosen to participate at the beginning of the school year by contributing one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes bank and have met any assessments of sick leave days during the year, and those day(s) contributed shall be non- returnable to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysthe school employee. Employees hired after the start of the school year have 30 days after their first day of employment to join the sick leave bank.
3. ) The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has must have utilized and exhausted all paid leave benefits of whatever nature, including his/her own sick leave, personal and accumulated sick leave. The days allotted by the committee to a certificated employee shall be available for use beginning with the first day of absence after such exhaustion.
4) Submit a written request with a doctor’s confirmation of the serious illness, the participant’s inability to work because of the illness, and the prognosis for the participant’s return to work.
5. A ) The sick leave bank has not exceeded its maximum for the school year.
d) Any days granted by the committee shall terminate effective the earliest day as hereinafter provided:
1) The day after the date of the term of employment for the school year, or
2) The day after the last date of allotted number of days granted by the committee (maximum of 60 days), or
3) The first year teacher will be entitled day of return to employment subsequent to the granting of days by the committee, or
4) The first day the employee becomes eligible under the policy provisions to receive Long Term Disability benefits under Appendix C Section G. If the days granted by the committee terminate prior to the use no more than ten (10) of all such granted days, the excess unused days of shall revert back to the Sick Leave Bank.
6e) A Sick Leave Bank Committee will be composed of three members appointed by the Association. The Sick Leave Bank will Committee may establish and/or revise guidelines which are not in direct conflict with the provisions of this contract. Guidelines or revisions should be used only to cover absence due forwarded to the employeeSuperintendent upon completion. If the committee receives any written request from a member, the committee shall make its decision based upon the guidelines set forth within this contract and the committee’s personal injury or illness or guidelines in effect at the illness time of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctorrequest. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank The committee shall not grant in the aggregate more than one hundred eighty-five (185) days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyin any one school year.
7f) All sick bank coordination by the Madison Teachers Association is to occur outside of the instructional day.
g) The sick leave bank is not intended for use during summer school employment.
h) If the teacher wishes to continue hospitalization insurance during the period when there is no compensation, it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to make arrangements in advance with the business office to continue such hospitalization insurance at the individual’s expense. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used A failure to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty make and follow through with such advance arrangements will result in the individual being dropped from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109group plan.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for will establish a Sick Leave Bank commencing July 1,1998, to be used only when a Unit member is incapacitated by long-term personal illness or injury providing at least nine members agree to participate in accordance with the follow terms:
2.5.1 Membership in the Sick Bank is voluntary.
2.5.2 A member shall make his/her contribution by giving a signed, written authorization therefore to the Superintendent of Schools.
2.5.3 The period of enrollment is between September 1 and February 1 of each school year. A member shall have the opportunity to enroll in the Bank immediately and may join in the second, third or fourth year by donating three days of sick leave earned, two during the
2.5.4 The first 20 consecutive days of personal illness or disability will not be covered by the Bank, but must be covered by the member's own accumulated sick leave or absence without pay.
2.5.5 A maximum of 45 days each school year can be drawn by any one member of the Bank.
1. Days in excess 2.5.6 A member of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall Bank will not be credited able to the utilize Sick Leave Bank benefits until all his/her own sick leave bank days are exhausted. The Bank cannot be used by a member on an unpaid leave of absence.
2.5.7 Members of the Bank will be assessed one additional day of sick leave at such time as the Bank is depleted to 45 days. Members who have no sick leave to contribute at the time leave for of reassessment will be assessed this day by July 15 of the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalfollowing year.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day 2.5.8 A member of the Sick Leave Bank may withdraw from the Bank during the first 15 days of any school year by placing his/her withdrawal request in writing to the Superintendent.
2.5.9 Members utilizing sick leave days from the Bank will not be required to replace these days except as regular contributing members of the Bank.
2.5.10 Upon termination of employment, or withdrawal of membership from the Bank, a participating member will not be permitted to withdraw his/her contributed days, and the member loses all rights and benefits.
2.5.11 A committee composed of one Board representative and two Unit members will be established to determine the eligibility of a member to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No a member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled desires to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member he/she must send submit a written application request to the superintendent committee giving reasons therefore. The committee may request, from the member, medical statements and other reasonable evidence in support of schoolsthe request. Decisions of the committee, which are by majority rule, are final.
9. 2.5.12 Upon written authorization of the committee to the Superintendent, sick leave payments will be granted pursuant to this provision of the contract.
2.5.13 The superintendent Superintendent will notify the Unit President, in writing, the first week of June as to the number of days currently in the Bank.
2.5.14 Should the Unit, by majority vote of its members, decide to discontinue the Sick Leave Screening Board Bank, all accumulated days will be carried to the next year and/or until the Bank is depleted.
2.5.15 Any unused sick days, over 300 accumulated, will be contributed to the Sick Bank by a member, not to exceed 18 days per year, and such contribution shall be taken at the end of the work year. Death in the Immediate Family Full salary for a period not to exceed five (SLSB)5) days at any one time will be paid to a Unit member during the absence caused by a death in his, or his spouse's, immediate family. The Sick Leave Screening immediate family is to consist of parent, children, husband or wife, brother or sister, grandmother or grandfather, surrogate parents, or a resident living full-time in the member's household. Such leave must be verified with a signed statement from the member and filed with the Superintendent of Schools. Terminal leave pay is payable in a lump sum at the time of retirement. The payment will be $140. per day for all sick leave accumulated over 76 - days and up to a maximum of 300 days. Terminal leave pay will be paid only under the following conditions:
2.7.1 The Unit member must notify the Superintendent in writing of the intent to retire nine (9) months prior to the date of retirement.
2.7.2 The Unit member must be qualified to retire under the New York State Retirement System.
2.7.3 Failure by the Unit member to meet the notification requirement will result in the member automatically losing the right to terminal leave pay.
2.7.4 In case of death of a Unit member, all monies payable under Article VII, Section 2.7, will be payable to the member's beneficiary or to the member's estate.
2.7.5 If the Superintendent in his sole discretion feels that extenuating circumstances on the part of the unit member warrant a waiver of the 9 month notice requirement, he shall have the authority to do so. Educational Meetings The Board shall consist provide funds each year for the purpose of enabling attendance at professional meetings, conferences, seminars, and workshops to improve and broaden the professional competency of members for the benefit of the superintendentDistrict. The Unit shall be allowed $2,700.00 annually for conferences approved by the Unit, the teacher's building principalSuperintendent, and twoBoard of Education. A Unit member shall be allowed reimbursement up to $400.00 annually for professional association membership exclusive of School Administrators' Association of New York State fS AANYS.)
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Samples: Memorandum of Agreement (Moa)
Sick Leave Bank. The Board Each employee of Republic County Unified School Joint District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for 171 who receives sick leave benefit may participate in a Sick Leave Bank.
1sick leave bank. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited To participate, each employee must contribute five (5) sick leave days to the sick leave bank at bank. The employee may donate all five (5) days the time leave for first year, or may donate two (2) days the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 first year, two (2) days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed the second year, and one (1) day of his/her the third year. Sick leave days thus contributed shall be deducted from the individual’s annual sick leave to entitlement. The contributed sick leave days shall form a fund of five hundred fifty (550) sick leave days in the Certified Sick Leave Bank and a fund of three hundred (300) sick leave days in the Classified Sick Leave Bank. If the number of Sick leave bank days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted available to all eligible participating employees upon recommendation of the respective sick leave bank committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by absence from work necessitated by extended or recurring personal illness or personal injury extending beyond the individual's employee’s accumulated sick leave.
4. No member The employee will also acknowledge that once these days are contributed, they cannot be retrieved upon resignation from Joint District No. 171 or upon quitting the sick leave bank. An employee is considered in good standing as the days are donated according to the stated guidelines and may draw from the bank if guidelines are met. Any employee who does not join within the first five(5) years of employment forgoes coverage for any pre-existing medical condition. If any person voluntarily leaves the district and then is subsequently rehired, those individual(s) must re-contribute five (5) days to be in good standing with the sick leave bank. The Certified Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
Committee shall consist of five (5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6voting members. The voting members will consist of four contributing certified staff, at least two (2) of whom are CEA members, and one (1) administrator. The Classified Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board Committee shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principalfive (5) voting members. The voting members will consist of four contributing classified staff, and twoone (1)
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board A sick leave bank shall be established for the benefit of Republic County Unified School District Nothe bargaining unit members who suffer non-work related catastrophic illness or catastrophic injury that requires absences from work for an extended period of time. 109 hereby establishes Establishment, maintenance and eligibility for the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.bank is as follow:
1. Days in excess of New employees will have the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited option to join the sick leave bank at by donating two (2) sick days within thirty (30) days of the start of the new contract year. Current employees who have not joined the bank will have a one-time leave option to join the bank by donating two sick days within 30 days of ratification of this collective bargaining agreement (for the upcoming 2017-2018 contract year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalonly).
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed At the start of each contract year, existing members of the sick leave bank will be automatically charged one (1) sick day to remain in the sick leave bank. In the event the existing member no longer wishes to participate in the sick leave bank, they must notify the Business Administrator in writing within thirty (30) days of the start of the new contract year.
3. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary; however, to be eligible to withdraw days from the sick leave bank, bargaining unit members must continue to have one (1) day of his/her their sick leave automatically charged to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, bank each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leaveyear.
4. No member may draw from Each contract year (July 1st), the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveleave bank will carry over days to a maximum of 160 days. If at any time the bank falls below forty (40) days, participating employees shall be assessed one (1) additional sick day to replenish the bank during the contract year.
5. A first year teacher In order to withdraw days from the bank, a doctor’s note from a doctor licensed to treat the diagnosed condition, indicating the condition and treatment, must be furnished to the Superintendent. This request will be entitled to use no more than ten reviewed by a committee consisting of two (102) days members of the Sick Leave BankAssociation and two (2) members of the Administrative team appointed by the School Committee. In the case of a tie vote, the School Committee will decide and their position shall prevail.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or withdrawing member must have a catastrophic illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child catastrophic injury as defined under FMLA that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyprevents him/her from working.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty withdrawing member must have exhausted all sick, personal and vacation leave before being awarded days from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109sick leave bank.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the The withdrawing member must send may apply for and be granted up to a written application to the superintendent total of schoolsforty (40) sick leave bank days per year.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the A sick leave bank at is available on a voluntary basis in accordance with the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum terms and conditions of 120 days totalthis Agreement.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one This bank is for the protection of the individual participating teacher during a long term extended illness or disability of the teacher, their spouse, or child causing an absence from regularly assigned duties which extend more than three (13) days beyond the number of leave days which an individual participating teacher has accumulated.
3. The sick leave bank cannot be used for court mandated drug or alcohol treatment.
4. The teacher must have exhausted all available leave after which the teacher will have a three (3) day of his/her waiting period, during which time the teacher will be on leave without pay. After returning to work, the teacher may re-enter the sick leave to bank, after demonstrating another three (3) day waiting period without pay.
5. The total number of days of sick leave bank cannot exceed forty- five (45) days in the Sick Leave Bankcurrent school year.
6. If To participate in the sick leave bank, teachers must complete and file a contribution form with the business manager on or before the first Monday in September. APPROVED
7. In the event the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or lesssick leave bank falls below one hundred eighty-two (182) days, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes teacher desiring to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The the sick leave bank is required to contribute at least two (2) additional day donated by of sick leave during each year of employment until the employee will be subtracted from the individual's bank has accumulated a total of one hundred eighty-two (182) or more days of sick leave.
48. No member may draw from All sick leave bank records shall be kept by Human Resources Department which shall handle the Sick Leave Bank until he/she administration of the sick leave bank. On or before the 15th of each month, the Human Resources Department shall provide a written listing to the Association president of the number of days granted and the number of persons to which those days were granted for that month. Additionally, that listing will certify that no employee has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no received more than ten forty-five (1045) days of in the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolscurrent school year.
9. The superintendent will notify Days in the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board bank shall consist be withdrawn on a first-come, first-served basis and, if the total days in the bank are exhausted in any year, use of the superintendentbank is ended for that year. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next succeeding school year.
10. Days withdrawn from the sick leave bank shall be paid at the per diem rate for the individual participant for the applicable school year.
11. As set forth in Appendix D, a doctor’s statement is required to enter the teacher's building principal, and twosick leave bank.
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Samples: Certified Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board Any bargaining unit member covered under the terms of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes this contract shall be eligible to participate in the authority for a VOLUNTARY Sick Leave Bank. The bank may only be used for a prolonged illness, a grave or extraordinary medical condition, or a catastrophic injury suffered by a teacher, or that teacher’s significant other or child, that is a member of the sick leave bank. A person will be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits beginning with the fourth (4th) consecutive unpaid day after the employee has exhausted all of his/her leave as required in the paragraphs numbered 1 and 2 below. The individual also agrees to abide by all accords included in this section.
1. Days All accrued personal and vacation days shall be used before eligibility to request sick bank days.
2. No employee shall be required to use more than 2x their annual allotment in excess order to be eligible. For example, an employee who earns 14 sick days at the beginning of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article current school year shall be credited required to use 28 sick days from those the employee has accrued and saved. Certified personnel or designated representative of the teacher shall contact in writing the Governing Committee with two (2) days’ advance notice prior to the need to draw upon the Bank. All full-time members of the bargaining unit may join the sick leave bank, and only members of the sick leave bank at are eligible to use days from the bank. The last day to join the sick leave bank shall be two (2) weeks after the start of the school year, or two (2) weeks after a full-time leave for the upcoming certified staff member is employed. Membership is on a school year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2basis. Each licensed new employee initially contributed electing to participate in the bank shall contribute one (1) sick day to the sick bank. In case of depletion of the sick leave bank below 200 days all employees enrolled will automatically have one (1) sick day deducted and added to the sick bank. The bookkeeper will notify all members of the sick bank in writing of the depletion of sick bank days and that an automatic one
(1) sick day will be taken out of their personal sick days on said date that it will occur. An employee may be eligible to draw a maximum of forty (40) days in one (1) school year and a maximum of one hundred eighty (180) days during his/her employment in the District. An employee must notify in writing the Sick Leave Bank Committee and the Superintendent or his/her designee at least five (5) working days before returning to work. A Governing Committee made up of three (3) teachers elected by all teachers and two (2) administrators appointed by the Board, shall act in all matters of interpretation of use of the sick leave bank. All decisions must be made by a majority vote of the committee. There will be no repayment of days requested of those employees who use the Bank. Any retiring member of the sick bank may donate a maximum of thirty (30) days of his/her unused sick days to the sick bank. The voluntary sick leave bank shall not be subject to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days grievance procedure contained in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysthis Agreement.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. There shall be a Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Board Committee shall consist of Republic County Unified the Vice-Chairperson of the Northampton School District NoCommittee, the Superintendent of Schools, and the President of the Northampton Association of School Employees. 109 hereby establishes In addition to the authority for President, the Committee shall include a non-voting representative from each of the bargaining units that make up the Association. The unit representative will participate only in the meetings that review the request from their unit. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will administer the provisions of the Sick Leave Bank.
b. The Sick Leave Bank will depend upon voluntary contributions from employees covered by this Agreement.
c. Employees are automatically enrolled in the sick leave bank after working 90 days, or as soon as they have accrued 2 sick days. An employee who wishes to opt-out must notify the Human Resources Department, using the approved form, as follows: 1) For new employees in the first year of employment, at the time they are hired, 2) For returning employees before the first day of classes in the school year which they decide to opt-out. Days Employees may not rejoin the sick leave bank in excess of the maximum accumulation any school year for which they have opted out. Returning employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited who have contributed to the sick leave bank at the time and opt-out in a subsequent school year will not receive a return of sick leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalbank hours they have contributed in prior years.
d. Bargaining unit members who do not opt-out of the Sick Leave Bank in their first year of employment will have two (2) days of their accumulated sick days donated to the Sick Leave Bank within ninety (90) working days of the date that they first reported for work, provided that they have accrued days available for this purpose. Each licensed employee initially contributed If they have not accrued enough days within ninety (90) working days, they shall not be enrolled in the bank and will need to opt-in in a future year under the procedures in g, below.
e. After the initial donation, each year one (1) day of his/her sick leave will be added to the Sick Leave Bank by each member of the Sick Leave Bank. If the .
f. The number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops cannot exceed a maximum of 15000 hours. If the sick leave days in the Bank exceed 12000 hours, the members of the Bank will not be required to 25 make the annual one (1) day donation at the start of the school year. If the number of sick leave days in the Bank are depleted to 7500 or lessless of the maximum number of hours, each licensed employee will contribute one (1) additional day to for the Bank may be assessed each member. If an employee who has opted out of the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes in a prior school year requests to participate join in receiving Sick Leave a subsequent school year, the member will notify the Human Resources Department by November 1st, using the approved opt-in form. Their initial donation to the Bank daysmust equal the total number of days that they would have donated through the years had they not opted out. If they have not accrued enough days to contribute to the Bank, they will not be eligible to opt-in until they are in a school year where they have enough sick days to donate.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. g. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due denied continuation of membership in the Bank if a long-term illness has caused exhaustion of their individual sick leave benefits, thus preventing annual required donations to the employee’s personal injury or illness or Bank.
h. A member of the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days who has exhausted their individual sick leave benefits may not be used apply for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow benefits from the Sick Leave Bank. Such benefits are intended to augment an employee’s sick leave benefit in cases involving catastrophic or long-term illness or accident not covered by Workers’ Compensation. In assessing any application, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist Bank Committee may request such medical documentation as it deems appropriate and shall, in addition, consider the following criteria:
i. Demonstrated need of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twoapplicant ii. Prior sick leave usage
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited will contribute to the sick leave bank at the one quarter (1/4) day per month (2 1/2 - 3 days per academic year) for each full-time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days totalfaculty member.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her Total sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank bank accumulations shall not exceed fifteen hundred (1500) days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted Human Resources Office shall maintain a record of contributions and withdrawals from the individual's accumulated sick leaveleave bank.
4. No A faculty member who has completed at least one continuous year of service with the College may draw present a claim from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leavebank after all that individual's personal sick leave days and any accrued vacation time are exhausted.
5. A first year teacher will Claims may not be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of made against the Sick Leave Bankbank for illness or injury resulting from a job-connected condition which is being treated under Worker's Compensation claims.
6. The Sick Leave Bank Upon presenting a claim to the sick leave bank, the faculty member or the faculty member’s designated representative must present a medical certificate signed by a licensed physician indicating the nature of the illness or injury and an indication of when the faculty member will be used only able to cover return to normal duties. The Board reserves the right to employ its own licensed physician to render an independent judgment. Claims validated as above will be honored for the total number of days of absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness from work at eighty (80) percent of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized salary for those who have over five (5) years of continuous service, sixty (60) percent of salary for those who have at least three (3) years of continuous service and under the care forty (40) percent of a doctorsalary for those who have at least one (1) but less than three (3) years of continuous service. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank No partial days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyclaimed.
7. The Sick Leave Bank No faculty member may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty claim more than ninety (90) work days from the professional assignment bank during a single fiscal year. Nor may a faculty member claim days from the bank during the time when any other disability program (Alternate Benefit Plan, etc.) is in Republic County Unified School District Noforce. 109Once a faculty member through one illness or a combination of illnesses has used a total of ninety (90) work days during any twelve-month period, that individual is not eligible for further withdrawals from the bank for a period of twelve months of continuous service.
8. To borrow from Xxxxxxxxxxxx is considered to be an illness under the Sick Leave Bank, terms of this article only during the period in which the faculty member must send a written application is physically unable to the superintendent of schoolswork.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes A. There shall be a voluntary sick leave bank to be administered by the authority for a Sick Leave BankCollege.
1B. 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. Days in excess Employees covered by this Article may become members of the maximum accumulation for 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 as defined in Section I may remain members of this Article the bank by donating one sick leave day annually. Such donations shall be credited to made in September, or in the case of a new employee, one full year after the time of employment, and membership in the sick leave bank at shall continue until the time member notifies the College of his/her voluntary withdrawal.
C. Employees who do not have sufficient personal sick leave for to donate to the upcoming year is posted for employees 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 available to a maximum of 120 days totalmember thereof who meet the following criteria:
1. The employee is eligible pursuant to B, or C, above.
2. Each licensed The employee initially contributed one (1) day of is unable to perform his/her sick leave regular job due to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysa disabling non-work related illness and/or a non-work related injury.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated has exhausted all sick leave.
4. No member may draw from The application is made on the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveprescribed form.
5. A first year teacher will 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 use no more than ten draw up to one hundred (10100) days against the sick leave bank. After twenty-five (25) days of sick leave have been utilized from the Sick Leave Bankbank, an employee may be requested to provide an updated physician's statement. Up to an additional fifty (50) days may be 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, all benefits will continue to accrue in accordance with the employment contract.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only G. If an employee has exhausted all sick leave accruals and is still incapacitated and unable to cover absence due to perform the duties of his/her position, or if the employee’s personal injury 's physician recommends a period of rest or illness or convalescence, the illness College may grant a leave of absence without pay for a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may period not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyto exceed one (1) year.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not H. Employees shall be used encouraged to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS apply for disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109retirement where applicable.
8I. The College shall provide the Association with a statement of sick leave days available in the sick leave bank on August 31st and March 31st. To borrow from Any balance of sick leave days remaining in the Sick Leave Bankbank on August 31st shall be carried over for use in the following year, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolsSeptember 1st through August 31st.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The MSAD # 41 Board of Directors and the MSAD # 41 Educator’s Association have mutually agreed to establish a sick bank for the purpose of income protection for association members who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave benefits and are unable to work.
2. A teacher shall be allowed to use accumulated days of his/her personal sick leave with full pay for illness or injury in the immediate family. Immediate family is defined as a parent, brother, sister, husband, wife, son, daughter, grandmother, grandfather, grandson, granddaughter in natural, in-law, or step relationships. This includes situations where unique relationships existed between a teacher and an individual over a period of time and which evidenced a state of responsibility, caring and closeness similar to kinship whether or not in the same household as the teacher. After five (5) consecutive days for illness or injury the Superintendent of Schools shall have the right to require the teacher to provide him/her with a physician’s certificate.
3. The bank will be administered by a continuing SLBC (Sick Leave Bank Committee) composed of the Superintendent, the Association President, one (1) Administrative Representative appointed annually by the Superintendent, (1) Association Representative appointed annually by the Association and the school nurse. All requests to access the sick leave bank will be made to the SLBC. A majority vote of the SLBC shall be required for any days to be granted.
4. The Board shall provide the President of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for Association at the beginning of each school year with a Sick Leave Bankstatement indicating who belongs to the sick bank and the total days accumulated in the sick bank.
15. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article The sick leave bank shall be credited available to association members who were hired prior to December 1, 2003 or who have been awarded continuing contract status. At the time of initial enrollment, the teacher shall contribute two days from their accumulated sick leave to the bank. The sick leave bank annual enrollment period for continuing contract teachers that are association members shall be September 1st through September 30th. Continuing contract teachers that are association members will be given a sick bank enrollment form when they receive their contract.
6. The bank shall be increased by contributions of one day from each participating member whenever the bank falls below 225.
7. Eligible teachers who contribute to the sick leave bank at the time leave for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will shall be entitled to use no more than ten days from the sick leave bank subject to the following conditions:
a. exhaustion of all the teachers’ accumulated leave,
b. maximum use by any one person in any year of sixty days or three (103) days times the individual’s accumulation in sick leave as of 9/1 of that year, whichever is less. By mutual agreement of the Sick Leave BankBoard and the Association, this maximum may be waived.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will c. Members wishing to borrow days from the sick leave bank may be used only required to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of submit a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby’s certificate.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Teacher Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes A. There shall be a voluntary sick leave bank to be administered by the authority for a Sick Leave BankCollege.
1B. 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. Days in excess Employees covered by this Article may become members of the maximum accumulation for 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 as defined in Section I may remain members of this Article the bank by donating one sick leave day annually. Such donations shall be credited to made in September, or in the case of a new employee, one full year after the time of employment, and membership in the sick leave bank at shall continue until the time member notifies the College of his/her voluntary withdrawal.
C. Employees who do not have sufficient personal sick leave for to donate to the upcoming year is posted for employees 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 available to a maximum of 120 days totalmember thereof who meet the following criteria:
1. The employee is eligible pursuant to B, or C, above.
2. Each licensed The employee initially contributed one (1) day of is unable to perform his/her sick leave regular job due to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysa disabling non-work related illness and/or a non-work related injury.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick has exhausted all other forms of paid leave.
4. No member may draw from The application is made on the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leaveprescribed form.
5. A first year teacher will 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 use no more than ten draw up to one hundred (10100) days against the sick leave bank. After twenty-five (25) days of sick leave have been utilized from the Sick Leave Bankbank, an employee may be requested to provide an updated physician's statement. Up to an additional fifty (50) days may be 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, all benefits will continue to accrue in accordance with the employment contract.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only G. If an employee has exhausted all sick leave accruals and is still incapacitated and unable to cover absence due to perform the duties of his/her position, or if the employee’s personal injury 's physician recommends a period of rest or illness or convalescence, the illness College may grant a leave of absence without pay for a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may period not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyto exceed one (1) year.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not H. Employees shall be used encouraged to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS apply for disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109retirement where applicable.
8I. The College shall provide the Association with a statement of sick leave days available in the sick leave bank on August 31st and March 31st. To borrow from Any balance of sick leave days remaining in the Sick Leave Bankbank on August 31st shall be carried over for use in the following year, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schoolsSeptember 1st through August 31st.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for a Sick Leave Bank.
1. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited to the A sick leave bank at shall be established to provide sick leave benefits to members of the bank who incur a prolonged, life-threatening personal illness or injury. Any full-time leave teacher is eligible for membership in the bank. A teacher shall be eligible for the upcoming bank beginning the first employment day of the first full year is posted for employees of employment by the district and the first full day of the fifth year of employment by the district. At the start of the 2022-2023 school year, all teachers shall have a one-time opportunity to a maximum of 120 days total.
2enroll in the bank. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day The review committee shall notify, in writing, each newly eligible teacher of his/her sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. If the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes eligibility to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3the bank prior to the start of such year. The Upon such notification, the teacher shall have fifteen (15) working days after the start of the year to elect to participate in the bank. Teachers electing not to join the bank by the required time, or resigning from the bank, shall be ineligible for its benefits at any other time. Membership in the bank is automatically terminated upon effective dates of resignation, retirement, or dismissal. Any granted leave shall be considered as a leave from the bank as well. Upon returning to full time employment, all benefits will be reinstated and that individual will be assessed only the current year's donated day(s), if any. Participating members shall have deducted from accumulated sick leave, two (2) days of credited sick leave as their initial contribution to the bank. An additional day shall be donated by the employee members anytime the bank falls below 100 days. Such donation will take place at the beginning of the next school year. During the term of this contract, all members of the bank, employed ten (10) years or more in the district shall have the right to voluntarily donate their unused accumulated sick leave days to the bank upon termination by resignation or retirement. A member shall not be subtracted eligible to draw on the bank until the member has depleted all his/her accumulated sick leave days and personal leave days and has been absent for a continuous period of twenty (20) school days. Applications for use are submitted to the Superintendent or designee and shall be reviewed by a committee consisting of the Superintendent or designee, local Association Executive Board, and a mutually agreed upon person at large from the individualAssociation. Members shall produce a doctor's accumulated written note to prove the need of sick leave.
4. The decisions of this committee shall be final. Requests for sick leave bank usage shall be in accordance with the School Code and local contract definitions. Bank usage shall be limited to a continuous personal illness or injury of five (5) work days or more. No member may draw from use more than twenty-five (25) school days per year. The total bank usage shall not exceed one hundred (100) school days per year. Application for bank usage will include a physician's statement as to the Sick Leave nature of the illness. Bank until usage may be allowed more than one time per year. After a grace period of one year, each member who has used the bank must replace 50% of the days used by donating 50% of his/her unused sick and personal days per year he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5left at the end of each year until the debt is paid. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or Exclusions: Any illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy babyinjury covered by Xxxxxxx'x Compensation.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. I. The Board of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes and the authority for a Association agree that the sick leave bank, as provided by the Sick Leave BankBank Act, shall continue throughout the term of this agreement.
A. Every school year each teacher newly employed by the district may volunteer to donate one (1) sick day to the sick leave bank. Days in excess of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited A new teacher who donates a day to the sick leave bank within the first ten days of the school year shall be considered a participating member of the sick leave bank in the same manner as those who contributed in previous years.
B. Previously employed teachers may become a participating member during the first ten days of any school year. However, they will not be eligible to apply for any days from the bank until two full school years have elapsed from the date they donated.
C. The total number of days to accumulate in the sick leave bank will not exceed one hundred (100) days with the exception of days donated by newly participating teachers causing the accumulated total of days to exceed one hundred (100) days in the sick leave bank. A participating teacher may donate additional days to the sick leave bank anytime the total number of days drops below one hundred (100) days provided that the teacher retains at least ten (10) sick days in his or her own account. Any sick leave bank days not used during one school year shall be accumulated in the time sick leave bank to be available for use in successive school years.
II. Any teacher currently employed by the district who is a participating member of the sick leave bank shall be eligible to request sick days from the sick leave bank provided that:
A. The employee has used all his or her accumulated sick days, personal days and emergency days.
B. A medical condition or injury of an employee or family member as certified by a physician that requires an employee’s absence from work for a prolonged period of time. Banked sick leave days will not be granted for elective surgery, maternity leave, nor during any period an employee is receiving disability benefits from social security, retirement, worker’s compensation or any other source.
C. The committee (governing body) approved the request.
III. A committee will be established to act as the governing body for the upcoming year is posted for employees to a maximum administration of 120 days totalthe sick leave bank.
2A. This committee shall have six voting members, consisting of five employees named by the Association; three from grades Pre-K thru 8 and two from grades 9 thru 12, as well as the district superintendent. Each licensed The building administrator from the building in which the employee initially contributed one (1) is assigned for the majority of the work day and the Association president and the treasurer will be ex-officio members..
B. The committee must reach a 2/3 majority of his/her sick leave voting members for the request to the Sick Leave Bankbe granted. If The committee will determine the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank days.
3. The day donated by the employee will be subtracted granted from the individual's accumulated sick leave.
4. No member may draw from leave bank, but in no event shall the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no leave bank provide more than ten (10) days of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. The Sick Leave Bank will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity leave after delivery of a normal, healthy baby.
7. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty from the professional assignment in Republic County Unified School District No. 109.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and twotwenty
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board District will establish a sick leave bank. The purpose of Republic County Unified School District No. 109 hereby establishes the authority for sick leave bank shall be to extend additional sick leave to bargaining unit members when a Sick Leave Banklife-threatening or debilitating illness or injury exhausts the member’s sick leave account.
1B. Each member borrowing from the sick leave bank is required to repay the sick leave bank at a rate of one-half of their yearly sick leave allotment, but they may choose to contribute more, up to the total owed, until the sick leave bank is repaid in full the number of sick hours borrowed. Days in excess If the member owing the sick leave bank terminates employment, the sick leave bank absorbs the loss of hours owed.
X. Xxxx leave bank membership shall be open to all members of the maximum accumulation for employees as defined in Section I of this Article shall be credited association who donate sick leave to the sick leave bank at in accordance with the time conditions of this article. Upon request, the District shall furnish the committee with a record of leave for accumulated by the upcoming year is posted sick leave bank including the pattern of usage over the last year. Donated sick leave hours are irrevocable and remain in the bank upon the end of employment with the District.
D. The Administrative Committee shall conduct a thirty (30) day open enrollment period from the last week in August to the last week in September annually when employees who have not joined the sick leave bank may become members. Additionally, a new employee may join the sick leave bank within thirty (30) days of their first day of hire. To enroll in the sick leave bank, each employee shall contribute eight (8) hours of sick leave, or for employees working less than full-time, an amount equivalent to their prorated FTE, to the sick leave bank during open enrollment. During open enrollment or at retirement sick leave bank members may donate additional sick leave hours to the bank. The maximum accumulated donation to the bank by any individual sick leave bank member during their employment is not to exceed a maximum total of 120 days total.
2. Each licensed employee initially contributed one (1) day per year of his/her District employment.
X. Once an employee enrolls in the sick leave bank, they remain a member, and do not need to contribute more sick leave to the Sick Leave Banksick leave bank until the committee determines that the sick leave bank’s reserve of sick leave is no longer sufficient to meet anticipated demand. At that time the committee shall set a deadline for each employee to contribute additional time to the sick leave bank. Failure to contribute time to the sick leave bank shall act as withdrawal from sick leave bank membership. If an employee is currently out of sick leave or not in a position to make a donation at the number time additional contributions are requested and the employee desires to remain a member of days the sick leave bank, the employee may borrow against their next year’s sick leave allotment.
X. Xxxx leave bank members may borrow up to three hundred twenty (320) sick leave hours (40 days), or for employees working less than full time , the amount equivalent to their prorated FTE in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank drops to 25 days following criteria:
1. The illness or less, each licensed employee will contribute one additional day to injury must be life-threatening or debilitating and does not include normal pregnancy.
2. District records must show that the Sick Leave Bank on September 1 if he/she wishes to participate in receiving Sick Leave Bank daysmember has exhausted their sick leave account.
3. The Sick leave bank benefits shall be coordinated with Worker’s Compensation benefits, PERS disability benefits, District long-term disability, and the employee’s short-term disability. Sick leave bank hours may not be used in lieu of available disability benefits. Use of sick leave bank hours shall cease on the first day donated by that the employee will be subtracted from the individual's accumulated sick leaveshort-term or long-term disability insurance becomes effective.
4. No member may draw The member’s life-threatening or debilitating illness or injury has prevented them from the Sick Leave Bank until he/she has exhausted his/her own accumulated sick leave.
5. A first year teacher will be entitled to use no performing their job requirements for more than ten (10) days, and a doctor has certified in writing that the illness or injury is life-threatening or debilitating or that surgery cannot be postponed or delayed until vacation time. When the member qualifies for benefits, the sick leave bank will cover the first ten (10) days of as well as all subsequent days approved by the Sick Leave BankAdministrative Committee.
5. There are sufficient hours in the sick leave bank to cover the request.
6. The Sick Leave Bank A second doctor’s opinion may be requested at District’s expense.
G. If the Administrative Committee denies a member’s request for benefits, the committee shall state its reason(s) for denial.
H. Membership in the sick leave bank shall be terminated by written request of the member, lack of required donation time, or by termination of employment. If an employee is laid off and recalled, the employee will be used only to cover absence due to the employee’s personal injury or illness or the illness of a spouse or dependent child that is hospitalized and under the care of a doctor. For clarification, Sick Leave Bank days may not be used for maternity required to rejoin the bank. If during the lay off period sick leave after delivery bank members were requested to donate more sick leave time, then the employee would be asked to donate a proportionate amount of a normal, healthy baby.
7sick leave. The Sick Leave Bank may not be used Failure to cover participants who are receiving pay from Workers Compensation or KPERS disability while off duty contribute at this time would serve as withdrawal from the professional assignment sick leave bank as described in Republic County Unified School paragraph E.
I. The Association will hold the District No. 109harmless against any claim or suit brought against the District on account of this provision including the full reimbursement for the cost of any back wages, sick leave reimbursement, or other actions which the District might be required to take in order to comply with a court order, settlement, or other resolution of any claim or suit, provided the District notifies the Association in a timely manner of any claim or suit that has been filed against it.
8. To borrow from the Sick Leave Bank, the member must send a written application to the superintendent of schools.
9. The superintendent will notify the Sick Leave Screening Board (SLSB). The Sick Leave Screening Board shall consist of the superintendent, the teacher's building principal, and two
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
