Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows: 1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank. 2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved. 3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work. 4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation. 5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year. 6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived. 7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days. 8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand. 9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation. 10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank. 11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence. 12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract. 13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract. 14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein. 15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue 1. Each Professional Employee of the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation District covered by the contract with the Association. Upon application to utilize Association may participate in the Sick Leave Bank. To begin participation in any school year, a teacher shall complete Professional Employee shall, prior to September 15, or within fifteen (15) days after signing a contract if not an FMLA application and provide a statement employee by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessSeptember 15 (hereafter described as "enrollment period"), contribute two (2) sick leave days. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of Each time the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
falls below one hundred eighty (180) days, every participating member shall be assessed one (1. To establish membership to the ) additional sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, day. Sick leave days thus contributed shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two be deducted from the individual's accumulated sick leave. The contributed sick leave days shall form a bank of sick leave days which will be available to all participating Professional Employees for absence from work necessitated by prolonged or recurring illness of the Professional Employee extending beyond the employee's available leave, as set out below. Eligible employees electing not to join during the initial enrollment period must wait until the enrollment period of the following year.
2. A Committee, including three (3) Professional Employees selected by the LEA and three (3) administrators selected by the Superintendent, establish such procedures necessary to implement and operate the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only Application for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available submitted to certificated employees during an unpaid leave the Committee, which shall review the request and determine the eligibility of absencethe Professional Employee. Proof of illness may be required at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made.
124. Any teacher not enrolled in To be eligible for sick leave benefits from the Sick Leave Bank, the Professional Employee must:
(1) be a current Sick Leave Bank member and under contract with contributor to the School Corporation may enroll by executing Sick Leave Bank,
(2) have been absent from work due to accident or illness of the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.Professional Employee,
13. Any teacher having exhausted (3) have used all his/her accumulated sick leave days and personal leave days, and
(4) had two (2) days after exhaustion of accumulated sick leave and personal leave where his/her salary was reduced in full. Application must be on the form provided in the Appendix within fifteen (15) days of the depletion of sick leave. After complete review of the application, the Committee shall have the authority within the procedures to make final decisions as to the disposition of the case. The decision of the Committee will be implemented contingent upon compliance with the law. Notification of the decision will be given to the Professional Employee, in writing, within a timely manner from the date of application. If the employee is incapacitated to such an extent that he/she cannot personally apply for a grant, the employee's immediate supervisor, next of kin, or representative may make an official request apply for the employee.
5. The maximum number of days which may be granted in any one (1) school year will be either the remaining number of days a Professional Employee is scheduled to borrow work or the number of days until the employee becomes eligible for long-term disability insurance payments, whichever is smaller. Any Professional Employee requesting days from the Sick Leave Bank must apply for disability benefits when eligible as defined by executing the form set forth in Appendix C qualifying period. No days, or partial days, will be granted to the Professional Employee from the Sick Leave Bank for any days for which the Professional Employee receives disability payments. Determination of this contractdisability benefits will be the responsibility of the insurance carrier. An employee shall not receive more than his/her contracted salary for that year.
146. Within any five (5) year period, the number of days granted to a Professional Employee from the Sick Leave Bank will not exceed one hundred ninety (190) days.
7. Sick Leave Bank grants will terminate at the end of the school year. If a Professional Employee does not use all of the days granted by the Sick Leave Bank, the unused sick leave days will be returned to the Sick Leave Bank. A three (3) Sick Leave Bank member may withdraw his/her membership, at any time, by submitting a written request to the Committee. A member may not withdraw those days of sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according already contributed to the provisions herein.
15Sick Leave Bank. The committee shall days remain the property of the Sick Leave Bank and cannot be composed of two (2) persons appointed by transferred if a Professional Employee leaves the Association and one (1) person appointed by District or chooses to drop membership in the superintendentSick Leave Bank.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees 9‐1‐2‐1 Each new teacher of the District will participate in the sick leave bank unless he/she notifies the District office in writing that he/she does not wish to continue participate. To participate, each employee will contribute a prescribed number of his/her earned sick leave days as determined by the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the AssociationCommittee. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician leave days thus contributed shall be agreed to jointly by deducted from the Board and the Associationindividual's sick leave entitlement. The Board contributed sick leave days shall form a fund of sick leave days that will be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations available to all eligible participating teachers upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank are Committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by absence from work necessitated by extended or recurring illness extending beyond the employee's accumulated sick leave.
9‐1‐2‐2 Application for use of the sick bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee for their recommendation. The committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. If the committee deems necessary, it shall require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made.
9‐1‐2‐3 The committee shall have the authority to establish such guidelines as follows:it deems necessary to implement this program. Guidelines shall have the approval of the Representative Organization and the Board of Trustees.
1. To establish membership 9‐1‐2‐4 After complete review of the application, the committee shall have the authority to make final decisions within the guidelines as to the disposition of the case.
9‐1‐2‐5 In order for a teacher to be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits from the sick leave bank, the employee must first: (1) be a current contributor to the bank; (2) have been absent from work due to personal illness or accident; and (3) used all his/her current and accumulated sick leave and personal leave days.
9‐1‐2‐6 The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the number of sick leave days each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days participant must contribute in order to voluntarily keep the bank solvent. A sick leave bank member leaving the District or retiring may donate two unused sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bankbank.
2. 9‐1‐2‐7 The maximum number of days that can be granted in any one (1) fiscal year will be the remaining number of days a teacher is scheduled to work under his/her current contract. In no case will the granting of leave cause a teacher to receive more than his/her annual salary for that year.
9‐1‐2‐8 The number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, granted shall be 180 days regardless of not exceed the number of school years days absent from work due to illness or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedaccident.
3. Sick bank days may 9‐1‐2‐9 Bank grants to individual teachers will not be borrowed only for carried over from one (1) fiscal year to another; all such grants will end at the personal illness or disability termination of the employee and canschool year. If a teacher does not be used to extend a leave use all of absence after the attending physician certifies days granted by the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated bank, the unused sick leave days, agrees days will be returned to repay the Sick Leave Bank at bank. In no case shall a teacher be granted more than a total of 187 days from the rate of sick leave bank for all illnesses or disabilities during a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporationperiod.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the 9‐1‐2‐10 The Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he Committee shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate consist of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from members appointed by the first year’s allotment of ten Representative Organization and two (102) sick leave days.
8members appointed by the District. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show The committee shall develop and distribute rules and procedures for the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status orderly administration of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract inconsistent with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B terms of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15agreement. The committee shall be composed responsible for reporting to the District's accounting office the names of two (2) persons appointed contributors and the number of days contributed. It shall report all days granted by the Association bank and one (all other information necessary for the teacher's records.
9‐1‐2‐11 Applicants will have the option, if the application is approved, of using the days granted or taking a salary reduction equal to the cost of a certificated substitute teacher for the days granted.
1) person appointed by . Potential cost of decreased accumulated sick leave at retirement.
2. Actual cost of a certificated substitute teacher for the superintendentnumber of days requested.
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Samples: Master Contract, Master Contract, Negotiated Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a 9‐1‐2‐1 Each new teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessDistrict will participate in the sick leave bank unless he/she notifies the District office in writing that he/she does not wish to participate. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation To participate, each employee will contribute three (3) of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician his/her earned sick leave days. Sick leave days thus contributed shall be agreed to jointly by deducted from the Board and the Associationindividual's sick leave entitlement. The Board contributed sick leave days shall form a fund of sick leave days that will be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations available to all eligible participating teachers upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank Committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by absence from work necessitated by extended or recurring illness extending beyond the employee's accumulated sick leave.
9‐1‐2‐2 Application for use of the sick bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee for their recommendation. The committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. A statement of medical need from a licensed physician is required at the time of application and additional documentation may be requested from time to time after a grant has been made or additional days are requested.
9‐1‐2‐3 The committee shall have the authority to recommend such guidelines as follows:it deems necessary to implement this program. Guideline recommendations shall have the approval of the Representative Organization and the Board of Trustees.
1. To establish membership 9‐1‐2‐4 After complete review of the application, the committee shall have the authority to make final decisions within the guidelines as to the disposition of the case.
9‐1‐2‐5 In order for a teacher to be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits from the sick leave bank, the employee must first: (1) be a current contributor to the bank; (2) have been absent from work due to personal illness or accident; and (3) used all his/her current and accumulated sick leave and personal leave days.
9‐1‐2‐6 The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the number of sick leave days each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days participant must contribute in order to voluntarily keep the bank solvent. A sick leave bank member leaving the District or retiring may donate two unused sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bankbank. The Committee will receive notification for all employees that are leaving the district. The committee will then notify the employees of their right to donate any unused sick leave days and the procedure for doing so.
2. 9‐1‐2‐7 The maximum number of days that can be granted in any one (1) fiscal year will be the remaining number of days a teacher is scheduled to work under his/her current contract. In no case will the granting of leave cause a teacher to receive more than his/her annual salary for that year.
9‐1‐2‐8 The number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, granted shall be 180 days regardless of not exceed the number of school years days absent from work due to illness or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedaccident.
3. Sick bank days may 9‐1‐2‐9 Bank grants to individual teachers will not be borrowed only for carried over from one (1) fiscal year to another; all such grants will end at the personal illness or disability termination of the employee and canschool year. If a teacher does not be used to extend a leave use all of absence after the attending physician certifies days granted by the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated bank, the unused sick leave days, agrees days will be returned to repay the Sick Leave Bank at bank. In no case shall a teacher be granted more than a total of 187 days from the rate of sick leave bank for all illnesses or disabilities during a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporationperiod.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the 9‐1‐2‐10 The Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he Committee shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed consist of two (2) persons members appointed by the Association Representative Organization and one two (12) person members appointed by the superintendentDistrict. The committee shall develop and distribute rules and procedures for the orderly administration of the bank not inconsistent with the terms of this agreement. An administrator appointed by the Superintendent and a certificated employee appointed by the Representative Organization will serve as co-chairs. Administrator co-chair will be responsible for scheduling meetings as requests are received.
9‐1‐2‐11 Applicants will have the option, if the application is approved, of using the days granted or taking a salary reduction equal to the cost of a certificated substitute teacher for the days granted.
1. Potential cost of decreased accumulated sick leave at retirement.
2. Actual cost of a certificated substitute teacher for the number of days requested.
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Samples: Negotiated Master Contract, Master Contract, Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the Effective July 1, 1982 there shall be established an Emergency Sick Leave Bank to be used by bargaining unit employees who have completed the working test period. An eligible employee requesting use of emergency sick leave may make application on the prescribed form to a Labor/Management sub-committee established to administer the program. Said committee shall be comprised of four (4) designees, two (2) from the employer and two (2) from the Union, and shall have full authority to grant benefits and administer the program in cooperation accordance with the Associationguidelines below or as mutually agreed to. Upon application Time off without loss of pay or benefits shall be granted to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration members of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon subcommittee to attend meetings as necessary to administer the recommendation of either program.
(a) Each employee not in the Board or the Association provided that such physician working test period shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement contribute one (1) day from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership accrued sick leave to the sick leave bank. Each new employee, each participating teacher, upon employment, subsequent to completing his/her initial working test period shall have thirty contribute one (301) work day. Days contributed shall not revert to employees if not used. The employer will contribute fifty (50) days to voluntarily donate two initially fund this sick leave days bank.
(b) Days contributed to the Sick Leave Bankbank shall thereafter be allocated to bargaining unit employees with catastrophic or extended long-term illness.
(c) To be eligible for allocations of sick days from the bank, an employee must meet the following conditions:
1. Exhaustion of all sick leave, personal and vacation leave.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank illness or injury is not covered by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedWorker’s Compensation and/or such benefits have been exhausted.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for An acceptable medical certificate supporting the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to workis on file.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use The bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay is not depleted.
5. Having completed the Sick Leave Bank working test period.
(d) Benefits under this Article shall accrue at the rate of a minimum eighty (80%) percent per day for each day of five illness or injury commencing with the sixteenth day after exhaustion of leave or Worker’s Compensation as outlined above. No employee shall be eligible to draw from the bank more than once per contract year, more than one hundred (5100) days per year over a of illness, or if the fund is depleted. Employees receiving benefits under this Article shall not accrue vacation or sick leave during the period of consecutive years immediately following return eligibility (beyond five working days as provided in Section One b) or be eligible for holidays or other paid leave benefits. The subcommittee shall consider as a factor the extent and circumstances of the applicant’s usage of sick leave prior to active employment with the School Corporationillness in question.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow (e) Unused days in the sick leave bank days shall be carried over from year to year and subsequently electing shall not to return to active employment lapse.
(f) If at any time the bank should be depleted, each eligible employee shall be assessed one day from his/her health permitaccrued sick leave.
(g) An employee who has been granted some portion of the sick leave bank, and who returns to work full-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewheretime, shall repay re-pay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or bank at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following twenty (20%) percent of his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due unused accrued sick leave at the end of the fifth each calendar year.
6(h) The actions or non-actions of this sub-committee shall in no way be subject to collateral attack or the grievance/arbitration machinery. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank The subcommittee shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave considered a State agency, board or any other subdivision of absence.
12the Employer. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee No requests shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according conducted as contested cases or otherwise be subject to the provisions hereinAdministrative Procedure Act.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application provides for absences due to utilize the sickness extending beyond a permanent employee's normal entitlement, to be operated as follows:
(a) The Sick Leave BankBank shall have a maximum of two hundred (200) days and shall not exceed this maximum at any time. Should this accumulation be exhausted during that calendar year, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by no other allotments will be available until the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration commencement of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon subsequent year.
(b) On the recommendation first day of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician each calendar year, each employee who has served over 5 years continuous service shall be agreed contribute to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the an equal number of hours or days from their accrued sick leave bankcredits, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30so as to re-charge any payment(s) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed made from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, in the previous year. The method of calculation in re-establishing the 200 day maximum as defined in Article 25:08(a) shall be 180 days regardless of based on the total number of school years or calendar days involved or owed to the bank, divided equally among the total number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used members eligible to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated contribute accrued sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate credits in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations establishment of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon (c) Payments from the Sick Leave Bank will be made by the Association Corporation upon receipt of written recommendation from the Sick Bank Committee (consisting of two (2) representatives of both the Employer and the Board that Union) in accordance with the use following allotment schedule: Sick Leave Allotment After six (6) months employment and the end of third (3rd) year 22 After third (3rd) year 44 After fourth (4th) year and subsequent year 66
(d) No allotments from the Sick Leave Bank shall be approved unless the employee concerned has had six (6) months continuous employment and has exhausted his current annual and accrued sick leave benefits.
(e) Members shall not be available to certificated employees during an earn sick leave while on unpaid leave in excess of absence.
12thirty (30) consecutive days. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established adjusted on the member's return to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions hereinwork.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the A Sick Leave Bank, for the purpose of providing additional coverage after the exhaustion of individual annual and/or accumulated sick leave only in the event of serious illness as evidenced by medical certification or quarantine by order of the Health Department or serious illness of a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement member of the employee’s immediate family or permanent household requiring the personal care of that member by the attending physician verifying employee, is hereby established as of September l, 1980 exclusively for the need and approximate duration use of the illnessmembers of this bargaining unit. A statement Participation by a second physician may be required upon members of the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Unit shall be agreed to jointly by mandatory. New members of the Board and the Association. The Board bargaining unit shall be responsible for the cost assessed one day of their annual and/or accumulated sick leave as of the statement date they enter the Unit. Said days are to be “deposited” in the Bank. Unused days in the Bank shall carry over from the second physicianyear to year. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of Should the number of school years days in the Bank reach the level of five hundred (500) days or calendar days involved less, than each teacher in the bargaining unit shall be assessed one day of his or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting her annual and/or accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay as of the Sick Leave Bank at first day of the rate of a minimum of five (5) next calendar month. Said days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility are to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with “deposited” in the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earnedBank. In the event the a teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or has no accumulated and/or annual sick leave at the rate time of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance said assessment that teacher shall be due at assessed the end amount of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new owing to the system and desiring Bank the following September 1. Subject to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Planprovisions of this Article each teacher may, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment following a maximum of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-school day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will waiting period, be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon granted by the Association and Bank Committee a maximum of thirty (30) school days per school year from the Board that Bank. If days are granted, they shall cover retroactively the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11waiting period. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the The Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in administered by the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed Committee made up of two (2) persons appointed by appointees of the Association and two (2) appointees of the Superintendent. The Association and the Superintendent shall also each appoint one (1) person appointed alternate member to the Bank Committee. Said alternates may attend all meetings of the Bank Committee, but shall vote only in the absence of one or both of his/her respective appointees. The Bank Committee shall have the power to establish procedural and functional guidelines for the operation of the Bank consistent with the Article. Attendance history can be used as a factor in approving sick bank days. All decisions by the superintendentBank Committee shall be by three (3) affirmative votes and all decisions by the Bank Committee shall be final and binding and not subject to grievance and/or arbitration. The Chair of the Bank Committee shall, on an annual basis, alternate between the Association and the Superintendent's appointees. During the year commencing July 1, 1994 the Association shall appoint the Chair; commencing July 1, 1995 the Superintendent shall appoint the Chair, and so on. If a teacher has exhausted his/her sick leave and another teacher residing in the same household is suffering a life threatening illness and requires the personal care of the first teacher, then the first teacher is eligible for Sick Bank benefits. Should the first teacher exhaust Sick Bank benefits and is still required to provide personal care to the teacher suffering a life threatening illness, then the first teacher is eligible for Sick Bank benefits for a second time in the same year. A teacher suffering a life-threatening illness who has exhausted Sick Bank benefits shall be eligible for Sick Bank benefits for a second time in the same school year.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees 1. Each covered employee under this Agreement in order to continue be eligible for the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application sick bank may donate up to utilize one (1) day of accumulated sick leave and thereafter, if called for by the Sick Leave BankBank Committee, donate an additional day each year in September. The Bank shall be allowed to accumulate up to an amount equal to the number of members in the bargaining unit. Any covered employee who contributes to the Sick Bank may borrow sick days from this Bank based upon the following formula:
a. Up to one year of service in this system, 15 days additional sick leave;
b. Up to two years of service in this system, up to 30 days additional sick leave;
c. Up to three years or more of service in this system, up to 45 days additional sick leave.
2. The basic criteria for applying for and using sick leave from this Sick Bank shall be:
a. The covered employee's accumulated sick and personal leave shall have been exhausted;
b. The covered employee shall have been involved in a teacher shall complete an FMLA application major operation or a serious and provide a statement prolonged illness;
c. The days borrowed by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician covered employee shall be agreed to jointly paid back by the Board and borrowing employee at a rate of not less than six (6) days per year, except that days previously donated by the Association. The Board shall covered employee would be responsible for the cost of the statement subtracted from the second physiciandays borrowed.
3. Specific stipulations Application for use of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1shall be made to a Federation designated committee of three (3) teachers for evaluation and disposition based upon reasonable rules and regulations adopted by the Federation to administer this benefit. To establish membership The decision of the Federation committee to approve use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be communicated in writing to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, Superintendent for record-keeping purposes. It shall have thirty (30) work days also be the responsibility of the Federation to voluntarily donate two sick leave days communicate in writing to the Superintendent's Office the names of employees contributing to the Sick Leave Bank.
24. The maximum number Rochester School Board and the City of sick leave days Rochester shall not participate or otherwise be responsible for the interpretation, application or administration of this benefit. Any ruling or other decision by an agency, body, board, court or other entity governing the provisions of this benefit which may be borrowed from alters this benefit in its application or use in any way shall not impose upon the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved Rochester School Board or the number City of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness Rochester any additional financial liability or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporationobligation hereto.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank This benefit shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according subject to the provisions hereingrievance procedure, arbitration or other type of legal procedure.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Master Agreement, Master Agreement, Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. All Unit IV employees on active duty in AACPS are eligible to contribute to a sick leave bank. Contributors shall be permitted to apply for use of the bank for salary payment to cover periods of catastrophic personal illness of the employee during the regularly scheduled duty days, after regular sick leave has been exhausted.
B. The contribution on the appropriate form shall be authorized by the employee and continued from year to year until canceled in writing by the employee. Cancellation, on the proper form, may be elected at any time and the employee shall not be eligible to use the bank as of the effective cancellation date. Sick leave properly authorized for contribution to the bank shall not be returned if the employee effects cancellation.
C. Contributions shall be made between July 1 and September 30. Employees returning from extended leave of absence, reassigned employees and new employees may contribute within sixty (60) calendar days upon reassignment or employment.
D. The annual rate of contribution may be a maximum of the equivalent of one (1) day per year and must be in whole day increments.
E. Members shall be permitted to apply for leave from the sick leave bank. In no case shall the granting of leave from the bank cause a member to receive more than her/his annual salary.
F. Members must use all accumulated sick leave before applying for leave from the bank. Application for use of the bank shall be made on the required form and submitted to the approval committee.
G. A three-member approval committee, including two (2) representatives appointed by the president of SAAAAC and one (1) representative appointed by the Superintendent, shall have the responsibility of receiving requests, verifying the validity of requests, recommending approval or denial of the requests, and communicating its decision to the employee and the Executive Director of Human Resources. The committee shall develop its rules of procedure and shall give wide distribution to said rules upon approval of the Executive Officers of SAAAAC and the Superintendent or designee.
H. The Executive Director of Human Resources shall approve these bank grants as being for catastrophic illness and that sick leave is exhausted and forward payment authorization to the Payroll Department.
I. Bank grants shall not be automatically carried over from one fiscal year to another. All bank grants shall end as of June 30 or the last duty day of the school year and must be renewed through the approval committee and the Executive Director of Human Resources each fiscal year.
J. If a member does not use all of the time granted from the bank, the unused sick leave bank time shall be returned to the bank.
K. Any unused time remaining in the sick leave bank on June 30 shall be carried into the next fiscal year.
L. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for will sponsor the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing but not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with beyond the School Corporationamount of time contributed per fiscal year beginning on July 1, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay except that if a lesser amount is expended the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance unused portion shall be due at added to the end of the fifth following year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days M. SAAAAC shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system indemnify and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and hold harmless the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank regarding any legal claims, actions, or suits relating to SAAAAC's administration, function and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations operation of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by N. On July 1, 2013, the Association and the Board that the use beginning balance of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave the equivalent of absence200 days.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement, Negotiated Agreement, Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. A sick leave bank for use by eligible teachers covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave and who have serious illness was established on November 25, 1975.
B. At the beginning of every school year, members of the professional staff covered by this Agreement shall each contribute one (1) day of their annual fifteen (15) days of sick leave in order to fund the bank.* There shall be no accumulation of unused sick leave bank days beyond each applicable school year.
C. The Board agrees to continue initial grant of sick leave by the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days.
D. Upon completion of an initial grant of a thirty (30) day period, the Association. Upon application to utilize period of entitlement may be extended by the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement Bank Committee upon demonstration of need by the attending physician verifying applicant.
E. Any sick leave granted under the need and approximate duration provisions of this Section shall expire at the end of the illness. A statement applicable school year.
F. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician four members. Two members shall be agreed to jointly designated by the Board Sick Leave Bank Committee to serve at its discretion and two members shall be designated by the Association.* The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the bank and the Associationamount of leave to be granted. The Board following criteria shall be responsible for used by the cost Sick Leave Bank Committee in administering the bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave:
1. Adequate medical evidence of serious illness;
2. Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave.
G. If the Sick Leave Bank is exhausted, it shall be renewed by the contribution of one additional day of sick leave by each member of the statement professional staff covered by this Agreement. Such additional day will be deducted from the second physician. Specific stipulations teacher’s annual fifteen (15) days of sick leave.
H. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership Committee with respect to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, eligibility and entitlement shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3final and binding and not subject to appeal. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the * The Sick Leave Bank at the rate referred to above is a consolidated bank consisting of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days contributions from Units A, B, C and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash E members and is designed for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate benefit of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yearall these members.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees Every permanent employee of the bargaining unit as of January 1, 1987, shall contribute one day per member from his unused sick days to continue the established Sick Leave Bank be placed in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the a Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board ; and the AssociationEmployer shall match this contribution until the Bank reaches a total of three hundred and fifty-six (356) days. The Board If the Bank balance drops to one hundred and seventy-eight (178) days, the Employer shall be responsible replenish the Bank to its original total. If the Bank drops to one hundred and seventy-eight (178) days a subsequent time, the employees shall replenish the Bank to its original total. An application for the cost of the statement allotment from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1may be made by a permanent employee, who through prolonged illness or an accident, has exhausted his own sick leave, vacation credits, and has used up sick leave benefits available to him through Employment Insurance and who has applied for LTD and is waiting to be put on LTD. To establish membership Allotment from the Sick Leave Bank shall be at a daily rate equal to the employee’s daily rate while on his accumulated sick leave leave.
(1) Application shall be made in writing to the Union with a copy to the City of Moncton for allotment from the sick bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty .
(302) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days The employee must provide a medical certificate on application to the Sick Leave BankBank including number of days requested.
2. (3) The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from Sick Bank Committee has the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used right to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the demand supporting documents to support an employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay application for allotment from the Sick Leave Bank at any time.
(4) Once the rate of a minimum of five employee has returned to work, they shall accumulate twelve (512) sick leave days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with and the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow remaining six (6) days sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not per year shall be returned to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days until such time as the bank has been repaid the borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yeartime.
6. In (5) The maximum leave allotment from the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waivedsick leave bank is thirty-five (35) days.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in (6) In extenuating circumstances, the Sick Leave Bank Plancommittee may approve a second application providing the above criteria is met. However, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction payback to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled employee is mandatory. This Article does not apply to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bankcasual employees.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue 1. Each Professional Employee of the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation District covered by the contract with the Association. Upon application to utilize Association may participate in the Sick Leave Bank. To begin participation in any school year, a teacher shall complete Professional Employee shall, prior to September 15, or within fifteen (15) days after signing a contract if not an FMLA application and provide a statement employee by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessSeptember 15 (hereafter described as "enrollment period"), contribute two (2) sick leave days. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of Each time the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
falls below one hundred eighty (180) days, every participating member shall be assessed one (1. To establish membership to the ) additional sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, day. Sick leave days thus contributed shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two be deducted from the individual's accumulated sick leave. The contributed sick leave days shall form a bank of sick leave days which will be available to all participating Professional Employees for absence from work necessitated by prolonged or recurring illness of the Professional Employee extending beyond the employee's available leave, as set out below. Eligible employees electing not to join during the initial enrollment period must wait until the enrollment period of the following year.
2. A Committee, including three (3) Professional Employees selected by the LEA and three (3) administrators selected by the Superintendent, establish such procedures necessary to implement and operate the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only Application for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available submitted to certificated employees during an unpaid leave the Committee, which shall review the request and determine the eligibility of absencethe Professional Employee. Proof of illness may be required at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made.
124. Any teacher not enrolled in To be eligible for sick leave benefits from the Sick Leave Bank, the Professional Employee must:
a. be a current Sick Leave Bank member and under contract with contributor to the School Corporation may enroll by executing Sick Leave Bank,
b. have been absent from work due to accident or illness of the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.Professional Employee,
13. Any teacher having exhausted c. have used all his/her accumulated sick leave days and personal leave days, and
d. had two (2) days after exhaustion of accumulated sick leave and personal leave where his/her salary was reduced in full. Application must be on the form provided in the Appendix within fifteen (15) days of the depletion of sick leave. After complete review of the application, the Committee shall have the authority within the procedures to make final decisions as to the disposition of the case. The decision of the Committee will be implemented contingent upon compliance with the law. Notification of the decision will be given to the Professional Employee, in writing, within a timely manner from the date of application. If the employee is incapacitated to such an extent that he/she cannot personally apply for a grant, the employee's immediate supervisor, next of kin, or representative may make an official request apply for the employee.
5. The maximum number of days which may be granted in any one (1) school year will be either the remaining number of days a Professional Employee is scheduled to borrow work or the number of days until the employee becomes eligible for long-term disability insurance payments, whichever is smaller. Any Professional Employee requesting days from the Sick Leave Bank must apply for disability benefits when eligible as defined by executing the form set forth in Appendix C qualifying period. No days, or partial days, will be granted to the Professional Employee from the Sick Leave Bank for any days for which the Professional Employee receives disability payments. Determination of this contractdisability benefits will be the responsibility of the insurance carrier. An employee shall not receive more than his/her contracted salary for that year.
146. Within any five (5) year period, the number of days granted to a Professional Employee from the Sick Leave Bank will not exceed one hundred ninety (190) days.
7. Sick Leave Bank grants will terminate at the end of the school year. If a Professional Employee does not use all of the days granted by the Sick Leave Bank, the unused sick leave days will be returned to the Sick Leave Bank. A three (3) Sick Leave Bank member may withdraw his/her membership, at any time, by submitting a written request to the Committee. A member may not withdraw those days of sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according already contributed to the provisions herein.
15Sick Leave Bank. The committee shall days remain the property of the Sick Leave Bank and cannot be composed of two (2) persons appointed by transferred if a Professional Employee leaves the Association and one (1) person appointed by District or chooses to drop membership in the superintendentSick Leave Bank.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established 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 cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize fall of 1991 are vested members of the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations All other individuals become members of the Sick Leave Bank upon their first date of employment. As of July 1, 2013 there are as follows:2,629 days in the Sick Leave Bank.
1. To establish membership 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 committee shall be made up of the Association Chairperson and six Association members (all of the seven to be appointed by the Association President), and two district representatives (appointed by the Superintendent).
2. Employees will enroll in the Sick Leave Bank by donating one 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 bankday 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, each participating teacherwho experience an extended absence due to the employee’s own prolonged illness or hospitalization, upon employmentor the prolonged illness or hospitalization of an employee’s immediate family member. For the purposes of this policy, “immediate family member” shall have thirty be 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 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 (30) work i.e. personal business days, vacation days, comp time, etc…).
4. A maximum number of days available annually to voluntarily donate two 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.
25. The maximum Should the total number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Planever fall below 200 days, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment members of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and School District 25 representatives shall meet to assess the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members viability of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled the potential need for additional days to all rights be contributed by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations members of the Sick Leave Bank.
116. It shall be noted that any medical documentation required herein is understood requested at the direction of the Sick Leave Bank Committee for the purpose of determining eligibility for sick leave bank benefits. Notwithstanding the Sick Leave Bank Committee’s approval of an employee’s request to draw days from the Sick Leave Bank, the 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 agreed upon in addition shall indemnify and hold harmless the Board from any and all claims arising from any and all decisions by the Association and in relation to the Board that the use or denial of use of the Sick Leave Bank Bank. This obligation to hold harmless shall not only be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in applicable if the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by District gives the Association and one written notice within fifteen (115) person appointed by the superintendentdays of receipt of any charge, lawsuit or claim arising under this section.
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Samples: Professional Agreement, Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. (1) The Board agrees sick leave bank is created for the purpose and intent of alleviating economic hardship incurred by bank members due to continue involuntarily contracting an illness of a protracted or recurring nature and/or involuntarily receiving a traumatic injury caused by illness or accident requiring absences from work beyond the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration employee’s accumulated sick days.
(2) Each employee of the illness. A statement District covered by a second physician this contract may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to participate in the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring intent to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plansick leave bank shall be submitted to the clerk by September 15th of each year or by the close of the second (2nd) week after being hired, will be expected to if hired mid year. To participate, each employee shall contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) his/her earned sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction Members may continue to contribute days to the bank upon throughout the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9school year. Sick leave days donated thus contributed shall be deducted from the individual’s annual sick leave entitlement.
(3) The contributed sick leave days shall be sorted into two sick leave banks: one for certified employees; one for classified employees. If, at the beginning of a school year, either sick leave bank contains less than 50 days, members shall contribute at least one (1) day to remain an eligible sick leave bank participant.
(4) In order for an employee to be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits from the bank by sick leave bank, the employee must first (1) be a teacher are considered a permanent contribution contributor to the bank and are not transferable second (2) have been absent from work due to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel illness or accident for all of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request and personal days.
(5) The bank shall not be used for days absent from work beyond accumulated sick leave when a voluntary action or decision on the part of the employee was the cause of the absence. If disability is covered by Worker’s Compensation, the employee shall not be eligible to borrow utilize the sick leave bank.
(6) Application for use of the bank shall be submitted to the sick leave bank committee for their recommendation. In order to apply for days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing sick leave bank, the employee shall obtain a form set forth in Appendix C from the district clerk. The committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of this contractthe employee and the merit of the request. If the committee deems necessary, it shall require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant of sick days has been made.
14(7) The sick leave bank policies shall generally be consistent with the sick leave policies with the exception that sick leave bank days granted shall be granted in full day increments only.
(8) The committee shall make decisions by a majority vote. A three After complete review of the application, the committee shall have authority to make final decisions within these guidelines as to the disposition of the case.
(39) member Sick leave bank grants to individual employees will not be carried over from one fiscal year to another and all such grants will end at the termination of the fiscal year. If an employee does not use all of the days granted by the bank, the unused sick leave days will be returned to the bank.
(10) The sick leave bank committee shall be established consist of the high school building representative, the elementary building representative, the ICEA president and the superintendent for the District. When a request for sick leave bank days is made by a sick leave bank member, the two certified members, the ICEA president and the superintendent shall meet to receive written requests hear and allot days from decide the bank according to the provisions hereincase.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Master Agreement, Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees 1. Each bargaining unit member may contribute up to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application three (3) days of his/her accumulated sick leave to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher . The donated days are not returnable.
2. The Sick Leave Bank shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement be administered by the attending physician verifying Sick Leave Bank Committee as established by the need North Central Education Association for the use and approximate duration benefit of participating members of the illnessbargaining unit. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician President or designee, two (2) members elected from the membership, and two administrators. If positions are not filled through election, the Association President will appoint the members of the Committee.
3. All bargaining unit members are eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Membership shall consist of a minimum of one (1) day of sick leave to be agreed to jointly designated by the Board employee to the Sick Leave Bank between the beginning of school and October 1 of each year. Application to participate must be in writing authorizing the Associationtransfer of up to three (3) days of sick leave of the employee’s accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. The Board Sick leave days contributed to this Sick Leave Bank shall only be responsible used for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations purpose of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1Bank. To establish membership to Leave days so transferred shall be charged against the applicant’s sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days and credited to the Sick Leave Bank.
24. To qualify for use of leave from the Sick Leave Bank, an employee must:
a. be a participating member of the Sick Leave Bank as specified in items #1 and #4 above.
b. have experienced a catastrophic or life threatening illness or injury to themselves and/or any immediate family members.
c. have used all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave, and any applicable vacation leave.
d. make a request in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee, which should include a physician’s statement of the applicant’s and/or family member’s condition.
5. The maximum number of sick leave days which that may be borrowed granted at one time shall be sixty (60). The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall evaluate the application and make a determination as to the amount of leave, if any, to be granted. If the member needs to extend the use of days from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leaveSick Leave Bank, shall be 180 days regardless he/she must reapply within a week of the number expiration of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3preceding application. The Sick bank days Leave Bank Committee’s decision is final. Catastrophic and life threatening may be borrowed only for defined as, but not limited to the personal illness following: Cardiovascular disease Cancer Organ transplants Severe xxxxx Major accidents Complications arising from pregnancy or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay childbirth And others deemed catastrophic or life threatening by the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yearCommittee.
6. In If the event number of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plandrops to seventy-five (75), will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled members who have sick days will be accessed an additional day to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined continue membership in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not Unused sick days will be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according returned to the provisions hereinsick bank.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Master Negotiation Agreement, Master Negotiation Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank —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. 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. An employee member of the sick bank who has exhausted his or her approved personal leave and sick leave days, shall be eligible to apply to the Committee for an extension of sick leave benefits. These benefits do not include payment of the employee’s salary. They do include payment of the employee’s portion of healthcare premiums and supplemental healthcare insurance in cooperation accordance with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application terms identified and provide a statement approved by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are Committee. Extensions of sick leave shall not be granted beyond the period when an employee could or would be eligible to receive the benefits of the Employer’s long-term disability program. Unused days in the sick leave bank shall be carried forward to the following year.
B. The Sick Leave Bank will be established and administered as follows:
1. To establish membership Any physical plant employee or hourly bus driver shall be eligible to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to become a member of the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at was previously established by a Board contribution of any days in the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth 2007-2008 school year.
6. In , by a Board contribution of one hundred (100) days at the event of a death beginning of the employee2008-2009 school year, repayment and the voluntary participation and voluntary donations of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two one (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (101) sick leave days.
8day by employees who then become members. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations Upon establishment of the Sick Leave Bank, employees were then provided an opportunity to establish membership during a thirty (30) working day period following distribution of an enrollment election form. The opportunity to establish membership was a one-time opportunity.
113. It is understood New employees must become members and agreed upon by their first contribution of one (1) sick day will be made on the Association and the Board that the use of first pay day.
4. When the Sick Leave Bank account falls below fifty (50) days, an obligatory assessment of one (1) sick leave day shall be made upon all members of the Bank who have accumulated sick leave days. Members shall be notified prior to this assessment. Members who do not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid have accumulated sick leave of absencedays shall contribute one (1) day from their individual sick day allotment the following school year.
125. Any teacher not enrolled in When the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with account falls below fifty (50) days, the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave Board shall contribute one hundred (100) days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions hereinBank.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established A Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with shall be established under the Associationfollowing guidelines:
1. Upon application The intent of this plan is to utilize provide extended sick leave to those non- probationary employees who incur a period of prolonged (twenty (20) consecutive working days) illness, injury or hospitalization.
2. To be a member of the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher an employee shall complete make an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration annual deposit of the illnessone (1) sick leave day. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Membership shall be agreed to jointly by voluntary and shall continue until the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of member notifies the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership Committee, in writing, that they wish to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to withdraw from the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick Sick leave days which may be borrowed from deposited by the withdrawing member shall remain in the Bank. Should an employee who did not join the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leavesubsequently desire to join the Bank, he/she shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used subject to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum one-time initial deposit of five (5) days per days. New employees hereafter shall be assessed one (1) day for each year over of service in the District prior to becoming a period of consecutive years immediately following return Bank member, not to active employment with the School Corporationexceed five (5) days.
53. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the A Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance Committee shall be due at composed of three appointees by BEST and shall, with consultation with the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Superintendent's Office, showing act in all matters that concern the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations policies of the Sick Leave Bank.
114. It is understood No one shall draw from the Sick Leave Bank until accrued sick leave days have been depleted, a doctor's written verification of illness has been presented, and agreed upon the request has been approved by the Association and the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Board that the use of Education shall be held harmless for any decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee concerning the granting of sick leave days.
5. Members of the Sick Leave Bank will be eligible to receive from the Sick Leave Bank, at the beginning of each school year, a maximum equal to the amount of their accumulated sick leave. However, in no case shall the Sick Leave Bank provide more than two hundred (200) days per individual illness. If a prolonged illness or hospitalization for any person continues from one school year to another, that person will be entitled to no more and no less than the total number of days accrued from the accumulated sick leave and the Sick Leave Bank as calculated at the beginning of the illness when the disability was first caused.
6. Anyone withdrawing sick leave days shall not be available have to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled replace these days in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with except as a regular contributing member of the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contractBank.
137. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from If the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) becomes depleted during any given school year, BEST may request each contributing member to donate an additional sick leave bank committee day. At no time shall a contributing member, be established required to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of contribute more than two (2) persons appointed sick leave days per year.
8. After receiving verification from the Principal’s secretary in August that days have been deducted for the sick leave bank, the parties agree that members of BEST shall be responsible for providing to the District office (Superintendent) by September of each year, an accurate updated copy of the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendentBEST sick leave bank information.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees It is the parties’ intent to continue the established establish and administer a Sick Leave Bank in cooperation for the members of the Paraprofessionals bargaining unit represented by AFT Massachusetts, and to pool a portion of the sick leave allowances granted under this agreement to provide for continued payment of employees with the Associationcatastrophic or prolonged illnesses or injury.
1. Upon application to utilize the A Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Bank shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Associationestablished effective September 1, 2012.
2. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of Participation in the Sick Leave Bank are shall be voluntary. Any employee wishing to participate in the bank must, if eligible, agree to maintain short- term/long-term disability insurance coverage as follows:
1a condition for entry into and participation in the bank. To establish membership No employee shall be allowed to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work draw days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to from the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number Bank until after the one (1) year anniversary of sick leave days which may be borrowed from their entry into the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedbank.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the Any employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring who wishes to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Planmust elect to do so in writing on a form agreed to by the parties, will and by no later than September 30th of each year or within two (2) weeks of their date of hire. The election by an employee to participate in the bank shall remain in force for the duration of the school year, and then from year to year unless it is revoked in writing on a form agreed to by the parties no later than September 30th of each year.
4. With the establishment of the Sick Leave Bank, and upon entry into the bank employees who elect to participate shall be expected required to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) their accrued sick leave to the bank. In the event applying the terms of this paragraph would cause the bank to remain below the minimum specified in paragraph 5, the provisions of this paragraph may be reapplied. In the event applying the terms of this paragraph would cause the bank to exceed the maximum specified in paragraph 5, the provisions of this paragraph shall not be applied.
5. The Sick Leave Bank shall at all times maintain a minimum of twenty-five (25) days in reserve. If the number of days falls below the minimum then each employee will contribute one (1) additional day. However, the total number of sick leave days in reserve shall not exceed a maximum one hundred (100) days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization6. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will Committee to consider eligibility for an employee to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank shall be kept in established. This committee shall consist of four (4) members including two (2) members appointed by the Corporation OfficeFederation, showing the current status and two (2) members of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon Committee appointed by the Association and Chair of the Board that School Committee. In the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members event a vote of the Sick Leave Bank Committee results in a tie when considering eligibility of an employee to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, the Superintendent of Schools shall break the tie by applying the provisions of Section 7 below. All decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final and binding and not subject to the grievance procedure.
7. The following criteria shall be used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee in determining the eligibility of an employee to draw from the Sick Leave Bank, and in determining the amount of leave:
a. An employee must submit written medical evidence, i.e. a medical doctor’s note, indicating the inability of the employee to perform his/her duties. The medical evidence must include the specific nature of the illness or injury, and the date the employee may expect to return to work.
b. An employee must have exhausted all accrued days of paid leave in their employee benefits, including but not limited to accrued sik sick, personal, and vacation time.
c. If an employee is eligible, they must produce documentation showing that they are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations maintaining short-term/long-term disability insurance coverage. If an employee is not eligible, they must produce documentation showing that they have applied for and been denied short-term/long-term disability coverage.
d. An employee’s prior utilization of his/her sick leave.
e. An employee’s prior requests for and use of sick leave drawn from the Sick Leave Bank.
118. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of No days may be granted from the Sick Leave Bank shall for any reason other than that due to prolonged illness or injury. Days may not be available granted for the normal or usual illness due to certificated employees pregnancy, childbirth, or the recuperation there from, except when accompanied by a medical doctor’s note that said employee could not perform the duties appropriate to his/her position because of unusual or abnormal complications occurred during an unpaid leave of absencesuch illness.
129. Any teacher not enrolled in Upon compliance with SECTION 6 by an employee, the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B Committee shall issue a grant of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contractreserves. The initial grant shall be no less than five (5) days and no more than thirty (30) days.
1410. A three In the event an employee needs additional days then SECTIONS 7, 8, and 9 may be reapplied, up to a total of ninety (390) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions hereinper illness.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue Each full-time certificated employee of the established Sick Leave Bank district may participate in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank. To participate, a teacher each employee shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration contribute two (2) of the illnesshis/her earned sick leave days. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Sick leave days thus contributed shall be agreed to jointly by deducted from the Board and the Associationindividual's sick leave entitlement. The Board contributed sick leave days shall form a fund of sick leave days that will be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations available to all eligible participating certificated employees upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank are as followsCommittee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by the absence from work due to illness or disability which extends beyond the employee's accumulated sick leave. Application for use of the Bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee for its recommendation. The Committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. If the Committee deems necessary, it may require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made. In order for a professional employee to be eligible for sick leave benefits from the Bank, the employee must first:
1. To establish membership Be a contributor to the Bank; and
2. Have been absent from work due to illness or disability for:
a. All his/her personal accumulated sick leave bankdays; and
b. All personal leave days. A person choosing elective or cosmetic surgery will not be eligible for Sick Leave Bank benefits because the decision of when to have such surgery is the individual's choice. To be eligible for a Sick Leave Bank grant during any school year, each participating teachereligible employee must become a Sick Leave Bank member no later than October 1, upon employment, shall have or within thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to following initial employment, as is appropriate. If the Sick Leave Bank.
2Bank is exhausted during any one school year, it shall be re-established by a 30 day voluntary new contribution as established in Article IV. The maximum number of days that may be granted to an eligible participant will be sixty (60) days per school year (August - June). In no instance should the number of Sick Leave Bank days granted exceed the number of days absent from work due to illness or disability. Bank grants to individual employees will not be carried over from one fiscal year to another. All such grants will terminate at the end of the school year. If a certificated employee does not use all of the days granted by the Bank, the unused sick leave days which may will be borrowed from returned to the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3Bank. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the The Sick Leave Bank at the rate of shall be governed by a minimum committee consisting of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with members appointed by the School Corporation.
5District Administration and approved by the Association. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days The Committee shall develop and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash distribute rules and procedures for the Sick Leave Bank orderly administration of the Bank. The Committee shall also be responsible for reporting to the District Office the names of contributors and the number of days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earnedcontributed. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance The Committee shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of responsible for reporting all days granted to any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank certificated employee by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled any other information necessary to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations maintain an adequate accounting of the Sick Leave Bank.
11operation. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the ASSOCIATION LEAVE (Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.approved May 10, 1982)
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Samples: Negotiated Contract, Negotiated Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue Effective with the established 1992-1993 school year, a Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. exist as follows: The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations purpose of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership is to provide paid days for serious personal illness or family illness to contributors to the Bank who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave bankdays and who are experiencing prolonged personal or family illness. Allotments will be limited to participating employees for use only in cases of illness, injury or nonelective surgery occurring under unusual, severe or emergency conditions as determined by the Sick Leave Bank Committee (SBC). Members may enroll in the Sick Leave Bank annually during the month of November of each participating teacherschool year. Upon enrollment, upon employment, a Member shall have thirty contribute one (301) work days to voluntarily donate two of his/her accumulated sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used Days contributed to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5are non-returnable. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate Enrollment in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will shall be expected continuous from year to contribute two (2) days from year until a Member withdraws. Withdrawals are accepted only during the first year’s allotment enrollment period and only upon written notice by the Member to the SBC of ten (10) sick leave dayshis/her intent to withdraw.
81. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will Committee shall be kept in composed as follows:
a. The Superintendent or his designee.
b. Three Members appointed by the Corporation Office, showing CCTA President. The SBC shall review and approve or deny all applications to the current status Sick Leave Bank. The SBC shall also determine the necessity for additional contributions to the Bank and shall notify Bank Members of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9need for said contributions. The SBC shall be responsible for reporting data concerning the Sick leave days donated Leave Bank to the bank by a teacher Treasurer. Decisions of the SBC are considered a permanent contribution to final. The SBC shall review the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members operation of the Sick Leave Bank annually, and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations shall make recommendations, if necessary, for modifications of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by plan to the Association negotiating teams of the ASSOCIATION and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absenceBOARD.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue 1. Each Professional Employee of the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation District covered by the contract with the Association. Upon application to utilize Association may participate in the Sick Leave Bank. To begin participation in any school year, a teacher shall complete Professional Employee shall, prior to September 15, or within fifteen (15) days after signing a contract if not an FMLA application and provide a statement employee by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessSeptember 15 (hereafter described as "enrollment period"), contribute two (2) sick leave days. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of Each time the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
falls below one hundred eighty (180) days, every participating member shall be assessed one (1. To establish membership to the ) additional sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, day. Sick leave days thus contributed shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two be deducted from the individual's accumulated sick leave. The contributed sick leave days shall form a bank of sick leave days which will be available to all participating Professional Employees for absence from work necessitated by prolonged or recurring illness of the Professional Employee extending beyond the employee's available leave, as set out below. Eligible employees electing not to join during the initial enrollment period must wait until the enrollment period of the following year.
2. A Committee, including three (3) Professional Employees selected by the LEA and three (3) administrators selected by the Superintendent, establish such procedures necessary to implement and operate the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only Application for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available submitted to certificated employees during an unpaid leave the Committee, which shall review the request and determine the eligibility of absencethe Professional Employee. Proof of illness may be required at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made.
124. Any teacher not enrolled in To be eligible for sick leave benefits from the Sick Leave Bank, the Professional Employee must:
a. be a current Sick Leave Bank member and under contract with contributor to the School Corporation may enroll by executing Sick Leave Bank,
b. have been absent from work due to accident or illness of the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.Professional Employee,
13. Any teacher having exhausted hisc. have used all their/her them accumulated sick leave days and personal leave days, and
d. had two (2) days after exhaustion of accumulated sick leave and personal leave where their/them salary was reduced in full. Application must be on the form provided in the Appendix within fifteen (15) days of the depletion of sick leave, unless it is not feasible despite the Professional Employee’s diligent, good faith efforts. After complete review of the application, the Committee shall have the authority within the procedures to make final decisions as to the disposition of the case. The decision of the Committee will be implemented contingent upon compliance with the law. Notification of the decision will be given to the Professional Employee, in writing, within a timely manner from the date of application. If the employee is incapacitated to such an extent that they cannot personally apply for a grant, the employee's immediate supervisor, next of kin, or representative may make apply for the employee. If the circumstances of the Professional Employee’s illness or accident prevent them from returning to work as documented in the initial Sick Leave Grant application, additional sick leave benefits from the sick leave bank may be requested. To request additional days from the Sick Leave Bank, the Professional Employee must complete the application form provided in the Appendix and indicate they are applying for an official request extension of the grant, specify the number of additional days they are requesting, and provide proof of their continued illness and inability to borrow return to work. The application for additional days from the bank should be completed prior to the end date of the initial grant, unless it isn’t feasible despite the employee’s diligent, good faith efforts.
5. The maximum number of days which may be granted in any one (1) school year will be either the remaining number of days a Professional Employee is scheduled to work or the number of days until the employee becomes eligible for long-term disability insurance payments, whichever is smaller. Any Professional Employee requesting days from the Sick Leave Bank must apply for disability benefits when eligible as defined by executing the form set forth in Appendix C qualifying period. No days, or partial days, will be granted to the Professional Employee from the Sick Leave Bank for any days for which the Professional Employee receives disability payments. Determination of this contractdisability benefits will be the responsibility of the insurance carrier. An employee shall not receive more than their/them contracted salary for that year.
146. Within any five (5) year period, the number of days granted to a Professional Employee from the Sick Leave Bank will not exceed one hundred ninety (190) days.
7. Sick Leave Bank grants will terminate at the end of the school year. If a Professional Employee does not use all of the days granted by the Sick Leave Bank, the unused sick leave days will be returned to the Sick Leave Bank. A three (3) Sick Leave Bank member may withdraw their/them membership, at any time, by submitting a written request to the Committee. A member may not withdraw those days of sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according already contributed to the provisions herein.
15Sick Leave Bank. The committee shall days remain the property of the Sick Leave Bank and cannot be composed of two (2) persons appointed by transferred if a Professional Employee leaves the Association and one (1) person appointed by District or chooses to drop membership in the superintendentSick Leave Bank.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. Purpose The Board agrees to continue purpose of the established UPI Voluntary Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with (Bank) is to provide additional paid leave for Employees who have exhausted their accrued sick and vacation leave benefits as the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, result of a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying catastrophic illness or injury or the need and approximate duration for extended child-rearing leave. The Bank serves as a depository into which participating Employees may voluntarily contribute leave (leave) for allocation to other participating Employees. The purpose of the illness. A statement by Bank is not to provide unlimited paid sick leave for any medical reason but to alleviate the hardship caused when Employees lose compensation as the result of a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board catastrophic illness or injury or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board need for extended child-rearing leave. The Union and the AssociationUniversity agree that any dispute involving this section (19.19) shall not be subject to the parties’ grievance and arbitration procedures. The Board shall be responsible Union agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the University for any claims arising from the cost administration or operation of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations Bank.
B. Establishment of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to The Bank will be established through the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate voluntary contribution of two sick leave days to by the Sick Leave Bank.
2eligible Employees (as defined within 19.19.A) during an initial enrollment period. The maximum number of Contributing a sick leave days which day establishes membership in the Bank and eligibility to apply for withdrawal from the Bank. Once the Bank has been established, an open enrollment period will be held annually during the Benefits Choice period. At that time, any eligible Employee may be borrowed from join the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated contributing two sick leaveleave days. In order to remain a member in good standing, shall be 180 days regardless current Bank members must continue to make a voluntary annual contribution of one sick leave day. Should the number Bank reach a balance of school years forty- five (45) or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated fewer available sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a special contribution period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5may be opened. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow If any sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with remain in the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth fiscal year, they will be carried over to the next fiscal year. (see Appendix H for forms).
C. Membership Eligibility, Obligations, and Limitations
1. Membership in the Bank is available to all Employees who have accumulated 12 sick leave days in order to make the initial donation.
2. Membership eligibility for participation in the Bank for a fiscal year begins upon the Employee’s original donation of two days of sick leave.
3. Eligibility is discontinued upon termination of employment, retirement, death, or revocation of participation to donate a sick leave day the following fiscal year(s). No payment of benefits will be made to survivors.
4. Membership continues from year-to-year with an automatic annual reduction in sick leave of one day donated to the Bank until/unless the member submits a revocation form to discontinue membership.
5. Members must waive all claims to sick leave voluntarily donated to the Bank, including any monetary or retirement-related value the days may hold.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick The Bank is available to those employees who have complete exhausted all Leave Bank days shall be waivedDays and who are not receiving disability or Workers’ Compensation.
7. A teacher new D. Donations to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, Bank
1. Employees will be expected given an annual opportunity to contribute two (2) days from donate to the first year’s allotment Bank. Donors must have a minimum balance of ten (10) sick leave days after making any donation. During the initial establishment of the Bank, Employees may make a one-time donation of up to five sick leave days.
2. Any Employee who wishes to join the Bank through the donation of 2 days of sick leave during any open enrollment period must sign a statement indicating the donation is voluntary. Donation forms will be submitted to Human Resources.
3. Donations made during the Benefits Choice period qualify the Employee for membership in the Bank the following fiscal year.
4. If sick leave is being donated to the Bank, compensated sick leave (as defined in 19.10.G) will only be used if all other sick leave has been exhausted.
E. Administration of the Bank
1. The Bank will be administered by the Sick Leave Bank Committee (Committee). The Committee will have three voting members appointed by the Chapter President with one non-voting representative from Human Resources.
2. The Chapter President will designate a member to convene the Committee. Human Resources will be responsible for coordinating the annual donation period, processing approved requests, and maintaining appropriate related records.
3. Requests to the Bank will be received and reviewed by the Committee. The Committee will prepare a written notification to the requesting member approving or denying the application. Human Resources will ensure that the appropriate forms and/or documentation are processed if the request is approved.
4. The Committee may not grant sick leave days to members when the Bank does not have available days.
5. An application shall be denied if it is incomplete, lacks supporting statements from a licensed health care provided, or if the member fails to provide any requested documentation. If denied, an application may be resubmitted.
6. The Bank will be administered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements.
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1. A member or his/her designee must complete an application for sick leave and submit it to the Committee.
2. The Committee will develop appropriate processes and procedures for applications to the Bank in accordance with applicable law. Applications should indicate the estimated number of sick leave days requested.
3. The Committee will render a written decision to the Employee within five Days after receipt of the request.
4. The amount of sick leave granted for each request will be determined by the Committee but cannot exceed one-third of the balance in the Bank or a maximum of 20 sick leave days, whichever is less. No member may receive more than 20 sick leave days in a twelve-month period.
5. Sick leave may be used only during the term of an Employee’s period of appointment
6. Any sick leave granted may be used only for the purpose requested on the application. Any unused portion will be returned to the Bank.
7. Sick leave days may be used for the personal illness or injury of the Employee or to care for a parent, spouse, domestic partner, child with a serious health condition, or for extended child-rearing leave.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status Use of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing is considered under the form set forth provision of the FMLA and any use is included in Appendix C the twelve (12) weeks of leave provided under this contractAct, if applicable.
14. A three (3) member G. Employee with insufficient sick leave bank committee days to join the Bank An Employee who has not accumulated enough sick days to join the Bank may still apply through the normal application process and shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from given the bank according to same consideration as a donating member of the provisions hereinBank.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Effective upon ratification of this Agreement, a Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with for use by eligible employees covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave and who have serious illness will be established. Members will have the Association. Upon application option to utilize join the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement Bank by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessdonating two sick days from their accrued sick leave. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations All new members of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
shall donate an additional one (1. To establish membership to ) day on July 1 of the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty next two (302) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to successive years after they join the Sick Leave Bank.
2. B. The maximum number initial grant of sick leave days which by the Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed fifteen (15) days.
C. Upon completion of the fifteen (15) day period, the period of entitlement may be borrowed extended by the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. The total amount of days allocated may not exceed 45 days in any one year.
D. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four (4) members: two (2) members from the bank Administrative staff and two (2) participating members of the Union. In the event of a tie vote by any participating teacher after exhausting individual the Sick Leave Bank Committee, the decision to allow use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be in favor of the applicant. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the Bank and the amount of leave to be granted. Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final and binding and not subject to appeal or the grievance-arbitration procedure. The following criteria shall be used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee in administering the Bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave:
(1) Adequate medical evidence of serious illness;
(2) Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave;
(3) Length of service within the district;
(4) Projected ability to repay borrowed days combined with anticipated continued length of service with the district.
E. For employees who have reached maximum sick leave accumulation, donations to the Sick Leave Bank shall not result in a reduction of already accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedonly as it applies to eligibility for retirement buyout.
3. Sick F. When unused sick leave bank days may reach fifty (50) days, all employees covered by this Agreement will be borrowed only for assessed one day which will be deducted from their annual sick leave allowance. The maximum amount of sick days in the personal illness or disability of the employee and canSick Bank shall not be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to workexceed 180 days.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank G. Individuals granted sick days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay from the Sick Leave Bank must repay the Sick Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership All Unit II employees on active duty are eligible to the contribute to a sick leave bank. Contributors will be permitted to apply for use of the bank for salary payment for personal illness during regularly scheduled duty days after regular sick leave has been exhausted.
2. The contribution on the appropriate form will be authorized by the employee and continued from year to year until canceled in writing by the employee. Cancellation, each participating teacheron the proper form, upon employment, may be elected at any time and the employee shall have not be eligible to use the bank as of the effective cancellation date. Sick leave properly authorized to the bank for contribution will not be returned if the employee effects cancellation.
3. Contributions shall be made between July 1 and September 30. Employees returning from extended leave will be permitted to contribute to the bank on the approval of the committee. New Unit II employees may contribute within the first thirty (30) work days after appointment to voluntarily donate two a Unit II position.
4. The annual rate of contribution may be one (1) day per year and must be in whole day increments.
5. The bank can be used on the first duty day after sick leave days to is exhausted for the Sick Leave Bank.
2employee who contributed. The maximum number of sick leave days which may that can be borrowed granted in any one (1) fiscal year will be the remaining number of duty days an employee is scheduled to work. In no case will the granting of leave from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the cause an employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case receive more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yearemployee's annual salary.
6. In Employees must use all accumulated sick leave before applying for leave from the event of a death bank. Application for use of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days bank shall be waivedmade on the required form and submitted to the approval committee.
7. A teacher new The three-employee approval committee, selected by AEL, shall have the responsibility of receiving requests, verifying the validity of requests, approving or denying requests and communicating its decision to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association employee and the Board that the administrative personnel Executive Director of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15Human Resources. The committee shall be composed have reasonable discretion in requiring a doctor's certification of two (2) persons appointed disability and in establishing special limits or provision for certain disabilities such as, but not limited to, maternity, injury covered by worker's compensation and mental illness. The committee shall develop its rules of procedure and general criteria for approval. Upon approval of the rules and criteria by the Association Executive Board of AEL and one (1) person appointed by the superintendentSuperintendent's Council, the committee shall give them wide distribution.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees District will establish a sick leave bank. The purpose of the sick leave bank shall be to continue extend additional sick leave to bargaining unit members when a life-threatening or debilitating illness or injury exhausts the established member’s sick leave account.
B. 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. If the member owing the sick leave bank terminates employment, the sick leave bank absorbs the loss of hours owed.
C. Sick Leave Bank leave bank membership shall be open to all members of the association who donate sick leave to the sick leave bank in cooperation accordance with the Associationconditions of this article. Upon application request, the District shall furnish the committee with a record of leave accumulated by the 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 utilize the Sick Leave Banklast week in September annually when employees who have not joined the sick leave bank may become members. Additionally, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by new employee may join the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration sick leave bank within thirty (30) days of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation his/her first day of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1hire. To establish membership to enroll in the sick leave bank, each participating teacheremployee shall contribute eight (8) hours of sick leave, upon employmentor for employees working less than full-time, shall have thirty (30) work days an amount equivalent to voluntarily donate two their prorated FTE, to the sick leave days 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 total of one (1) day per year of District employment.
E. 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.
F. Sick Leave Bankleave 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. The maximum number of District records must show that the member has exhausted their sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedaccount.
3. Sick leave bank days 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 be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a in lieu of available disability benefits. Use of sick leave of absence after bank hours shall cease on the attending physician certifies first day that the employee’s fitness to return to workshort-term or long-term disability insurance becomes effective.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated The member’s life-threatening or debilitating illness or injury has prevented him/her from performing his/her 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 days, agrees to repay bank will cover the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five first ten (510) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with as well as all subsequent days approved by the School CorporationAdministrative Committee.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow There are sufficient hours in the sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with cover the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yearrequest.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall A second doctor’s opinion may be waivedrequested at District’s expense.
7. A teacher new to G. If the system and desiring to participate 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 Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established 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 not be required to receive written requests and allot days rejoin the bank. If during the lay off period sick leave bank members were requested to donate more sick leave time, then the employee would be asked to donate a proportionate amount of sick leave. Failure to contribute at this time would serve as withdrawal from the sick leave bank according as described in paragraph E.
I. The Association will hold the District harmless 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 provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by District notifies the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendentin a timely manner of any claim or suit that has been filed against it.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave BankEffective September 1, 1976, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement sick leave bank for use by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration eligible members of the illness. A statement bargaining unit who have exhausted their own sick leave and who have serious illness or injury causing disability was established.
B. The initial grant of sick leave by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, bank committee to an eligible em- ployee shall have not exceed thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bankdays.
2. The maximum number C. Upon completion of sick leave days which the thirty (30) day period, the period of entitlement may be borrowed from extended by the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank committee thirty (30) days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined at a time upon demonstration of need by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, applicant.
D. Any sick leave granted any individual under the provisions of this Section shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due expire at the end of the fifth applicable school year.
6E. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a sick leave bank committee consisting of four members designated by the Committee and four members designated by the Association. In the event of a death No more than fifty percent of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established newly appointed in a given year. A majority vote of the full sick leave bank committee is required to receive written requests and allot days grant sick leave from the bank. The sick leave bank according committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the bank and the amount of leave to be granted. Decisions of the sick leave bank committee are final and binding and not subject to appeal or the grievance- arbitration procedure. The following criteria shall be used by the sick leave bank committee in administering the bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave.
1. Adequate medical evidence of serious illness;
2. Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave; and
3. Amount of sick leave previously granted from the sick leave bank.
F. When unused sick leave bank days reach one-third (a) of the original contribution (made effective September 1, 1976) all bargaining unit members covered by this Agreement will be assessed an additional day which will be deducted from their fifteen (15) annual sick leave.
G. All sick leave days borrowed from the sick leave bank by a bargaining unit members will be repaid and deducted from sick leave accumulation before payment to the provisions unit member for any unused accumulated sick leave under Section VII of this Article. That is, if a bargaining unit member is eligible for payment of unused sick leave upon death, retirement or separation under Section 12.7 herein, any days borrowed from the sick leave bank must be repaid and thus deducted from payment.
15. H. The committee maximum number of days bargaining unit members shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed granted by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendentsick leave bank committee in a given year is 185 days.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the There is hereby created a Sick Leave Bank. An employee wishing to become a member in, or continue as a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of member in, the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to must enroll before the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, start of every school year or upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence being hired; if hired after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per school year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7begins. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to participating member must contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank the year after the Sick Leave’s balance is less than three thousand (3000) days. A new member will be on a three (3) consecutive year probationary period. During the probationary period the member must use no more than twenty (20) days from the Sick Bank annually. No Sick Bank days can be used until all Annual Sick Leave and are entitled Accumulated Sick Leave have been used and a physician has submitted a certificate verifying a participating employee member illness or the illness of a participating employee member’s immediate family member (as defined in Section 9 A) that requires either the employee’s care of an immediate family member, or requires other direct employee involvement to assist an immediate family member. All Sick Bank requests will be submitted to a Sick Bank Committee made up of one representative from each of the following: L-DEA, L-DCEA, a confidential employee, and an administrator, that will convene as needed to approve or deny all rights by fulfilling Sick Bank requests. After the obligations as outlined three (3) years of probation a maximum of one hundred twenty (120) days may be used in the above regulations of any one school year from the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood In no event shall total Sick Leave days and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave days used by a member exceed one hundred eighty (180) days in any one school year. An employee who has used one hundred twenty (120) days of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the one school year will only be eligible for twenty (20) Sick Leave Bank by executing days in each of the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by succeeding years. The third (3rd) year after using all Annual Sick Leave and Accumulated Sick Leave the Association and employee will again be eligible for one hundred (1120) person appointed by Sick Leave Banks days. A member who has used over five (5) days of Sick Leave Banks days will be required to contribute annually two (2) days of their Annual Sick Leave days to repay the superintendentbank for days used for a maximum of five (5) days. Any employee may elect upon termination of their employment to deposit into the Sick Bank part or all of their unused sick leave for which they have not been reimbursed.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to ick Leave Bank for use by custodians and matrons employed for a minimum of one year who have exhausted their own sick leave shall continue in effect. The initial grant of sick leave by the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. Employees shall reimburse the Sick Leave Bank at a rate of eight (8) days per year not to exceed three (3) years. Employees shall not be permitted to apply for additional days until all owed days are reimbursed. Sick Leave Bank may be reimbursed with earned vacation time on a voluntary basis. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four (4) members-two members shall be designated by the AssociationSchool Committee to serve at its discretion; and two members shall be designated by the Union to serve at its discretion. Upon application The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the Bank and the amount of leave to utilize be granted and is authorized to establish rules for employees to join and use the Sick Leave Bank. If there is a tie vote, a teacher shall complete the decision will be against the applicant. When the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank reaches twenty-five (25), all employees covered by this Agreement will be assessed an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may additional day which will be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Associationdeducted from their annual sick leave. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations decision of the Sick Leave Bank are Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be final and binding and not subject to appeal. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consider the following criteria in administering the Bank and the amount of leave, if any, to be granted:
1. Adequate medical evidence of serious long term illness.
2. Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave.
3. Length of service in Barnstable School System.
4. Propriety of use of previous sick leave.
5. Employees must first exhaust available personal days and vacation days. ARTICLEXXII SICK LEAVE BUY-BACK A sick day buy-back plan will be established as follows:
1. To establish membership to a. An employee who retires or dies in the 2007-2008 contract year with at least 20 years of service in Barnstable will be paid for all unused sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days $20 per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporationaccumulated sick day.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow b. An employee who retires or dies in the 2008-2009 contract year with at least 20 years of service in Barnstable will be paid for all unused sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of $25 per accumulated sick day.
c. The maximum accumulation for sick leave buy-back is 175 days.
d. The employee's notice of the sick leave buy-back retirement option to the Superintendent will be due by November 1.
e. Payment for accumulated sick days will be made to an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years eligible employee in three equal monthly installments immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6employee's retirement. In the event case of a the death of an eligible employee, payment will be made to the employee's estate within three months of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived's death.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the A Sick Leave Bank, for the purpose of providing additional coverage after the exhaustion of individual annual and/or accumulated sick leave only in the event of serious illness as evidenced by medical certification or quarantine by order of the Health Department or serious illness of a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement member of the employee’s immediate family or permanent household requiring the personal care of that member by the attending physician verifying employee, is hereby established as of September l, 1980 exclusively for the need and approximate duration use of the illnessmembers of this bargaining unit. A statement Participation by a second physician may be required upon members of the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Unit shall be agreed to jointly by mandatory. New members of the Board and the Association. The Board bargaining unit shall be responsible for the cost assessed one day of their annual and/or accumulated sick leave as of the statement date they enter the Unit. Said days are to be "deposited" in the Bank. Unused days in the Bank shall carry over from the second physicianyear to year. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of Should the number of school years days in the Bank reach the level of five hundred (500) days or calendar days involved less, than each teacher in the bargaining unit shall be assessed one day of his or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting her annual and/or accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay as of the Sick Leave Bank at first day of the rate of a minimum of five (5) next calendar month. Said days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility are to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with "deposited" in the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earnedBank. In the event the a teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or has no accumulated and/or annual sick leave at the rate time of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance said assessment that teacher shall be due at assessed the end amount of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new owing to the system and desiring Bank the following September 1. Subject to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Planprovisions of this Article each teacher may, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment following a maximum of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-school day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will waiting period, be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon granted by the Association and Bank Committee a maximum of thirty (30) school days per school year from the Board that Bank. If days are granted, they shall cover retroactively the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11waiting period. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the The Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in administered by the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed Committee made up of two (2) persons appointed by appointees of the Association and two (2) appointees of the Superintendent. The Association and the Superintendent shall also each appoint one (1) person appointed alternate member to the Bank Committee. Said alternates may attend all meetings of the Bank Committee, but shall vote only in the absence of one or both of his/her respective appointees. The Bank Committee shall have the power to establish procedural and functional guidelines for the operation of the Bank consistent with the Article. Attendance history can be used as a factor in approving sick bank days. All decisions by the superintendentBank Committee shall be by three (3) affirmative votes and all decisions by the Bank Committee shall be final and binding and not subject to grievance and/or arbitration. The Chair of the Bank Committee shall, on an annual basis, alternate between the Association and the Superintendent's appointees. During the year commencing July 1, 1994 the Association shall appoint the Chair; commencing July 1, 1995 the Superintendent shall appoint the Chair, and so on. If a teacher has exhausted his/her sick leave and another teacher residing in the same household is suffering a life threatening illness and requires the personal care of the first teacher, then the first teacher is eligible for Sick Bank benefits. Should the first teacher exhaust Sick Bank benefits and is still required to provide personal care to the teacher suffering a life threatening illness, then the first teacher is eligible for Sick Bank benefits for a second time in the same year. A teacher suffering a life threatening illness who has exhausted Sick Bank benefits shall be eligible for Sick Bank benefits for a second time in the same school year.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established 1. Effective upon ratification of this Agreement, a Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with for use by eligible employees covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave and who have serious illness will be established. Members will have the Association. Upon application option to utilize join the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement Bank by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessdonating two sick days from their accrued sick leave. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations All new members of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
shall donate an additional one (1. To establish membership to ) day on July 1 of the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty next two (302) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to successive years after they join the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number initial grant of sick leave days which by the Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed fifteen (15) days.
3. Upon completion of the fifteen (15) day period, the period of entitlement may be borrowed extended by the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. The total amount of days allocated may not exceed 45 days in any one year.
4. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four (4) members: two (2) members from the bank Administrative staff and two (2) participating members of the Union. In the event of a tie vote by any participating teacher after exhausting individual the Sick Leave Bank Committee, the decision to allow use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be in favor of the applicant. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the Bank and the amount of leave to be granted. Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final and binding and not subject to appeal or the grievance-arbitration procedure. The following criteria shall be used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee in administering the Bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave:
(1) Adequate medical evidence of serious illness;
(2) Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave;
(3) Length of service within the district;
(4) Projected ability to repay borrowed days combined with anticipated continued length of service with the district.
5. For employees who have reached maximum sick leave accumulation, donations to the Sick Leave Bank shall not result in a reduction of already accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedonly as it applies to eligibility for retirement buyout.
36. Sick When unused sick leave bank days may reach fifty (50) days, all employees covered by this Agreement will be borrowed only for assessed one day which will be deducted from their annual sick leave allowance. The maximum amount of sick days in the personal illness or disability of the employee and canSick Bank shall not be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to workexceed 180 days.
47. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank Individuals granted sick days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay from the Sick Leave Bank must repay the Sick Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application provides for absences due to utilize the sickness extending beyond a permanent employee's normal entitlement, to be operated as follows:
(a) The Sick Leave BankBank shall have a maximum of two hundred (200) days and shall not exceed this maximum at any time. Should this accumulation be exhausted during that calendar year, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by no other allotments will be available until the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration commencement of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon subsequent year.
(b) On the recommendation first day of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician each calendar year, each employee who has served over 5 years continuous service shall be agreed contribute to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the an equal number of hours or days from their accrued sick leave bankcredits, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30so as to re-charge any payment(s) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed made from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, in the previous year. The method of calculation in re- establishing the 200 day maximum as defined in Article 25:08(a) shall be 180 days regardless of based on the total number of school years or calendar days involved or owed to the bank, divided equally among the total number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used members eligible to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated contribute accrued sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate credits in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations establishment of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon (c) Payments from the Sick Leave Bank will be made by the Association Corporation upon receipt of written recommendation from the Sick Bank Committee (consisting of two (2) representatives of both the Employer and the Board that Union) in accordance with the use following allotment schedule: Sick Leave Allotment After six (6) months employment and the end of third (3rd) year 22 After third (3rd) year 44 After fourth (4th) year and subsequent year 66
(d) No allotments from the Sick Leave Bank shall be approved unless the employee concerned has had six (6) months continuous employment and has exhausted his current annual and accrued sick leave benefits.
(e) Members shall not be available to certificated employees during an earn sick leave while on unpaid leave in excess of absence.
12thirty (30) consecutive days. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established adjusted on the member's return to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions hereinwork.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established A Sick Leave Bank (the "Bank") for use by employees covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave will be established. Employees in cooperation with other units covered by agreements between the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application Committee and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to on the same terms and conditions as eligible teachers if so provided in such agreements and approved by the teachers (Unit A).
B. Each employee shall contribute two at the start of his/her employment one (21) days from the first year’s allotment day of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted from his/her accumulated sick leave for the establishment of the Bank to be maintained from year-to-year until it is exhausted. Any employee may request not to participate or to terminate his/her participation provided such request is made in writing to the Superintendent during the thirty (30) days immediately following the start of any school year (or within thirty (30) days immediately following the start of his/her employment, whichever islater). Any employee terminating his/her participation in the Bank will forfeit any sick leave contributed to the Bank. A non-participating employee will be ineligible for benefits under thisArticle. A non- participating employee may make an official request to borrow participate (or re-participate) in the Bankprovided such request is made in writing to the Superintendent during the thirty (30) day period immediately following the start of any school year and the employee contributing one (1) day of sick leave to the Bank.
C. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of five (5) members. Two (2) members shall be designated by the Superintendent and two (2) members shall be designated by the Association. The fifth member shall be selected by the Superintendent or Association on an alternating year basis and shall vote only to break ties. For the 2010-2011 and 2012-2013 contract years, the Association will choose the fifth person; whereas for 2011-2012, the choice will be that of the Superintendent. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the Bank and the amount of the leave to be granted.
D. The maximum number of days from that may be granted to an employee shall not exceed one hundred and twenty (120) days in any school year.
E. If the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee is exhausted, it shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed renewed by the Association and contributionof one (1) person appointed additional day of sick leave from each participating employee covered by this Agreement to be deducted from each employee's accumulated sick leave.
F. The decisions of the superintendentSick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and bindingand not subject to grievance/arbitration.
G. The criterion for granting of such leave from the Bank is demonstratedneed supported by adequate medical evidence of illness or injury and the employee's prior attendance record.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are established as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation X. Xx Employee as identified in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring “C” below who desires to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute shall donate two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) accumulated sick leave daysdays before September 1st of a given work-year. No additional donation shall be required in any subsequent year, except as provided in Article B. By September 30th of each work-year, the Association shall provide the Human Resources Office with a copy of the participant’s signed authorization forms and a certified list of current participants. Donated sick leave days shall not be applied to or against an Employee’s perfect attendance bonus.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show B. If in any year, the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance total number of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of in the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights falls below five (5), each participant shall contribute one (1) additional day.
X. Xx Employee who has, through consecutive employment by fulfilling XXXXX, completed the obligations as outlined equivalent of two (2) years of full-time service may participate in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed D. In order to draw upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during Bank, an unpaid leave of absence.Employee:
121. Any teacher not enrolled Must have been a participant in the Sick Leave Bank at the beginning of the work-year in which he/she has applied to utilize the Bank.
2. Must have exhausted all accumulated and under contract with newly granted sick leave and personal leave.
3. Shall have been absent without pay for health reasons for at least five (5) days during the School Corporation may enroll by executing work year in which the form as set forth draw is to be used.
E. Once days are donated to the Sick Leave Bank, such donation shall be irrevocable.
F. In order to draw any day(s) from the Sick Leave Bank, the eligible Employee shall make application to the SEDOL Human Resources Office. The SEDOL Administration will require a medical doctor’s statement confirming that the participant’s illness/injury necessitated absence from work.
G. Each participant who enrolls in the Appendix B Sick Leave Bank must donate two (2) days a year until a total of this contractfifty (50) days are reached (with all participants’ contributions).
13H. Any Employee who elects to give notice of intent to participate in the Sick Leave Bank but who has not been a continuous participant in the Sick Leave Bank during the life of the Bank, shall be required to donate the same amount of days as other members of the Bank for each school-year during which:
1. The Employee was not a participant and was eligible.
2. The Sick Leave Bank was in existence.
3. The Board employed the Employee. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request one individual will be limited to borrow use twenty (20) days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and within one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.school year. (See Appendix A)
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue Upon the established effective date of this Agreement or upon his/her initial employment within the Administrative unit, whichever is earlier, each Administrator shall deposit two days from his/her sick leave account into the Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank. Thereafter, whenever the total number of days in the Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank drops below fifty (50) days, each member of the administrative bargaining unit shall deposit one (1) day from his/her sick leave account into the Bank.
B. An Administrator should be eligible to draw from the Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank only after having exhausted all of his/her own accumulated sick leave days and personal days. In addition, in cooperation with the Association. Upon application order to utilize access the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration Administrator must have at least thirty (30) days of accumulated Sick Leave as of July 1 of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of contract year in which the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1access has been requested. To establish membership In the event that an Administrator is granted access to the sick leave bankBank in one school year and his/her condition carries over to the following school year requiring additional access to the Bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have the aforesaid thirty (30) work days day accumulation threshold shall not be applicable. In such a case, the Administrator would still be required to voluntarily donate two exhaust his/her sick leave and personal leave days before access to the Sick Leave BankBank is reinstituted.
2C. The Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a committee, composed of three members appointed by the president of the Association and two members appointed by the School Committee, which shall develop its own rules and procedures subject to the terms of this Agreement. The maximum number All decisions of the Administrators’ Sick Leave Committee shall be made by a majority vote of the members present.
D. All requests by Administrators seeking an award of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank must be in writing and accompanied by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless a detailed
E. The initial grant of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay by the Sick Leave Bank at Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. Upon completion of the rate of a minimum of five thirty (530) days per year over a day period, the period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with entitlement may be extended by the School CorporationSick Bank Leave Committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant.
5. F. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment Administrator who has drawn one hundred (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2100) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank Journal in any school year will be kept in eligible to draw up to twenty-five (25) additional days from the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bankduring that school year.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by G. Any Administrator who draws from the Association and the Board that the use of the Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank shall not be available required to certificated employees during an unpaid leave reimburse the Bank on the basis of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by day for every four (4) days’ use. Arrangements for such reimbursement shall be made between the superintendentAdministrator and the Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank Committee subject to the proviso that in no event will the reimbursement period exceed two school years.
H. Any Administrator who draws days from the Administrators’ Sick Leave Bank shall be entitled to all other benefits for which he/she would be eligible if he/she were on regular sick leave.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue Each full-time certificated employee of the established Sick Leave Bank district may participate in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank. To participate, a teacher each employee shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration contribute two (2) of the illnesshis/her earned sick leave days. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Sick leave days thus contributed shall be agreed to jointly by deducted from the Board and the Associationindividual's sick leave entitlement. The Board contributed sick leave days shall form a fund of sick leave days that will be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations available to all eligible participating certificated employees upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank are as followsCommittee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by the absence from work due to illness or disability which extends beyond the employee's accumulated sick leave. Application for use of the Bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee for its recommendation. The Committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. If the Committee deems necessary, it may require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made. In order for a professional employee to be eligible for sick leave benefits from the Bank, the employee must first:
1. To establish membership Be a contributor to the Bank; and
2. Have been absent from work due to illness or disability for:
a. All his/her personal accumulated sick leave bankdays; and
b. All personal leave days. A person choosing elective or cosmetic surgery will not be eligible for Sick Leave Bank benefits because the decision of when to have such surgery is the individual's choice. To be eligible for a Sick Leave Bank grant during any school year, each participating teachereligible employee must become a Sick Leave Bank member no later than October 1, upon employment, shall have or within thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to following initial employment, as is appropriate. If the Sick Leave Bank.
2Bank is exhausted during any one school year, it shall be re-established by a 30 day voluntary new contribution as established in Article IV. The maximum number of days that may be granted to an eligible participant will be sixty (60) days per school year (August - June). In no instance should the number of Sick Leave Bank days granted exceed the number of days absent from work due to illness or disability. Bank grants to individual employees will not be carried over from one fiscal year to another. All such grants will terminate at the end of the school year. If a certificated employee does not use all of the days granted by the Bank, the unused sick leave days which may will be borrowed from returned to the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3Bank. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the The Sick Leave Bank at the rate of shall be governed by a minimum committee consisting of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with members appointed by the School Corporation.
5District Administration and approved by the Association. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days The Committee shall develop and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash distribute rules and procedures for the Sick Leave Bank orderly administration of the Bank. The Committee shall also be responsible for reporting to the District Office the names of contributors and the number of days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earnedcontributed. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance The Committee shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of responsible for reporting all days granted to any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank certificated employee by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled any other information necessary to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations maintain an adequate accounting of the Sick Leave Bankoperation.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Negotiated Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize purpose of the Sick Leave Bankleave Bank shall be to provide extended paid sick leave for employees who have exhausted their personally accumulated sick leave and due to personal/immediate family (spouse and children) serious illness/injury, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by are unable to return to work. Short term illnesses (such as maternity disability) are not subject to the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration use of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon following sick leave bank provisions.
B. Participation in the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician bank shall be agreed voluntary. An employee shall be given a membership form at the beginning of employment. In order to jointly by become a member of the Board and bank, the Associationemployee shall contribute three (3) days of their accumulated sick leave to the bank. Each year thereafter, each employee will donate one (1) day to the bank. Any days transferred to the bank shall remain in the sick leave bank. The Board of education shall not be responsible liable for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership any days transferred and shall not contribute any days to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work . If it becomes necessary to seek additional days to voluntarily donate two sick leave maintain the bank additional days to shall be assessed from the participating members as determined by the Sick Leave BankBank Committee. The balance of days accumulated at the end of one school year shall carry over to the following year.
C. Only a member of the sick leave bank shall be allowed to withdraw days from the bank. In order to remain an active member, an employee must contribute to the bank when assessed by the sick leave bank committee. Once the employee withdraws membership from the bank or elects not to join, he/she shall not be eligible to participate in the sick leave bank.
D. A committee shall be established each year to act as the governing body for the administration of the sick leave bank. Said committee shall consist of two (2) employees named by the Association and three (3) representatives named by the Board of Education. The committee shall establish guidelines for use of the sick leave bank. In the event that a member of the committee is requesting days, the appropriate association will nominate a different representative.
1. All employees, certified/non-certified, shall be entitled to join and draw from the bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual employee has used all his/her personal accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedand personal days.
3. Sick The employee shall make written application to the committee for withdrawal of days from the bank days may be borrowed only stating the reason for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness inability to return to work. Should the employee be unable to make application, his designee may do so on his/her behalf.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate The employee shall produce a doctor’s certificate as proof of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporationneed.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary No member shall be allowed to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case draw more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment twenty (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per 20) days during one school year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yearand no more than sixty (60) days during a six (6) year period.
6. In The employee shall state the event number of a death of days requested to be used from the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waivedbank.
7. A teacher new If an employee chooses to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days withdraw membership from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card bank, their given days will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absenceregained.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established A Sick Leave Bank for the purpose of providing additional coverage after exhaustion of individual annual and/or accumulated sick leave only in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement event of serious illness as evidenced by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration medical certification is hereby established as of the illnessdate of execution of this Agreement, exclusively for members of the bargaining unit. A statement Participation by a second physician may be required upon members of the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician unit shall be agreed to jointly by the Board mandatory and the Association. The Board each member shall be responsible for assessed one (1) day of his/her annual and/or accumulated sick leave as the cost effective date of this Agreement. New members of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations bargaining unit shall be assessed one (1) day of their annual and/or accumulated sick leave as of the Sick Leave date they enter the unit. Said days are to be "deposited" in the Bank. Unused days in the Bank are as follows:
1shall carry over from year to year. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of Should the number of school years days in the Bank reach the level of fifty (50) days or calendar days involved or less, then each member in the number bargaining unit shall be assessed one
(1) day of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting his/her annual and/or accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay as of the Sick Leave Bank at first day of the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earnednext calendar month. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or a member has no accumulated and/or annual sick leave at the rate time of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance said assessment, that member shall be due at assessed the end amount of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new owing to the system and desiring Bank the following September 1. Subject to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Planprovisions of this article each member may, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment following a maximum of ten (10) sick leave days.
8days waiting period, be granted by the Bank Committee a maximum of thirty (30) school days per year from the Bank. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show If days are granted, they shall cover retroactively the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorizationwaiting period. A special The Sick Leave Bank Journal will shall be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank administered by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations Committee made up three (3) appointees of the Association. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish guidelines for the administration of this Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon All decisions by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and binding and shall not be available subject to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12grievance/arbitration. Any teacher not enrolled decision made under this provision shall solely be the responsibility of the Association who shall be responsible for defending against any complaints, charges or litigation in whatever forum it shall arise. The School Committee shall be held harmless from any decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B Administrators of this contractBank.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue 2.7.1 Each Professional Employee of the established Sick Leave Bank District covered by this Agreement may participate in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank. To participate, each Professional Employee shall contribute a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement prescribed number of his/her earned Xxxx Leave days as determined by the attending physician verifying Sick Leave Bank Committee. Deposits to the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician Sick Leave Bank may be required upon the recommendation made from September 1 to October 15 and from March 1 to April 15 of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician each year. Sick Leave days thus contributed shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement deducted from the second physician. Specific stipulations individuals Sick Leave entitlement.
2.7.2 The contributed Sick Leave days shall form a fund or Bank of Sick Leave days that will be available to all eligible participating Professional Employees upon recommendations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:Committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by absence from work necessitated by accumulated Sick Leave.
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days 2.7.3 When applying to the Sick Leave BankBank Committee for Sick Leave days, each Professional Employee must give the Committee a letter stating the reason for the request of days and the exact amount of days requested, and also show a two-year work history attendance record, which can be obtained from the District office.
22.7.4 In order for a Professional Employee to be eligible to apply for Sick Leave benefits from the Sick Leave Bank the Professional Employee must be a contributor to the Bank and have been absent from work due to illness, accident, or pregnancy.
2.7.5 Each year of the Bank’s operation, the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the number of Sick Leave days each participant must contribute in order to keep the Bank solvent. Then number of accumulated Sick Leave days a Professional Employee may contribute to the Bank shall be unlimited.
2.7.6 The maximum number of sick leave days that can be granted in any one (1) fiscal year will be the remaining number of days a Professional Employee is scheduled to work under his/her current contract. In no case will the granting of Sick Leave Bank days cause a Professional Employee to receive more than his/her annual salary for that year.
2.7.7 The Sick Leave Bank Committee may allow retroactive coverage for the two (2) days on which may the Professional Employee suffered full salary loss.
2.7.8 Bank grants to individual Professional Employees will not be borrowed carried over from one
(1) fiscal year to another; all such grants will end at the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless termination of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3year. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability If a Professional Employee does not use all of the employee and cannot days granted by the Bank, the unused Sick Leave days will be used returned to extend the Bank. In no case shall a leave Professional Employee be granted more than a total of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay 180 Days from the Sick Leave Bank at for one illness or disability during the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active current or subsequent employment with the School CorporationDistrict.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the 2.7.9 The Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid Committee shall consist of three (3) members appointed by the respective substitute during Association, the time Superintendent, one (1) Principal, and one (1) Board member non- voting (observer) appointed by the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than Board. The Committee shall develop and distribute rules and procedures for the teacher would have earnedorderly administration of the Bank not inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance The Committee shall be due at responsible for reporting to the end District’s accounting office the names of contributors and the fifth year.
6number of days contributed. In It shall report all days granted by the event of a death of Bank and all other information necessary for the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7Professional Employee’s records. A teacher new to list of all current Professional Employee members and the system and desiring to participate number of total days in the Sick Leave Bank Planshall be kept on file in the District Office, and an updated copy given to the Association November 1 and May 1 of each year.
2.7.10 A Professional Employee will contribute a total of three (3) days, one (1) each year for three (3) years to stay an active member. The Professional Employee will not be expected asked to contribute two again unless the accumulated Sick Leave in the Bank drops below three hundred Days (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8300). Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special The Sick Leave Bank Journal Committee will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance then ask all members to contribute a specific number of days on hand.
9to bring the total above three hundred (300) days. Sick leave days donated to These contributions must be made during the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form regular deposit periods as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13Section 2.7.1. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request member not contributing will become ineligible to borrow days from the receive Sick Leave Bank by executing days until they have contributed the form set forth in Appendix C of this contractrequested days.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees HESPA sick bank is closed to continue enrollment as of March 10. 2018. Any HESPA members who were members of the established HESPA sick bank on the day of dissolution are now members of the HEA sick bank and are subject to the following explanations and regulations: The purpose of the sick leave bank is to provide additional sick leave days to members of the bank in the event of a catastrophic illness or injury. Sick leave days from the bank may be granted to a member who. through a catastrophic illness or injury, is unable to perform the duties of his or her position. Catastrophic is defined as an illness. injury. or physical or mental condition that is so severe that it is disabling in nature and that requires treatment by a physician and/or hospital admittance. Although some degree of permanency is usually involved, the disease need not necessarily be incurable or permanent. A catastrophic illness or injury results in the inability to pursue an occupation or perform services for wages because of physical or mental impairment. • Examples of diagnosed illnesses that qualify for benefits of the program include. but are not limited to the following: cancer. heart disease, multiple sclerosis, stroke, and muscular dystrophy, bipolar disorder. and/or any other debilitating diseases or disorders. Eligibility and Membership: • An employee must have exhausted all sick, personal, and vacation time prior to use of the Bank. Contribution of Days • At the time of the HESPA sick bank dissolution. all sick days in the HESPA rolled to the HEA sick bank. • Members will be assessed one day during October of each fiscal year. This yearly contribution may be waived or increased. depending upon depletion of 20% of the Bank. • In the event a member of the District Sick Leave Bank has exhausted all of his/her sick days and an assessment occurs, that member who has utilized the bank. resulting in cooperation with the Associationa zero (0) sick leave credit. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible assessed one personal day for the cost sick leave bank. Future assessments would return to sick day assessments upon accumulation of personal sick days (effective July 1, 2010). • If an individual leaves the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to District immediately after using the sick leave bank, each participating teacherthe District will have the right to hold any personal days equivalent to the number of sick days which would be regularly assessed upon the next school year, upon employment, shall have thirty should such assessment occur (30) work days to voluntarily donate two effective July 1. 2010). • Once sick leave is donated to the Bank, it cannot be restored to the employee. Assessed sick leave is non-refundable and nontransferable upon transfer to another work site. Granting of Bank Days: The following regulations shall be observed in granting days to from the Sick Leave Bank.
2: • No more than 30 days on any one request during any fiscal year will be given to an individual. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, • Days shall be 180 days regardless of granted only after the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3member has exhausted all accumulated sick. Sick bank days may vacation and personal days. • Days shall be borrowed granted only for the personal illness catastrophic illness. surgery. or disability of the employee injury which necessitates an absence from work. • Days shall be granted only for absences from workdays and canshall not be used to extend a leave of absence after granted for holidays. vacation days. or other such days for which the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4member is not paid. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank • All days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance granted shall be due approved by the HESPA President and a district representative (Benefits/Business) - hereafter known as "the Committee." • All unused days in the Bank at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days year shall be waived.
7. A teacher new carried over to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two next school year (2) days July 1 through June 30). • A member may not use or draw from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It if he/ she is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days receiving compensation from the Sick Leave Bank by executing employer or any other organization or secondary employer from which compensation or benefit (xxxxxxx'x compensation. unemployment compensation. etc.) is received and where the form set forth in Appendix C of this contractinjury was incurred during that employ or activity.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank Sick-leave bank (SLB) benefits and process as described here and in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:Appendix B.
1. To establish membership to All professional employees covered by this contract shall participate in the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work SLB. The SLB accumulated days to voluntarily donate two sick leave will cap at 900 days to the Sick Leave Bankat any time.
2. The maximum number SLB benefits will be granted only in cases of sick leave days prolonged illnesses from which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.recovery and return to work are probable based on appropriate medical evidence. SLB benefits are limited as detailed in Appendix B.
3. Sick bank days A participating member may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee request up to and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of including five (5) days per year over a period from the SLB in his initial request for personal illness only, provided all his leave has been exhausted. After the (sick) leave initially granted from the SLB has been used, the participating member may then request up to and including an additional thirty (30) days. Cases will be reviewed by the SLB Committee.
4. Authorization for application of consecutive years immediately following return bank days to active employment with an individual's record must be signed by all three members of the School CorporationSLB Committee.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary The SLB Committee shall be comprised of three (3) members elected at large by the Stoneham Teachers Association and the Superintendent’s designee. The Superintendent’s designee shall be used in an advisory capacity, but will not have the power to borrow vote. This Committee shall present to the Superintendent its decision for administrative processing.
6. If at any time during a given school year the number of days in the SLB depletes to less than one hundred (100) days, the Association agrees that each member will immediately deposit a sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed day from their annual or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earnedaccumulated sick leave. In the event a participating member has exhausted all of his sick leave, on the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit)day the deposit is made, s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at one day of sick leave will be taken from the rate next year's allotment of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waivedsaid member.
7. A teacher new to The operations of the system SLB and desiring to participate withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out in accordance with guidelines prepared by the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will SLB Committee (see appendix B). The School Committee shall not be expected to contribute two (2responsible for any decision(s) days from made by the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave daysSLB Committee.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show At the two-day deduction to end of each school year, days accumulated by active teachers beyond the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal maximum of 190 days will be kept in deposited into the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on handSLB.
9. Sick Upon retirement of a member, up to 25 days if available will be transferred from his personal cumulative leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School CorporationSLB.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. 1. The Board agrees purpose of the sick leave bank is to continue the established relieve its members from undue financial burdens due to absence from work on a long term basis due to illness, injury, or incapacitation of themselves, their spouse or their dependent children.
2. The Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with shall be administered by a Committee of five (5) members – two appointed by the Administration and three by the Association. Upon application All terms of service will be two (2) years. • The entire membership of the Committee shall select one of their members to utilize act as chairperson. • The Committee shall meet during the school year as needed. Special meetings may be called by the chairperson at the request of the Committee members. • In each case, a minimum of three (3) favorable votes by the Sick Leave Bank Committee is required to grant the use of days from the Sick Leave Bank. • The Committee shall prepare an annual report in conjunction with the Corporation Treasurer of days contributed by each teacher, days used, and days accumulated in the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by distribute this report to the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration President of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the South Xxxxxx Classroom Teachers Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11Superintendent. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the • Requests for use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be made on the official forms provided by the Committee. • Requests to donate days shall be made on the official forms provided by the Committee. • The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and may not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid grieved. • No person shall be granted sick leave of absencebank days after they begin receiving LTD benefits.
123. Any teacher not enrolled The Committee shall use only the following criteria for granting use of the Sick Leave Bank. • The applicant must be a current participant in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with Bank. • An individual applying for use of the School Corporation sick bank may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B keep a total of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her five (5) current or accumulated sick leave days and zero (0) current or accumulated personal days. The remaining current and accumulated sick and personal days must be exhausted before sick bank days may be granted. • An eligible teacher, or authorized designee, shall make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according application to the provisions herein.
15Committee for leave under this provision. The committee shall physician must substantiate the illness and certify that the absence will continue during a period of at least five (5) consecutive days. • An eligible individual may be composed granted no more than thirty (30) days per request. Limit of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent2 requests per school year.
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Samples: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Effective July 1, 1980, a Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with will be established for the Associationadministrators. Upon application to utilize The Bank shall be administered by a committee of one member selected by the Association of Administrative Personnel and one member selected by the Superintendent. Applications for the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement Bank will be administered solely by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnesscommittee. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Decisions shall be agreed final, binding and not subject to jointly by the Board and the Associationgrievance, arbitration or further review. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations purpose of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1is to protect the administrator from serious financial burden due to prolonged catastrophic illness or injury. To establish membership Newly appointed administrators may elect to join the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have Sick Leave Bank within thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two of employment by contributing six (6) days regardless of the total in the bank. In future years, if available sick leave days drop below 200, administrators will be assessed an amount of days equal to the number of participating administrators divided into the number of days needed to bring the bank up to 200 days. In any event the maximum contribution per administrator will not exceed six (6) days. In subsequent years a non-participating member may elect to become a participant by filing a written statement of intent, between July 1 and September 1. A person may not apply to the Sick Leave Bank unless his or her own accumulated sick leave is depleted. In any case the first thirty (30) days of serious illness or injury must be covered by the person's own accumulated sick leave or absence without pay. Application for the Sick Leave Bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee and must include a medical report setting forth the nature of illness or injury, anticipated date of recovery and return to work and the date of initial incapacitation. The maximum number of days available from the Sick Leave Bank shall be eighty (80) for any serious illness or injury. An administrator who xxxxxx employment may not withdraw days already contributed to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank unused days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days authorized from the Sick Leave Bank by executing Committee shall be returned to the form set forth in Appendix C Bank upon return to work of this contract.
14the administrator. A three (3) member The Board of Education may, at its sole discretion, grant additional days to administrators, upon request, who have exhausted his or her sick leave bank committee allotment. The Board's decision shall not be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according subject to the provisions hereingrievance/arbitration procedure. It is understood that any central office administrator may elect to participate in the above Sick Leave Bank.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees (a) Retroactive to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with date any contributions to a retirement plan commences, employees shall have all prior accumulated sick leave credits frozen at the Associationlevels accumulated at that date. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician Such frozen sick leave credit banks may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly reduced accordingly by the Board utilization for non-compensable disabilities and the Associationillnesses. The Board shall be responsible Payments for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot shall be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies based upon the employee’s fitness to return to work's wage rate in effect at the time the retirement plan first commenced.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of (b) For full-time bargaining unit employees with more than five (5) days per year over a period years of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with service on the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed date the retirement plan first commenced, upon termination or approved physician) with the School Corporation, retirement or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment fifty percent (50%) of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days the remaining unused portion of the frozen sick leave bank shall be waivedpaid to the employee or in the event of death to the employee's estate. Payment shall be calculated at the employee's wage rate in effect at the time the retirement plan first commenced.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2c) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) All sick leave dayscredits accumulated on or after the date the retirement plan first commenced shall no longer be eligible for cash-out payments upon termination or retirement or death of the employee.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation (d) It is agreed that should a teacher leave full-time employee apply and become the Wasuccessful applicant of a part-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel time position, all of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated accrued sick leave days may make an official request shall be frozen while he/she is in the part-time position. Should the employee who is transferred from full-time to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C part-time be terminated, retire or die, payment shall be made for any unused portion of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave as per Article 15.07 (b). Should the employee return to a full-time position, he/she will be credited with all the unused portion of sick leave in his/her bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions hereinas per Article 15.07 (a).
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees (i) Each employee shall contribute annually a sufficient number of days to continue the established maintain such Sick Leave Bank provided that in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher no case shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may employee be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Associationcontribute more than six (6) days annual sick leave in any one year. The Board contributions shall be responsible for the cost not collectively result in any accumulation of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership more than an amount that is equal to the sick leave bank6 days, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2per full-time bargaining unit employee. The maximum number of sick leave days which may bank will be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of adjusted proportionately with the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number full- time bargaining unit employees on December 31st of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth each year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2ii) days from the first year’s Application for an allotment of ten (10) paid sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank may be made by executing a permanent employee who has suffered a major illness or a major injury which is not compensable under the form set forth in Appendix C “Workers’ Compensation Act.”
(iii) Applications must be submitted to the Union Executive and shall be subject to the approval of this contractthe Union Executive. An application must include a medical report which identifies the major illness or major injury giving rise to the request for an allotment of paid sick days and the anticipated period during which the applicant will be unfit to work as the result of the identified major illness or major injury. The Union may request further information, including medical information, from the applicant where it is reasonably necessary to assess an application.
14. A three (3iv) member No allotment of paid sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according Sick Leave Bank shall be approved unless and until the applicant employee concerned has exhausted their entire annual and accrued sick leave allotment, their entire annual vacation, and their entire statutory holidays allotment.
(v) The number of days of sick leave to be allotted from the Sick Leave Bank shall be determined by the Union Executive, but in no case shall such allotment exceed one hundred (100) working days in respect of each major illness or major injury.
(vi) Employees who apply for additional allotments of sick leaves for the same major illness or major injury (up to the provisions hereinmaximum of 100 working days pursuant to (v) above) may be required to provide further medical information regarding the major illness or major injury upon request from the Union Executive.
15. The committee (vii) Payment of sick days allotted from the Sick Leave Bank shall be composed made in installments covering the normal pay period of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendentapplicant employee.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. A sick leave bank is hereby established for use by eligible employees. An eligible employee is one who has used no more than 75% of sick leave accrued and accumulated to his credit at the commencement of the illness or injury for which a claim is made to the sick leave bank. An employee is re-eligible for sick leave bank entitlement provided he/she has used not more than 75% of sick leave accrued and accumulated at the accrual commencement point following completion of prior use of the sick leave bank.
B. On July 1, 1976, and on each subsequent July 1, each person covered by this Agreement shall contribute twelve (12) hours of his annual sick leave in order to fund the bank. There shall be no accumulation of unused sick leave bank hours beyond each year (July 1 to June 30).
C. The Board agrees initial grant of sick leave to continue an eligible employee shall not exceed three hundred sixty (360) hours.
D. Upon completion of the established three hundred sixty (360) hours, the period of entitlement may be extended by the Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with Committee upon demonstration of need by the Associationapplicant.
E. Any sick leave granted under the provisions of this Section shall expire at the end of the applicable year.
F. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of two (2) members. Upon application One (1) member shall be designated by the Union. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the bank and the amount of leave to utilize be granted. The following criteria shall be used by the Sick Leave BankBank Committee in administering the bank and in determining eligibility and the amount of leave:
1. Adequate medical evidence of serious illness,
2. Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave, a teacher and
3. Length of service.
G. If the Sick Leave Bank is exhausted during the year, it shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement be renewed by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration contribution of the illnesstwelve (12) additional hours of sick leave by each person covered by this Agreement. A statement by a second physician may Such additional hours will be required upon the recommendation deducted from annual hours of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. sick leave.
H. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations decision of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be final and binding and not subject to appeal.
1. To establish membership I. If at the end of any fiscal year the Sick Leave Bank is not exhausted, the hours remaining therein shall be returned to the sick leave bankemployees, proportionally based on the ration that each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days employee contributed to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to during that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth fiscal year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue Each certificated employee of the established Sick Leave Bank District may participate in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank. To participate, a teacher each employee shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement contribute four days of his/her earned leave days as determined by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessSick Leave Bank Committee. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Leave days thus contributed shall be agreed to jointly by deducted from the Board and the Associationindividual's leave entitlement. The Board contributed leave days shall form a fund of leave days that will be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations available to all eligible participating certificated employees upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:Committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by the absence from work necessitated by extended or recurring illness which extends beyond the employee's accumulated leave.
1. To establish membership Application for use of the Bank shall be submitted to the sick leave bankSick Leave Bank Committee for their recommendation. The Committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. If the Committee deems necessary, each participating teacher, upon employment, it shall require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time on an individual basis.
2. Committee shall have thirty the authority to establish such guidelines as it deems necessary to implement this program. Guidelines shall have the approval of the Aberdeen Education Association Executive Board and the Board of Trustees. After complete review of the application, the Committee shall have the authority to make final decisions within the guidelines as to the disposition of the case.
3. In order for professional employees to be eligible for such leave benefits from the Bank, the employee must:
(30a) work Be a contributor to the Bank.
(b) Employees must use all of their accumulated leave or forty (40) days to voluntarily donate whichever is the lesser amount. In addition, employees must forfeit two sick leave days pay before applying to the Sick Leave Bank.
24. Should the Sick Leave Bank become less than 100 days, the Sick Leave Bank committee will seek voluntary contributions from members of the bank. This voluntary contribution will not exceed the number of days assessed new employees to become members of the bank. If voluntary contributions do not meet the needs of the bank, the committee may assess all members.
5. The maximum number of sick days that may be granted in any fiscal year will be the remaining number of days an employee is scheduled to work under his/her current contract. In no case will the granting of leave cause an employee to receive a greater amount of pay from the District than his annual salary for that year. The number of leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, granted shall be 180 days regardless of not exceed the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal absent from work due to illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yearaccident.
6. In Bank grants to individual employees will not be carried over from one fiscal year to another. All such grants will end at the event of a death termination of the employeeschool year. If a certificated employee does not use all of the days granted by the Bank, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank the unused leave days shall will be waivedreturned to the Bank.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the The Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute committee shall consist of three (3) members appointed by the Association and two (2) days from members appointed by the first year’s allotment District. The committee shall develop and distribute the rules and procedures for the orderly administration of ten (10) sick leave days.
8the Bank. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction The Committee shall also be responsible for reporting to the bank upon District business office the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in names of contributors and the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance number of days on hand.
9contributed. Sick leave The Committee shall be responsible for reporting all days donated granted to the bank any certificated employee by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled any other information necessary to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations maintain an adequate accounting of the Sick Leave Bankoperation.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. (1) Effective January 1, 2018, at the beginning of each calendar year, the Library will transfer from each employee who has volunteered to participate in the Bank twenty-one (21) hours1of sick leave which will be placed in a general Library sick leave bank. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank will be available to employees who have volunteered to participate in cooperation with the AssociationBank, who have an extended illness, and have been out on sick leave for at least fourteen (14) consecutive days. Upon application Prior to utilize accessing the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher the employee shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement have been employed by the attending physician verifying the need Library for one (1) year, will have had to exhaust all paid sick leave, and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by will submit a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership request to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days Director to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to access hours from the Sick Leave Bank.
(2) The Sick Leave Bank will always have a minimum of two hundred ten (210) hours in it for each employee illness. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed Upon an employee’s initial access to the Bank, if 210 hours are not available, the Bank will borrow from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of Library the number of school years or hours necessary to have available 210 hours per employee, which would then be reimbursed by the 21 hours at the beginning of each calendar days involved or year by each employee. The Bank will not borrow from the number of illnesses involvedLibrary more than 210 hours for any individual employee for any one illness. Part-time employees shall be eligible to request hours on a pro-rata basis.
(3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members The purpose of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled is for extended, continuous illnesses, not chronic illnesses or those of limited duration. Employees with soft muscle tissue injuries2 shall not be eligible for sick leave under the Bank.
(4) The Director shall consider the following criteria when determining whether to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of make any distribution from the Sick Leave Bank, subject to paragraph (1) above:
(a) The Library may require adequate medical documentation to verify the illness and its extended nature.
11. It is understood and agreed upon (b) Prior utilization of sick leave and/or the Bank by the Association employee.
(c) Reasons for and the Board that the appropriateness of prior use of sick leave.
(5) The Director may issue administrative rules to carry out the provisions of Section 10.10.
(6) The decision of the Director on the granting of sick leave hours from the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available reviewable under an arbitrary and capricious standard. 1 Part-time employees who have volunteered to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled participate in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contractshall contribute hours on a pro-rata basis.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. i. The Board agrees to continue parties acknowledge that a sick leave bank has been created using as its bank days the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with unused personal days of full and part- time employees from the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association1987-88 school year. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
parties further acknowledge that, effective July 1. To establish membership to , 2004, 325 sick leave bank days remain in the sick leave bankbank for use by eligible employees.
ii. Each June 30th of each school year, each participating teacher, upon employment, all unused personal leave of part- time and full-time unit members shall have thirty (30) work days be utilized to voluntarily donate two replenish the sick leave days bank for the following school year up to a maximum cap of 500 days. Each July 1st the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum CSEA shall be provided with the total number of sick leave bank days which may be borrowed from that remain in the sick leave bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leavefor use in the following school year.
iii. In cases of personal serious illness or injury, employees shall be 180 permitted to appeal to a three (3) member Sick Leave Bank Committee selected by the union President) for up to thirty ( 30) paid days regardless of the number of school years or calendar for full- time employees and up to ten (10) paid days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3for part-time employees. Sick bank days may Such appeal shall be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies made when the employee’s fitness to return to worksick days, accrued vacation days, and other applicable accumulations have been exhausted.
4iv. Any participating teacher finding it necessary In addition to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick exhaustion of all leave daysaccruals, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of an employee must be absent for a minimum of five (5ten ( 10) days per year over a period consecutive work days, inclusive of consecutive years immediately following return accrued leave, if any, in order to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow be eligible for receipt of sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earneddays. In the event an employee has not accumulated leave upon the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should commencement of his/her health permit)illness, s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year said employee must be absent for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment minimum of ten (10) consecutive work days ( unpaid) prior to being granted any sick leave bank days. In the event an employee, upon the commencement of his/her illness, does not have enough accumulated leave to cover the ten (10) consecutive day absence requirement set forth above, said employee shall be required to continue the leave to cover the ten ( 10) consecutive day absence requirement set forth above, said employee shall be required to continue the leave on an unpaid basis until the ten ( 10) day absence requirement is met, prior to being granted any sick leave bank days. In the event a unit member has ten (10) or more days of accumulated leave upon the commencement of his/ her illness, said employee shall be required to utilize all of those days to meet the ten (10) consecutive day absence requirement prior to being granted any sick leave bank days. Where both accumulated days and sick leave bank days are utilized in connection with this sick leave bank procedure, said absences must be attributable to the same injury and/or illness.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show v. The CSEA and its members herewith agree to defend, indemnify and hold the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation OfficeDistrict, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members Education, its members, officers, agents, employees and independent contractors harmless from and against any and all claims, suits and/or causes of action arising from or relating to any and all decisions rendered by the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined Committee in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bankconnection with this provision or any matter related thereto.
11vi. It is understood The CSEA and agreed upon its members further agree that any and all decisions rendered by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank committee in connection with this provision shall be final and binding, shall not be available subject to certificated employees during the Grievance Procedures set forth in Article VII and shall not be subject to review in any forum.
2. Attendance Incentive Program Effective July 1, 2019, unit members shall be eligible for an attendance incentive bonus as set forth below at the conclusion of each qualifying school year. Unit members must work the full school year in order to be eligible for said payment. Those on an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B absence for any period of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee time shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15ineligible for said payment. The committee Payments shall be composed prorated based upon FTE. Said payment(s) shall be made on or before August 31st of two the following year. Number of Sick Days Used Payment Amount Perfect Attendance (20 days) persons appointed by the Association and one ($1,500. 00 1) person appointed by the superintendent.-2 days $1,000. 00
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees Section 1: A sick leave bank shall be established for the purpose of making additional sick leave days available to continue employees who have been employed in the established district for at least three (3) years, who have exhausted their entire sick leave accumulation through prolonged illness and who have a serious illness or injury. A serious illness or injury shall be one which requires the employee's absence from work for more than ten (10) consecutive workdays. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application shall be voluntary.
Section 2: To be eligible to utilize join the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall employee must have accumulated at least thirty (30) work sick days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to within the preceding three-year period and must apply for membership on a form approved by the Sick Leave Bank.
2Bank Committee. The maximum number of sick leave days Employees wishing to join the bank must, except as is otherwise provided herein, submit an application for membership by November 1st in the school year in which may be borrowed they desire to join. An employee who desires to withdraw from the bank must do so by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless November 1st of the number year of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedwithdrawal.
Section 3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the : The Sick Leave Bank at the rate of shall be administered by a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid Committee comprised of four (4) persons; two (2) appointed by the respective substitute during Association and two (2) by the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6School Committee. In the event of a death tie vote, the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall choose a mutually acceptable third party to break the tie. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and shall not be subject to the Grievance Procedure.
Section 4: In administering the Bank, determining eligibility, and determining the amount of leave, the following general criteria shall be applied by the Bank Committee:
A. Medical Evidence of extended and serious illness
B. Full utilization of applicant's eligible sick and personal time
C. Other factors as a majority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee may deem appropriate. No days may be withdrawn from the Bank for any other illness other than prolonged illness or accident. Days may not be withdrawn to permit an individual to stay at home to care for other members of the employee, repayment 's family. The decision of any outstanding the Sick Leave Bank days Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be waivedfinal and binding with any appeal limited to an appeal to the Bank Committee itself.
7. A teacher new to Section 5: The Sick Leave Bank will be initially funded by deducting five (5) sick leave days from the system and desiring accumulated sick leave days of each employee who has agreed to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute bank and two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.each employee for each year after until one hundred
14. A three (3) member Section 6: The initial grant of sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according shall not exceed twenty (20) days after which the employee may reapply for additional days. Any grant of sick leave days shall end on the last day of the school year in which the prolonged illness began. The sick days granted by the bank will be retroactive to the provisions hereinfirst day
Section 7: Members who retire and who at the time of retirement have accumulated in excess of one hundred and seventy-five (175) sick days may contribute at the time of their retirement fifteen (15) sick leave days to the bank (days that are in excess of one hundred and seventy-five - 175).
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. A sick leave bank shall be established for use by the eligible members of the bargaining unit who have exhausted their own sick leave and who are unable to return to work due to personal illness.
B. Eligible employees who wish to participate in the program shall contribute two (2) days of their accumulated sick leave upon joining the Bank. The Board agrees Program will be open to continue new members during the established month of September each year.
C. A Sick Leave Bank Committee will be established yearly. It shall consist of seven (7) members. Three members shall be designated by the School District, and four members shall be designated by the Grafton Teachers Association.
D. The following procedures and criteria will be used to determine eligibility for benefits and the number of days to be granted:
1. The teacher has exhausted his/her sick leave.
2. Effective September 1, 1998, the teacher has completed three (3) or more years of service in cooperation with the AssociationGrafton Public Schools. Upon application to utilize Teachers enrolled as of June 1, 1998 in the Sick Leave BankBank will continue to be eligible regardless of his/her number of years of service.
3. The teacher, or in the event of incapacity, his/her representative, must apply in writing. Said application will be accompanied by a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying doctor’s certificate as to the need for and approximate duration anticipated extent of extended recovery from the illness.
4. A statement by In the event that a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations majority of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1Committee has reason to question the medical documentation submitted, additional information may be requested. To establish membership Information obtained will be presented to the sick leave bank, each participating Sick Leave Bank Committee for review. A teacher, upon employment, ’s refusal to provide the requested information shall have thirty (30) work constitute withdrawal of the request for days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to from the Sick Leave Bank.
25. The maximum number Sick Leave Bank Committee may not award more than thirty (30) sick days at any one time. Application may be made for additional benefits.
6. The sex or marital status of the teacher will have no basis in the decision to allow or deny sick leave bank benefits.
7. In the event of death, no sick leave granted by this Committee shall be paid to the teacher’s estate, nor shall sick leave be paid to an employee who has been terminated, or resigned from his/her position.
8. Sick leave days which may be borrowed drawn from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 actual work days regardless of the number of in which school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedwas in session excluding weekends, holidays, school closings and vacation periods.
39. The Sick bank Leave Bank Committee may grant days may be borrowed only for retroactive to the personal illness or disability date of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4application. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank unused days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay remaining in the Sick Leave Bank at the rate end of a minimum of five (5) days per the school year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with remain in the School Corporationbank for the next school year.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the E. The Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid will require additional contributions by the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end members of the fifth year.
6program when the bank reaches fifty (50) days. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate Continued membership in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave daysconditioned on such further contribution.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members F. No decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be subject to the grievance and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations arbitration provisions of the Sick Leave Bankthis Agreement.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not G. There will be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member a cap on sick leave bank committee shall be established use equal to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one half percent (12 ½%) person appointed by of the superintendentamount of the annual budget for teacher salaries in any fiscal year. No sick leave bank days may be withdrawn or paid in excess of that amount.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue Each full-time certificated employee of the established Sick Leave Bank district may participate in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank. To participate, a teacher each employee shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration contribute two (2) of the illnesshis/her earned sick leave days. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician Sick leave days thus contributed shall be agreed to jointly by deducted from the Board and the Associationindividual's sick leave entitlement. The Board contributed sick leave days shall form a fund of sick leave days that will be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations available to all eligible participating certificated employees upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank are as followsCommittee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by the absence from work due to illness or disability which extends beyond the employee's accumulated sick leave. Application for use of the Bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee for its recommendation. The Committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. If the Committee deems necessary, it may require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made. In order for a professional employee to be eligible for sick leave benefits from the Bank, the employee must first:
1. To establish membership Be a contributor to the Bank; and
2. Have been absent from work due to illness or disability for:
a. All his/her personal accumulated sick leave bankdays; and
b. All personal leave days. A person choosing elective or cosmetic surgery will not be eligible for Sick Leave Bank benefits because the decision of when to have such surgery is the individual's choice. To be eligible for a Sick Leave Bank grant during any school year, each participating teachereligible employee must become a Sick Leave Bank member no later than October 1, upon employment, shall have or within thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to following initial employment, as is appropriate. If the Sick Leave Bank.
2Bank is exhausted during any one school year, it shall be re-established by a 30 day voluntary new contribution as established in Article IV. The maximum number of days that may be granted to an eligible participant will be fifty (50) days per school year (September-June). In no instance should the number of Sick Leave Bank days granted exceed the number of days absent from work due to illness or disability. Bank grants to individual employees will not be carried over from one fiscal year to another. All such grants will terminate at the end of the school year. If a certificated employee does not use all of the days granted by the Bank, the unused sick leave days which may will be borrowed from returned to the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3Bank. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the The Sick Leave Bank at the rate of shall be governed by a minimum committee consisting of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with members appointed by the School Corporation.
5District Administration and approved by the Association. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days The Committee shall develop and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash distribute rules and procedures for the Sick Leave Bank orderly administration of the Bank. The Committee shall also be responsible for reporting to the District Office the names of contributors and the number of days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earnedcontributed. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance The Committee shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of responsible for reporting all days granted to any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank certificated employee by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled any other information necessary to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations maintain an adequate accounting of the Sick Leave Bank.
11operation. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the ASSOCIATION LEAVE (Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.approved May 10, 1982)
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Samples: Negotiated Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees licensed employee sick leave bank was created by reducing licensed employees’ sick leave yearly accrual by one (1) day. Prior to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration creation of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty licensed employees accrued ten (3010) work such days to voluntarily donate two per year. After the creation of the sick leave bank, they accrued nine (9) days per year. The one (1) day deducted annually from each licensed employee is the basis of the sick leave bank and the amount of the days available for use by the licensed employees. When the balance in the sick leave bank is exhausted, every licensed employee will be assessed one (1) additional day. If the employee does not have one (1) day of sick leave to be assessed, the Sick Leave Bankassessment will occur at the beginning of the next school year. Any days remaining in the sick leave bank at the end of a school year will be available for use during any subsequent school year.
1. Benefits of the sick leave bank shall be used only when a teacher is deemed unable to work due to illness or disability as defined in policy and procedure established jointly by the District and the DCFT. Benefits do not cover illness or disability of family members.
2. The maximum number of Teachers who have exhausted their accumulated sick and personal leave and are unable to work due to illness or disability may apply to the sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated for extended sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedleave coverage.
3. Sick bank A minimum of twelve (12) days may of any medical or disability-related absence will not be borrowed only covered by the sick leave bank, but must be covered by the teacher’s own accumulated sick leave and/or personal leave. If the teacher does not have twelve (12) days of accumulated leave, his/her annual salary will be reduced by the teacher’s per diem rate for the personal illness or disability portion of the employee and cantwelve (12) days not be used to extend a leave covered by such accumulated leave. The first day of absence after the attending physician certifies not covered by the employee’s fitness accumulated leave will not be covered by the sick leave bank, but will result in the teacher’s salary being reduced by one day’s per diem rate of pay.
4. Initial application for sick leave bank benefits will require medical certification and shall be made in writing on the form prescribed by the Office of Human Resources. Any application to extend sick leave bank benefits beyond the initial request will require updated medical verification of an employee’s inability to return to work. Such application for continuation of sick leave bank benefits for the same illness will not require any days without pay.
45. Additional medical verification may be required for any leave request that exceeds standards for a particular medical condition. The District reserves the right to request verification from a physician who specializes in the particular medical condition.
6. A maximum of forty-eight (48) days may be withdrawn by any full-time teacher, or on a prorated basis for less than full-time, during any school year, or for any illness or disability which bridges two (2) school years. If a teacher’s sick leave bank benefits bridge two school years, the nine (9) sick and two (2) personal leave days provided by this agreement at the start of a new school year, may not be used consecutively with sick leave bank benefits.
7. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated subsequent request for sick leave days, agrees to repay bank benefits for a new and distinct illness or disability during the Sick Leave Bank course of any school year must follow the same guidelines and procedures described above with the exception that only six (6) days will not be covered by the sick leave bank and will result in the teacher’s salary being reduced at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave daysdiem pay.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show The District is authorized to seek independent medical opinions at any time to determine the two-day deduction to the bank upon nature and extent of the teacher’s written authorizationdisability. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in The authority to grant benefits and develop guidelines rests with the Corporation OfficeDistrict, showing operating through the current status Office of Human Resources, and the President of the bank and balance of days on handDCFT or his/her designee.
9. Sick Teachers who are unable to return to work due to a chronic illness or disability, and have exhausted their sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wabenefit, may apply for long-Nee School Corporationterm disability benefits.
10. It is understood Decisions regarding the granting of sick leave benefits are final and agreed upon by not subject to appeal or the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined grievance procedure, whether in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bankcontract or policy.
11. It is understood The Office of Human Resources shall maintain all records and agreed upon by the Association shall make forms, guidelines and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be procedures available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absenceemployees.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application provides for absences due to utilize the sickness extending beyond a permanent employee's normal entitlement, to be operated as follows:
(a) The Sick Leave BankBank shall have a maximum of two hundred (200) days and shall not exceed this maximum at any time. Should this accumulation be exhausted during that calendar year, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by no other allotments will be available until the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration commencement of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon subsequent year.
(b) On the recommendation first day of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician each calendar year, each employee who has served over 5 years continuous service shall be agreed contribute to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the an equal number of hours or days from their accrued sick leave bankcredits, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30so as to re-charge any payment(s) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed made from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, in the previous year. The method of calculation in re-establishing the 200 day maximum as defined in Article 25:08(a) shall be 180 days regardless of based on the total number of school years or calendar days involved or owed to the bank, divided equally among the total number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used members eligible to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated contribute accrued sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate credits in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations establishment of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon (c) Payments from the Sick Leave Bank will be made by the Association Corporation upon receipt of written recommendation from the Sick Bank Committee (consisting of two (2) representatives of both the Employer and the Board that Union) in accordance with the use following allotment schedule: Sick Leave Allotment Anniversary Year (Working Days) After six (6) months employment and the end of third (3rd) year 22 After third (3rd) year 44 After fourth (4th) year and subsequent year 66
(d) No allotments from the Sick Leave Bank shall be approved unless the employee concerned has had six (6) months continuous employment and has exhausted his current annual and accrued sick leave benefits.
(e) Members shall not be available to certificated employees during an earn sick leave while on unpaid leave in excess of absence.
12thirty (30) consecutive days. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established adjusted on the member's return to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions hereinwork.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established (a) Sick Leave Bank in cooperation is defined as leave of absence with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement pay granted by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration Employer to a regular employee who is unable to work because of illness or non-compensable accident. A regular employee shall be granted sick leave entitlement of six point nine percent (6.9%) of the regular hours paid to the employee in that calendar year. The entitlement shall be usable for sick leave. The hours of leave with pay for the calendar year may be advanced (recoverable) to an employee. As soon as is practicable following the end of each calendar year, or on the separation of a regular employee, an adjustment will be made to the pay of the regular employee so that the pay for sick leave for that calendar year does not exceed the stipulated entitlement. Unearned amounts advanced will be recovered.
(b) The employee's sick leave shall not be paid out to the employee for any reason other than verified illness. A statement by An exception is that sick leave can be used for medical and dental appointments when the appointment cannot reasonably be scheduled during non-working hours.
(c) In the case of illness of a second physician may be required upon child, or spouse, or elderly parent of an employee, and when no one at the recommendation employee's home other than the employee can provide for the needs of either the Board or ill person, the Association provided that such physician employee after notifying the Employer, shall be agreed entitled to jointly by the Board and the Associationuse paid leave for this purpose. The Board Such leave shall be responsible for the cost of the statement deducted from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the employee's sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty entitlement.
(30d) work days to voluntarily donate two Any employee who at the time of ratification of this Agreement (1994) has a sick leave entitlement bank in excess of eight (8) days shall convert the entitlement to the Sick Leave Banka banked total number of hours.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated (e) An employee cannot use sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless vacation time, or banked time instead of Short-Term Disability. An employee must use sick leave, if available, to cover the number of school years waiting period for Short-Term Disability, and may use vacation time or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedbanked time if no sick leave is available.
3. Sick bank days (f) An employee may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee apply sick leave and cannot be used banked time to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies top up Short-Term Disability to equal the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4's regular daily pay. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, The appropriate deduction will be expected to contribute two (2) days made from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave daysthose sources if such time is used.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a 9‐1‐2‐1 Each new teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessDistrict will participate in the sick leave bank unless he/she notifies the District office in writing that he/she does not wish to participate. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation To participate, each employee will contribute three (3) of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician his/her earned sick leave days. Sick leave days thus contributed shall be agreed to jointly by deducted from the Board and the Associationindividual's sick leave entitlement. The Board contributed sick leave days shall form a fund of sick leave days that will be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations available to all eligible participating teachers upon recommendation of the Sick Leave Bank Committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by absence from work necessitated by extended or recurring illness extending beyond the employee's accumulated sick leave.
9‐1‐2‐2 Application for use of the sick bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank Committee for their recommendation. The committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of the employee. A statement of medical need from a licensed physician is required at the time of application and additional documentation may be requested from time to time after a grant has been made or additional days are requested.
9‐1‐2‐3 The committee shall have the authority to recommend such guidelines as follows:it deems necessary to implement this program. Guideline recommendations shall have the approval of the Representative Organization and the Board of Trustees.
1. To establish membership 9‐1‐2‐4 After complete review of the application, the committee shall have the authority to make final decisions within the guidelines as to the disposition of the case.
9‐1‐2‐5 In order for a teacher to be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits from the sick leave bank, the employee must first: (1) be a current contributor to the bank; (2) have been absent from work due to personal illness or accident; and (3) used all his/her current and accumulated sick leave and personal leave days.
9‐1‐2‐6 The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the number of sick leave days each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days participant must contribute in order to voluntarily keep the bank solvent. A sick leave bank member leaving the District or retiring may donate two unused sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bankbank. The Committee will receive notification for all employees that are leaving the district. The committee will then notify the employees of their right to donate any unused sick leave days and the procedure for doing so.
2. 9‐1‐2‐7 The maximum number of days that can be granted in any one (1) fiscal year will be the remaining number of days a teacher is scheduled to work under his/her current contract. In no case will the granting of leave cause a teacher to receive more than his/her annual salary for that year.
9‐1‐2‐8 The number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, granted shall be 180 days regardless of not exceed the number of days absent from work due to illness or accident.
9‐1‐2‐9 Bank grants to individual teachers will not be carried over from one (1) fiscal year to another; all such grants will end at the termination of the school years or calendar year. If a teacher does not use all of the days involved or granted by the bank, the unused sick leave days will be returned to the bank. In no case shall a teacher be granted more than a the total number of contract days in a school year from the sick leave bank for all illnesses involvedor disabilities in employment lifetime.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the 9‐1‐2‐10 The Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, Committee shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed consist of two (2) persons members appointed by the Association Representative Organization and one two (12) person members appointed by the superintendentDistrict. The committee shall develop and distribute rules and procedures for the orderly administration of the bank not inconsistent with the terms of this agreement. An administrator appointed by the Superintendent and a certificated employee appointed by the Representative Organization will serve as co-chairs. Administrator co-chair will be responsible for scheduling meetings as requests are received.
9‐1‐2‐11 Applicants will have the option, if the application is approved, of using the days granted or taking a salary reduction equal to the cost of a certificated substitute teacher for the days granted.
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Samples: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees A sick leave bank has been established to continue provide compensable leave coverage to employees who are absent for an extended period due to catastrophic illness or injury. This bank shall operate in accordance with the established following rules and regulations.
1. An employee may participate in the Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with if written notice is given of the Association. Upon application employee’s desire to donate a minimum of one (1) sick or personal day during an enrollment period prior to the employee’s request to utilize the Sick Leave Bank. Each year, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician enrollment period shall be agreed June 1 to jointly by the Board and the AssociationJune 30. The Board shall contributed sick day(s) will be responsible for the cost of the statement deducted from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two employee’s accumulated sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bankon July 1.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, Employee contributions shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee voluntary and canshall not be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of exceed ten (10) sick leave daysdays in any given year.
83. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special The Sick Leave Bank Journal will shall be kept in available only to those employees who have:
a. exhausted all earned and accumulated leave time (e.g., vacation, sick, personal) and;
b. have been absent a minimum of sixty (60) consecutive workdays.
4. An employee who is eligible to utilize the Corporation Office, showing Sick Leave Bank must submit a written request to do so to the current status Superintendent or designee. The request shall outline the nature of the problem and the reason(s) for the requested use of the bank and balance shall include medical verification of days on handillness, injury or disability. Verification of continued disability will be required at reasonable intervals. The Board reserves the right to have the employee examined by medical personnel of its choice.
95. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the An employee’s use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be subject to the approval of the Board or its designee and shall not be available subject to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absencegrievance or arbitration.
126. Any teacher An employee shall be limited to no more than 150 Sick Leave Bank days in a three (3) year period.
7. Sick Leave Bank days received cannot enrolled be extended from one work year to another. However, in the event any employee(s) using the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with at the School Corporation may enroll by executing end of the form as set forth in work year is still unable to return to work at the Appendix B beginning of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted the next work year, that employee must first use all of his/her accumulated sick leave days new entitlements for that new year, before he/she may make an official request be approved to borrow days from the continue Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C use. Maximum number of this contractdays limit still applies.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. 1. The Board agrees purpose of the sick leave bank is to continue the established relieve its members from undue financial burdens due to absence from work on a long term basis due to illness, injury, or incapacitation of themselves, their spouse or their dependent children.
2. The Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with shall be administered by a Committee of five (5) members – two appointed by the Administration and three by the Association. Upon application All terms of service will be two (2) years. • The entire membership of the Committee shall select one of their members to utilize act as chairperson. • The Committee shall meet during the school year as needed. Special meetings may be called by the chairperson at the request of the Committee members. • In each case, a minimum of three (3) favorable votes by the Sick Leave Bank Committee is required to grant the use of days from the Sick Leave Bank. • The Committee shall prepare an annual report in conjunction with the Corporation Treasurer of days contributed by each teacher, days used, and days accumulated in the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by distribute this report to the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration President of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the South Xxxxxx Classroom Teachers Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11Superintendent. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the • Requests for use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be made on the official forms provided by the Committee. • Requests to donate days shall be made on the official forms provided by the Committee. • The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and may not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid grieved. • No person shall be granted sick leave of absencebank days after they begin receiving LTD benefits.
123. Any teacher not enrolled The Committee shall use only the following criteria for granting use of the Sick Leave Bank. • The applicant must be a current participant in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with Bank. • An individual applying for use of the School Corporation sick bank may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B keep a total of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her five (5) current or accumulated sick leave days and zero (0) current or accumulated personal days. The remaining current and accumulated sick and personal days must be exhausted before sick bank days may be granted. • An eligible teacher, or authorized designee, shall make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according application to the provisions herein.
15Committee for leave under this provision. The committee shall physician must substantiate the illness and certify that the absence will continue during a period of at least five (5) consecutive days. • An eligible individual may be composed of two granted no more than thirty (230) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendentdays per school year.
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Samples: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue 1. Each Professional Employee of the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation District covered by the contract with the Association. Upon application to utilize Association may participate in the Sick Leave Bank. To begin participation in any school year, a teacher shall complete Professional Employee shall, prior to September 15, or within fifteen (15) days after signing a contract if not an FMLA application and provide a statement employee by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illnessSeptember 15 (hereafter described as "enrollment period"), contribute two (2) sick leave days. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of Each time the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
falls below one hundred eighty (180) days, every participating member shall be assessed one (1. To establish membership to the ) additional sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, day. Sick leave days thus contributed shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two be deducted from the individual's accumulated sick leave. The contributed sick leave days shall form a bank of sick leave days which will be available to all participating Professional Employees for absence from work necessitated by prolonged or recurring illness of the Professional Employee extending beyond the employee's available leave, as set out below. Eligible employees electing not to join during the initial enrollment period must wait until the enrollment period of the following year.
2. A Committee, including three (3) Professional Employees selected by the LEA and three (3) administrators selected by the Superintendent, establish such procedures necessary to implement and operate the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only Application for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available submitted to certificated employees during an unpaid leave the Committee, which shall review the request and determine the eligibility of absencethe Professional Employee. Proof of illness may be required at the time of application and from time to time after a grant has been made.
124. Any teacher not enrolled in To be eligible for sick leave benefits from the Sick Leave Bank, the Professional Employee must:
a. be a current Sick Leave Bank member and under contract with contributor to the School Corporation may enroll by executing Sick Leave Bank,
b. have been absent from work due to accident or illness of the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.Professional Employee,
13. Any teacher having exhausted hisc. have used all their/her them accumulated sick leave days and personal leave days, and
d. had two (2) days after exhaustion of accumulated sick leave and personal leave where their/them salary was reduced in full. Application must be on the form provided in the Appendix within fifteen (15) days of the depletion of sick leave. After complete review of the application, the Committee shall have the authority within the procedures to make final decisions as to the disposition of the case. The decision of the Committee will be implemented contingent upon compliance with the law. Notification of the decision will be given to the Professional Employee, in writing, within a timely manner from the date of application. If the employee is incapacitated to such an extent that they cannot personally apply for a grant, the employee's immediate supervisor, next of kin, or representative may make an official request apply for the employee.
5. The maximum number of days which may be granted in any one (1) school year will be either the remaining number of days a Professional Employee is scheduled to borrow work or the number of days until the employee becomes eligible for long-term disability insurance payments, whichever is smaller. Any Professional Employee requesting days from the Sick Leave Bank must apply for disability benefits when eligible as defined by executing the form set forth in Appendix C qualifying period. No days, or partial days, will be granted to the Professional Employee from the Sick Leave Bank for any days for which the Professional Employee receives disability payments. Determination of this contractdisability benefits will be the responsibility of the insurance carrier. An employee shall not receive more than their/them contracted salary for that year.
146. Within any five (5) year period, the number of days granted to a Professional Employee from the Sick Leave Bank will not exceed one hundred ninety (190) days.
7. Sick Leave Bank grants will terminate at the end of the school year. If a Professional Employee does not use all of the days granted by the Sick Leave Bank, the unused sick leave days will be returned to the Sick Leave Bank. A three (3) Sick Leave Bank member may withdraw their/them membership, at any time, by submitting a written request to the Committee. A member may not withdraw those days of sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according already contributed to the provisions herein.
15Sick Leave Bank. The committee shall days remain the property of the Sick Leave Bank and cannot be composed of two (2) persons appointed by transferred if a Professional Employee leaves the Association and one (1) person appointed by District or chooses to drop membership in the superintendentSick Leave Bank.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. 1. The Board agrees to continue purpose of the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation is to provide extended sick leave coverage to any teacher with professional teacher status who has exhausted the teacherʹs sick leave and who is a member of the Sick Leave Bank pursuant to Paragraph B, below. A teacher may access the Sick Leave Bank for absences due to or resulting from an extended and/or serious injury, illness, or disability.
2. All applications for the use of sick days from the Sick Leave Bank shall be made on the agreed form. Applications shall be forwarded to the Superintendent of Schools for the attention of the Sick Bank Committee via a building representative of the Association. Upon The Sick Bank committee shall consist of two representatives of the Association, the Superintendent of Schools and the District Business Official. The Associationʹs two members will generally be the Chairperson of the Welfare Committee and one member of the Welfare Committee who teaches in the same school as the applicant.
3. All requests for the use of sick days from the Sick Leave Bank shall be directed to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may approve a request for the use of sick leave days in an amount up to twenty (20) days. This limit may be waived by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, in circumstances where it is evident from the initial application to utilize that the applicantʹs illness, injury or disability will extend beyond twenty (20) days. The total grant of Sick Leave Bank days shall not exceed the length of the work year per illness/ injury or disability. A request for the use of sick bank days must be accompanied by an application and medical documentation. Any requests for an extension of sick leave bank benefits must be accompanied by a new application and current medical documentation. Copies of the required forms are attached at Appendix F1 and F2.
4. In acting upon requests for sick days from the Sick Leave Bank, the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall utilize the following criteria:
a. Adequate medical evidence;
b. Prior utilization of sick leave and/or the Sick Leave Bank; and
c. Reasons for and propriety of prior use of sick leave.
5. In order for a member to be eligible for sick leave bank benefits in a successive school year, the teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide must return to work for a statement by period of time at least as long as the attending physician verifying period for which the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Associationmember received benefits. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physicianSick Leave Bank Committee may waive this provision in extraordinary circumstances.
6. Specific stipulations The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are as follows:
1. To establish membership final and not subject to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave BankGrievance and Arbitration Procedure.
27. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay When the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five drops below two hundred (5200) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporationdays, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating all members of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one (1) day of sick leave to the Bank on the first workday of the following month. In no case shall the Bank be allowed to exceed five hundred (500) days.
8. Any member currently receiving Sick Leave Bank benefits may continue to be eligible for Sick Leave Bank benefits even though the Bank drops below two hundred (200) days, and are entitled the member does not have a day to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of contribute to the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use The member will automatically have a day of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests deducted and allot days from the bank according contributed to the provisions hereinBank as soon as the member has earned a sick day.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank.
A. A sick leave bank shall be established for use by the eligible members of the bargaining unit who have exhausted their own sick leave and who are unable to return to work due to personal illness.
B. Eligible employees who wish to participate in the program shall contribute two (2) days of their accumulated sick leave upon joining the Bank. The Board agrees Program will be open to continue new members during the established month of September each year.
C. A Sick Leave Bank Committee will be established yearly. It shall consist of seven (7) members. Three members shall be designated by the School District, and four members shall be designated by the Grafton Teachers Association.
D. The following procedures and criteria will be used to determine eligibility for benefits and the number of days to be granted:
1. The teacher has exhausted his/her sick leave.
2. Effective September 1, 1998, the teacher has completed three (3) or more years of service in cooperation with the AssociationGrafton Public Schools. Upon application to utilize Teachers enrolled as of June 1, 1998 in the Sick Leave BankBank will continue to be eligible regardless of his/her number of years of service.
3. The teacher, or in the event of incapacity, his/her representative, must apply in writing. Said application will be accompanied by a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying doctor’s certificate as to the need for and approximate duration anticipated extent of extended recovery from the illness.
4. A statement by In the event that a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations majority of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1Committee has reason to question the medical documentation submitted, additional information may be requested. To establish membership Information obtained will be presented to the sick leave bank, each participating Sick Leave Bank Committee for review. A teacher, upon employment, ’s refusal to provide the requested information shall have thirty (30) work constitute withdrawal of the request for days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to from the Sick Leave Bank.
25. The maximum number Sick Leave Bank Committee may not award more than thirty (30) sick days at any one time. Application may be made for additional benefits.
6. The sex or marital status of the teacher will have no basis in the decision to allow or deny sick leave bank benefits.
7. In the event of death, no sick leave granted by this Committee shall be paid to the teacher’s estate, nor shall sick leave be paid to an employee who has been terminated, or resigned from his/her position.
8. Sick leave days which may be borrowed drawn from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 actual work days regardless of the number of in which school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involvedwas in session excluding weekends, holidays, school closings and vacation periods.
39. The Sick bank Leave Bank Committee may grant days may be borrowed only for retroactive to the personal illness or disability date of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4application. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank unused days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay remaining in the Sick Leave Bank at the rate end of a minimum of five (5) days per the school year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with remain in the School Corporationbank for the next school year.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the E. The Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid will require additional contributions by the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end members of the fifth year.
6program when the bank reaches fifty (50) days. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate Continued membership in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave daysconditioned on such further contribution.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members F. No decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be subject to the grievance and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations arbitration provisions of the Sick Leave Bankthis Agreement.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not G. There will be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member a cap on sick leave bank committee shall be established use equal to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one half percent (12 ½%) person appointed by of the superintendentamount of the annual budget for teacher salaries in any fiscal year. No sick leave bank days may be withdrawn or paid in excess of that amount.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. (1) The Board agrees sick leave bank is created for the purpose and intent of alleviating economic hardship incurred by bank members due to continue involuntarily contracting an illness of a protracted or recurring nature and/or involuntarily receiving a traumatic injury caused by illness or accident requiring absences from work beyond the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration employee’s accumulated sick days.
(2) Each employee of the illness. A statement District covered by a second physician this contract may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to participate in the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring intent to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plansick leave bank shall be submitted to the clerk by September 15th of each year or by the close of the second (2nd) week after being hired, will be expected to if hired mid-year. To participate, each employee shall contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) his/her earned sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction Members may continue to contribute days to the bank upon throughout the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9school year. Sick leave days donated thus contributed shall be deducted from the individual’s annual sick leave entitlement.
(3) The contributed sick leave days shall be sorted into two sick leave banks: one for certified employees; one for classified employees. If, at the beginning of a school year, either sick leave bank contains less than 50 days, members shall contribute at least one (1) day to remain an eligible sick leave bank participant.
(4) In order for an employee to be eligible to apply for sick leave benefits from the bank by sick leave bank, the employee must first (1) be a teacher are considered a permanent contribution contributor to the bank and are not transferable second (2) have been absent from work due to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel illness or accident for all of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request and personal days.
(5) The bank shall not be used for days absent from work beyond accumulated sick leave when a voluntary action or decision on the part of the employee was the cause of the absence. If disability is covered by Worker’s Compensation, the employee shall not be eligible to borrow utilize the sick leave bank.
(6) Application for use of the bank shall be submitted to the sick leave bank committee for their recommendation. In order to apply for days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing sick leave bank, the employee shall obtain a form set forth in Appendix C from the district clerk. The committee shall review the request and determine the eligibility of this contractthe employee and the merit of the request. If the committee deems necessary, it shall require proof of illness at the time of application and from time to time after a grant of sick days has been made.
14(7) The sick leave bank policies shall generally be consistent with the sick leave policies with the exception that sick leave bank days granted shall be granted in full day increments only.
(8) The committee shall make decisions by a majority vote. A three After complete review of the application, the committee shall have authority to make final decisions within these guidelines as to the disposition of the case.
(39) member Sick leave bank grants to individual employees will not be carried over from one fiscal year to another and all such grants will end at the termination of the fiscal year. If an employee does not use all of the days granted by the bank, the unused sick leave days will be returned to the bank.
(10) The sick leave bank committee shall be established consist of the high school building representative, the elementary building representative, the ICEA president and the superintendent for the District. When a request for sick leave bank days is made by a sick leave bank member, the two certified members, the ICEA president and the superintendent shall meet to receive written requests hear and allot days from decide the bank according to the provisions hereincase.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. All Unit IV employees on active duty in AACPS are eligible to contribute to a sick leave bank. Contributors shall be permitted to apply for use of the bank for salary payment to cover periods of catastrophic personal illness of the employee during the regularly scheduled duty days, after regular sick leave has been exhausted.
B. The contribution on the appropriate form shall be authorized by the employee and continued from year to year until canceled in writing by the employee. Cancellation, on the proper form, may be elected at any time and the employee shall not be eligible to use the bank as of the effective cancellation date. Sick leave properly authorized for contribution to the bank shall not be returned if the employee effects cancellation.
C. Contributions shall be made between July 1 and September 30. Employees returning from extended leave of absence, reassigned employees and new employees may contribute within sixty (60) calendar days upon reassignment or employment.
D. The annual rate of contribution may be a maximum of the equivalent of one (1) day per year and must be in whole day increments.
E. Members shall be permitted to apply for leave from the sick leave bank. In no case shall the granting of leave from the bank cause a member to receive more than her/his annual salary.
F. Members must use all accumulated sick leave before applying for leave from the bank. Application for use of the bank shall be made on the required form and submitted to the approval committee.
X. X three-member approval committee, including two (2) representatives appointed by the president of SAAAAC and one (1) representative appointed by the Superintendent, shall have the responsibility of receiving requests, verifying the validity of requests, recommending approval or denial of the requests, and communicating its decision to the employee and the Executive Director of Human Resources. The committee shall develop its rules of procedure and shall give wide distribution to said rules upon approval of the Executive Officers of SAAAAC and the Superintendent or designee.
X. The Executive Director of Human Resources shall approve these bank grants as being for catastrophic illness and that sick leave is exhausted and forward payment authorization to the Payroll Department.
I. Bank grants shall not be automatically carried over from one fiscal year to another. All bank grants shall end as of June 30 or the last duty day of the school year and must be renewed through the approval committee and the Executive Director of Human Resources each fiscal year.
X. If a member does not use all of the time granted from the bank, the unused sick leave bank time shall be returned to the bank.
K. Any unused time remaining in the sick leave bank on June 30 shall be carried into the next fiscal year.
L. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for will sponsor the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing but not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with beyond the School Corporationamount of time contributed per fiscal year beginning on July 1, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay except that if a lesser amount is expended the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance unused portion shall be due at added to the end of the fifth following year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days X. XXXXXX shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system indemnify and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and hold harmless the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank regarding any legal claims, actions, or suits relating to SAAAAC's administration, function and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations operation of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by N. On July 1, 2013, the Association and the Board that the use beginning balance of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave the equivalent of absence200 days.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established shall establish a Sick Leave Bank for all employees. This bank is established to provide compensable leave coverage to employees who are absent for an extended period due to catastrophic illness or injury. This bank shall operate in cooperation accordance with the Associationfollowing rules and regulations.
1. Upon application An employee with thirty (30) days accumulated sick leave may donate to the Sick Leave Bank. Sick days from the annual allotment of twelve (12)/ten (10) days may not be donated. Written notice must be given to the employees desiring to donate a minimum of one (1) day from accumulated sick days or personal days during the enrollment period, prior to any employee’s request to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, . The annual enrollment period shall be from June 1st to June 30th. The contributed sick day(s) will be deducted from the employee’s accumulated sick leave as of July 1st.
2. All employee(s) contribution(s) shall be voluntary.
3. The Sick Leave Bank shall be available only to those employees who have:
a. exhausted all earned and accumulated sick leave; and
b. a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide physician’s certification of a statement serious illness; and
c. been absent a minimum of thirty (30) consecutive workdays; any exceptions may be appealed to the Board.
4. Use of Sick Leave Bank days for intermittent leave for serious illness may be granted by the attending physician verifying Board.
5. An employee who is eligible to utilize the need bank must submit a written request to the Superintendent or his/her designee. The request shall outline the nature of the problem and approximate duration the reason(s) for the requested use of the bank. This request shall also include medical verification of the illness, injury or disability. A statement by a second physician may Verification of continued disability will be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Associationat quarterly intervals. The Board shall be responsible for reserves the cost right to have the employee examined by medical personnel of the statement from the second physicianits choice.
6. Specific stipulations An employee’s utilization of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership shall be subject to approval of the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave BankBoard.
27. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the An employee and cannot be used is limited to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five no more than one hundred fifty (5150) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment a three (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per 3) year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave daysperiod.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members Utilization of the Sick Leave Bank in any subsequent school year shall be subject to the renewed approval of the Board. As of the commencement of a new school year, an employee must exhaust all entitlements for that year, including sick days, personal days, and are entitled vacation days, prior to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations being eligible for use of the Sick Leave Bank.
119. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available days are donated June 1st to certificated employees during an unpaid leave June 30th. Within thirty (30) calendar days from date of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave ratification, days may make an official request to borrow days be donated from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract2006-07 work year.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Sick Leave Bank. A. A sick leave bank for use by eligible Unit E members covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave and who have serious illness was established on November 25, 1975.
B. At the beginning of every school year, members of the professional staff covered by this Agreement shall each contribute one (1) day of their annual fifteen (15) days of sick leave in order to fund the bank.* There shall be no accumulation of unused sick leave bank days beyond each applicable school year.
C. The Board agrees to continue initial grant of sick leave by the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days.
D. Upon completion of an initial grant of a thirty (30) day period, the Association. Upon application to utilize period of entitlement may be extended by the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement Bank Committee upon demonstration of need by the attending physician verifying applicant.
E. Any sick leave granted under the need and approximate duration provisions of this Section shall expire at the end of the illness. A statement applicable school year.
F. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician four members. Two members shall be agreed to jointly designated by the Board Committee to serve at its discretion and two members shall be designated by the Association. The Board Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for the use of the bank and the amount of leave to be granted. The following criteria shall be responsible for used by the cost Committee in administering the bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave:
1. Adequate medical evidence of serious illness;
2. Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave.
G. If the Sick Leave Bank is exhausted, it shall be renewed by the contribution of one additional day of sick leave by each member of the statement professional staff covered by this Agreement. Such additional day will be deducted from the second physician. Specific stipulations Unit E member’s annual fifteen (15) days of sick leave.
H. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership Committee with respect to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, eligibility and entitlement shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3final and binding and not subject to appeal. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the * The Sick Leave Bank at the rate referred to above is a consolidated bank consisting of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days contributions from Units A, B, C and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash E members and is designed for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate benefit of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yearall these members.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue All bargaining unit members covered by this Agreement shall be members of the established Sick Leave Bank on their campus. A bargaining unit member must make no contribution of time to the bank in cooperation order to be a member. The Sick Leave Bank on each campus will be administered by a Board consisting of two employees selected by the Union, two individuals selected by the administration, and a neutral Chair, to be selected by the four other members, who shall vote only in the event of a tie.
B. Starting with the Associationeffective date of this Agreement, the University will make no further contributions of time to the Sick Leave Banks. Upon application Additional time shall accrue to utilize the banks only in the following ways:
1. Sick, vacation and personal time that would otherwise be accrued by employees during any time period during which they are being paid through the bank will instead accrue to the bank.
2. At any time that the total number of days in the bank falls below 500 on the Boston campus or 1,000 on the Amherst campus, each full-‐time employee shall donate seven and a half (7.5) hours of sick leave to the bank. A regular part-‐ time employee shall donate sick leave in the same proportion that her/his part-‐ time service bears to full-‐time service.
C. Before drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher an employee must use up all accrued sick and personal leave, and all but ten (10) days of accrued vacation leave. Once an employee has used up leave in accordance with this section, he/she shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may immediately be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed eligible to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement draw days from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leaveD. Effective January 1, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days2009, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at Policies in Appendix A of this agreement shall govern both the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School CorporationAmherst and Boston Sick Leave Bank Boards.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for E. If the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal Board is unable to that paid make a determination regarding a request for benefits based on the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in information provided on the Sick Leave Bank Planapplication, the Board may request information it perceives will assist it in making a determination, and which is relevant to consideration of that application. Information that may be expected to contribute two (2requested may include, but is not limited to: • Clarification of the employee's and/or medical practitioner's portion of the application • Submission of a completed federal Certification of Health Care Provider form • A medical practitioner's written feedback regarding:
a) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal applicant's ability to return to his/her pre-‐injury/illness job (hours and duties), and
b) any job modifications necessary for this to occur. This feedback will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status made based on a copy of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon applicant's University position description (as forwarded by the Association Board with its request for information) and a discussion between the applicant and medical practitioner regarding the applicant's University working environment. This same information may be requested from a second medical practitioner. If this is requested, any resultant costs shall be paid by the University. The purpose of such additional information shall be exclusively to aid the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled in determining whether to all rights by fulfilling grant, modify, or reject an application for drawing days from the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use F. Application of the Sick Leave Bank shall not Policies and all Board procedures may be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absencedetermined by each campus’ Board.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application provides for absences due to utilize the sickness extending beyond a permanent employee's normal entitlement, to be operated as follows:
(a) The Sick Leave BankBank shall have a maximum of two hundred (200) days and shall not exceed this maximum at any time. Should this accumulation be exhausted during that calendar year, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by no other allotments will be available until the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration commencement of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon subsequent year.
(b) On the recommendation first day of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician each calendar year, each employee who has served over 5 years continuous service shall be agreed contribute to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership to the an equal number of hours or days from their accrued sick leave bankcredits, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30so as to re-charge any payment(s) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed made from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, in the previous year. The method of calculation in re- establishing the 200 day maximum as defined in Article 25:08(a) shall be 180 days regardless of based on the total number of school years or calendar days involved or owed to the bank, divided equally among the total number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used members eligible to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated contribute accrued sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate credits in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations establishment of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon (c) Payments from the Sick Leave Bank will be made by the Association Corporation upon receipt of written recommendation from the Sick Bank Committee (consisting of two (2) representatives of both the Employer and the Board that Union) in accordance with the use following allotment schedule: Sick Leave Allotment Anniversary Year (Working Days) After six (6) months employment and the end of third (3rd) year 22 After third (3rd) year 44 After fourth (4th) year and subsequent year 66
(d) No allotments from the Sick Leave Bank shall be approved unless the employee concerned has had six (6) months continuous employment and has exhausted his current annual and accrued sick leave benefits.
(e) Members shall not be available to certificated employees during an earn sick leave while on unpaid leave in excess of absence.
12thirty (30) consecutive days. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established adjusted on the member's return to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions hereinwork.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness1. A statement by sick leave bank (SLB) is available to certified employees who have signed a second physician contract, are employed as a certified employee, have exhausted all accrued paid leave and are experiencing a personal catastrophic illness, injury or requesting maternity or paternity leave.
2. Each eligible certified employee possessing fourteen or more days based on F. T. E. may be required upon voluntarily join the recommendation of either SLB by contributing three days to the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed SLB during September subject to jointly review by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are Committee (SLBC). Should a certified employee elect to withdraw from the Bank, all donated days will remain as follows:
1. To establish membership to a part of the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number Bank shall be maintained at no less than fifty (50) days. When the SLB is reduced to fifty (50) days, it shall be renewed by contribution of sick one additional day of leave from each member of the bank. Such additional days which may will be borrowed deducted from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick certified employee’s available leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank Part-time certified employees may join by donating days in proportion to their contract amount and may be borrowed only eligible for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend benefits on a pro-rata basis. Certified employees on a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave daysabsence, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing cannot to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Planbut will automatically be reinstated upon their return to employment.
4. The SLB shall be administered by the Sick Leave Bank Committee (SLBC) consisting of five members. Two members shall be appointed by the Superintendent to serve at his/her discretion, two members shall be designated by the Federation, and a fifth member will be expected mutually agreed upon. The SLBC shall determine the eligibility for the use of the Bank and the amount of leave granted. Decisions by the SLBC shall be final and not subject to contribute two appeal or grievance. The following criteria shall be used by the SLBC in administering the SLB in its determination of eligibility and amount of leave:
a) A request of SLB benefits shall be submitted in writing to the Director of Human Resources. The request shall include a statement from a physician licensed to treat in the area described on the application. The statement shall include the employee’s treatment plan and the employee’s anticipated date of return to work.
b) The SLB Committee reserves the right to require a second opinion from a Physician of their choice.
c) Personal catastrophic illness or injury is defined as an illness or injury that meets all of the following conditions:
a. The condition is sudden, unexpected and of such severity, as certified by the employee’s physician, and unable to perform essential job functions.
b. Treatment for a catastrophic condition cannot be postponed without substantial risk of harm to the employee. Treatment that does not require immediate attention and can be treated during the employee’s normal non-working period shall not be eligible for SLB benefits. Treatment for a condition that does not require immediate attention, but is scheduled for the employee’s convenience shall not be eligible for SLB benefits.
5. Sick Leave Bank guidelines will be made available at all work sites. The initial grant of sick leave by the SLBC shall be up to fifteen (215) days. Upon completion of the initial grant, additional sick leave days from may be granted in up to fifteen (15) day intervals. The SLBC shall determine the first year’s allotment of ten maximum benefit for employees. However, the maximum lifetime. benefit shall not exceed forty-five (1045) days.
6. Should the SLB drop below 50 days for more than 30 consecutive working days, it shall be dissolved. Should the SLB be dissolved, the sick days remaining in the bank shall be distributed equally among the members at the time. In such case, the Board shall have no further responsibility to provide additional leave days.
87. Each teacher’s new individual service record card Any SLB benefits will show be offset by any disability, income protection insurance, or litigation benefits the two-day deduction employee receives for the same illness or injury for which the employee receives SLB benefits. The offset shall be dollar for dollar. Any income the employee receives from other sources that are related to the bank upon disability shall be subtracted from the teacheremployee’s written authorizationSLB benefit. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank Work related injuries shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absencecovered by the SLB.
128. Any teacher The SLBC may formulate additional rules and regulations provided the rules and regulations do not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B violate any provision of this contractAgreement.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees purpose of the sick leave bank shall be to continue extend additional sick leave hours for an employee, should an illness or injury as described in Article 13, Section A.3 below exhaust the established Sick Leave Bank employee's accumulated sick, vacation leave, and comp time.
1. New employees become eligible to participate in cooperation the sick leave bank within 30 calendar days of the initial hire date within a given school year. Current employees who have not participated previously shall be permitted to enroll not later than October 31 of any year with an effective eligibility date of November 1 of that year.
2. Employees who are on a part-time, unpaid leave, are not eligible for sick leave bank hours.
3. On or before October 31st each employee may contribute one individual workday of their accumulated sick leave to a common bank. Further yearly contributions shall be limited to the Associationnumber of days necessary to bring bank level to one (1) hour per member of the bargaining unit. Upon application Such contributions are irrevocable. Only employees who have contributed days to utilize the bank may apply for days from the bank. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary. Probationary employees may enroll in the Sick Leave Bank, but are not eligible to access the benefit until after their probationary period ends.
4. Upon depleting accumulated sick leave, vacation leave, and compensatory time, and after obtaining a teacher shall complete an FMLA application 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) consecutive workdays, a member may request days from the bank. A committee composed of three (3) members representing the administration and provide a statement three (3) members appointed by the attending physician verifying Association will act immediately on the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Associationrequest. The Board shall be responsible for committee may grant the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as followsrequest if:
1. To establish membership 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 lost time compensation under Workers' Compensation or under PERS eligibility, or under the District's disability insurance;
c. the member is a contributing member to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty ;
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 ten (3010) work consecutive days to voluntarily donate two and a healthcare provider has certified in writing this illness or injury; and
e. There are sufficient days in the sick leave days bank to cover the request.
5. If the request is denied, the member shall be informed in writing as to the Sick Leave Bankreason for the denial. The actions of the Committee shall not be subject to any further appeal through grievance procedure or otherwise.
1. 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 ten (10) days of the illness or injury, if the employee's accumulated sick leave was not available for those days, will be charged to the bank until further notice. However, in no case will more than a total of fifty (50) days of sick leave from the sick leave bank be approved per individual member in any one (1) school year.
2. The maximum number District shall keep accurate records of leave accumulated by the bank and of sick leave days used by the bank, which may shall not be borrowed from the bank greater than one (1) hour multiplied by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of unit members per school years or calendar 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 involved or and days charged to the number of illnesses involvedbank that year.
3. Sick bank days may Membership shall be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability terminated by written request of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave member or by the end of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5District. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank Previously donated days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate remain in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave daysbank.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established A Sick Leave Bank for the purpose of providing additional coverage after exhaustion of individual annual and/or accumulated sick leave only in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement event of serious illness as evidenced by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration medical certification is hereby established as of the illnessdate of execution of this Agreement, exclusively for members of the bargaining unit. A statement Participation by a second physician may be required upon members of the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician unit shall be agreed to jointly by the Board mandatory and the Association. The Board each member shall be responsible for assessed one (1) day of his/her annual and/or accumulated sick leave as the cost effective date of this Agreement. New members of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations bargaining unit shall be assessed one (1) day of their annual and/or accumulated sick leave as of the Sick Leave date they enter the unit. Said days are to be “deposited” in the Bank. Unused days in the Bank are as follows:
1shall carry over from year to year. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of Should the number of school years days in the Bank reach the level of twenty-five (25) days or calendar days involved or less, then each member in the number bargaining unit shall be assessed one (1) day of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting his/her annual and/or accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay as of the Sick Leave Bank at first day of the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earnednext calendar month. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or a member has no accumulated and/or annual sick leave at the rate time of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance said assessment, that member shall be due at assessed the end amount of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new owing to the system and desiring Bank the following September 1. Subject to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Planprovisions of this article each member may, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment following a maximum of ten (10) sick leave days.
8days waiting period, be granted by the Bank Committee a maximum of twenty (20) school days per year from the Bank. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show If days are granted, they shall cover retroactively the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorizationwaiting period. A special The Sick Leave Bank Journal will shall be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank administered by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations Committee made up three (3) appointees of the Association. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall establish guidelines for the administration of this Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon All decisions by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final and binding and shall not be available subject to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12grievance/arbitration. Any teacher not enrolled decision made under this provision shall solely be the responsibility of the Association who shall be responsible for defending against any complaints, charges or litigation in whatever forum it shall arise. The Town shall be held harmless from any decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B Administrators of this contractBank.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue Upon the established effective date of this agreement, a Sick Leave Bank in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly established for use by the Board and the Associationstaff members defined below who have exhausted their own sick leave. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank may be utilized for personal illness and illness of a family household member or domestic partner. Staff Members who are eligible to participate in the bank are as follows:
1. To establish membership All staff members covered by the recognition clause of this contract (exclusive of coaches who are not otherwise employed by the school department).
2. All members of Unit A, B and Unit C.
B. Effective September 1, 2012, the days currently in the Bank in Chatham and Harwich will be carried over to the Monomoy system Sick Leave Bank. All new staff members defined above shall have one (1) of their annual sick days automatically deducted in their first year of employment. If the Sick Leave bank falls below 500 days, it shall be automatically renewed by contributions of one (1) sick day from each its members’ accumulated sick leave. The one (1) sick day contribution shall be deducted on the first day of the new school year.
C. The initial grant of sick leave bankby the Sick Leave Bank Committee, each participating teacheras established in Section 4, upon employment, to an eligible employee shall have not exceed thirty (30) work days to voluntarily donate two days. Upon completion of the thirty (30) day period, the period of entitlement shall be extended by the sick leave days bank committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. Any sick leave granted any individual under the provisions of this Article shall expire at the end of the applicable school year.
D. A seven-person Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of three teachers appointed to the Bank Committee by the Association, one administrator (exclusive of the Superintendent), one secretary or assistant and one cafeteria employee, appointed by the Association, and the Superintendent of School shall administer the bank. If a tie in voting occurs relative to the use of the Sick Leave Bank, the decision shall be in favor of the applicant.
E. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the eligibility for use of the plan and the amount of leave to be granted. The following criteria may be used by the Committee in administering the bank and determining the eligibility and amount of leave:
1. Adequate medical evidence of illness or incapacitation
2. The maximum number Prior utilization of sick leave days which may be borrowed from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated all eligible sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability Length of the employee service in Chatham, Harwich and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.Monomoy systems
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to Propriety of use of previous sick leave.
F. A written request for sick leave bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees shall be submitted to the Committee by an applicant or his/her designee. Such a request shall be accompanied by whatever medical evidence is required by the Committee to substantiate the request.
G. The applicant will not repay the Sick Leave Bank for the first thirty (30) total day allotment. Thereafter, the applicant shall repay the Sick Bank for the days granted, after the first thirty days, at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per school year over a period until such time as the total number of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporationrepaid, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from minus the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave thirty days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of equals those granted from the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absence.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. The Board agrees to continue the established A Sick Leave Bank will be established according to the following guidelines:
a. Bargaining Unit Members hired on or before September 1 of each school year may enroll in cooperation with the Association. Upon application to utilize the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement by the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration of the illness. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations of the Sick Leave Bank are as follows:
by notifying the District by October 1, or within thirty (30) days of ratification, by both the District and the Association, of an Agreement which includes the new Sick Leave Bank. To establish membership to the sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, Bargaining Unit Members hired after September 1 shall have thirty (30) work school days from their hire date to notify the District of their intent to enroll in the Bank. Each employee who enrolls shall donate one (1) of his/her accumulated sick days to voluntarily donate two the Bank. When days are exhausted a notice shall be sent to Bargaining Unit Members for elective re-enrollment.
b. The Bank will be jointly administered by the District and the Association. The Superintendent and the President of the Association will constitute the Standing Committee.
c. The purpose of the Sick Leave Bank is to provide extended sick leave time for an employee’s personal catastrophic and/or long-term illness, disability or injury, which precludes him/her from being at work. A member of the bargaining unit who has donated to the Bank shall be eligible to apply for days to from the Sick Leave Bank.
2d. Each applicant must exhaust his/her personal sick leave and personal business leave before using days from the Bank.
e. Each application for usage from the Bank must be submitted to the Superintendent of Schools in writing and must be accompanied by a statement from the applicant’s physician stating the nature of the illness or injury and the prognosis, including an estimate of time required for recovery. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed Standing Committee shall have the authority to request further information from the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leaveapplicant’s physician. If an employee’s disability continues into the following year, the employee must reapply to the Bank.
f. The Standing Committee shall be 180 days regardless of decide whether an application is valid, and shall have final authority to approve, modify or deny the application. If the Committee determines that the application is valid, the Committee shall recommend the number of school years days to be advanced to the applicant.
g. The second and any subsequent application from any member in any given year shall be forwarded by the Standing Committee to the Board of Education. The Board shall have final authority to approve, modify or calendar days involved or deny the application.
h. The decision of the Standing Committee and of the Board of Education (for second and subsequent applications in a single year) shall be final and binding, and shall not be subject to the grievance procedure.
i. The total number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability of the employee and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies the employee’s fitness to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay provided by the Sick Leave Bank at the rate of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth year.
6. In the event of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the use of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be available to certificated employees during an unpaid leave of absenceexceed one hundred fifty (150) days in any school year.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contract.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A. It is the parties’ intent to establish a jointly administered Sick Leave Bank, for the Department of Public Works, and the Municipal Center Employees (formerly known as the Town Hall Clerical) bargaining units represented by AFSCME, and to pool a portion of the sick leave allowances granted under the contracts to provide for continued payment of employees with catastrophic or prolonged illnesses or injury.
SECTION 1 Effective January 1, 1997 a sick leave bank shall be established.
SECTION 2 Each employee shall contribute two (2) days per year to the sick leave bank.
SECTION 3 The Board agrees to continue the established Sick Leave Bank shall at all times maintain a minimum of eighty-four (84) days in cooperation with reserve. If the Associationnumber of days falls below the minimum then each employee will contribute one (1) additional day. Upon application However, the total number of sick leave days in reserve shall not exceed two hundred and fifty (250) days. In the event the maximum would be exceeded then SECTION 2 of this Article would not be applied.
SECTION 4 A Sick Leave Bank Committee to utilize consider eligibility for an employee to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank shall be established. This committee shall consist of two (2) members appointed by the Union and one (2) members appointed by the Town Administrator. In the event of the Sick Leave Bank Committee results in a tie when considering eligibility of an employee to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank, a teacher the Town Administration shall complete an FMLA application and provide a statement break the tie by applying the attending physician verifying the need and approximate duration provisions of the illnessSection 5 below. A statement by a second physician may be required upon the recommendation of either the Board or the Association provided that such physician shall be agreed to jointly by the Board and the Association. The Board shall be responsible for the cost of the statement from the second physician. Specific stipulations All decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are as followsfinal and binding and not subject to the grievance procedure.
SECTION 5 The following criteria shall be used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee in determining the eligibility of an employee to draw from the Sick Leave Bank, and in determining the amount of leave:
1. To establish membership to the (a) An employee must have accumulated sixteen (16) days in their employee benefits and must use all accumulated holiday, personal leave, sick leave bank, each participating teacher, upon employment, shall have thirty (30) work days and vacation leave credit prior to voluntarily donate two sick leave days to seeking assistance from the Sick Leave Bank.
2. The maximum number of sick leave days which may be borrowed from (b) An employee must submit written medical evidence, i.e. a medical doctor’s note, indicating the bank by any participating teacher after exhausting individual accumulated sick leave, shall be 180 days regardless of the number of school years or calendar days involved or the number of illnesses involved.
3. Sick bank days may be borrowed only for the personal illness or disability inability of the employee to perform his/her duties. The medical evidence must include the specific nature of the illness or injury, and cannot be used to extend a leave of absence after the attending physician certifies date the employee’s fitness employee may expect to return to work.
4. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to use bank days after exhausting accumulated sick leave days, agrees to repay the Sick Leave Bank at the rate (c) An employee’s prior utilization of a minimum of five (5) days per year over a period of consecutive years immediately following return to active employment with the School Corporation.
5. Any participating teacher finding it necessary to borrow sick leave bank days and subsequently electing not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit-eligibility to be determined by appointed or approved physician) with the School Corporation, or electing to accept employment elsewhere, shall repay the School Corporation in cash for the Sick Leave Bank days borrowed in an amount equal to that paid the respective substitute during the time the teacher borrowed from said bank, but in no case more than the teacher would have earned. In the event the teacher elects not to return to active employment (should his/her health permit), s/he shall repay, as per written agreement, this cash amount in total or at the rate of an agreed upon cash amount per year for five years immediately following his/her health eligibility to return to active employment. All unpaid balance shall be due at the end of the fifth yearsick leave.
6. In the event (d) An employee’s prior requests for and use of a death of the employee, repayment of any outstanding Sick Leave Bank days shall be waived.
7. A teacher new to the system and desiring to participate in the Sick Leave Bank Plan, will be expected to contribute two (2) days from the first year’s allotment of ten (10) sick leave days.
8. Each teacher’s new individual service record card will show the two-day deduction to the bank upon the teacher’s written authorization. A special Sick Leave Bank Journal will be kept in the Corporation Office, showing the current status of the bank and balance of days on hand.
9. Sick leave days donated to the bank by a teacher are considered a permanent contribution to the bank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a teacher leave the Wa-Nee School Corporation.
10. It is understood and agreed upon by the Association and the Board that the administrative personnel of said school district may be participating members of the Sick Leave Bank and are entitled to all rights by fulfilling the obligations as outlined in the above regulations of drawn from the Sick Leave Bank.
11. It is understood (e) Workmen’s Compensation may apply for sick leave up to 15 days for the sole purpose to keep benefits and agreed upon by at the Association end of that time will not accumulate sick days until repaid in the sink bank.
(f) One of the members for the Union Sick Leave Committee will make a written report for all applicants approved or not approved to the President and the Board that President will make a report to the use of Local. (on Sick Bank Leave days in reserve.)
SECTION 6 No days may be granted from the Sick Leave Bank shall for any reason other than that due to prolonged illness or injury. Days may not be available granted for the normal or usual illness due to certificated employees pregnancy, childbirth, or the recuperation there from, except when accompanied by a medical doctor’s note that said employee could not perform the duties appropriate to his/her position because of unusual or abnormal complications occurred during an unpaid leave of absencesuch illness.
12. Any teacher not enrolled in SECTION 7 Upon compliance with SECTION 5 by an employee, the Sick Leave Bank and under contract with the School Corporation may enroll by executing the form as set forth in the Appendix B Committee shall issue a grant of this contract.
13. Any teacher having exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave days may make an official request to borrow days from the Sick Leave Bank by executing the form set forth in Appendix C of this contractreserves. The grant shall be no less than five (5) days and no more than fifteen (15) days.
14. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall SECTION 8 In the event an employee needs additional days then SECTIONS 5, 6, and 7 may be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions hereinreapplied.
15. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
