Sick Leave Usage 1. Sick leave may be used by an employee when sick, injured, or quarantined. Also sick leave may be used on the occasion of an illness in the employee's family, where a need can be shown.
2. In computing compensation payable for sick leave, the compensation paid shall be the amount the employee would earn during the sick leave period if working at their current rate of pay and work schedule without the inclusion of overtime earnings.
Sick Leave Pay A Nurse granted sick leave shall be paid for the period of such leave at her or his regular hourly rate of pay and the number of hours thus paid shall be deducted from the accumulated sick leave credits of the Nurse.
Sick Leave Incentive The City will institute a sick leave incentive based on the usage of the bargaining unit; further, the City will pay each person who qualifies during January of each year. The incentive will be calculated and monitored by the Personnel Department and will be based on the pay periods during a calendar year. The incentive shall be awarded only when the bargaining unit's average sick leave usage is less than the City average and the following conditions are met: When the bargaining unit's sick leave usage is greater than forty (40) hours but less than the City average, the City will pay each member using between zero (0) and sixteen (16) hours of sick leave, eight (8) hours pay and any member using more than sixteen (16) but equal to or less than twenty-four (24) hours, four (4) hours pay. When the bargaining unit's average sick leave usage is equal to or less than forty (40) hours, the City will pay each member who used between zero (0) and sixteen (16) hours, sixteen (16) hours of pay at their current hourly rate. Those members who used more than sixteen (16) but equal to or less than twenty-four (24) hours, will receive eight (8) hours of pay.
Sick Leave 16.1 The Company shall provide paid sick leave benefits to all eligible employees for periods of temporary absence due to bona fide illnesses or injuries. Part-time employees shall receive sick time on a pro-rata basis.
16.2 Eligible employees shall accrue sick leave benefits at the rate of 72 (seventy-two) hours each calendar year, or a pro rata thereof.
16.3 Employees who are unable to report to work due to illness or injury are required to notify their direct supervisor before the start of their scheduled workday.
16.4 Before returning to work from a sick leave absence, an employee may be asked to provide a physician’s verification that he or she may safely perform all of the essential functions of his or her position, with or without reasonable accommodation. Such a request by the Company shall be made only where circumstances warrant such a request, as determined by the Company, and shall not be made capriciously. In addition, an employee who is ill for more than three (3) calendar days may be asked for some physician’s verification.
16.5 Sick leave benefits shall be calculated based on the employee’s base pay at the time of absence and shall not include any special forms of compensation, such as commissions or bonuses.
16.6 An employee on maternity leave who becomes ill or disabled because of pregnancy shall be entitled to sick leave pay for the duration of such illness or disability, but in no event shall the Company be required to provide paid sick leave in excess of an employee’s accumulated credit. The Company may require medical verification of illness or disability because of pregnancy.
16.7 If an employee is eligible for state disability or worker’s compensation benefits, sick pay shall supplement such benefits. The Company shall continue to pay the employee’s full salary, to the extent sick leave benefits are available until the employee actually begins receiving state disability or worker’s compensation benefits. At that point, the employee shall report to the Company the amount of each benefit check received. Such amounts will be deducted from subsequent paychecks.
16.8 Unused sick leave shall be cumulative and the unused portion of sick leave entitlement shall be carried over from year to year to a maximum of 416 (four hundred sixteen) hours.
16.9 Unused sick leave benefits shall not be paid to employees while they are employed or upon termination of employment.
16.10 In any calendar year, eligible employees may use up to one-half of their accrued and available sick leave to attend to the care of a sick child, parent, same-sex domestic partner or spouse, only to the extent that state law requires same.
16.11 The sick leave policy issued on June 24, 2015, which took effect on July 1, 2015, is included, by extension, into this agreement, with the understanding that each employee will receive full credit for all annual and banked sick leave accrued as of the date of this Agreement, and with the understanding that the sick leave benefits under the policy cannot be changed without agreement between the Guild and the Employer.
Sick Leave Bank The school corporation agrees to, and hereby establishes a voluntary sick leave bank to which certificated persons may contribute unused sick leave days, and from which a contributing individual may draw sick leave days when the individual’s annual and accumulated sick leave days are exhausted, in accordance with the following provisions. Please see the definitions of sick leave under Article IV.
1. The sick leave bank shall apply to all persons employed by the school corporation whose employment requires the holding of a license issued by the Indiana Department of Education, whether or not any such person is a member of the bargaining unit to which this contract applies.
2. A “contributing individual” is one who, within the first thirty (30) days of the contract year, signs a contribution form. Such contribution form shall require the assigning of one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank and an individual may contribute up to five (5) total days if so motivated during any enrollment period.
3. A person shall cease to be a contributing individual upon the failure of such individual to sign such contribution form and such individual shall thereafter not be entitled to draw any sick leave days from the sick leave bank until becoming a contributing member the following year.
4. Present and new faculty members who wish to become “contributing individuals” may do so by following the procedure in paragraph two (2). Staff who hire in after the annual enrollment period closes can still enroll under equivalent timelines as original enrollment period.
5. Use of the sick leave bank shall be subject to the following limitations:
a. Sick bank leave shall be used on a teacher’s first day receiving no pay as long as the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days, as well as all annual sick and personal days. Days may need to be allotted retroactively to allow time for the sick bank committee to meet and review the request. In the event a teacher on sick bank leave returns to work and then finds it necessary on advice of a doctor to take additional leave for the same disability, no additional days shall be deducted subject to the approve of the Sick Bank Review Committee.
b. In the even a teacher is disabled as a result of illness or injury of a different nature during the same school year, any additional sick leave bank time granted is subject to approval of the Sick Bank Review Committee.
c. Sick bank leave shall be used for the purposes permitted by the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and must be supported by a written request by the contributing individual and the appropriate FMLA certification specifying the nature of the illness and prognosis report for the teacher’s return to work.
d. Days taken from the sick leave bank shall apply only to those days on which a teacher would receive pay if the teacher were not under disability.
e. All contractual leave days shall be waived while drawing pay from the sick leave bank so that a teacher in no case will be drawing double pay for any day.
f. This sick leave bank section shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving workers compensation benefits receives more than such teacher’s regular pay.
g. Paid holidays, if any, shall not be charged against the sick leave bank, but shall be compensated for under the terms of the teacher’s contract.
h. Sick leave bank days shall not be used during summer school employment, nor shall such days be used at any other times except the regular school year.
i. Leave from the sick leave bank may not be used for maternity or childbirth leave, but may be used for any physical disability arising out of a pregnancy.
j. Teachers who, as of the beginning of the school year in which sick leave bank benefits are requested and used, have accumulated the following number of sick leave days under the sick leave section of this contract, shall be eligible to draw up to a maximum number of days from the sick leave bank in any single year as follows:
(1) 0-10: Up to 60 days (2) 11-40: Up to 90 days (3) 41 or over: Up to 120 days k. Teachers may be awarded fewer than maximum days (listed in Section j) at the discretion of the Sick Bank Review Committee.
6. Should the sick leave bank fall to a thirty (30) day balance during a school year, an additional contribution will be requested and will count toward the subsequent enrollment period.
7. A Sick Bank Review Committee shall be formed and shall be comprised of three (3) members appointed by the exclusive representative and one (1) individual appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall consider and review all requests for use of sick bank days to ensure that all applications submitted, and any grants made, are in accordance with the provisions of this contract.
8. The school district shall notify certificated employees of the enrollment period for the sick bank, including required contribution forms and appropriate deadlines, within the first five (5) school days of each school year.
9. If there are seven hundred and fifty (750) days in the bank at the time of open enrollment, no contribution will be necessary unless it falls below the previously described number of thirty (30) days.
