Sick Leave Pool. The purpose of the emergency sick leave pool is to furnish additional sick days for certified staff under the negotiated agreement. This leave can only be used during the school year after the teacher has exhausted all regular accumulated sick leave and discretionary leave. Leave will be granted for catastrophic illness or injury of the employee only, on a first-come, first-ask basis. The emergency sick leave pool will be funded by the days certified staff has over the 80-day maximum sick leave this is given to each employee on July 1 of each year. All days over the 80-day accumulated sick leave the employees receive will be put into an emergency sick leave pool with an accumulation not to exceed 80 days for the pool. The maximum number of emergency sick leave pool days that may be accumulated during the school year is 20 days. A written application along with a physician’s statement documenting the nature of the catastrophic illness or injury must be sent to the building principal. The Emergency Sick Leave Pool Committee will meet within 10 calendar days after receiving the application to consider the request. The application may be sent to the building principal before the employee’s regular sick leave ends. The Emergency Sick Leave Pool Committee will consist of six members. One member from each of the four schools (“Primary, Intermediate, Middle, and High School”) the Superintendent and the building principal from the building of the applicant. All members will meet to determine ach request; however, the committee member representing the same building as the applicant will not vote. The building principal and superintendent will vote in all cases. The committee members will serve for a period of two years. The Primary and Middle School members will be elected on even calendar years and the Intermediate and the High School members will be elected on odd calendar years. If a member of the committee leaves the employment of the USD 210 before the end of his/her term, the committee will appoint a new committee member form the affected building. The committee members will be in place by September 1 of each year. The emergency sick leave bank may not be used to cover employees who are receiving pay, salary protection payments, and disability insurance payments or are eligible to receive compensation from workers’ compensation or KPERS disability.
Sick Leave Pool. There is hereby established a pool of sick leave days for use by teachers. The sick leave pool shall be used in the event of major illness or disability. This pool is not intended for brief absences and will be implemented as follows:
1. Each teacher shall be a member of the sick leave pool and eligible for the benefits therein.
2. Each teacher shall transfer one (1) leave day each year to the sick leave pool. If the accumulated days in the sick leave pool are more than 300 days on August 1 of any year, employees that have donated to the pool for a minimum of 3 years will not be required to transfer their 1 leave day.
3. Days transferred by an employee become a permanent part of the pool and will not be returned. At the end of each contract year, the unused days in the sick leave pool shall be carried over into the sick leave pool for the next contract year.
4. If the accumulated days in the sick leave pool are less than 100 days on August 1 of any year, each employee shall contribute two days to the pool that year. Additionally, if the pool is depleted during any year, the committee shall take action as needed to meet the needs of the members of the pool.
5. Before using the sick leave pool, each employee shall have depleted his/her accumulated sick and personal leave.
6. Sick leave pool days are intended to provide for absences caused by prolonged and serious diseases or disabilities for the employee or his/her immediate family as described below. That would include intermittent absences due to follow-up care related to the initial condition. Except as related to the underlying serious medical condition, sick leave pool days are not intended for medical or dental appointments.
7. The application form will include a written statement from the employee's physician certifying that the employee is incapable of performing his/her duties as a result of the prolonged illness or disability. The physician may be asked to certify in writing the number of days absence the given illness or disability requires. The completed form should be returned to the office of the Superintendent who will forward it to the committee.
8. Employees would be eligible for a number of days depending on longevity of sick leave pool membership. These limits are for each illness/disability; a separate situation would also be eligible for consideration by the committee in the same school year.
Sick Leave Pool. Regulation FPU-6.006 Sick Leave Pool adopted by the Board of Trustees on February 5, 2014 governs the Sick Leave Pool for eligible employees.
Sick Leave Pool. A Sick Leave Pool Committee shall be established to administer the District Sick Leave Pool. The committee shall be composed of an equal number of members appointed by the Association and the District and will develop procedures for the operation of the Pool.
Sick Leave Pool. In accordance with the following provisions, a faculty member may elect to pool accrued sick leave for disbursement to any participating faculty member who needs sick leave time in excess of the amount of his accrued sick leave:
A. The Office of Human Resources shall have the authority to administer and implement the Sick Leave Pool for faculty members in accordance with the provisions of Article 13 of this Agreement and the laws of the State of Florida. The decisions of Human Resources shall be final.
B. A faculty member may participate in the Sick Leave Pool on a voluntary basis.
C. A faculty member shall be eligible for participation in the Sick Leave Pool after one year of employment with the College, provided the faculty member has accrued a minimum of twelve (12) days of unused sick leave.
D. Each day of sick leave that a faculty member contributes to the Sick Leave Pool will be deducted from the contributing faculty member’s accrued sick leave balance.
E. Each participating faculty member shall make an equal contribution to the Sick Leave Pool.
F. Each participating faculty member shall make an initial contribution of four (4) days of accrued sick leave to the Sick Leave Pool. No additional contributions to the Sick Leave Pool will be required unless replenishment is needed for the Sick Leave Pool. If the number of days of accrued sick leave in the Sick Leave Pool is reduced to twenty-five (25) days, all participants shall be assessed with the same number of days as is necessary to replenish the Sick Leave Pool to a minimum of two hundred (200) days.
G. A faculty member shall have an opportunity to enroll as a member of the Sick Leave Pool during the annual enrollment period, which shall occur during the first sixty (60) calendar days of the Fall Term each year, and shall make the four (4)- day contribution required by paragraph (F) above, or such greater contribution in excess of the four (4) days to the same extent all other members are contributing in order to replenish the Sick Leave Pool. A faculty member is not eligible to join the Sick Leave Pool while on sick leave.
H. To utilize sick leave from the Sick Leave Pool, a participating faculty member must use the sick leave for a personal illness, accident or injury.
I. A participating faculty member shall be eligible to use sick leave from Sick Leave Pool after his accrued sick leave and vacation leave have been depleted and the faculty member has used five (5) days of personal leave without pa...
Sick Leave Pool. Pool participants must have a minimum of six (6) days of accrued sick leave.
Sick Leave Pool. The School Board agrees to maintain a Sick Leave Pool. Sick Leave Pool By-Laws are available from the Human Resources Office or from the RFT building representative.
Sick Leave Pool. A. A sick leave pool shall be established for use by participating teachers.
B. Participation in the sick leave pool shall be voluntary on the part of each teacher.
C. All full time teachers shall be eligible for participation in the sick leave pool after one (l) year of employment by the Okaloosa County School Board provided said teacher has accumulated a minimum of twenty (20) days of accrued unused sick leave. Note: the one (1) year of employment does not have to be the year immediately preceding entry in the pool. Any year of employment by the Okaloosa County School District will satisfy this provision for eligibility as long as the twenty (20) days of leave provision is met.
D. Any sick leave pooled pursuant to this article shall be removed from the accumulated sick leave balance of the teacher donating such leave and shall not be available to the donating teacher as sick leave.
E. Any sick leave time drawn from the pool by the participating teacher must be used for the teacher's personal catastrophic illness, accident or injury. Pregnancy without complications and selective surgery are not considered catastrophic.
F. Each participating teacher shall contribute one (1) day of sick leave in the first month of eligibility. No other sick leave contributions will be required, except that each participating teacher shall be required to contribute an additional one (1) day of accrued sick leave if the sick leave pool balance has been reduced below one (1) day for each two (2) participating teachers.
1. Teachers shall be eligible to join the sick leave pool during the first twenty (20) school days of each school year.
2. The teacher who cancels his/her membership in the sick leave pool shall not be eligible to withdraw the days of sick leave he/she has contributed to the pool.
G. A participating teacher shall not be eligible to use sick leave days from the pool until all of his or her sick leave has been depleted. A teacher so situated shall be eligible to use up to a maximum of ninety (90) days of sick leave from the pool within a twelve (12) month period and only for approved absences of five (5) continuous paid days or more.
H. A participating teacher who is eligible to use sick leave days from the pool shall not be required to re-contribute such days, except as a regular contributing member.
I. A teacher who transfers into another school district within the state shall not be eligible to have sick leave days from the pool transferred to that school board...
Sick Leave Pool. 14.1 Pursuant to Section 1012.61(3), F.S. the Board agrees to provide a sick leave pool program for the benefit of all District EMPLOYEES as provided in Board Policy 3430.07.
14.2 UNION participation shall be as stated in Article 3.1.
1.3 The UNION shall have two (2) representatives on the Sick Leave Pool Appeals Committee.
Sick Leave Pool. The purpose of the sick leave pool is to provide a continuing income for teachers who are faced with major illness or injury and have used up all their accumulated sick leave. This pool is not intended for brief absences after sick leave is used up, and will be implemented as follows:
1. Each professional employee shall indicate on a form provided by the district and due by August 1, except in the case of new hires, whether or not he/she intends to participate in the sick leave pool. For new hires, the form shall be due within ten (10) days after the first day of duty. The decision of the employee shall stay in effect until reversed in writing. A roster of those persons participating in the pool will be provided to the Association prior to September 1 of each year and shall be updated if changes occur during the year.
2. If the employee decides to participate in the sick leave pool, the employee will contribute one (1) leave day to the sick leave pool each year. Days contributed by a pool member become a permanent part of the pool and will not be refunded to the pool member.
3. Only those employees participating in the pool will be eligible to apply for days from the pool.
4. Employees, before using the sick leave pool, shall exhaust their accumulated sick leave excluding “sub-deduct days” (see Article IV, Item 2 Sick Leave).
5. Sick leave pool days may be used for the employee or his/her immediate family as defined in Article IV.
6. An employee is only eligible to collect as many days as he/she has accumulated in sick leave at the start of that school year.
7. Any eligible person who desires days from the sick leave pool must make written application to the sick leave screening Board which shall consist of (1) the superintendent of schools; (2) the principal of the building where the applicant is employed; (3) the association building representative where the applicant is employed; and (4) the president of the association. The application must include a written statement from the attending doctor.
8. A tie vote shall be considered an approval of the employee’s request.
9. The sick leave pool may not be used to cover participants who are receiving pay from worker’s compensation.
10. At the beginning of the new contract year, if the total of accumulated days in the sick leave pool is more than 200 days, the requirement to contribute an additional day shall be waived for all pool members who have participated for at least three (3) consecutive years. The req...
