Common use of Unpaid Leave Conditions Clause in Contracts

Unpaid Leave Conditions. 1. Upon return from an approved long-term leave, a member shall be assigned on a position-available basis. 2. A member may request to return from unpaid leave earlier than originally approved. 3. A member on an approved unpaid leave does not lose privileges under the non-retention statutes, and the leave year does not constitute a break in service under member retirement statutes. 4. The Board shall continue the retirement contributions toward the salary the member would have received when the member pays the District and member contribution as required by state law. The payments may be made on a monthly basis. 5. Both personal and sick leave must be exhausted before unpaid medical leave may be used. 6. Leave requests shall indicate whether the leave is for medical, study, recreation, home/family, business, association work. 7. Notice of intent to return from leave must be given to the District by certified mail by March 15, if on full year or second semester leave. Notice of intent to return from leave must be given to the District by November 15, if on leave for first semester only. If such timely notice is received, the District shall make available to the teacher a list of current vacancies. 8. Teachers who fail to give proper and timely notice of their intent to return from leave may be terminated by the District. 365 FAMILY/MEDICAL LEAVE PROVISIONS‌ A. Procedures governing access to leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) or Alaska Family Leave Act are as follows: 1. Procedures for FMLA eligibility shall be in accordance with the Acts; 2. Employees may be required to submit fitness-for-duty forms prior to return to work; 3. The District shall make available on its website a link to the Benefits Department which will contain FMLA information. A copy of the Anchorage School District’s Family Medical Leave Policy, which complies with the Alaska Family/Medical Leave Act and the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, is also available upon request from the Benefits Department. Additional Benefit information is available on the District’s website or from the District Leave Specialist. 4. Insurance benefits will be retained in accordance with the Acts. Employee will be responsible for any employee contributions to retain benefits. B. Members adopting children may use up to six consecutive calendar weeks of accrued sick leave or up to a total of eighteen weeks of unpaid medical leave or a combination of sick and unpaid medical leave equal to a maximum of eighteen weeks, when appropriate documentation is submitted, in accordance with the Alaska Family/Medical Leave Act and the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993. No member shall have access to the Sick Leave Bank for purposes of adoption. C. Non-birth parents may use up to ten days of their accrued sick leave for leave immediately following the birth of their child. 368 LEAVE DONATIONS‌ A. Solicitation of donations of leave by individuals, or the donation of leave between individual employees, is not permitted. B. Sick leave bank members who exhaust their sick and catastrophic leave awards from the Sick Leave Bank may apply for member donations. However, Sick Leave Bank members who have been denied sick leave or catastrophic leave by the Sick Leave Bank Committee are not eligible to apply for member donations. C. The Association shall have the availability to solicit up to a maximum of 250 days of leave donations each contract year to be added to the pool. Unused days remaining in the pool can be carried over each year to a maximum of 200 days, for a total pool of 450 days. The Chief Human Resources Officer and the AEA President will track leave solicitation each contract year. The Chief Human Resources Officer will notify the Sick Leave Bank Committee and the AEA President of any unused carryover balance available for solicitation at the end of a contract year. D. All requests for leave donations from the general membership must be directed to the Sick Leave Bank, and meet eligibility requirements in accordance with Article 368 B. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will structure rules for an award of donated days. The intent of an award of donated leave days is to provide assistance by way of extending the number of days in paid status to a member in a life-threatening/career ending situation. The member must have exhausted all other options before a recommendation for an award can be made. The rules must comply with Article 368. Upon recommendation from the Sick Leave Bank Committee, the AEA President will solicit donations from the membership.