Use of Leave for Illness or Injury Illness, injury or disability shall be reported at the beginning of any period of leave to the District by the employee or a person acting for him/her. Disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth, and recovery therefrom are, for all job-related purposes, temporary disabilities. In accordance with the Family Care Act, an employee may use leave for illness or injury or vacation to care for a child of the employee under the age of eighteen (18) with a health condition that requires treatment or supervision; a child eighteen (18) years of age or older and incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability; or a spouse, domestic partner, parent, parent-in-law, or grandparent of the employee who has a serious health condition or emergency condition. A licensed health care provider’s certificate of illness or injury may be required for approval of leave for illness or injury after three (3) consecutive workdays of absence. The supervisor should make a reasonable effort to communicate the concerns to the employee(s). A written statement may be requested by the District from a licensed health care provider which verifies the employee’s ability to return to work. Employees absent from work due to illness or injury compensable under the District’s self-insured industrial insurance shall be allowed to use their available vacation and/or general leave up to the amount of their earned credit consistent with state workers compensation provisions. Any overpayments shall be returned by the employee. Employees may elect to combine the time loss benefit with their available vacation and/or general leave payments in accordance with State law. Employees shall be allowed leave with compensation for illness or injury up to the amount of their earned credits under the following conditions:
Use of Leave for Illness or Injury Illness, injury or disability shall be reported at the beginning of any period of leave to the District by the employee or a person acting for him/her. Disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth, and recovery therefrom are, for all job-related purposes, temporary disabilities. In accordance with the Family Care Act, an employee may use leave for illness or injury or vacation to care for a child of the employee under the age of eighteen
Use of Leave for Illness. A. Accrued sick and personal leave may be used for absence from duty due to illness. Accrued sick or personal leave may also be used in the case of serious illness in the employee's immediate family. The term, "immediate family", as used in this Article, shall mean: an individual's spouse, children, mother, father, brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, grandchildren, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters- in-law, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, step-parent, step-children, and other relatives who permanently reside with the individual. Special consideration may also be given to any other person who has had a close, long-standing, personal relationship with the employee where such a person acted similar to and/or stood in the place of a mother, father, brother, sister, or grandparent of the employee.
