Use of Sick Bank a. The maximum number of days a participant can draw from the Sick Leave Bank will be capped at two hundred (200) for the first ten (10) year employment period beginning on the employees 1st anniversary of employment. There shall be a maximum lifetime cap of three hundred (300) days. Days repaid to the Sick Bank will not count towards this cap. (This maximum lifetime cap of three hundred [300] days will not include days used by employees under the old Sick Bank system.)
b. Employees must use all available sick leave, vacation time and personal business leave prior to receiving days from the Sick Bank. An employee who suffers a qualifying event, which extends at least ten (10) days beyond the available sick leave, may apply for a grant from the Sick Leave Bank on the appropriate form. If leave is granted by the Sick Bank Committee, benefits will be retroactive to the first day of need.
c. If an employee does not use all of the days granted from the Sick Bank, the unused Sick Leave Bank days will be returned to the Sick Bank.
d. The Sick Leave Bank may only be used for the employee’s own personal illness.
e. Sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank may not be used for disabilities that qualify the employee for Workers‟ Compensation Benefits. (Sick Leave Bank participants receiving sick leave in lieu of Workers‟ Compensation, due to a contested claim, will be responsible for reimbursing the Sick Bank should they be awarded Worker’s Compensation.)
f. Each separate application for a grant from the Bank must include a new physician’s statement and an application on an appropriate Sick Leave Bank Form.
g. All requests to draw upon the Bank must be made upon a Sick Leave Bank Request Form and be submitted to the Committee.
h. All requests to draw upon the Bank must be accompanied by the Sick Leave Bank Physician’s Statement confirming the cause of illness or confinement and certifying the existence of a disability to perform assigned duties. The employee’s physician must personally sign the form. The Committee will not honor any physician’s statement unless it is on the official Sick Leave Bank Physician’s Statement Form.
i. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall have the right to request additional medical information if it deems such information necessary as well as the right to have the applicant examined by a School Physician or a physician designated by the School Physician. This physician’s report is to be sent directly to the Superintendent of Schools to be submitt...
Use of Sick Bank. The Sick Bank is intended for use only when the employee is medically ill or injured, and the employee is not otherwise compensated by the COB or through Worker's Compensation. Employees will not be paid for accumulated days in the Sick Bank upon separation from employment or upon death of the employee. In order to be paid for more than two Sick Bank days in any given work week, or for more than three (3) consecutively scheduled work days, the employee shall present a statement from a health care professional licensed to practice medicine in the State of Indiana. Employees shall not be paid for Sick Bank days unless they notify their supervisors before commencement of the employee’s work day; provided however, an employee shall notify his/her supervisor at least two (2) weeks in advance of a planned medical leave such as scheduled surgery or treatment, except when it is not possible to give two (2) weeks notice, in which case the employee shall give as much advance notice as is practicable. Provided further, use of Sick Bank days for reasons other than the employee’s own illness or injury shall be permitted only as follows:
(1) As provided for Family and Medical Leave, and shall be subject to the notification and certification requirements of that section.
(2) Absences necessitated by a family emergency or the serious illness of an employee’s parent, child, spouse, grandparents, grandchildren, or step equivalents, registered domestic partner, or the parent or child of a registered domestic partner, or mate may be approved, providing that the total does not exceed forty (40) hours per year. These forty (40) hours shall be chargeable to the Sick Bank. Extensions of this policy may be allowed at the discretion of the department head where extraordinary circumstances warrant such action but shall not exceed a total of forty (40) additional hours per year. The department head shall send the appropriate documentation to the Director of Human Resources. This provision is intended to cover short term, unexpected absences and is not intended to replace the Family and Medical Leave Policy.
(3) Sick Bank time may be used only in increments equivalent to half or full work days, except that employees may use up to two of their accrued Sick Bank days per year in increments of two (2) hour duration for doctor appointments or a medical illness. Provided, however, these minimums shall not apply to intermittent and reduced leave schedules under FMLA and the COB’s policy imp...
Use of Sick Bank. A member of the Association shall be eligible for the Sick Bank if he/she meets each of the following conditions:
a. has suffered a prolonged, serious illness or injury, and
b. has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave, and c. is not eligible for Social Security and/or Teacher’s Retirement System Disability For the purpose of this Article, the term “serious illness or injury” shall be defined by the Family Medical Leave Act.
