Voluntary Sick Leave Assistance Sample Clauses

Voluntary Sick Leave Assistance. Once the sick leave bank accumulates 350 days, members who have contributed for five years will no longer need to contribute until the accumulated days fall below 350. New members will contribute until they have reached a minimum of five days. New members may apply for days from the sick leave bank after they have contributed one day. 1. Voluntary sick leave assistance plan means the contribution of a specific number of accumulated sick leave days to a plan which allows the use of contributed sick leave days by a teacher who has exhausted his/her said allowance. 2. Any teacher may become a member of the voluntary sick leave assistance plan by notifying the business manager and filing an application form prior to October 1. If any teacher elects not to participate within the time limit specified, the teacher is ineligible until the beginning of the next school year. 3. Teachers may withdraw from the plan by notifying the business manager in writing prior to October 1. 4. Teachers shall contribute one day of their sick leave to the plan on initially joining and at the beginning of each year of membership thereafter. 5. As demands are placed on the plan, each participating teacher agrees to contribute the necessary days in uniform, equal installments not to exceed three (3) days per year per teacher. 6. Participants who are not drawing sick leave assistance from the plan and are unable to contribute the necessary days when called for must contribute the days when they become available. 7. Teachers withdrawing days from the plan are not required to replace these days except as a regular contributing member of the plan. 8. Days contributed to the plan cannot be withdrawn when a teacher terminates membership in the plan. 9. This plan is for the protection of individual participating teachers during a long-term extended illness or disability of the teacher, spouse, children, parents, siblings, or any member of the teacher’s household. Such illness or disability must cause an absence from regularly assigned duties for five (5) duty days or more. Use of this bank may begin after five (5) duty days of absence due to such illness or disability but not until after an individual teacher’s accumulated sick leave days have been exhausted, at which time the participating teacher may draw up to forty-five (45) days of sick leave from the plan. Once in effect, this plan will become retroactive to cover any of the five (5) preceding days not covered by the individual teacher...