Common use of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank Clause in Contracts

Voluntary Sick Leave Bank. 1. The purpose of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank is to provide extended sick leave coverage to any employee benefited by this agreement who has exhausted his/her sick leave and who is a member of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank pursuant to Paragraph B. below. An employee may access the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank for absences due to or resulting from an extended and/or serious injury, illness or disability as defined by the Family and Medical leave Act as a serious personal illness or injury. 2. To be eligible to join the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank as a member, an employee must have completed one (1) year of employment and must contribute one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave to the Bank. 3. The Bank will be administered by a committee of four persons, two members representing the Department and two members representing the Association, to be known as the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 4. All requests for the use of sick days from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank shall be directed to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may approve a request for the use of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank days in an amount up to ninety (90) days. The total grant of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank days shall not exceed 1 (one) year per illness, injury or disability. A request for the use of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank Days must be accompanied by an application and medical documentation. Any requests for an extension of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank benefits of more than ninety (90) days, must be accompanied by a new application and current medical documentation. 5. In acting upon requests for sick days from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank, the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall utilize the following criteria: A. adequate medical evidence; B. Prior utilization of sick leave and/or Voluntary Sick Leave Bank C. reason for and propriety of prior use of sick leave; and D. the member’s intent to return to service in the Ayer Police Department 6. In order for a member to be eligible for Voluntary Sick Leave Bank benefits in each fiscal year, he/she must return to work for a period of time at lease as long as the period for which he/she received benefits. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may waive this provision in extraordinary circumstances. 7. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final and not subject to the Grievance and Arbitration Procedure. 8. Implementation open.

Voluntary Sick Leave Bank. 1. The purpose of the A Voluntary Sick Leave Bank is to provide extended will be established and maintained by the voluntary contributions of accrued sick leave coverage to any employee benefited days by this agreement who has exhausted his/her sick leave full-time contract and who is a member of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank pursuant to Paragraph B. below. An employee may access the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank for absences due to or resulting from an extended and/or serious injury, illness or disability as defined by the Family and Medical leave Act as a serious personal illness or injury. 2. To be eligible to join the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank as a member, an employee must have completed one (1) year of employment and must contribute one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave to the Bank. 3regular faculty. The Bank will be administered by a committee intent of four persons, two members representing the Department and two members representing the Association, to be known as the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 4. All requests for the use of sick days from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank shall be directed to assist and aid contract and regular faculty who experience unusual circumstances that cause a need for sick leave beyond that which they have earned and accrued. The Voluntary Sick Leave Bank shall be managed by the District's Human Resources Office. Eligibility: Participation in the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank shall be limited to full-time contract and regular faculty. In order to be eligible, the contract or regular faculty member must have authorized the District's Human Resources Office in writing to deduct one day of sick leave immediately and an additional day each time the Sick Leave Bank Committeebalance falls below one hundred (100) days. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may approve a request for Such deductions shall continue until the use member notifies the Human Resources Office in writing of their withdrawal from participation in the Bank. Participation in the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank days shall be voluntary and may be withdrawn at any time without retrieval of contributed leave. Contributing faculty participating in an amount up to ninety (90) days. The total grant of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank days shall not exceed 1 (one) year per illness, injury or disabilityupon implementation of the Bank are eligible for benefits immediately. A request for Newly hired contributing faculty who join the use of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank Days must be accompanied by an application and medical documentationwithin thirty (30) days are eligible for benefits immediately. Any requests for an extension of Voluntary Contributing faculty joining or rejoining the Sick Leave Bank benefits of more than ninety (90) days, at a subsequent time can only enroll during an annual open enrollment period which will be the same annual open enrollment period used for employee health insurance changes. All regular sick leave must be accompanied by exhausted before a new application and current medical documentation. 5. In acting upon requests member of the Bank is eligible for sick days benefits from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank, . A Bank member's ability to draw on the Bank is subject to there being an available balance in the Bank. Physician Certification: In order to utilize the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall utilize an employee must present to the following criteria: A. adequate medical evidence; B. Prior utilization District's Human Resources Office a physician's statement certifying thatthe employee will be unable to perform the function of sick leave and/or Voluntary Sick Leave Bank C. reason the job for and propriety a period extending at least ten (10) working days beyond the exhaustion of prior use of available sick leave; and D. the member’s intent to return to service in the Ayer Police Department 6. In order for a member to be eligible for Coordination of Benefits: Voluntary Sick Leave Bank benefits in each fiscal yearmust be coordinated with supplemental sick leave, until an employee is eligible for disability. In no case will an employee be allowed to draw from the Bank after he/she must return is eligible for disability payments. An eligible member shall be limited to work for a period maximum of time at lease as long as one hundred (100) days of half-pay per academic year in conjunction with the period for which he/she received benefits. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may waive this provision in extraordinary circumstancesuse of supplemental sick leave. 7. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final and not subject to the Grievance and Arbitration Procedure. 8. Implementation open.

Voluntary Sick Leave Bank. 1. The purpose of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank is intended to provide extended sick leave coverage to any assist a full-time employee benefited by this agreement who has exhausted used all of his/her sick and personal days and is in need of more leave and who is time due to a member serious health problem of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank pursuant to Paragraph B. belowteacher. An employee may access the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank for absences due to or resulting from an extended and/or serious injury, illness or disability as "Full-time employee" is defined by the Family and Medical leave Act as a serious personal illness or injury. 2staff employee who has full benefits. To No days may be eligible to join the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank as a member, an employee must have completed one (1) year of employment and must contribute one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave to the Bank. 3. The Bank will be administered by a committee of four persons, two members representing the Department and two members representing the Association, to be known as withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 4until the employee has lost wages equivalent to three working days (3/180) of each related and/or continuous application to the Bank. All requests for In the event the employee has not exhausted his or her Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) entitlement prior to requesting use of sick days from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank shall be directed to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may approve a request for the use of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank days in an amount up to ninety (90) days. The total grant of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank days shall not exceed 1 (one) year per illness, injury or disability. A request for the use of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank Days must be accompanied by an application and medical documentation. Any requests for an extension of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank benefits of more than ninety (90) days, must be accompanied by a new application and current medical documentation. 5. In acting upon requests for sick days from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank, sick leave days accessed through the Bank shall run concurrent with the employee’s remaining FMLA entitlement for the year. The full-time employee or his/her proxy must request of the district superintendent the use of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank. Appropriate doctor verification of need must be presented at the time of request. To participate, an individual must have donated days on or before September 1 of the current school year. No one may join at a later date. Only employees who have donated at least one day to the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank are eligible to be the recipient. The issuance of days will be completed through the use of a lottery. Those individuals who donate a day(s) will have their name placed in the lottery pool. A name will be drawn out and that individual will have a sick leave day deducted from his/her total accumulated days. Those individuals who donate more than one day will not be placed back in the drawing until all individuals who donated days have been drawn out at least once. Then the names of those who have donated more than one day will be placed back in the pool. The days will be used on an as- needed basis. At the close of the school year, unused days will be credited back to the donor. Individual names in the drawing will be confidential. The individual will not know who or how many days were donated. If the number of days in the Bank falls below ten (10), the Association President will be notified in writing and current participants may donate additional days to the Bank. If a person chooses not to donate again, he/she is no longer an eligible recipient. In the event that all available days have been used, withdrawing days from the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall utilize is no longer an option. The maximum number of days available to any eligible employee through the Bank will be the number of days needed to complete the current school year. An individual unable to start the following criteria: A. adequate medical evidence; B. Prior utilization school year is required to request a leave of sick leave and/or Voluntary Sick Leave Bank C. reason for and propriety absence from the School Board by August 1. If, at the conclusion of prior use of sick such leave; and D. , the member’s intent individual is unable to return to service in work, the Ayer Police Department 6individual shall conclusively be determined to be totally and permanently disabled and his/her employment shall terminate. In order such cases, the School Board shall cooperate with the individual in assisting the person with the Illinois Teacher's Retirement System for a member securing any disability benefits the individual may be entitled to be eligible receive. It is understood that the donation of any days will not affect the donor's perfect attendance for Voluntary Sick Leave Bank benefits in each fiscal said school year, he/she must return to work for a period of time at lease as long as the period for which he/she received benefits. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may waive this provision in extraordinary circumstances. 7. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final and not subject to the Grievance and Arbitration Procedure. 8. Implementation open.

Voluntary Sick Leave Bank. 1a. The District shall maintain a Voluntary Sick Leave Bank (VSLB) for use by a Teacher to care of his/her own personal serious illness or disability, or for the care of a Teacher’s family due to such family member’s serious illness or serious disability. The purpose For purposes of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank, the Teacher’s “family” shall be defined to include: parents, spouse, children, or domestic partner. In addition, the immediate family, for purposes of this section, shall include: spouse, children, parents, parents- in-law, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, aunts and uncles living in the Teacher’s household and legal guardians and wards. “Serious illness or disability” shall be defined as that which jeopardizes the life of the family member or a medical emergency which confronts the family member. b. A Committee will be formed which shall consist of two (2) Administrators chosen by the District and two (2) Teachers chosen by the Association. The Voluntary Sick Leave Bank is to provide extended sick leave coverage to any employee benefited by this agreement who has exhausted his/her sick leave and who is a member Committee (VSLC) will be the governing board of the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank pursuant to Paragraph B. below. An employee may access the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank for absences due to or resulting from an extended and/or serious injury, illness or disability as defined by the Family and Medical leave Act as a serious personal illness or injuryBank. 2. To be eligible to join the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank as a memberc. Each year, an employee must have completed each full-time Teacher bargaining member may voluntarily donate from one (1) year of employment and must contribute to ten (10) sick days from his or her accumulated sick leave. An eligible Teacher who has donated at least one (1) sick day per year to the VSLB and who has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave may request to use the Bank. 3VSLB. The Bank will be administered by a committee of four persons, two members representing A Teacher is eligible to request up to ten (10) days per year from the Department and two members representing the Association, VSLB. Any such Teacher wishes to be known as the Sick Leave Bank Committee. 4. All requests for the request use of sick days from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank VSLB shall be directed provide a written request to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may approve Superintendent on a request form approved by the VSLC indicating the reason for the request, the number of VSLB days requested, and the period of time the Teacher intends to use of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank days in an amount up to ninety (90) such days. The total grant of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank days shall not exceed 1 (one) year per illness, injury VSLC may request such additional information as it deems necessary to consider the request including a physician’s statement or certification verifying the serious illness or disability. A request for the use of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank Days must be accompanied by an application and medical documentation. Any requests for an extension of Voluntary Sick Leave Bank benefits of more than ninety (90) days, must be accompanied by a new application and current medical documentation. 5. In acting upon requests for sick days from the Voluntary Sick Leave Bank, the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall utilize the following criteria: A. adequate medical evidence; B. Prior utilization of sick leave and/or Voluntary Sick Leave Bank C. reason for and propriety of prior use of sick leave; and D. the member’s intent to return to service in the Ayer Police Department 6. In order for a member to be eligible for Voluntary Sick Leave Bank benefits in each fiscal year, he/she must return to work for a period of time at lease as long as the period for which he/she received benefits. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may waive this provision in extraordinary circumstances. 7. The decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee are final and not subject to the Grievance and Arbitration Procedure. 8. Implementation open.