Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 10.1.1 Full-time bargaining unit members shall be entitled to ten (10) days leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Bargaining unit members who work less than full-time shall be entitled to that portion of the ten (10) days leave as the number of hours per week of scheduled duty relates to the number of hours for a full-time bargaining unit member in a comparable position.
10.1.2 After all earned leave as set forth in 10.1.1 above is exhausted, additional non-accumulated leave shall be available for a period not to exceed five (5) school months, provided that the provisions of 10.1.4 below are met. The amount deducted for leave purposes from the bargaining unit member's salary shall be the amount actually paid a substitute employee employed to fill the position during the leave, or, if no substitute is employed, the amount which would have been paid to a substitute. The five-month period shall begin on the eleventh (11) day of absence due to illness or injury.
10.1.3 If a bargaining unit member does not utilize the full amount of leave as authorized in Article
10.1.1 above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year.
10.1.4 Upon request by District management, a bargaining unit member shall be required to present a medical doctor's certificate verifying the personal illness or injury and/or a medical authorization to return to work. If the illness or injury exceeds twenty (20) consecutive days, the District may require a certified medical specialist to visit the bargaining unit member and make all necessary inquiries in order to be fully informed as to the nature and severity of the illness or injury, and to report such findings to the Superintendent or designee. If the report concludes that the absence is not due to personal illness or injury, or that the illness is not sufficiently severe to warrant continued absence, then the Superintendent or designee, after notice to the bargaining unit member, may refuse to grant such a leave. If requested by the District management to furnish a medical doctor's authorization, bargaining unit member shall submit said authorization upon returning to work.
10.1.5 Whenever possible, a bargaining unit member must contact the designated District Office personnel as soon as the need to be absent is known, but no later than ninety (90) minutes prior to the bargaining unit member's starting time, in order to permit the employer time to secure...
Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 9.1 Full-time employees shall be entitled to ten (10) days leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Employees working 200 days shall be entitled to 11 days and employees working 220 days shall be entitled to 12 days. Employees who work less than full-time shall be entitled to prorated leave calculated on a comparable full-time contract.
9.2 If an employee does not utilize the full amount of earned illness leave authorized above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year. An employee may be required to present a medical doctor's certification verifying the personal illness or injury after five (5) consecutive absences.
9.2.1 A medical authorization to return to work may be required when the illness or injury impacts the employee’s ability to perform the essential job duties or after a prolonged medical leave.
9.3 Differential Leave pay per Education Code 44977, during each school year, when a person employed in a position requiring certification qualifications has exhausted all available sick leave including all accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent from his or her duties on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months, whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the employee, the amount deducted from the salary due him or her for any of the additional five months in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a substitute employee (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable) employed to fill his or her position during his or her absence or, if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had he or she been employed (however, the amount deducted shall not exceed the standard daily or long-term substitute rate, as applicable). The Office shall make every reasonable effort to secure the services of a substitute employee. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. An employee shall not be provided more than one, five-month period per illness or accident. However, if a school year terminates before the five-month period is exhausted, the employee may take the balance of the five-month period in a subsequent school year.
9.4 As per Education Code 44978.1, when a certificated employee has exhausted all ava...
Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 10.2.1 Each full time Unit Member shall be entitled to 10 days paid leave of absence per school year for illness or injury.
10.2.2 A Unit Member who works less than full time shall be entitled to a proportionate amount of leave in accordance with the provisions of his/her contract.
10.2.3 Unit Members may accumulate unused sick leave without limitation. Unit Members who are under contract to the District to serve during the District's summer school session, including attending all applicable staff development, shall earn one day of sick leave, which will be added to their sick leave balance. Unit Members who teach the summer session are entitled to utilize one day of accumulated sick leave during the summer session.
10.2.4 In addition to the 10 days sick leave enumerated above, the following Unit Members shall receive additional days of accumulated sick leave for work performed beyond the regular school year.
10.2.4.1 Counselors and District Nurses shall receive an additional one- half day of sick leave per year.
10.2.4.2 Psychologists shall receive an additional one day of sick leave per year.
10.2.5 When a Unit Member is absent from his/her duties due to illness or injury for a period of more than five consecutive days, the District or the Unit Member's immediate supervisor may require the Unit Member to provide a statement from a physician, dentist, chiropractor, or practitioner in the case of religious requirement, verifying the cause and condition of the illness, injury, or quarantine. If the illness or injury leave is five consecutive work days or less, the District reserves the right to require the verification, if deemed necessary by the District.
10.2.6 The District or Unit Member's supervisor may require verification from a physician, or practitioner in case of religious requirement, of the Unit Member's ability to perform his/her responsibilities before returning to work due to an absence for personal illness or injury.
10.2.7 In case of official quarantine, the Unit Member will be allowed full pay during the period of the required quarantine even though the period of the required quarantine is greater than the Unit Member's accumulated personal illness or injury leave.
10.2.8 The District shall provide each Unit Member, no later than November 15, with a written statement of: (1) The total of the accrued personal illness or injury leave; and (2) his/her entitlement to personal illness or injury leave for the school year.
10.2.9 In the case of a ...
Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 13.1.1 Employees earn one (1) day of sick leave for illness or injury for each month of paid service. Sick leave can be accumulated without limit. Full time employees receive full pay for sick leave. Part time employees receive payment in proportion to their days and hours of employment in accordance with the following formula:
Personal Illness and Injury Leave. Full time unit members shall be entitled to ten (10) days leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Unit members who work less than full time shall be entitled to that portion of the ten
Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 1. Full-time employees shall be entitled to ten (10) days leave with full-time pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Employees who work less than full-time shall be entitled to that portion of the ten (10) days leave as the number of hours per week of scheduled duty relates to the number of hours for a full-time employee in a comparable position.
Personal Illness and Injury Leave. Bargaining unit members absent due to illness, injury, or quarantine imposed by health authorities shall have no salary deduction if such absence is covered by days accumulated for sick leave. Essential treatments, examinations for diagnostic purposes, and other absences definitely related to health may be allowed as sick leave when such treatments or examinations must be made during school time. Sick leave is granted to all bargaining unit members for a period of ten days per year, effective with the first day of school. If a bargaining unit member becomes an employee of the district after the first day of the school year, their sick leave will be prorated based on the percentage of the school year they work. Unused sick leave is accumulated without limitation. Bargaining unit members absent for illness shall receive full pay for each day of accumulated sick leave. When the bargaining unit member is absent for illness beyond the number of days accumulated for sick leave, bargaining unit members shall receive extended sick leave. Extended sick leave shall be paid at 50% of the bargaining unit member’s regular rate of pay. Extended benefits shall be limited to 100 work days in a fiscal year.
1). Bargaining unit member may not return to work at the termination for the extended leave until their doctor certifies that the bargaining unit member has recovered from the illness and may return to their regular and customary duties. A signed statement by the bargaining unit member stating illness as reason for absence shall be satisfactory proof of absences of three days or less. A statement of a licensed physician may be required for proof of illness absence of more than three days. The Board of Education may extend sick time when, in its judgment, circumstances warrant such extension. Sick leave shall be granted in accordance with provisions of the Education Code, Section 44978.
Personal Illness and Injury Leave a. A unit member shall be entitled to one (1) day leave with full pay for each month of service during the year for purposes of personal illness or injury. For the purpose of this Section, “full pay”, with regard to part-time employees, is based on the employee’s regular assigned daily hours, e.g., a four (4) hour aide would receive four (4) hours pay for an authorized day of sick leave.
b. After all earned leave as set forth in (a) above is exhausted, additional non-accumulated leave shall be available for a period not to exceed 100 work days at fifty percent (50%) of the employee’s regular salary in accordance with Education Code Section 45196, provided that the provisions of (d) are met. The 100 day period shall begin on the first (1st) day of absence due to illness or injury.
c. If a unit member does not utilize the full amount of leave as authorized in (a) above in any school year, the amount not utilized shall be accumulated from year to year.
d. Upon written request by the District, and for legitimate District reasons, a unit member shall be required to present a medical doctor’s certificate verifying a request for personal illness or injury leave and/or a medical authorization to return to work following such leave. If the physician’s report concludes that the absence is not due to personal illness, injury, or a serious health condition, then the Superintendent or designee, after notice to the unit member, may refuse to grant such leave. Before a unit member returns to work, the District may require, at district expense, an authorization from a physician appointed by the District and/or the unit member’s physician.
e. A unit member shall attempt to contact his/her immediate supervisor and the District substitute notification system as soon as the need to be absent is known, but in no event less than three (3) hours prior to the start of the employee’s work day (except in cases of emergency) to permit the employer time to secure a substitute. Failure to comply with this section may be grounds for disciplinary action.
f. A unit member who is absent for a fraction of the day shall have deducted from his/her accumulated sick leave that fraction of the day that bears to his/her scheduled day.
g. Each unit member shall be notified monthly of the accumulated sick leave.
h. A new employee of the District shall not be eligible to take more than six (6) days or the proportionate amount to which he may be entitled until the first day of the calendar month aft...
Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 15.1.1 Unit members employed on a full-time basis shall be entitled to accumulate ten (10) days per school year of sick leave available to the unit member from the first day of each year. Sick leave may be used by the unit member for personal illness or injury. Sick leave that is not used shall accumulate from year to year without limit.
15.1.2 Unit members who work less than full-time and/or who work on extended work year shall be entitled to accumulate and use sick leave for all such service at a rate that is in the same proportion to the full- time entitlement as their part-time employment bears to full-time employment.
15.1.3 The District shall provide each unit member with an accounting of the number of hours of sick leave he/she has accumulated, plus the number of hours to which the unit member is entitled for the current school year on their monthly paystubs.
15.1.4 Upon exhaustion of all accumulated sick leave, a unit member who would otherwise qualify for sick leave under the provisions of this article shall receive, for up to one hundred (100) days, the difference between his/her pay and the amount actually paid a substitute, or if no substitute has been employed, the amount that would be paid a substitute, or fifty (50) percent pay, which ever is greater.
15.1.5 Unit members may use accumulated sick leave as set forth in this Article for disabilities caused by pregnancy, miscarriage, or childbirth, and recovery there from. The length of such sick leave including the date that the leave is to begin and the date that the duties are to be resumed shall be determined by the unit member’s physician, who shall provide the District with written confirmation of disability.
15.1.6 If a unit member is absent for a half-day (1/2), one-half (1/2) day of sick leave will be deducted.
Personal Illness and Injury Leave. 1. Full-time teachers shall be entitled to ten (10) days leave with full pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Teachers who work less than full-time daily schedule or for less than a full year shall be entitled to that portion of ten (10) days' leave that is directly proportionate to the amount of time spent in service to the District when compared to the amount of such time that would be spent by a regular full-time employee. Sick leave shall accumulate year-to-year.
2. After all earned leave as set forth above is exhausted, additional non-accumulated leave shall be available for a period, not to exceed five (5) school months per illness or injury. During the use of such leave the amount actually paid to a substitute from the teacher's normal pay warrant, or, if no substitute is employed, that amount which would have been paid to a substitute, had one been employed, shall be deducted. The five-month period shall begin at the conclusion of the teacher's accumulated sick leave. Teachers in differential pay status may be required to furnish the District with medical certification confirming the teacher’s inability to work during each day of such absence.
3. At the end of the five-month differential period, the teacher shall be asked to consider all employment options which can include a request for unpaid leave for the remainder of the fiscal year. At the end of either the five-month period, or unpaid leave if such is requested and granted, the teacher must be physically and mentally capable of performing all regularly assigned duties.
