Sick Leave Sharing definition

Sick Leave Sharing. The District shall establish and administer a leave sharing plan in which eligible employees may donate excess leave for use by a staff member who is suffering from, or has a relative or household member suffering from, an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment or physical or mental condition. Such a program is intended to extend leave benefits to a staff member who otherwise would have to take leave without pay or terminate his or her employment with the District. The procedures that govern this program are as outlined in Board Policy 5406 (Appendix B.)
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Examples of Sick Leave Sharing in a sentence

  • This "Sick Leave Sharing Program" adopted by the Board of Education of ▇▇▇▇▇ Public Schools on March 11, 1996 permits district employees to donate sick leave to a fellow district employee who is pregnant or recovering from childbirth or who is suffering from or has a relative or household member suffering from an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment, or physical, or mental condition which has caused or is likely to cause the employee to take leave without pay or to terminate employment.

  • A Support Employee can only use the "Sick Leave Sharing" after one (1) full year of service to the school district.

  • After exhausting all sick leave, Emergency/Personal Business, and Vacation days, the support employee may request participation in the Sick Leave Sharing.

  • See Article 18.10 The employee seeking donated sick leave must submit the following to personnel: a completed Sick Leave Sharing application, a written statement explaining why their circumstance is severe or extraordinary, and a physician’s statement explaining why their circumstance is severe or extraordinary.

  • If the employee’s sick leave is exhausted, then additional sick leave may be requested through Sick Leave Sharing.

  • The Sick Leave Sharing Program shall permit regular full-time employees to donate sick leave to another regular full-time employee who is pregnant or recovering from childbirth or who is suffering from or has a relative or household member suffering from an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment, physical or mental condition or the death of an immediate family member, which has caused or is likely to cause the employee to take leave without pay or to terminate employment.

  • Sick leave days may be donated to specific employees as outlined in the following Procedure for Management of Sick Leave Sharing Program.

  • If, after exhausting all sick leave, including donated sick leave via the Sick Leave Sharing Program and all other paid leave to which an employee may be eligible, an employee is absent from duties due to personal accidental injury, illness or pregnancy, the employee shall receive his/her full contract salary less the amount of pay authorized in the policies for a substitute for an additional period of up to twenty (20) days.

  • The employee shall not earn additional sick leave days while using sick leave from the Sick Leave Sharing Program.

  • Sick Leave Sharing recipients are limited to the number of sick leave days donated to them.

Related to Sick Leave Sharing

  • Sick Leave means the period of time an employee is absent from work by virtue of being sick or disabled or because of an accident not covered by Workers' Compensation.

  • Paid sick leave – means paid leave under the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act.

  • Job Sharing means the sharing by two or more persons of a position.

  • Current Sick Leave means those days of sick leave for the current contract year, which leave is granted at the rate of one day of sick leave per month worked, or major part thereof.

  • Vacation means annual vacation with pay.