Sick Leave Benefits: All regular full-time employees shall be paid sick leave benefits for all regularly scheduled working time lost by reason of illness or injury as defined herein, up to the total time accumulated by the employee. The Superintendent may require substantiation of said illness or injury.
Up to ten (10) days of accrued sick leave may be used annually to care for ill or ailing members of an employee’s immediate family (mother, mother-in-law, father, father-in-law, children, spouse, and domestic partner). Such leave shall be deducted from accumulated sick leave. Said days shall be for illness or ailments not covered under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
In addition, up to ten (10) days of accrued sick leave may be used annually to care for ill or ailing members of an employee’s immediate family (adult children, adult siblings and grandchildren) who are not covered under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Such leave shall be deducted from accumulated sick leave.
Each “sick day” shall equate to the number of hours worked by the employee on a normal work day as scheduled at the discretion of the Board.
Employees working twenty (20) or more hours per week shall accrue ten (10) days of sick leave per year worked.
Employees working less than twenty (20) hours per week shall accrue five (5) days of sick leave per year worked.
No more than nine hundred sixty (960) hours of sick leave can be accumulated by an employee. Employees hired prior to July 1, 2013 who accumulated more than nine hundred sixty (960) hours of unused sick leave as of the end of fiscal year 2013, shall have the total number of accumulated days of unused sick leave in excess of nine hundred sixty (960) hours set aside in a sick/retirement bank to be available for future use. The allotment of unused sick leave in excess of nine hundred sixty (960) hours shall be credited to the sick/retirement bank one time only on July 1, 2013 and shall be based on the total accumulation of unused sick days at the close of fiscal year 2013. For example, an employee with a total accumulation of one thousand (1000) unused sick leave hours the end of fiscal year 2013 shall have forty (40) hours credited to his/her sick/retirement bank on July 1, 2013. Employees with hours in the sick/retirement bank may access these hours in the event their sick leave balance is expended down to zero. Otherwise, the sick/retirement bank shall be available for their use in conjunction with the Post-Employment Insurance Benefit subject to applicable regulations under law (see Part III – Benefits, p. 27). Once used, the sick/retirement bank hours may not be increased or replaced in future years.
In the event of separation of employment from the District during the year, sick leave benefits listed above shall be prorated based upon the actual service during the year of separation, including resignation, termination, or voluntary or involuntary transfer to a position that allows a lesser sick leave benefit.
Rev: 6-11-2018
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