Absences - Personal Illness Clause Samples

Absences - Personal Illness. All employees, with the approval of the Superintendent and subject to review by the Board, shall be granted sick leave up to five (5) days per year. Such sick leave cannot be carried over beyond the year in which it is accrued. Sick leave will be paid based on the average number of hours worked per day. Unused sick leave cannot be reimbursed. Sick leave usage is limited to instances of legitimate personal illness. The employee may be required by the District, at the employee's expense, to document absences due to illness through the production from the treating health care provider of documentation acceptable to the District.

Absences - Personal Illness. 1. This section is adopted pursuant to the obligations of the District under the appropriate Education Law. 2. All employees of the District will, with the approval of the Superintendent and subject to review by the Board, be granted sick leave up to 150 working days in the case of a tenured teacher and 90 working days in the case of any other teacher from the inception of an illness. No deductions from salary will be made by absence due to personal illness unless specific disapproval by the Superintendent or by the Board is indicated to the employee and to the Payroll Department. 3. Employees normally will not be required to furnish a doctor’s certificate for each absence for personal illness. 4. If a doctor was consulted or was in attendance in connection with a specific illness, this fact should be stated on the absence report. Absence for illness reports should therefore read as follows: either “personal illness, doctor not required;” or “personal illness, Dr. (name) visited (or in attendance).” 5. If the District believes a unit member is absent an excessive number of times due to illness, or appears to be unnecessarily over-utilizing leave privilege, the Deputy Superintendent, or central office administrator may meet with the affected unit member to discuss the District’s concerns. The unit member shall be permitted union representation during the meeting. The District may require the unit member to undergo a medical examination, by a physician, appointed and compensated by the Board to determine the employee’s physical fitness for the particular work assignment. 6. In the event of a determination of inappropriate use of leave privileges, the unit member may be required to submit a physician’s certification of illness for all future absences, or to submit an affirmation (in the form appended hereto as Appendix 10) attesting to the illness, in the event that a physician was not consulted, respecting the future illness that led to the future absence. Such requirement shall terminate after 12 months unless the District has determined that there has been a further inappropriate use of leave privilege after following the procedures set forth in paragraph 5. If such a determination is made, the requirement may be continued for up to an additional 12 months. 7. In the discretion of the Deputy Superintendent or other central office administrator, unit members absent for five (5) consecutive days may be required to provide medical documentation, which shall i...