ADOPTIVE. PARENT, CHILD CARE, MATERNITY/PATERNITY LEAVE OF ABSENCE: The Board shall grant a staff member who has at least thirty (30) accumulated Sick Leave days an adoptive, parent, child care and/or maternity/paternity leave of absence, with pay, utilizing sick leave, for thirty (30) working days upon proper certification.
ADOPTIVE. Guardian parents may access leave on the same terms as available under the Maternity Leave provisions at clause 46.2 and Paternity Leave provisions at clause 46.4.
ADOPTIVE. Parental Leave for the of adoption shall be governed by the Act and any amendmentsthereto. employeeon Adoptive Leave for the seventeen (17) week period and/oron a ParentalLeave for the purposes of adoption for the eighteen (18) week period identified under the StandardsAct, accumulateseniority during such leave. The contributionsto benefits will be in with Clause during both the Adoptive Leave and the Parental Leave.
ADOPTIVE. Guardian parents may access leave on the same terms as available under the Maternity Leave provisions at clause 47.2 and Supporting Partner Leave provisions at clause 47.4. 47.3.2 Any additional leave without pay totalling thirty (30) calendar days or more taken in addition to the legislative 12 weeks paid Maternity Leave plus an additional two (2) weeks AIMS’ approved Maternity Leave, will not count as service for any other purpose other than to determine a Staff Member’s entitlement to a later period of Parental Leave or as described by the regulations under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). Maternity Leave without pay of less than thirty (30) calendar days will not count for service for the purposes of the Long Service Leave Act unless the CEO approves otherwise.
ADOPTIVE. Adoptive leave may be granted for up to a period of one (1) year. Upon initial application for the adoption, the teacher shall notify the Director of Human Resources in writing of such intent. The period of leave shall commence when the child is entrusted to the teacher-parent. The intent of this leave is to allow the teacher-parent an opportunity to afford the adopted child full-time parental care, where there is no parent or adoptive parent readily available to give such full-time parental care. A teacher applying for, or on, adoptive leave, must inform the Board of any intent to engage in gainful employment, attend institutions of higher learning, or be absent from his/her regular residence for more than a period of one (1) month and obtain specific approval for such activities, if intended to be engaged in, to be granted, or to continue on, adoptive leave.
