Common use of Illness Leave Clause in Contracts

Illness Leave. 5.7.1 Full-time Unit Members on ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) month contracts shall be entitled to ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) days leave, respectively, with full pay for each School year for (a) illness, accident, quarantine, injury, (b) diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition of, or preventive care for, an employee or an employee’s family member, or (c) if they are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking which precludes the Unit Member from performing his/her assigned duties. Part-time Unit Members under contract 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 duties relates to the number of hours for a full-time faculty member in a comparable position. Unit Members not utilizing the full ten (10) days of sick leave in any one (1) year shall have the amount not utilized accumulated from year to year. 5.7.2 If the total amount of accumulated sick leave is less than one hundred ten (110) days, the Unit Member will be granted additional non-accumulated sick leave at reduced salary. The number of days of reduced sick leave benefits granted will be computed by subtracting the number of accumulated sick leave days from one hundred ten (110) days. The amount of reduced salary will be computed in the following manner: The Unit Member's daily salary will be reduced by an amount equal to the cost of a substitute employed to fill the position during the leave, or fifty percent (50%) of the Unit Member's daily rate, whichever amount is larger. These reductions and compensations will be assessed on a daily basis. 5.7.3 Contract Unit Members teaching overload or summer session classes and Unit Members employed on the Part-time Salary Schedule are eligible for illness leave benefits at the rate of one (1) hour for each eighteen (18) hours of teaching after the time at which they have commenced service in each of the terms or semester of the assignment. Sick leave days will be credited to the Unit Member at the beginning of the term or session. Unused sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year so long as the Unit Member is in continuous service to the District. Continuous service shall be defined as having been employed at least one (1) semester or summer session of the previous calendar year. Substitution does not qualify as continuous service to the District.

Illness Leave. 5.7.1 Full-time Unit Members on ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) month contracts shall be entitled to ten (10), eleven (11), or twelve (12) days leave, respectively, with full pay for each School year for (a) illness, accident, quarantine, injury, (b) diagnosis, care, the purposes of personal illness or treatment of an existing health condition of, or preventive care for, an employee or an employee’s family member, or (c) if they are victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking injury which precludes the Unit Member from performing his/her assigned duties. Part-Part- time Unit Members under contract 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 duties relates to the number of hours for a full-time faculty member in a comparable position. Unit Members not utilizing the full ten (10) days of sick leave in any one (1) year shall have the amount not utilized accumulated from year to year. 5.7.2 If the total amount of accumulated sick leave is less than one hundred ten (110) days, the Unit Member will be granted additional non-accumulated sick leave at reduced salary. The number of days of reduced sick leave benefits granted will be computed by subtracting the number of accumulated sick leave days from one hundred ten (110) days. The amount of reduced salary will be computed in the following manner: The Unit Member's daily salary will be reduced by an amount equal to the cost of a substitute employed to fill the position during the leave, or fifty percent (50%) of the Unit Member's daily rate, whichever amount is larger. These reductions and compensations will be assessed on a daily basis. 5.7.3 Contract Unit Members teaching overload or summer session classes and Unit Members employed on the Part-time Salary Schedule are eligible for illness leave benefits at the rate of one (1) hour for each eighteen (18) hours of teaching after the time at which they have commenced service in each of the terms or semester of the assignment. Sick leave days will be credited to the Unit Member at the beginning of the term or session. Unused sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year so long as the Unit Member is in continuous service to the District. Continuous service shall be defined as having been employed at least one (1) semester or summer session of the previous calendar year. Substitution does not qualify as continuous service to the District. 5.7.4 Upon request by the Vice President for Human Resources, any Unit Member who proposes to be on illness leave for five (5) or more days 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. 5.7.5 A Unit Member must contact the office of his/her ▇▇▇▇ as soon as the need to be absent is known. District procedures identify the methods of notification. 5.7.6 A full-time Unit Member who is absent for one-quarter (1/4) day or less shall be deducted one-quarter (1/4) day from the accumulated leave. Absences extending beyond one-quarter (1/4) day shall be assessed in quarter-day increments. A day shall be defined as the number of hours that a Unit Member is required to be on campus as identified in Article IV of this Agreement. Unit Members who have an on-campus scheduled duty assignment of thirty-five (35) hours per week or more shall have their absences recorded on an hourly basis. 5.7.7 Accumulated sick leave granted for contract service will be transferred in accordance with the Education Code if the Unit Member terminates from the District and is employed by another California School district. Each Unit Member shall be notified of the accumulated leave by no later than two (2) months after the beginning of each School year.