Common use of Leaves Clause in Contracts

Leaves. 1. Each person employed by the Board shall accrue fifteen (15) days Sick Leave with pay for each year of service, which shall be credited at the rate of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per month. 2. Sick Leave may be used for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. "Immediate family" shall be defined as husband, wife, children, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current father-in-law, current mother-in-law, current sister-in-law, current brother-in-law, grandchild, or any person residing in the bargaining unit member's home for whom the employee has assumed a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that an employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips). 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave of a person separated from any other public service shall be transferable. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts his/her accrued sick leave, the Board will advance to him/her up to a maximum of five (5) days of sick leave, or the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 of that school year, whichever is less. If the employee leaves the employment of the Board prior to repaying the advanced sick leave, the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Board.

Leaves. 21.1 At the beginning of each work year, each bargaining unit member hired before July 1. Each person employed by the Board shall accrue fifteen (15) days Sick Leave , 2012 with pay for each year of service, which seniority shall be credited sick leave as follows: 12 moth employees 11 days 11 month employees 10 days School year employees 9 days A. If an employee is scheduled to work two (2) or more weeks of any month, that month shall be considered a work month for sick leave allocation purposes. B. Sick leave accumulation will be prorated for unpaid leaves lasting over one (1) calendar month. C. Upon reaching maximum accumulation, no further current year allowance will be credited. 21.2 Sick leave shall accumulate, if unused, to a maximum of 12 month employees 120 days 11 month employees 110 days School year employees 100 days 21.3 The Board shall furnish each bargaining unit member with a written statement at the rate beginning of one each school year setting forth the total accumulated sick leave credit for said bargaining unit member. For the purpose of computation of sick leave for bus drivers, the following shall govern: 1. Previous accumulated sick leave run credits shall be maintained from individual driver sick leave accounts and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per monthcarried forward. 2. Sick Leave may be used for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. "Immediate family" Drivers shall be defined credited with one (1) sick leave run credit per run driven for each of ten (10) months. Once credited, as husbandoutlined above, wife, children, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current father-in-law, current mother-in-law, current sister-in-law, current brother-in-law, grandchild, or any person residing in the bargaining unit member's home for whom the employee has assumed a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave sick leave credit shall be accumulative for added to the period of time that an employee works for individual driver's sick leave account in total on the Board. Sick Leave accrual shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips)first driver work day. 3. Any All run credits, whether previously accumulated Sick Leave of a person separated from any other public service or newly generated, shall be transferablelumpedtogether as a run credit, regardless of whether they were Kindergarten, Vocational or regular run credits. These runs shall all be accessible for use regardless of the kind of run(s) that generated the credit. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave In the case of probationary drivers, and is absent for more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts his/her accrued sick leave, the Board will advance to him/her up to a maximum of five (5) days of sick leaveuntil such time as "probationary" has been defined, or the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 of that one (1) school year, whichever is lesssooner, sick leave shall be accrued on a monthly basisfor ten (10) months. If Once earned, sick leave may be accessed by the probationer as withany other driver. 5. Driver run credit shall be considered as the portal to portal driving time for the run, plus time for pre-and post check i.e., drivers shall receive a sick leave pay credit that is equal to theirregular run/daily pay rate). 21.4 A day is defined as the length of the employee's regularly scheduled workday. When an employee's hours are increased or decreased, the accumulation will be prorated. 21.5 It is the responsibility of each employee to report to his/her supervisor or designee unavailability for work prior to his/her normal starting time. A. Each employee shall, at the time of reporting absence, state the reason for absence, where the employee leaves may be reached in case of emergency, and the employment anticipated length of an absence. B. An employee utilizing sick leave days shall be considered continuously employed for purposes of computing benefits under this Agreement. C. Insurance benefits shall cease to be paid for eligible employees upon exhaustion of the Board prior employee's sick leave accumulation and any eligible insurance benefits under the Family and Medical Leave Act. During all periods of unpaid absence, theemployee will assume responsibility for premium payments, if he/she elects to repaying continue those benefits. 21.6 Accumulated sick leave days may be utilized for the advanced sick leave, following reasons: A. Illness of the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Boardemployee.

Leaves. 1. Each person employed by At the Board shall accrue fifteen start of the school year, eleven (1511) paid leave days Sick Leave with pay for each year of service, which shall be credited at the rate granted to each employee regularly scheduled to work a minimum of one and one-fourth six (1-1/46) hours per day five (5) days per monthweek. Employees regularly scheduled to work 5.5 hours per day, five (5) days per week shall be granted three (3) paid leave days per year. 2. Sick Leave A. Paid leave days may be used for absence due personal illness and family illness. Unused leave days shall be accumulative without limitation. The School District shall provide evidence of leave accumulation on the pay stub of each employee. B. A Leave of Absence not to personal illnessexceed three (3) days, pregnancynot chargeable, injuryto the employee accumulated sick leave, exposure may be granted to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or death in attend the funeral of a member of the employee's ’s immediate family. "Immediate family" shall be defined as husbandfamily means spouse, wifechild, childrenparent, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current father-in-law, current mothermother- in-law, son-in-law, current sisterdaughter-in-law, current brother-in-law▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, grandchildgrandparent, brother and sister. C. Four (4) of the above (11) paid leave days may be used for personal leave each year without loss of pay and shall be granted to each employee in cases where a business transaction cannot be conducted before or after work hours, on weekends, or any person residing on school recess. An employee requesting business days shall give two (2) days notice to his/her supervisor (except in cases of emergency). The personal leave day(s) must be approved before taking them with the bargaining unit member's home for whom exception of an emergency. Unused business days shall be accumulated as sick days. D. The following unpaid leaves shall be granted to employees upon written request: illness or injury, illness in family; restoration of health; professional improvement; maternity/ paternity/adoption. 1. During an unpaid leave the unused sick leave allowances held by the employee has assumed a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by at the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave beginning date of such leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that retained. 2. An employee returning from an employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual unpaid leave shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours reinstated to the same or similar position providing the employee notifies the Employer at least thirty (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips)30) days prior to the expiration of such leave of intent to return to work. 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave The notice of intention to return to duty after a person separated from any other public service health or sick leave shall be transferableaccompanied by a written statement from a licensed physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, chiropractor, etc. certifying the fitness of the employee to fulfill his/her duties. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for five (5) or more than four (4) consecutive work daysworkdays and there’s reason to believe that there is an abuse of the sick leave, he/she must obtain medical certification the District may require a signed statement from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day incrementslicensed physician. 5. If No extension of a leave of absence, or a second unpaid leave of absence shall be granted without the express approval of the Superintendent of Schools. 6. Any Employee who has been placed on layoff or who is on an employee exhausts unpaid leave of absence shall be provided insurance coverage at their own expense at the group rate for a period of at least but not more than twelve (12) months or the duration of the leave, whichever is longer. Any Employee who resigns shall cease to be entitled to such benefits as of the date that his/her accrued sick resignation becomes effective. In the event of an Employee taking an approved health leave, the Board Employee’s fringe benefits will advance to him/her up to a maximum of five be paid for the full twelve (512) days of sick leave, or month period providing that the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 of that school year, whichever is less. If the employee leaves the employment Employee completes 140 of the Board prior to repaying the advanced sick leave, the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Boardscheduled working days.

Leaves. 1. Each person employed by At the Board shall accrue fifteen start of the school year, eleven (1511) paid leave days Sick Leave with pay for each year of service, which shall be credited at the rate granted to each employee regularly scheduled to work a minimum of one and one-fourth six (1-1/46) hours per day five (5) days per monthweek. Employees regularly scheduled to work 5.5 hours per day, five (5) days per week shall be granted three (3) paid leave days per year. 2. Sick Leave A. Paid leave days may be used for absence due personal illness and family illness. Unused leave days shall be accumulative without limitation. The School District shall provide evidence of leave accumulation on the pay stub of each employee. B. A Leave of Absence not to personal illnessexceed three (3) days, pregnancynot chargeable, injuryto the employee accumulated sick leave, exposure may be granted to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or death in attend the funeral of a member of the employee's ’s immediate family. "Immediate family" shall be defined as husbandfamily means spouse, wifechild, childrenparent, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current father-in-in- law, current mother-in-law, current sisterson-in-law, current brotherdaughter-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, brother and sister. C. Four (4) of the above (11) paid leave days may be used for personal leave each year without loss of pay and shall be granted to each employee in cases where a business transaction cannot be conducted before or any person residing after work hours, on weekends, or on school recess. An employee requesting business days shall give two (2) days notice to his/her supervisor (except in cases of emergency). The personal leave day(s) must be approved before taking them with the bargaining unit member's home for whom exception of an emergency. Unused business days shall be accumulated as sick days. D. The following unpaid leaves shall be granted to employees upon written request: illness or injury, illness in family; restoration of health; professional improvement; maternity/ paternity/adoption. 1. During an unpaid leave the unused sick leave allowances held by the employee has assumed a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by at the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave beginning date of such leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that retained. 2. An employee returning from an employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual unpaid leave shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours reinstated to the same or similar position providing the employee notifies the Employer at least thirty (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips)30) days prior to the expiration of such leave of intent to return to work. 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave The notice of intention to return to duty after a person separated from any other public service health or sick leave shall be transferable. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification accompanied by a written statement from a health care provider substantiating licensed physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, chiropractor, etc. certifying the need for fitness of the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts to fulfill his/her accrued sick leave, the Board will advance to him/her up to a maximum of five (5) days of sick leave, or the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 of that school year, whichever is less. If the employee leaves the employment of the Board prior to repaying the advanced sick leave, the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Boardduties.

Leaves. Each full time employee of this unit district is entitled to sick leave as follows: Each employee employed before June 1, 2014 shall be given fifteen days of sick leave per year accumulative to 360 days of sick leave at full pay. Each person employee employed by the Board shall accrue fifteen (15) days Sick Leave with pay for each year of serviceon or after June 1, which 2014 shall be credited given fifteen days of sick leave per year accumulative to 220 days of sick leave at the rate of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per month. 2full pay. Sick Leave may be used for absence due to leave is defined in state law as personal illness, pregnancyquarantine at home, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or serious illness or death in the employee's immediate familyfamily or household or birth, adoption, or placement for adoption as defined in 105 ILCS 5/24-6. "Immediate family" The immediate family shall be defined as interpreted to mean: husband, wife, children, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current fatherbrothers, and sisters of the teacher and his or her spouse. For other relatives and close friends, special consideration shall be given each individual case as approved by the principal and/or superintendent. Sick leave cannot be used in increments of less than one-in-lawhalf (1/2) of a day. Any employee who undergoes a state of illness or disability due to, current mother-in-lawbut not limited to, current sister-in-lawsurgery, current brother-in-lawhospital confinement, grandchildextensive medical treatment, pregnancy, etc., may be eligible for sick leave due to the disability. Such leave may be chargeable to the accumulated sick leave account of the employee, provided the employee produces a statement from his/her physician indicating (1) the nature of the disability, and (2) that said employee is physically, mentally, or any person residing in emotionally incapable of performing said duties. The application of sick leave will be discontinued when the bargaining unit member's home for whom doctor indicates that the employee is able to return to work, or when the employee has assumed used up all of his or her accumulated sick leave. When a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that an disabled employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips). 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave of a person separated from any other public service shall be transferable. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts has used up all his/her accrued accumulated sick leave, the Board employee is no longer eligible for compensation in the form of salary. However, the school district will advance continue to himcontribute toward the insurance premium for the duration of the extension of benefits provision in the group health plan document. When the disabled employee is able to return to work, the district will resume contributing toward the insurance premium in the same manner it does for the other employed personnel. If previously disabled employee decides to leave the employment with Gibson City-▇▇▇▇▇▇- ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Community Unit District No.5, the employee will be allowed to participate in the group insurance program at his/her up own expense under COBRA regulations, as in compliance with state and federal statuses relative to employment. Any employee who is anticipating a maximum disability and wishes to take a leave of five (5) days of sick absence prior to being incapacitated, or unable to work as certified by a licensed physician, may request such leave, or the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 of that school yearbut such leave, whichever is lessif granted, will be without pay and fringe benefits. If the employee leaves the employment of Likewise, the Board prior to repaying of Education will not pay sick leave benefits during the advanced sick leaveperiod of actual disability, if that occurs during the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Boardpreviously agreed upon leave of absence.

Leaves. 1. Each person employed by the Board shall accrue fifteen (15) days Sick Leave with pay for each year of service, which shall be credited at the rate of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per month. 2. Sick Leave may be used for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury injury, or death in the employee's immediate family. "Immediate family" shall be defined as husband, wife, children, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current father-in-law, current mother-in-law, current sister-in-law, current brother-in-law, grandchild, or any person residing in the bargaining unit member's home for whom the employee has assumed a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that an employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips). 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave of a person separated from any other public service shall be transferable. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts his/her accrued sick leave, the Board will advance to him/her up to a maximum of five (5) days of sick leave, or the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 of that school year, whichever is less. If the employee leaves the employment of the Board prior to repaying the advanced sick leave, the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Board.

Leaves. 1. Each person employed by At the Board shall accrue fifteen start of the school year, eleven (1511) paid leave days Sick Leave with pay for each year of service, which shall be credited at the rate granted to each employee regularly scheduled to work a minimum of one and one-fourth six (1-1/46) hours per day five (5) days per month.week. Effective at the start of the 2009-2010 school year, employees regularly scheduled to work 5.5 hours per day, five (5) days per week shall be granted paid leave days based on continual bargaining unit employment as follows: After 3 years of employment; 1 day per year After 5 years of employment; 2 days per year After 7 years of employment; 3 days per year 2. Sick Leave A. Paid leave days may be used for absence due personal illness and family illness. Unused leave days shall be accumulative without limitation. The School District shall provide evidence of leave accumulation on the pay stub of each employee. B. A Leave of Absence not to personal illnessexceed three (3) days, pregnancynot chargeable, injuryto the employee accumulated sick leave, exposure may be granted to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or death in attend the funeral of a member of the employee's ’s immediate family. "Immediate family" shall be defined as husbandfamily means spouse, wifechild, childrenparent, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current father-in-in- law, current mother-in-law, current sisterson-in-law, current brotherdaughter-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, brother and sister. C. Four (4) of the above (11) paid leave days may be used for personal leave each year without loss of pay and shall be granted to each employee in cases where a business transaction cannot be conducted before or any person residing after work hours, on weekends, or on school recess. An employee requesting business days shall give two (2) days notice to his/her supervisor (except in cases of emergency). The personal leave day(s) must be approved before taking them with the bargaining unit member's home for whom exception of an emergency. Unused business days shall be accumulated as sick days. D. The following unpaid leaves shall be granted to employees upon written request: illness or injury, illness in family; restoration of health; professional improvement; maternity/ paternity/adoption. 1. During an unpaid leave the unused sick leave allowances held by the employee has assumed a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by at the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave beginning date of such leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that retained. 2. An employee returning from an employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual unpaid leave shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours reinstated to the same or similar position providing the employee notifies the Employer at least thirty (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips)30) days prior to the expiration of such leave of intent to return to work. 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave The notice of intention to return to duty after a person separated from any other public service health or sick leave shall be transferableaccompanied by a written statement from a licensed physician, psychologist, psychiatrist, chiropractor, etc. certifying the fitness of the employee to fulfill his/her duties. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for five (5) or more than four (4) consecutive work daysdays and there’s reason to believe that there is an abuse of the sick leave, he/she must obtain medical certification the District may require a signed statement from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day incrementslicensed physician. 5. If No extension of a leave of absence, or a second unpaid leave of absence shall be granted without the express approval of the Superintendent of Schools. 6. Any Employee who has been placed on layoff or who is on an employee exhausts unpaid leave of absence shall be provided insurance coverage at their own expense at the group rate for a period of at least but not more than twelve (12) months or the duration of the leave, whichever is longer. Any Employee who resigns shall cease to be entitled to such benefits as of the date that his/her accrued sick resignation becomes effective. In the event of an Employee taking an approved health leave, the Board Employee’s fringe benefits will advance to him/her up to a maximum of five be paid for the full twelve (512) days of sick leave, or month period providing that the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 of that school year, whichever is less. If the employee leaves the employment Employee completes 140 of the Board prior to repaying the advanced sick leave, the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Boardscheduled working days.

Leaves. 1The District and the Association agree that the highest quality of education is provided with the full-time teacher present in the classroom. Each person employed by Teachers are encouraged to make every effort to be in attendance for all the Board shall accrue fifteen (15) days Sick Leave with pay for each year of service, his/her contract. It is also understood that occasions arise in which shall the teacher must be credited at the rate of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per monthabsent due to illness or personal necessity. 2. Sick Leave may be used for absence due to personal illnessA. For purposes of this Article, pregnancyimmediate family shall include the mother, injuryfather, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to othersany grandparent or grandchild, and for absence due to illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. "Immediate family" shall be defined as husband, wifespouse, children, fathersibling, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current father-in-law, current mother-in-lawaunt, current sister-in-lawuncle, current brother-in-lawniece, grandchildnephew, or cousin of the employee or the spouse of the employee, or any person residing living in the bargaining unit member's home for whom the employee has assumed a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that an employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours (i.e., it does not immediate household. The definition of immediate family shall also include registered domestic partner or any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips)relative living in the employee’s immediate household. 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave B. Each unit member is entitled to one day of a person separated from any other public service shall be transferable. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent paid leave for more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave each month of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts his/her accrued sick leave, the Board will advance to him/her employment up to a maximum of five (5) ten days a school year. 1. Credit for leave of sick leave, or the amount he/she can earn absence need not be accrued prior to June 30 of that taking the leave and leave may be taken at any time during the school year, whichever is less. 2. If the employee leaves does not take the employment full amount of leave allowed in any school year, the amount not taken shall be accumulated from year to year. 3. Accumulated sick leave accrued in another district shall be transferred to the District for newly hired certificated employees. 4. Leave may be taken on an hourly basis in units of one-sixth (1/6) for any absence for an hour or any part thereof. If a unit member voluntarily covers a period without taking a period substitute pay, no leave time shall be deducted from the absent unit member. 5. Absence due to illness should be arranged as soon as possible. The employee shall access the substitute placement/absence tracking system online or via phone at the earliest possible moment he/she is aware of the Board need for an absence. It is the employee’s responsibility to ensure absences are correctly entered into the system. The employee may use the automated system to create an absence up until two hours before school start time. Within two hours of the start of school, and for emergencies, the employee shall contact the District Substitute Line (▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, ext. 1555) to notify the District so that a substitute can be arranged. If an absence is to continue beyond the initial day, it is the employee’s responsibility to enter the absence into the system as soon as possible to arrange additional substitute coverage. Additionally, if an absence has been scheduled and is no longer needed, it is the employee’s responsibility to delete the absence more than 24 hours in advance. If the cancellation is within 2-4 hours of the planned absence, the employee must notify the District Office at the above listed number to ensure the substitute may be cancelled and notified. The teacher may request a substitute from the District’s list of substitutes using the preferences option of the substitute placement/absences tracking system. The District shall make every effort to provide the substitute requested. Placement of substitute teachers in the classroom is at the discretion of the District. 6. When an absence is to be longer than one (1) day, the employee must notify their school site or the District Substitute Line (▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, ext. 555) of an intention to return by 4 p.m. on the workday prior to repaying the advanced day of return. Failure to comply with this provision shall result in a written warning to the employee. Failure to comply a second time in a school year may result in deduction of the substitute‘s pay from the employee’s salary, provided the District is unable to cancel the substitute. 7. An employee shall be credited at his retirement for each day of accumulated or unused leave of absence for illness or injury for which full salary is allowed to which the employee was entitled on the final day he rendered service to the District. 8. Pay for any day of such absence shall be the same as the pay which would have been received had the employee served during the day. 9. An employee shall not be required to secure advance permission for the following reasons: a. When an employee is ill or injured to a degree so as to be unable to satisfactorily perform regular duties. b. When an illness or injury may be aggravated to the detriment individual welfare by continued service. c. Serious illness of a member of the employee’s immediate family of a severity that requires constant attention or a physician. d. Quarantine for contagious disease leave beyond accumulated sick leave is subject to board action. e. The necessity to take a dependent member of the employee’s family to a healthcare provider for evaluation or treatment. 10. Any time this policy is invoked by an employee, reasonable notice, when possible, must be given to the immediate supervisor or the District to provide for a temporary replacement. 11. The administration shall verify reason for absence. Leave may be claimed only for the reasons provided in this Article. All absences from duty for one day or more shall be verified according to the following procedure: a. A verification of absence form shall be completed immediately upon return to duty and shall give a reason for the absence. The immediate supervisor shall review this completed form and verify the reason for absence. b. Employees returning from prolonged illness (more than five days) may be asked to verify to the satisfaction of the immediate supervisor that absence from duty resulted from instructions issued by a licensed physician or other licensed practitioner. 12. Unit members who have used all leave time granted for the school year (usually ten days as outlined in Paragraph B) ▇▇▇ also request additional leave time for illness. The unit member may use accumulated sick leave. If the unit member does not have any accumulated sick leave, the outstanding balance will District shall grant the leave time and differential pay (the unit member’s daily rate less the cost of the substitute) shall be deducted from provided with a verification of illness by a physician. If the physician’s verification is not provided, the leave time shall be granted without pay. Accumulated sick leave may also be used for care of an immediate family member as described in Paragraph A. 13. After written notification by their site principal, employees who abuse leave privileges may also be required to produce a physician’s verification for any final payments leave time due to the employee by the Boardillness regardless of accumulated sick leave availability.

Leaves. 1. Each person employed by A. PAID - PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL BUSINESS For the Board shall accrue fifteen (15) days Sick Leave with pay for each year purposes of serviceparagraph “A” Article XIII, which shall be credited at the rate of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per month. 2. Sick Leave may be used for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. "“Immediate family" Family” shall be defined as husbandspouse, wifemother, father, step-mother, step-father, children, father, motherstep-children, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandparents, current fathergrandchildren, niece and nephew, parents-in-law, current motherson-in-law, current daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law, current brother-in-lawexcept when applying FMLA at which time the FMLA definitions of "Immediate Family" apply. Section 1: Sick leave policies for teachers shall consist of eleven (11) days per year for illness, grandchildcumulative to one hundred and forty (140) days. Six of the 11 sick days shall be granted at the beginning of each year, or any person residing the remaining five sick days will be granted at the beginning of second semester. A doctor’s statement may be requested for approval by the Administration. If such statement is requested by the Board, the Board shall pay for such examination, provided the teacher shall be examined by a doctor of the Board’s selection. Section 2: Sick leave use shall normally be limited to personal illness. However, a teacher may use up to ten (10) days per year of his accumulated sick leave for the care of members of the teacher’s immediate family for which other adult supervision cannot be arranged. Section 3: Bereavement Leave - Beginning in the bargaining unit member's home for whom 2013-2014 school year, a teacher shall be allowed a maximum of one (1) day of absence without loss of salary or deduction from accumulated sick leave or personal business leave, upon the employee has assumed death of a reasonable responsibility for caremember of the immediate family. Additions Up to this list two (2) additional bereavement leave days may be taken from accumulated sick leave or personal business leave. The teacher must notify the District office. Additional days, up to five, may be granted upon request and upon submitting a written request to and receiving approval from the Superintendent to take care of unusual travel requirements or personal problems in connection with the use of the above bereavement leave. Any additional time granted beyond the three (3) days provided for above, will be taken from accumulated sick leave or personal business leave. If no sick leave or personal business leave is available, bereavement time may be granted without pay. Section 4: Beginning in the 2013-2014 school year, leave of three (3) days per year shall be allowed for personal business. Prior arrangements must be made at least 72 hours in advance, except in case of emergencies, with the Superintendent or the Building Principal. This leave is not accumulative nor shall it be taken on any day immediately preceding or following any vacation period or holiday, except as approved by the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that an employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips). 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave of a person separated from any other public service shall be transferable. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for Not more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts his/her accrued sick leave, the Board will advance to him/her up to a maximum of five (5) teachers shall be absent on personal business at the same time unless it is essential as determined by the Superintendent. (a) Leaves taken under this section shall be for the purpose of conducting business which cannot be conducted at a time other than during the school day. (b) Unused personal business days shall be added to the teacher’s sick leave accumulation at the conclusion of the school year. Such accumulation shall be without restriction to the number of sick leave, or the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 leave days which could otherwise be accumulated under Section A (1) of that school year, whichever is less. If the employee leaves the employment of the Board prior to repaying the advanced sick leave, the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Boardthis Article.

Leaves. Each full time employee of this unit district is entitled to sick leave as follows: Each employee employed before June 1, 2014 shall be given fifteen days of sick leave per year accumulative to 360 days of sick leave at full pay. Each person employee employed by the Board shall accrue fifteen (15) days Sick Leave with pay for each year of serviceon or after June 1, which 2014 shall be credited given fifteen days of sick leave per year accumulative to 220 days of sick leave at the rate of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per month. 2full pay. Sick Leave may be used for absence due to leave is defined in state law as personal illness, pregnancyquarantine at home, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or serious illness or death in the employee's immediate familyfamily or household or birth, adoption, or placement for adoption as defined in 105 ILCS 5/24-6. "Immediate family" The immediate family shall be defined as interpreted to mean: husband, wife, children, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current fatherbrothers, and sisters of the teacher and his or her spouse. For other relatives and close friends, special consideration shall be given each individual case as approved by the principal and/or superintendent. Sick leave cannot be used in increments of less than one-in-lawhalf (1/2) of a day. Any employee who undergoes a state of illness or disability due to, current mother-in-lawbut not limited to, current sister-in-lawsurgery, current brother-in-lawhospital confinement, grandchildextensive medical treatment, pregnancy, etc., may be eligible for sick leave due to the disability. Such leave may be chargeable to the accumulated sick leave account of the employee, provided the employee produces a statement from his/her physician indicating (1) the nature of the disability, and (2) that said employee is physically, mentally, or any person residing in emotionally incapable of performing said duties. The application of sick leave will be discontinued when the bargaining unit member's home for whom doctor indicates that the employee is able to return to work, or when the employee has assumed used up all of his or her accumulated sick leave. When a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that an disabled employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips). 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave of a person separated from any other public service shall be transferable. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts has used up all his/her accrued accumulated sick leave, the Board employee is no longer eligible for compensation in the form of salary. However, the school district will advance continue to himcontribute toward the insurance premium for the duration of the extension of benefits provision in the group health plan document. When the disabled employee is able to return to work, the district will resume contributing toward the insurance premium in the same manner it does for the other employed personnel. If previously disabled employee decides to leave the employment with ▇▇▇▇▇▇ City- ▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇ Community Unit District No.5, the employee will be allowed to participate in the group insurance program at his/her up own expense under COBRA regulations, as in compliance with state and federal statuses relative to employment. Any employee who is anticipating a maximum disability and wishes to take a leave of five (5) days of sick absence prior to being incapacitated, or unable to work as certified by a licensed physician, may request such leave, or the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 of that school yearbut such leave, whichever is lessif granted, will be without pay and fringe benefits. If the employee leaves the employment of Likewise, the Board prior to repaying of Education will not pay sick leave benefits during the advanced sick leaveperiod of actual disability, if that occurs during the outstanding balance will be deducted from any final payments due to the employee by the Boardpreviously agreed upon leave of absence.

Leaves. 1. Each person employed by the Board shall accrue fifteen (15) days Sick Leave Personal leave is leave with pay for each year personal reasons. It may be used in conjunction with annual leave in the current year. It is to be taken with departmental approval so as not to interfere with the proper operations of servicethe department. Once approved, which shall personal leave may not be credited at cancelled by the rate department within forty-eight (48) hours of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per monththe time it is to be taken, unless a bonafide emergency exists. 2. Sick Leave may All Employees will be used for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. "Immediate family" shall be defined as husband, wife, children, father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, current father-in-law, current mother-in-law, current sister-in-law, current brother-in-law, grandchild, or any person residing in the bargaining unit member's home for whom the employee has assumed a reasonable responsibility for care. Additions to this list may be approved by the Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave shall be accumulative for the period of time that an employee works for the Board. Sick Leave accrual shall be unlimited. Sick Leave compensation shall be based upon an employee’s regularly assigned hours (i.e., it does not include any special or overtime assignments, including bus drivers’ field trips). 3. Any accumulated Sick Leave of a person separated from any other public service shall be transferable. 4. If an employee utilizes Sick Leave and is absent for more than four (4) consecutive work days, he/she must obtain medical certification from a health care provider substantiating the need for the leave of absence. Sick Leave shall be chargeable in half-day (1/2) increments, credited with the exception of Bus Drivers and Bus Attendants with regularly scheduled midday routes/runs for whom Sick Leave shall be chargeable in one-third (1/3) day increments. 5. If an employee exhausts his/her accrued sick leave, the Board will advance to him/her up to a maximum of five (5) days of per- ▇▇▇▇▇ leave on January lst of each year, except that new Employees must complete six (6) months of service prior to using the days. Employees hired on or before June 1st shall be credited with two and one-half (2 1/2) days of personal leave after six months of service for use in their first calendar year. 3. At the end of the calendar year, unused personal leave shall be credited to sick leave. Section 2 - Sick Leave 1. All newly hired Employees will be credited with five (5) sick days on the Employee`s first (lst) day of service. After the Employee completes five (5) full calendar months (each of which begins on the first (lst) of the month), the Employee will, thereafter, be credited with sick leave at the rate of one (1) day per completed calendar month. 2. All current Employees will be credited with sick leave at the rate of one (1) day per completed calendar month. Earned sick leave not taken in any calendar year will be Accumulated. Sick leave is defined as absence from duty because of illness; pregnancy; child birth; injury; quarantine resulting from exposure to contagious disease; family illness and bereavement leave. The Department Head or the Commissioner of Human Resources may require such substantiation of sick leave as deemed necessary. 3. Sick leave credits may not be earned while on leave with- out pay, on military leave of over thirty (30) days, on extended sick leave, or while using sick bank time. 4. Any Employee, who is eligible for retirement and retires, and who has at least fifty (50) sick leave days on the amount he/she can earn prior to June 30 books at the time of that school yearretirement, whichever is less. If shall receive the employee leaves the employment following: a full day's pay for one-half (1/2) of the Board prior to repaying accumulated amount of days. However, in no event shall any Employee receive more than one hundred and twenty five (125) days of pay. It is understood that the advanced sick leaverate of pay shall be the current rate of pay for each Employee. For purposes of this provision, retirement shall mean the outstanding balance will be deducted receipt of a retirement benefit from the New York State Retirement System or a lay-off or any final payments due other involuntary removal from payroll which shall include payment to the employee by the Boardemployee’s estate upon death. Excluded is dismissal for cause (discipline) or resignation.