Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary. 1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join. a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board. b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October. c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank. 2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure. a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days. b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage. c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation. d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave. e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.) f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank. g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank. h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement. i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days. j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees. k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank. 3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants. 4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership. 5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request. a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request. b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal. c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer. d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions. e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use. f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf. g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a. The Board agrees to the establishment of a member Sick Leave Bank. In the event that there appear to be mitigating circumstances that require discussion, the Bank shall be administered by a committee consisting of an equal number of Association members and Board designees. The bank shall be established to provide for salary payments for members of the bargaining unit who have a catastrophic illness/disability and whose accumulated sick leave is absent due to exhausted. The bank may also be used in case of a non-elective surgery catastrophic illness experienced by a teacher’s children or long-term illness or accident spouse that requires the presence of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her teacher whose accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation is exhausted. (where applicable), heMaternity leave shall not be considered "catastrophic illness/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank disability.") The definition of "catastrophic/illness disability" shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed mutually agreed upon by the Association and Board.
b. Donated The total number of days in the bank shall be capped at 200 in any single year. Any unused days remaining in the bank at the end of the year will not be deducted from carried over into the second pay period in Octobersubsequent year (i.e., a new supply of days must be donated each year).
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated Teachers may voluntarily contribute one sick leave day to the bank by September 15 of the school year. Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section b herein, should the total days in the bank fall below ten during the course of a school year, the bank may be reopened for additional voluntary contributions of one day per unit member, not to exceed the 200-day limit.
d. Under no circumstances may a teacher receive more than seventy-five (75) days of sick leave from the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted or from the bargaining unit member who donated the a combination of personally accumulated sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union Presidentbank days. The committee's decision shall be final and Teachers who do not subject contribute to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only bank shall not be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and entitled to seek grant days from the bank. A teacher may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use more days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon than are necessary for that teacher to meet the depletion of 90 calendar day elimination period for the respective employee's accumulated sick leaveLTD plan.
e. Withdrawals Each sick bank day shall be in full day units for paid at 100% of the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etcteacher's per diem salary.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in The Board, at its expense, shall have the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible right to withdraw any sick leave from secure an independent medical verification of the Bankteacher's condition.
g. Sick days earned during The rules governing the absence will procedures of the bank shall be accrued mutually agreed upon by the employee who uses Association and the sick leave bankBoard.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If All Employees are eligible to participate in the “Sick Leave Bank” by making a member one-time contribution of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or one (1) day from his/her family sick leave or personal days or personal time off. Unused Sick Leave Bank days at the end of each fiscal year will carry over, not to exceed the cap as defined in stated below, to the Master Agreement next fiscal year. A committee will be established to act as the governing body for administration of the Bank, consisting of three (Article VIII Section A.1)3) Employees named by the BSEO Board. The committee will review all Employee applications and make all determinations as to the granting of such Sick Leave Bank days for an Employee’s serious illness. In order to be eligible to draw from the Sick Leave Bank, has exhausted an Employee must be a contributor to the Bank, present a doctor’s certification of continuing illness to Human Resources, have used all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave days, or personal time off, and vacation have had deducted from the Employee’s pay two (where applicable2) days of salary. The maximum use of Sick Leave Bank days by any Employee will be four (4) days for each year of service in the District, to a total of forty (40) days per term of employment. A request for additional access for any Sick Leave Bank day(s), he/she above the maximum allotment, will be considered on an individual basis by the BSEO Board. New members will be automatically enrolled and will donate one (1) day upon hire. Retiring Employees may request a contribute up to twenty-five (25) sick leave donation from days in excess of the District's current IMRF Unused and Unpaid Sick Leave Service Credit amount to the Sick Leave Bank. Participation If the number of days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect ever falls below two hundred (200) days, present members of the Sick Leave Bank will have the option to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick donate an additional day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working The total days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests banked for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the BSEO Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible exceed four hundred (400) days. If donations to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time cause the bank to exceed the indicated cap number of days (320 hours) during any school yearin this Section of the Agreement, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members Bank will be reset to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the cap limit of Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent days on July 1st of the requesteach year.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Classified Employee Work Agreement, Classified Employee Work Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of teacher’s’ sick leave days administered by the district, which may be used for serious illness only by participating employees. The official record of the Sick Leave Bank will be housed in the District Office. Only those employees who donate a minimum of one (1) sick leave day will be members of the Sick Leave Bank during the same school year. Employees shall not be allowed to request days from the Sick Leave Bank unless they have exhausted all of their existing personal leave, and sick leave first. At the beginning of each school year, employees will have an opportunity to donate sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank. Employees may donate up to 10 sick leave days at this time. Donation of sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank is final and irrevocable. Employees shall provide written notice of their decision to donate days to the Sick Leave Bank, and the number of sick leave days to be donated if they choose to donate sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank, to the Superintendent (District office) by the end of the 5th school day of each school year. Upon request by the Association to the Superintendent, the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank will be reported to the Association. An account of the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank will be reported to the Association at the end of the school year, to be done no later than the final teacher SIP day. In the event that the Sick Leave Bank falls below 20 days during the school year, the Association President will be informed by the Superintendent (District office). All employees will be given the opportunity to donate at least one day, and no more than five days, to the Bank at this time. Any employee who was not previously a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to Sick Leave Bank will immediately become a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident member of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave BankBank if they choose to donate at least one day under these circumstances. Participation Days in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1for serious illness on the part of themployee, spouse, parent or child. Any employee may elect It does not cover elective surgery. Employees who are drawing retirement benefits under the Teacher Retirement System will not be eligible to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in draw from the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will Doctor's verification of serious illness may be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved required by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of . Days from the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. may be used non-consecutively pending approval by the Superintendent and the Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leaveCommittee. Sick Leave Bank days used for serious illness of a employee, personal leave and vacation first and then may use spouse, parent or child shall be limited to 20 days from the sick leave bank if neededper request. A withdrawal may be approved only upon six (6) member committee consisting of one (1) Board Member/Administrator, the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; howeverSuperintendent, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing and four (4) days to members of the sick bank will equate to a donation Association (made up of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not teacher from each building currently a participant participating in the Sick Leave Bank bank and the Association President) shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end serve as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall be final, binding and not subject review all requests submitted to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by Sick Leave Bank. Requests to the Sick Leave Bank must be made in writing (electronic mail is sufficient) to the Superintendent and Association President who will then convene the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. as soon as reasonably possible. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure may also be convened for the confidentiality purposes of its decisions.
e. The reviewing procedures and provisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee has upon the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) of either the Association or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. the Board/Administration. In the event that of a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned challenge by an employee to the Sick Leave BankBank procedure, distribution, selection, or any other matter relevant to this section of the collective bargaining agreement, the Association shall appear on behalf of the Board, defend the Board and hold the Board harmless against any loss or liability incurred as a function of this language. The Association hereby acknowledges and agrees that the purpose of this language is to provide a privilege to employees which will be managed collaboratively by the Board and Association and which the Association will be exclusively responsible for defending against loss. The Association waives the grievance procedure against the Board for purposes of this section, and agrees to defend the Board against any loss as a result of any grievances filed.
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Sources: Negotiations Agreement, Negotiations Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If (1) A sick leave bank, for use by eligible members of the professional staff covered by this Agreement who have exhausted their own sick leave and who have serious illness, has been established.
(2) All members of the professional staff covered by this Agreement shall each make an initial contribution of two (2) days of their annual seventeen (17) days of sick leave in order to fund the bank.
(3) The initial grant of sick leave by the sick leave bank committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days and shall not set a precedent. The maximum number of days bargaining unit members shall be granted by the sick leave bank committee is 211 days over the course of their career as a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident unit.
(4) Any sick leave granted any individual under the provisions of this section shall expire at the end of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement applicable contract year.
(Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated 5) The sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request bank shall be administered by a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bankbank committee consisting of three (3) members. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one One (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed member shall be designated by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave Committee to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designeeserve at its discretion, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed shall be designated by the Union PresidentAssociation in consultation with the Committee. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon committee shall determine the depletion eligibility for the use of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall bank and the amount of leave to be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requestsgranted. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and sick leave bank committee is not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original formsgrievance/documents arbitration. The following criteria shall be used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee committee in administering the bank and in determining eligibility and amount of leave:
(a) Adequate medical evidence of serious illness as documented in a completed Certificate of Health Care Provider form;
(b) Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave.
(6) When unused sick leave bank days reach one third (1/3) of the original contribution (eight (8) days) (made effective September 1, 1975) , all employees covered by the Agreement will be provided to the treasurerassessed an additional day which will be deducted from their seventeen (17) days annual sick leave.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure (7) All unused accumulated sick leave bank days contributed by administrators which remain in the confidentiality DennisYarmouth Regional School District sick leave bank as of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave BankAugust 31, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved1975, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into to the employee's credit of the sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankbank established under this Agreement.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member The purpose of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank is absent to relieve its members of undue financial burdens due to a non-elective surgery illness, injury or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make his/her family as defined presence in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation school inadvisable.
A. Membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect open to participate all certificated school personnel in the Bank by contributing Area 30 Career Center. Participation shall be on a voluntary basis. •
B. To become a member, certificated school personnel shall contribute one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members A sick leave contribution form shall be signed and filed in the Director's office. New members must return file the form by October 1st
C. The total number of sick leave bank days shall be set at 200. Until the number of days contributed by teachers reaches the 200 day level the Board will "under write" the bank by holding 100 in escrow. Additional days, after the 200 day level has been met, may be added to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed bank by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated teachers joining the sick leave and placed into bank. In the Sick Leave Bankevent that days held in the bank fall below two hundred (200) days, members will be asked to donate another day.
2. Requests for donation D. Days not used and those held in escrow will be carried over to the next year.
E. Only members of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised may qualify for the use of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance proceduredays in it.
a. Donations may only F. A member shall not use more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank in a contractual year. Sick Leave Bank days shall not be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work daysused during the summer employment in the Area 30 Career Center.
b. G. A member shall not collect from the Sick leave bank days will be granted only Leave Bank while collecting under ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Compensation provision in cases of absence that comply with the language IV, 6, A of the Master Agreement for sick leave usageContract.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed▇. A withdrawal member may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units apply for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number use of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any only after the following terms are met: (1) his/her own sick leave and personal leave days have been used up and (2) five consecutive school days have passed and consequent loss of five (5) days pay has occurred.
I. All applications for use of days from the BankSick Leave Bank must be submitted in triplicate on the Sick Leave Bank request form with one (1) copy to be returned to the applying member with the Governing Board's decision, one (1) copy to remain in the files of the Secretary of the A30EA, and one (1) copy for the files of the Director of the Area 30 Career Center. In cases of serious illness, making it impossible for the requesting member to complete the request form, the next of kin may make the application.
g. ▇. A doctor's statement of the illness and an estimation of time needed before the member can return to work must accompany the application.
K. The Governing Board of the Sick days earned during Leave Bank shall consist of the absence will Director of the Area 30 Career Center, one Board member, and three members of the Sick Leave Bank to be accrued appointed by the employee Executive Committee of the Area 30 Employee Organization. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave Bank shall elect a Chairperson who uses shall be responsible for calling all meetings when notified of a request by the Director's office.
L. The Sick Leave Bank Governing Board may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations Its judgment and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision final. Three members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee Governing Board shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealconstitute a majority.
c. Original forms/documents used by the M. A copy of accumulated Sick Leave Bank Committee days as established in this contract will be provided to kept in the treasurerDirector's office and with the A30EA President.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Tentative Agreement, Tentative Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A voluntary sick leave bank has been established for the benefit of any certified employees who elect to participate. The purpose of the bargaining unit is absent due sick leave bank shall be to provide a non-elective surgery or long-term bank of days upon which participating certified employees may borrow in case of extended illness or accident of the certified employee, or his/her family as defined in . The following rules shall govern the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all operation of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a the sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.bank:
1. Any certified employee may elect to participate in the Bank sick leave bank by contributing one two (12) of his/her accumulated sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) leave days to the Bank in order to joinsick leave bank.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate 2. The annual enrollment period for voluntary membership in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return sick leave bank shall be the form to the Treasurer within first ten (10) working daysdays of the school year. New employees wishing to participate must notify Any certified employee employed by the Treasurer within school corporation after the enrollment period has passed shall have ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period date of employment in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave which to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated enroll in the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bankbank.
23. Requests for donation Certified staff members who elect to become a member of the sick leave bank shall remain a member for the entire school year. Membership in the sick leave bank shall automatically continue from one school year to the next unless the member:
a. indicated in writing his/her election to withdraw from the sick leave bank. Such withdrawal must be approved by indicated during the Sick Leave Bank Committeeannual enrollment period, comprised of or
b. has withdrawn more days in one school year than he/she had contributed to the Superintendent/Designeesick leave bank. In this case, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and the certified employee must contribute two (2) bargaining unit more days of his/her sick leave from his/her allocation of sick leave for the new school year in order to continue membership in the sick leave bank.
4. Members of the sick leave bank who leave the employment of the corporation or withdraw from the sick leave bank shall leave in the sick leave bank any days contributed. Under the above circumstances, such certified employees cease to be members appointed of the sick leave bank.
5. Unused days in the bank shall carry forward from year to year. Whenever the total accumulated days in the sick leave bank fall below seventy (70) days, each member of the sick leave bank shall donate two (2) additional sick leave days to the sick leave bank in order to remain members of the sick bank. The president of the Association shall be notified when the bank has been depleted to seventy (70) days. If, after all members of the sick leave bank have been consulted, the request for days does not maintain the bank’s total days at ten (10), the bank shall be discontinued, and previously donated sick days cannot be claimed upon leaving the sick bank.
6. Members may apply for loans from the sick leave bank within the following conditions:
a. All sick leave and personal leave accumulated by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work daysindividual has been exhausted.
b. Sick An individual must be absent a minimum of ten (10) consecutive days when school was in session prior to receiving a loan from the sick leave bank. (Days granted may be retroactive.)
c. Teachers who accumulate sick days beyond the total allowed may contribute them to the sick leave bank. Also, a member of the sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases may draw a maximum of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use twenty-five (25) days from the sick leave bank if neededin any one school year. A withdrawal may Maternity leave shall not be approved only upon granted from the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donationbank. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days this shall not be construed to deny the use of the sick bank will equate for any illness or injury incident to maternity).
d. A physician’s statement shall be provided by the member upon application to the bank, and the Board may request the physician to renew such statements, as to the nature of the illness or incapacity and a donation of only one day prognosis report for returning to an eight (8) hour employeework.
7. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any The sick leave from bank shall be administered by the BankUnion-North United Board of School Trustees through the Superintendent. Application shall be made to the Superintendent of Schools who shall make a recommendation to the Board.
g. Sick days earned during 8. The President of the absence will Association shall be accrued informed in writing by the employee who uses Superintendent when the sick leave bankbank is being used.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a. A Sick Leave Bank will be established to enable a member Bargaining Unit Member to receive up to, but not more than, twice the number of sick leave days he/she has credited to him/her at the bargaining unit is absent due to first (1st) day of a non-elective surgery or long-term continuing illness or accident of and in any event not more than twenty (20) days for any fiscal year for any individual Bargaining Unit Member. Days cannot be received from the employee, Sick Leave Bank until the Bargaining Unit Member's sick and annual leave benefits have been exhausted.
b. The Bargaining Unit Member or his/her family as defined in representative shall submit a request to the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all President of JESS with a copy to the Superintendent of Schools or his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a designee for additional sick leave donation as soon as the need for additional leave is recognized.
c. The President of the Juneau Education Support Staff shall, within five (5) days of the request, determine the validity of the request.
d. In order for a Bargaining Unit Member to participate in and be eligible to draw from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any the employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing must have contributed one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their during either the first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten thirty (1030) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by he/she became eligible or during the Board.
b. Donated days will open enrollment period which shall be deducted from the second pay period in month of October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave e. The Bargaining Unit Member, by refusing an assessment for the Bank or by written notification to the bankJuneau Education Support Staff, will cease participation in the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall Bank and thereafter be immediately deducted ineligible to draw from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2f. It shall be the responsibility of the Juneau Education Support Staff to administer the Sick Leave Bank. Requests The total number of days donated and the names of the donors shall be reported to the District Business Office by the Juneau Education Support Staff within ten (10) days of the acceptance of the donation.
g. Except for donation new members, no assessment shall be made unless the number of sick leave must be approved by days in the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two falls below fifty (250) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days h. A new Bargaining Unit Member shall not be subject to an assessment during the six (6) calendar months following his/her initial contribution.
i. An assessment charged to a school year employee during the summer will be granted only canceled if he/she does not return to work in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usagefall.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from j. In the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently event that a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall does not have enough accrued sick leave to allow for an assessment, the assessment will be deferred until sufficient sick leave has accrued. The employee will not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits draw from the Sick Leave BankBank until the assessment has been made.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Union shall maintain a member sick leave bank for council members who, as a consequence of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term prolonged illness or accident of the employeehospitalization and recovery, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has have exhausted all of his/her their accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.is subject to the following guidelines:
1. Any employee may elect to All Council bargaining unit members will participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days leave bank after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bankyear of continuous service.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the The MCU Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised Committee will administer the sick leave bank. The committee will be composed of the Superintendent/DesigneeCouncil President or designee, Treasurer/Designeethe Clerical Vice- President or designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members Certified staff appointed by the Union President▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Executive Board, and the Superintendent, or designee. The committee's decision Superintendent or designee may not participate in a vote on the dispersal of days from the bank.
3. Each council member shall be final and not subject contribute three (3) sick days to the grievance proceduresick leave bank at the beginning of their third year of service. When five hundred (500) days remain in the bank, every Council member will contribute two (2) days to the bank.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days 4. No Council member will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use able to withdraw days from the sick leave bank until their own accrued sick days, personal days and/or vacation days (if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation applicable) have been depleted and a request has been presented to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Sick Leave Bank shall not Committee for sick leave bank withdrawal accompanied by a doctor’s written
5. Each teacher bargaining unit member will be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. bank a maximum of fifty (50) working days in any one school year, or enough school days to complete the school year, whichever is less. Sick leave bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirementfrom one school year to the next for the same illness unless the teacher has returned to work for one full semester.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive 6. Each clerical bargaining unit member may use as many as fifty (50) sick leave bank daysdays over a revolving twelve (12) month period.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No 7. A council bargaining unit member whose application for sick leave bank days is denied, may appeal the committee’s decision to the full ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Executive Board. The Executive Board’s decision shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bankfinal.
38. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Union shall solicit, through maintain the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision records of the Sick Leave Bank Committee account. The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Union shall be final, binding and not subject immediately provide a written report to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided Human Resources Department upon issuance of sick leave bank days to a ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Union employee. The Human Resources Department shall issue a written report of sick leave bank activity and sick leave bank days remaining to the treasurer▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Union President or designee on a quarterly basis. The ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Council Union is responsible for rectifying any discrepancies between the District records and the Union records.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 13.3.1 The Board agrees to establish a member sick leave bank to cover employees in the event of a serious illness or disability.
13.3.2 The sick leave bank shall be administered by a committee composed of two (2) members of the bargaining unit is absent due to a Association appointed by the President, the school nurse, and an Administrator appointed by the Superintendent, hereinafter called the Administrative Committee. For the purposes of administering the sick leave bank, the parties agree that non-elective surgery or longmedical child rearing leave is governed exclusively by the provisions of Section 13.11.
13.3.3 The Sick Bank rotation list is a list of members of the sick bank to be initially established in July 2022. The initial list of members was placed in alphabetical order by date of hire. Subsequently, new enrollees, after contributing one day, will be added to the bottom of the list. New enrollees who join the bank on the same day shall be placed on the list in alphabetical order.
13.3.4 To join the sick leave bank, an employee must sign a Sick Bank Membership Form by September 30th of each year and shall donate one (1) day from those he/she receives in a one-term year period to be deposited in said bank, such day to be deducted from the employee's annual sick leave in the second pay period in October. The Administrative Committee will provide the SAU office with a copy of all membership forms as well as the current rotation list by October 1st of each year.
13.3.5 The SAU business office shall deduct days from employees’ sick leave as described above and shall keep a record of days accumulated in the sick bank, which may be audited by the President of the Association at any time.
13.3.6 The days in the bank may accumulate up to one hundred (100) days. When the bank reaches the maximum accumulation only new enrollees need to contribute to the bank. All new enrollees must contribute for their first three years of participation regardless of the total accumulation in the bank. These days in excess of the maximum shall be placed in reserve. Any days left in reserve at the end of the school year shall be lost. They shall neither continue to be held in reserve nor restored to the enrollee.
13.3.7 A member becomes eligible to request benefits from the sick leave bank if suffering from a serious illness or accident of the employee, or hisdisability provided he/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), she has exhausted all of his/her accumulated accrued sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she . Said member may request a up to twenty-five (25) days per application.
13.3.8 The request to use the sick leave donation from bank shall be submitted in writing with supportive medical documentation to the District's Sick Leave BankAdministrative Committee. Participation The committee will determine whether or not, in its judgment, the employee qualifies to use the sick leave bank. If the Administrative Committee has determined that the employee qualifies to use the sick bank, it will submit its decision to the Superintendent who will release the days for use by the employee. The decision of the Administrative Committee shall be final and shall not be subject to grievance or arbitration.
13.3.9 When the days are drawn on the Sick Leave Bank Bank, the sick days held in reserve shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect used to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in restore the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form Bank to the Treasurer within ten (10) working its maximum of 100 days. New employees wishing to participate If the bank falls below the maximum accumulation, participants must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working contribute only one of their sick days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from in the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank Those days will be granted only held to replenish the Sick Bank at the close of the school year in cases of absence that comply June, beginning with the language top of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other proceduresrotation list, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, until the Sick Bank is restored to the maximum allowed. Those contributing individuals will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from be placed at the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion bottom of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number rotation list. An accounting of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) accrued and used days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members sent to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipSAU office no later than June 1st of each year.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A voluntary sick leave bank has been established for the benefit of any certified employees who elect to participate. The purpose of the bargaining unit is absent due sick leave bank shall be to provide a non-elective surgery or long-term bank of days upon which participating certified employees may borrow in case of extended illness or accident of the certified employee, or his/her family as defined in . The following rules shall govern the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all operation of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a the sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.bank:
1. Any certified employee may elect to participate in the Bank sick leave bank by contributing two (2) of his/her accumulated sick leave days to the sick leave bank.
2. The annual enrollment period for voluntary membership in the sick leave bank shall be the first ten (10) days of the school year. Any certified employee employed by the school corporation after the enrollment period has passed shall have ten (10) days from the date of employment in which to enroll in the sick leave bank.
3. Certified staff members who elect to become a member of the sick leave bank shall remain a member for the entire school year. Membership in the sick leave bank shall automatically continue from one school year to the next unless the member:
a. indicated in writing his/her election to withdraw from the sick leave bank. Such withdrawal must be indicated during the annual enrollment period, or
b. has withdrawn more days in one school year than he/she had contributed to the sick leave bank. In this case, the certified employee must contribute two (2) more days of his/her sick leave from his/her allocation of sick leave for the new school year in order to continue membership in the sick leave bank.
4. Members of the sick leave bank who leave the employment of the corporation or withdraw from the sick leave bank shall leave in the sick leave bank any days contributed. Under the above circumstances, such certified employees cease to be members of the sick leave bank.
5. Unused days in the bank shall carry forward from year to year. Whenever the total accumulated days in the sick leave bank fall below seventy (70) days, each member of the sick leave bank shall be asked to donate one (1) additional sick leave day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order sick leave bank. The president of the Association shall be notified when the bank has been depleted to joinseventy (70) days. If, after all members of the sick leave bank have been consulted, the request for days does not maintain the bank’s total days at ten (10), the bank shall be discontinued.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank6. Members may apply for loans from the sick leave bank within the following conditions:
a. All sick leave and personal leave accumulated by the individual has been exhausted.
b. An individual must return the form to the Treasurer within be absent a minimum of ten (10) working days. New employees wishing consecutive days when school was in session prior to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted receiving a loan from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into bank. (Days granted may be retroactive.)
c. Teachers who accumulate sick days beyond the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of total allowed may contribute them to the sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committeebank. Also, comprised a member of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations sick leave bank may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond draw a maximum period of thirty twenty-five (3025) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. in any one school year.
d. A withdrawal physician’s statement shall be provided by the member upon application to the bank, and the Board may be approved only upon request the depletion physician to renew such statements, as to the nature of the respective employee's accumulated sick leaveillness or incapacity and a prognosis report for returning to work.
e. Withdrawals 7. The sick leave bank shall be in full day units for administered by the employee receiving Union-North United Board of School Trustees through the donation; however, donations Superintendent. Application shall be in relation made to the number Superintendent of hours worked Schools who shall make a recommendation to the Board.
8. The President of the Association shall be informed in a day writing by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses Superintendent when the sick leave bankbank is being used.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member 21.1 A sick leave bank shall be established for use by participating employees when fifty-one per cent (51%) of the bargaining unit is absent due those eligible indicate by written authorization their intent to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined participate.
21.2 All employees shall be eligible for voluntary participation in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing bank after one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work year employment in a day) to the Bank in order to join▇▇▇▇▇▇ County.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. 21.3 The sick leave donation bank shall be immediately deducted used only for the employee's personal debilitating illness, accident, or injury.
21.4 Employees shall have accrued a minimum of five (5) sick leave days left over from the bargaining unit member who donated previous year or years before joining the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2bank. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision Each participating employee shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating contribute one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant sick leave in the Sick Leave Bank first month of eligibility.
A. Employees shall not be eligible to withdraw any join the sick leave from the Bankbank on or before September 10 of each school year.
g. Sick B. Each participating employee shall contribute one (1) day of sick leave each time the bank balance falls below 25% of the number of members in the bank. No employee shall be required to contribute more than three (3) days earned during in any school year. If a participating employee does not have sufficient number of accrued sick leave days to contribute, his/her participation in the absence will bank shall be accrued by restricted until such time that he/she can make the employee who uses required contribution.
C. After a participating employee's accumulated sick leave has been exhausted, he/she shall be eligible to draw in ten (10) day increments, from the sick leave bank, for any one (1) illness, injury, accident, or complication thereof. A maximum of sixty (60) sick leave days per year can be utilized. In the event that the employee does not use all sick leave drawn from the bank, such days shall be returned to the bank.
h. D. Each application shall be accompanied by a physician's statement. Photostatic copies of the doctor's statement will not be accepted. The committee reserves the right to ask for a second opinion. Sick leave bank days may not be used for maternity except in lieu the case of disability retirementmajor complications.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from E. Extension applications for an initial illness, accident, injury, or complication thereof will be submitted within seven (7) days of the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive beginning date of the original or previous application.
F. Any participating employee withdrawing sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member days shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will not be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating replace those days except as a regular contributing member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankbank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined 1. The Board will cooperate in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all operation of his/her accumulated an Association sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised All Association members of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only participate in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank (a) At the beginning of a school year, if the accrued number of days may not is less than one hundred (100), a new assessment of days shall be used in lieu made at the rate of disability retirementone (1) day per Association member.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, (b) If during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union bank becomes depleted, a special assessment shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsbe made.
4. Once A member shall not be allowed to withdraw his sick leave days from the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipsick leave bank.
5. A participating An Association member may draw on must first exhaust all personal sick leave before being eligible to use days from the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requestsAssociation sick bank. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten first thirty (1030) working school days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee illness or disability shall not be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used covered by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality sick leave bank, but by a person’s own accumulation of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) sick leave or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a absence without pay. A maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days of the same illness shall be deposited into covered by the employee's sick leave accountbank.
6. All unused A maximum of thirty (30) sick leave days from the sick leave bank may be used in a school year by an Association member.
7. Association members using the sick leave days from the sick leave bank do not have to pay back the sick leave days except as a regular contributing participant of the sick leave bank.
8. Any new Association member must contribute three (3) days to the bank. This can be done over a period of three (3) years.
9. Days contributed by members leaving the employment of the district shall remain for the use of the bank.
10. The bank shall be returned to controlled by the Association’s Executive Board, which will serve as the Sick Leave BankBank Committee.
11. At no time shall the sick bank be used by an Association member who isn’t out on a personal illness or disability with medical documentation. (EX: FMLA allows a person to be off for the care of a newborn child, sick bank cannot be used in that instance. Contractually, a person can use their accumulated sick leave time for a family member qualifying for FMLA but the intent was never to use the association sick bank for anyone’s leave other than the Association member.)
12. Association members who are not in good standing, are not eligible for the sick leave bank.
13. If a person opts out of the Association, they are not eligible for sick leave bank from that day forward even if they rejoin the Association.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby a teacher, as defined herein in Article I, who is absent from assigned duties due to personal illness and who has utilized all sick leave and personal leave, or is absent from assigned duties due to the catastrophic illness of a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick immediate family as defined previously in Section G and has utilized all family illness leave and personal leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable)may petition a committee, he/she may request a as established herein, for sick leave donation days from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in bank under the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.following conditions:
1. Any employee The number of days in the bank able to be used shall not exceed two hundred fifty (250) days per school year, provided, however, that (a) a veteran teacher who is not a current member of the bank may elect become a member by contributing two (2) sick leave days to the bank contributed not earlier than August 1st nor later than September 15th of any school year, and (b) a teacher who is newly hired in this school corporation shall have fifteen (15) days from the date of initial duty assignment, or until September 15th of any school year, whichever is later, during which time such teacher may choose to participate in the Bank bank by contributing one
(1) sick leave day.
2. At the end of each school year, a teacher who exceeds the cumulative total allowed for sick days may contribute a maximum of two (2) sick days to the bank. The total of days contributed by teachers who exceed the cumulative total may not exceed twenty (20) sick days in a school year.
3. Any teacher that has left employment of the school district and returned at a later date will be considered a newly hired teacher. In the case the bank is depleted during the school year, the current year’s contribution shall be assessed at the time of such depletion to all members of the bank who have not already contributed a day to the bank during the school year. If a teacher does not have a day to contribute, the day can be assessed at the start of the next school year.
4. Said teacher may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
a. The teacher must have chosen to become a current member of and participate in such bank by contributing one (1) sick leave day (defined as to the bank not earlier than August 1st or later than September 15th each year, and such day contributed shall be non-returnable to the teacher. However, in the event that the number of hours accumulated days in the bank at the beginning of a school year is of sufficient number that a contribution of one (1) sick leave day by a teacher that is a current member of the bank would cause the maximum number of days specified hereinabove in Paragraph One (1) to be exceeded, the current year’s contribution by all such current members shall be suspended, except that in case the bank is depleted during the school year, the current year’s contribution shall be assessed at the time of such depletion;
b. Written certification will be provided from the teacher’s physician or in the case of family illness, the family member’s physician substantiating the illness and certifying that the donating employee is scheduled to work in absence will continue during a dayperiod of at least five (5) to days following the Bank in order to join.utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein;
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members c. Written application must return the form to the Treasurer within ten be made no later than twelve (1012) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
b. Donated d. The teacher must have been absent for at least four (4) duty days will be deducted after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
e. Upon resumption of employment after using days from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, said teacher shall repay the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from number of days owed to the bargaining unit member who donated bank (number of days borrowed minus number of days contributed) at the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation rate of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other proceduresdays per year, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals plus said teacher shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation continue to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating contribute one (1) day will equate to a donation of four per year as provided hereinabove in Paragraph 2 (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)a):
f. An employee who is not currently If a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw teacher leaves employment of this school corporation, any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members owed to the bank will shall be required to contribute in order to establish membershipwaived.
5. A participating three (3) member may draw on sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the Sick Leave Bank bank according to the provisions herein, under guidelines established by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who committee. The committee shall inform be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Superintendent Federation and one (1) person appointed by the Superintendent. Days allotted by the committee to an individual teacher shall be available for use beginning with the fifth (5th) day of absence after exhaustion of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be finalteacher’s said paid leave benefits, binding and not subject such allotment to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used a teacher by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that not exceed a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a fixed maximum of thirty (30) days for teacher use and fifteen (15) for family medical support per 12 month periodapplication. These days The committee shall be deposited into limited to a total allotment of two hundred fifty (250) days per school year.
6. A teacher who is unable to return to assigned duties when the employee's sick leave account. All unused allotted days shall be returned are exhausted may re-apply to the Sick Leave Bankcommittee for additional days. Any days granted by the committee to an individual teacher shall terminate effective the earliest date as hereinafter provided:
a. The day after the last day of the term of employment for the school year, or
b. The day after the last day of allotted number of days granted by the committee, or
c. The first day of return to employment subsequent to the granting of days by the committee.
d. Long-term disability (LTD) insurance takes effect.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. (a) At the commencement of the 1978-79 school year a sick leave bank shall be established to assist participating teachers who have exhausted all current and accumulated sick leave. Each teacher who joins will contribute two (2) days to the plan by executing a form provided by the Association and submitting it to the District Business Office no later than October first. Once any days are contributed to the bank by a teacher, they cannot be withdrawn. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident bank leaves the employ of the employeeDistrict for any reason whatsoever, or his/her family as defined the total number of days contributed will not revert to the teacher but will remain in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all bank. A committee composed of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave one District representative and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit two Association members will receive be established to determine the eligibility of a form with their first pay in September electing teacher to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted draw from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2bank. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days Withdrawals from the sick leave bank if neededshall be allowed only for personal illness or physical disability of the contributing teacher. As a final determinant of eligibility, the committee may require that a school physician, in consultation with the teacher's doctor, determine and certify the teacher's inability to return to duty because of illness or physical disability. The decision of the school physician, after consultation with the teacher's doctor, will be final. The teacher's condition may be reviewed at any time in the same manner at the request of the Association President or the Superintendent to determine continued eligibility. The committee will authorize a maximum of fifteen (15) days from the bank at any one time but this does not preclude the authorization of consecutive periods, provided that a member may not draw more than forty-five (45) days per year from the bank unless the vote of the committee is unanimous. A withdrawal non-tenured teacher on probationary appointment may draw from the sick bank according to the following limits: 1st Year - 0 Days, 2nd Year - 15 Days or 3rd Year - 30 Days
(b) The sick leave bank shall be approved only upon established when the depletion countable sick leave days contributed by eligible teachers reaches a total of fifty (50) days. When the bank is depleted to fifty (50) days the Association will petition each sick leave bank member to contribute two (2) more days. No member may contribute more than two (2) days and each member of the respective employee's bank must contribute the two days in order to remain a member. If a member of the bank fails to contribute the two days when petitioned to do so, he or she will be removed as a member of the bank and all days previously contributed will remain with the bank. If the accrued number of days does not reach fifty (50) after the Association has petitioned the eligible teachers, the bank will become non-existent until the accrued number of days reaches the total of fifty (50) days or more. The first thirty days of absence due to illness or physical disability shall not be eligible for sick bank coverage. The employee must use his/her accumulated sick leavebenefit time and/or be on unpaid leave status during this time.
e. Withdrawals (c) The exception to paragraph (b) is as follows: If a teacher is using the sick bank when the Association must petition its membership to re-establish the bank due to depletion, the District shall be in full day units contribute to the sick bank two (2) days for his/her use to re-establish membership within the employee receiving bank. Upon return to active employment to the donation; however, donations District the teacher shall be in relation give the District two (2) sick days. If for any reason the teacher does not return to active employment the sick bank shall give the District two (2) days.
(d) The District shall notify the President of the Association no later than the last week of August each year as to the number of hours worked days that are currently in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The parties agree to establish a member sick leave bank which will be administered by the Association. Teachers shall contribute one day of their sick leave allowance to this bank; thereafter the bargaining unit contribution of additional days shall be determined by the Association and only when the total number of days in the bank is absent due sixty (60) days or less. In no case shall the total number of days contributed to the bank in a given contract year exceed twice the membership. The Association will notify the District by September 30th each year whether this provision of sick bank will be used for that year. A teacher may also: Voluntarily contribute day(s) to the sick bank if they have more than one hundred (100) accumulated days of sick leave; and/or Voluntarily contribute day(s) to the sick bank to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident specific teacher as long as the contributing teacher maintains at least one hundred (100) days of the employee, or his/her family as defined accumulated sick leave in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), their own personal sick leave accumulation. A teacher who has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable)is unable to return to work, hedue to his/she her personal illness, injury, or disability may make a written request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working Association for days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2bank. Requests This written request will be reviewed for donation of sick leave must be approved approval by the Association's Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall In no event will a teacher be final and not subject allowed to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use draw days from the sick leave bank if neededafter he/she has qualified for long term disability. A withdrawal may be approved only upon Any teacher that can anticipate a prolonged disability (such as scheduled surgery, other confinement to home or hospital, including maternity) shall notify the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be building principal and Human Resources in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of writing at least thirty (30) calendar days per 12 month periodin advance as to the projected period of confinement. These days The notification shall contain the projected dates of confinement and be accompanied by written medical verification. It is understood that use of sick leave shall be deposited into only for the employee's sick leave accountduration of the actual incapacity. All unused days shall be returned to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Public Schools will comply with the Sick provisions of the Family Medical Leave BankAct (FMLA).
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Sources: Contractual Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A voluntary sick leave bank has been established for the benefit of any certified employees who elect to participate. The purpose of the bargaining unit is absent due sick leave bank shall be to provide a non-elective surgery or long-term bank of days upon which participating certified employees may borrow in case of extended illness or accident of the certified employee, or his/her family as defined in . The following rules shall govern the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all operation of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a the sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.bank:
1. Any certified employee may elect to participate in the Bank sick leave bank by contributing one two (12) of his/her accumulated sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) leave days to the Bank in order to joinsick leave bank.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate 2. The annual enrollment period for voluntary membership in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return sick leave bank shall be the form to the Treasurer within first ten (10) working daysdays of the school year. New employees wishing to participate must notify Any certified employee employed by the Treasurer within school corporation after the enrollment period has passed shall have ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period date of employment in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave which to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated enroll in the sick leave and placed into bank. For the Sick Leave Bank2020-2021 school year, teachers who are not currently members of the sick bank may join according to the provisions in section 1 by December 18, 2020.
23. Requests for donation Certified staff members who elect to become a member of the sick leave bank shall remain a member for the entire school year. Membership in the sick leave bank shall automatically continue from one school year to the next unless the member:
a. indicated in writing his/her election to withdraw from the sick leave bank. Such withdrawal must be approved by indicated during the Sick Leave Bank Committeeannual enrollment period, comprised of or
b. has withdrawn more days in one school year than he/she had contributed to the Superintendent/Designeesick leave bank. In this case, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and the certified employee must contribute two (2) bargaining unit more days of his/her sick leave from his/her allocation of sick leave for the new school year in order to continue membership in the sick leave bank.
4. Members of the sick leave bank who leave the employment of the corporation or withdraw from the sick leave bank shall leave in the sick leave bank any days contributed. Under the above circumstances, such certified employees cease to be members appointed of the sick leave bank.
5. Unused days in the bank shall carry forward from year to year. Whenever the total accumulated days in the sick leave bank fall below seventy (70) days, each member of the sick leave bank shall donate two (2) additional sick leave days to the sick leave bank in order to remain members of the sick bank. The president of the Association shall be notified when the bank has been depleted to seventy (70) days. If, after all members of the sick leave bank have been consulted, the request for days does not maintain the bank’s total days at ten (10), the bank shall be discontinued, and previously donated sick days cannot be claimed upon leaving the sick bank.
6. Members may apply for loans from the sick leave bank within the following conditions:
a. All sick leave and personal leave accumulated by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work daysindividual has been exhausted.
b. Sick An individual must be absent a minimum of ten (10) consecutive days when school was in session prior to receiving a loan from the sick leave bank. (Days granted may be retroactive.)
c. Teachers who accumulate sick days beyond the total allowed may contribute them to the sick leave bank. Also, a member of the sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases may draw a maximum of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use twenty-five (25) days from the sick leave bank if neededin any one school year. A withdrawal may Maternity leave shall not be approved only upon granted from the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donationbank. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days this shall not be construed to deny the use of the sick bank will equate for any illness or injury incident to maternity).
d. A physician’s statement shall be provided by the member upon application to the bank, and the Board may request the physician to renew such statements, as to the nature of the illness or incapacity and a donation of only one day prognosis report for returning to an eight (8) hour employeework.
7. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any The sick leave from bank shall be administered by the BankUnion-North United Board of School Trustees through the Superintendent. Application shall be made to the Superintendent of Schools who shall make a recommendation to the Board.
g. Sick days earned during 8. The President of the absence will Association shall be accrued informed in writing by the employee who uses Superintendent when the sick leave bankbank is being used.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member In order to provide insurance from loss of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or longpay because of longer-term illness or accident of the employeeinjury, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave BankBank shall be established. Participation in Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.b, the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any used to pay the salary up to forty-five (45) days beyond the days eligible for an employee may elect to participate per work year but shall not exceed 185 days in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as aggregate during the number employee's employment with the Harvard Public Schools. At the beginning of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised each year of the Superintendent/Designeecontract, Treasurer/Designeeif the balance is below one hundred days, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision each teacher shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only donate one day to an eight (8) hour employeethe Bank. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the The Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick exceed a total of one thousand (1,000) days. No days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank.
3Bank for use for any purpose other than prolonged or chronic illness or injury of the member of the unit. Should Days may not be withdrawn to permit an individual to stay at home to care for a member of the family. Days may be withdrawn for purposes of maternity only in extreme instances if unforeseen and serious medical complications arise. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of four members. Two members shall be designated by the Administration to serve at its discretion, and two members shall be members of the unit and shall be designated by the Association. These members will keep all matters presented to the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4Committee confidential. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make determine the decision regarding requests. The decision eligibility for the use of the Committee shall Bank and the amount of leave to be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days granted. In the event of a tie vote, the request.
b. The decision members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee will agree upon a fifth person to break the tie. The following criteria shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to in administering the treasurer.Bank and determining eligibility and amount of leave:
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee (1) A note providing adequate medical evidence of illness or injury, which shall take all necessary steps to insure include information detailing the confidentiality diagnosis and potential duration of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. leave, on letterhead by a state-certified medical practitioner. In the event that a member is physically unable teacher does not wish to make a request to use share this evidence with the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approvedBank Committee, the days shall be granted up teacher may elect to a maximum submit the evidence directly and confidentially to the Town's HR Director, who will then make the determination of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodeligibility with respect to this item. These days shall be deposited into If the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned teacher is not satisfied with the determination of the HR Director, the teacher may then elect to submit the documentation to the Sick Leave BankBank Committee for review.
(2) Prior utilization of all eligible sick leave.
(3) Requests for days from the Sick Bank must be submitted within 10 school days of the employee's return to work. All teachers shall be notified as to their number of accumulated days of sick leave on their earnings statements. The Administration will be responsible for an accounting of the additions and disbursements to and from the Bank and shall provide timely access to such accounts and an annual report to the HTA as requested.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A Sick Leave Bank, for the purpose of providing additional coverage after the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident exhaustion of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her individual annual and accumulated sick leave, personal leave for those members of the Sick Bank who have been certified to be seriously ill, is hereby established as of July 1, 1995, exclusively for the use of the members of the Cafeteria, Clerical and vacation Paraprofessional units. Participation by Employees shall be voluntary. Members of the Sick Bank shall be assessed one (where applicable), he/she may request a 1) day of their annual and/or accumulated sick leave. Said days are to be “deposited” in the Bank. Unused days in the Bank shall carry over from year to year. Should the number of days in the Bank be reduced through usage to the level of one hundred (100) days then each participating member shall be assessed one (1) day of their annual and/or accumulated sick leave donation from as of the District's Sick Leave first day of the next calendar month. Said days are to be “deposited” in the Bank. Participation In the event a participating member has no accumulated and/or annual sick leave at the time of said assessment then that member shall be assessed the amount of days owed to the Bank on the following September 1. In no case shall an Employee be assessed more than two (2) days in any given year. Subject to the provisions of this Article each participating member may, following a maximum five (5) work day waiting period, be granted a maximum of forty (40) sick days per school year by the Bank Committee. If, as and when days are granted, they shall cover retroactively said five (5) day waiting period. In no case will a participating member be granted more than sixty (60) sick days in a three-year cycle or more than one hundred eighty (180) days during their employment. The Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1administered by a Bank Committee made up of two (2) appointees of the Federation and three (3) appointees of the School committee. Any employee may elect Prior to participate in approval for use of the Bank, or any extension of the use of the Bank, the Bank Committee shall have the right but not the obligation to obtain a medical examination of the applicant by contributing a physician of its own choosing. The Federation and the School Committee shall also each appoint one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) alternate member to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate Committee. Said alternate may attend all meetings of the Bank Committee, but shall vote only in the absence of one (1) of their respective appointees. The Bank Committee shall have the power to establish procedural and functional guidelines for the operation of the Bank consistent with this Article. All decisions by the Bank Committee shall be by three (3) affirmative votes and all decisions by the Bank Committee shall be final and binding and not subject to grievance and/or arbitration. The Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form Bank will be funded by a School Committee deposit equal to the Treasurer within ten difference between one hundred fifty (10150) working daysdays and the sum of the present number of days in the individual Cafeteria, Clerical, and Paraprofessional Banks as of August 31, 1995 and an additional day’s assessment of all present Bank members. New employees wishing Notwithstanding the foregoing, all Bank Committee decisions granting sick leave to participate must notify the Treasurer Bank member shall be subject to the approval of the School Committee. In addition, all Bank Committee decisions denying sick leave to the participating member may be appealed by the participating member in writing to the School Committee by filing said appeal with the Superintendent/Director within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by of receipt of the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from Bank Committee decision. The School Committee shall consider said appeal at the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave next regularly scheduled School Committee Meeting subsequent to the bank, receipt of the donation is irrevocableappeal. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from If the bargaining unit member who donated School Committee denies the sick leave and placed into appeal or disapproves a positive decision of the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised the participating member has a further right to appeal to a panel of three doctors, one selected by the Superintendent/DesigneeSchool Committee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed one by the Union President. The committee's decision shall and a doctor to be final and not subject mutually agreed to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making School Committee and the donationUnion. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation Notice of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not said appeal must be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote filed within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. School Committee’s denial and said appeal process must be diligently prosecuted by both the Employee and the School Committee. The decision Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by the Bank Committee made up of two (2) appointees of the Sick Leave Federation and three (3) appointees of the School Committee. Prior to approval for use of the Bank, or any extension of use of the Bank, the Bank Committee shall have the right but not the obligation to obtain a medical examination of the applicant by a physician of its own choosing. The Federation and the School Committee shall also each appoint one (1) alternate member to the Bank Committee. Said alternate may attend all meetings of the Bank Committee, but shall vote only in the absence of one (1) of his or her respective appointees. The Bank Committee shall have the power to establish procedural and functional guidelines for the operation of the Bank consistent with this Article. All decisions by the Bank Committee shall be final, by three (3) affirmative votes and all decisions by the Bank Committee shall be final and binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used and/or arbitration. The Bank will be initially funded by a grant of twenty-five (25) days by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality Committee. In case of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(san absence of five (5) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In more consecutive days the event Superintendent/Director may require that an employees' file a member statement with the Superintendent/Director from a registered physician that he/she is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into treating the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If A voluntary sick leave bank to which a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to teacher may contribute unused sick days and from which a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of contributing teacher may draw sick days when his/her accumulated sick leavedays are exhausted will be administered according to the policies set forth in this Article.
1. The purpose of the sick leave bank is to relieve teachers from undue financial burden due to absence from work on a long-term basis as a result of a severe illness, personal injury, or incapacitation.
2. The sick leave bank will be administered by a committee of five teachers and vacation the superintendent. The superintendent may include an additional administrator to be present in an advisory capacity. The teachers shall be selected as follows:
a. two (where applicable2) from Eastern Pulaski Elementary School
b. one (l) from Winamac Community Middle School
c. two (2) from Winamac Community High School The chairperson of the committee will be appointed by the president of the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association. The chairperson and the EPTA president will select the members of the committee. These committee appointments will require approval of the EPTA Executive Committee.
3. The sick leave bank will be administered by both the EPTA president and a representative from the Administration Building (Superintendent, Business Manager, etc.). All sick leave bank documentation will be kept in the Administration Building and will be checked by the EPTA president on a periodic basis.
4. The maximum number of days to be held in the bank shall be one hundred eighty (180). The maximum number of days to be held in the bank may be allowed to increase to allow new teachers to join and at any time. The Eastern Pulaski Community School Board and Eastern Pulaski Teachers’ Association mutually agree to do so under special circumstances.
5. To enroll and be eligible for the sick leave bank, he/she may request a teacher will be required to donate one (1) of their sick days every three (3) school years. First-year teachers will automatically be enrolled in the program during their first year of teaching in the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation without a sick day donation; however, such teachers must donate one (1) of their sick leave donation from every three (3) school years after their first year being employed in our school corporation to remain in the District's program. Once a teacher is enrolled and active in the sick leave bank, they will be automatically enrolled each year (and donate a day as stated earlier) unless they choose to opt out of the program. Those wishing to opt out of the program must complete and submit an “opt out” form to either the EPTA president or to the Administration Building by October 15th.
6. Each teacher who is not enrolled may choose to enroll in the sick leave bank and must complete and submit a Sick Leave BankBank Request form no later than October 15th of each school year to be eligible for that school year. Participation Those current members wishing to opt out of the program must also complete the opt out form and submit it by October 15th of the school year.
7. If the number of days in the bank is at the maximum at the start of a school year, member teachers will not be required to donate an additional day for that year if they are scheduled to donate at that time. All active members of the program (who are up to date on donation) will remain active that school year.
8. Any days previously donated by past members (current inactive members, retired members, members who left the Corporation, etc.) will remain in the sick leave bank and be labeled as general days for accounting purposes. Once days are donated to the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntarythey are not refundable for any reason.
19. Any employee may elect contributing teacher is eligible to participate in withdraw days from the Bank by contributing one bank if: (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by teacher has completed the Sick Leave Bank CommitteeApplication and Agreement form, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject teacher has submitted the appropriate medical information to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donationCommittee that establishes a physical/mental illness or injury, and (3) being absent three consecutive work days and the teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick days and personal days. A person may withdraw days only until the end of the school year. At the beginning of a new school year the teacher must have a contract to teach in the school system and re-apply to the Sick Leave bank Committee if more days are needed.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated 10. In consideration of the benefits of participating in the sick leaveleave bank, personal leave each applicant for membership in the bank shall, as a condition to such application, agree in writing substantially as follows: "I specially acknowledge and vacation first and then may use agree that the granting of days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may shall be approved only upon at the depletion sole discretion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leaveleave bank committee or, in the event of an appeal, the executive board of the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association will be final and binding and not subject to grievance. I further agree to abide by such decision and to indemnify and hold harmless the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association and the Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation and all of their agents for any loss they may sustain as a result of any claim or legal proceedings I may bring against them with respect to a decision made by any of them concerning this application."
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for 11. Persons withdrawing sick leave days from the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate not have to replace these days except as a donation of only one day regular contributing member to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick 12. An applying teacher may appeal the decision of the sick bank days may committee to the Eastern Pulaski Teachers' Association Executive Board. The EPTA Board will consider all appeals and exceptional cases which do not be used in lieu of disability retirementfit the above guidelines on an individual basis.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive 13. The sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank committee or executive board, if called upon, may grant, deny, or suspend grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits sick days from the Sick Leave Bank.
3bank. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank Their judgment or decision will be required final. Each applicant automatically consents to contribute in order submit to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent medical examination and/or review of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original formshis/documents used her medical history if it is deemed necessary by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurercommittee.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Contract Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A voluntary sick leave bank will be established for employees working four (4) hours or more per day and who are in or beyond their second full trimester of employment. Employees who have taken PERS retirement and re-employed by the District are ineligible for sick leave bank contributions or benefits.
1. Eligible employees may annually donate up to two (2) days of sick leave to the bank. For each year of the bargaining unit is absent due to contract, there shall be a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident maximum of eighty (80) hours of sick leave in the bank.
2. The recipient of donated sick leave hours must first have used all of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her ’s accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from time and must not be drawing Workers’ Compensation at the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntarytime of transfer.
13. Any employee may elect to participate in An applicant must be experiencing a life-threatening or debilitating physical illness or injury that is preventing the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within applicant from performing job requirements for more than ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate A doctor must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Boardcertify this illness or injury is life threatening or debilitating.
b. Donated days will be deducted from 4. At the second pay period in October.
c. Once a beginning of each school year, the Association shall advise members of the bargaining unit member donated as follows:
a. That eligible employees may donate up to two (2) days of the employee’s accumulated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The Association’s sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.bank;
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.That such donations are completely voluntary;
c. Recuperation from surgeries That the Association or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days its administrative designee shall administer all disbursements from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may bank; and
d. That only those who donate hours will be approved only upon eligible to apply for hours from the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leavebank.
e. Withdrawals 5. Eligible employees shall confirm their desire to donate to the sick leave bank no later than fifteen (15) workdays after the beginning of each school year. Such confirmation shall be in full day units for writing and personally signed by the employee receiving the donation; however, donations donating employee.
6. The District shall be in relation transfer sick leave to the sick leave bank in accordance with the authorized donor confirmations that are received within the annual enrollment period as specified in Subsection 5 of the Section.
7. The Association or its administrative designee shall administer disbursements from the Association’s sick leave bank account. Each time such disbursement is to be made, the Association shall advise the District, in writing, the exact number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from and to whom sick leave hours are to be transferred. At no time shall the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during total number of sick leave hours be transferred exceed the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses total number of hours recorded in the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu 8. The Association does herby indemnify and will defend the District against all claims, charges, damages, legal fees and costs incurred as a result of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from its maintenance of the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank daysbank.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 1. A sick leave bank is available on a member voluntary basis in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
2. This bank is for the protection of the bargaining unit is absent due to individual participating teacher during a non-elective surgery or long-long term extended illness or accident disability of the employeeteacher, their spouse, or his/her family as defined child causing an absence from regularly assigned duties which extend more than three (3) days beyond the number of leave days which an individual participating teacher has accumulated.
3. The sick leave bank cannot be used for court mandated drug or alcohol treatment.
4. The teacher must have exhausted all available leave after which the teacher will have a three (3) day waiting period, during which time the teacher will be on leave without pay. After returning to work, the teacher may re-enter the sick leave bank, after demonstrating another three (3) day waiting period without pay.
5. The total number of days of sick leave bank cannot exceed forty- five (45) days in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a current school year.
6. To participate in the sick leave donation from bank, teachers must complete and file a contribution form with the District's Sick Leave Bankbusiness manager on or before the first Monday in September. Participation APPROVED
7. In the event the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect sick leave bank falls below one hundred eighty-two (182) days, each teacher desiring to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave bank is required to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and contribute at least two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by additional day of sick leave during each year of employment until the Union Presidentbank has accumulated a total of one hundred eighty-two (182) or more days of sick leave.
8. The committee's decision All sick leave bank records shall be final and not subject kept by Human Resources Department which shall handle the administration of the sick leave bank. On or before the 15th of each month, the Human Resources Department shall provide a written listing to the grievance procedureAssociation president of the number of days granted and the number of persons to which those days were granted for that month. Additionally, that listing will certify that no employee has received more than forty-five (45) days in the current school year.
a. Donations may only 9. Days in the bank shall be approved withdrawn on a first-come, first-served basis and, if the total days in the bank are exhausted in any year, use of the bank is ended for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work daysthat year. Unused days in the bank shall be carried over to the next succeeding school year.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days 10. Days withdrawn from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may shall be approved only upon paid at the depletion of per diem rate for the respective employee's accumulated sick leaveindividual participant for the applicable school year.
e. Withdrawals shall be 11. As set forth in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For exampleAppendix D, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days doctor’s statement is required to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses enter the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Certified Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 1) The sick leave bank was established by a member one-time contribution from the Board of Education of 150 days and a contribution from the bargaining unit is absent due teachers of 150 days. Sick leave bank days shall accumulate from year to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), year.
2) Any participating teacher who has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a paid sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick draw upon this bank for such additional leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will as may be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up needed to a maximum of thirty (30) school days per 12 month periodschool year following one (1) day of participation in the sick leave bank, thirty-five (35) school days per school year following two (2) years of participation in the sick leave bank, forty (40) school days per school year following three (3) years of participation in the sick leave bank, or forty-five (45) school days per school year following four (4) years of participation in the sick leave bank increasing by 5 days per additional year of participation in the sick leave bank to a maximum of 75 days as long as there are unused days left in the bank. These When all of the days contributed to the bank have been used, the benefits of the bank shall no longer be available. Priority for use of sick leave bank days will be on the basis of first come, first served.
3) If a teacher is disabled and commences to draw benefits under the state retirement system, he/she will cease to draw benefits from the sick leave bank.
4) All eligible teachers must declare intent to contribute within five (5) days after the beginning of each school year.
5) Days drawn from the sick leave bank may be used by that teacher only for personal illness of that teacher.
6) A committee shall be deposited into established to act as the employee's governing body for the administration of the sick leave accountbank. All unused Its powers shall include: • Approval or denial of use of sick leave bank days, • Setting rules for additional contributions of days shall be returned by teachers to the Sick Leave Bankbank, • Setting criteria to define what a teacher must do to be "a participant in the sick leave bank" as that term is used in paragraph 2 above. The committee shall consist of two (2) teachers named by the association, and two (2) administrators named by the Board. The committee shall develop rules of procedure for administration of the sick leave bank.
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Sources: Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The Association shall maintain a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1for the Bargaining Unit members. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the A Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised Committee will be established which will consist of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, 1 member from each building and two (2) bargaining unit additional members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate alternate appointed by the Association’s Executive Board.
A. All Bargaining Unit members shall be eligible to participate in a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any program on a voluntary basis, provided that the member:
1. Has contributed a sick leave from day (the Bankday is non-returnable).
g. Sick days earned during 2. Agrees to the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu rules and regulations of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should Makes application on the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during provided form by November 1st of any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants. Bargaining Unit members hired after November 1st must apply within ten (10) business days of their hire.
4. Once B. If the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members member fails to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on join the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent November 1st of the requestgiven year, then the member is not eligible to withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank.
a. C. If a member of the Sick Leave Bank resigns membership, all days are forfeited. If that member wants to rejoin in a future year, he/she must contribute two (2) days to reinstate their membership.
D. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make notify the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote Business Manager within ten five (105) working business days of November 1st as to the request.
b. The decision enrollment of the Sick Leave Bank.
E. Membership contributions will consist of one (1) sick day for the first two (2) years; future contributions will be based on criteria established by the Committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will not call for additional donations to the bank unless the accumulated balance of days falls below ninety (90).
F. Days withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank by a given member will be limited to a maximum of sixty (60) days per school year.
G. Resignation or dismissal from the school district shall terminate Sick Leave Bank membership. A resigned or terminated member shall not be entitled to claim days contributed to the Sick Leave Bank, nor shall such resigned or terminated member be eligible for any benefits of membership after the effective date of resignation or termination.
▇. ▇ ▇▇▇▇ Leave Bank member who is on an authorized, unpaid leave from the district shall be final, binding and an inactive member in good standing who will not subject be eligible to withdraw days or benefits from the Sick Leave Bank. Such member shall be required to contribute to the grievance procedure, court action or Sick Leave Bank any appealdays assessed on Sick Leave Bank members during the time of the unpaid leave at the time of return to active membership.
c. Original formsI. All withdrawals from the Sick Leave Bank shall be authorized solely by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Authorized withdrawal by participating members from the Sick Leave Bank must be accompanied by:
1. A written application for benefits which shall have reasonable documentation, as may be required, evidencing a legitimate need for Sick Leave Bank days.
2. An individual must exhaust all sick and personal days which he/documents used she has accumulated and have three non-paid days before accessing Sick Leave Bank days.
▇. ▇▇▇▇ Leave Bank benefits are limited to instances of personal illness of the Bargaining Unit member, the Bargaining Unit member’s spouse (includes party to a civil union) and/or dependent child, based on criteria set by the Sick Leave Bank Committee.
K. Any member who is receiving disability benefits from the Teachers’ Retirement System, or who is absent for illness due to a work-related injury (which is covered under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act), is not eligible for Sick Leave Bank benefits.
L. All decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurerare final.
d. M. The Association shall hold harmless the School Board and the Administration for decisions made by the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisionsCommittee.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined A. The District will cooperate in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all establishment of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's voluntary Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave whose position requires a teaching certificate is eligible to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bankparticipate.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days B. Each eligible employee will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating automatically donate one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any his/her sick leave from to the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu Bank on September 30th of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any each school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days of initial employ- ment, whichever is later. He/She will continue to be a member of the Bank unless he/she withdraws in writing prior to the donation date. If the Bank at the beginning of the new school year has a balance of 100 or more days, only newly hired eligible employees will have sick leave days deducted. The membership may donate additional days up to a total equal to three times the number of members. Such voluntary donations must be made before the end of the school year.
C. In the event that the Bank becomes depleted during the school year, each member of the Bank will donate an additional day up to a maximum donation of two (2) days per 12 month periodyear per participating employee. These Teachers who have no personal sick leave days to donate and teachers who are on approved leaves of absence will donate required days on their first day of employment of the next school year.
D. A person withdrawing from membership in the Bank shall not be refunded any donated days.
E. The total number of days available for withdrawal in any one year will be no more than 400 days.
▇. A member will not be able to withdraw days from the Bank until his/her own sick leave and personal leave are depleted.
G. After the condition of “F” above is satisfied, the first five (5) work days of illness will not be covered by the Bank but shall be deposited into charged to leave without pay.
▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave bank days cannot be used for elective surgery, routine medical examinations, teeth cleaning, and similar medical choices that could be scheduled during vacations or when school is out for the employee's summer.
I. A member may only withdraw twice the number of sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to that he/she has accrued before the Sick Leave Bank.first day of contracted employment in any school year, or twenty-four
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 1. The MSAD # 41 Board of Directors and the MSAD # 41 Educator’s Association have mutually agreed to establish a member sick bank for the purpose of the bargaining unit is absent due income protection for association members who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave benefits and are unable to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all work.
2. A teacher shall be allowed to use accumulated days of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation with full pay for illness or injury in the immediate family. Immediate family is defined as a parent, brother, sister, husband, wife, son, daughter, grandmother, grandfather, grandson, granddaughter in natural, in-law, or step relationships. This includes situations where unique relationships existed between a teacher and an individual over a period of time and which evidenced a state of responsibility, caring and closeness similar to kinship whether or not in the same household as the teacher. After five (5) consecutive days for illness or injury the Superintendent of Schools shall have the right to require the teacher to provide him/her with a physician’s certificate.
3. The bank will be administered by a continuing SLBC (Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in Committee) composed of the Bank by contributing Superintendent, the Association President, one (1) Administrative Representative appointed annually by the Superintendent, (1) Association Representative appointed annually by the Association and the school nurse. All requests to access the sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) leave bank will be made to the Bank in order SLBC. A majority vote of the SLBC shall be required for any days to joinbe granted.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive 4. The Board shall provide the President of the Association at the beginning of each school year with a form with their first pay in September electing statement indicating who belongs to participate the sick bank and the total days accumulated in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Boardsick bank.
b. Donated 5. The sick leave bank shall be available to association members who were hired prior to December 1, 2003 or who have been awarded continuing contract status. At the time of initial enrollment, the teacher shall contribute two days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated their accumulated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation bank annual enrollment period for continuing contract teachers that are association members shall be immediately deducted September 1st through September 30th. Continuing contract teachers that are association members will be given a sick bank enrollment form when they receive their contract.
6. The bank shall be increased by contributions of one day from each participating member whenever the bargaining unit member bank falls below 225.
7. Eligible teachers who donated contribute to the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision bank shall be final and not subject entitled to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if neededsubject to the following conditions:
a. exhaustion of all the teachers’ accumulated leave,
b. maximum use by any one person in any year of sixty days or three (3) times the individual’s accumulation in sick leave as of 9/1 of that year, whichever is less. A withdrawal By mutual agreement of the Board and the Association, this maximum may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leavewaived.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation c. Members wishing to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) borrow days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipsubmit a doctor’s certificate.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Teacher Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If A voluntary sick leave bank will be established for employees who are beyond their probationary period of employment. Employees who have taken PERS retirement and are re-employed by the District are ineligible for sick leave bank contributions or benefits. The Sick Leave Bank (SLB) is available to an employee who is suffering from an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition which has caused or is likely to cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate their employment. This condition must be certified by a member doctor.
1. All employees who are beyond their probationary period may annually donate one day of sick leave to the bargaining unit bank. A "day" for the purpose of this section, is absent due defined as the employee's regular work day. Any unused sick leave will continue to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident accrue.
2. The recipient of donated sick leave hours must first have used all of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her 's accumulated sick leave, personal leave leave, and vacation (where applicable)time and must not be drawing Workers' Compensation at the time of transfer. Recipient may only receive the number of hours equivalent to 20 days of the employee's regular work days.
3. At the beginning of each school year, he/she the Union shall advise members of the bargaining unit as follows:
a. That eligible employees may request a donate one day of the employee's accumulated sick leave donation to the Union's sick leave bank
b. That such donations are completely voluntary.
c. That the Union or its administrative designee shall administer all disbursements from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in sick leave bank.
d. That only those who have donated hours within the last three years will be eligible to apply for hours from the bank.
e. If the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bankfalls below 100 hours, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted Union will ask for additional donations from the bargaining unit member members.
f. Employees who donated retire or separate from the district may donate up to five (5) days of the accumulated sick leave and placed into to the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests g. That those who have donated hours within the last three years will be eligible to apply for donation of sick leave must be approved by hours from the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedurebank.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from 4. Eligible employees shall confirm their desire to donate to the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon no later than ten (10) workdays after the depletion beginning of each school year or 10 days after the respective end of an employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals probationary period. Such confirmation shall be in full day units for writing and personally signed by the employee receiving donating employee.
5. The Union or its administrative designee of the donation; however, donations sick leave bank shall develop policies governing the operation of the sick leave bank. The parties agree that the sick leave bank shall not be in relation operative until such time as policies have been adopted by the Union or its administrative designee and a copy of the policies have been forwarded to the District and each member of the bargaining unit.
6. The District shall transfer sick leave to the sick leave bank in accordance with the authorized donor confirmations that are received within the annual enrollment period as specified in Subsection 5 of this Section.
7. The Union or its administrative designee shall administer disbursements from the Union's sick leave bank account. Each time such disbursement is to be made, the Union shall advise the District, in writing, the exact number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from and to whom sick leave hours are to be transferred. At no time shall the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during total number of sick leave hours to be transferred exceed the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses total number of hours recorded in the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu 8. The Union does hereby indemnify and will defend the District against all claims, charges, damages, legal fees, and costs incurred as a result of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from its maintenance of the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank daysbank.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member The purpose of the bargaining unit sick leave bank benefits is to provide compensable leave coverage to teachers who are absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term extended disability because of serious personal illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bankinjury. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank Teachers shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not become eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last benefits when they have been absent from work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) consecutive working days AND have exhausted all of their personal accumulated sick leave days. The requirement of being absent for ten (10) consecutive days is waived for individuals eligible for a FMLA or disability leave. The sick leave bank shall contain a maximum of 270 days. An eligible teacher shall receive the current contractual rate of pay while disabled for a period not to exceed 180 contracted teaching days, with committee review every forty five (45) school days. The sick leave bank committee will consist of three (3) representatives designated by the Association and two (2) representatives of the requestBoard and the superintendent. In the case of a tie the issue will be heard by the full board of education. Application for sick leave bank benefits shall be made in writing to the sick leave bank committee through the Superintendent and shall include medical verification. The Superintendent shall convene the committee within five (5) work days. When a determination is made, the applicant will be informed in writing, with copies to the Superintendent, business manager and committee members. The administration office shall do all paperwork and record keeping. No eligible applicant will be denied the days that he/she has contributed. A record of each teacher's contribution shall be maintained by the administration office. The administration office shall furnish the association with a written statement at the beginning of each school year setting forth the total number of days in the sick leave bank and the number of sick leave days each member has contributed to the bank. The teacher shall pay back to the sick leave bank a minimum of three (3) days per year for each year worked until all days borrowed are repaid to the bank or the bank becomes full. Payment shall begin at the commencement of the school year that the teacher returns to work by deducting three (3) days from the teacher's yearly allotment for that year and from succeeding years until the amount borrowed is repaid. All payments of loaned sick leave bank days will be waived if the teacher is laid off, or retires due to illness, age, or death prior to payment in full. If a teacher resigns or is dismissed for any other reason while in debt to the sick leave bank, that teacher must pay the school district the equivalent of substitute pay during time of illness for each day owed to the bank. The days paid for by the teacher will revert to the sick leave bank. used: To establish and continue the sick leave bank, the following procedures will be
a. Each teacher shall contribute two (2) sick leave days at the beginning of each school year of this master agreement.
b. The decision of Should the Sick Leave Bank Committee bank be depleted to a point where the Association wishes to add more days, all teachers shall be final, binding and not subject contribute an additional day(s) to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealbank for the duration of this master agreement.
c. Original forms/documents used by Teachers whose accumulated sick leave exceeds the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided maximum referred to in Article 11, Paragraph A may voluntarily contribute fifty percent (50%) of their sick leave days over the maximum of 100 to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days sick leave bank. Their voluntary contributions shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned in writing to the Sick Leave BankSuperintendent and the Superintendent shall notify the committee members within five (5) work days.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a. There shall be a Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Committee shall consist of the Vice-Chairperson of the Northampton School Committee, the Superintendent of Schools, and the President of the Northampton Association of School Employees. In addition to the President, the Committee shall include a non-voting representative from each of the bargaining units that make up the Association. The unit representative will participate only in the meetings that review the request from their unit. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will administer the provisions of the Sick Leave Bank.
b. The Sick Leave Bank will depend upon voluntary contributions from employees covered by this Agreement.
c. Bargaining unit members may become a member of the Sick Leave Bank by donating two (2) days within ninety (90) working days of the date that they first reported for work, provided that they have accrued days available for this purpose. If they have not accrued days, they shall be assessed the days as soon as they are accrued. To join, the member will notify the Human Resources Department, using the approved form.
d. After the initial donation, each year one (1) day will be added to the Sick Leave Bank by each member of the Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the Sick Leave Bank may withdraw from the Bank for a school year by giving written notice, using the approved form, to the Human Resources Department by November 1 of the school year during which she/he no longer desires membership.
e. The number of days in the Sick Leave Bank cannot exceed four (4) times the number of employees in the bargaining unit is absent due units. If the sick leave days in the Bank exceed three-fourths (3/4) of the maximum number of days at the end of any school year, the members of the Bank will not be required to make the annual one (1) day donation at the start of the school year. If the number of sick leave days in the Bank are depleted to one-half (1/2) or less of the maximum number of days, one (1) additional day for the Bank may be assessed each member.
f. If an employee who has not become a nonmember of the Sick Leave Bank decides to join in a year subsequent to the year in which she/he could first have become a member, the member will notify the Human Resources Department by November 1, using the approved form. Their initial donation to the Bank must equal the total number of days that she/he would have donated through the years had they joined when first eligible. If they have not accrued days, they shall be assessed the days as soon as they are accrued.
g. No member of the Sick Leave Bank will be denied continuation of membership in the Bank if a long-elective surgery term illness has caused exhaustion of their individual sick leave benefits, thus preventing annual required donations to the Bank.
h. A member of the Sick Leave Bank who has exhausted their individual sick leave benefits may apply for benefits from the Sick Leave Bank. Such benefits are intended to augment an employee’s sick leave benefit in cases involving catastrophic or long-term illness or accident of the employeenot covered by Workers’ Compensation. In assessing any application, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be finalmay request such medical documentation as it deems appropriate and shall, binding and not subject to in addition, consider the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.following criteria:
c. Original forms/documents used by i. Demonstrated need of the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodapplicant ii. These days shall be deposited into the employee's Prior sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.usage
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The School Board will initiate a voluntary sick leave bank upon receiving authorization from a minimum of fifty percent (50%) of the teachers to deduct two (2) days of the teacher’s accumulated sick leave during the first year of membership in the bank and one (1) day of accumulated sick leave during each of the consecutive years thereafter. These donated sick leave days shall be used to establish the bank and are non-refundable. The membership enrollment period each year thereafter for teachers shall be the first twenty (20) working days of the school year. Teachers hired during the school year shall have twenty (20) working days following his or her employment date to enroll in the sick leave bank program. (See Appendix C) Any days left in the bank at the end of the school year will be carried over for use during the next school year. If the bank sick leave days total eighty (80) or more days at the end of the year, further contributions for current bank members shall be waived until the bank sick leave days fall below eighty (80) days. If the bank sick leave day accumulations fall below eighty (80) days, all bank members shall donate one (1) day. If a bank member has no accumulated sick leave days when the member is required to donate sick leave days, the additional days shall be donated as soon as new sick leave days are acquired. The primary purpose of the bargaining unit bank is absent due to provide a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined teacher income protection in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), event the member has exhausted all of his/his or her accumulated sick leave. Teachers who belong to the bank may borrow days from the bank in lieu of days for which the teacher would have been paid had the member, personal leave or member’s legal dependent, spouse, or parent not been ill or injured. The bank shall be administered by a committee composed of the superintendent of the Southwestern Consolidated Schools or designee, and vacation three (where applicable), he/she may request a 3) teachers who are members of the sick leave donation bank (at least one from each building) appointed by the president of the association. The committee has the authority to call meetings, review applications for membership in the bank, grant, deny or suspend grants of leave from the District's Sick Leave Bankbank. Participation The committee shall elect one of their members to serve as chairperson for the duration of the contract year. The committee shall meet during the contract year as required. Special meetings may be called by the chairperson at the request of committee members. A majority of three members shall be required for any official action of the committee. A bank member who disagrees with the decision of the committee, may appeal to the Appeal Board which shall consist of the principal of the building in which the member does not have primary assignment, and two association officers not serving on the Sick Leave Bank Committee and appointed by the Association president. Application for use of the sick leave days shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate made in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) writing to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in chairperson of the Sick Leave Bankcommittee responsible for administering the bank. Members must return After the form to the Treasurer within ten sick leave bank member has used up his or her annual leave entitlement and accumulated sick leave days and that member has been absent for five (105) working days due to his or her illness or injury, that member may apply to borrow sick leave days. New employees wishing Sick leave bank days may not be used concurrently with LTD benefits. The written application must be made no later than thirty (30) days after exhaustion of the teacher’s paid leave benefits. The committee shall convene a meeting to participate must notify consider the Treasurer request within ten (10) working days after being officially employed from the time the request is received in the superintendent’s office. Upon approval by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from committee of the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated application to borrow sick leave to the bankdays, the donation is irrevocable. The use of the borrowed sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up retroactive to a maximum the first day of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodthe borrower’s continuous absence. These The application to borrow sick leave days shall be deposited into accompanied by a statement from the employee's sick leave accountattending physician. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.A maximum of thirty
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank1. Participation in the A Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryestablished by the Committee of the Greenville School Department for all members of the staff covered by this contract.
12. Any employee may elect The Purpose of the Sick Leave Bank is to provide sick leave days to a member due to an extreme illness or accident when a member’s sick leave time has been used up.
3. The intent is that the days will only be used for the member’s own illness or accident.
4. At the beginning of each school year (no later than September 30) if the Sick Bank is less than one hundred and fifty-five (155) days, each member covered by this contract, who desires to participate in the Sick Bank, must contribute one (1) day to the Bank. Application to the Bank will be made on a form supplied by contributing the Superintendent’s office.
5. Any member who does not become a member of the Bank within one (1) month of the initial employment as a staff member under this contract, shall not be eligible for participation in the Bank except at the beginning of an open enrollment period of one (1) month at the beginning of the school year.
6. A support staff member who wishes to join the bank during the open enrollment period shall pay one (1) sick leave day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.bank and shall, in addition, pay one
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate of sick leave per year, for each year the employee was eligible to be a donation member of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall but did not be eligible choose to withdraw any sick leave from the Bankbecome a member.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu 7. New support staff members shall become members of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through contributing one day into the UAW Chairperson or designee, who bank within 30 days of hire. Support staff under this contract will not be eligible to draw days from the Sick Bank until the employee’s own sick leave is exhausted. Support staff shall inform make application for sick leave from the bank to the President of the Association and the Superintendent of Schools. If the request.
a. The request is granted by the President of the Association and the Superintendent, they shall determine the number of Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requestsdays to be authorized. The decision Superintendent shall cause the authorized days to be deducted from the bank and the member to be paid at the discretion of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Association President and Superintendent. Unused Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up continue from year to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankyear.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member Professionals are eligible to participate in this sick bank, if enough days have been donated and there are days available in the sick bank, and the sick bank committee has approved the use of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of days. Each eligible professional who notifies the employee, or his/her family as defined in sick bank committee that the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect elects to participate in the Bank by contributing sick bank, shall donate one (1) sick day at the start of each school year from employees accrued sick days under Article VII Section A until the maximum number of days (defined 175) is reached. Donated days will not be refunded to any Professional. The sick bank shall apply to a disability or illness (excluding work connected injury or illness) of the eligible professional which causes the professional to be unable to perform the employee’s contractual obligation for five contract days or more. To receive days from the sick bank, the eligible professional must present, in writing, to the professional sick bank committee evidence that they:
1. Have exhausted all accrued sick leave under Article VII Section A;
2. Are not eligible for disability insurance benefits; and
3. Present satisfactory medical evidence, as determined by the sick bank committee, of a disability or illness (excluding any work connected injury or illness) which causes the participating professional to be unable to perform employee contractual obligation for five contract days or more. An eligible professional may be awarded a maximum of 90 days in increments up to 30 days, from the sick bank in any school year. No more than 175 days or the balance of all days in the sick bank, whichever is less, may be awarded to all eligible professionals in any school year. Days in the sick bank that are not used during one school year will be carried forward to the next school year. Once a professional has exhausted their sick leave, the professional will be required to apply for disability when eligible. Sick bank days may be awarded to a professional with less than 90 days of available sick time to get them through the 90-day Long Term Disability waiting period. No professional will be eligible to draw from the sick bank if they have done so in the previous five years for the same condition. In no case will the District extend a professional’s absence beyond two years. At the end of two years the position they previously occupied will be considered vacant. A three-person sick bank committee shall govern the sick bank; one-member will be appointed by the Superintendent and two members will be appointed by the Guild. By October 1 of each year, the Guild will inform the Superintendent how many days have been donated to the sick bank for the next year and who donated those days, and the number of hours days remaining in the sick bank that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) will be carried forward to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members next year. All the numbers will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in be verified by payroll. In the event the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working Bank drops below 30 days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the Guild may replenish the bank to 175 days by reopening the donation is irrevocableprocess to eligible professionals who have agreed to donate as of October 1. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated decision of the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision bank committee shall be final and shall not be subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If A. The Board will cooperate in the operation of a member sick leave bank. All certified professional personnel of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect are eligible to participate in the Bank by contributing bank as of their first day of work.
B. The primary purpose of the sick bank is to protect an employee's earning power during periods of protracted and unavoidable absence due to his/her incapacity to perform the responsibilities of their assignment.
C. Individual teachers are automatically enrolled as members of the sick bank unless the teacher exercises his/her right to opt out of the sick bank.
D. Members will each donate one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bankbank on the first day of each semester. Donations will be made after the teacher receives his/her paid leave days for that semester. However, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated if the sick leave and placed into bank is above 3,000 days at the Sick Leave Bankbeginning of any semester, donation by each member will not be made. If a member is in the thirty (30) working-day sick leave bank waiting period pursuant to Article XVI. F. or is in the sick bank when the day is taken, that member is covered for that illness or disability.
2E. A teacher who wishes to opt out of sick bank membership shall notify the human resources office and the association. Requests for an opt-out form must be submitted to both the human resources office and the association prior to the donation of sick leave must day(s) for that semester. A person withdrawing from membership in the bank will not be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendentable to withdraw his/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedureher previously donated days.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of F. The first thirty (30) work daysdays of illness or disability will not be covered by the bank, but must be covered by the person's own accumulated sick leave or absence without pay.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed1. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of first thirty (30) days per 12 month of disability, members use their own accumulated sick leave days. However, if a member is using sick leave days and an Act of God day occurs, the day of sick leave is restored to the member and the Act of God day does not count as part of the thirty (30) day waiting period.
2. These Members who do not have thirty (30) accumulated days of sick leave to use will be placed on unpaid medical leave until the thirty (30) day waiting period is completed. If during that unpaid medical leave status an Act of God occurs, it will be an unpaid day for the member and will count as part of the thirty (30) day waiting period.
3. Sick leave days that are clearly identified by the doctor as related to the same disability and are within a one (1) year window will count toward the fulfillment of the thirty (30) day waiting period.
G. A maximum of one hundred fifty-four (154) days for each incident shall be deposited into allowed. A person who is on lay-off or on a non-compensated leave of absence shall not be able to withdraw days from the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankbank except as specified in Article XV.
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Sources: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member The purpose of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank is absent to relieve its members of undue financial burdens due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employeeillness, injury, or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make his/her family as defined presence in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation school inadvisable.
A. Membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryopen to all certificated school personnel in the Cloverdale Community School Corporation. Participation shall be on a voluntary basis.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing B. To become a member, certificated school personnel shall contribute one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members A Sick Leave Bank contribution form shall be signed and filed in the superintendent's office. New members must return file the form by October 1st.
C. The total number of sick leave bank days shall be set at 100 in the bank and 50 in escrow. Additional days may be added to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed escrow by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated teachers joining the sick leave and placed into bank. In the Sick Leave Bankevent that days held in escrow are insufficient to return the bank to one hundred (100) days, members will donate another day.
2. Requests for donation D. Days not used and those held in escrow will be carried over to the next year.
E. Only members of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised may qualify for the use of the Superintendent/Designeedays in it.
F. A member shall not use more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank in a contractual year with a lifetime cap of one hundred twenty (120) days. Members of the Sick Leave Bank may apply for no more than twenty (20) days at one time. If more days are needed once the first twenty (20) days have been used, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two the member may apply for up to twenty (220) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union Presidentmore. The committee's decision Sick Leave Bank committee will reconvene to determine if additional days will be granted. Each time days are granted, the member must first go five (5) days without pay. This process can occur three times in one contractual year. Sick Leave Bank days shall not be final and not subject to used during the grievance proceduresummer employment in the Cloverdale Community Schools.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may G. A member shall not extend beyond a maximum period collect from the Sick Leave Bank while collecting under ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Compensation provision in Article III, paragraph 6 (Employment Injury Leave) of thirty (30) work daysthe Master Contract.
b. Sick ▇. A member on maternity leave may use accumulated sick leave days as part of her leave if necessary. Once a member on maternity leave meets the criteria in paragraph 17-I below, she may apply for sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with to extend her leave to six weeks after the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, birth. The teacher will not qualify be eligible for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the using sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon days beyond six weeks after the depletion birth of the respective employee's accumulated sick leavechild unless a doctor documents a medical complication after birth.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units I. A member may apply for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number use of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any ONLY after the following terms are met: (1) his/her own sick leave and personal leave days have been used, and (2) five consecutive school days have passed and consequent loss of pay has occurred.
J. All applications for the use of days from the BankSick Leave Bank must be submitted in triplicate on the Sick Leave Bank request form with one
(1) copy to be returned to the applying member with the Governing Board's decision, one (1) copy to remain in the files of the Secretary of the Cloverdale Education Association, and one (1) copy for the files of the Superintendent of the Cloverdale Community School Corporation. In cases of serious illness, making it impossible for the requesting member to complete the request form, the next of kin may make the application.
g. ▇. A doctor's statement of the illness and an estimation of time needed before the member can return to work must accompany the application.
L. The Governing Board of the Sick days earned during Leave Bank shall consist of the absence will Superintendent of the Cloverdale Community School Corporation, one School Board Member, and three members (one from each building) of the Sick Leave Bank to be accrued appointed by the employee Executive Committee of the Cloverdale Education Association. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave Bank shall elect a Chairperson who uses shall be responsible for calling all meetings when notified of a request by the Superintendent's office.
M. The Sick Leave Bank Governing Board may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations Its judgment and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision final. Three members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee Governing Board shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealconstitute a majority.
c. Original forms/documents used by the N. A copy of accumulated Sick Leave Bank Committee days as established in this contract will be provided to kept in the treasurerSuperintendent's office and with the CEA President.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The School Board shall initiate a member voluntary sick leave bank upon receiving authorization from a minimum of fifty percent (50%) of the bargaining unit is absent due teachers to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and deduct two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for teacher’s accumulated sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave the first year of membership in the bank and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate of accumulated sick leave during each of the consecutive years thereafter. These donated sick leave days shall be used to a donation establish the bank and are non-refundable. The membership enrollment period each year thereafter for teachers shall be the first twenty (20) working days of four the school year. Teachers hired during the school year shall have twenty (420) working days following his or her employment date to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant enroll in the Sick Leave Bank sick leave bank program. (See Appendix C) Any days left in the bank at the end of the school year shall be carried over for use during the next school year. If the bank sick leave days total eighty (80) or more days at the end of the year, further contributions for current bank members shall be waived until the bank sick leave days fall below eighty (80) days. If the bank sick leave day accumulations fall below eighty (80) days, all bank members shall donate one (1) day. If a bank member has no accumulated sick leave days when the member is required to donate sick leave days, the additional days shall be donated as soon as new sick leave days are acquired. The primary purpose of the bank is to provide a teacher income protection in the event the member has exhausted his or her accumulated sick leave. Teachers who belong to the bank may borrow days from the bank in lieu of days for which the teacher would have been paid had the member, or member’s legal dependent, spouse, or parent not been ill or injured. The bank shall be eligible administered by a committee composed of the superintendent of the Southwestern Consolidated Schools or designee, and three (3) teachers who are members of the sick leave bank (at least one from each building) appointed by the president of the association. The committee has the authority to withdraw any sick call meetings, review applications for membership in the bank, grant, deny or suspend grants of leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned bank. The committee shall elect one of their members to serve as chairperson for the duration of the contract year. The committee shall meet during the absence will contract year as required. Special meetings may be accrued called by the employee who uses chairperson at the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not request of committee members. A majority of three members shall be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as required for any official action of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit committee. A bank member shall be actively employed who disagrees with any other employerthe decision of the committee, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members may appeal to the bank will be required to contribute Appeal Board which shall consist of the principal of the building in order to establish membership.
5. A participating which the member may draw does not have primary assignment, and two association officers not serving on the Sick Leave Bank Committee and appointed by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent Association president. Application for use of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee sick leave days shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days in writing to the chairperson of the request.
b. The decision of committee responsible for administering the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to bank. After the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused bank member has used up his or her annual leave entitlement and accumulated sick leave days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.and that member has been absent for five
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a A. Two A sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank banks shall be voluntary.established by the Board; One for use by participating teachers and one for use by participating educational support employees. The teacher committee will be comprised of:
1. Any employee may elect to participate in Two (2) Association members appointed by the Bank by contributing one Association president.
2. One (1) sick day (defined as employee appointed by the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to joinSuperintendent.
a. Bargaining unit members 3. The Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. The educational support employees committee will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate be comprised of:
1. One
(1) SRPE member, who is an ESP, appointed by the president of SRPE.
2. One (1) Blue Collar member appointed by the president of ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Industrial Council, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
3. One (1) exempt educational support employee appointed by the Superintendent.
4. The Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources.
B. To be eligible for membership in the Sick Leave Bank, the employee:
1. ▇▇▇▇▇ have completed one year of employment as a full-time employee of the Board.
2. Be a full-time employee of the Board at the time of application.
3. Have a minimum of nine (9) days of accumulated sick leave and/or annual leave at the date of application.
4. Shall apply for membership on an approved form during the enrollment period. This form shall be submitted to the Assistant Superintendent Human Resources. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary on the part of each employee.
C. Each participating member shall contribute one day of sick leave to the bank upon enrollment. Membership applications shall be submitted during the first twenty (20) workdays of a school calendar year. The committee shall act to approve or disapprove applications on basis of rules herein described. New members become eligible for participation in the Bank on October 1st. Deduction of the day for the new members will be reflected on the October Statement of Earnings and Deductions.
D. Each participating employee shall contribute, by way of deduction from their official sick leave record, one day of sick leave anytime the balance in the Bank falls below twenty percent (20%) of the number of participants. No employee shall be required to contribute more than two (2) days in any one school year, after the initial membership contribution of one (1) day. The committee shall notify members in writing of the necessary contributions. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within shall have ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted in which to request withdrawal from the second pay period in October.
c. Once program rather than donate the requested day. Any participating member, who is unable to donate a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation day of sick leave must at the time for contribution to be approved by made, shall contribute their next available sick leave day or be removed from membership. Any sick leave pooled pursuant to this article shall be removed from the accumulated sick leave balance of the employee donating such leave and shall not be available to the donating employee as sick leave.
E. Membership shall be on a continuing basis unless a letter requesting withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised is submitted to the Human Resources Department of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by school district. Upon receipt of said letter the Union President. The committee's decision committee shall be final and not subject notified. Any member who chooses to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation withdraw from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible able to withdraw any sick leave days already contributed.
F. Members needing to utilize days in the Sick Leave Bank will request the needed number of days on a Sick Leave Bank Program Withdrawal Application form with the medical statement attached within seven (7) working days of return to work. The application must be completed in full. A participating employee may be eligible for sick leave from the BankBank only after having met the following conditions:
1. Has used all his/her accumulated sick leave.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may 2. Is not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the eligible for Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bankpay.
3. Should Is not eligible for Injury in Line-of-Duty pay as granted by rule of School Board.
4. Has been absent from employment for at least five (5) consecutive working days.
5. The above condition number 4 may be waived to provide for intermittent or reduced schedule under the following conditions:
a. Illness has been judged by the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsto be catastrophic in nature.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time b. The days (1600 hours), only new members requested are directly related to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipcatastrophic illness.
56. A participating member may draw on Has an application approved by the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the requestcommittee.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave credit, up to thirty (30) days, may be granted to a participating member applicant at the decision regarding requests. The decision of discretion and upon the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision authority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to committee after consideration by the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by committee of all outstanding eligible applications. Any sick leave awarded from the Sick Leave Bank Committee to a participating employee shall be used for absence due to the employee's personal catastrophic illness, accident, or injury. Mental/emotional illnesses and pregnancy will not be considered catastrophic illnesses. However, complications from pregnancy or mental/emotional illnesses, which require hospitalization or institutionalization, will be provided to considered by the treasurer.
d. committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps committee, at its discretion, is authorized to insure grant fifteen (15) additional days in hardship situations. Once days from the confidentiality sick leave bank are granted, the use of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request sick leave bank days will begin on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty fourth (304th) days per 12 month periodday without pay. These days without pay shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused in addition to, and shall start after, any days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.without pay as stipulated in Article XVII, Sections A.3.e; A.3.f; and A.
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. If a member The purpose of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank is absent to relieve its members of undue financial burdens due to a non-elective surgery illness, injury or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make his/her family as defined presence in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation school inadvisable.
A. Membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryopen to all certificated school personnel in the Area 30 Career Center. Participation shall be on a voluntary basis.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing B. To become a member, certificated school personnel shall contribute one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members A sick leave contribution form shall be signed and filed in the Director’s office. New members must return file the form by October 1st.
C. The total number of sick leave bank days shall be set at 200. Until the number of days contributed by teachers reaches the 200 day level the Board will “under write” the bank by holding 100 in escrow. Additional days, after the 200 day level has been met, may be added to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed bank by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated teachers joining the sick leave and placed into bank. In the Sick Leave Bankevent that days held in the bank fall below two hundred (200) days, members will be asked to donate another day.
2. Requests for donation D. Days not used and those held in escrow will be carried over to the next year.
E. Only members of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised may qualify for the use of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance proceduredays in it.
a. Donations may only F. A member shall not use more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank in a contractual year. Sick Leave Bank days shall not be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work daysused during the summer employment in the Area 30 Career Center.
b. G. A member shall not collect from the Sick leave bank days will be granted only Leave Bank while collecting under ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Compensation provision in cases of absence that comply with the language IV, 6, A of the Master Agreement for sick leave usageContract.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed▇. A withdrawal member may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units apply for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number use of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any only after the following terms are met: (1) his/her own sick leave and personal leave days have been used up and (2) five consecutive school days have passed and consequent loss of five (5) days pay has occurred.
I. All applications for use of days from the BankSick Leave Bank must be submitted in triplicate on the Sick Leave Bank request form with one (1) copy to be returned to the applying member with the Governing Board's decision, one (1) copy to remain in the files of the Secretary of the A30EA, and one (1) copy for the files of the Director of the Area 30 Career Center. In cases of serious illness, making it impossible for the requesting member to complete the request form, the next of kin may make the application.
g. ▇. A doctor's statement of the illness and an estimation of time needed before the member can return to work must accompany the application.
K. The Governing Board of the Sick days earned during Leave Bank shall consist of the absence will Director of the Area 30 Career Center, one Board member, and three members of the Sick Leave Bank to be accrued appointed by the employee Executive Committee of the Area 30 Employee Organization. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave Bank shall elect a Chairperson who uses shall be responsible for calling all meetings when notified of a request by the Director’s office.
L. The Sick Leave Bank Governing Board may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations Its judgment and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision final. Three members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee Governing Board shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealconstitute a majority.
c. Original forms/documents used by the M. A copy of accumulated Sick Leave Bank Committee days as established in this contract will be provided to kept in the treasurerDirector’s office and with the A30EA President.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If A. If, after exhausting all sick leave, a member teacher is absent from his/her duties due to personal accidental injury, illness, or pregnancy, the teacher shall receive, for a period of not to exceed twenty (20) days, his/her full contract salary, less the bargaining unit amount:
(1) actually paid a certified substitute teacher for his/her position if a certified substitute teacher is hired; or
(2) normally paid to a certified substitute teacher for his/her position if a certified substitute teacher is not hired.
B. If, after exhausting the period of time in A. above, a teacher is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term personal catastrophic illness or accident of injury, documented as such by a physician, the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation teacher shall be entitled to receive days from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.that have been donated by other teachers in accordance with the following procedures:
(1. Any employee may elect to participate ) Each teacher in the Bank by contributing district may initially donate up to one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to jointeacher drawing from the Bank. Should additional days be needed, each teacher may donate one (1) additional day.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive (2) The teacher drawing from the Bank may do so for a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form period of time up to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify end of the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Boardcurrent school year.
b. Donated days (3) A teacher drawing from the Bank, and desiring to return to the ensuring year, must file a request by March 1. If no such request is filed by that date, the teacher will be deducted from deemed to have resigned his/her position, effective at the second pay period in Octoberend of the current contract year.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated (4) Donated sick leave to will be paid at the bankdaily rate of the done, not the donation is irrevocabledonor. The sick leave donation shall received by the done will be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who designated as donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bankwill be maintained separately from all other sick leave balances.
2(5) Donated sick leave not used by the done during an occurrence as determined by the Board shall be returned to the donating employee. Requests The donated sick leave remaining will be divided among the donors on a prorated basis based on its original donated value, returned at its original donor value and reinstated to the annual leave balance of each donor.
(6) The maximum total number of days that may be received as donations by any employee is one hundred (100) during his/her total District employment. An employee shall not be determined to be eligible for donation donations more that once during his or her term of employment by the District. Donations may be made only during the academic year (July1 – June 30) in which the employee is determined to be eligible to receive donations.
(7) Any contribution of sick leave by one employee to another is strictly voluntary. No employee shall be coerced, threatened, intimidated, or financially induced into donating sick leave under this policy. Each contribution of sick leave must be approved confirmed in writing by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised donor to the office of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries C. In order to utilize the leave provided in A. and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For exampleB. Above, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to teacher must provide the sick bank will equate to superintendent with a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to statement from a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employeelicensed physician, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in certifying that the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member teacher is physically and/or mentally unable to make a request to use adequately perform the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalfteacher’s regular assignment.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the a. Each certified employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation to be eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank shall notify, in writing, the Business Manager by the 1st day of the current school year. Employees who choose not to participate at this time will not be voluntaryeligible for the current school year. To become eligible each employee will contribute two days of sick leave the first year and one sick leave day in the second year. If the eligible employee withdraws from the bank the first year, to remain eligible they will donate one additional sick leave day at the start of the next school term.
1. Any employee may elect b. To be eligible to participate in withdraw days from the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate Sick Leave Bank, staff participating in the Sick Leave Bank. Members Bank must return the form to the Treasurer within ten have used all sick leave (10current and accumulated) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in Octoberand personal leave.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated The number of sick leave to the bankdays, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union Presidentassistance committee may provide to a participant is 15 days. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject participant may reapply to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved committee for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond an additional 15 days supported by a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days physician’s written statement. All requests from the sick leave bank if neededwill be on a first come first serve basis.
d. The sick leave assistance committee will be composed of: one ▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇ Education member, one elementary teacher, one secondary teacher, appointed by their respective groups for a two-year term, and the Superintendent. A withdrawal may Committee recommendations will be approved only upon made to the depletion ▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇ Board of the respective employee's accumulated sick leaveEducation for approval.
e. Withdrawals shall be If all the days in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation bank are used up prior to the number end of hours worked the school year, the bank will cease to operate during the year and will begin anew in a day the next school year. Days not used at the end of each year will remain in the bank.
f. Certified staff will request leave from the sick leave bank by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days submitting written request to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bankassistance committee.
g. Sick Certified staff who become disabled or retire will not be entitled to any days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses from the sick leave bank.
h. Sick Days granted to certified staff from the sick leave bank shall be treated in the same manner by the district as the sick leave days may not be used in lieu of disability retirementgranted by the district or that has been accumulated.
i. Members Days contributed to the plan cannot be withdrawn when an employee terminates membership.
j. Certified staff who are receiving temporary disability payments from retire will be able to donate unused sick leave to the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank daysif they so choose.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The purpose of the sick leave bank is to provide income protection for second year probationary or continuing contract teachers who are members of the sick leave bank who, because of prolonged illness, have exhausted their accumulated sick leave benefits and are unable to return to work, including the performance of alternative work assignments.
2. The sick leave bank will be administered by a continuing committee composed of the Superintendent, a Board member, and two (2) teachers designated by the Association. A majority vote of the committee shall be required for any days to be granted. The sick leave bank committee (“committee”) shall annually report to the RSU 23 Board of Directors (“Board”), the Association and the members of the sick leave bank, indicating the use of the sick leave bank regarding the days used, balances available, and/or general operation procedures. The committee may submit recommendations for modification to the operation of the sick leave bank to the Board and the Association. If the recommendations are ratified by the Board and the Association, the recommendations shall be implemented.
3. At the beginning of each school year, a ten (10) day notice will be provided from the Superintendent’s office to allow teachers to enroll or discontinue membership in the sick leave bank. Absent a request to discontinue membership in the sick leave bank, participating teachers will automatically continue to be enrolled. If a teacher opts to discontinue membership, he/she shall not be a participating member and shall not be eligible for the sick leave bank.
4. Each second year teacher will be automatically enrolled in the sick leave bank and one (1) day of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined accumulated sick leave will be placed in the Master Agreement sick leave bank and the teacher shall be provided written notification by the central office. If the teacher does not want to participate, he/she will notify the central office in writing on the sick leave bank form within ten (Article VIII Section A.1), 10) day of its receipt.
5. When an eligible teacher has exhausted used all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated draw on the sick leave and placed into bank, provided he/she meets the Sick Leave Bank.
2conditions established below. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement To qualify for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For examplebank, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4teacher must have:
a) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating Contributed one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any his/her own personal sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will and be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive a current sick leave bank daysmember;
b) Used all of his/her personal sick leave;
c) Provided a doctor’s certificate regarding the illness that prevents the individual from attending work.
j. Sick 6. Members withdrawing sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits days from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required not have to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating replace those days, except as a regular contributing member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the requestbank.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 1. A Sick Leave Bank is available for use by Unit A employees who have completed one year of employment and have exhausted their own accrued sick leave and have a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term prolonged and/or serious illness or accident injury. Eligibility is achieved when an employee of this unit has reported to work for the employeenumber of days totaling a contract year, less any sick or his/her family personal days outlined in this agreement as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1)a basic employment benefit. Once eligible, has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation Bargaining Unit A members must participate in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryas a condition of employment.
2. When a member of the Bargaining Unit A begins his/her second year of employment, he/she will contribute one (1) day from his/her sick leave accumulation to the Sick Leave Bank in order to fund the bank. Any employee may elect to participate In the event the Sick Leave Bank is twenty-nine (29) days or less, all eligible members of the bargaining Unit A, except first time contributors will replenish the Sick Leave Bank in the Bank current year by contributing one (1) more day per member. No more than three (3) Sick Leave Bank days shall be contributed from Bargaining Unit A members’ sick day leave accounts in any one school year. At no point shall the Sick Leave Bank contain more than three (defined as 3) times the number of hours that members in the donating employee is scheduled Bargaining Unit. Sick Leave Bank days unused in one school year will be carried over into the next school year and will accumulate from year to work in a day) year. By October 1 of each following year, the Association shall notify the Bargaining Unit A members and the Superintendent of the initial yearly contribution to be made to the Sick Leave Bank in order to joinby the Bargaining Unit A Members.
a. Bargaining unit 3. Those members who, during the course of the year do not have a sufficient number of days to cover an additional sick day contribution requested by the Association will be allowed to borrow from the succeeding year and then repay the district in the succeeding school year. In the event an employee borrows from a succeeding school year and leaves the district prior to repaying said days, the number of days owed the district will be deducted from the sick bank.
4. A Sick Leave Bank Board consisting of five members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in administer the Sick Leave Bank. Two members will be designated by the School Committee to serve at its pleasure, and two members will be designated by the Association to serve at its pleasure. The fifth member will be appointed annually on a rotating basis, by the first day of the school year on which Unit A Members must return are required to report for work, by the form Committee or the Association. The rotation will be determined according to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Boardfiscal year calendar with odd years indicating a School Committee member and with even years indicating an Association member.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable5. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved Any initial grant by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and will not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of exceed thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures. If an individual’s need continues, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation reapplication to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days Board may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted subsequent extensions up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodeach. These days shall be deposited into Days not used from the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall grant will be returned to the Sick Leave BankBank upon the return to regular duty. The total amount of days that may be drawn for any one illness or disability may not exceed 180 days.
6. A Bargaining Unit A member who has received a grant from the Sick Leave Bank will upon return to regular duties, receive five (5) sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank to be used in the event of an illness during the remainder of the school year. Unused days from the returning five-day grant will be returned to the Sick Leave Bank on the last day of school.
7. Subject to the provisions of this contract, the Sick Leave Bank Board will use the following criteria in administering the bank and determining eligibility and the amount of leave to grant. Adequate medical evidence should include diagnosis and prognosis of serious and/or prolonged illness or injury and expected date of return. The Sick Leave Bank Board reserves the right to request additional medical evidence from a physician of his or her own choosing. The School Committee will pay for this cost. This information will remain confidential with the Sick Leave Bank Board. After an initial grant of thirty (30) days to a member, the Sick Leave Bank Board may have the applicant examined by a second physician selected by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, and paid for by the School Committee. The Sick Leave Bank Board may ask for additional medical verification, as it deems necessary.
8. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Board with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be final and binding and not subject to appeal except for reconsideration to the Sick Leave Bank Board itself nor shall it be subject to grievance and/or arbitration.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The purpose of a member of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank is absent due to loan additional days to a non-elective surgery teaching staff member who has a catastrophic experience with an injury, surgery, or long-term illness or accident of the employee, to him/herself or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), spouse or dependent child and has exhausted all personal leave days, accumulated sick leave, advancement of sick leave, and is not eligible for disability retirement under STRS. Prior to October 1 of each school year, a teaching staff member may activate his/her participation in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing one
(1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave. After this initial enrollment, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing an additional one (1) day will automatically be deducted from the teaching staff member’s accumulated sick day (defined as leave during the number month of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate October of each year. Such days shall be placed in the Sick Leave Bank. Members Membership and subsequent deductions shall be continuous unless the teaching staff member notifies the Treasurer’s office, in writing, between September 1 and September 15 that he/she cancels his/her membership. A teaching staff member must return the form be an active participant in order to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing be eligible to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working borrow sick leave days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second bank. The maximum number of days that a teaching staff member can borrow for one (1) event is fifteen (15%) percent of the total number of days in the bank or fifteen (15) days, whichever is less. The teaching staff member shall pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated back the days he/she borrows at the rate of fifty (50%) percent of his/her annual accumulated sick leave at the end of the contract year, each year until the total number of borrowed days has been restored to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the A Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised Committee consisting of two (2) representatives appointed by the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, Association and two (2) bargaining unit members representatives appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision Board shall be final and not subject to oversee the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period functions of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file including the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days approval and/or disapproval of all requests. The decisions of this committee shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days final and shall not be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned subject to the Sick Leave Bankgrievance procedure in Article Thirteen.
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby a teacher may participate by contributing one (1) sick leave day under the following conditions:
a. The number of accumulated days in the bank shall be adjusted on an annual basis to accommodate new teachers into the bank but shall not exceed 250 days. If a member the days in the bank fall below 50, members shall contribute an additional day.
b. The teacher may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
(1) He/She must have chosen to participate by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank on or before September 15th of the bargaining unit is absent due to a present year, and such day(s) contributed shall be non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident returnable to the teacher.
(2) He/She must have exhausted all of the employee, or his/her family as defined own personal sick leave.
(3) Upon request of the Committee, h e / s he must provide certification from his/her physician substantiating his/her illness.
(4) He/She must apply, in the Master Agreement writing, no later than ten (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all 10) days after exhaustion of his/her accumulated sick leave. If he/she is too ill to request days, personal leave and vacation a designee may request days.
(where applicable)5) Upon resumption of employment after using days from the bank, he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as repay the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) days owed to the Bank in order to joinbank at the rate of three (3) or more sick leave days per year.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing (6) Teachers owing days to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon who leave employment with the depletion school corporation prior to repayment of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.days shall reimburse the school corporation at the teacher’s daily rate at the time the days were borrowed
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for (7) In the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number case of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, death of a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) teacher owing days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only leave bank, owed days are waived.
(8) All new employees may contribute one sick leave day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to become a donation member of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not (9) Days will be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day granted for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during maternity leaves only for the period of time that she/he during which the teacher is receiving benefits certified as disabled.
(10) The Federation will receive a count of days and members in the sick leave bank by October 15 of each year.
c. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the Sick Leave Bank.
3bank according to guidelines established by the Committee. Should The Committee shall be composed of two (2) teachers appointed by the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, Federation plus the Union Superintendent. Days allotted by the Committee to an individual teacher shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent available for use after exhaustion of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of teacher’s accumulated sick leave, and such allotment by the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to exceed a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.twenty
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Sources: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The Board shall establish a member Sick Leave Bank under the following parameters:
1. The Sick Leave Bank shall consist of voluntary employee contributions.
2. Individual employees may contribute a maximum of five (5) days per year to the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank, and must designate their desire to contribute no later than September 30 of each year, with the understanding that any days not used in the Sick Leave Bank will not be returned to those who contributed.
3. Participation in The annual cap on the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1180 days. Any employee may elect to participate in At the Bank by contributing one (1) sick end of the school year, no earlier than the last day (defined as of school, the number District shall notify the Association of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate how many days remain in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return At the form beginning of the subsequent year, members may donate more days in order to bring the total number up to the Treasurer within ten (10) working cap of 180 days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days The Association will be deducted from responsible for notifying members with reminders regarding the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave timing of the donations to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
4. The total number of Sick Days available for use by one individual in a fiscal year from the Sick Leave Bank will be capped at 60 or #7 below (whichever occurs first).
5. Applying employees must:
a. Show eligibility for the Sick Leave Bank by providing documentation of a diagnosis and treatment plan for a life-threatening illness, or complications leading to a life-threatening situation. Examples of life-threatening illnesses would include, but are not limited to: cancer, serious heart or brain conditions.
b. Exhaust their sick leave.
c. Have been absent for two (2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by ) days without pay.
d. Submit a written application to the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised which shall consist of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two three (23) bargaining unit members employees appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty Allendale Education Association (30AEA) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leaveemployee group.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in Obtain written approval from the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the BankCommittee.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests6. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has Board reserves the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation the applying employee to substantiate any request for submit to a medical examination.
7. Sick Leave Bank useshall be available only until an employee is eligible for long-term disability, regardless of whether or not they have applied or been approved for LTD benefits.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period8. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.Twenty
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Sources: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member 11.1 Upon the execution of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employeethis Agreement, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from bank will be established by the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in Committee and the Association for use by eligible employees to be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee ("SLBC") as set forth below.
11.2 The bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed established by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation voluntary deduction of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any annual sick leave from each eligible employee's personal accumulation effective September 1 of each fiscal year until the Bank.
g. Sick maximum is reached. The maximum number of sick days earned during the absence will which may be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible credited to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches shall not exceed two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only unless necessary to receive the contribution of newly hired employees who wish to join the bank. Enrollment of new members in the program will take place between September 1 and October 15 each year. Unless the individual employee notifies the Superintendent in writing by October 15 of that school year that she/he does not want to participate in the bank, all unit members who have already donated to the sick leave bank will continue to be required to contribute members in order to establish membership.
5the program and shall have one (1) day of annual sick leave automatically deducted from their personal accumulation until the maximum is reached. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank The sick leave bank shall be administered by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make consisting of two (2) members designated by the decision regarding requestsAssociation and two members designated by the School Committee. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision A fifth member of the Sick Leave Bank Committee as described above will be elected by the unanimous vote of the four members. If the members are unable to agree, the School Committee and the Association shall meet to select the fifth member. This fifth member will not have voting rights unless there is a tie vote on the request for days from the sick leave bank. In order for the SLBC to make decisions, at least four members of the SLBC must be present at the SLBC meeting. Utilization of the bank shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedurefollowing conditions:
a) Sick leave bank days may be granted only for the applicant's disability as a result of personal illness or injury;
b) To be eligible to withdraw days from the sick leave bank, court an employee must have had twenty (20) days of accumulated sick leave as of the beginning of the school year and must have contributed to the bank;To be eligible to withdraw days from the sick leave bank, an employee must have had twenty (20) days of accumulated sick leave as of the beginning of the school year in which days are requested, or as of the beginning of the prior school year, and must have contributed to the bank;
c) Complete usage of all accumulated or accrued sick leave;
d) There must not have been any disciplinary action of any kind for sick leave abuse;
e) A qualified physician's statement from the employee certifying the disability, illness or accident together with any appeal.
c. Original formsappropriate medical evidence the SLBC deems relevant and necessary to its decision (to be submitted preferably, with the application requesting bank days and any renewal thereof; the SLBC may not act without submission of a physician's statement). All parties agree that such information shall be treated as highly personal and confidential and shall not be divulged to any persons other than the School Committee, the Superintendent or his/documents used by her designee, the Sick Leave Bank Committee will or designees of the School Committee and the Association;
f) The initial grant may be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee less than, but shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of not exceed thirty (30) days;
g) Upon completion of the initial grant, additional grants shall require additional adequate medical evidence, but no individual shall receive more than ninety (90) bank days per 12 month in any two (2) year period. These days ;
h) The SLBC shall be deposited into furnish the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned Superintendent or his/her designee with its written determination of eligibility detailing its considerations with respect to the Sick Leave Bankabove criteria prior to the grant of any sick days. Upon the request of the Association, the School Committee, or the SLBC, the three parties shall meet to discuss any matter pertaining to the administration of the bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The Board will cooperate in the maintenance of a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to Sick Leave Bank for employees who suffer a non-elective surgery or long-term work related catastrophic illness or accident of injury that requires absence from work. This Bank will be accumulative to a total not to exceed 200 days, except under the employee, or his/her family as condition defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all 16-1 below. The total number of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation days in the Sick Leave Bank as of the signing of this Agreement shall remain available, and the maximum shall reduce as days are expended, until it is reduced to 200 days. The Bank shall be voluntaryadministered by a continuing Committee composed of the Superintendent, a School Board Member, and two (2) members designated by the Association. A majority vote of the Committee shall be required for any days to be granted and the decision of the Committee is not grievable. The Committee shall report to the School Board, the Association, and the employees annually, indicating the use of the Sick Leave Bank. The Committee may submit recommendations for modification of the operation of the Sick Leave Bank to the School Board and the Association. If the recommendations are ratified by the Board and the Association, the recommendations shall be implemented.
1. Any employee may elect Technician is eligible after 2 years service in the RSU to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in on a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate volunteer basis in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return If the form Bank is full at the beginning of the year in which an employee is first eligible to participate, the employee may still enroll by donating one (1) sick day, which will be added to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by Each Technician enrolling in the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating donate one (1) day of sick leave to the Bank in each participating year. The enrollee must join by submitting Appendix B-1 by the last working day in September of each year or he/she will equate not be eligible to participate for the school year. If the Bank is full at the beginning of the year, all participating employees from the previous year, upon submission of Appendix ▇-▇, will be enrolled without having a donation of four (4) day deducted from their sick leave.
3. A Technician will not be able to withdraw any days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in from the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any until his/her own sick leave is depleted.
4. Any Technician requesting sick days from the Bank must file with the Committee a completed request using the “Application for Withdrawal of Days from Sick Bank” form in Appendix B-2.
5. A detailed doctor's certification (from a physician licensed to treat the diagnosed condition), certifying that a serious illness or injury exists which requires absence from work and detailing the condition, treatment and prognosis, must be furnished to the Committee, as a prerequisite to withdrawing days from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days 6. Any participating Technician may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to withdraw a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodeach school year. These The thirty (30) days maximum may only be waived under extenuating circumstances at the discretion of the Committee. Any such request for extension shall not be deposited into the employee's sick leave accountgrievable.
7. All unused Technicians withdrawing days shall be returned to from the Sick Leave Bank are not required to replace those days except as a regular contribution to the Bank.
8. Technicians withdrawing from membership in the Bank will not be able to withdraw any contributed days.
9. The Bank will be considered full when the Bank has 200 days. When the Sick Leave Bank is depleted to fifteen (15) days, the Association reserves the right to assess each participating Technician one (1) additional day.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If Any bargaining unit member covered under the terms of this contract shall be eligible to participate in the VOLUNTARY Sick Leave Bank. The bank may only be used for a prolonged illness, a grave or extraordinary medical condition, or a catastrophic injury suffered by a teacher, or that teacher’s significant other or child, that is a member of the bargaining unit is absent due sick leave bank. A person will be eligible to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of apply for sick leave benefits beginning with the employee, or his/her family as defined in fourth (4th) consecutive unpaid day after the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), employee has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation as required in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryparagraphs numbered 1 and 2 below. The individual also agrees to abide by all accords included in this section.
1. Any All accrued personal and vacation days shall be used before eligibility to request sick bank days.
2. No employee shall be required to use more than 2x their annual allotment in order to be eligible. For example, an employee who earns 14 sick days at the beginning of the current school year shall be required to use 28 sick days from those the employee has accrued and saved. Certified personnel or designated representative of the teacher shall contact in writing the Governing Committee with two (2) days’ advance notice prior to the need to draw upon the Bank. All full-time members of the bargaining unit may elect join the sick leave bank, and only members of the sick leave bank are eligible to use days from the bank. The last day to join the sick leave bank shall be two (2) weeks after the start of the school year, or two (2) weeks after a full-time certified staff member is employed. Membership is on a school year basis. Each new employee electing to participate in the Bank by contributing bank shall contribute one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Banksick bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated In case of depletion of the sick leave bank below 200 days all employees enrolled will automatically have one (1) sick day deducted and placed into added to the Sick Leave Bank.
2sick bank. Requests for donation The bookkeeper will notify all members of the sick bank in writing of the depletion of sick leave bank days and that an automatic one
(1) sick day will be taken out of their personal sick days on said date that it will occur. An employee may be eligible to draw a maximum of forty (40) days in one (1) school year and a maximum of one hundred eighty (180) days during his/her employment in the District. An employee must be approved by notify in writing the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised Committee and the Superintendent or his/her designee at least five (5) working days before returning to work. A Governing Committee made up of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, three (3) teachers elected by all teachers and two (2) bargaining unit members administrators appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision Board, shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period act in all matters of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases interpretation of absence that comply with the language use of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall All decisions must be made by a majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision committee. There will be no repayment of days requested of those employees who use the Bank. Any retiring member of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent sick bank may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to donate a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodof his/her unused sick days to the sick bank. These days shall be deposited into the employee's The voluntary sick leave account. All unused days bank shall not be returned subject to the Sick Leave Bankgrievance procedure contained in this Agreement.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. a. There shall be a Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Committee shall consist of the Vice-Chairperson of the Northampton School Committee, the Superintendent of Schools, and the President of the Northampton Association of School Employees. In addition to the President, the Committee shall include a non-voting representative from each of the bargaining units that make up the Association. The unit representative will participate only in the meetings that review the request from their unit. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will administer the provisions of the Sick Leave Bank.
b. The Sick Leave Bank will depend upon voluntary contributions from employees covered by this Agreement.
c. Employees are automatically enrolled in the sick leave bank after working 90 days, or as soon as they have accrued 2 sick days. An employee who wishes to opt-out must notify the Human Resources Department, using the approved form, as follows: 1) For new employees in the first year of employment, at the time they are hired, 2) For returning employees before the first day of classes in the school year which they decide to opt-out. Employees may not rejoin the sick leave bank in any school year for which they have opted out. Returning employees who have contributed to the sick leave bank and opt-out in a subsequent school year will not receive a return of sick leave bank hours they have contributed in prior years.
d. Bargaining unit members who do not opt-out of the Sick Leave Bank in their first year of employment will have two (2) days of their accumulated sick days donated to the Sick Leave Bank within ninety (90) working days of the date that they first reported for work, provided that they have accrued days available for this purpose. If they have not accrued enough days within ninety (90) working days, they shall not be enrolled in the bank and will need to opt-in in a future year under the procedures in g, below.
e. After the initial donation, each year one (1) day will be added to the Sick Leave Bank by each member of the bargaining unit is absent due Sick Leave Bank.
f. The number of days in the Sick Leave Bank cannot exceed a maximum of 15000 hours. If the sick leave days in the Bank exceed 12000 hours, the members of the Bank will not be required to make the annual one (1) day donation at the start of the school year. If the number of sick leave days in the Bank are depleted to 7500 or less of the maximum number of hours, one (1) additional day for the Bank may be assessed each member. If an employee who has opted out of the Sick Leave Bank in a nonprior school year requests to join in a subsequent school year, the member will notify the Human Resources Department by November 1st, using the approved opt-elective surgery in form. Their initial donation to the Bank must equal the total number of days that they would have donated through the years had they not opted out. If they have not accrued enough days to contribute to the Bank, they will not be eligible to opt-in until they are in a school year where they have enough sick days to donate.
g. No member of the Sick Leave Bank will be denied continuation of membership in the Bank if a long-term illness has caused exhaustion of their individual sick leave benefits, thus preventing annual required donations to the Bank.
h. A member of the Sick Leave Bank who has exhausted their individual sick leave benefits may apply for benefits from the Sick Leave Bank. Such benefits are intended to augment an employee’s sick leave benefit in cases involving catastrophic or long-term illness or accident of the employeenot covered by Workers’ Compensation. In assessing any application, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be finalmay request such medical documentation as it deems appropriate and shall, binding and not subject to in addition, consider the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.following criteria:
c. Original forms/documents used by i. Demonstrated need of the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodapplicant ii. These days shall be deposited into the employee's Prior sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.usage
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby a member of the bargaining unit certificated school employee, as defined herein in Article I, who is absent from assigned duties due to a non-elective surgery or long-term personal illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), and who has exhausted utilized all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave, and all other paid leave and vacation (where applicable)benefits of whatever nature may petition a committee, he/she may request a as established herein, for sick leave donation days from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in bank under the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.following conditions:
1. Any employee may elect to participate The number of accumulated days in the Bank bank shall not exceed two hundred sixty (260) days, provided, however, that (a) a veteran teacher who is not a current member of the bank may become a member by contributing one (1) sick leave day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank bank not earlier than August 1st nor later than September 15th of any school year, and (b) a teacher who is newly hired in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in the school corporation shall have fifteen (15) days from the date of initial duty assignment, or until September electing 15th of any school year, whichever is later, during which time such teacher may choose to participate in the Sick Leave Bankbank by contributing one (1) sick leave day, even though such contribution by such veteran or newly hired teacher would cause an accumulation of days in excess of the maximum specified herein;
2. Members Said employee may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
a. The teacher must return the form have chosen to become a current member of and participate in such bank by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the Treasurer within bank not earlier than August 1st nor later than September 15th each year, and such day contributed shall be nonreturnable to the employee. However, in the event that the number of accumulated days in the bank at the beginning of a school year is of sufficient number that a contribution of one (1) sick leave day by all teachers who are current members of the bank would cause the maximum number of days specified hereinabove in Paragraph One (1) to be exceeded, the current year's contribution by all such current members shall be suspended, except that in case the bank is depleted during the school year, the current year's contribution shall be assessed at the time of such depletion;
b. The teacher must have utilized and exhausted all paid leave benefits of whatever nature, including said teacher's own accumulated sick leave and personal leave;
c. Written certification will be provided from said teacher's physician substantiating the illness and certifying that the absence will continue during a period of at least ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate consecutive days following the utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein;
d. Written application must notify the Treasurer within ten be made no later than twelve (1012) working days after being officially employed exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
3. A four (4) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein, under guidelines established by the Boardcommittee. The committee shall be composed of three (3) appointed by the association and one
(1) person appointed by the superintendent. Days allotted by the committee to an individual employee shall be available for use beginning with the fifth (5th) consecutive day of absence after exhaustion of the employee's said paid leave benefits, and such allotment to a teacher by the committee shall not exceed a fixed maximum as is established by the committee. The committee shall be limited to a total allotment of two hundred sixty (260) days per year.
4. Any days granted by the committee to an individual teacher shall terminate effective the earliest date as hereinafter provided:
a. The day after the last day of the term of employment for the school year, or
b. The day after the last day of allotted number of days granted by the committee, or
c. The first day of return to employment subsequent to the granting of days by the committee.
5. After having met the maximum severance, a certificated school employee’s unused sick days, after they have met their maximum severance, shall automatically be donated to the sick leave bank. Donated days will that exceed the cap of two hundred sixty (260) days shall be deducted from placed in an unlimited reserve account. Days in the second pay period in Octoberunlimited reserve may only be transferred to the sick bank at the start of the next school year, and only the amount of days needed to fill the sick leave bank to the maximum aforementioned, two-hundred sixty (260) days.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable6. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from bank committee may, by simple majority vote, waive the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation consecutive day requirement of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (c and the provisions of 4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etcc above.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member The purpose of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank is absent to relieve its members of undue financial burdens due to a non-elective surgery illness, injury or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make his/her family as defined presence in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation school inadvisable.
A. Membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryopen to all certificated school personnel in the Area 30 Career Center. Participation shall be on a voluntary basis.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing B. To become a member, certificated school personnel shall contribute one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members A sick leave contribution form shall be signed and filed in the Director's office. New members must return file the form by October 1st.
C. The total number of sick leave bank days shall be set at 200. Until the number of days contributed by teachers reaches the 200 day level the Board will "under write" the bank by holding 100 in escrow. Additional days, after the 200 day level has been met, may be added to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed bank by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated teachers joining the sick leave and placed into bank. In the Sick Leave Bankevent that days held in the bank fall below two hundred (200) days, members will be asked to donate another day.
2. Requests for donation D. Days not used and those held in escrow will be carried over to the next year.
E. Only members of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised may qualify for the use of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance proceduredays in it.
a. Donations may only F. A member shall not use more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank in a contractual year. Sick Leave Bank days shall not be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work daysused during the summer employment in the Area 30 Career Center.
b. G. A member shall not collect from the Sick leave bank days will be granted only Leave Bank while collecting under ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Compensation provision in cases of absence that comply with the language IV, 6, A of the Master Agreement for sick leave usageContract.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed▇. A withdrawal member may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units apply for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number use of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any only after the following terms are met: (1) his/her own sick leave and personal leave days have been used up and (2) five consecutive school days have passed and consequent loss of five (5) days pay has occurred.
I. All applications for use of days from the BankSick Leave Bank must be submitted in triplicate on the Sick Leave Bank request form with one (1) copy to be returned to the applying member with the Governing Board's decision, one (1) copy to remain in the files of the Secretary of the A30EA, and one (1) copy for the files of the Director of the Area 30 Career Center. In cases of serious illness, making it impossible for the requesting member to complete the request form, the next of kin may make the application.
g. ▇. A doctor's statement of the illness and an estimation of time needed before the member can return to work must accompany the application.
K. The Governing Board of the Sick days earned during Leave Bank shall consist of the absence will Director of the Area 30 Career Center, one Board member, and three members of the Sick Leave Bank to be accrued appointed by the employee Executive Committee of the Area 30 Employee Organization. The Governing Board of the Sick Leave Bank shall elect a Chairperson who uses shall be responsible for calling all meetings when notified of a request by the Director's office.
L. The Sick Leave Bank Governing Board may grant, deny, or suspend grants of sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations Its judgment and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision final. Three members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee Governing Board shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealconstitute a majority.
c. Original forms/documents used by the M. A copy of accumulated Sick Leave Bank Committee days as established in this contract will be provided to kept in the treasurerDirector's office and with the A30EA President.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect The Board will contribute to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bankbank one quarter (1/4) day per month (2 1/2 - 3 days per academic year) for each full-time faculty member.
2. Requests for donation of Total sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two bank accumulations shall not exceed fifteen hundred (21500) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases 3. The Human Resources Office shall maintain a record of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation contributions and withdrawals from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick 4. A faculty member who has completed at least one continuous year of service with the College may present a claim from the sick bank after all that individual's personal sick leave days and any accrued vacation time are exhausted.
5. Claims may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments made against the bank for illness or injury resulting from the a job-connected condition which is being treated under Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible claims.
6. Upon presenting a claim to receive the sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as bank, the faculty member or the faculty member’s designated representative must present a medical certificate signed by a licensed physician indicating the nature of the last illness or injury and an indication of when the faculty member will be able to return to normal duties. The Board reserves the right to employ its own licensed physician to render an independent judgment. Claims validated as above will be honored for the total number of days of absence from work day at eighty (80) percent of salary for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employerthose who have over five (5) years of continuous service, private or public, during the period sixty (60) percent of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
salary for those who have at least three (3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below ) years of continuous service and forty (40) full percent of salary for those who have at least one (1) but less than three (3) years of continuous service. No partial days may be claimed.
7. No faculty member may claim more than ninety (90) work days from the bank during a single fiscal year. Nor may a faculty member claim days from the bank during the time when any other disability program (Alternate Benefit Plan, etc.) is in force. Once a faculty member through one illness or a combination of illnesses has used a total of ninety (90) work days (320 hours) during any school yeartwelve-month period, that individual is not eligible for further withdrawals from the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsbank for a period of twelve months of continuous service.
48. Once ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ is considered to be an illness under the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), terms of this article only new members to during the bank will be required to contribute period in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on which the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a faculty member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalfwork.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If On September 1 of each year of the contract, all employees shall be eligible to voluntarily contribute a maximum of two (2) of their accumulated sick days to a sick leave bank. Once an employee elects to join the bank and thereby makes an initial contribution, such employee shall automatically continue as a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave bank and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and such two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by days each year sick leave contribution shall be made to the Union Presidentbank on September 1 of each year until the employee signifies in writing to Human Resources their desire to cease contributions the bank. The committee's decision maximum number of days in the bank shall be final five hundred (500) days. It is understood and not subject agreed that sick leave days deposited into the bank become the sole and exclusive property of the bank. No employee may claim entitlement to such days at the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved time of retirement, termination, etc. It is further understood that this Section will in no way affect the annual payout for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period unused sick days (Section 21.4). As soon as possible, after October 1, but no later than January 1 of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick each year, an updated list of active sick leave bank members and total number of days will in the bank shall be granted only in cases sent to each member of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if neededbank. A withdrawal may be approved only upon Employees requesting the depletion use of the respective employee's accumulated bank must be on extended leave due to personal illness and must use all of their own sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for leave and personal days before drawing from the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donationbank. Employees donating two (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days may request up to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight sixty (8) hour employee60) days. An eight (8) hour employee Employees donating one (1) day will equate may request up to a donation of four thirty (430) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any days. The sick leave bank year will run from September 1 to August 31. A waiting period of five (5) working days must pass following the Bank.
g. Sick use of all the employee’s earned days earned during and the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses beginning of the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank . Before the start of the sick leave bank, an attending physician must certify that the individual is unable to perform regular duties. Application to use days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible bank may be made on the appropriate form, along with the doctor’s statement, and forwarded to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as Human Resources. Within five (5) working days of receipt of an application, the Bank Committee composed of two (2) members of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member Service Association and Human Resources, shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5act upon each application. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent meeting of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision take place should there be questions regarding requestsan approval. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the requestfinal and binding.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Employment Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If A. Teachers who are charged sick leave days as a member direct result of an illness/infestation from an infected student (example: lice, pink eye, bed bugs) will be reimbursed any used sick leave time upon providing documentation of the bargaining unit illness/infestation. This will not include any seasonal or common illnesses.
B. The purpose of sick leave bank benefits is to provide compensable leave coverage to teachers who are absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term extended disability because of personal illness or accident injury.
C. Teachers shall become eligible to receive sick leave bank benefits when they have been absent ten (10) consecutive school days and they have exhausted all of the employee, or their personal sick leave days.
D. An eligible teacher shall receive his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement contractual rate of pay while disabled for a period not to exceed ninety (Article VIII Section A.1)90) days, has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation with committee review every twenty (where applicable), he/she may request a 20) days.
E. Applications for sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation bank benefits shall be made in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee through the superintendent and shall include medical verification of disability. The superintendent shall convene the committee as soon as possible. When a determination is made, the applicant will be informed in writing with copies to the superintendent, business manager, and committee members. The administration office shall do all paperwork and record keeping.
F. No applicant will be denied less days than she/he has contributed. A record of each teacher’s contribution shall be voluntarymaintained by the administration office.
1. Any employee may elect G. All sick leave days loaned to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) an eligible teacher shall be returned to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed bank by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocableteacher. The sick leave donation teacher shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject pay back to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if neededthree (3) days per year from each year worked until all days borrowed are repaid to the bank. Payment shall begin at the end of the year in which the teacher returns to work. A withdrawal may be approved only upon teacher who has less than three (3) days accumulated sick leave at the depletion end of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days school year will pay to the sick bank those days available. If the teacher resigns or retires prior to payment in full, reimbursement to the school district will equate to a donation be made at the rate of only one day to an eight (8) hour employeesubstitute teacher pay. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day The school district will equate to a donation of four (4) then repay the borrowed days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from H. To establish and continue the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank, the following procedures shall be followed:
1. The bank shall be capped at a maximum of three hundred (300) days.
j. Sick leave . In the event the bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No is depleted to one hundred fifty (150) days, each bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during contribute two (2) additional days to the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3bank. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time Teachers may contribute additional days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank for the duration of this agreement.
I. This bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank administered by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent two (2) representatives of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten Board and three (103) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used teachers designated by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurerAssociation.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A. The Sick Leave Bank is intended to cover employees of the this bargaining unit is absent due to in the event of a non-elective surgery or longcatastrophic injury/long term illness and/or short-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's disability need.
B. The Sick Leave BankBank shall be administered and managed by a Sick Leave Bank Committee composed of a maximum of five (5) voting members. Participation Up to four (4) voting members may be appointed by the Association President and one (1) voting member shall be the Business Administrator or designee.
C. Rules for membership and participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.established by the Sick Leave Bank committee and shall be supplied to the Board. Any rules established by the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall include the following:
1. Any employee may elect The Sick Leave Bank shall begin at the start of the 2024-2025 school year with a balance of one hundred and fifty (150) days and shall persist annually on a rolling basis up to participate in a maximum of one hundred fifty (150) days.
2. In any year of this Agreement where the Bank by contributing bank is at the cap of one hundred fifty (150) days, employees shall not have to donate a day to remain eligible for Sick Bank.
3. In any school year where the bank does not start with one hundred fifty (150) days, all employees must donate one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in bank at the start of the school year. Donated Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will shall be deducted from the second pay period in Octoberemployee’s sick leave entitlement.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave 4. The exception to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two rule cited in “e” (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other proceduresabove, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations case of “new hires” in any school year. The parties agree that “new hires” in any school year. The parties agree that if a “new hire” shall be in relation required to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating donate one (1) day will equate to a the Sick Leave Bank, even if the addition of the new employee sick day donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in causes the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from exceed one hundred fifty (150) days. In such cases where “new hires” cause a surplus over one hundred fifty (150) days, the Banksurplus will carry over until such time that the surplus has been used by member requests.
g. 5. If the Sick Bank drops beneath one hundred twenty (120) days earned during in any given year:
a. The Association reserves the absence right to request a day from all existing members, if existing members were not required to donate at the beginning of the year (if we started at the cap) If such donations cause the bank to go over the cap, then the surplus will be accrued carry over until such time that the surplus has been used by the employee who uses the sick leave bankmember requests.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from b. If existing members did donate at the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as start of the last work day year, then the Association may ask members for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall voluntary donations only, to be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during added to the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3bank. Should Voluntary donations cannot cause the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty to exceed one hundred fifty (40150) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsdays.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. c. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requestsDistrict aware of any time this becomes necessary and of the number of days granted by employees who have donated days. It is understood that the total donations cannot cause the Sick Leave Ban to exceed One hundred fifty (150) sick days.
6. An employee shall provide supporting documentation from a physician to accompany any sick bank request.
7. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will make the final determination on all Sick Leave Bank requests received. Final determination on such requests shall include a final decision on the number of days granted to any employee who has made such a request. These determinations will be documented and made available to Payroll at the Committee time awarded by the Sick Leave Bank Committee.
8. Individuals may not elect to receive sick leave benefits in lieu of disability benefits. Eligibility for Sick Leave Bank benefits shall terminate when an individual Is eligible for disability benefits.
9. No employee shall, under any circumstances, be entitled to Sick Leave benefits until said employee has exhausted all accrued sick leave available to that employee.
10. No employee shall be made by majority vote within entitled to more than a ten (10) working day draw at any time per request. The Sick Leave Bank Committee reserves the right to request documentation to support each Sick Leave Bank request. Exceptions to the maximum number of days of and necessary documentation per request may be granted, if the requestSick Leave Bank Committee deems the circumstances warrant an exception.
b. The decision 11. Unused Sick Leave Bank days shall remain in the bank and roll over into the next school year.
12. Decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and are not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealgrievable.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of sick leave days administered by the Union’s Executive Board, which may be used by participating teachers who meet eligibility criteria set forth by the Union Executive Board in the case of prolonged or exceptional cases of absence due to serious illness, injury, hospitalization, personally or in their immediate family or household, as defined in School Code 105 ILCS 5/24-6, and who have exhausted their own accumulated sick leave and personal leave days. The Board and Union agree that the Board shall, pursuant to the direction of the Union’s Executive Board, accept donations of eligible teachers’ sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank, shall hold these days, and subsequently distribute these days from the Sick Leave Bank as directed. The Big Hollow Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 604, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Board, its members, officers, agents and employees from any and all claims, demands, actions, complaints, suits, costs, losses and expenses or other forms of liability including, but not limited to, the cost of defense thereof and attorneys’ fees therewith in any manner resulting from or arising out of or connected with this provision or the consequences therefore or that shall arise out of or by reason of action taken by the Board for the purposes of complying with this provision.
1. Sick Leave in the Sick Leave Bank will be established as follows:
a. Each teacher who elects to participate shall donate one (1) sick leave day on or before September 15 of any given school year by filling out a form developed by the Sick Leave Bank Committee and submitting it to the Administrative Office. This donation makes them eligible to apply to utilize the Sick Leave Bank for the specific school year in which they donate the day.
b. By October 1, the Administrative Office will provide the Union President with a list of teachers who have elected to participate in the Bank.
2. To be eligible to draw on the Sick Leave Bank the following conditions must be met:
a. The teacher or a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her ’s immediate family (as defined in the Master Agreement School Code) must have suffered a catastrophic type illness or injury (Article VIII Section A.1)such as, has exhausted all advanced cancer, massive heart attack, or multiple severe injuries from an accident or fire) as determined by the Committee. The teacher must submit a written request and the number of sick leave days needed from the Bank, and in cases where the request is based on an illness or injury to a member of the teacher’s immediate family, the circumstances which require the teacher to care for the member of his/her immediate family. The Committee may also require additional information regarding the teacher’s illness or injury (e.g., a report from the teacher’s physician confirming the teacher’s illness/injury of the teacher’s immediate family (e.g., a physician’s report confirming the illness/injury, and the prognosis which requires the teacher to care for the individual and necessitates use of the Sick Leave Bank for the number of days requested by the teacher.)
b. The teacher must have exhausted all accumulated and newly granted sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request personal leave.
c. The teacher must have been a participant in the sick leave donation from bank by September 15 of that school term.
d. The teacher or other legal designee shall make written application to the District's Committee.
e. The teacher or other legal designee must satisfy any other requirements established by the Sick Leave Bank. Participation in Bank Committee.
f. Usage and operation of the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryin full compliance with any applicable provisions of state and federal laws.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted g. Days used from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved used for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned workdays during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bankregular school term.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A sick leave bank shall be established to provide sick leave benefits to members of the bargaining unit is absent due to bank who incur a nonprolonged, life-elective surgery or long-term threatening personal illness or accident injury. Any full-time teacher is eligible for membership in the bank. A teacher shall be eligible for the bank beginning the first employment day of the employeefirst full year of employment by the district and the first full day of the fifth year of employment by the district. At the start of the 2022-2023 school year, or all teachers shall have a one-time opportunity to enroll in the bank. The review committee shall notify, in writing, each newly eligible teacher of his/her family as defined eligibility to participate in the Master Agreement bank prior to the start of such year. Upon such notification, the teacher shall have fifteen (Article VIII Section A.115) working days after the start of the year to elect to participate in the bank. Teachers electing not to join the bank by the required time, or resigning from the bank, shall be ineligible for its benefits at any other time. Membership in the bank is automatically terminated upon effective dates of resignation, retirement, or dismissal. Any granted leave shall be considered as a leave from the bank as well. Upon returning to full time employment, all benefits will be reinstated and that individual will be assessed only the current year's donated day(s), if any. Participating members shall have deducted from accumulated sick leave, two (2) days of credited sick leave as their initial contribution to the bank. An additional day shall be donated by the members anytime the bank falls below 100 days. Such donation will take place at the beginning of the next school year. During the term of this contract, all members of the bank, employed ten (10) years or more in the district shall have the right to voluntarily donate their unused accumulated sick leave days to the bank upon termination by resignation or retirement. A member shall not be eligible to draw on the bank until the member has exhausted depleted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, leave days and personal leave days and vacation has been absent for a continuous period of twenty (where applicable)20) school days. Applications for use are submitted to the Superintendent or designee and shall be reviewed by a committee consisting of the Superintendent or designee, local Association Executive Board, and a mutually agreed upon person at large from the Association. Members shall produce a doctor's written note to prove the need of sick leave. The decisions of this committee shall be final. Requests for sick leave bank usage shall be in accordance with the School Code and local contract definitions. Bank usage shall be limited to a continuous personal illness or injury of five (5) work days or more. No member may use more than twenty-five (25) school days per year. The total bank usage shall not exceed one hundred (100) school days per year. Application for bank usage will include a physician's statement as to the nature of the illness. Bank usage may be allowed more than one time per year. After a grace period of one year, each member who has used the bank must replace 50% of the days used by donating 50% of his/her unused sick and personal days per year he/she may request a sick leave donation from has left at the District's Sick Leave Bankend of each year until the debt is paid. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryExclusions: Any illness or injury covered by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Compensation.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If Section 1. A sick leave bank shall be established for the purpose of making additional sick leave days available to employees who have completed three (3) years, whether or not consecutive, of service with the District, who have exhausted their entire sick leave accumulation through prolonged illness and who have a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term serious illness or accident of injury. A serious illness or injury shall be one which requires the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement 's absence from work for more than ten (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank10) consecutive work days. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank sick leave bank by such employees shall be voluntary.
1Section 2. Any The employee may elect must have exhausted all his/her personal sick leave days, and must have been absent for work for a period of ten (10) consecutive work days because of a serious illness or injury. The sick leave days granted by the bank will be retroactive to participate in the Bank first day of the employee's illness or injury.
Section 3. The sick leave bank will be initially funded by contributing deducting one (1) sick leave day (defined as from the number accumulated sick leave days of hours that the donating each employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing who has agreed to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working bank and contributing such days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, . When the donation bank is irrevocable. The depleted to twenty (20) sick leave donation days, an additional assessment of one (1) day of sick leave shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated made against the sick leave and placed into account of each employee who has agreed to participate in the bank.
Section 4. The initial grant of sick leave days from the bank shall not exceed twenty (20) days after which the employee may reapply for additional days. Any grant of sick leave days shall end on the last day of the school year in which the prolonged illness began. Requests for sick leave bank days shall be submitted in writing to the Sick Leave BankBank Committee and shall include a written statement from the employee's physician indicating the nature and extent of the illness or injury and the estimated time that the employee will be absent from work. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is agreed that not more than a total of one hundred forty (140) sick leave days shall be granted from the sick leave bank during any one work year.
2Section 5. Requests for donation of An employee eligible to join the sick leave bank must be apply for membership on a form approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, . Employees wishing to join the bank must submit an application for membership by October first of each work year.
Section 6. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee comprised of five (5) persons, three (3) appointed by the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, Association and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union PresidentCommittee. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision decisions of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding final and shall not be subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealGrievance Procedure.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 1. Employees may deposit a member maximum of two (2) days of their Sick Leave allowance in the Sick Leave Bank each school year. Employees, who have a serious or prolonged illness or injury and who have used all of their accumulated Sick Leave, may apply to draw on the Bank.
2. The operation of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Bank shall be carried out in accordance with the following guidelines:
a. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee b. A member of the bargaining unit may elect to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing agreeing to deposit one (1) sick day (defined as of his/her accumulated unused Sick Leave into the number of hours that the donating Bank. Once an employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank his/her participation in the Bank shall be for the duration of the current school year, and shall continue from year to year, unless the employee notifies the Superintendent in writing and no later than October 1st of his/her desire to opt out of the Bank. Members must return the form No days previously donated to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days Sick Leave Bank will be deducted from returned to an employee who subsequently decides to end his/her participation in the second pay period in OctoberBank.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bankAll deposits must be made by October 1st of each year, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member or within thirty (30) days of an employee’s date of hire.
d. Only employees who donated the sick leave and placed deposit into the Sick Leave Bank shall be permitted to make withdrawals from the Bank.
2. Requests e. All requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by withdrawals from the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised must be made in writing accompanied by written medical evidence (e.g. a note from the employee’s doctor/physician/medical provider indicating the inability of the Superintendentemployee to perform his/Designeeher duties). The medical evidence must include the specific nature of the illness and/or injury, Treasurer/Designee, Union and the date the employee may be expected to return to work.
f. The Sick Leave Bank may only be used for an employee’s illness or injury.
g. Employees who withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank will be paid for each day at their current per diem (daily) rate of pay;
h. A Sick Leave Bank Committee (SLBC) composed of two (2) members appointed by the Federation President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union PresidentSuperintendent of Schools, shall meet to consider all requests to withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank. The committee's decision of the SLBC to grant or deny a request shall be made by majority vote of the SLBC. In the event a vote of the SLBC results in a tie, the Superintendent shall review the request, including any medical evidence presented by the employee, and he/she shall cast a final vote to break the tie. The vote shall be final and binding on all parties and shall not be subject to appeal or arbitration, provided the grievance proceduredecision of the SLBC is not arbitrary or capricious.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with i. Whenever the language balance of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leaveexceeds one hundred and twenty-five (125) days, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if neededthere will be no need to annually assess additional days. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank Members will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating automatically donate one (1) additional day whenever balance of the Bank falls below one hundred and twenty- five (125) days. In no case will equate to a donation of four member be assessed more than two (42) days in any given school year. Up to three (3) times per school year upon written request made by the Federation, the District shall produce a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant report listing the current balance of days in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu , as well as a detailed list of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that sheall deposits/he is receiving benefits donations and withdrawals to/from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should j. In the event of a new contract or an extension of the existing one, the balance of days in the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsis carried over.
4. Once k. Changes in the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson regulations or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision operation of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall must be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealmade through collective bargaining.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 1. A sick leave bank shall be established for certificated school employees.
2. The number of accumulated days which are in the bank shall not exceed one hundred (100) days which have been donated by sick bank members but may accumulate more than 100 days if additional days are contributed to the sick bank upon a teacher’s retirement which may cause the bank to exceed the one hundred day (100 days) limit.
3. The sick bank may be used by certificated employees who are absent from assigned duties due to personal illness or injury and have exhausted all of their sick leave, paid leave, and all categories of any other paid leave benefits of any nature.
4. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written request and allot days from the bank in accordance with the provisions herein contained, under written guidelines that shall be established by the committee and endorsed by the Superintendent and the President of the Association.
5. A veteran teacher who is not a current member of the bargaining unit is absent due to bank may become a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank member by contributing one (1) sick paid leave day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a dayplus any back assessments due) to the Bank in order bank not earlier than August 1st nor later than September 15th of any school year, even if it causes the sick bank total to joinexceed the one hundred day (100 day) limit.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay 6. A teacher who is newly hired in the school corporation shall have fifteen (15) days from the date of initial duty assignment or until September electing 15th of any school year, whichever is later, during which time the teacher may choose to participate in the Sick Leave Bankbank by contributing one (1) paid leave day, even if those days would cause the accumulation to exceed the maximum days listed in paragraph 2, above.
7. Members A teacher who is a member of the sick bank may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
7.1 The teacher must return have chosen to become a current member of and participate in the form sick bank by contributing (1) paid leave day to the Treasurer within ten bank not earlier then August 1st not later than September 15th each year.
7.2 The day that is contributed shall be non-returnable to the employee. However, in the event that the number of accumulated days in the bank at the beginning of a school year is of sufficient number that a contribution of one sick leave day by all teachers who are current members of the bank would cause the maximum number of days specified hereinabove in Paragraph 2 to be exceeded, the current year’s contribution by all such current members shall be suspended, except in case the bank is depleted during the school year, the current year’s contribution shall be assessed at the time of such depletion.
7.3 The teacher must have utilized and exhausted all paid leave and unused sick leave benefits of whatever nature, including said teacher’s own accumulated sick leave and paid leave.
7.4 Written application must be made no later than twelve (1012) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Boardexhaustion of said paid leave benefits.
b. Donated 8. Upon resumption of employment after using days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation said teacher shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to repay the number of hours worked in a day by days borrowed from the employee making bank at the donation. rate of three (For example3) sick leave days per year for more if the teacher desires), a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days plus said teacher shall continue to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating contribute one (1) day per year as provided hereinabove in Paragraph 5.
9. If a teacher leaves the employment of the school corporation prior to full repayment of borrowed days from the bank, either:
9.1 The value of the remaining days owed shall be deducted from the teacher’s final check(s) at the teacher’s current daily rate and such sum(s) deducted shall be retained by the school corporation, while the equivalent number of days will equate be returned to a donation of four (4) the bank by the school corporation, or
9.2 The teacher may transfer any unused sick leave or unused paid leave days to a the bank as payment of the loan, or
9.3 A combination of (1) and (2-hour employee, etc) hereinabove may be used.)
f. An employee 10. Recipients who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave retire or become totally disabled after borrowing from the Bankbank and who still owe days to the bank shall be exempt from repayment, financially or in days.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive 11. A three (3) member sick leave bank dayscommittee shall be established to receive written request and allot days from the bank in accordance with the provisions herein contained, under guidelines established by the committee. The committee may require a teacher applicant to furnish medical documentation of illness and/or to consent to additional medical examination(s).
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as 11.1 The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the last work day for 9 month employeesAssociation and one (1) person appointed by the Superintendent. The committee shall select a chairperson.
k. No bargaining unit member 11.2 Days allotted by the committee to an individual teacher shall not exceed a fixed maximum as is established by the committee. The committee shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period limited to a total allotment of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty one hundred fifty (40150) full time days (320 hours) during any school per year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up limited to a maximum total allotment of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodteacher.
12. These The Chairperson of the committee shall notify the school corporation’s business office, in writing, not later than five (5) school days from the time of an allotment of days by the committee to a teacher. Such notification shall be deposited into specify the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to name of the Sick Leave Bankteacher, and the number of days.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member
1. A sick leave bank shall be established to provide sick leave benefits to members of the bargaining unit is absent due to bank who incur a nonprolonged, life-elective surgery or long-term threatening personal illness or accident injury. Any full-time teacher is eligible for membership in the bank.
2. A teacher shall be eligible for the bank beginning the first employment day of the employeethird full year of employment by the district. The review committee shall notify, or in writing, each newly eligible teacher of his/her family as defined eligibility to participate in the Master Agreement bank prior to the start of such year. Upon such notification, the teacher shall have fifteen (Article VIII Section A.115) working days after the start of the year to elect to participate in the bank.
3. Teachers electing not to join the bank by the required time, or resigning from the bank, shall be ineligible for its benefits at any other time.
4. Membership in the bank is automatically terminated upon effective dates of resignation, retirement, or dismissal. Any granted leave shall be considered as a leave from the bank as well. Upon returning to full time employment, all benefits will be reinstated and that individual will be assessed only the current year's donated day(s), if any.
5. Participating members shall have deducted from accumulated sick leave, two (2) days of credited sick leave as their initial contribution to the bank. An additional day shall be donated by the members anytime the bank falls below 100 days. Such donation will take place at the beginning of the next school year.
6. During the term of this contract, all members of the bank, employed ten (10) years or more in the district shall have the right to voluntarily donate their unused accumulated sick leave days to the bank upon termination by resignation or retirement.
7. A member shall not be eligible to draw on the bank until the member has exhausted depleted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, leave days and personal leave days and vacation has been absent for a continuous period of twenty (where applicable)20) school days.
8. Applications for use are submitted to the Superintendent for review by a committee consisting of the Superintendent, local Association president, and a mutually agreed upon person at large from the Association. Members shall produce a doctor's written note to prove the need of sick leave. The decisions of this committee shall be final.
9. Requests for sick leave bank usage shall be in accordance with the School Code and local contract definitions.
10. Bank usage shall be limited to a continuous personal illness or injury of five (5) work days or more. No member may use more than twenty-five (25) school days per year. The total bank usage shall not exceed one hundred (100) school days per year. Application for bank usage will include a physician's statement as to the nature of the illness. Bank usage may be allowed more than one time per year.
11. After a grace period of one year, each member who has used the bank must replace 50% of the days used by donating 50% of his/her unused sick and personal days per year he/she may request a sick leave donation from has left at the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in end of each year until the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntarydebt is paid.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The Sick Leave Bank is not designed to give unlimited sick leave to all teachers. Its primary purpose is to give a teacher substantial income protection in the event of a medical catastrophe. It is also designed to provide a maximum benefit to teachers who have utilized the regular sick leave days in a professional manner. A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby a teacher, as defined herein in Article I who is absent from assigned duties due to personal illness and who has utilized all sick leave and personal leave may petition a committee, as established herein, for sick leave days from the bank under the following conditions:
1. The number of accumulated days in the bank shall not exceed one hundred eighty (l80) days, provided, however, that:
a. a veteran teacher who is not a current member of the bargaining unit is absent due to bank may become a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank member by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank not earlier than August 1st nor later than September 15th any subsequent year, and;
b. a teacher who is newly hired in the School Corporation shall have two years, from the date of hire, to enroll in the bank by contributing one (defined 1) sick leave day, even though such contribution by such veteran or newly hired teacher would cause an accumulation of days in excess of the maximum specified herein;
c. All certificated personnel who do not enroll during their initial two years of employment, shall have their enrollment rights restricted as follows:
1. They shall not be eligible to enroll in the Bank for a period of two (2) years from the end of their second initial year of employment.
2. If after the two (2) year waiting period, a certificated employee enrolls in the bank, he/she must wait an additional year from his/her enrollment date before being eligible to borrow from the bank.
d. A retiring teacher may contribute up to five (5) days to the sick leave bank of his/her remaining days.
2. Said employee may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
a. The teacher must have chosen to become a current member of and participate in such bank by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank, and such day contributed shall be nonrefundable to the teacher. However, in the event that the number of hours accumulated days in the bank at the beginning of a school year is sufficient number that a contribution of one (1) sick leave day by all teachers who are current members of the bank would cause the maximum number of days specified hereinabove in Paragraph One (1) to be exceeded, the current year’s contribution by all such current members shall be suspended, except that in case the bank is depleted during the school year, the current year’s contribution shall be assessed at the time of such depletion;
b. The teacher must have utilized and exhausted all paid leaves applicable to personal illness of whatever nature, including said teacher’s own accumulated sick leave and personal leave;
c. Written certification will be provided from said teacher’s physician substantiating the illness and certifying that the donating employee is scheduled to work in absence will continue during a dayperiod of at least twenty (20) to consecutive days;
d. Written application by the Bank in order to join.teacher or legally designated individual who carries power of attorney must be made no later than twelve (12) days after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Banke. The teacher must have been absent for at least (10) consecutive days after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within Said ten (10) working daysconsecutive days of absence must be taken as unpaid leave, and sick leave bank days shall be applied upon the eleventh (11th) day of absence. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within The ten (10) working days after being officially employed of unpaid leave shall apply for each separate case of a teacher’s qualifying as a medical catastrophe;
f. The teacher may return to work on a partial schedule with written certification provided by said teacher’s physician stating that the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted teacher is able to work a modified schedule. Partial day withdrawals from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into bank in the Sick Leave Bankevent of a modified work schedule shall be taken in half (1/2) day units.
23. Requests for donation of A four (4)-member sick leave must bank committee shall be approved established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein, under guidelines established by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised committee. The committee shall be composed of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members proportionately appointed by the Union PresidentAssociation and two (2) persons appointed by the Board. All committee members shall be certificated personnel in the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Central School Corporation. The committee's decision teacher appointments shall be final made in accordance with IC 20- 29-5-7. Days allotted by the committee to an individual teacher shall be available with the eleventh (11th) consecutive day of absence after exhaustion of the employee’s said leave payments, and such allotment to an individual teacher by the committee shall not subject exceed a fixed maximum as is established by the committee. The committee shall be limited to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved an allotment not to exceed ninety (90) days, and to a total allotment not to exceed one hundred eighty (180) days for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. all teachers in any school year. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases enrollment records, deduction of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other proceduresdays in accordance with this contract, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the payment of sick leave bank if neededdays per committee allotment, and other necessary record keeping shall be maintained in the Superintendent’s office. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals Records and procedures shall be in full day units for compliance with the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number Indiana State Board of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsAccounts rules and regulations.
4. Once Any days granted by the bank reaches two hundred (200) full committee to an individual teacher shall terminate effective the earliest date as hereinafter provided:
a. The day after the last day of the term of employment for the school year, or
b. The day after the last day of allotted number of days granted by the committee, or
c. The first day of return of full-time days (1600 hours), only new members employment subsequent to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipgranting of days by the Committee.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making All donated days are a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject permanent contribution to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealBank and are not transferable to another school corporation should a participant leave the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Central School Corporation.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. If A voluntary teacher sick leave bank is in existence. A new member must contribute one (1) sick leave day each year for three years. In order to qualify for membership in the sick leave bank, a member teacher wishing to participate shall notify the designee of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined Board in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all writing of his/her accumulated intention to participate on or before the last school day of September. Such authorization shall remain in force until the participating teacher withdraws from the program in writing. In order to qualify for sick leaveleave benefits pursuant to Schedule A, a teacher must begin to participate in the sick leave bank at his/her first opportunity for enrollment. If the teacher fails to participate in the sick leave bank during the first year of eligibility, his/her benefits under the sick leave bank shall be governed by Schedule B. Upon exhaustion of accrued personal leave and vacation (where applicable)illness days, any member may borrow additional personal illness days according to whether he/she may request a qualifies for Schedule A benefits or Schedule B benefits. 0 - 5 years teaching service in MSD ▇▇▇▇▇ Township - 10 day 6 - 8 years teaching service in MSD ▇▇▇▇▇ Township - 25 days 9 - 12 years teaching service in MSD ▇▇▇▇▇ Township - 35 days 13 - 16 years teaching service in MSD ▇▇▇▇▇ Township - 45 days 17 - 20 years teaching service in MSD ▇▇▇▇▇ Township - 55 days Over 20 years teaching service in MSD ▇▇▇▇▇ Township - 65 days 0 - 5 years participation in sick leave donation from bank - 10 days 6 - 8 years participation in sick leave bank - 25 days 9 - 12 years participation in sick leave bank - 35 days 13 - 16 years participation in sick leave bank - 45 days 17 - 20 years participation in sick leave bank - 55 days Over 20 years participation in sick leave bank - 65 days Requests for the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in use of the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1made by presentation of sufficient medical evidence (i.e., a medical slip) to the Sick Leave Bank Committee here under provided. Any employee Additional Days may elect be borrowed from the Sick Leave Bank if and only if, a teacher has repaid any previously borrowed days. Upon resumption of employment, said teacher will repay the Sick Leave Bank the personal illness days owed as noted below. On October 1 of each school year (beginning with 2003-2004), a teacher shall repay days to participate the Sick Leave Bank based on their accumulated sick leave at that time, and the following schedule: 21 or more 5 At any time a teacher wishes to pay a greater number of days, or all the days owed, he/she may do so. If a teacher dies or retires before his debt is repaid, any days remaining in his sick leave account shall be placed in the Bank by contributing sick leave bank up to the number of days owed. After those days are placed in the sick leave bank, the debt shall be considered repaid. Said teacher must have contributed, or will contribute, three (3) sick leave days total to remain a member of the sick leave bank. When the days in the bank drop below 200 days, contributions at the rate of one (1) sick day (defined as per member per year will begin the number next school year. Such contributions shall continue until the bank has amassed at least 300 sick days at the end of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit school year. The members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing not have to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated contribute again until the sick leave and placed into bank has fewer than 200 days at the Sick Leave Bank.
2end of the school year. Requests for donation As of sick leave must be approved by June 30, 2002, data relative to the Sick Leave Bank Committeewill be maintained in the Central Office with utilization reports to the Union due on October 31 of each year, comprised beginning with October 31, 2002. A Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, three (3) Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final PEPC and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in administrator appointed by the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence Superintendent will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3established. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make will review all applicants desiring to borrow personal illness days from the decision regarding requestsbank. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final. It is specifically agreed that illnesses or ailments due to prior existing conditions, binding and not subject which existed within a period of two (2) years prior to the grievance procedureteacher’s enrollment in the bank, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by are specifically excluded and the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided shall not allow applicants to borrow personal illness days from the bank for a condition that existed within a period of two (2) years prior to the treasurer.
d. applicant’s enrollment in the bank. The Sick Leave Bank Committee administration shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that provide each new teacher with a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankbank application not later than their first contract day of employment.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of I. The Board and the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of Association agree that the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in bank, as provided by the Sick Leave Bank Act, shall be voluntarycontinue throughout the term of this agreement.
1. Any employee A. Every school year each teacher newly employed by the district may elect volunteer to participate in the Bank by contributing donate one (1) sick day (defined to the sick leave bank. A new teacher who donates a day to the sick leave bank within the first ten days of the school year shall be considered a participating member of the sick leave bank in the same manner as those who contributed in previous years.
B. Previously employed teachers may become a participating member during the first ten days of any school year. However, they will not be eligible to apply for any days from the bank until two full school years have elapsed from the date they donated.
C. The total number of hours days to accumulate in the sick leave bank will not exceed one hundred (100) days with the exception of days donated by newly participating teachers causing the accumulated total of days to exceed one hundred (100) days in the sick leave bank. A participating teacher may donate additional days to the sick leave bank anytime the total number of days drops below one hundred (100) days provided that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within teacher retains at least ten (10) working dayssick days in his or her own account. New employees wishing Any sick leave bank days not used during one school year shall be accumulated in the sick leave bank to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially be available for use in successive school years.
II. Any teacher currently employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once district who is a bargaining unit participating member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated of the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision bank shall be final and not subject eligible to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for request sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if neededprovided that:
A. The employee has used all his or her accumulated sick days, personal days and emergency days.
B. A medical condition or injury of an employee or family member as certified by a physician that requires an employee’s absence from work for a prolonged period of time. Banked sick leave days will not be granted for elective surgery, maternity leave, nor during any period an employee is receiving disability benefits from social security, retirement, worker’s compensation or any other source.
C. The committee (governing body) approved the request.
III. A withdrawal may committee will be approved only upon established to act as the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units governing body for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number administration of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu A. This committee shall have six voting members, consisting of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments five employees named by the Association; three from grades Pre-K thru 8 and two from grades 9 thru 12, as well as the district superintendent. The building administrator from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible building in which the employee is assigned for the majority of the work day and the Association president and the treasurer will be ex-officio members..
B. The committee must reach a 2/3 majority of voting members for the request to receive be granted. The committee will determine the number of days to be granted from the sick leave bank, but in no event shall the sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.provide more than twenty
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby a teacher who is absent from assigned duties due to personal illness of the teacher and who has utilized all sick leave and personal leave may petition a committee, as established herein, for sick leave days from the bank under the following conditions:
1. Except as provided herein below, the number of accumulated days in the bank shall not exceed one hundred ninety (190) days, provided, however, that even though such contribution by such veteran or newly hired teacher would cause an accumulation of days in excess of the maximum specified herein;
2. To become a current member of and participate in the bank a teacher must contribute one (1) sick leave day to the bank not earlier than August 1st nor later than September 15th of each year, and such day contributed shall be nonreturnable to the employee.
a. In the event that the number of accumulated days in the bank at the beginning of a school year is of sufficient number that a contribution of one (1) sick leave day by all teachers who are current members of the bank would cause the maximum number of days specified hereinabove to be exceeded, the current year’s contribution by all such current members shall be suspended.
b. If the normal annual contribution is suspended as provided in Subsection 2(a) above and the bank is then depleted during the school year, the current year’s contribution shall be assessed at the time of such depletion.
c. A veteran teacher who is not a current member of the bargaining unit is absent due to bank may become a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank member by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank not earlier than August 1 nor later than September 15 of any school year.
d. A teacher who is newly hired in the school corporation shall have fifteen (defined as 15) days from the number date of hours initial duty assignment, or until September 15 of any school year, whichever is later, during which time such teacher may choose to become an active member of the bank by contributing one (1) sick leave day.
3. Teachers may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
a. The teacher must have utilized and exhausted said teacher’s own accumulated sick leave and personal leave;
b. Written certification will be provided from the teacher’s physician substantiating the illness and certifying that the donating employee is scheduled to work in absence will continue during a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within period of at least ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate consecutive days following the utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein;
c. Written application must notify be made by or on behalf of the Treasurer within ten teacher no later than twelve (1012) working days after being officially employed by the Board.exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
b. Donated d. The teacher must have been absent for at least four (4) consecutive duty days will be deducted after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
e. Upon resumption of employment after using days from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, said teacher shall repay the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from number of days owed to the bargaining unit member who donated bank (number of days borrowed minus number of days contributed) at the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation rate of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period sick leave days per year, even though such contribution would cause an accumulation of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language excess of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other proceduresmaximum specified hereinabove, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals plus said teacher shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation continue to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating contribute one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a per year as provided hereinabove in Section 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently If a participant in teacher leaves employment of the Sick Leave Bank school corporation, any days owed to the bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bankwaived.
g. Sick At the time the teacher becomes eligible to draw benefits from his/her long term disability insurance, eligibility for use of days earned during from the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bankbank shall cease.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive a. A three (3) member sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member committee shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits established to receive written requests and allot days from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members according to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on provisions herein, under guidelines established by the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the requestcommittee.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee committee shall be made composed of two (2) persons appointed by majority vote within ten the Federation and one (101) working days of person appointed by the requestsuperintendent.
b. The decision Days allotted by the committee to an individual employee shall be available for use beginning with the fifth (5th) consecutive day of absence after exhaustion of the Sick Leave Bank Committee employee’s said paid leave benefits, and such allotment to a teacher by the committee shall be final, binding and not subject to exceed a fixed maximum as is established by the grievance procedure, court action or any appealcommittee.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will The committee shall be provided limited to the treasurera total allotment of one hundred ninety (190) days per year.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee committee shall take all necessary steps to insure not grant days for child-rearing in a situation where the confidentiality of its decisionsteacher is not actually temporarily disabled.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member In cases of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term serious prolonged illness or accident of the employeeinjury (excluding common conditions such as cold, flu, routine pregnancy delivery, or sinusitis) when an individual has used up all of his/her family as defined available personal sick leave, (sick leave shall mean the leave a staff member has for that year plus his/her accumulation), he/she will be permitted to draw sick leave from the sick leave bank established by the WEA and the Board of Education. The days will be voluntarily donated by staff on behalf of those who under extreme circumstances may need assistance. The following guidelines shall apply:
1. Each teacher choosing to enroll in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all bank will donate one day of his/her accumulated sick leaveleave to the bank annually by the first day of school for students. New employees will be permitted to enroll during the first week of their employment, personal if starting work other than at the beginning of a school year. No additional days shall be added until the bank is depleted, at which time the bank will be re-established.
2. Initially a teacher may be permitted on written application to draw no more than fifteen (15) days from the sick leave bank for each year of service to a maximum of 45 days. Thereafter, the committee will review each applicant’s need on a monthly basis and vacation may grant additional necessary days. The total maximum lifetime eligibility for sick bank leave shall be 187 days. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a teacher who has used all 187 days, after five (where applicable)5) years of exhausting the initial 187 days shall be eligible for up to an additional 187 days.
3. A teacher withdrawing from membership in the Sick Leave Bank will not be able to withdraw his/her contributed days.
4. Participating teachers who withdraw sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member to the bank.
5. No days may be donated to a specific individual.
6. The WEA and the Board are responsible for the administration of this bank, through one (1) WEA member appointed by the President of the WEA and two (2) delegates appointed by the Chairperson of the Board of Education to serve until replaced, with appointments stated in writing by the President of the WEA and the Superintendent of Schools or Chairperson of the Board of Education.
a. Written application must be made to the sick leave bank committee ten (10) working days before the anticipated need whenever possible.
b. Medical verification of said serious prolonged illness or injury shall be forwarded to the Superintendent upon initial application by a participating teacher for Sick Leave Bank benefits and upon any subsequent application for additional benefits. The committee shall have the right to have any teacher applying to the Sick Leave Bank for benefits permit a consult between the Board Medical Director and the teacher’s provider and/or be examined any time by a doctor designated by the committee. The committee shall use the report of any such examination to verify the teacher’s medical condition for eligibility for sick leave benefits. The Board of Education shall pay for any portion of the cost of any such exam not covered by insurance. If the teacher fails to submit to such an exam, he/she may request a shall immediately be denied eligibility for sick Leave Bank benefits.
c. The Sick Leave Bank committee will provide each person requesting sick leave donation days with a written response to his/her request.
d. If illness or disability spans two (2) years, members must reapply each school year.
e. A teacher is no longer eligible for Sick Leave Bank benefits if he/she is medically determined to be permanently disabled.
7. The WEA/Board Committee shall be empowered to apply on behalf of an incapacitated member.
8. If a beneficiary of the Sick Leave Bank recovers damages from another party for the condition which he/she is receiving Sick Leave Bank benefits, one component of which damages is lost compensation, then to the extent of such recovery the beneficiary shall reimburse the Board of Education to the extent that he/she received compensation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation The Board of Education shall replenish the Sick Leave Bank for each day that it recovers payment. This provision shall include all insurance payments except those which result from coverage paid for by the beneficiary.
9. The Committee will annually supply the WEA and the Board of Education with statistics regarding the status of the bank, i.e., number of participants, numbers of days contributed for the current school year, number of WEA members withdrawing days from the bank, number of days remaining in the bank, and other such information requested by the WEA and/or the Board.
10. Any costs of administering the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed born equally by the BoardWEA and the Board of Education.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Working Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request The School Employer will establish a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntarybank for all Certificated Employees.
1. Any employee may elect The number of Certificated Full-Time Employees wishing to participate in the Bank by contributing contribute one (1) day of sick day (defined as leave to the bank at the start of the school year will determine the number of hours that days in the donating employee is scheduled to work in bank. If the sick bank has a daybalance of less than ninety (90) days, all participating teachers will donate one sick day to the Bank bank in order addition to jointhe days they donated when joining the sick bank.
2. A Certificated Employee may be granted days from the sick leave bank under these conditions:
a. Bargaining unit members will receive The Certificated Employee must have contributed one (1) day sick leave during the current school year to the bank by signing a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form be given to the Corporation Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and beginning of school or have given two (2) bargaining unit days in previous years and not used any.
b. The Certificated Employee must have exhausted his own accumulated sick leave.
c. The Certificated Employee must have a doctor's certification that such a request is necessary.
d. The Certificated Employee should submit the request in advance of the expiration of his own accumulated, if at all possible.
e. Unless a Certificated Employee joins within the specified time, he is ineligible until the next school year.
3. A committee shall be established to consider applications for use of sick leave bank days. This committee shall consist of three (3) members appointed by the Union PresidentAssociation and three (3) appointed by the School Board and/or administration. The committee's final decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days concerning any allowance from the sick leave bank if neededshall rest with the committee. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion majority vote of the respective employee's accumulated committee is required before affirmative action can be taken. To maintain eligibility into the sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For examplebank, a certificated employee must contribute two (2-hour employee contributing four (4) sick days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick following school year when days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsallotted.
4. Once A maximum allowance of sixty (60) days per certificated employee can be requested annually from the bank reaches two hundred sick bank. The sixty (20060) full time days have to be requested in thirty-day (1600 hours)30) increments. If the certificated employee is unable to return after thirty (30) days, only a new members request with physician documentation must be submitted to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipgranted another thirty (30) days.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent The Association will be notified of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days when requests are made.
6. Days remaining at the end of the requestyear shall remain in the bank.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. If The Sick Leave Bank is open to all certified personnel covered by the master agreement. The bank is formed by voluntary participation and voluntary donations by personnel. This bank replaces the Reserve Leave in prior agreements. Any employees owing the Corporation Reserve Leave days under prior agreements, will have one-half (1/2) of those days owed forgiven as of ratification date of this agreement. Said quantity of days will be deducted from the current Sick Leave Bank balance. Any employees owing days following this amnesty upon leaving the Corporation will compensate the Corporation $30 per day for each day owed.
i. Teachers will automatically be enrolled in the Sick Leave Bank unless a member waiver saying they do not wish to participate is sent to the Business Manager during the first ten (10) days of the bargaining unit school year or the first ten (10) days following ratification of this contract, whichever is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Banklater. Participation Membership in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryautomatically continued from one school year to the next unless the member indicates in writing an election to withdraw from the bank. Such election to withdraw must be made during the annual enrollment period. Personnel electing to be a member must remain a member for the entire school year.
1ii. Any employee may elect No teacher shall be required to participate in this program.
iii. Upon formation of the Bank by contributing in 2013, all member teachers donated one (1) sick leave day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated toward the sick leave bank. All donated days lost their identity and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2are considered a permanent contribution. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision These days shall be final and not subject to used for the grievance procedure.
a. Donations purpose of providing a bank of days upon which employees may only be approved for non-elective surgery or borrow in cases of long-term illnesses absence for personal illness or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, chronic medical condition which could have otherwise reasonably been requires specialized treatment by a doctor on a regularly scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if neededbasis. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating teacher who does not voluntarily donate one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who sick leave is not currently a participant in qualified to receive benefits of the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave program. Days borrowed from the Banksick bank do not need to be repaid to the bank.
g. Sick iv. Application for sick bank days earned during the absence will can be accrued made for Family Leave in cases of a family member’s long-term personal illness or a chronic medical condition which requires specialized treatment by the employee who uses a doctor on a regularly scheduled basis. “Family” for the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used is defined the same as in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from Section VI b iii (1) above. It is the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision determination of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject as to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealwhether to award this leave to family.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. If a member The purpose of the bargaining unit is absent Sick Leave Bank shall be to provide extended paid sick leave for employees who have exhausted their personally accumulated sick leave and, due to a non-elective surgery personal serious illness or longinjury, are unable to return to work. Short-term illness or accident of illnesses are not subject to the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a following sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bankprovisions. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any Each employee may elect shall be given an application form at the beginning of each school year or upon employment if during the school year. An employee desiring to participate in shall sign the Bank by contributing application and return it to his/her building representative. Each employee participating will contribute one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick day (defined as leave. Any days transferred by the employee shall remain in the Sick Leave Bank. The Board shall not be liable for any days transferred and shall not contribute any days to the Sick Leave Bank. The total number of hours that days to accumulate in the donating bank shall not exceed 200. Once the total maximum number of days has been reached, the bank will be closed for membership, except any new employee is scheduled who was not given the opportunity to work in a donate shall be allowed to donate one (1) day) . Only members of the Sick Leave Bank shall be allowed to withdraw days from the Bank. In order to remain an active member, an employee must contribute to the Bank in order bank when asked by the Sick Leave Committee. If an employee elects not to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing seek membership, he/she shall not be eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form No member shall be allowed to the Treasurer within draw more than ten (10) working daysdays during one (1) school year. New employees wishing The balance of the days accumulated at the end of one (1) school year shall carry over to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten following year. Should the total number of days withdrawn from the Bank equal the balance at any time, the Bank will cease operations until it can be replenished at the start of the next school year. A committee consisting of two (102) working days after being officially employed members selected by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, Association and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by of the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days Administration will be granted only in cases selected to govern the use of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Only employees that participate in the Sick Bank will be entitled to draw from the Bank provided the employee has exhausted his/her personally accumulated sick leave and personal leave days and has made written application to the Committee for withdrawal of days from the Bank. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will employee be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request application, his/her designee (Family Member, Association Representative or Administrator) may do so on his/her behalf. The application shall state the reason for the inability to use return to work along with the Sick Leave physician’s statement specifying the nature of the employee’s illness. The application shall also state the number of days requested to be used from the Bank, a family member or agent may file . Before granting the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approvedrequest, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned Committee must elicit affirmative answers to the Sick Leave Bank.following:
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The Board shall establish a member Sick Leave Bank for the full and part-time teachers of the bargaining unit is absent due District to be used for illnesses of a nonserious nature as identified in 105 ILCS 5/24-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident 6 of the employeeIllinois School Code, or hiswhich precludes him/her family as defined in from performing the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all essential functions of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a teaching position. The sick leave donation bank shall be funded solely by donations from the District's Sick Leave Bankfull and part-time teachers. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1sick leave bank is voluntary for all full and part-time teachers employed in the School District. Any employee All full and part-time teachers may elect apply to participate in the Bank sick leave bank within 20 working days of the beginning of the school year. No full or part-time teacher may apply for sick leave from the sick leave bank unless he/she agreed to participate and contributes his/her sick leave days as described below. Any full or part time teacher may voluntarily choose to participate in the sick leave bank by contributing donating a minimum of two (2) non-redeemable sick leave days equivalent to two (2) of that teacher’s work days. Any such teacher choosing to participate shall continue to participate by donating a minimum of one (1) sick day per year, unless such teacher notifies the Superintendent and Sick Leave Bank Committee that he or she elects not to participate within twenty (defined as the number 20) working days of hours that the donating employee is scheduled any subsequent school year. Any teacher first choosing to work voluntarily participate in a subsequent year must notify the Superintendent and Sick Leave Bank Committee that he or she elects to participate within twenty (20) working days of any subsequent year. If the bank is decreased to 20 days or less in any given school year, each participating teacher shall contribute one non-redeemable sick leave day equivalent to one of that teacher’s work day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing . The bank is capped at 100 days. Any teacher who elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave bank and all teachers hired after June 1, 2012, who are employed in the District shall be entitled to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The draw sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon Bank, provided the depletion of the respective employee's teacher has used all his/her accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the and personal leave days. The maximum number of hours worked in any days that can be granted to a day by the employee making the donation. teacher is twenty-five (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (425) days to per school year. In no case will the sick bank will equate to a donation granting of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Bank cause a teacher to receive more than his or her annual salary. Sick Leave may not be granted for the period of disability when monies are paid to the teacher under the Worker’s Compensation Law. Time spent on such sick leave days earned during the absence shall be considered as continuous service. A Sick Leave Committee will be accrued by established to act as the employee who uses governing body for the administration of the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu . The Committee shall consist of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from three (3) employees named by the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3Association. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make have the decision regarding requestsresponsibility of reviewing member applications, initially verifying the validity of applications, recommending approval or denial of the applications, and communicating its recommendation to the teacher and the Superintendent’s office. The decision Committee shall also maintain the records of all applications and use of the Sick Leave Bank. The Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days develop rules of the request.
b. The decision procedure for administration of the Sick Leave Bank and annually review the guidelines. The Committee shall be final, binding have the responsibility to maintain records of the status of the bank to verify information regarding the sick leave of the teacher and not subject to make the final decision on the application. The Committee shall report the status of the Sick Leave Bank and any decision upon the request of the Superintendent. The Committee shall provide all documents to the grievance procedureSuperintendent pertaining to the teacher’s application for sick leave bank and the Committee’s decision and, court action any other records or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by data the Committee has maintained in its file with regard to the usage of the Sick Leave Bank. Any records or data in the Committee’s possession will be maintained in a confidential manner. Application for use of the bank shall be submitted in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee will by the teacher or designated representative. The application must be provided accompanied by a physician’s statement confirming the application. If an application is for other than consecutive days of illness, a separate application including a physician’s statement should be submitted for each separate period of illness. As a condition of participation, a teacher must consent to release his/her physician’s statements to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take Committee. If a teacher does not use all necessary steps to insure of the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approveddays granted, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall will be returned to the bank. All requests to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank must be made in writing and submitted to the Committee at least ten (10) calendar days prior to the teacher’s anticipated use of the Bank. (Note: In extreme and unusual cases, exceptions may be approved.) The existence of the Sick Leave Bank does not negate or eliminate any other sick leave policies of District #327 nor does it in any way negate a member’s right to other sick leave benefits included in this Agreement. The Association agrees with respect to the operation of the Sick Leave Bank that it will hold harmless and defend the District, the Board, its members, administrators, employees and/or agents, as regards any action, complaint or suit of any type, provided only that the Board or District shall fulfill its responsibilities as set forth above. In the event any action, complaint or suit of any type in any form shall be brought against the District, the Board its members, administrators, employees and/or agents, the Board or District shall retain the exclusive right to select counsel, to defend such action, complaint or suit and/or to determine whether such action, complaint or suit should be compromised or settled.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby a teacher who is absent from assigned duties due to personal illness of the teacher and who has utilized all sick leave and personal leave may petition a committee, as established herein, for sick leave days from the bank under the following conditions:
1. Except as provided herein below, the number of accumulated days in the bank shall not exceed one hundred ninety (190) days, provided, however, that even though such contribution by such veteran or newly hired teacher would cause an accumulation of days in excess of the maximum specified herein;
2. To become a current member of and participate in the bank a teacher must contribute one (1) sick leave day to the bank not earlier than August 1st nor later than September 15th of each year, and such day contributed shall be nonreturnable to the employee.
a. In the event that the number of accumulated days in the bank at the beginning of a school year is of sufficient number that a contribution of one (1) sick leave day by all teachers who are current members of the bank would cause the maximum number of days specified hereinabove to be exceeded, the current year’s contribution by all such current members shall be suspended.
b. If the normal annual contribution is suspended as provided in Subsection 2(a) above and the bank is then depleted during the school year, the current year’s contribution shall be assessed at the time of such depletion.
c. A veteran teacher who is not a current member of the bargaining unit is absent due to bank may become a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank member by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank not earlier than August 1 nor later than September 15 of any school year.
d. A teacher who is newly hired in the school corporation shall have fifteen (defined as 15) days from the number date of hours initial duty assignment, or until September 15 of any school year, whichever is later, during which time such teacher may choose to become an active member of the bank by contributing one
(1) sick leave day.
3. Teachers may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
a. The teacher must have utilized and exhausted said teacher’s own accumulated sick leave and personal leave;
b. Written certification will be provided from the teacher’s physician substantiating the illness and certifying that the donating employee is scheduled to work in absence will continue during a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within period of at least ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate consecutive days following the utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein;
c. Written application must notify be made by or on behalf of the Treasurer within ten teacher no later than twelve (1012) working days after being officially employed by the Board.exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
b. Donated d. The teacher must have been absent for at least four (4) consecutive duty days will be deducted after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
e. Upon resumption of employment after using days from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, said teacher shall repay the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from number of days owed to the bargaining unit member who donated bank (number of days borrowed minus number of days contributed) at the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation rate of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period sick leave days per year, even though such contribution would cause an accumulation of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language excess of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other proceduresmaximum specified hereinabove, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals plus said teacher shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation continue to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating contribute one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a per year as provided hereinabove in Section 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently If a participant in teacher leaves employment of the Sick Leave Bank school corporation, any days owed to the bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bankwaived.
g. Sick At the time the teacher becomes eligible to draw benefits from his/her long term disability insurance, eligibility for use of days earned during from the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bankbank shall cease.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive a. A three (3) member sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member committee shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits established to receive written requests and allot days from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members according to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on provisions herein, under guidelines established by the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the requestcommittee.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee committee shall be made composed of two (2) persons appointed by majority vote within ten the Federation and one (101) working days of person appointed by the requestsuperintendent.
b. The decision Days allotted by the committee to an individual employee shall be available for use beginning with the fifth (5th) consecutive day of absence after exhaustion of the Sick Leave Bank Committee employee’s said paid leave benefits, and such allotment to a teacher by the committee shall be final, binding and not subject to exceed a fixed maximum as is established by the grievance procedure, court action or any appealcommittee.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will The committee shall be provided limited to the treasurera total allotment of one hundred ninety (190) days per year.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee committee shall take all necessary steps to insure not grant days for child-rearing in a situation where the confidentiality of its decisionsteacher is not actually temporarily disabled.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member 1. The purpose of the bargaining unit sick leave bank is absent to relieve certified school employees and teachers from undue financial burdens due to absences from work on a non-elective surgery or long-term illness basis due to illness, injury or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours incapacitation sufficiently severe that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with it would make their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocablepresence at school not advisable. The sick leave donation shall bank may only be immediately deducted from used for the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bankillness of its members.
2. Requests for donation of The Board will not contribute any days to the sick leave must be approved by bank. Only member's actual days may contribute to create the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from bank. Membership in the sick leave bank if neededwill be open to all certificated school employees and teachers. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals member shall be in full day units for the defined as a certified school employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number and teacher who has made a contribution of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank at the appropriate time of enrollment. Enrollment shall be open until September 30th of each school year. No current member will equate be required to contribute a donation day if the total number of four days in the bank exceeds eighty (480) days.
3. If a certified school employee and teacher has accumulated two hundred (200) unused sick days, then he/she may voluntarily contribute up to three (3) additional days of the unused sick days to the bank, in addition to certified school employee’s and teacher’s normal contribution. In the event that the sick leave bank is not open, the certified school employees and teachers who accumulate two hundred (200) unused sick days may voluntarily contribute up to three (3) days per year to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from 4. In the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive event that the sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as exhausts all of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, unused sick days during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the sick leave bank reaches two hundred committee will contact participating members and request that they contribute one (2001) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute day in order to establish membershipmaintain membership in the bank. The sick leave bank committee can request only one (1) re-enrollment from its membership during a particular school year.
5. A participating certified school employee and teacher that is a member of the sick leave bank may draw on not use more of the Sick Leave Bank sick leave bank’s days during a contract year than the total of his/her own individual accumulated sick leave days that the certified school employee and teacher had at the beginning of the school year. However, certified school employees and teachers with major medical problems verified by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designeetheir physicians, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee have used up their regular sick leave as well as their sick leave bank days for which they were eligible, shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable able to make a subsequent request for sick days from the second tier sick leave bank. The second tier sick leave bank will allow certified school employees and teachers to use donate days to another certified school employee and teacher who has used all his/her sick days and sick leave bank benefits for a catastrophic event and/or illness and who no longer has any benefits. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days second tier sick leave bank shall be granted up subject to approval by the sick leave bank committee and shall be completely voluntary. The second tier sick leave bank will always remain empty until such catastrophic event and/or illness happens to a maximum certified school employee and teacher that is a member of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave accountbank. All unused The maximum number of days that can be drawn from the second tier sick leave bank shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.not exceed ninety
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of A. In order to be eligible to use the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one bank, a teacher must donate two (12) sick day (defined as the number days of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated accumulated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2B. The bank will be open for donations between the opening of school and September 30. Requests for donation A teacher hired after the official opening of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond school in September will have a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases after the date of absence that comply with his/her employment to join the language of the Master Agreement bank. Forms for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required supplied to contribute in order to establish membershipthe teachers by the District Office.
5C. The bank will contain only the number of days donated, but at no time can accept more than two times the number of people covered under the recognition clause of this contract.
D. To be eligible to use the bank, a person must have exhausted their accumulated sick days, and have a prolonged certified illness of twenty-five (25) days or greater and must apply to use the bank in writing to the Superintendent. A participating member may draw on This application which must specify the Sick Leave Bank number of sick days requested will be reviewed by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent committee consisting of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make Chief School Officer and the decision regarding requests. The decision Association President, a member appointed by the Chief School Officer and another member of the Committee shall be made Association appointed by majority vote within ten (10) working days the Association President. Upon review of the request.
b. The decision of application, the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall committee will determine whether or not a member is eligible and how many bank days may be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. used. In the event that the allocated sick days are used up, the teacher may reapply to the committee for additional sick days. If the additional days are granted by the committee there will be no interruption of sick day benefits.
E. Once in the bank, a member is physically unable cannot withdraw except in writing to make the Superintendent, and the days contributed would be forfeited. If a request member leaves the district, the sick days contribution to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on bank goes with the member's behalf.
g. When F. Twice a bargaining unit member's request is approvedyear, in September and February, the days bank will be replenished from a list of new members and then an alphabetical listing of members already in the bank at the rate of one per day until the limit of the bank is reached.
G. The accounting and administration of the bank other than stated above, is the responsibility of the District. The Association shall be granted up to a maximum indemnify and protect the District against liability and claim which arise by reason of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employeeDistrict's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankcompliance with this Article.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank1. Participation in the The Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from established for the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to voluntary participation of all certificated school employees of the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave BankNorth ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Community School Corporation.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by Membership in the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days program will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during open to all certificated school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if neededemployees. A withdrawal may member will be approved only upon the depletion defined as a certificated school employee who has made a contribution of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate sick leave to the bank at the appropriate time of enrollment and at any time where there is a requirement for donation of four (4) an additional day. Sick leave days donated to the bank are considered a 2-hour employee, etcpermanent contribution and are not transferable to another school corporation or usable as individual sick leave outside the provisions of this bank.)
f. An employee 3. Persons new to the school system each year shall be given the opportunity to join the sick bank by donating one day to the bank by November 1 of the school year they become employees. They will indicate their desire to join by completing the appropriate form and shall not be members in good standing until they have completed the application for membership. A teacher who is not currently a participant in joins the Sick Leave Bank shall not will continue to be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable until he or she files a written statement of his or her intent to make a request to use drop out of the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file which will be effective at the request on conclusion of the member's behalfschool year.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, 4. Persons who shall have failed to join the sick leave bank in the year in which they first had the opportunity to join shall become members only by donating one day for each year that they were eligible but failed to join in addition to any additional days of donation required of bank members during that period.
5. Donations to the sick bank other than those described for initial membership shall be granted up to a maximum required only when at the beginning of thirty any school year the number of days in the bank shall be less than three hundred sixty (30360) days per 12 month periodor in the event the sick bank becomes exhausted during the schoolyear because of applications for sick bank days by eligible members. These In such event, each member of record for the currentschoolyearor the immediate past school year, as appropriate, shal donate an additional day in order to remain a member in goodstanding.
6. Any participating member who has exhau sted his or her accumulated sick leave and who has also used two (2) uncompensated sick leave days will be eligible to apply to the sick bank. The number of days granted to any member during any school year will be limited as follows: Years of Service toNLCS Number of Days 10+ 90
7. Use of leave from the sick bank shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave accountlimited to any one teacher to ninety (90) days in any one period of three (3) school years in length. All unused days shall be returned to A member who qualifies for the Sick Leave BankBank because of a serious illness or injury, who returns to work before exhausting his or her allocation from the Sick Leave Bank and who subsequently experiences a recurrence of the same illness or injury during the same school year will be permitted to continue to use sick leave bank ▇▇▇▇▇▇ the basis ofthe allocation at thetime he or she initially qualified for absences related to the illness orinjury.
8. The sick leave bank shall not operate in any manner such that any teacher receiving worker's compensation benefits receive either more or less than the teacher's regular pay, nor shall it operate in any other circumstances such that the teacher receives on behalf of any particular day either more or less than the teacher would have received should that day have been worked.
9. Applications will be made in writing to the Personnel Director and will be accompanied by a physician's statement describing the nature of the disability. Application for a ▇▇▇▇▇ may be made by a personal representative of the applicant in cases where the individual participant is unable to do so.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of A. In order to be eligible to use the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one bank, a teacher must donate two (12) sick day (defined as the number days of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated accumulated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2B. The bank will be open for donations between the opening of school and September 30. Requests for donation A teacher hired after the official opening of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond school in September will have a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases after the date of absence that comply with his/her employment to join the language of the Master Agreement bank. Forms for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required supplied to contribute in order to establish membershipthe teachers by the District Office.
5C. The bank will contain only the number of days donated, but at no time can accept more than two times the number of people covered under the recognition clause of this contract.
D. To be eligible to use the bank, a person must have exhausted their accumulated sick days, and have a prolonged certified illness of twenty-five (25) days or greater, and must apply to use the bank in writing to the Superintendent. A participating member may draw on This application which must specify the Sick Leave Bank number of sick days requested will be reviewed by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent committee consisting of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make Chief School Officer and the decision regarding requests. The decision Association President, a member appointed by the Chief School Officer and another member of the Committee shall be made Association appointed by majority vote within ten (10) working days the Association President. Upon review of the request.
b. The decision of application, the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall committee will determine whether or not a member is eligible and how many bank days may be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. used. In the event that the allocated sick days are used up, the teacher may reapply to the committee for additional sick days. If the additional days are granted by the committee there will be no interruption of sick day benefits.
E. Once in the bank, a member is physically unable cannot withdraw except in writing to make the Superintendent, and the days contributed would be forfeited. If a request member leaves the district, the sick days contribution to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on bank goes with the member's behalf.
g. When F. Twice a bargaining unit member's request is approvedyear, in September and February, the days bank will be replenished from a list of new members and then an alphabetical listing of members already in the bank at the rate of one per day until the limit of the bank is reached.
G. The accounting and administration of the bank other than stated above, is the responsibility of the District. The Association shall be granted up to a maximum indemnify and protect the District against liability and claim which arise by reason of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employeeDistrict's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankcompliance with this Article.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A voluntary sick leave bank program shall be provided for faculty who meet the eligibility criteria of the bargaining unit is absent sick bank. Human Resources will be responsible for the administration of the sick bank procedures. The purpose of the sick leave bank shall be to provide extended sick leave for faculty members who have exhausted their individually accumulated sick leave and due to a non-elective surgery personal or long-term immediate family or household illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bankinjury are unable to return to work. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank sick leave bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect No faculty member who submits application within the specified time limits shall be denied membership. New faculty shall be given a membership application by the Human Resources office at the time of their benefits orientation to participate in the Bank sick leave bank. They must complete the application and return it to the Human Resources office within 60 days of their hire date. Copies of the application forms signed by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as participating faculty shall be submitted to the Association President or designee. Upon receipt of the application, the Human Resources office shall be empowered to deduct the appropriate number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a daydays (0, 1, 2, as specified below) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated each faculty member’s individually accumulated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated and deposit same in the sick leave and placed into bank. Membership is continued automatically unless a faculty member who wishes to withdraw from the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject gives written notice to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days Human Resources office by August 16. A faculty member who voluntarily withdraws from the sick leave bank if neededcannot resume participation at a later date. A withdrawal may be approved only upon New faculty who choose to participate in the depletion sick leave bank shall contribute 2 days the first year of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to their employment. If during any year of operation the number of hours worked days in a day by the employee making the donation. (For examplebank falls below 120, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) each participating faculty member shall contribute 2 days to the sick bank. If during any year of operation the number of days in the bank will equate to a donation of only one ranges from 120 through 300, each participating faculty member shall contribute 1 day to an eight (8) hour employeethe bank. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation If in any year the number of four (4) days to a 2-hour employeeis over 300, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank no contribution shall be required of participating faculty. Days deposited shall not be eligible withdrawn when a faculty member ceases to be a member of the bank. The number of days in the bank at the end of one year shall carry over to the following year. Should the total of days withdrawn from the bank equal the balance at any time, the bank shall cease operations until it can be replenished at the start of the next school year. Human Resources will be responsible for the administration of the sick bank procedures. No faculty member shall be allowed to withdraw any sick leave from more than 30 days during one academic year. Should the Bank.faculty member be unable to make the application, the Association President or designee may do so on his or her behalf. Before granting the request, the Human Resources office elicit affirmative answers to the following questions:
g. Sick days earned during a. Is the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses faculty member presently a member of the sick leave bank.?
h. Sick bank days may b. Has the faculty member exhausted his or her individually accumulated sick leave?
c. Is the absence from work due to catastrophic illness or injury to the faculty member or a member of his or her immediate family or household? Examples would include, but not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive limited to, heart attack, cancer, car accident, major surgery, etc. The sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end is not intended to provide for short-term illnesses such as of the last work 2-day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any influenza or other employer, private minor or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurershort term maladies.
d. Is the faculty member under the care of a medical professional? The Sick Leave Bank Committee Board shall take pay the faculty member’s full salary at such faculty member’s base rate of pay for all necessary steps to insure days granted from the confidentiality bank. The number of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days paid shall be granted up to subtracted from the balance in the bank. If a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into faculty member becomes eligible for leave through the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned bank due to an incapacitating injury, and such faculty member is, as a consequence of such injury, eligible for disability benefits from worker’s compensation, then the Human Resources office will facilitate payment of the difference between the amount of benefits paid to the Sick Leave Bankfaculty member through worker’s compensation and the amount of the faculty member’s regular pay. It is the intention of this provision that no faculty member shall receive more pay through worker’s compensation in combination with payments received through the sick leave bank than such faculty member would have received in regular pay had such incapacitating injury not occurred.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member Each employee of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined Joint District No. 171 who receives sick leave benefit may participate in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation bank. To participate, each employee must contribute five (5) sick leave days to the bank. The employee may donate all five (5) days the first year, or may donate two (2) days the first year, two (2) days the second year, and one (1) day the third year. Sick leave days thus contributed shall be deducted from the District's individual’s annual sick leave entitlement. The contributed sick leave days shall form a fund of five hundred fifty (550) sick leave days in the Certified Sick Leave Bank and a fund of three hundred (300) sick leave days in the Classified Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language available to all eligible participating employees upon recommendation of the Master Agreement for respective sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation bank committee for the purpose of alleviating the hardship caused by absence from surgeries work necessitated by extended or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use recurring personal illness or personal injury extending beyond the employee’s accumulated sick leave. The employee will also acknowledge that once these days are contributed, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall they cannot be eligible to withdraw any sick leave retrieved upon resignation from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses Joint District No. 171 or upon quitting the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank . An employee is considered in good standing as the days are donated according to the stated guidelines and may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments draw from the Worker's Compensation Bureau bank if guidelines are met. Any employee who does not eligible join within the first five(5) years of employment forgoes coverage for any pre-existing medical condition. If any person voluntarily leaves the district and then is subsequently rehired, those individual(s) must re-contribute five (5) days to receive be in good standing with the sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3bank. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Certified Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requestsconsist of five (5) voting members. The decision voting members will consist of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten four contributing certified staff, at least two (102) working days of the request.
b. whom are CEA members, and one (1) administrator. The decision of the Classified Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be finalconsist of five (5) voting members. The voting members will consist of four contributing classified staff, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty one (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.1)
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Sources: Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A Sick Leave Bank was established during the 1991 – 1992 school year. All those individuals continuously employed and eligible for sick leave benefits as of the bargaining unit first day of school in the fall of 1991 are vested members of the Sick Leave Bank. All other individuals become members of the Sick Leave Bank upon their first date of employment. As of July 1, 2010 there are 2,596 days in the Sick Leave Bank.
1. A Sick Leave Bank Committee will act in all matters that concern the policies and the administration of the Sick Leave Bank and report its decisions in writing to the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel and Planning prior to any payment for extended sick leave. The committee shall be made up of the Association Chairperson and six Association members (all of the seven to be appointed by the Association President), and two district representatives (appointed by the Superintendent).
2. Employees will enroll in the Sick Leave Bank by donating one sick day to the Bank at the beginning of each school year for five consecutive years. These days will be automatically deducted from the employee’s sick leave day entitlement. Employees who are not eligible for sick leave benefits are not entitled to membership in the district’s Sick Leave Bank.
3. The intent of the Sick Leave Bank is absent to provide extended sick leave to those members, who experience an extended absence due to a nonthe employee’s own prolonged illness or hospitalization, or the prolonged illness or hospitalization of an employee’s immediate family member. For the purposes of this policy, “immediate family member” shall be defined as spouse, children, parents, parent-in-laws, son- in-law, and daughter-in-law. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be available for use in conjunction with any illness due to elective surgery or long-term illness or accident cosmetic surgery. In order to be eligible to draw from the Bank, a member must: • Be a contributor to the Bank. • Present a doctor’s certificate of continuing illness, including the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted date that they are anticipated to return to work. • Have used all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and all other available compensation days (i.e. personal business days, vacation (where applicabledays, comp time, etc…), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's .
4. A maximum number of days available annually to an eligible member shall be as follows: Members Years of Experience in District 25 Number of Available Sick Leave Bank. Participation in Bank Days Each member may make application to draw from the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) sick leave days equal to the Bank in order lesser of: 1) the number of days remaining until the employee’s anticipated date of return to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate work; 2) the number of teacher work days remaining in the term; or 3) the maximum number of available Sick Leave Bank. Members must return Bank days set forth in the form above chart not to the Treasurer within ten (10) working exceed twenty days. New employees wishing An employee whose years of experience qualifies him/her to participate must notify more than twenty days on the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bankabove chart, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from entitled to such additional days upon the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation submission of sick leave must be approved by a doctor’s certificate of continuing illness, including an anticipated date of return to work, to the Sick Leave Bank CommitteeChairperson. Upon a doctor’s release to return to work, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject any unused sick days granted to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation employee from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
5. Should the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank ever fall below 200 days, members of the Association and School District 25 representatives shall meet to assess the viability of the Sick Leave Bank and the potential need for additional days to be contributed by members of the Sick Leave Bank.
6. It shall be noted that any medical documentation required herein is requested at the direction of the Sick Leave Bank Committee for the purpose of determining eligibility for sick leave bank benefits. Notwithstanding the Sick Leave Bank Committee’s approval of an employee’s request to draw days from the Sick Leave Bank, the Board does not waive any right to request medical documentation and/or to require employees to submit to medical examinations, subject only to any limitations existing under applicable law.
7. The Association following the procedures outlined above shall have the sole right to determine how Sick Leave Bank days shall be utilized and in addition shall indemnify and hold harmless the Board from any and all claims arising from any and all decisions by the Association in relation to the use or denial of use of the Sick Leave Bank. This obligation to hold harmless shall only be applicable if the District gives the Association written notice within fifteen (15) days of receipt of any charge, lawsuit or claim arising under this section.
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Sources: Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member 1. Each teacher shall contribute one (1) day of his or her annual sick leave to the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident bank each year provided that the total annual contribution for any given year does not raise the number of the employee, or his/her family as defined days in the Master Agreement sick bank to more than two hundred (Article VIII Section A.1200), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
12. Any employee may elect Teachers new to the system will not be eligible to participate in in, and will not be asked to contribute to, the Bank by contributing sick bank until the start of their second year of employment. At the start of their second year, they will contribute one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members bank regardless of whether this raises the level of the bank above two hundred (200) days, and they will receive a form with their first pay in September electing be eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bankbank from that time forward.
3. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed All deposits will automatically be recorded by the BoardSchool District on the first day of employment in each school year.
b. Donated days will be deducted from 4. Eligible teachers who have a prolonged illness and who have used up the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to which they are entitled may apply to draw on the bank, .
5. Formal application must be made in writing to the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into Superintendent of Schools to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank.
26. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by Authorization to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised will be approved by both the Superintendent and by a vote of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved Association only upon the depletion certification by the teacher's physician that the applicant is disabled from performing his/her duties for the School district. Should either the Committee or the Association request a second opinion, said opinion shall be obtained at the expense of the respective employee's accumulated requesting party. Any grant of sick leaveleave days shall end no later than the last day of the school year during which the prolonged illness began.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for 7. By November 1st of each year, a statement of the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the total number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not will be eligible forwarded annually to withdraw any the President of the Association.
8. At the beginning of each school year, teachers at the maximum sick leave from accumulation of 195 days shall have that year's annual sick leave or that portion that is above 195 days held separately for that school year only. On June 30th of every year the Bank.
g. Sick amount of days earned during the absence in excess of teachers' maximum accumulated sick days will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible added to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall not to exceed 200 days.
9. If the Sick Leave Bank falls below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school an academic year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time any sick days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank held separately as stated above will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned added to the Sick Leave Bank, not to exceed 200 days. If there are no days of separately held sick leave, each teacher will then be assessed an additional day from his/her personal sick leave.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The purpose of the sick leave bank is to relieve its members from undue financial burdens due to absence from work on a long-term basis due to illness, injury or incapacitation sufficiently severe that it would make their presence at work inadvisable. Participation in the sick leave bank shall be voluntary. For the purpose of the sick bank the school work year begins on July 1 and end on June 30 of each year.
a) Employees who wish to participate must notify the Human Resources Office each year not later than October 1, unless they are continuing their membership from one (1) work year to the next as provided for in subsection e) below.
b) In the first year of a bus driver’s employment, a bus driver must work for a period of ninety (90) calendar days before becoming eligible for enrollment in the sick leave bank. Newly hired employees and newly eligible employees may enroll into the program when completing paperwork; however, they have until the end of their probationary period (ninety (90) days) to revoke their enrollment by submitting written notification to the department of human resources.
c) The Board will not contribute any days to the sick leave bank. Only members’ actual days may be contributed to create the bank. Each new member of the bargaining unit is absent due to bank shall contribute one (1) day of his or her accumulated sick leave at the start of a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident school year, and in the event that the sick leave bank balance drops below 115% of the employeenumber of all sick leave bank members, each continuing member of the bank shall contribute at least one (1) day of his or her accumulated sick leave days to the bank up to the number of days necessary to restore the bank to the 115% level. For example if 100 employees are participating in the sick leave bank, an assessment of a day will be taken when the bank drops below 115 days. In the event an employee does not have a day available to contribute at the time of assessment of days, the employee will not be eligible to participate in the bank until the first day of school the following school year when they can contribute a day.
d) Membership shall be on an annual basis, and the employee must be actively serving in his/her family eligible position (full-time bus driver) at the time of enrollment to be eligible for membership, except as defined stated in subsection e), herein.
e) An employee’s enrollment in the Master Agreement sick leave bank shall continue from year to year, effective the first day of each work year, and one (Article VIII Section A.11) day of sick leave shall be deducted from such employee’s individual accumulation, when appropriate under subsection c), above, unless such employee notifies the Human Resources Office by May 15 of a work year, of his or her decision not to enroll in the sick leave bank for the succeeding work year. If an employee continues his or her enrollment, such employee member need not be actively serving in his or her position for sick leave bank enrollment to become effective at the beginning of a work year, provided such employee continues to be employed by the School Corporation and has exhausted all a sick leave day available to donate to the bank.
f) The sick leave bank may only be used for the illness of its members; no family privileges will be extended.
g) An individual member may not use more of the bank’s days during his/her work year than the total of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a own individual cumulative sick leave donation at the time of enrollment for that work year, after deduction of the one (1) day of sick leave for enrollment in the sick leave bank.
h) An individual member wishing to use the bank must wait at least three (3) working days without pay, before use of the bank will be authorized; these days are not reclaimable from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation bank.
i) Each use of the sick leave bank must be supported by a written request for its use from the member and medical certification substantiating the need for the absence from work.
j) Subject to the limitation described in subsection g) herein and assuming the driver’s medical condition continues to qualify, each driver who participates in the Sick Leave Bank shall have use of as many Sick Leave Bank days as needed to reach the 120 calendar-day elimination period for application to the Long Term Disability (LTD) policy. In no instance will a driver who qualifies for LTD be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect able to participate in use more days than the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as equivalent of the number of hours his/her own sick days that existed at the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to beginning of the Bank in order to joinschool year.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10k) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation bank shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved administered by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of Human Resources Office under the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2following guidelines:
1) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved To apply for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank, a participating member must complete the classified sick bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon request form indicating the depletion start and end dates of the respective employee's leave request and an estimate of the days potentially needed.
2) Subject to the conditions in this Contract, any participating member who has exhausted his or her accumulated sick leaveleave is eligible to apply to the Human Resources Office for sick leave bank days to cover additional absences.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however3) The Human Resources Office may grant, donations shall be in relation to the number deny, or suspend grants of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank . Any grants will end as be retroactive except in cases of hospitalization, nursing home or similar confinement, in which case the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employerHuman Resources Office may grant days in advance when the need is supported by appropriate medical evidence. Each applicant automatically consents to submit to medical examination by a medical practitioner and/or review of his or her medical history, private or public, during if it is deemed necessary by the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsHuman Resources Office.
4. Once the ) Persons withdrawing sick leave bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will not be required to contribute in order to establish membershipreplace these days.
5. A participating member may draw on ) The Human Resource Office shall inform the President of the Association of all withdrawals from the Sick Leave Bank by making bus drivers.
l) A joint sick leave bank committee shall be appointed under the guidelines set out below; this committee shall have authority only to hear and respond to any appeal by a request through sick leave bank member of a decision made by the UAW Chairperson or designeeHuman Resources Office, including appeals for drivers who apply for, but are not approved for LTD, The committee shall inform be composed of:
(1) representative for the Superintendent Facilities Department One (1) representative for the Bus Drivers (Selected by the NAFC Bus Drivers Association) One (1) representative for the Operations Department One (1) representative for Food Service Department Two (2) representatives for the Administration
1) The Bus Driver representative shall be appointed by the President of the requestBus Driver Association, the Facilities, Operations, and Food Services representatives will be appointed by a collective conversation with these employee groups, and the Administrative appointments shall be made by the Superintendent.
a. 2) Each committee member shall be appointed for one (1) year, however such member may be re-appointed for additional terms without limit. The Sick Leave Bank Committee names of those appointed to the committee shall make be transmitted to the Human Resources Office as soon as possible after the appointments are made.
3) Vacancies on the committee shall be filled as quickly as possible, in the same manner that the original member was selected. Should any member of this committee become unable or unwilling to fulfill his or her duties, the remaining committee members may declare his or her position vacant by majority vote.
4) The entire membership of the committee shall meet as soon after all members have been appointed as is feasible and shall elect one (1) of their number to act as chair for the remainder of the year. The committee shall meet as needed; the chair, an administrative appointee, or a majority of the committee may convene the committee. A majority of committee members will constitute a quorum for any official action of the committee.
5) The sick leave bank committee shall issue a written decision in responding to the appeal. The committee may confirm the decision regarding requestsof the Human Resources Office, or make any other decision that the Human Resources Office is empowered to make in responding to the initial request for use of the bank. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee sick leave bank committee on any appeal shall be final, binding .
6) The Human Resources Office shall prepare a listing of the sick leave bank membership and not subject provide that list to any of its members upon request and shall be provided directly to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealAssociation at the beginning of each school year once the bank has been updated for the new school year (typically in October).
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of i. An employee may only utilize the bargaining unit is absent sick leave bank for an absence from work due to a non-elective surgery or long-term the employee’s serious health condition due to illness or accident accident. Medical documentation will be required to substantiate the request for days from the Sick Bank.
ii. The maximum number of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank days shall be voluntaryone hundred (100) days.
1iii. Any Each employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing who desires to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form Bank will be required to donate one (1) sick leave day to the Treasurer within ten sick bank each year in September, or, if the employee is hired after September, upon date of hire. When the one-hundred (10100) working days. New day cap has been reached, only newly hired employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.required to donate one
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated (1) day of sick leave to participate in the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The and all other employees will not be required to donate a sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by day to continue participating in the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised unless and until the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank is below the cap. Employees will be notified at the time the assessment of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by sick leave bank is made.
iv. Each employee will be eligible for sick leave benefits from the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not sick leave bank subject to the grievance procedure.following provisions:
a. Donations may only a) Must be approved employed within the South Portland School Department for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period minimum of thirty (30) work 180 days.
b. Sick b) Exhaustion of paid leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with available to the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated employee including sick leave, personal leave, and vacation.
c) Each employee must serve a waiting period (or waiting periods for each use of the sick leave and vacation first and then may use bank) of five (5) days.
d) Employees who work less than fifty-two (52) weeks per year who are accessing the Sick Leave Bank in June when school closes shall be required to reapply for access if they desire to continue to access the Sick Leave Bank the following September.
e) A maximum of fifteen (15) days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be for any employee in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating any one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4school year.
f) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any Any sick leave from bank benefits are also subject to the Bank.
g. Sick maximum number of days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses then existing in the sick leave bank.
h. g) Employees must submit a completed application form (Appendix E), including a physician’s certificate substantiating that the employee is incapacitated due to a medical condition and an authorization that the Superintendent, the Benefits Specialist, and the Association shall be permitted to review the employee’s application and submitted medical certificate/documentation at least three (3) business days prior to the meeting.
h) Sick leave bank days are not available for absences covered by Workers’ Compensation, Disability Benefits, or for elective surgery that is not medically necessary.
v. Upon receipt of the employee’s completed application, the Superintendent will convene a meeting with the Association and the Benefits Specialist to consider the employee’s request. The meeting may also include the employee/applicant if the Superintendent believes additional information may be needed. During this meeting, the Association shall be entitled to express its opinion as to whether the request should be granted or denied. Following this meeting, the Superintendent shall make the determination as to whether to grant the request, in whole or in part, or deny the request. The Superintendent’s decision shall be final and shall not be used in lieu of disability retirementsubject to the grievance process.
i. Members vi. The Association will receive notification by September 30 of each year as to the days used from the Sick Leave Bank and the remaining balance.
vii. Requests for sick leave bank days and medical information received shall be maintained in a confidential file separate from personnel files.
viii. Employees who are receiving temporary have been approved for disability payments benefits agree to refund the South Portland School Department whatever financial compensation they received from the Sick Leave Bank retroactive to the date disability coverage commenced.
ix. On request of the Board or the Superintendent of Schools, an employee shall present a physician's certificate substantiating any incapacity.
x. In cases of injury covered under the Workers’ Compensation Act, an employee will be paid from his or her accumulated sick leave the difference between the amount of his or her regular pay and the amount that he/she receives pursuant to Workers’ Compensation. This difference shall be charged on a pro rata basis to the employee's accumulated sick leave and will cease when said employee's accumulated sick leave is exhausted. In no case will an employee receive double compensation under both this sick leave provision and the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank daysAct.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 1) The sick leave bank was established by a member one-time contribution from the Board of Education of 150 days and a contribution from the bargaining unit is absent due teachers of 150 days. Sick leave bank days shall accumulate from year to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), year.
2) Any participating teacher who has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a paid sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick draw upon this bank for such additional leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will as may be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up needed to a maximum of thirty (30) school days per 12 month periodschool year following one (1) day of participation in the sick leave bank, thirty-five (35) school days per school year following two (2) years of participation in the sick leave bank, forty (40) school days per school year following three (3) years of participation in the sick leave bank, or forty-five (45) school days per school year following four (4) years of participation in the sick leave bank increasing by 5 days per additional year of participation in the sick leave bank to a maximum of 75 days as long as there are unused days left in the bank. These When all of the days contributed to the bank have been used, the benefits of the bank shall no longer be available. Priority for use of sick leave bank days will be on the basis of first come, first served.
3) If a teacher is disabled and commences to draw benefits under the state retirement system, he/she will cease to draw benefits from the sick leave bank.
4) All eligible teachers must declare intent to contribute within five (5) days after the beginning of each school year.
5) Days drawn from the sick leave bank may be used by that teacher only for personal illness of that teacher.
6) A committee shall be deposited into established to act as the employee's governing body for the administration of the sick leave accountbank. All unused Its powers shall include: Approval or denial of use of sick leave bank days, Setting rules for additional contributions of days shall be returned by teachers to the Sick Leave Bankbank, Setting criteria to define what a teacher must do to be "a participant in the sick leave bank" as that term is used in paragraph 2 above. The committee shall consist of two (2) teachers named by the association, and two (2) administrators named by the Board. The committee shall develop rules of procedure for administration of the sick leave bank.
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Sources: Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A sick leave bank shall be established to enable members, because of unusual circumstances, to draw additional sick leave after their earned sick and personal leave has been exhausted. Teachers may become members of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident bank by contributing one day of earned sick leave annually within the first thirty calendar days of the employeebeginning of the school year, or his/her family as defined in or, for new employees, within the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1)first calendar days of commencing employment with the District, and thereafter within the first thirty calendar days of the beginning of the school year. A member who has exhausted all of his/her accumulated earned sick leave, leave and personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a who requir3es additional sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation due to unusual circumstances resulting in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1member’s illness or disability may apply to the bank for additional sick leave. Any employee Members may elect receive up to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as twice the number of hours sick leave days the member had accumulated before the first day of the school year in which the member applies for the leave, or twenty-four days, whichever is greater. In the case of severe illness or extreme hardship, a member may be permitted to withdraw more leave at the discretion of the sick leave bank governing committee, with the consent of the Board. A member withdrawing days from the bank is not required to replace the days withdrawn except as a contributing member. Membership in the bank shall be continuous after initial enrollment unless the member provides written notification to the District’s business manager of the members’ intent to withdraw within fifteen school days of the beginning of the school year in which the member wishes to withdraw. Withdrawing members may not withdraw previously contributed sick leave days. In the event that the donating employee bank’s deposits after the annual assessment do not exceed twenty-four days or the deposits are depleted to twenty-four days or less during the school year, each member shall be assessed up to two additional days of leave until a balance of at least twenty-four days is scheduled to work restored; provided, however, that no member shall be assessed more than two additional days in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bankany given school year. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank’s leave balance has reached or exceeded 40 days, assessments, other than initial assessments for new members, shall be discontinued until the donation is irrevocablebalanace falls below 40 days. The sick leave donation bank shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation administered by a governing committee of sick leave must be approved 2 bank members elected by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, bank membership and two (2) bargaining unit members one administrator appointed by the Union PresidentSuperintendent. The committee's decision committee shall be final meet as frequently as is necessary to consider leave requests and not subject to otherwise administer the bank. The committee shall promptly record and report all leave transactions to the grievance procedureDistrict’s business manager.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a. Effective September 1982, a Sick Leave Bank will be established for use by members whose sick leave accumulations have been exhausted through prolonged illness and who require additional leave to make full recovery from an extended illness.
b. Each member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing submit one (1) sick day (defined as of his/her personal accumulation to the number Sick Leave Bank on September 1 of hours that each school year, to be utilized by employees who qualify and who have exhausted their own individual sick leave, both annual and accumulated, and who still have a serious extended illness. If the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) sick days donated to the Bank in order are exhausted prior to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing the end of the school year, and additional days are required, then each member shall contribute an additional day to participate the Bank. If the total number of days in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working Bank is over 100 days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days on September 1, no day will be deducted from the second pay period members. If the Bank falls below 41 days, a day will be deducted from each member at that time. In this case members will be notified of this deduction at the time of the deduction. The Association will be notified of the total accumulated sick days in Octoberthe Bank by September 30th of each year.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into If at anytime the Sick Leave BankBank falls below forty-one (41) days, the School Committee shall add days to the Sick Leave Bank to match the additional days that teachers contribute.
d. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of two (2) members designated by the Superintendent to serve at his/her discretion and two (2) members designated by the Teachers Association and one
(1) member of the School Committee.
e. Application for benefits shall be made in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee accompanied by a doctor’s certificate as to need for an anticipated extent of extended recovery time for the illness. Requests for donation of This certificate shall provide a diagnosis and estimated recovery time. To facilitate its decision-making process in deciding whether to grant sick leave must days beyond the initial thirty (30) day period, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may require that a member be approved examined by a physician selected by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised . The School Committee shall assume the costs of such an examination.
f. The initial grant of sick leave by the Sick Leave Bank Committee to an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. Upon completion of the Superintendent/Designeethirty (30) day period, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining additional entitlement may be extended by the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. Bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved become eligible for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period more than an initial grant of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases any school year until the September 1st following the completion of absence that comply with the language three (3) consecutive years of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bankemployment.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee with respect to eligibility and entitlement shall be final, final and binding and not subject to appeal, or to the grievance procedure, court action or any appealand arbitration process.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports h. Upon return from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use extended sick leave during which benefits were received through the Sick Leave Bank, the recipient shall be entitled to commence a family member or agent may file new accumulation of individual sick leave in accordance with the request provisions of the collective bargaining agreement on the member's behalfsame basis as other teachers.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a A. Two sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank banks shall be voluntary.established by the Board; One for use by participating teachers and one for use by participating educational support employees.. The teacher committee will be comprised of:
1. Any Two (2) Association members appointed by the Association president.
2. One (1) employee may elect to participate appointed by the Superintendent.
3. The Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources. The educational support employees committee will be comprised of:
1. For school year 2007-2008 only, Two (2) Association members appointed by the Association president. Beginning in July 2008, One (1) SRPE member appointed by the Bank by contributing president of SRPE and one (1) sick day (defined as Blue Collar member appointed by the number president of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Industrial Council, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate 2. One (1) employee appointed by the Superintendent.
3. The Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources.
B. To be eligible for membership in the Sick Leave Bank, the employee:
1. ▇▇▇▇▇ have completed one year of employment as a full-time employee of the Board.
2. Be a full-time employee of the Board at the time of application.
3. Have a minimum of nine (9) days of accumulated sick leave and/or annual leave at the date of application.
4. Shall apply for membership on an approved form during the enrollment period. This form shall be submitted to the Assistant Superintendent Human Resources. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary on the part of each employee.
C. Each participating member shall contribute one day of sick leave to the bank upon enrollment. Membership applications shall be submitted during the first twenty (20) workdays of a school calendar year. The committee shall act to approve or disapprove applications on basis of rules herein described. New members become eligible for participation in the Bank on October 1st. Deduction of the day for the new members will be reflected on the October Statement of Earnings and Deductions.
D. Each participating employee shall contribute, by way of deduction from their official sick leave record, one day of sick leave anytime the balance in the Bank falls below twenty percent (20%) of the number of participants. No employee shall be required to contribute more than two (2) days in any one school year, after the initial membership contribution of one (1) day. The committee shall notify members in writing of the necessary contributions. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within shall have ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted in which to request withdrawal from the second pay period in October.
c. Once program rather than donate the requested day. Any participating member, who is unable to donate a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation day of sick leave must at the time for contribution to be approved by made, shall contribute their next available sick leave day or be removed from membership. Any sick leave pooled pursuant to this article shall be removed from the accumulated sick leave balance of the employee donating such leave and shall not be available to the donating employee as sick leave.
E. Membership shall be on a continuing basis unless a letter requesting withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised is submitted to the Human Resources Department of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by school district. Upon receipt of said letter the Union President. The committee's decision committee shall be final and not subject notified. Any member who chooses to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation withdraw from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible able to withdraw any sick leave days already contributed.
F. Members needing to utilize days in the Sick Leave Bank will request the needed number of days on a Sick Leave Bank Program Withdrawal Application form with the medical statement attached. The application must be completed in full. A participating employee may be eligible for sick leave from the BankBank only after having met the following conditions:
1. Has used all his/her accumulated sick leave.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may 2. Is not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the eligible for Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bankpay.
3. Should Is not eligible for Injury in Line-of-Duty pay as granted by rule of School Board.
4. Has been absent from employment for at least five (5) consecutive working days.
5. The above condition number 4 may be waived to provide for intermittent or reduced schedule under the following conditions:
a. Illness has been judged by the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsto be catastrophic in nature.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time b. The days (1600 hours), only new members requested are directly related to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipcatastrophic illness.
56. A participating member may draw on Has an application approved by the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the requestcommittee.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave credit, up to thirty (30) days, may be granted to a participating member applicant at the decision regarding requests. The decision of discretion and upon the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision authority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to committee after consideration by the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by committee of all outstanding eligible applications. Any sick leave awarded from the Sick Leave Bank Committee to a participating employee shall be used for absence due to the employee's personal catastrophic illness, accident, or injury. Mental/emotional illnesses and pregnancy will not be considered catastrophic illnesses. However, complications from pregnancy or mental/emotional illnesses, which require hospitalization or institutionalization, will be provided to considered by the treasurer.
d. committee. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps committee, at its discretion, is authorized to insure grant fifteen (15) additional days in hardship situations. Once days from the confidentiality sick leave bank are granted, the use of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request sick leave bank days will begin on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty fourth (304th) days per 12 month periodday without pay. These days without pay shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused in addition to, and shall start after, any days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.without pay as stipulated in Article XVII, Sections A.3.e; A.3.f; and A.
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Sources: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. If a member (1) At the commencement of the bargaining unit is absent due 1989-1990 professional work year, a fund of days shall be established to be called a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation The fund of days shall be established as follows: During the first year of the Agreement, each teacher eligible for Sick Leave as per Article 12.01(A) shall donate one (1) day to the Sick Leave Bank within fifteen (15) days of the beginning of the school year. Newly hired teachers in the District shall donate one (1) day to the Sick Leave Bank within fifteen (15) days of employment. A teacher may, at his/her own discretion, contribute up to three (3) additional days during the 1989-1990 school year and in each following year to the Sick Leave Bank. The maximum number of days accumulating in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one cannot exceed three (13) sick day (defined as times the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially full-time teachers employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocableRegional School District. The sick leave donation A teacher shall be immediately deducted eligible to apply for the use of days from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendentwhen he/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, she has exhausted his accumulated and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union Presidentcurrent Sick Leave days. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject day or days contributed by a teacher to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from count as days absent for the Bankpurpose of 12.01(C).
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the (2) The Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the administered by a Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of six (6) members: a member of the School Committee appointed by making a request through the UAW Chairperson Chairman of the School Committee, the Superintendent or his designee, who shall inform a School Building Principal appointed by the Superintendent Superintendent, and three (3) members of the request.
a. Association (one from each school building) appointed by the President of the Association. The term of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make be from October 1st through September 30th each year and such members shall be designated by the decision regarding requestsparties during September each year. The decision duties of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall include but not be made by majority vote within ten limited to:
(10a) working days Establishing rules, regulations, and procedures to govern operation of the requestbank.
b. (b) Approving or denying the application for use of Sick Leave Bank days in accordance with its established rules and regulations. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall not be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedureGrievance Procedure. Within ten (10) days following notification of a Sick Leave Bank Committee decision, court action an applicant or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by his representative may present an appeal in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Such appeals shall consist of a request that the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to review its decision and shall present the treasurerapplicant’s reasons for such a review.
d. The (c) When the number of days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank is less than the days requested by an applicant, the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps may request the School Committee to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the donate additional days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
(3) Any unused days remaining in the Sick Leave Bank at the end of a school year shall remain in the bank and shall accumulate from year to year to the established limit identified in 12.01 (D)(1).
(4) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the normal illness due to pregnancy, child-birth, or the recuperation therefrom, except when such request is accompanied by a physician’s written certification that said teacher could not perform the duties appropriate to her position.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined A. The Board will cooperate in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all establishment of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's voluntary Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryAny employee whose position requires a teaching certificate is eligible to participate.
1. Any B. Each eligible employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating automatically donate one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any his/her sick leave from to the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu Bank on September 30th of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any each school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days of initial employment, whichever is later. He/She will continue to be a member of the Bank unless he/she withdraws in writing prior to the donation date. If the Bank at the beginning of the new school year has a balance of 100 or more days, only newly hired eligible employees will have sick leave days deducted. The membership may donate additional days up to a total equal to three times the number of members. Such voluntary donations must be made before the end of the school year.
C. In the event that the Bank becomes depleted during the school year, each member of the Bank will donate an addi- tional day up to a maximum donation of two (2) days per 12 month periodyear per participating employee. These Teachers who have no personal sick leave days to donate and teachers who are on approved leaves of absence will donate required days on their first day of employment of the next school year.
D. A person withdrawing from membership in the Bank shall not be refunded any donated days.
E. The total number of days available for withdrawal in any one year will be no more than 400 days.
F. A member will not be able to withdraw days from the Bank until his/her own sick leave is depleted.
G. After the condition of "F" above is satisfied, the first work day of illness will not be covered by the Bank but shall be deposited into charged to personal leave or, if no personal leave is available, to leave without pay.
H. Sick leave bank days cannot be used for elective surgery, routine medical examinations, teeth cleaning, and similar medical choices that could be scheduled during vacations or when school is out for the employee's summer.
I. A member may only withdraw twice the number of sick leave accountdays that he/she has accrued before the first day of con- tracted employment in any school year, or twenty-four (24) days whichever is greater.
J. Persons withdrawing sick leave days from the Bank will not have to replace those days except as required as a regular contributing member of the Bank.
K. Sick leave days can only be withdrawn from the Bank for the individual member's illness. All unused days For the purposes of this paragraph, medically necessary absence from work for mater- nity shall be returned to a proper use of such days.
L. Requests for use of Bank days must be accompanied by a letter from the attending physician or health aide acting in consultation with a physician.
M. A Joint Sick Leave Bank Committee composed of two (2) members, one (1) teacher appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the Superintendent shall be established to implement, administer, oversee and approve withdrawals from the Bank. The Committee shall transact its business in writing, by phone or by radio and shall not expend any travel funds or be entitled to per diem unless approved in advance by the Superintendent in writing.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member Purpose- The purpose of the bargaining unit sick leave bank is absent due for employees who are faced with a serious health condition and unable to perform their contracted duties. This will apply to immediate family members as well. This bank is not designed for brief absences after sick/personal days are exhausted. Immediate family shall be understood to mean spouse, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren, grandparents, and any other person for whom the employee is legally responsible, pursuant to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employeecourt order. Children, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1)siblings, has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave parents and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank grandparents shall be voluntaryexpanded to include “in-law” as appropriate. The Superintendent of Schools shall determine if any other category is also eligible depending on the circumstances.
1. Any employee may elect The sick leave bank will cover the basic primary contracted days.
2. Membership in this sick leave bank will be limited to participate employees included in the Bank by contributing Collective Bargaining Unit and Administration.
3. The enrollment period will be August 1 - August 31.
4. For members hired after ▇▇▇▇▇▇, the enrollment period will be their first ten working days.
5. Year 1 of employment, the board will provide 1 extra sick day for all new teachers to be used exclusively for buy-in to the bank.
6. Once bought into the bank, membership is renewed annually through sick leave donation assessment of replacing up to the minimum number of days per year. The maximum amount for an annual assessment will be 1 day. If the number of days needed exceeds one (1) sick day (defined as per member, the number board of hours that education may replenish the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) remaining days to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use minimum using surrendered days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leaveprevious contract year.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for 7. Bank assessments will ensure the employee receiving bank starts every year with a minimum of 150 days and will have a cap of 200 days. All members from the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank previous year will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant remain members in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick event that there is no annual leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members donation due to the bank being healthy. Unused banked days at the end of the contract year will be required carried forward to contribute in order to establish membershipthe next contract year.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests8. The decision maximum number of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) days awarded to any one member is 45 working days of (18 weeks) per school year. Add catastrophic clause. Anything over 45 days could qualify for the requestcatastrophic clause.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Professional Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A. At the beginning of each school year, an open enrollment period, commencing on the bargaining unit is absent due first student day and concluding on September 30, shall be made available for employees to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined enroll in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from bank. New employees, hired after the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation open enrollment period, shall have twenty (20) days to enroll in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1sick leave bank. Any Each employee may elect to participate enrolling in the Bank by contributing sick leave bank will contribute one (1) day of the employee’s sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) leave to the Bank in order to joinsick leave bank.
a. Bargaining unit B. Employees opting to not enroll in the sick leave bank during the open enrollment period, or within twenty (20) days of their hiring, shall be denied membership to the sick leave bank for the duration of that school year.
C. Employees opting to terminate their membership in the sick leave bank may do so only during the open enrollment period. Days contributed by the member withdrawing shall remain in the bank.
D. Employees, who have not repaid the days borrowed from the sick leave bank and are requesting to terminate their membership in the bank, shall be obligated to repay those days at the rate of five (5) days per school year until all days borrowed are repaid. In the event of the death of an employee, the estate will not be required to repay the sick days.
E. Employees, who elect to become members of the sick leave bank, borrow days from the bank and terminate their employment with the Chelsea School District before all days borrowed from the bank are repaid, shall have their per diem pay withheld from their remaining payroll entitlement for all days not repaid. The sick leave bank shall be credited with the repaid days.
F. When the sick leave bank is depleted to fifty (50) days, members will receive contribute one (1) day of their sick leave. Necessary additions will be made at the beginning of each school year and are to be made after all repayments have occurred. The sick leave bank shall have a form cap of two-hundred-fifty (250) days.
G. The sick leave bank will be controlled by a committee composed of five (5) CEA/Professional staff members. The sick leave bank will be administered by the committee in accordance with their first pay in September electing to participate the following procedures and guidelines:
1) Any employee enrolled in the Sick Leave Banksick leave bank may apply for a loan from the sick leave bank for disability caused by personal illness or accident.
2) An employee must first exhaust all the employee’s sick days before utilizing days from the sick leave bank.
3) All requests for use of sick leave bank days must be in writing. Members The committee shall maintain a copy of the request, as well as a record of the committee’s action on the request.
4) The employee must return give the form committee adequate notice of the request to allow the committee time to meet prior to the Treasurer within needed days of leave.
5) A maximum of ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed per request may be granted by the Boardcommittee.
b. Donated 6) If a second request for days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into bank is made by the Sick Leave Bankemployee, it must be accompanied by a doctor’s statement explaining the need for the leave time.
2. Requests for donation 7) An employee may borrow up to a maximum of twenty (20) days in one contract year.
8) An employee, who has been granted and used sick days from the sick leave must bank during a contract year, is not eligible for further allotments from the sick leave bank in succeeding contract years until all sick days have been repaid.
9) An employee borrowing sick leave days from the bank will be approved by required to repay those days with a minimum of three (3) days for the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and first two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by school years and, thereafter five (5) days per school year until all days borrowed from the Union Presidentbank are repaid. The committee's decision Payback will be made at the onset of the school year. Decisions and actions of the committee shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A sick leave bank shall be established by members of the bargaining unit voluntarily contributing one (1) day of their accumulated sick leave days for use by a participating employee whose sick leave is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident exhausted through the employee’s prolonged illness.
1. The sick leave bank will only be used when an employee is prevented from working because of the employee’s own illness or injury and when this disability is of a prolonged nature, that is, fifteen (15) consecutive working days or his/her family as defined in more.
2. Any employee who has met the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation eligibility requirements for participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryrequired to submit a doctor’s certificate using the prescribed forms. This must be accompanied by a detailed medical statement by the attending physician stating the exact nature of the incapacitation and the projected time of recovery beyond the employee’s own accrued sick leave.
13. Any employee In order to access the sick leave bank, all eligible employees must first exhaust their accumulated sick days. Eligible employees may elect not apply for sick leave bank benefits more than fifteen (15) school days in advance of the anticipated termination date of earned sick leave. Sick days are considered actual work days in which school is in session and for which the individual would have been compensated if he/she had not exhausted his/her sick leave.
4. The initial grant of days from the sick leave bank will cover up to participate thirty (30) working days for any one prolonged illness, and the grant will end on the last school day of the school year in which the prolonged illness began. Consideration will be given for additional days beyond thirty (30) in the event that the prolonged illness continues. No employee shall be eligible to receive more than sixty (60) days from the Sick Leave Bank over the duration of the employee’s career in either District, or both.
5. All eligible employees must apply for membership on a form provided by contributing the sick bank administrators. Employees wishing to join the sick leave bank must submit an application for membership by no later than September 30th of each school year. Only employees who have been employed by the Somerset School Committee or Somerset Berkley Regional School Committee for one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled year or more may contribute to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to and participate in the Sick Leave Bank.
6. Members must return If the form to number of days in the Treasurer within ten Sick Leave Bank reaches thirty (1030) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify , the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed bank shall be replenished by the Board.
b. Donated days contribution of one (1) additional day of sick leave from each member of the Sick Leave Bank. Such additional day will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's employees’ accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation7. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall will be made administered by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the a Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding comprised of four individuals: two (2) members representing the Union and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.two
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Sources: Paraprofessional Contract
Sick Leave Bank. 1. The RTHSEA Sick Leave Bank is intended for assistance to teachers experiencing long- term medical conditions which prevent them from working and who have exhausted their own allotted sick leave. Teachers shall donate one sick leave day each school year to a sick leave bank consecutively for ten (10) years. If the sick leave bank drops below 2000 total days as of June 30th, then all teachers, who want to remain a member of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident bank, with more than 10 years of service will contribute an additional sick leave day as of the employee, or first day of the new school year. Teachers who do not contribute an additional day will no longer be members of the sick bank and will not be eligible to rejoin. Days previously donated to the bank shall remain in the bank and will not be credited back to the donor. Retiring teachers may donate sick leave days to the sick leave bank at their discretion.
2. A teacher applying for sick leave from the bank must have exhausted his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all own sick leave and must present written verification of his/her accumulated sick leave, own personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request on-going illness from a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bankphysician licensed to practice in Illinois or Indiana. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank There shall be voluntaryno obligation upon the receiving teacher to repay suchleave.
13. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members The administering Committee will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed be appointed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated Rich Township High School Education Association. The Committee shall promptly report all donations and all grants of sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocableDistrict Business Manager. The sick granting of leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsCommittee.
4. Once The teacher shall not hold the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson Board or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent Administration of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be School District 227 liable for decisions made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided of the Rich Township High School Education Association.
5. A teacher who wants to access sick leave bank must submit written notification of their need for leave no later than five (5) days prior to the treasurer.
d. The exhaustion of his/her personal sick leave allotment. Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the leave bank days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month periodtaken in full day increments only.
6. These days shall be deposited into the employee's Teachers may access sick leave account. All unused bank days shall be returned to in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank.following parameters: Consecutive Years of
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Sources: Professional Negotiations Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a A. Sick Leave Bank shall be established for members of the bargaining unit.
B. Any full time member of the bargaining unit is absent due to shall be eligible for membership in the sick leave bank after one (1) full year of employment provided that such employee has accrued a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident minimum of four (4) days of unused sick leave.
C. Each new member of the employee, or sick leave bank shall contribute two (2) days of his/her family as defined personal accrued sick leave. There shall be two (2) enrollment periods established during the first twenty (20) days of each semester. Each continuing member of the sick leave bank shall contribute one (1) day of his/her accrued sick leave when the total number of contributed days has dropped below one (1) day per member. If the sick leave bank falls below fifty (50) days during the school year each continuing member except for persons currently using the sick leave bank shall donate one (1) day from his/her accrued sick leave or withdraw membership from the sick leave bank. In the event where a member has exhausted all accrued sick leave, one (1) day from his/her leave will be withdrawn the following month. Forms for enrollment in the Master Agreement sick leave bank shall be available in each school office or departments. The payroll department will notify the C.W.A. and the continuing members ten (Article VIII Section A.1)10) days prior to the deducting one (1) assessed day from sick leave bank members.
D. Two (2) enrollment periods shall be established during the first twenty (20) days of each semester.
E. Any sick leave pooled pursuant to this section shall be removed from the personally accumulated sick leave balance of the employee donating such leave.
F. The Personnel and Payroll Department shall establish and all members of the C.W.A. bargaining unit will comply with procedures for identifying and recording contributions to the bank and for complying with applicable governmental regulations of sick leave, has sick leave banks or associated recording keeping.
G. The following conditions shall control the operation of the sick leave bank and the rights of the employees to utilize the bank:
1. After a participant is a member of the sick leave bank for a minimum of sixty (60) days and upon depletion of his/her sick leave and vacation leave he or she shall be eligible to draw days from the sick leave bank not to exceed thirty (30) days in the course of a three (3) year employment period with the Board.
2. An employee must have exhausted all of his/her individual accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation leave and have been absent from employment without pay at least four (where applicable)4) consecutive working days as consequence of the illness, he/she may request a accident or disability for being eligible for use of the sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntarybank.
13. Any The employee may elect shall not have to participate pay back in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as any manner, the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted used from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bankbank.
24. Requests for donation The use of the sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision bank shall be final and not subject applicable to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may illness, accident, or injury of only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may the eligible employed member. A member shall not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private maternity purposes and or public, during the period of time that shehe/he she is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5worker’s compensation. A participating member may draw on doctor’s written verification is required and must be submitted with the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision Application for Use of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be finalform. The member must also complete and submit a “Request/Reason for Absence.” (Letter of Understanding February 18, binding 2009)
H. The Board and not subject to C.W.A. acknowledge that the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used utilization of days from the sick leave bank results in expenditure of funds by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will Board that would not otherwise be provided to the treasurerrequired.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A voluntary sick leave bank shall be established whereby a teacher who is absent from assigned duties due to personal illness of the teacher and who has utilized all sick leave and personal leave may petition a committee, as established herein, for sick leave days from the bank under the following conditions:
1. Except as provided herein below, the number of accumulated days in the bank shall not exceed one hundred ninety (190) days, provided, however, that even though such contribution by such veteran or newly hired teacher would cause an accumulation of days in excess of the maximum specified herein;
2. To become a current member of and participate in the bank a teacher must contribute one
(1) sick leave day to the bank not earlier than August 1st nor later than September 15th of each year, and such day contributed shall be nonreturnable non-returnable to the employee.
a. In the event that the number of accumulated days in the bank at the beginning of a school year is of sufficient number that a contribution of one (1) sick leave day by all teachers who are current members of the bank would cause the maximum number of days specified hereinabove to be exceeded, the current year’s contribution by all such current members shall be suspended.
b. If the normal annual contribution is suspended as provided in Subsection 2(a) above and the bank is then depleted during the school year, the current year’s contribution shall be assessed at the time of such depletion.
c. A veteran teacher who is not a current member of the bargaining unit is absent due to bank may become a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in the Bank member by contributing one (1) sick leave day to the bank not earlier than August 1 nor later than September 15 of any school year.
d. A teacher who is newly hired in the school corporation shall have fifteen (defined as 15) days from the number date of hours initial duty assignment, or until September 15 of any school year, whichever is later, during which time such teacher may choose to become an active member of the bank by contributing one (1) sick leave day.
3. Teachers may be granted days from the bank under the following conditions:
a. The teacher must have utilized and exhausted said teacher’s own accumulated sick leave and personal leave;
b. Written certification will be provided from the teacher’s physician substantiating the illness and certifying that the donating employee is scheduled to work in absence will continue during a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within period of at least ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate consecutive days following the utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein;
c. Written application must notify be made by or on behalf of the Treasurer within ten teacher no later than twelve (1012) working days after being officially employed by the Board.exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
b. Donated d. The teacher must have been absent for at least four (4) consecutive duty days will be deducted after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits;
e. Upon resumption of employment after using days from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, said teacher shall repay the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from number of days owed to the bargaining unit member who donated bank (number of days borrowed minus number of days contributed) at the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation rate of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period sick leave days per year, even though such contribution would cause an accumulation of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language excess of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other proceduresmaximum specified hereinabove, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals plus said teacher shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation continue to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating contribute one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a per year as provided hereinabove in Section 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently If a participant in teacher leaves employment of the Sick Leave Bank school corporation, any days owed to the bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bankwaived.
g. Sick At the time the teacher becomes eligible to draw benefits from his/her long term disability insurance, eligibility for use of days earned during from the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bankbank shall cease.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive A three (3) member sick leave bank dayscommittee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank according to the provisions herein, under guidelines established by the committee.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as 1. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Federation and one (1) person appointed by the superintendent.
2. Days allotted by the committee to an individual employee shall be available for use beginning with the fifth (5th) consecutive day of absence after exhaustion of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member employee’s said paid leave benefits, and such allotment to a teacher by the committee shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during not exceed a fixed maximum as is established by the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bankcommittee.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty The committee shall be limited to a total allotment of one hundred ninety (40190) full time days (320 hours) during any school per year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once The committee shall not grant days for childrearing in a situation where the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipteacher is not actually temporarily disabled.
5. A participating member In case of a chronic or continuing illness of a teacher, the committee may draw on request the Sick Leave Bank Board to waive certain qualifying provisions of this sick leave bank. Only the Board has authority to waive such provisions.
6. Any days granted by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who committee to an individual teacher shall inform terminate effective the Superintendent of the request.earliest date as hereinafter provided:
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make day after the decision regarding requests. The decision last day of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days term of employment for the request.school year, or
b. The decision day after the last day of allotted number of days granted by the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be finalcommittee, binding and not subject or
c. The first day of return to employment subsequent to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used granting of days by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurercommittee.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If A. Sick Leave Bank – A Sick Leave Bank will be established to relieve Union physical plant employees and hourly bus drivers from undue financial burdens as a result of an absence from work due to the employee's illness, injury, or incapacitation sufficiently severe to make the performance of their duties impossible. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of three (3) administrators to be appointed by the Superintendent and three (3) physical plant employees/hourly bus drivers to be appointed by the Union. An employee member of the bargaining unit is absent due sick bank who has exhausted his or her approved personal leave and sick leave days, shall be eligible to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident apply to the Committee for an extension of sick leave benefits. These benefits do not include payment of the employee, or his/her family as defined ’s salary. They do include payment of the employee’s portion of healthcare premiums and supplemental healthcare insurance in accordance with the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave terms identified and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Extensions of sick leave shall not be granted beyond the period when an employee would or could be eligible to receive the benefits of the Employer’s long-term disability program. Unused days in the sick leave bank shall be voluntarycarried forward to the following year.
B. The Sick Leave Bank will be established and administered as follows:
1. Any physical plant employee may elect to participate in the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation or hourly bus driver shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit eligible to become a member who donated the sick leave and placed into of the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation The Sick Leave Bank was previously established by a Board contribution of any days in the bank at the end of the 2007-2008 school year, by a Board contribution of one hundred (100) days at the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, and the voluntary participation and voluntary donations of one (1) sick leave day by employees who then become members. Upon establishment of the Sick Leave Bank, employees were then provided an opportunity to establish membership during a thirty (30) working day period following distribution of an enrollment election form. The opportunity to establish membership was a one-time opportunity.
3. New employees must become members and their first contribution of one (1) sick day will be approved by made on the first pay day.
4. When the Sick Leave Bank Committeeaccount falls below fifty (50) days, comprised an obligatory assessment of one (1) sick leave day shall be made upon all members of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union PresidentBank who have accumulated sick leave days. The committee's decision Members shall be final and notified prior to this assessment. Members who do not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for have accumulated sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating contribute one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etcfrom their individual sick day allotment the following school year.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in 5. When the Sick Leave Bank account falls below fifty (50) days, the Board shall not be eligible contribute one hundred (100) days to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Hourly Bus Driver Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If 1. The MSAD #31 Board of Directors and the MSAD #31 Educator’s Association have mutually agreed to establish a member sick bank for the purpose of the bargaining unit is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has income protection for members who have exhausted all of his/her their accumulated sick leave, personal leave benefits and vacation are unable to work.
2. The bank will be administered by a continuing SLBC (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1. Any employee may elect to participate in Committee) composed of the Bank by contributing Superintendent, the Association President, one (1) Administrative Representative appointed annually by the Superintendent and one (1) Association Representative appointed annually by the Association and the school nurse.
3. The Board shall provide the President of the Association at the beginning of each school year with a statement indicating who belongs to the sick day (defined as bank and the total number of hours that days accumulated in the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to joinsick bank.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with 4. The sick leave bank shall be available to teachers who have been awarded continuing contract status. At the time of initial enrollment, the teacher shall contribute two days from their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated accumulated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation bank annual enrollment period for continuing contract teachers shall be immediately deducted September 1st through September 30th. Continuing contract teachers will be given a sick bank enrollment form when they receive their contract.
5. The initial startup of the sick bank will be at a minimum of 120 days in the bank. After reaching the mark of 180 days, the bank will be increased by contributions of one day from each participating member whenever it falls below that number. The sick bank committee may elect to not award the bargaining unit member maximum number of days referred to in number 7 below until the 180 mark is reached.
6. Eligible teachers who donated contribute to the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision bank shall be final and not subject entitled to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if neededsubject to the following conditions:
a. Exhaustion of all teachers’ personal sick leave,
b. Maximum use by any one person in any year of sixty (60) days or three (3) times the individual’s accumulation in sick leave as of 9/1 of the year, whichever is less. A withdrawal By mutual agreement of the Board and the Association, this maximum may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leavewaived.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation c. Members wishing to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) borrow days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membershipsubmit a doctor’s certificate.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests7. The decision of the Committee SLBC shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the requestfinal and is not grievable.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A. At the beginning of each school year, an open enrollment period, commencing on the bargaining unit is absent due first student day and concluding on September 30, shall be made available for teachers to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined enroll in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from bank. New teachers, hired after the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation open enrollment period, shall have twenty (20) days to enroll in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1sick leave bank. Any employee may elect to participate Each teacher enrolling in the Bank by contributing sick leave bank will contribute one (1) day of his sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) leave to the Bank in order to joinsick leave bank.
a. Bargaining unit B. Teachers opting to not enroll in the sick leave bank during the open enrollment period, or within twenty (20) days of their hiring, shall be denied membership to the sick leave bank for the duration of that school year.
C. Teachers opting to terminate their membership in the sick leave bank may do so only during the open enrollment period. Days contributed by the member withdrawing shall remain in the bank.
D. Teachers, who have not repaid the days borrowed from the sick leave bank and are requesting to terminate their membership in the bank, shall be obligated to repay those days at the rate of five (5) days per year until all days borrowed are repaid. In the event of the death of a teacher, the estate will not be required to repay the sick days.
E. Teachers, who elect to become members of the sick leave bank, borrow days from the bank and terminate their employment with the Chelsea School District before all days borrowed from the bank are repaid, shall have their per diem pay withheld from their remaining payroll entitlement for all days not repaid. The sick leave bank shall be credited with the repaid days.
F. When the sick leave bank is depleted to fifty (50) days, members will receive contribute one (1) day of their sick leave. Necessary additions will be made at the beginning of each school year and are to be made after all repayments have occurred. The sick leave bank shall have a form cap of two-hundred-fifty (250) days.
G. The sick leave bank will be controlled by a committee composed of five (5) CEA members elected by the CEA membership. The sick leave bank will be administered by the committee in accordance with their first pay in September electing to participate the following procedures and guidelines:
1) Any teacher enrolled in the Sick Leave Banksick leave bank may apply for a loan from the sick leave bank for disability caused by personal illness or accident.
2) A teacher must first exhaust all his sick days before utilizing days from the sick leave bank.
3) All requests for use of sick leave bank days must be in writing. Members The committee shall maintain a copy of the request, as well as a record of the committee’s action on the request.
4) The teacher must return give the form committee adequate notice of the request to allow the committee time to meet prior to the Treasurer within needed days of leave.
5) A maximum of ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed per request may be granted by the Boardcommittee.
b. Donated 6) If a second request for days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into bank is made by the Sick Leave Bankteacher, it must be accompanied by a doctor’s statement explaining the need for the leave time.
2. Requests for donation 7) A teacher may borrow up to a maximum of twenty (20) days in one contract year (July 1 – June 30).
8) A teacher, who has been granted and used sick days from the sick leave must bank during a contract year, is not eligible for further allotments from the sick leave bank in succeeding contract years until all sick days have been paid.
9) A teacher borrowing sick leave days from the bank will be approved by required to repay those days with a minimum of three (3) days for the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and first two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by years and, thereafter five (5) days per year until all days borrowed from the Union Presidentbank are repaid. The committee's decision Payback will be made at the onset of the contract school year. Decisions and actions of the committee shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If In cooperation with the Board, the Association shall control the Bank, subject to the following guidelines:
A. The intent of this plan is to provide extended sick leave to teachers and full-time ESP staff who have accumulated at least twenty-four (24) sick leave days, including the third year’s allotment, and who incur a member period of the bargaining unit is absent due prolonged illness, injury or hospitalization. Withdrawals shall not be available for unpaid maternity leave, elective surgery, illness of immediate family or household members, early retirement, and/or death of family or household members. Prolonged illness shall mean a minimum of ten (10) consecutive working days. In order to a non-maintain continuity of instruction, elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntaryscheduled so as not to interfere with the school calendar.
1. Any employee may elect B. The Board shall allow employees to participate in the Bank by contributing contribute one (1) or two (2) sick day (defined as days per year to the sick leave bank. An employee leaving the District may contribute one year’s unused sick leave to the Bank.
C. Notification of voluntary contribution shall be made by each employee to the Association in writing no later than October 1 of each year, at which time the sick Day will be deducted from the employee’s sick leave. The Association shall provide the Board with the names of the employees contributing to the Bank with the number of hours that the donating days contributed per employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to joinbefore October 15 each year.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate D. Days in the Sick Leave Bank. , if unused, will accumulate each year.
E. Members must return the form contribute each year to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted benefit from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to Should the number of hours worked accumulated days reach 550, no additional deduction shall be made from existing bank members until the bank is depleted to 250 days, whereupon the deduction will be reinstated. Newly eligible members will contribute as specified in a day by Paragraph B. above for admission into the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) Bank.
F. A member receiving days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in from the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible required to withdraw any sick leave pay back the number of days used from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence G. No one will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank able to withdraw days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank Bank until after his/her accrued Sick Leave days have been depleted by five working days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as H. Members may draw a maximum of 150 unused days for any one illness or injury.
I. The member, in his/her application to the Association, shall set forth the nature of the last work day illness, or injury together with written verification of the illness, or injury and prognosis for 9 month employeesrecovery from a licensed physician.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during J. In the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should event the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time is dropped from the contract, all accumulated days (320 hours) during any school yearwill remain and be used as agreed in that final contract, until the Bank is depleted.
K. The Association acknowledges that the terms contained in this Article are the result of full, ▇▇▇▇▇, and arms-length negotiations between the parties. Accordingly, the Union shall solicitAssociation assumes equal responsibility for the inclusion of each and every provision in this Article. The Association agrees to co-indemnify the Board and its officers, through agents and employees against any and all claims, demands, suits, and judgments (including the treasurer's officecost of defense associated with same) arising from any claim that any of the provisions of this Article violate any federal, additional donations and/or participantsstate or local laws, rules or regulations.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members L. The Association shall provide to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on Board the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through written reasons for the UAW Chairperson approval or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent denial of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank usedays.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member A sick leave bank shall be established for the benefit of the bargaining unit is absent due to a members who suffer non-elective surgery or long-term work related catastrophic illness or accident catastrophic injury that requires absences from work for an extended period of time. Establishment, maintenance and eligibility for the employee, or his/her family bank is as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.follow:
1. Any employee may elect New employees will have the option to participate in join the Bank sick leave bank by contributing donating two (2) sick days within thirty (30) days of the start of the new contract year. Current employees who have not joined the bank will have a one-time option to join the bank by donating two sick days within 30 days of ratification of this collective bargaining agreement (for the 2017-2018 contract year only).
2. At the start of each contract year, existing members of the sick leave bank will be automatically charged one (1) sick day (defined as to remain in the number of hours that sick leave bank. In the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to event the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing existing member no longer wishes to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate sick leave bank, they must notify the Treasurer Business Administrator in writing within ten thirty (1030) working days after being officially employed by of the Boardstart of the new contract year.
b. Donated 3. Participation in the bank shall be voluntary; however, to be eligible to withdraw days will be deducted from the second pay period in Octobersick leave bank, bargaining unit members must continue to have one (1) day of their sick leave automatically charged to the bank each year.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated 4. Each contract year (July 1st), the sick leave bank will carry over days to a maximum of 160 days. If at any time the bank falls below forty (40) days, participating employees shall be assessed one (1) additional sick day to replenish the bank during the contract year.
5. In order to withdraw days from the bank, a doctor’s note from a doctor licensed to treat the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from diagnosed condition, indicating the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave condition and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave treatment, must be approved furnished to the Superintendent. This request will be reviewed by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised a committee consisting of two (2) members of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, Association and two (2) bargaining unit members of the Administrative team appointed by the Union PresidentSchool Committee. In the case of a tie vote, the School Committee will decide and their position shall prevail.
6. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedurewithdrawing member must have a catastrophic illness or catastrophic injury as defined under FMLA that prevents him/her from working.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could 7. The withdrawing member must have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leaveexhausted all sick, personal leave and vacation first and then may use leave before being awarded days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
38. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating The withdrawing member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding apply for and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum total of thirty forty (3040) sick leave bank days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankyear.
Appears in 1 contract
Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member of the bargaining unit There is absent due to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or his/her family as defined in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable), he/she may request established a sick leave donation from the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntarybank which any staff member covered by this agreement may voluntarily join.
1. Any employee Staff members who choose to join the sick leave bank must do so within thirty (30) days of the start of their school year. Membership shall be continuous after initial enrollment, provided that a member may elect withdraw from membership within thirty (30) days of the start of that person's school year. Enrollments and withdrawals shall be tendered to participate the District in writing.
2. Each new member of the Bank by contributing sick leave bank shall contribute one (1) day of sick day (defined as leave upon enrollment. Whenever the number of hours that banked days falls below 40, each member shall contribute one day. The sick leave bank shall not accumulate sick days other than the donating employee is scheduled to work contributions required or allowed in a day) this paragraph. Members may voluntarily contribute accumulated sick leave days to the Bank sick leave bank (use form in order to joinAppendix D).
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank3. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit A staff member donated who has contributed sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; howeveraccordance with this article, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in and has not withdrawn from membership, is a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsmember.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full Sick leave time days (1600 hours), only new members contributed to the bank will be required shall remain the property of the bank, and no donor shall have any further claim to contribute in order to establish membershipthe donated days.
5. A participating person withdrawing from membership with the bank will not be able to withdraw the contributed days.
6. A person will be able to withdraw days from the bank after his/her sick leave and personal leave are depleted.
7. Persons withdrawing sick leave days from the bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular contributing member of the bank.
8. Sick leave bank days may be withdrawn from the bank for an individual member's illness, injury, or in cases of extreme hardship.
9. A bank member may draw withdraw not more than twice the number of sick leave days he/she has accumulated before the first day of school in any school year, or 24 days, whichever is greater.
10. A request for sick leave bank days shall be submitted to the sick leave bank committee for consideration on the Sick Leave Bank sick leave bank application form (Appendix C) and must be accompanied by making verification of need from a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the requestphysician.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests11. The sick leave bank committee shall consist of 4 members appointed by the association and one school board member. Any decision made about sick leave bank can be appealed to the committee once more after the initial decision is made. Then the decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee sick leave bank shall be final.
12. In cases where a sick leave bank member is unable to meet a donation required by paragraph 2 above, binding the sick leave bank committee, at its discretion, may waive this requirement.
13. If any bargaining unit sick leave bank member, due to severe illness or extreme hardship, is in need of sick leave, and not subject has exhausted the other sick leave bank opportunities in this Agreement, he or she may submit a request for additional sick leave bank days to the grievance procedureschool board. The school board, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by after determining the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality validity of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on will notify the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave accountbank committee. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.(AS §14.14.105)
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Sources: Certified Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If The Board, in cooperation with the Organization, shall establish a sick leave bank subject to the following guidelines:
1. The intent of this plan is to provide extended sick leave to those persons covered by this Agreement who incur a period of prolonged illness, injury or hospitalization of more than twenty (20) consecutive working days.
2. The President of the Organization shall appoint two (2) members and the Superintendent or his/her designee will act as a Committee in all matters that concern the policies of the Sick Leave Bank. The Committee will have final administrative responsibility for the bank.
3. To be a member of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank, teachers must donate one (1) sick leave day by October 15 after he/she is absent due hired or by October 15th of any given year. Membership in the Bank shall be voluntary and shall continue until the Committee is notified in writing that the teacher has withdrawn from the Bank. If a teacher decides to a non-elective surgery or long-term illness or accident of the employee, or terminate his/her family as defined participation in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable)Bank, he/she must do so prior to October 15. The days already accumulated by said teacher shall remain in the Bank.
4. The teacher may not withdraw days from the Sick Leave Bank until the teacher’s own accrued sick leave has been depleted, a written certificate of illness from a licensed physician has been received by the Committee, and a period of 5 work days has elapsed after the exhaustion of the teacher’s own accrued sick leave. The Committee will then consider the application for withdrawal. A teacher withdrawing sick leave days from the Bank will not have to replace these days except as a regular yearly contributing member of the Bank. If the Bank becomes depleted or goes below one hundred (100) days during any given school year, the Committee may request a sick leave donation from each contributing member to donate one (1) additional day to the District's Sick Leave Bank, but no teacher shall donate more than two (2) days per year to the Bank. Participation The maximum number of days that may accumulate in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary.
1is two hundred (200). Any employee may elect to participate in In the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined as the number of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated sick leave to the bank, the donation is irrevocable. The sick leave donation shall be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by event the Sick Leave Bank Committeeis terminated, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank available days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with prorated to the language contributing members of the Master Agreement for sick leave usageBank teaching in the District at the time of the termination except that a teacher may receive no more than the total number of days the teacher has contributed to the Bank. The Bank shall be terminated only upon unanimous consent of the Committee members.
c. Recuperation 5. Withdrawals from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; however, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etc.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank may be made only for the remainder of the school term in which such withdrawal was commenced. However, no teacher shall not be eligible permitted to withdraw more than twenty (20) days in any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits school year from the Sick Leave Bank.
36. Should A teacher shall not hold the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school yearBoard, Administration, or the Organization liable for decisions made by the Committee, Board of Education, Administration, the Union shall solicitOrganization, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participantsor their respective designees.
47. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision have responsibility for administration of the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used report all data as required by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality Board for use in administration of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's individual employee sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bankaccounting.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. If a member The intention of the bargaining unit sick leave bank is absent due to provide additional sick leave days to educators who experience a serious or catastrophic non-elective surgery work related illness or injury, who have exhausted their personal accumulated sick leave days. By October 31st of each school year, the Superintendent shall provide to the President of the Association verification of the number of days available in the bank as well as a list of current participants.
1. The number of accumulated days shall never exceed eight hundred (800).
2. To be eligible for the sick leave bank an educator must contribute one (1) day of his/her annual sick leave days to the sick leave bank by October 1 of the relevant contract year.
3. In future years when the total number of accumulated days is fewer than one hundred (100) on September 1 of any year, current members shall have deducted from their annual allowance of sick leave, two (2) days each to replenish the number of accumulated days to four hundred plus (400+). Any unused days in the sick leave bank remaining at the end of the school year shall be carried forward and accumulated.
4. If, during any year, the balance of Sick Leave Bank days falls below two hundred (200), members will be asked by the Superintendent and Association President to voluntarily contribute one (1) day from accumulated sick leave days in an effort to sustain the bank.
5. Deductions for the bank shall be irrevocable and may not be redeemed from the bank except by an authorized withdrawal for long-term illness or accident under this provision. Application for withdrawal of participation from the sick leave bank shall be presented to the Superintendent and the Association President as soon as possible.
6. A participant of the employeesick leave bank may use up to twenty (20) sick leave bank days per school year at full pay with written approval from the Superintendent and the Coastal Education Association.
7. All annual and accumulated sick leave days must be exhausted prior to withdrawals from the bank.
8. The participant must have been absent for at least five (5) consecutive school days prior to withdrawal from the bank. Reimbursement will be retroactive to the beginning of the five (5) day period.
9. If a participant is medically cleared to return to employment on a part-time basis, or his/her family portions of the approved Sick Leave Bank days may be used as defined needed up to the total equivalent of twenty (20) full days.
10. After a participant has drawn the equivalent of twenty (20) days from the Sick Leave Bank in the Master Agreement (Article VIII Section A.1), has exhausted all course of his/her accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation (where applicable)the school year, he/she may request a up to an additional forty-five (45) days annually from the sick leave donation from bank. Withdrawals beyond the District's Sick Leave Bank. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank initial twenty (20) days shall be voluntarysubject to the approval of the Association and Superintendent and may require additional medical documentation sufficient to evaluate the request(s). The cost of the substitute for days beyond the initial twenty (20) days shall be borne by the participant.
111. Any employee In the event that an educator may elect be so disabled as to participate in qualify for Maine PERS disability retirement benefits, the Bank by contributing one (1) sick day (defined educator shall, as the number a condition of hours that the donating employee is scheduled to work in a day) to the Bank in order to join.
a. Bargaining unit members will receive a form with their first pay in September electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. Members must return the form to the Treasurer within ten (10) working days. New employees wishing to participate must notify the Treasurer within ten (10) working days after being officially employed by the Board.
b. Donated days will be deducted from the second pay period in October.
c. Once a bargaining unit member donated receiving sick leave to benefits from the bank, the donation is irrevocableapply for and pursue a disability retirement application. The sick leave donation shall To be immediately deducted from the bargaining unit member who donated the sick leave and placed into the Sick Leave Bank.
2. Requests for donation of sick leave must be approved by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, comprised of the Superintendent/Designee, Treasurer/Designee, Union President/Designee, and two (2) bargaining unit members appointed by the Union President. The committee's decision shall be final and not subject eligible to the grievance procedure.
a. Donations may only be approved for non-elective surgery or long-term illnesses or injuries and may not extend beyond a maximum period of thirty (30) work days.
b. Sick leave bank days will be granted only in cases of absence that comply with the language of the Master Agreement for sick leave usage.
c. Recuperation from surgeries or other procedures, which could have otherwise reasonably been scheduled during school vacation periods, will not qualify for Sick Leave Bank donation.
d. Sick Leave Bank members must use accumulated sick leave, personal leave and vacation first and then may use withdraw days from the sick leave bank if needed. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave.
e. Withdrawals shall be in full day units for the employee receiving the donation; howeverbank, donations shall be in relation to the number of hours worked in a day an educator must submit medical documentation certifying that his/her illness or injury constitutes Serious Health Condition as defined by the employee making the donation. (For example, a 2-hour employee contributing four (4) days to the sick bank will equate to a donation of only one day to an eight (8) hour employee. An eight (8) hour employee donating one (1) day will equate to a donation of four (4) days to a 2-hour employee, etcFamily and Medical Leave Act.)
f. An employee who is not currently a participant in the Sick Leave Bank shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave from the Bank.
g. Sick days earned during the absence will be accrued by the employee who uses the sick leave bank.
h. Sick bank days may not be used in lieu of disability retirement.
i. Members who are receiving temporary disability payments from the Worker's Compensation Bureau are not eligible to receive sick leave bank days.
j. Sick leave bank grants will end as of the last work day for 9 month employees.
k. No bargaining unit member shall be actively employed with any other employer, private or public, during the period of time that she/he is receiving benefits from the Sick Leave Bank.
3. Should the Sick Leave Bank fall below forty (40) full time days (320 hours) during any school year, the Union shall solicit, through the treasurer's office, additional donations and/or participants.
4. Once the bank reaches two hundred (200) full time days (1600 hours), only new members to the bank will be required to contribute in order to establish membership.
5. A participating member may draw on the Sick Leave Bank by making a request through the UAW Chairperson or designee, who shall inform the Superintendent of the request.
a. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall make the decision regarding requests. The decision of the Committee shall be made by majority vote within ten (10) working days of the request.
b. The decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be final, binding and not subject to the grievance procedure, court action or any appeal.
c. Original forms/documents used by the Sick Leave Bank Committee will be provided to the treasurer.
d. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall take all necessary steps to insure the confidentiality of its decisions.
e. The Sick Leave Bank Committee has the right to request documentation and/or reports from physician(s) or other related documentation to substantiate any request for Sick Leave Bank use.
f. In the event that a member is physically unable to make a request to use the Sick Leave Bank, a family member or agent may file the request on the member's behalf.
g. When a bargaining unit member's request is approved, the days shall be granted up to a maximum of thirty (30) days per 12 month period. These days shall be deposited into the employee's sick leave account. All unused days shall be returned to the Sick Leave Bank.
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Sources: Collective Bargaining Agreement