Common use of Sick Leave Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day teacher shall have eight (8) days of sick leave per month of employmentyear. Such sick leave is Leave for part-time teachers shall be in proportion to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each their full-time permanent employee equivalency. Teachers with an extended contract shall receive additional sick leave at the rate of 0.5 days for every ten days or portion thereof of extended time. Unused sick leave may accumulate up to seventy days (70). Use of sick leave for illness or disability purposes shall be credited defined as the illness or disability of the employee or illness, disability, or death in the immediate family. The term “immediate family” shall include spouse, child, stepchild, grandchild, siblings, parent, or grandparent. Additionally, any of those categories listed would be expanded to include “in-law.” In addition to the accumulated days of sick leave, each full-time teacher shall also have for his/her use the number of days equal to his/her accumulated sick leave on the first duty day. Said days shall be referenced as “sub-deduct days.” Sub-deduct days may be used for sick leave. A sub-deduct day shall provide the requesting teacher full daily salary less regular substitute wages for each sub -deduct day awarded. The purpose of a sub-deduct day is to provide a continuing income for teachers who are faced with four illness or injury and have used up all their accumulated sick leave. Sub-deduct days are in addition to the accumulated days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shallmay be available to a teacher when said teacher has exhausted all accumulated sick leave. Teachers, thereafterbefore using a sub-deduct day, be credited shall exhaust their accumulated sick leave. Any teacher who desires a sub-deduct day shall make their request for one a sub-deduct day of sick leave for each month of employment, which from their building principal. Said request shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month in writing, either in paper or electronic form and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times include the number of months sub-deduct days requested and a brief explanation for the request. The building principal shall forward the request to the superintendent, building association representative where the teacher is employed and the president of employment during the year association. Each designated person receiving the sub-deduct request shall expeditiously indicate their support for or denial of employmentthe request to the building principal based upon the information provided by the requesting teacher. If two or more persons from among those designated to review the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/herrequest approve said request, the School Board may withhold requesting teacher shall receive the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a fullagreed upon sub-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3deduct day(s). Sick leave shall may be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence used as the person who is requesting sick bereavement leave.

Sick Leave. Section 18.1 The provisions of Articles 8.1 to 8.13 inclusive will apply to all members of the Service who commenced their service prior to July 10, 1990. These provisions shall not be subject to change in any way, at any time, without the approval in writing of a clear two-thirds (2/3) majority of the members eligible to participate in the provisions as herein established. 8.2 Each member covered by this Agreement hired prior to July 10, 1990 shall be granted twelve (12) hours leave on account of sickness for each and every month of active service with full pay at the member's current rate of pay. 8.3 The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day hours of sick leave per month unless used, shall be accumulative with no maximum. 8.4 Each member covered by this Agreement having accumulated sick leave, who retires at normal retirement date, or after any extension thereof, or who is dismissed by reason of employment. Such ill health, or resigns by reason of ill health, shall be granted a leave with pay at the current rate of pay for the number of hours then standing to their credit, but payment for such leave shall not in any event exceed one-half of the member's yearly salary at the current rate of pay. 8.5 After completing five (5) years of service, each member covered by this Agreement, upon resignation, shall be granted one-half pay at the current rate of pay for the year for the accumulated sick leave is then standing to be accrued his or her credit, but the pay shall not exceed one-half of the member's current yearly salary in the following mannerany case. A. Each full-time permanent employee 8.6 Any member covered by this Agreement who is dismissed for cause shall forfeit all accumulated sick leave standing to their credit. 8.7 A member who commenced his/her Service prior to January 1, 1990 reporting for duty and later becoming sick and unable to complete his/her regular tour of duty, shall be credited with four days the number of hours worked, and shall be required to access his/her sick time hours for those hours not worked. 8.8 In the event of the death of a member covered by this Agreement, there shall be paid to the personal representative of his or her estate, pay at the current rate of pay for the number of hours sick leave then standing to his or her credit. Payment for such leave shall not in any event exceed one-half (1/2) of his or her yearly salary at the current rate of pay. 8.9 The current hourly rate of pay mentioned in the provisions of this Article of this Agreement shall be computed by dividing the amount of the member's yearly salary in effect at the date of retirement, or resignation, by two thousand and eighty (2080). 8.10 Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Article, any member who, on December 31, 1970, had an accumulation of sick leave at days in excess of 300 days, pursuant to the terms of the 1970 Collective Agreement, shall retain credit for such excess until used. 8.11 A member who, on account of illness or injury is absent from work for five (5) or more consecutive working days or fifteen (15) or more accumulative working days in a calendar year may be required to submit and if required will submit, a completed physician or psychologist's report to the Board or its designate by the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.five

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. 15.1 Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee Employee shall be credited with four days of accrue paid sick leave at the end rate of the first eight (8) hours for each full calendar month of employment service. A maximum of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day twelve hundred (1200) hours of sick leave for each month may be accrued by Employees. After accrual of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day nine hundred sixty (960) hours of sick leave, any excess accrued may be converted to annual vacation leave times the number at a ratio of months 8 hours of employment during the year vacation per each 8 hours of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativeleave. Section 2. All unused 15.2 Employees may use accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1for the following purposes: (a) When an Employee is incapacitated by sickness or non-job-related injury, 1954 will be restored or for medical, dental, or optical diagnosis or treatment. (b) For necessary care/attendance of members of the Employee's immediate family or household, as defined in Section 15.3. (c) After exposure to employees previously employed upon returning to employment contagious disease when the attendance at duty, in the school systemopinion of the City Physician, except for employees who have retiredjeopardizes the health of others. Section 3. Sick leave 15.3 For the purposes of this Article, "immediate family" shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband defined as husband, wife, son, daughter, mother, and father (including ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewand step situations within these relationships). Use of sick leave for care/attendance of the immediate family or household shall be limited to a maximum of one hundred twenty (120) hours in any calendar year except for FMLA purposes provided that a completed Certification of Health Care Provider has been properly submitted and approved. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside Section 15.4 Sick leave with pay shall not exceed the total amount the Employee has accrued. Leave without pay may be granted for sickness beyond the amount of accrued sick leave. After six (6) months of service, accrued vacation leave may be used for sick leave when accrued sick leave has been exhausted. Section 15.5 Sick leave shall be expended in the same residence not less than one (1) hour increments. Holidays and other nonscheduled working days shall not be included in computing sick leave expenditures. Accrued sick leave shall not be paid to an Employee upon separation, except as the person set forth in Sections 15.10 and 15.11. Section 15.6 Federal and state statutes shall govern sick leave restoration after military leave. An Employee who is requesting laid off and returns to Employer's employment within one (1) year from the date of the layoff shall have his former unused sick leaveleave reinstated. Section 15.7 An Employee who is absent from duty for reasons which entitles him to sick leave shall notify his supervisor within a reasonable time prior to his usual reporting time, if physically able to do so. When an absence due to illness or non-job-related injury exceeds forty

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences Sick leave shall be earned and leaves accumulated at the rate of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent 1 hour per 17.33 hours of regularly scheduled work for which the employee is entitled paid to accumulate one day a maximum of sick leave 120 hours per month year. The Treasurer/CFO shall provide each employee with a statement of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of accumulated sick leave at the end of the first month each pay period and on each pay stub. 2. Sick leave shall accumulate to a maximum of employment of each contract 120 hours per year and shallfor full time employees with part time employees on a prorated basis, thereafteri.e., be credited for one an employee working four (4) hours a day of sick leave will accumulate 5 hours for each month under contract to a maximum of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of 60 hours per year. Accumulated sick leave times the number is available only after current annual sick leave credit is used. The accumulation of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueunlimited. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved used for personal illness, illness or disability due to pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease, illness or death in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Motherimmediate family. The immediate family includes wife, husband, child, father, mother, brother, sister, father-in-law Sonlaw, mother-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, brother-in-law Daughterlaw, sister-in-law Aunt Brotherlaw, the employee’s grandfather or grandmother, and members of the immediate household of the employee. Sick leave shall be used, also for the death of the following: step children, son-in-law Grandmother Niece Sisterlaw, daughter-in-law Grandfather Nephewlaw, and grandchild. B. Illness 4. Routine doctor, dental, and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting other health service provider visits which are not an emergency or related to a current illness or injury are not an appropriate use of sick leave. 5. When an employee reports for work on his normally scheduled working day and because of illness is excused from performing his full work day, he/she will be “charged” sick leave on an hour for hour basis for the absence. 6. When the Board has reason to believe that an employee is abusing his/her sick leave privilege, the administration, after notice to the employee, may require that employee thereafter furnish verification respecting further sick leave before such leave will be allowed. 7. All personnel are required to both call their supervisor and also submit the appropriate report in the District’s automated absence reporting system (as described below) at least two (2) hours before their scheduled starting time to report their sick absence. (In the event any other provision of this agreement, or other District policy or procedure, requires the employee to provide notice sooner, the employee must comply with such requirement.) If the supervisor cannot be reached, the employee should, in addition to submitting the appropriate report to the District’s automated absence reporting system, call his or her supervisor’s designee. Each supervisor shall notify his or her employees in writing of the supervisor’s designee for the purposes of this provision. With respect to reporting absences in the District’s automated absence reporting system, Section 3319.141 of the Ohio Revised Code requires in part that each teacher/nonteaching school employee furnish a written signed statement on forms prescribed by such board to justify the use of sick leave. Use of the District’s automated absence reporting system satisfies that requirement. Payment for sick leave is obtained by logging onto or calling into the District’s automated absence reporting system using the individual pin number assigned when the employee first registers with that system. Logging onto or calling into the District’s automated absence reporting system using the individual pin is considered a digital signature. Reporting sick leave to the District’s automated absence reporting system is a mandatory requirement. Reporting any kind of absence to the District’s automated absence reporting system is a mandatory requirement. The Superintendent or her/his designee may require a physician’s statement. In that case, the employee is required to complete a HIPAA compliant authorization to allow the physician’s medical report(s) to be released to the Board. 8. Employees are required to follow the appropriate procedure for the use of sick leave. Falsification of the use of sick leave is grounds for suspension or termination of employment. 9. An employee who transfers from a public agency or school district in Ohio shall be credited with his/her unused balance of his/her sick leave upon presentation of the proper form or statement. 10. An employee who is granted a Board paid leave shall retain and accumulate service credit and seniority.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. 24.01 Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to in the Bargaining Unit shall accumulate one day of sick leave credits at the rate of one and one- quarter (1¼) days per month for each calendar month of employment. Such sick leave is continuous employment up to be accrued in the following mannera maximum of two hundred and forty (240) days. A. 24.02 Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at who commences employment on or before the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end fifteenth (15th) of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue begin accumulating sick leave credits for that month. 24.03 Each employee who commences employment after the fifteenth (15th) of the month shall be eligible to begin accumulating sick leave credits the following month. 24.04 Where a continuous period of absence from work on leave of absence without pay, seasonal inactive period, or suspension from duty exceeds one-half (½) the number of working days in any month, no sick leave credits shall accumulate for that month, but the employee shall retain any sick leave credits accumulated prior to such leave or suspension from duty. 24.05 For the purpose of computing sick leave accumulation the following shall be counted as working days: (a) days on which the employee is on vacation; (b) days on which the employee is on leave of absence with pay pursuant to the terms of this Agreement; (c) days on which the employee is on sick leave pursuant to the above provisionsterms of this Agreement; and (d) days on which the employee is absent from work while receiving Workers' Compensation Benefits. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue 24.06 A deduction shall be made from an employee's accumulated sick leave may use up to six days personal credits for each working day that the employee is absent on sick leave. Absence on sick leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against deducted in one-quarter (¼) day increments. Absence on sick leave for less than one-quarter (¼) day may be deducted as one-quarter (¼) day; absence for more than one-quarter (¼) day but less than one-half (½) day may be deducted as one-half (½) day; absence of more than one-half (½) day but less than three-quarter (3/4) day; may be deducted as three-quarter (3/4) day; absence of more than three-quarter (3/4) day but less than one (1) full day may be deducted as one (1) full day. 24.07 An individual employee may be required by the Employer to produce a Doctor's certificate for any period of absence in excess of three consecutive days for which sick leave is claimed and, if a certificate is not produced after such a request, the time absent from work will be deducted from the employee's current wages. Where the Employer has reason to believe an individual employee is abusing the sick leave accrual. This privileges, the Department may issue to him a standing directive that requires him to submit a medical certificate for any period of absence for which sick leave is non-cumulativeclaimed. Section 2. All unused accumulated 24.08 An employee who is absent from work on account of sickness or accident who wishes to use sick leave days earned after July 1credits for such absence, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in must notify the school system, except for employees who have retiredemployee’s immediate Supervisor as soon as possible. Section 3. Sick 24.09 Where a deduction from salary is to be made pursuant to clause 24.07 hereof, the employee is to be so informed in writing as soon as possible and the deduction shall be made if possible within sixty (60) days. 24.10 An employee who has used up the employee’s sick leave credits, or has not yet earned sufficient credits, may be granted advanced sick leave without loss of pay for a period of up to fifteen (15) days and a deduction for such advanced sick leave shall be approved in made from any credits subsequently accumulated by the following two categoriesemployee. A. Illness 24.11 Where the employment of self an employee who has been granted advanced sick leave in accordance with clause 24.10 is terminated for any reason, the employee shall compensate the Employer for any such leave granted to the employee that remains unearned at the time of termination of employment and shall be calculated at the employee's rate of remuneration at the time the employee ceased to be an employee. 24.12 An employee, who becomes hospitalized or confined to bed rest on Doctor's orders while on annual vacation, may use sick leave credits rather than lose a portion of the employee’s vacation. In such cases where sick leave is claimed, proof of illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in must be submitted to the same residence as Employer and the person who Employer is requesting sick leaveto be notified at time of illness.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves Leave of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-absence for illness or injury will be provided by the District. 11.1.1 An employee who is employed full time permanent employee is (15 FLCs) each semester shall be entitled to accumulate five (5) days leave of absence for illness or injury per semester. An employee who is employed for less than full time each semester will receive the proportional number of days of leave. 11.1.2 Academic employees (does not apply to day-to-day substitutes) shall be granted one day of sick leave per month of employmentif employed for the full (at least six weeks) Summer Session. Such This sick leave may be accumulated along with other District sick leave. Any sick leave granted or accumulated through continued employment in this District may be used according to this article. 11.1.3 A unit member who is absent due to illness or injury for less than one full day shall have deducted from the accrued sick leave bank 2.5 hours. A unit member who is absent due to illness or injury for a full day shall have 5.0 hours deducted from the accrued sick leave bank. 11.1.4 The full amount of the leave granted each year under this section shall be available on the first day of each academic year and need not be accrued in the following mannerprior to taking such leave. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days 11.1.5 If absence because of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on illness or injury extends beyond the number of days of the employee’s accumulated sick leave, the district will pay partial salary for a period not to exceed five (5) school months. The payment shall be the difference between the employee’s salary and the substitute’s pay, if a substitute is employed, or the amount that would have been paid a substitute on Step I of the appropriate schedule, should it be unnecessary to employ a substitute. This partial salary benefit begins upon the expiration of sick leave. The five-school-month limitation begins with the first day of absence involving the illness or injury. 11.1.6 Unused full paid sick leave granted under this section may be accumulated from year to year provided there is no break in service. For a part-time employee, a break in service is defined in 19.1.3. 11.1.7 Upon retirement, eligible employees will be credited with additional service time for unused sick leave, according to procedures prescribed by law. 11.1.8 An absence affidavit shall be signed by any person absent because of illness or injury and medical verification may be required by management to make proper determination of eligibility for benefits under this section. 11.1.9 Unused sick leave accrued in California public elementary schools, secondary schools, or community colleges may be transferred in accord with Education Code Section 87782. Official verification of unused sick leave should be forwarded to the Office of Human Resources, where it will be credited to the employee’s sick leave balance. 11.1.10 If an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue is granted an unpaid leave of absence for illness or injury after all paid sick leave pursuant to has expired, the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 District will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment continue benefits specified in the school system, except Article 9 for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness a period of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.five

Sick Leave. Section 1. The 11.2.1 Faculty members employed full time for a regular contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee year shall be credited with four ten (10) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each full pay. Faculty members employed on an extended contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which basis shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of with .25 days of sick leave an employee may accrueat full pay for each additional full week of service. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session 11.2.2 Except as otherwise provided in this agreement, sick leave utilization shall be eligible for physical and mental disability absence which make continued employment impractical. 11.2.2.1 Pursuant to accrue Labor Code 233, a unit member may use, during any contract year, up to six (6) days of accumulated sick leave for the illness of a dependent child, parent, spouse, or domestic partner. These days are exclusive of, and in addition to those provided for by Personal Necessity Leave. 11.2.3 Sick leave will be individually credited as of the first scheduled contractual day of each faculty member's contract. 11.2.4 Unused sick leave shall accrue year to year while the faculty member is continuously employed by the District. 11.2.5 Sick leave earned at another public school in California may be transferred to Yosemite Community College District upon request of the faculty member and verification by the former District. 11.2.5.1 This provision shall not be applicable if there is more than one (1) complete school year separating service with Yosemite Community College District and the former District. 11.2.6 Upon retirement, earned and unused sick leave may be utilized for extended service credit pursuant to the above provisionsapplicable provisions of the State Teachers' Retirement System. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue 11.2.7 After all earned sick leave may use at full pay as provided in 11.2.1 has been used and additional absence due to illness or injury is necessary, extended sick leave of up to six one hundred (100) days personal will be provided each faculty member pursuant to the District's short-term disability plan (effective November 1, 1986) and the following provisions: 11.2.7.1 Such leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against exclusive of the employeecurrent year's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused credit (11.2.1) and accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired(11.2.4). Section 3. Sick 11.2.7.2 Such leave shall be approved in is not cumulative from one year to the following two categoriesnext. A. Illness 11.2.7.3 The compensation for this period shall not exceed fifty (50) percent of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewthe faculty member's regular salary. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting 11.2.8 Verification of sick leave.leave utilized by contract (probationary) and tenured (regular) faculty members shall normally not be required for periods of absence less than five

Sick Leave. Regular employees shall receive sick leave benefits in accordance with the following: Section 9.1.1 Sick leave for regular employees shall be accrued at the rate of one (1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full) pro-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one rated day of sick leave per month of employment. Such . Section 9.1.1.1 For accrual purposes, sick leave is shall be determined by dividing the employee’s total number of straight-time hours compensated during the employee’s employment year by the total number of regular scheduled workdays within that same employment year. This computation shall be made in August of each year and added to be accrued in the following manneremployee's September sick leave balance. A. Each full-time permanent Section 9.1.2 A regular employee who qualifies for sick leave pay shall be credited with four eligible to receive one (1) pro-rated day of sick leave pay for each day of absence due to a qualifying illness or injury. Section 9.1.3 The Employer shall project the number of annual days of sick leave at the end beginning of the first month of employment of each contract school year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited according to the estimated calendar months the employee at is to work during the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each year. The employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the projected number of days of sick leave an at the beginning of the school year; provided, however, should the employee may accrueterminate prior to the end of the school year a deduction shall be made for sick leave used in excess of accrual. B. Section 9.1.4 The Employer reserves the right to request a doctor's certificate of illness and/or injury. Section 9.1.5 For absence in excess of five (5) consecutive days, a doctor's certificate of illness must be on file with the Human Resources Department if payment for sick leave is to be allowed. Section 9.1.6 Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during whose employment is terminated shall lose the summer session benefit of accumulated days of sick leave; except for retirement purposes, in accordance with statutory law. Section 9.1.7 Employees granted an approved leave of absence by the Employer Board shall be eligible to retain accrued accumulated days of sick leave but shall not accrue sick leave pursuant to days during the above provisionsapproved leave of absence period. C. Full-time employees who are Section 9.1.8 An employee shall give notice of illness promptly in order to be eligible to accrue for sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days payments. Such notification shall be charged against given by telephone or message to the employee's current immediate supervisor or other Employer designated authority and shall state that the employee or a family member as identified below in Section Section 9.1.9 Sick leave pay shall be paid only for periods of absence caused by personal illness or injury and illness or injury of a dependent child related by blood, marriage, legal adoption or legal guardianship, who is not yet eighteen (18) years of age or disabled children who are eighteen (18) years or older who require treatment or supervision. Employees may also use sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativefor family members as defined in the definitions portion of this Agreement who have a serious health condition or emergency. Section 2. All unused accumulated 9.1.10 Employees who have accrued sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously while employed upon returning to employment by another public school district in the state of Washington shall be given credit for such accrued sick leave upon employment by the Employer; provided there is a direct transfer of employment from the other school system, except for employees who have retireddistrict to the Employer. The employee must request the transfer of such sick leave. Section 39.1.11 In the event an employee is absent for reasons which are compensable industrial injuries in accordance with Title 51 of Washington State Industrial Insurance Law, the employee may elect to have the Employer pay the employee an amount equal to the difference between the amount paid the employee as determined by Title Section 9.1.12 Employees who incur an on-the-job injury may be required to perform "light duty" work within another classification which may involve the crossing of jurisdictional lines within the jurisdiction covered by this Agreement. Sick leave In such event the employee shall be approved in compensated at the following two categoriesrate of pay designated for the particular classification within which the work is being performed, and the rate of pay shall not be lower than the worker's compensation entitlement for time loss. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel Members working 260 days per work year are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of fifteen (15) paid sick leave days per month of employmentyear provided the member is in active pay status. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract Members working less than year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee round shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four 15 paid sick days available to him/herper year at the rate of 1.25 days per month provided the member is in active pay status, the School Board which may withhold the average daily amount be prorated for the sick partial work days utilized but unearned by the employeeand work years. 2. Such sick Members who are on any unpaid leave or who are absent without approved leave shall not be cumulative from year entitled to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of earn any sick leave an employee may accrueleave. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved accrue on a calendar month basis on the last day of the month at the applicable rates set forth in Subsection A 1 of this Article. Unused sick leave shall not exceed 200 days at any one time for use as sick leave; however, a member may accumulate an unlimited number of days of unused sick leave for the sole purpose of payment of unused sick leave for retirement under the terms of Article 22. 4. Acceptable reasons for paid sick leave are: personal illness, pregnancy, and personal injury; exposure to a communicable contagious disease; illness or injury in the following two categories. A. Illness immediate family of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Motherthe member. For the purpose of sick leave, “immediate family” shall be interpreted to mean husband, wife, children, father, mother, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law Sonlaw, mother-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in law, or another member of the same residence as household. 5. Visits to healthcare providers to pursue and/or receive an elective procedure or treatment that may be conducted outside of the person who is requesting member’s workday are not an authorized use of paid sick leave. 6. The Superintendent may require a bargaining unit member to submit a certificate of a physician or other evidence in any case involving suspected sick leave abuse or the use of three (3) consecutive days of sick leave. 7. A member, within the first 12 months of employment, may upon written request be granted an advance of up to five (5) paid sick days provided however that a member who separates from employment with the Board prior to repaying the advanced sick days shall be subject to payroll deduction to cover the cost of same. 8. Paid sick leave time may not be taken in increments less than ½ day. 9. If a bargaining unit member suffering from a serious injury, illness, or other conditions applies for retirement due to disability, the member may use no more than four (4) weeks of accumulated sick leave after the date of notification of the recommendation for approval of the disability retirement from the retirement system.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of All members, except ten (10) month custodians, shall be eligible for sick leave per with pay for twelve (12) school days in any school year. Ten (10) month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee custodians shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of ten (10) sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentdays. If any member utilizes in any school year fewer than the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the specified number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue allowed with pay, all unused sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current cumulative, to be used for additional sick leave accrualas may be necessary in subsequent years of active service with the Board. This leave is non-cumulativeStaff members shall be credited with their annual allotment of sick days upon commencement of their contract year. Staff members employed for less than the full year shall be credited with sick days on a prorated basis. Section 2. All If a custodial member is ill and will be absent, the Head Custodian must be called immediately. If the Head Custodian cannot be reached, the supervisor or designee will be notified and assistance will be secured through the Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds. If a maintenance or grounds member is ill and will be absent, the Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds must be called immediately. Failure to give such notification may cause a dock slip for that day. 3. If a member remains on the job for up to five (5) hours and twenty (20) minutes (2/3 of day) then leaves because of illness, credit for actual time worked will be given. If the member works beyond five (5) hours and twenty (20) minutes, credit for a full day will be given. 4. A member absent for personal illness for more days than he/she is allowed under this Paragraph I shall be subject to a deduction of a full day’s pay for each day’s absence. A full day’s pay is defined as 1/20 of the monthly base salary. 5. Absences for sickness beyond three (3) consecutive days shall be certified by a physician if a deduction in salary is to be avoided. Certification by a doctor may be required by the Superintendent or designee if a member’s attendance pattern is questionable. 6. Each member shall be entitled, upon retirement for service and age or disability from PERS, to receive a lump sum payment for earned and unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored which is credited to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in him/her on the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3effective date of his/her retirement. Sick leave Such supplemental compensation payment shall be approved in computed at the following two categories. A. Illness rate of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.one (1) day’s pay for each four

Sick Leave. Section A. Sick Leave, to be used for personal illness, shall be credited annually to each teacher on the first (1st) day of his employment as follows: 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves Ten (10) days each school year. 2. Sick leave days not used during the school year shall be allowed to accumulate to a maximum of personnel are patterned ninety (90) days. Unused sick days above 90 days shall be paid into the individual teacher's 401(A) plan at the end of each school year at the rate of forty dollars ($40) per day. 3. Sick leave days shall be transferable from the immediately previous school corporation after state laws and regulationsthe first (1st) year of employment at the rate of three (3) days leave per year until accumulation is exhausted. 4. Each fullPart-time permanent employee is entitled teachers' sick days shall be prorated according to accumulate the number of hours per day worked. 5. Subject to notification made two (2) days before such leave (except in cases of emergency), teachers may use one-half (½) day per school year of sick leave in multiples of one (1) hour. The one-half (½) day shall entitle a teacher to four (4) such one (1) hour leaves. If a teacher uses one (1) of the one (1) hour leaves, one-half (½) day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four charged against the teacher immediately. The remaining one (1) hour multiples may be used during the school year, but will not carry over to the next school year nor will they accumulate as partial days of sick leave. B. Sick leave at days accumulated by a teacher before a leave of absence, and not used during the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shallleave, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at teacher upon his return. C. The accumulated sick leave balance shall be included on the end of the month and which teacher’s pay stub. D. Teachers employed on Supplemental Agreements for regular summer school or ISTEP Remediation classes shall be granted sick days as follows: If employed to teach up to four weeks: one (1) day; If employed to teach four (4) weeks or more: two (2) days. Unused sick days granted under this section shall not be used prior accumulated or transferred to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentany other account. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the The teachers specified above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue use up to five (5) days of accumulated sick leave, as follows: Less than three (3) hours of summer school contracted service shall be considered as "one-half day". Three (3) hours or more shall be considered as a "day". Any sick time used, over and above the days granted shall be deducted from available sick leave accumulation. E. All of the Corporation’s professional personnel shall be allowed up to five (5) days leave per year, not accumulative, and not deducted from Sick Leave or Personal Leave, in case of illness of an immediate family member. If all five (5) family illness days have been used, the teacher may use up to six five (5) days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused of his accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1for purposes of additional family illness. At the Superintendent’s sole discretion, 1954 will additional days of accumulated sick leave may be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment allowed for this purpose. "Immediate family member", in the school systemthis instance, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mothermeans spouse/significant other, parent, sibling, child(ren), step-child(ren), grandparent, great-grandparent, grandchild, father, mother, brother, sister, mother-in-law Sonlaw, father-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, brother-in-law Daughterlaw, sister-in-law Aunt Brotherlaw, daughter-in-law Grandmother Niece Sisterlaw, son-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside law, step-parent, step-sibling, or any other person domiciled in the same residence as teacher's home. The Administration will require the person who is requesting sick leavefamily member’s relationship and reason on the leave form.

Sick Leave. Section Subd. 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves Fifteen (15) duty days of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each sick leave shall be credited to all new full-time permanent employee is entitled faculty members at the time of their employment to accumulate cover possible disability during the subsequent fifteen (15) months of employment. Beginning with the sixteenth (16th) month of employment, each faculty member will be credited with one (1) additional day of sick leave for each succeeding month or portion thereof of employment completed within the regular academic year, but not to exceed four and one half (4.5) days per month of employmentsemester, as applicable. Such During summer session(s), sick leave is to shall accrue at the rate of one (1) day for each four credits taught. Total sick leave accumulation for summer session work shall not exceed three (3) days. The maximum sick leave accumulation for any fiscal year shall be twelve (12) days. Sick leave earned in accordance with this subdivision will be accrued in the following manneron a bi-weekly basis. A. Each Subd. 2. Unused sick leave may accumulate to a total of one hundred twenty-five (125) days. Sick leave earned over the maximum will be considered lapsed but shall be recorded to the faculty member’s credit. In the event that a faculty member with an illness exhausts current accumulated sick leave, and has a lapsed sick leave balance, additional sick leave shall be granted by the President/designee upon valid medical documentation, to the extent required by the employee’s illness, but not to exceed the total amount of the faculty member’s lapsed sick leave. Subd. 3. Faculty members on a full-time permanent employee fixed-term appointment as provided for in Article 21, Section E, shall be credited upon initial employment with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one (1) day of sick leave for each month of employmentservice. Subd. 4. Probationary, tenured, fixed-term and NTT faculty commencing employment on less than a full-time basis shall be given sick leave credit as described in this section at the commencement of employment on a pro rata basis. Such part-time faculty members shall accumulate sick leave on the basis of one (1) day for each month employed pro rata multiplied by the fraction of the time employed. Use of sick leave for such faculty members shall be deducted on a pro rata basis according to the fraction of the time employed at the time of leave. Sick leave earned in accordance with this subdivision will be accrued on a bi-weekly basis. Subd. 5. Sick leave shall be granted by the President/designee for absences made necessary by reason of illness or disability, including temporary disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery therefrom; by exposure to contagious disease which may endanger the individual or the public health; or by illness or temporary disability caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery therefrom in the immediate family of the faculty member, making it necessary that the faculty member be absent from work. For purposes of this section, the term immediate family has the meaning provided in Article 5, Section A, Subdivision 21. A faculty member may use up to three (3) days of sick leave to arrange for the nursing care of the faculty member’s parents or parents of the spouse/domestic partner. Subd. 6. Any probationary, tenured, fixed-term and NTT faculty member reemployed within one (1) year at the same or any other university within the System shall have unused accumulated sick leave reinstituted and posted to the employee’s credit in the records of the employing university, provided such sick leave was accrued in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, and provided such sick leave has not been used in the calculation of severance pay. In the event such sick leave was used in the calculation of severance pay, the faculty member shall have sixty percent (60%) of the unused accumulated sick leave reinstituted and posted to the faculty member’s credit. Subd. 7. All unused sick leave earned prior to ratification of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, and shall be credited fully to the employee at the end of the month each faculty member’s sick leave accumulation. Subd. 8. Probationary, tenured, fixed-term and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more NTT faculty members with appointments for periods other than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick hundred sixty-eight (168) duty days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on have the number of days of sick leave an employee per year to be accrued calculated in accordance with the following formula: Subd. 9. The IFO and MnSCU may accruedevelop a sick leave incentive program through establishment of a joint committee, but any final agreement on the Employer’s part is subject to the approval of the Minnesota Statutes § 43A statutory employer. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session Subd. 10. Adjunct and community faculty shall be eligible allowed to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisionsmiss all or part of two class days each semester for reasons set forth in Subd. 5 without loss of pay. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of During the first month year of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild MotherCounty and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewsick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. Illness A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designee. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or death of: Persons who reside assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Unit members, if under contract at the time of retirement or their designated beneficiary in the same residence as event of death during active service, shall receive pay for a maximum of two hundred nine (209) unused sick leave days at the person rate of thirty dollars ($30) per day. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on the employee portal. E. The Board reserves the right to require a physical examination, at Board expense, of unit members on extended sick leave without pay. F. Unit members shall be permitted to join and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who is requesting has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall be authorized annually by the member on the appropriate form. If the number of contributed days falls below thirty (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave.leave days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership shall be made during an open enrollment of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A sick leave contribution to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, shall not be returned if the member effects cancellation. The plan shall be administered by a joint committee composed of two (2) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent : An employee is entitled to shall accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one (1) day of sick leave for each month worked after the effective date of employmentthis Agreement. If an employee works for a fraction of a month, which said employee shall earn sick leave allowance as follows: One (1) to ten (10) days worked, or paid for, equals one-half (1/2) day of sick leave allowance. Eleven (11) or more days worked, or paid for, equals one (1) day of sick leave allowance. Section 2: Probationary employees shall not earn sick leave allowance during the period of their probation. Section 3: The employee shall be credited with the number of allowable days, not to exceed twelve (12) days, at the employee beginning of the fiscal year. Employees shall be credited with a service accumulation for sick leave purposes at the end of each fiscal year equal to the month number of unused days of the sick leave allowance for that year. Service accumulation may continue without limit during the service of the employee. Section 4: Pay for a sick day shall be based on the average number of hours worked a day by an employee in his/her regularly assigned work during the last thirty (30) working days directly preceding the sick day for which the employee is being paid. Section 5: Employees who are dropped from employment with the Board and who shall have used sick leave allowance days in excess of those earned, shall have deducted from their last paycheck the amount of money equal to the pay received for days used above the earned amount of sick leave allowance. Section 6: If an employee loses his/her seniority pursuant to Article X, the employee shall also lose all accumulated sick leave allowance. Section 7: An employee who has been absent three (3) or more consecutive workdays because of illness or injury may be requested, upon return, and before resuming his/her assigned duties, to furnish the supervisor a certification of fitness to resume his/her normal duties. Such certification shall be signed by a competent physician, of the employee’s choice, and shall state the nature of the illness or injury, and shall certify that the employee is fit and able to resume his/her assigned duties. The Board may at its discretion send the employee to a physician of the Board’s choice for a second opinion at the Board’s expense. Section 8: Sick leave allowance earned by the employee may be utilized for the following: a. Personal illness. b. Illness up to a limit of seven (7) days per occurrence for care in the immediate family which shall include spouse, children, parents or any individuals residing with the employee. c. Unusual circumstances not covered by the above shall be considered entirely upon the individual merit of each such circumstance with respect to granting or denying sick leave allowance. Application for unusual circumstances shall be made to the Associate Superintendent of Human Resources. The decision rendered shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure. Sick leave allowance shall be used only for the purposes indicated above and shall not be used prior abused. The Board shall have the right to have the time employee on personal sick leave examined and have submitted a statement(s) from confirming sources certifying the illness of the employee or the immediate family. If it is earned and credited to appears that an employee on sick leave has not met the employee; howeverpurposes for sick leave, each the employee shall be entitled subject to earn no more than one day discipline up to and including discharge. Section 9: An employee in the bargaining unit sustaining injury or occupational disease arising out of sick leave times and in the number of months course of employment during by the year Board shall be continued on the payroll to the extent of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has sick leave allowance reserve; provided, that where the employee receives income under the Michigan Worker’s Compensation Act, such income shall be supplemented by the Board with an amount sufficient to maintain his/her regular pay for a period not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for exceed the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year allowance reserve, and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days reserve shall be charged against only for that portion in excess of the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2compensation payment. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 employees must report all injuries in writing immediately upon sustaining such injury. The Board will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment aid in the school system, except for employees who have retiredexpediting all Worker’s Compensation claims. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1a) Unit members shall be allowed sick leave with pay. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled Medical documentation to accumulate one day substantiate the use of sick leave may be required by the Employer. b) Sick leave for unit members shall accrue at the rate of one (1) day per calendar month of employmentconsecutive service during the first five (5) years of service. Such Those unit members who have completed six (6) or more years of consecutive service shall accrue sick leave is according to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days schedule: The accrual of sick leave at the end of shall begin the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of unused sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentmay be accumulated up to and including one hundred eighty (180) days [one thousand four hundred forty (1,440) hours]. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Unit members with appointments less than 1.0 FTE shall accrue sick leave shall at a proportional pro-rated amount. At no time will a unit member be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible allowed to accrue sick leave pursuant hours in excess of the one thousand four hundred forty (1,440) hours [or one hundred eighty (180) days] accumulation limit. c) Sick pay is available with the realization that a unit member may become ill or injured to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible extent of being unable to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3work. Sick leave may be taken for absences made necessary by reason of illness, injury, or disability, including temporary illnesses covered by or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth, and recovery there from, by exposure to dangerous disease which may endanger the unit member or public health, medical appointments, or by illness in the immediate family making it necessary that the unit member be absent from his or her duties. The term "immediate family" as used in this section shall be approved in defined to include the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband spouse, children (adopted, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇, step, biological, or legal ▇▇▇▇), grandchildren, siblings, parents, grandparents, or parents of the spouse. It is not intended as any earned time off with pay, and shall not be granted as such. Unit members shall be compensated for unused sick leave upon separation of employment as provided in subsection (f). d) The President may advance sick leave to unit members in an amount not to exceed a total of forty (40) hours. ▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewleave earned thereafter will be applied toward the negative sick leave account balance until the amount advanced is fully reimbursed. Upon separation from employment, unit members who have been advanced sick leave shall reimburse the Employer for all advanced and unreimbursed sick leave. The Employer is authorized to deduct such amount from the final pay. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons e) Should a unit member become ill or disabled and require hospitalization while on vacation, vacation leave shall be changed to sick leave, effective the date of hospitalization, upon request to the immediate supervisor. Documentation regarding the hospitalization may be requested. f) A unit member who reside is transferred within the State College System will have his or her accrued sick leave transferred to the receiving College. Unit members transferring as an employee from Nebraska State Government or the University of Nebraska System may be eligible to have sick leave hours transferred to the receiving College at the discretion of receiving College. Employees transferring to Nebraska State Government or the University of Nebraska System may be eligible to have sick leave hours transferred to the new employer at the discretion of the new employer. g) Each unit member who is eligible for retirement in the same residence as the person who is requesting State College System will, upon separation of employment by reason of retirement, be entitled to a one-time payment of one-fourth (1/4) of their accumulated sick leave., with the rate of payment based upon their regular pay at the time of retirement. Upon the death of the unit member, his or her beneficiary will be paid one-fourth (1/4) of his or her accumulated, unused sick leave, with the rate of payment based upon the unit member’s regular pay at the time of death

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick 17.1 Sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave accrue at the end rate of the first month 2.77 hours per week for each full calendar week of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except unlimited accumulation for employees who have retired. Section 3working a twenty-four (24) hour schedule. Sick leave shall accrue at the rate of 2.31 hours per week for each full calendar week of employment with unlimited accumulation for employees working a 4-10 schedule. Sick leave shall accrue at the rate of 1.85 hours per week for each full calendar week of employment with unlimited accumulation for employees working a 5-8 schedule. 17.2 Sick leave may be approved taken by employees only in the following two categoriescases: 17.2.1 Personal illness or physical incapacity of such a degree as to render the employee unable to perform the duties of his/her position, unless the employee is found capable of other work in the Department by the Chief and is assigned to such other work. Employees working a 24- hour schedule who call in sick will do so for the first twelve (12) hours or for the full shift and will have their sick leave balance reduced by the hours they did not work. Employees working a 24-hour schedule who become ill mid-shift and book off sick will do so for the remainder of the shift and will have their sick leave balance reduced by the number of hours they did not work. Employees working a 40 hour schedule may book off sick for partial shifts with the approval of the Chief or designee. A. Illness 17.2.2 Attendance upon members of self the family within the household of the employee, including domestic partner and his/her relatives who live within the household of the employee, when their illness requires care by such employee not to exceed twelve (12) days per year (144 hours for employees who work a 24-hour schedule). Such time may be taken in partial shifts subject to the approval of the Chief. 17.2.3 Subject to the discretion of the Chief or illness and/or designee, sick leave may be used but not in excess of six (6) calendar days in the event of the death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Motherof the employee's spouse or domestic partner, child, mother, father, brother, sister, mother-in-law Sonlaw, father-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, brother-in-law Daughterlaw, sister-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewlaw, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, stepmother, stepfather, step child or members of domestic partner’s family similarly related. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons 17.2.4 In exercising his/her discretion to approve sick leave, and the amount thereof, under the foregoing Article 17.2.3, the Chief or his/her designated representative shall give consideration to the closeness of the relative, the circumstances of the death, attendant family conditions, and the time required for travel. 17.2.5 Employees who reside wish to use sick leave in accordance with the above provisions to care for a domestic partner or member of the domestic partner’s family, or in the same residence event of a death of a member of the domestic partner’s family, must satisfy the City’s eligibility requirements for claiming an individual as a domestic partner. 17.3 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Article, sick leave charges will be made according to the person who is requesting sick leaveactual number of hours absent.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each Every full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no ten days of paid sick leave per school year, earned on July 1 of each year. Said days to be used solely for illness or other physical disability preventing the employee from performing his or her duties, except as provided in Section E of Article VII of this Agreement. 2. Unused sick leave shall accrue from school year to school year, as provided by law, and may be used at any time during the school year subject to the requirements of this Article. 3. The District may require that the employee provide written verification by a physician of the employee's incapacity if the employee has been on sick leave for three or more consecutive days and may require such verification for use of sick leave for absence of less than three days duration if the District Superintendent has reasonable grounds to believe that the employee may not be entitled to sick leave. In the event that verification of an absence is provided by the employee pursuant to the District Superintendent's request and results in an actual expense to the employee for professional services, the District agrees to reimburse the employee for such services. 4. Salary deduction will be made for illness or accident beyond the days covered by sick leave or upon failure to provide the required verification. 5. An employee employed for less than one FTE shall be entitled, for a school year of service, to his/her pro rata share of ten days leave of absence for illness or injury. 6. The District agrees to provide the benefits set forth in section 44977 of the Education Code. 7. After exhaustion of all paid sick leave and extended sick leave benefits, an employee may request an unpaid leave pursuant to the provisions set forth herein. The unit member at his/her expense may maintain benefits. 8. Sick leave will be maintained on the basis of full-day equivalence. Employees using sick leave will be charged a minimum of one-half day for any portion used. Employees will be charged a full day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueif used beyond one-half day. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual9. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 Catastrophic Leave will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredconsistent with BP/AR-4161.9. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is bargaining unit member of the Board will be entitled to accumulate fifteen (15) days of sick leave with pay for each year under contract and shall accrue sick leave at the rate of one and one- fourth (1¼) days for each month of service. Bargaining unit members may use sick leave for absence due to illness, injury, pregnancy, or exposure to contagious disease for themselves and/or immediate family, or medical appointments made necessary by any of the conditions contained in this section. Immediate family for illness is interpreted as meaning spouse, children, parents, siblings, parents-in-law, grandparents, grandchildren, uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews and any other person residing in the bargaining unit member’s household. ▇▇▇▇ leave may also be used for the death of a relative of a bargaining unit member or for any emergency which warrants sick leave privileges as determined by the Superintendent. ▇▇▇▇ leave may also be used for the death of a close friend provided all personal leave days have been used. Sick leave is not to be used for the purpose of well childcare. Sick leave is cumulative to a maximum of three hundred fifty (350) days. Should a bargaining unit member exhaust sick leave during the year, and upon written request by the bargaining unit member, the Board may advance sick leave to the member, not exceeding the amount yet to be accrued in current fiscal year. The Board and Association agree that any teacher who is advanced sick leave is obligated to repay all advanced sick leave upon separation from the district or upon retirement. Upon return to duty sick leave accrual will be used to offset advanced days. In this case, the Board of Education shall require a bargaining unit member to furnish a written request to the Board to justify use of sick leave. The Board may require the bargaining unit member to submit to an examination, at Board expense, to determine the bargaining unit member's ability to return to work. Sick leave may be used in one-half (½) or full day increments. A bargaining unit member who finds it necessary to be absent will notify the building administrator or designee the day before the absence or except in cases of personal emergency not later than ninety (90) minutes before the start of his/her school day. Sick leave will not be granted unless approved by the Superintendent, as in a case of an unavoidable emergency, if this procedure is not followed. Any bargaining unit member using a total of fifteen (15) or more days of sick leave per month school year may be required to furnish a physician's statement justifying the use of employmentany further sick leave. Such sick leave is Failure to be accrued furnish a physician's statement, may result in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days loss of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentpay. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 Consideration will be restored given to employees previously employed upon returning absences due to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredextended illness. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 18.2.1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end Members of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee bargaining unit shall be entitled to earn no more ten (10) days leave of absence for illness or injury, exclusive of all days they are not required to render service to the District, with full pay for a school year of service. Unit members employed for less than one day full time shall be entitled to a proportionate number of days’ leave of absence for illness or injury. Credit for leave of absence, in any given year, need not be accrued prior to taking such leave by the unit member, and such leave may be taken at any time during the school year. Sick leave entitlement under this section shall be accumulative, without limit, from year to year. Leaves of absence under this section will be automatic, although the District reserves the right to request verification from a medical authority. 8.2.2. When a member of the bargaining unit is absent from his/her duties on account of illness or accident for a period of five (5) months or less, whether or not the absence arises out of, or in the course of, employment, the amount deducted from the salary due him/her for any month in which the absence occurs shall not exceed the sum which is actually paid a substitute employee employed to fill his/her absence. 8.2.3. The provisions of 8.2.2 relating to compensation shall not apply to the first ten (10) days of absence on account of illness or accident of any full time unit member or to the proportion of ten (10) days of absence to which such unit member employed less than full time is entitled, hereunder, on account of illness or accident. The five (5)-month period stipulated in 8.2.2 begins upon termination of the unit member’s current annual ten (10) days. Accrued leave beyond the ten (10) days is part of the five (5) month period. Unit members may elect to retain accrued sick leave times in excess of 10 days by providing written notification to the number Personnel Office. 8.2.4. If there is concern by the District management over a unit member’s health, on request of months the District or its representative, a member of employment during the year bargaining unit shall furnish his/her physician’s written verification as proof of employmentillness or as verification of the state of the unit member’s health. The District may also require the bargaining unit member to be examined by a doctor selected by the District. In the event the District requires an examination by a doctor, it shall be at District expense, and the unit member’s physician may be in attendance at the examination. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has District’s unit member’s health plan will not accrued cover the four sick days available to him/hercost of the attendance of the unit member’s physician, the School Board may withhold District will pay the average daily amount for cost. 8.2.5. Upon the sick days utilized but unearned by expiration of authorized differential pay, the employee. Such sick leave unit member shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave in an employee may accrueunpaid status. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each Every full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no ten days of paid sick leave per school year, earned on July 1 of each year. Said days to be used solely for illness or other physical disability preventing the employee from performing his or her duties, except as provided in Section E of Article VII of this Agreement. 2. Unused sick leave shall accrue from school year to school year, as provided by law, and may be used at any time during the school year subject to the requirements of this Article. 3. The District may require that the employee provide written verification by a physician of the employee's incapacity if the employee has been on sick leave for three or more consecutive days and may require such verification for use of sick leave for absence of less than three days duration if the District Superintendent has reasonable grounds to believe that the employee may not be entitled to sick leave. In the event that verification of an absence is provided by the employee pursuant to the District Superintendent's request and results in an actual expense to the employee for professional services, the District agrees to reimburse the employee for such services. 4. Salary deduction will be made for illness or accident beyond the days covered by sick leave or upon failure to provide the required verification. 5. An employee employed for less than one FTE shall be entitled, for a school year of service, to his/her pro rata share of ten days leave of absence for illness or injury. 6. The District agrees to provide the benefits set forth in section 44977 of the Education Code. 7. After exhaustion of all paid sick leave and extended sick leave benefits, an employee may request an unpaid leave pursuant to the provisions set forth herein. The unit member at his/her expense may maintain benefits. 8. Sick leave will be maintained on the basis of full-day equivalence. Employees using sick leave will be charged a minimum of one-half day for any portion used. Employees will be charged a full day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueif used beyond one-half day. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual9. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 Catastrophic Leave will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.consistent with BP-4137

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is bargaining unit member shall be entitled to accumulate one day of fifteen (15) days sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of pay each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employmentunder contract, which shall be credited to the employee at the end rate of the month one and which one-fourth (1 ¼) days per month. All part-time bargaining unit members shall not be used prior to earn sick leave for the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentgranted full-time bargaining members. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year accumulated to year and there a maximum of three hundred-twenty-five A. Master Agreement, whichever is higher. All days shall be no limit in correlation to the employee’s work day. 2. A new employee with accumulated sick leave from another public agency shall have placed to his/her credit, upon written application and proof of such to the Treasurer, all sick leave accumulated with a previous public employer, not to exceed two hundred and sixty days (260) days. 3. A bargaining unit member who has not yet accumulated or who has exhausted his/her accumulation of necessary sick leave, shall be advanced up to a maximum of five (5) days sick leave, with the advanced days to be removed from such employee’s later accumulated number of sick days. If the bargaining unit member leaves the district before accumulating sufficient sick leave to cover the advanced sick leave day(s), such day(s) pay will be deducted from the bargaining unit member’s last pay. 4. Sick leave days may be used to cover absences for personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others and for absences due to medical appointments, illness, injury or death in the bargaining unit member’s immediate family. 5. For purposes of this Article, the immediate family of a bargaining unit member is defined to mean: father, mother, spouse, brother, sister, son, daughter, step- children, grandparents, grandchildren, or an individual residing in the home of said bargaining unit member, or other family members with the immediate supervisor’s recommendation and the approval of the Superintendent. 6. On the day of his/her absence, a bargaining unit member shall give notice to the office of his/her immediate supervisor if he/she must use sick leave in accordance with this leave procedure. 7. All bargaining unit members who have advanced knowledge that they will need to use their accumulated sick leave on an extended basis, shall give the Administration as much advance notice as possible. In the case of unforeseen illness or disability, it is recognized that advance notice may not always be possible. 8. Any bargaining unit member using sick leave who utilizes more than five (5) consecutive sick days may need a doctor’s note before returning to work. If requested, this doctor’s note must be furnished to his/her immediate supervisor within three (3) days after the bargaining unit member returns to work. 9. After fifteen consecutive sick days are used (15 is the number that EMIS requires to be reported as a long term) sick leave will cease to be accumulated until the employee returns to work. 10. The Board has the right to order the employee undergo a medical examination if the employer has a “reasonable belief” that the employee’s ability to perform essential job functions will be impaired by a medical condition or that he or she will pose a direct threat due to a medical condition. The examination will be at the Board’s expense. 11. Employees who have exhausted all available paid leave, including personal leave, shall be eligible, upon approval of the Superintendent, to receive sick leave transfer during periods of catastrophic illness as defined a severe illness or sudden medical conditions. a. A bargaining unit member needing a sick leave transfer will contact the Board office to notify the Superintendent of such need. b. The Superintendent will require the bargaining unit member provide documentation from the recipient’s physician attesting to the nature of the illness. c. Once the Superintendent approves the request for a sick leave transfer, he/she will contact the Association President about the need for sick leave transfer. d. The Association President will send a request to the bargaining unit members of a need for sick leave and request that the member notify the Board’s payroll clerk of the transfer. e. The Bargaining Unit member will email the payroll clerk the number of days, not to exceed ten (10) sick leave days, that the member is agreeing to transfer. An email from a member’s school email account will serve as authorization for the deduction of sick leave. A member must have at least sixty (60) days of sick leave an employee may accrueto authorize a transfer of sick leave to another bargaining unit member. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during f. The payroll clerk will deduct the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to total number of transferred days authorized by the above provisionsbargaining unit member in the order the emails were received, by date and by time. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall days transferred will not be approved deducted until the days are used by the member in the following two categoriesneed of sick leave days. A. Illness 2. The Payroll Clerk will notify the Association President when the number of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewrequested days has been reached. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside 3. A bargaining unit member may not receive more than forty (40) days of sick leave transfer in any school year but the same residence as the person who is requesting Superintendent has discretion to approve additional days needed for sick leave. 4. The Superintendent shall have the authority to grant sick leave transfer under this provision to Bargaining Unit Members for pregnancy and/or minor surgical procedures if he/she deems that the conditions surrounding the request are warranted.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves Sick leave shall be defined as leave with pay due to personal illness or illness of personnel are patterned persons in the employee’s immediate family or household. (a) All employees hired prior to July 1, 1989 working on a twelve (12) month basis will be allowed eighteen (18) days of paid sick leave each year. All employees hired prior to July 1, 1989 working on a ten (10) month basis will be allowed fifteen (15) days of paid sick leave each year. (b) All employees hired after state laws and regulations. Each fullJuly 1, 1989 working more than half-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day as defined in Article XVI herein below on a twelve (12) month basis will be allowed eighteen (18) days of paid sick leave per each year. All employees hired after July 1, 1989 working more than half-time as defined in Article XVI herein below on a ten (10) month basis will be allowed fifteen (15) days of employment. Such paid sick leave each year. (c) Employees hired after July 1, 1989 working less than half-time as defined in Article XVI herein below will be allowed ten (10) days of paid sick leave each year. (d) For the purpose of this Article and its application to employees hired after July 1, 1989, if the regular (full time) work day is not otherwise defined in Article XVI herein below, it will be considered to be accrued in the following mannersix (6) hours for that category of employee. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall 3. Employees with ten (10) months or more of service at the beginning of the school year will be credited with four days their annual amount of sick leave at the end beginning of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the school year; if an employee at leaves before the end of the year, he will be charged for all used sick leave not earned. First year employee shall earn sick leave at the rate of 1.5 day per month and which shall not of service completed. 4. Sick leave may be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to only for personal illness or illness of persons in the employee; however’s immediate family or household. Employees hired after July 1, 1989 may use up to 15 days of accumulated sick leave for family illness. 5. Employees may accumulate without limitation sick leave not used before the end of the year. 6. At the commencement of the school year, each employee shall will be entitled to earn no more than one day advised of sick leave times the number of months days’ sick leave standing to his credit. 7. In the event that an employee utilizes all earned and/or accrued sick days in a school year, such employee will be docked for any days of employment during claimed illness for which there is no available accrued sick leave. The employee may also be disciplined for such absence in accordance with the negotiated disciplinary procedure. However, any disciplinary action taken must first be preceded by at least one counseling memorandum. This provision shall not modify the rights and provisions provided under the Family and Medical Leave Act. 8. The District may require a doctor’s certificate if an employee is absent for three (3) or more consecutive days and that employee has been previously notified that (s)he may be required to produce a doctor’s certificate for future absences. The District will make a reasonable effort to contact the employee while (s)he is out on leave to notify him/her of the requirement to produce the doctor’s certificate upon return to work. 9. The first 165 days of accumulated sick days will be reported to the Employee Retirement System to be added to your retirement calculation, this calculation will be done based on the requirements of the Employee Retirement System. Any accumulated sick leave days in excess of 165 at the time of an employee’s actual retirement into the New York State Employees Retirement System shall be paid at the rate of $46 per day for each day. Members who are not in the State Retirement System shall also be eligible for the sell back days in excess of 165 at the applicable rate upon retirement so long as they leave the District with at least ten (10) years of service or more. Payment of such sum shall only be made into a non-elective 403-b plan selected by the employee from a District approved vendor list in October following retirement. 10. Any employee who is regularly scheduled to work four (4) or more hours per day and who has not used any sick days or unpaid leave days in a school year of employmentshall be paid $300 in August following the school year. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four uses only one (1) sick days available to him/herday or one (1) unpaid leave day, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave he or she shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on paid $150 in August following the number school year. For purposes of this section, personal time, vacation time, holidays, bereavement, days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant missed due to the above provisionshospitalization of a family member, military leave, jury duty and union leave, shall not be counted as sick days. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1A. Any employee who is unable to perform his/her duty because of illness, temporary physical disability or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, other close relatives, or member of his own household, and consequently has to be absent from his/her work, shall be granted leave of absence for sickness by the Superintendent or his designee. The contract provisions governing absences A physical disability, substantiated by a physician, and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationsconnected with or resulting from a pregnancy may at the employee’s option, be charged to the employee’s accumulated sick leave. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of In this event, the Board may grant sick leave per month for the period of employment. Such time as designated by the physician provided the employee has sufficient accumulated sick leave is to be accrued in the following mannerleave. A. B. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four (4) contract days of sick leave (or the equivalent hours thereof) at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year year, and shall, thereafter, is credited with one (1) contract day of sick leave or the equivalent hours thereof at the end of each month of employment provided that such leave shall be credited for taken only, when necessary, because of sickness as prescribed by Florida Statutes and the Florida School Code. However, no employee may earn during a fiscal year more than a total of one day of sick leave (or the equivalent hours thereof) for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year year. If the employee terminates employment and there shall be no limit on has not accrued the number of leave hours equivalent to four (4) contract days of sick leave an available, the School Board will withhold the average daily amount for sick leave hours used but not earned by the employee. The Superintendent or his designee may require a certificate from a licensed physician or from the county health officer in cases of questionable use of sick leave. An employee may accruebe permitted, with approval of his/her administrator, to take one (1) day of personal leave without pay either immediately preceding or immediately following a negotiated paid holiday. There shall be no deduction of pay for the negotiated paid holiday. B. Employees C. Bargaining unit employees shall be entitled to transfer sick leave credit from other Florida school districts or a state educational agency to the District. Transferred sick leave shall be in addition to sick leave in which a staff member is entitled from this District. The transferred leave which is credited to an employee’s account shall be at a rate equal to the number of sick leave hours earned annually with the District. It is the employee’s responsibility to contact the other school district(s) or agency(ies) to request a transfer of sick leave. D. If a bargaining unit member employed in the District interrupts service and subsequently returns to duty in the District without having transferred and used his/her accrued sick leave credit in another Florida school district, previous accrued sick leave shall become valid on the first day of contractual service. E. Any NIPSCO based employee covered by this contract may donate accrued, earned sick leave to the employee’s spouse (person to whom the donor employee is legally married at the time of the donation), child (natural or adopted, but not step-child), parent (mother or father of the donor employee), or sibling (brother or sister, but not step-brother or step-sister), who are employed on is also a regular part-time or full-time basis during employee of the summer session school district (not a temporary employee, substitute, or OPS) at the time of the donation. The transfer of sick leave is subject to the following limitations and conditions: 1. the receiving employee must have exhausted all sick leave, excluding any sick leave received from the sick leave bank; 2. donated sick leave shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to used for illness only and must be supported by medical verification from a physician upon request of the above provisions.Executive Director of Human Resources; C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue 3. donated sick leave may use up to six days not be used for personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current leave; 4. unused donated sick leave accrualshall revert to the donor employee upon the receiving employee’s return to work; 5. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated donated sick leave days earned after July 1shall have no terminal leave value for the receiving employee; 6. leave may be donated in increments of not more than 10 days, 1954 will unless the Executive Director for Human Resources or designee approves a greater increment not to exceed the maximum number of scheduled workdays (or workdays remaining) in a fiscal year for the receiving employee; 7. the donation of sick leave must be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment requested and received by the Payroll Department (no later than the end of district pay period following the pay period in which the school system, except for employees who have retiredreceiving employee’s absence occurred). Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section Subd. 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves Fifteen (15) duty days of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each sick leave shall be credited to all new full-time permanent employee is entitled faculty members at the time of their employment to accumulate cover possible disability during the subsequent fifteen (15) months of employment. Beginning with the sixteenth (16th) month of employment, each faculty member will be credited with one (1) additional day of sick leave for each succeeding month or portion thereof of employment completed within the regular academic year, but not to exceed four and one half (4.5) days per month of employmentsemester, as applicable. Such During summer session(s), sick leave is to shall accrue at the rate of one (1) day for each four credits taught. Total sick leave accumulation for summer session work shall not exceed three (3) days. The maximum sick leave accumulation for any fiscal year shall be twelve (12) days. Sick leave earned in accordance with this subdivision will be accrued in the following manneron a bi-weekly basis. A. Each Subd. 2. Unused sick leave may accumulate to a total of one hundred twenty-five (125) days. Sick leave earned over the maximum will be considered lapsed but shall be recorded to the faculty member’s credit. In the event that a faculty member with an illness exhausts his/her current accumulated sick leave, and has lapsed sick leave recorded to his/her credit, additional sick leave shall be granted by the President/designee upon valid medical documentation, to the extent required by the employee’s illness, but not to exceed the total amount of his/her lapsed sick leave. Subd. 3. Faculty members on a full-time permanent employee fixed-term appointment as provided for in Article 21, Section E, shall be credited upon initial employment with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one (1) day of sick leave for each month of employmentservice. Subd. 4. Probationary, tenured, fixed-term and NTT faculty commencing employment on less than a full-time basis shall be given sick leave credit as described in this section at the commencement of employment on a pro rata basis. Such part-time faculty members shall accumulate sick leave on the basis of one (1) day for each month employed pro rata multiplied by the fraction of the time employed. Use of sick leave for such faculty members shall be deducted on a pro rata basis according to the fraction of the time employed at the time of leave. Sick leave earned in accordance with this subdivision will be accrued on a bi-weekly basis. Subd. 5. Sick leave shall be granted by the President/designee for absences made necessary by reason of illness or disability, including temporary disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery therefrom; by exposure to contagious disease which may endanger the individual or the public health; or by illness or temporary disability caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery therefrom in the immediate family of the faculty member, making it necessary that the faculty member be absent from his/her duties. In the case of absence for illness of members of the immediate family, the term “immediate family” shall be defined to include the spouse, siblings, children, step children, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children, grandchildren, wards, grandparents, parents, or parents of the spouse. These provisions shall include an individual who regularly resides in the employee’s household. A faculty member may use up to three (3) days of sick leave to arrange for the nursing care of the faculty member’s parents or parents of the spouse. Subd. 6. Any probationary, tenured, fixed-term and NTT faculty member reemployed within one (1) year at the same or any other university within the System shall have unused accumulated sick leave reinstituted and posted to the employee’s credit in the records of the employing university, provided such sick leave was accrued in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, and provided such sick leave has not been used in the calculation of severance pay. In the event such sick leave was used in the calculation of severance pay, the faculty member shall have sixty percent (60%) of the unused accumulated sick leave reinstituted and posted to the faculty member’s credit. Subd. 7. All unused sick leave earned prior to ratification of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, and shall be credited fully to the employee at the end of the month each faculty member’s sick leave accumulation. Subd. 8. Probationary, tenured, fixed-term and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more NTT faculty members with appointments for periods other than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick hundred sixty-eight (168) duty days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on have the number of days of sick leave an employee per year to be accrued calculated in accordance with the following formula: Subd. 9. The IFO and MnSCU may accruedevelop a sick leave incentive program through establishment of a joint committee, but any final agreement on the Employer’s part is subject to the approval of the Minnesota Statutes § 43A statutory employer. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session Subd. 10. Adjunct and community faculty shall be eligible allowed to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisionsmiss all or part of two class days each semester for reasons set forth in Subd. 5 without loss of pay. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fulla. Employees will be granted one-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of day's sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave pay for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment work during the year of employmentregular school year. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from month to month during the school year and from year to year up to a maximum of 145 days. For employees hired on or after July 1, 2004, the monthly sick leave accrual will be .8333 (10/12) days, with a maximum sick leave accrual during the school year of 8.33 days for the first five (5) years of service. At the beginning of the sixth year of service, employees will be granted one-day's sick leave with pay for each month of work during the regular school year. i) Paraprofessionals will be allowed to use one of such sick days per year for personal business provided that reasonable advance notice is given to the head of the school and/or supervisor. Days off for personal business are intended to be used for personal business which cannot be conducted on other than a school day and there shall during other than school and/or work day hours. ii) Effective July 1, 2004, employees may use three days per year from their sick leave balances for the care of ill family members. Approval of such leave is discretionary with the supervisor and proof of such disability must be no limit on provided by the number employee, satisfactory to the supervisor within (5) five working days of days the employee’s return to work. iii) Effective July 1, 2004, the use of sick leave for care of ill family members shall be limited to a maximum of one-fourth (1/4) of the amount of sick leave hours accruable by an eligible employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on during the current leave year or one-fourth (1/4) of the sick leave hours accruable by a full-time employee in the same title during a leave year, whichever is less. Approved usage of sick leave for care of ill family members may be charged in units of one (1) hour. b. Employees whose sick leave allowance is exhausted shall have the right to apply to the Personnel Board to borrow against future sick leave in accordance with applicable administrative regulations. c. Information on accumulated sick leave will be given to each employee, in writing, once a year. d. Paraprofessionals serving in schools shall not suffer loss of sick leave days for absence due to illness from the following children's diseases: rubeola (measles), epidemic parotitis (mumps), and varicella (chicken pox). It is understood that this paragraph does not apply to rubella (German measles). e. Employees with two years of service who leave for reasons of illness shall, subject to approval of the Medical Board, be entitled to return within one year on the basis of seniority and shall regain the seniority and other rights they had before leaving. f. Employees who work during the summer session shall will be eligible to accrue granted one day of sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearfor each month of work or major portion thereof, provided except that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned employees hired on or after July 1, 1954 will 2004 shall be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in granted .833 days for each month of work for the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3first five (5) years of service. Sick leave days so earned are cumulative from month to month during the summer. Unused sick days earned during the summer shall be approved in carried over to the following two categoriesregular school year up to the 145 day maximum. A. Illness g. Sick leave may be used in units of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leaveone hour.

Sick Leave. Section 129.5.1 The Employer shall grant sick leave to any active member of the bargaining unit who is absent from her duties for medical reasons. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee member shall be entitled to earn no more than one full pay and benefits for up to 119 calendar days after which Long Term Disability benefits will come into effect if applicable. 29.5.2 A member shall inform her Chair/Director and ▇▇▇▇ (or the University Librarian) of the necessity to take sick leave as early as such notice is possible. After seven (7) working days of absence for unanticipated medical reasons, the member shall ensure that a medical certificate, including the anticipated date of return to work, from a licensed physician is forwarded to Human Resources. A member shall ensure that, before her return to work, a fitness to return to work assessment from a licensed physician is forwarded to Human Resources. Human Resources will provide a summary of non-private information on such sick leave to the ▇▇▇▇ (or the University Librarian) and Vice-President (Academic) for inclusion in her administrative file. 29.5.3 A member who is ineligible for consideration under a Long Term Disability insurance program and needs to extend her sick leave beyond 119 calendar days, shall inform her Chair/Director and ▇▇▇▇/University Librarian as early as such notice is possible and before the 119th day of sick leave. The member shall provide sufficient medical evidence, as determined by an independent third party, for inclusion in her administrative file. 29.5.4 A member who extends her sick leave times under Article 29.5.3 shall not receive salary and benefits from the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount University for the sick days utilized period of the extension, but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue participate in the benefit plans at her own cost in accordance with the terms and conditions of the plans. 29.5.5 Where a member agrees to assume an overload in the event of sick leave, such overload shall be subject to the provisions of 23.13. 29.5.6 A member who has been absent from her duties for two (2) consecutive years, and who is either receiving long-term disability benefits or who is ineligible to receive Long Term Disability insurance and who has extended her sick leave under Article 29.5.3, shall be deemed to have ceased her employment with the University and her membership in the bargaining unit, subject to review, on a case by case basis, of the duty to accommodate. 29.5.7 A member on sick leave of more than thirteen (13) weeks duration may elect to defer contractual decisions on reappointment or tenure/permanence by one year. Where such deferral is sought, the member shall provide written notice to the Vice-President (Academic) within thirty (30) working days of receiving notice from the Vice-President (Academic) that she is eligible for such consideration, as stated in Article 20.38.2 and 20.41.2 and Article 21.38.2 and 21.41.2. 29.5.8 As soon as such information is available, the Employer shall provide the President of the Association with the names of members granted sick leave, the terms of such leaves and, where appropriate, copies of notice to defer reappointment or tenure/permanence consideration, pursuant to the above provisionsArticle 29.5.5. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee 7.1 Employees shall be credited with four days of accrue sick leave at the end rate of eight (8) hours per month with a maximum accrual of one thousand forty (1040) hours allowed for carryover each calendar year. Part time employees working ten (10) or more hours per week shall accrue sick leave at the first month same rate but in proportion to the number of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of hours worked. 7.2 Employees noted in Section 7.1 above are entitled to use sick leave for each month of employmentonly a bona fide illness or injury, which shall be credited quarantine due to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior exposure to the time it is earned and credited contagious diseases, any physical treatment or examination including medical, dental or ocular. Employees may also use sick leave for illness or injury to the employee; however’s spouse, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times domestic partner, minor child, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or any person living in the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/herimmediate household, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by requiring the employee’s attendance and/or care. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick ▇▇▇▇ leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearalso be used for parents, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband including “step” and “in‐law” relationships as well as ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew, legal guardian, in loco parentis, and de facto situations. Sick leave for the care of other individuals with “family like” relationships may be considered by the Employer on a case‐by‐case basis. Bargaining unit members are entitled to the protection of the Washington Family Care Act and all other applicable laws. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons 7.3 Employees entitled to sick leave who reside have exhausted their sick leave accrual may use accrued vacation. 7.4 Time off for medical purposes shall be charged against sick leave for actual time used only. 7.5 Employees are eligible to use only sick leave which is in their leave bank. An employee may not use leave that is being accrued in the same residence current pay period. 7.6 Sickness or disability shall be reported to the department head or immediate supervisor prior to time for commencement of the employee’s workday, or as soon thereafter as practicable. The employee may be required to provide a note of verification as permitted by law. 7.7 Any employee who has reached their maximum accrual of one thousand forty (1040) sick leave hours during the person who previous 12 consecutive calendar months, shall be eligible to cash out at straight time, 33% of all hours that would have been accrued over the maximum allowed. The benefit paid under this article shall be pro‐rated for part time employees. This benefit will be paid out in December of each year. 7.8 If an employee retires from the City, meeting PERS plan requirements, or in the event of death of the current employee, that employee or the employee’s beneficiary is requesting eligible to cash out 25% of their sick leaveleave balance at their current straight time rate. 7.9 The city shall administer state and federal laws related to family leave in accordance with those laws and consistent with city personnel policies. This includes FMLA, Washington Paid Family Medical Leave and the Washington Family Care Rules.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee Superintendent shall be entitled to earn no more than one day a minimum of ten (10) sick days each Contract year, which annual sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board allotment may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned be increased by the employeeCorporation but shall never be decreased below the minimum number set forth herein. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave The Superintendent may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in accordance with the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside Southeastern Schools 260 Day Administrative Benefits Package, which is attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit B (the “Benefit Package”). The Superintendent will have the right to annually sell any unused sick days over 50, but not more than 20, back to the Corporation at $67.50 per day, and the payment made to the Superintendent for buying back such days shall be deposited into a retirement account on the Superintendent’s behalf or paid in cash to the Superintendent, whichever option is elected in the same residence Superintendent’s sole discretion. Banked Sick Days (as further defined below) shall not be eligible for the person who is requesting buy-out provision described in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation recognizes that Superintendent has Two Hundred Seventy-Eight (278) sick leavedays which were previously accrued by Superintendent from the Superintendent’s former employer (the “Banked Sick Days”). The parties hereby agree that the Banked Sick Days may be used by Superintendent for personal illness or for an illness in the immediate family. However, the parties hereby further agree that Superintendent shall not be compensated for the Banked Sick Days under any circumstance in which the Banked Sick Days are not utilized for personal illness or for an illness in the immediate family, including, without limitation, (i) any Corporation policy allowing for sick days to be “cashed out”, (ii) pursuant to the termination or non-renewal of this Contract for any reason, or (iii) Superintendent’s retirement. For purposes of clarity, Superintendent may be eligible to utilize any unused sick days which are newly accrued under the employment of Corporation to participate in the buy-back program for purchase of sick days described above.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. A. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however: However, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 1982, will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. B. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories.: A. 1. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband Mother Husband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Step-parents Sister Child Stepchildren Step-children Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent parents Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. 2. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave. C. A full-time permanent employee may authorize the donation of up to five sick leave days per year to another permanent DCSMEC bargaining unit member who: 1. has exhausted all personal sick leave days; 2. has been confined for 10 working days or more without pay. An employee who donates personal sick leave days to another employee must maintain a sick leave balance of 12 days. Any sick leave days donated shall not be deemed absences for purposes of determining eligibility for the Good or Perfect Attendance Incentives. D. The supervising administrator may release an employee for up to two hours for the purpose of medical and/or dental appointments. The employee may be required by the supervising administrator to provide verification of such appointments. The release must be requested of the supervising administrator at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled appointment.

Sick Leave. Section Subd. 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves Twenty duty days of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each sick leave shall be credited to all new full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate faculty members at the time of their employment. After entirely offsetting the sick leave advance described in this paragraph through sick leave earned through work as described in this section, each faculty member will be credited with one additional day of sick leave for each succeeding month or portion thereof of employment completed within the regular academic year, but not to exceed five days per month of employmentsemester, as applicable. Such During summer session(s), sick leave is to shall accrue at the rate of one day for each four credits taught. Total sick leave accumulation for summer session work shall not exceed three days. The maximum sick leave accumulation for any Fiscal Year shall be 13 days. Sick leave earned in accordance with this subdivision will be accrued in the following manneron a bi-weekly basis. A. Each Subd. 2. Unused sick leave will accumulate without limit. Following implementation of the 2023-2025 Agreement, and at a time convenient to the Employer’s personnel processes, the Employer will transfer each faculty member’s lapsed sick leave, if any, to the individual’s sick leave balance. The Employer will notify the IFO when such transfer has been implemented. Subd. 3. Faculty members on a full-time permanent employee fixed-term appointment as provided for in Article 21, Section E, shall be credited upon initial employment with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueservice. B. Employees who are employed Subd. 4. Probationary, tenured, fixed-term and NTT faculty commencing employment on less than a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue given sick leave pursuant credit as described in this section at the commencement of employment on a pro rata basis. Such part-time faculty members shall accumulate sick leave on the basis of one day for each month employed pro rata multiplied by the fraction of the time employed. Use of sick leave for such faculty members shall be deducted on a pro rata basis according to the above provisionsfraction of the time employed at the time of leave. Sick leave earned in accordance with this subdivision will be accrued on a bi-weekly basis. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrualSubd. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 35. Sick leave shall be approved granted by the President/designee for absences made necessary by reason of illness or disability, including temporary disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery therefrom; by exposure to contagious disease which may endanger the individual or the public health; or by illness or temporary disability caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery therefrom in the following two categoriesimmediate family of the faculty member, making it necessary that the faculty member be absent from work. Faculty members shall also be permitted to take sick leave as provided by statute. For purposes of this section, the term immediate family has the meaning provided in Article 5, Section A, Subd. 21. A faculty member may use up to three days of sick leave to arrange for the nursing care of the faculty member’s parents or parents of the spouse/domestic partner. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves 15.01 Sick leave means the period of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent an employee is entitled permitted to accumulate one day be absent from work with pay by reason of being sick, disabled or because of an accident or illness for which compensation is not payable under the Workers' Compensation Act or because the employee is quarantined by a medical health officer (hereinafter collectively referred to as "sickness"). (a) Each employee, other than a probationary employee, will be allowed not more than twenty-four (24) days sick leave credit per year on the basis of two (2) days for every month of employmentservice. (b) Five (5) of such sick days will be credited in advance upon completion of the probationary period for usage in case of illness. Usage of advance sick days may require the employee to support an absence with the certificate of a qualified medical practitioner. Advanced sick leave credits will be charged against sick days credited under Article 15.02(a). 15.03 If in any calendar year an employee has not used all the sick leave to which entitled, the sick leave will accumulate and such unused portion shall be carried forward for use in future years. 15.04 If an employee is unable to work by reason of sickness or if required to attend a doctor’s appointment for the under mentioned periods, then a deduction in the amount set opposite shall be made from the employee's sick leave credit if any: 0 - 3 hours - nil more than 3 hours up to 6 hours - 1/2 day more than 6 hours up to 8 hours - one day 15.05 The Board may require an employee to produce a physician's certificate to support an absence on account of sickness in excess of three (3) days and, if it has expressly notified the employee, may require the employee to produce such a certificate to support an absence on account of sickness of any duration. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shallrequest, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior unreasonably exercised, shall be made in writing by the employee’s Senior Manager of Facilities Services. 15.06 While an employee is on a leave of absence without pay or is on layoff the employee shall not accumulate any sick leave credits but shall retain whatever sick leave credit the employee may have accumulated at the date of such leave or layoff and be entitled to the time it use thereof upon return from such leave or upon being rehired subsequent to being recalled. 15.07 Leave without pay shall be granted to an employee who: (i) is earned not entitled to sick leave but who is required to be absent by reason of sickness; OR (ii) is unable to return to work at the termination of the period for which sick leave was granted. 15.08 The Board will maintain a record of all sick leave credits and credited any employee may apply to the Board for information as to the amount of the employee; however's sick leave credit. Each employee shall be informed bi-annually in writing as to the amount of such credits. 15.09 If an employee: (i) dies, each the beneficiary named in the group life insurance policy with the Board, OR (ii) retires at age fifty-five (55) or older from the Board, the employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one a gratuity calculated in accordance with the following: the employee's normal hourly rate of pay multiplied by the normal numbers of hours worked per day multiplied by the number of unused accumulated days of sick leave times the number applicable percentage based on years of months service: Years of employment during Service Percentage of Leave Credits 3 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 8 9 9 10 10 11 12 12 14 13 16 14 18 15 21 16 24 17 27 18 30 19 33 20 36 21 39 22 42 23 45 24 48 25 50 but in no circumstances shall such gratuity exceed 50% of the year employee's annual rate of employment. If salary at the date of such retirement or death. 15.10 An employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued who is required to remain at home as the four sick days only one available to him/her, look after the School Board needs of a family member who is seriously ill may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by apply to the employee's supervisor for a leave of absence. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearleave, provided that such days if granted, shall be charged against the employee's current accumulated sick leave. 15.11 If during vacation an employee suffers an illness or accident which incapacitates the employee for more than five (5) days and such illness or accident is supported by a physician's certificate acceptable to the Board, the employee for the period of such incapacity shall be regarded as having been on sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused to the extent the employee had accumulated sick leave credits, and shall be permitted to take such portion of vacation for which the employee was so incapacitated at a later time acceptable to the employee and to the Board. 15.12 Notwithstanding any other provision herein contained, the initial 12 days earned after July 1, 1954 will of sick leave credits accumulated each year shall be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment used exclusively for an employee’s personal illness. Any additional accumulation beyond 12 days may be used either for personal illness or other leaves of absences as defined in the school system, except for employees who have retiredcollective agreement. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. ‌ 20.1 Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each bargaining unit employee shall be entitled to earn no more than fifteen (15) days of paid sick leave for each year taken in accordance with the provisions of this Article, accruing at one day and one-quarter (1¼) sick days for every month in which they are in pay status. All employees may take sick leave in one- quarter (¼) hour increments. For sick time taken in accordance with the provisions of this Article, employees shall be paid their regular straight-time hourly rate of pay for each hour (or portion of each hour) of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such taken. 20.2 Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year without limitation. 20.3 Employees may use sick leave for absence due to year personal illness, injury or pregnancy. Sick leave may also be used for absence due to illness or injury in the immediate family (defined for this provision as: parents/guardian, spouse, adult and there minor children, grandparents, siblings, and corresponding step- and in-law relations, except as may otherwise be required by law). 20.3.1 Employees may use sick leave for the death of any relative listed in 20.3 above. The length of such absence shall be no limit subject to review, and any limitation on such absence subject to approval, by the number Superintendent. 20.4 The Employer maintains the right to investigate any employee’s absence or pattern of absences (including dock days), to require a physician’s written certification of the nature of any illness or injury of an employee, and/or to require a fitness-for-duty examination by a physician appointed by the Board at the Board’s expense. The Employer also maintains the right to require a physician’s written certification of an immediate family member’s illness or injury. An employee who fraudulently requests sick leave or falsifies a physician’s certificate or other sick leave record may be subject to appropriate disciplinary action, up to and including termination. 20.5 Each new employee (employed less than one (1) year) who has insufficient accumulated sick leave to cover an absence shall be advanced up to five (5) days of sick leave an leave. Those days shall not be added to, or supplement, the amount that the employee may accrueearns on the basis of completed months of service. B. 20.6 Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be not eligible to accrue for Family and Medical Leave may take sick leave pursuant to for the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use birth and following the birth of a child for a period of up to six days personal (6) weeks, absent a medical reason to take additional time. Absent a medical reason to take more than six (6) weeks, employees must request an unpaid leave with pay per yearof absence to take such additional time. In order to be granted sick leave due to pregnancy beyond the six (6) week period stated in this paragraph, provided that a physician’s statement will be required. 20.7 When an employee is absent for any reason, a report for such days absence signed by the employee and their Supervisor shall be charged against completed by such employee on the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativeemployee timesheet and shall be filed with the Treasurer. Section 2. All unused 20.8 Up to fifteen (15) days of accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 per year will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment considered unrestricted and can be used for sick or bereavement leave in the school systemconnection with a person not listed in 20.3 above, except that more than five (5) days of bereavement leave for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave the death of someone not listed in 20.3 above shall be approved subject to approval by the Superintendent. Generally, requests of more than five (5) days for the death of someone not listed in 20.3 above will need to be justified by the following two categoriesneed for out-of- state or out-of-country travel or a particularly close relationship or other special circumstances, but such requests shall not be unreasonably denied. These fifteen (15) days are not in addition to the days accumulated under paragraph 20.1 above. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section Subd. 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves Fifteen (15) duty days of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each sick leave shall be credited to all new full-time permanent employee is entitled faculty members at the time of their employment to accumulate cover possible disability during the subsequent fifteen (15) months of employment. Beginning with the sixteenth (16th) month of employment, each faculty member will be credited with one (1) additional day of sick leave for each succeeding month or portion thereof of employment completed within the regular academic year, but not to exceed four and one half (4.5) days per month of employmentsemester, as applicable. Such During summer session(s), sick leave is to shall accrue at the rate of one (1) day for each four (4) credits taught. Total sick leave accumulation for summer session work shall not exceed three (3) days. The maximum sick leave accumulation for any Fiscal Year shall be twelve (12) days. Sick leave earned in accordance with this subdivision will be accrued in the following manneron a bi-weekly basis. A. Each Subd. 2. Unused sick leave may accumulate to a total of one hundred twenty-five (125) days. ▇▇▇▇ leave earned over the maximum will be considered lapsed but shall be recorded to the faculty member’s credit. In the event that a faculty member with an illness exhausts current accumulated sick leave, and has a lapsed sick leave balance, additional sick leave shall be granted by the President/designee upon valid medical documentation, to the extent required by the employee’s illness, but not to exceed the total amount of the faculty member’s lapsed sick leave. Subd. 3. Faculty members on a full-time permanent employee fixed-term appointment as provided for in Article 21, Section E, shall be credited upon initial employment with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one (1) day of sick leave for each month of employmentservice. Subd. 4. Probationary, tenured, fixed-term and NTT faculty commencing employment on less than a full-time basis shall be given sick leave credit as described in this section at the commencement of employment on a pro rata basis. Such part-time faculty members shall accumulate sick leave on the basis of one (1) day for each month employed pro rata multiplied by the fraction of the time employed. Use of sick leave for such faculty members shall be deducted on a pro rata basis according to the fraction of the time employed at the time of leave. Sick leave earned in accordance with this subdivision will be accrued on a bi-weekly basis. Subd. 5. Sick leave shall be granted by the President/designee for absences made necessary by reason of illness or disability, including temporary disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery therefrom; by exposure to contagious disease which may endanger the individual or the public health; or by illness or temporary disability caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery therefrom in the immediate family of the faculty member, making it necessary that the faculty member be absent from work. For purposes of this section, the term immediate family has the meaning provided in Article 5, Section A, Subd. 21. A faculty member may use up to three (3) days of sick leave to arrange for the nursing care of the faculty member’s parents or parents of the spouse/domestic partner. (See Appendix K.) Subd. 6. Any probationary, tenured, fixed-term and NTT faculty member reemployed within one (1) year at the same or any other university within the System shall have unused accumulated sick leave reinstituted and posted to the employee’s credit in the records of the employing university, provided such sick leave was accrued in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, and provided such sick leave has not been used in the calculation of severance pay. In the event such sick leave was used in the calculation of severance pay, the faculty member shall have sixty percent (60%) of the unused accumulated sick leave reinstituted and posted to the faculty member’s credit. Subd. 7. All unused sick leave earned prior to ratification of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, and shall be credited fully to the employee at the end of the month each faculty member’s sick leave accumulation. Subd. 8. Probationary, tenured, fixed-term and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more NTT faculty members with appointments for periods other than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick hundred sixty-eight (168) duty days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on have the number of days of sick leave an employee per year to be accrued calculated in accordance with the following formula: Subd. 9. The IFO and MnSCU may accruedevelop a sick leave incentive program through establishment of a joint committee, but any final agreement on the Employer’s part is subject to the approval of the Minnesota Statutes § 43A statutory employer. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session Subd. 10. Adjunct and community faculty shall be eligible allowed to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisionsmiss all or part of two (2) class days each semester for reasons set forth in Subd. 5 without loss of pay. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section All regularly licensed personnel shall be entitled to sick leave for temporary absence without loss of salary in accordance with the following provisions of this section: 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves illness may be that of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationsthe employee or a member of the employee’s immediate family. Each The immediate family includes the spouse, child, or parent of the employee. Extenuating circumstances will be considered. 2. Nine (9) days of sick leave shall be available to all regular full-time permanent employee is entitled employees, beginning on the first day of each school year. These days will be pro rated for employees who work less than full-time, or for employees who do not complete the entire school year. 3. Unused sick leave may be accumulated without limitation. 4. For calculating purposes, the following guidelines will be followed for full- time teaching personnel concerning absence for illness: a. Two (2) hours absence or less - no sick leave charged; b. Two to accumulate four (2-4) hours absence - one half-day (1/2) sick leave charged; c. Over four (4) hours absence - full day sick leave charged. 5. Use of sick leave for purposes other than those authorized above will result in loss of pay for the days taken. 6. Upon advance notice to a teacher, he/she shall be required to furnish proof of illness, proof of fitness to return to duty, or proof of fitness to continue to perform duty. At any time, the District may require the teacher to be examined by a physician designated by the District at District expense. 7. Teachers acquire immediate eligibility for the current year’s sick leave allotment on the first day of each school year. If they leave District employment prior to the end of the school year, salary deduction will be made for sick leave taken, but not earned. One (1) day of sick leave is earned per month of employmentthe school year. 8. Such In addition to the sick leave provided in Subsection G.2. above, teachers shall be granted up to two (2) additional days of leave per year when there is a serious illness or injury in the teacher’s immediate family (as defined in Subsection G.1. above) requiring the care or attendance of the teacher. This additional leave shall not be available until all accumulated sick leave is to exhausted and the teacher shall have taken one (1) day for such purposes without pay. The unused portion of such leave may not be accrued in accumulated under the following mannerprovisions of Subsection G.3. above. A. Each full-time permanent employee a. Additional leave requests shall be credited with four made in writing and sent to the Office of Human Resources a minimum of three (3) days of sick leave at the end in advance of the first month of employment of each contract year day for which the leave is required. b. In emergency situations, the request may be written and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to submitted following the employee at the end use of the month and which leave. In emergency situations, the timing of the submission shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accruea factor in its approval or disapproval. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than be absent from work without loss of compensation because of personal illness or quarantine for a total of twelve (12) days during the second year of employment and for each consecutive year thereafter. An employee during his first year of employment or part thereof shall be entitled to be absent from work without loss of compensation because of personal illness or quarantine for the number of days to be determined on the basis of one (1) day of sick leave times per month or part thereof for the number of months remaining in the present year; the maximum number of entitled days for the first year of employment during shall be granted to employee upon his first day of work. Subject to the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/herlimits contained in this Agreement, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such unused sick leave days shall be cumulative from year to year accumulate and there shall be no limit on the number of days if not otherwise used, remain for severance. However, annual accumulations of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue days, including personal business leaves and funeral leaves accumulated as additional sick leave days during a year, are subject to buyback pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against Annual Sick Leave Buyback Program under Section E of Article XIII if the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1exceed one hundred twenty (120) days. After three (3) consecutive days of sick leave, 1954 the Board will require proof of illness with the understanding that a physician’s statement will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in satisfactory. In the school systemevent of abnormal absence, except for employees who have retired. Section 3the Board may require proof after one (1) day. Sick leave shall days may be approved used in units of one-half (.5) day or a full day. Annual and accumulated sick leave days may be used for serious illness in the following two categoriesimmediate family. The term “immediate family” shall mean spouse or dependent child. Custodians who find it necessary to be absent because of illness should notify the building principal assistant principal or designee or, if unable to reach any of the aforementioned, notify the Risk Manager or designee, so that a substitute may be obtained. When the custodian is ready to return to duty, the custodian should notify the principal, assistant principal or designee or the Risk Manager or designee so that the substitute may be available for another assignment. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationsUpon hire into an administrative position each administrator shall be granted thirty (30) days banked sick leave. Each full-time permanent employee July 1 thereafter, each administrator shall be granted an additional twelve (12) days sick leave with a maximum accumulation of ninety (90) days. There is entitled to accumulate one day no payout of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following mannerdays banked on termination. A. Each fullFlex Time In the event that an administrator has an absence during the work day for sick leave or family illness that requires two (2) hours or less, the administrator may “flex” his/her time to make up for the two (2) hours or less during the same payroll period in which the absence occurred. In all instances wherein flex time is utilized, administrators must have written online approval from their immediate supervisor. The administrator will submit the absence via the online leave request system indicating the name of the point of contact (e.g., Lead Teacher or other Administrator) for his/her building and/or department during the absence. Written approval should be acquired before the two (2) hour or less absence occurs except in emergent circumstances. If the time cannot be made up within the same payroll wherein it was taken, then the administrator must take one-time permanent employee half (½) day’s sick leave. B. Short Term Disability In the event that an administrator has exhausted all available sick leave, and provided he/she has qualified for the Short Term Disability program, the district shall furnish further sick leave coverage only to the extent required in order for Short Term Disability payments to commence. An administrator shall also be granted sick leave in order to arrange for the care of a member of the administrator’s immediate family who becomes ill or disabled. Such leave shall be credited planned with four days of sick leave at and subject to the end approval of the first month administrator’s immediate supervisor. For purposes of employment this section the term “immediate family” shall be defined as the administrator’s spouse, domestic or life partner, parent, parent-in-law, sibling, grandchild, stepchild or child. Income protection beyond the provisions of each contract year and shallthis section shall be provided by the district through the long-term disability plan provided. The district, thereafterat its expense, be credited for one shall provide members of the bargaining unit short-term disability insurance coverage at eighty-five percent (85%) of salary. The short-term coverage commences as of the forty sixth calendar day of sick leave for each month absence. The policy includes a maximum short-term disability payment of employment, which shall twenty (20) weeks. Payments will be credited provided directly to the employee at from the end of insurance provider. Long-term disability coverage is provided through the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; howeverDistrict’s medical insurance provider, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentMESSA Benefits Services. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on The long-term disability coverage policy states that administrators have a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual“modified fill” waiting period. This leave requires employees to exhaust all of their existing sick time or be considered “totally disabled” for one hundred and eighty calendar days, whichever period is non-cumulativelonger before qualifying for coverage. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. 17.2.1 The contract provisions governing purpose of sick leave utilization shall be for physical and mental disability absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each which make attendance impractical, or for legally established quarantine. 17.2.2 Subject to other specific District policies, full-time permanent employee is faculty who are employed full-time for 2 semesters shall be entitled to accumulate one day 10 days of leave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. Department chairs shall be entitled to 11 days of leave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. 100% coordinators shall be entitled to 12 days of leave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. 17.2.3 Earned but unused sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year. 17.2.4 Temporary contract faculty and those employed less than 10 months shall receive a proportionate share of sick leave per month based on length of employment. Such assignment. 17.2.5 Faculty employed on partial contract shall be entitled to a proportionate amount of sick leave. 17.2.6 Sick leave is not credited to be accrued in the following mannerfaculty on sabbatical leave. A. Each 17.2.7 Faculty elected on a one-semester full-time permanent employee contract basis shall be credited with four granted five days of sick leave for that period. 17.2.8 Effective Winter 2012, part-time teaching faculty shall be entitled to sick leave at the end rate of seven hours for each one hundred hours of teaching service. Effective Winter 2012, part-time non-teaching faculty shall be entitled to seven hours for each one hundred hours of service. 17.2.9 Faculty who teach overload hours, or summer or winter intersessions, shall accrue sick leave at the hourly rate. Hours accrued in this manner will be accumulated in an hourly sick leave bank. Six hours shall be equivalent to one day. Overload and intersession absences will be deducted from the hourly sick leave bank until it is exhausted. Intersession absences in excess of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, hourly bank will be credited for one day of deducted from the regular sick leave for each month of employment, which bank. 17.2.10 Accumulated sick leave may be used during the regular academic year or during intersessions when employed. Sick leave accumulated in other California school Districts shall be credited to the employee at the end all academic employees of the month District as provided in Education Code Section 87782 and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be 87783. As provided in Education Code Section 22717 members of STRS Defined Benefit Program are entitled to earn no more than one day of additional service credit for unused sick leave times the number at retirement. Every six hours of months accumulated unused hours of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from equivalent to one day of unused sick leave, subject to STRS interpretation and regulation. 17.2.11 Faculty members who do not complete an academic year due to year and there shall verified illness or maternity leave will not be no limit on required to repay the number of days of District for advanced sick leave an employee may accruedays used but not earned. B. Employees 17.2.12 Sick leave shall not be transferrable from one faculty member’s accumulated balance to that of another faculty member except under the provisions established in Board of Trustees Policy 4154, Catastrophic Illness/Injury Leave Donation (“Policy”), herein incorporated as Appendix P. The Policy shall extend and apply to any faculty member who needs to take extended time off from work to care for a family member with a catastrophic illness or injury as these terms are employed defined in the Policy. Contribution to and use of this pool is voluntary and not subject to grievance under this Agreement. 17.2.13 Faculty members who resign during the college year or go on personal or opportunity leave and have used more sick leave days than they have earned or accumulated shall have the appropriate pro-rata amount deducted from his/her final warrant. 17.2.14 The Board of Trustees, the Superintendent/President or designee may require a medical verification statement from any academic employee who is absent due to illness or injury. Such requests may be made to determine fitness to return to work. Requests will be made on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue timely basis. 17.2.15 Faculty members who have used all accumulated sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave entitlement may use up to six days personal petition for extended illness or injury leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored for a period not to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.exceed five school

Sick Leave. Section A. Members who are absent because of personal or immediate family illness or injury shall receive compensation on account of sickness during such absence in accordance with the provisions contained in this Article. Immediate family shall include the member’s spouse, child, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, parent, father-in- law, mother-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparents, grandchildren, domestic partners, or a person for whom the member has caretaking responsibilities. 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves All members shall be granted ten days’ sick leave during each school year. Members who begin service after the start of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is the school year will be entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to remaining in the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentschool year. 2. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such A member’s unused sick leave shall be cumulative accumulate from year to year and there shall for the period of time the member is employed in the District. 3. Regular part time members will be no limit on the number of days of entitled to sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a in the ratio that their service bears to full-time basis during service. 4. Unused sick leave accumulated by a member in another district which most recently employed the summer session member shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use recognized by this District up to six days personal leave with pay per yeara maximum of seventy-five (75) days, as provided in ORS 332.507, provided that such a recognition and transfer of unused sick leave credit shall not be effective until the member has completed thirty (30) days of actually working in this District. 5. Members may use all of their accumulated sick leave as provided for by FMLA/OFLA. The order of the accumulated leave to be used is at the discretion of the employee and communicated to the District prior to the leave whenever possible. 6. The District will also comply with SB454 as it relates to allowable uses of sick leave not covered in FMLA, OFLA and the CBA and related benefits. (See Appendix C Sick Time.) B. A pregnant member will be granted any accumulated sick leave for a period of pre- delivery or post-delivery hospitalization or home leave that the member’s physician determines to be medically necessary through written verification. C. Members who are absent due to a compensable injury as defined in Oregon's Worker's Compensation Law, shall continue to receive sick leave pay as provided in paragraph A of this section, but such payments shall be reduced by amounts equal to the benefits received by the individual under the Worker's Compensation Law in accordance with the formula set forth in ORS 656.240. As an alternative, the member may elect that such an absence not be charged against the employee's current member’s sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated days, and the member will not receive sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredpay during such absence. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. A. As provided in Section 44978 of the Education Code: 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in Every unit member employed five (5) days a week by the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee District shall be entitled to earn no more than one day twelve (12) days leave of sick leave times absence for illness or injury, exclusive of all days he/she is not required to render service to the number of months of employment during the District, with full pay, for a school year of employmentservice. 2. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick A unit member employed for less than five (5) school days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave a week shall be cumulative from entitled, for a school year of service, to year and there shall be no limit on that proportion of twelve (12) days leave of absence for illness or injury as the number of days he/she is employed per week bears to five (5). 3. Pay for any day of such absence shall be the same as the pay which would have been received had the unit member served during the day. 4. Credit for leave of absence need not be accrued prior to taking such leave by the unit member and such leave of absence may be taken at any time during the school year. If a unit member does not take the full amount of such leave allowed in any school year the amount not taken shall be accumulated from year to year. 5. A unit member shall have the right to utilize the sick leave provided herein for absences necessitated by disability resulting from pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery therefrom. 6. When administration, acting in good faith, suspects abuse of sick leave an employee by a unit member, the unit member will be given written non-disciplinary notice of the suspected abuse. This written non-disciplinary notice shall not be considered a step in Article XI, Progressive Discipline of this collective bargaining agreement. If suspected abuse continues, or if required by the Education Code, administration may accruerequire written justification signed by a physician. B. Employees 7. Unit members who are employed on a full-time basis during the teach summer session shall be eligible to school and/or intersession will accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave in accordance with pay per yearArticle XXXI, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrualSick Leave. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewleave will be earned at the rate of .0656 hours (equivalent to 12 sick days per 183 contract days) for each contracted hour of intersession and/or summer school session. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons 8. Unit members who reside teach in the same residence a supplemental instruction program may use one (1) day of accumulated sick leave per each ten (10) contracted program workdays. One (1) day of accumulated sick hours is defined as the person who is requesting sick leavenumber of hours contained in one contracted supplemental instruction program workday.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled Faculty shall have the right to accumulate one day of utilize sick leave per month due to personal illness or disability or because of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued a medical emergency in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year faculty member’s immediate family defined as spouse, children, parents, grandparents and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentgrandchildren. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has leave does not accrued the four sick days available qualify as FMLA or is due to him/herdeath to immediate family, the School Board leave shall be limited to five (5) days. If extenuating circumstances arise, the College President may withhold approve additional leave. A doctor’s statement substantiating the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employeeillness and/ or verifying ability to return to work may be required. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from earned at the rate of twelve (12) days per year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of with unlimited accumulation. All sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against available on the employee's current first day of the academic year. no payment for unused sick leave accrualtime accrued will be made. This leave If legislation during the term of this contract requires the College to pay faculty members for unused ac- crued sick days, the maximum which may be accrued for payment is non-cumulative. Section 2one hundred eighty (180) days. All unused Faculty who are disabled and have used all of his/her accumulated sick leave shall be paid one-half (½) his/her salary for a maximum of sixty (60) calendar days earned after July 1or until the state Universities Retirement system (sURs) begins disability payments, 1954 whichever comes first. the Board authorizes eCCFA to establish a sick Leave Bank. Donations to this bank will be restored open to employees previously employed upon returning all faculty members and will be voluntary. the bank shall be administered by Human Resources. the sick Leave Bank is subject to employment the following guidelines: 1. notices of participation in the school system, except bank must be provided on the appropriate form to Human Resources no later than september 30 for employees who have retiredthe current aca- demic year. Section 2. notice of withdrawal of participation must be made no later than septem- ber 30 for the current academic year. Days already donated shall remain in the bank. 3. Sick leave each faculty member may contribute up to two (2) sick days per academic year to the bank. 4. After depletion of personal sick leave, any eCC employee may apply to a faculty committee chaired by a member of the Human Resources staff for additional sick days from the bank. this committee will establish general guidelines for distribution of banked days. If the committee denies the request, the committee will notify the applicant in writing, with the reasons for denial. 5. the sick Leave Bank shall be approved available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of a family member. employees applying to the bank shall absolve and hold harmless in all respects the following two categoriesBoard of trustees, the administration, eCCFA and the committee regarding the establishment and implementation of the sick Leave Bank. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. 17.2.1 The contract provisions governing purpose of sick leave utilization shall be for physical and mental disability absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each which make attendance impractical, or for legally established quarantine. 17.2.2 Subject to other specific District policies, full-time permanent employee is faculty who are employed full-time for 2 semesters shall be entitled to accumulate one day 10 days of leave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. Department chairs shall be entitled to 11 days of leave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. 100% coordinators shall be entitled to 12 days of leave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. 17.2.3 Earned but unused sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year. 17.2.4 Temporary contract faculty and those employed less than 10 months shall receive a proportionate share of sick leave per month based on length of employment. Such assignment. 17.2.5 Faculty employed on partial contract shall be entitled to a proportionate amount of sick leave. 17.2.6 ▇▇▇▇ leave is not credited to be accrued in the following mannerfaculty on sabbatical leave. A. Each 17.2.7 Faculty elected on a one-semester full-time permanent employee contract basis shall be credited with four granted five days of sick leave for that period. 17.2.8 Effective Winter 2012, part-time teaching faculty shall be entitled to sick leave at the end rate of seven hours for each one hundred hours of teaching service. Effective Winter 2012, part-time non-teaching faculty shall be entitled to seven hours for each one hundred hours of service. 17.2.9 Faculty who teach overload hours, or summer or winter intersessions, shall accrue sick leave at the hourly rate. Hours accrued in this manner will be accumulated in an hourly sick leave bank. Six hours shall be equivalent to one day. Overload and intersession absences will be deducted from the hourly sick leave bank until it is exhausted. Intersession absences in excess of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, hourly bank will be credited for one day of deducted from the regular sick leave for each month of employment, which bank. 17.2.10 Accumulated sick leave may be used during the regular academic year or during intersessions when employed. ▇▇▇▇ leave accumulated in other California school districts shall be credited to the employee at the end all academic employees of the month District as provided in Education Code Section 87782 and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be 87783. As provided in Education Code Section 22717 members of STRS Defined Benefit Program are entitled to earn no more than one day of additional service credit for unused sick leave times the number at retirement. Every six hours of months accumulated unused hours of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year equivalent to year one day of unused sick leave, subject to STRS interpretation and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueregulation. B. Employees 17.2.11 Faculty members who are employed on a full-time basis during do not complete an academic year due to verified illness or maternity leave will not be required to repay the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated District for advanced sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredused but not earned. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇17.2.12 ▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons leave shall not be transferrable from one faculty member’s accumulated balance to that of another faculty member except under the provisions established in Board of Trustees Policy 4154, Catastrophic Illness/Injury Leave Donation (“Policy”), herein incorporated as Appendix P. The Policy shall extend and apply to any faculty member who reside needs to take extended time off from work to care for a family member with a catastrophic illness or injury as these terms are defined in the same residence as Policy. Contribution to and use of this pool is voluntary and not subject to grievance under this Agreement. 17.2.13 Faculty members who resign during the person college year or go on personal or opportunity leave and have used more sick leave days than they have earned or accumulated shall have the appropriate pro-rata amount deducted from his/her final warrant. 17.2.14 The Board of Trustees, the Superintendent/President or designee may require a medical verification statement from any academic employee who is requesting absent due to illness or injury. Such requests may be made to determine fitness to return to work. Requests will be made on a timely basis. 17.2.15 Faculty members who have used all accumulated sick leaveleave entitlement may petition for extended illness or injury leave with pay for a period not to exceed five school months. The term “five school months” as specified in Education Code Section 87780 is interpreted to mean five consecutive school months of 20 days each commencing after all current year sick leave is exhausted. Such pay shall be the difference between the academic employee’s pay and that of a substitute. A written request is to be submitted to the Human Resources Office, accompanied by a verified medical report from the doctor, stating that to return to the faculty position would impair the person’s health.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences following Sections: 3-Parental Leave With Pay, 4-Personal Necessity, 5-Kin Care, and leaves of personnel 6-Catastrophic Leave are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled all related to accumulate one day the amount of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be the Unit Member has accrued in the following mannerand has available for use. A. Each full-time permanent employee Unit Member on a basic work year contract shall be credited with four accrue ten (10) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employeepersonal illness or injury. Such sick leave shall be cumulative credited at the commencement of the contract year. Unit Members employed on a work year contract other than the basic work year shall accrue sick leave on a prorated basis. Unused sick leave will accrue from year to year year. Any Unit Member who was hired on or after January 1, 2017 and there is a former active duty member of the Armed Forces of the United States or former or current member of the California National Guard or a federal reserve component with military service-connected disability rated at 30% or more by the United States Department of Veteran Affairs, shall be no limit on the number of entitled up to an additional 10 days of sick leave an during the first year of employment. The additional 10 paid sick leave days shall be for the purpose of undergoing medical treatment for his/her military service-connected disability. An employee may accruewho is employed for less than five days per week shall be entitled to a percentage of 10 days. The ▇▇▇ shall notify all new unit members hired on or after January 1, 2017 of this leave right. Notification to unit members shall be upon hiring. Sick leave days under this section shall be credited to a qualifying employee on the effective date of the employee’s disability rating decision from the VA, or on the first day the employee begins, or returns to employment after active duty, whichever is later, and shall remain available for use for the following 12 months of employment. B. Employees who Pregnancy Disability: Leave taken under this section shall run concurrently with and be counted against leave available under the Family Care and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the California Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL) law, excluding leave available under the California Unit members are employed entitled to leave without pay or other benefits when disabled due to pregnancy or a related medical condition, including miscarriage, childbirth, or recovery therefrom when sick leave and extended sick leave have been exhausted to the extent provided by law. The date on a full-time basis during which the summer session unit member must resume duties shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to determined by the above provisionsunit member and the unit member's health care provider. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is bargaining unit member shall be entitled to accumulate one day of fifteen (15) days sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of pay each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employmentunder contract, which shall be credited to the employee at the end rate of the month one and which one-fourth (1 ¼) days per month. All part-time bargaining unit members shall not be used prior to earn sick leave for the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentgranted full-time bargaining members. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year accumulated to year and there shall be no limit on a maximum of three hundred five (305) days or the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue.granted to certified personnel in the I.E. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearA. Master Agreement, provided that such whichever is higher. All days shall be charged against in correlation to the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative’s work day. Section 2. All unused A new employee with accumulated sick leave from another public agency shall have placed to his/her credit, upon written application and proof of such to the Treasurer, all sick leave accumulated with a previous public employer, not to exceed two hundred and sixty days earned after July 1(260) days. 3. A bargaining unit member who has not yet accumulated or who has exhausted his/her accumulation of necessary sick leave, 1954 shall be advanced up to a maximum of five (5) days sick leave, with the advanced days to be removed from such employee’s later accumulated number of sick days. If the bargaining unit member leaves the district before accumulating sufficient sick leave to cover the advanced sick leave day(s), such day(s) will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in deducted from the school system, except for employees who have retiredbargaining unit member’s last pay. Section 34. Sick leave shall days may be approved used to cover absences for personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others and for absences due to medical appointments illness, injury or death in the following two categoriesbargaining unit member’s immediate family. A. Illness 5. For purposes of self this Article, the immediate family of a bargaining unit member is defined to mean: father, mother, spouse, brother, sister, son, daughter, step- children, grandparents, grandchildren, or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside an individual residing in the same residence home of said bargaining unit member, or other family members with the immediate supervisor’s recommendation and the approval of the Superintendent. 6. On the day of his/her absence, a bargaining unit member shall give notice to the office of his/her immediate supervisor if he/she must use sick leave in accordance with this leave procedure. 7. All bargaining unit members who have advanced knowledge that they will need to use their accumulated sick leave on an extended basis, shall give the Administration as much advance notice as possible. In the person case unforeseen illness or disability, it is recognized that advance notice may not always be possible. 8. Any bargaining unit member using sick leave must furnish his/her immediate supervisor with a written signed statement within three (3) days after the bargaining unit member returns to work, on forms prescribed by the Board of Education, to justify the use of such leave. If medical attention is required, the bargaining unit member’s statement shall list the name and address of the attending physician and the dates consulted. 9. Any bargaining unit member who utilizes more than five sick days consecutively, must have a doctors note before returning to work. 10. After fifteen consecutive sick days are used (15 is requesting the number that EMIS requires to be reported as a long term) sick leaveleave will cease to be accumulated until the employee returns to work. 11. When an employee returns from an absence of more than 5 consecutive days, the Board has the right to order the employee undergo a medical examination if the employer has a “reasonable belief” that the employee’s ability to perform essential job functions will be impaired by a medical condition or that he or she will pose a direct threat due to a medical condition. The examination will be at the Board’s expense.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times credit of one and one-fourth (1 1/4) work days with pay, per month, for a total of fifteen (15) days per year, of which five may be for serious illness or death in the immediate family. Regular part-time employees will accrue sick leave on a proportionate basis based on their teaching schedule. Upon application of the employee and for good cause shown, the Superintendent shall authorize the use of such additional sick days as may be required for illness or death in the immediate family not to exceed that number of months accumulated and unused sick leave to the credit of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Sick days must be used on days the employee is absent while attending the funeral of an immediate family member. B. The total unused portion of the annual sick leave allowance shall be permitted to accumulate without limit. C. ▇▇▇▇ leave accumulated prior to a leave of absence shall be credited upon return. 1. The same monthly accrual of one and one-fourth (1 1/4) days per month shall continue during the use of sick leave, provided the employee has not been officially separated from the payroll. 2. If, while the employee is in an approved sick leave period, a calamity day is declared in the district, the employee's sick leave account shall not be charged for the calamity day. D. Any teacher who at the beginning of the first duty day for teachers has no accumulation of sick leave shall be cumulative from year entitled to year and there shall be no limit on the number an advancement of five (5) days of sick leave. This advance is to be charged against the sick leave an the employee may accruesubsequently accumulates. B. Employees E. The use of sick leave for more than five (5) consecutive days (required teacher work days) shall require the filing of a physician's statement documenting the need for sick leave and indicating any recommended additional sick leave with the Treasurer of the Board of Education. (The physician's statement should be attached to the absence and substitute report.) F. Teachers returning to duty from sick leave after thirty (30) consecutive working days during the same duty year in which the sick leave was initially granted shall be returned to the same assignment unless such assignments would significantly disrupt the academic achievement of the students within the class or classes. Said teacher will have the option to return to their original position at the beginning of the next semester subject to the provisions of this Master Agreement under Voluntary Transfer and Assignment. G. Teachers returning to duty from sick leave after thirty (30) consecutive working days absence shall submit a signed statement from their physician that they are able to resume their duties. Any teacher returning from an injury occurring at work that resulted in an incident report shall submit a signed statement from his/her physician that he/she is able to resume his/her duties. This also applies to an injury that occurred outside of the work place that resulted in absence from reporting to his/her duties. H. Immediate family shall be designated as spouse, partner living in the same household, children, parents, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren, mother-in- law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law. I. In the event of the serious illness or death of a person living in the same household as the employee or a person outside the immediate family who are employed on has the same relationships as though a member of the immediate family, each full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave employee may use up to six five (5) days personal sick leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section J. Two (2) days may be granted for funerals in case of death of other family members or close friends. All unused These days will be chargeable to sick leave. K. An employee whose personal illness extends beyond the termination of his/her accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1shall, 1954 will at his/her written request, be restored granted a leave of absence without pay for the duration of such illness, but not to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredexceed two (2) years. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The 11.2.1 Faculty members employed full time for a regular contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee year shall be credited with four ten (10) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each full pay. Faculty members employed on an extended contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which basis shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of with .25 days of sick leave an employee may accrueat full pay for each additional full week of service. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session 11.2.2 Except as otherwise provided in this agreement, sick leave utilization shall be eligible for physical and mental disability absence which make continued employment impractical. 11.2.2.1 Pursuant to accrue Labor Code 233, a unit member may use, during any contract year, up to six (6) days of accumulated sick leave for the illness of a dependent child, parent, spouse, or domestic partner. These days are exclusive of, and in addition to those provided for by Personal Necessity Leave. 11.2.3 Sick leave will be individually credited as of the first scheduled contractual day of each faculty member's contract. 11.2.4 Unused sick leave shall accrue year to year while the faculty member is continuously employed by the District. 11.2.5 Sick leave earned at another public school in California may be transferred to Yosemite Community College District upon request of the faculty member and verification by the former District. 11.2.5.1 This provision shall not be applicable if there is more than one (1) complete school year separating service with Yosemite Community College District and the former District. 11.2.6 Upon retirement, earned and unused sick leave may be utilized for extended service credit pursuant to the above provisionsapplicable provisions of the State Teachers' Retirement System. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue 11.2.7 After all earned sick leave may use at full pay as provided in 11.2.1 has been used and additional absence due to illness or injury is necessary, extended sick leave of up to six one hundred (100) days personal will be provided each faculty member pursuant to the District's short-term disability plan (effective November 1, 1986) and the following provisions: 11.2.7.1 Such leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against exclusive of the employeecurrent year's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused credit (11.2.1) and accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired(11.2.4). Section 311.2.7.2 Such leave is not cumulative from one year to the next. 11.2.7.3 The compensation for this period shall not exceed fifty (50) percent of the faculty member's regular salary. 11.2.8 Verification of sick leave utilized by contract (probationary) and tenured (regular) faculty members shall normally not be required for periods of absence less than five (5) consecutive days. (See Article 11.3 below) 11.2.9 Faculty employed on an hourly basis shall earn sick leave credit at the rate of one (1) hour for each twenty (20) hours of paid service. Sick leave shall credit will not be approved in the following two categoriesearned for any fraction of twenty (20) hours. Sick leave earned may not be credited to sick leave accrued during other District employment, nor may sick leave earned during other District employment be utilized for absence during hourly employment. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section A. Sick Leave, to be used for personal illness, shall be credited annually to each teacher on the first (1st) day of his employment as follows: 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves Ten (10) days each school year. 2. Sick leave days not used during the school year shall be allowed to accumulate to a maximum of personnel are patterned ninety (90) days. Unused sick days above 90 days shall be paid into the individual teacher's 401(A) plan at the end of each school year at the rate of forty dollars ($40) per day. 3. Sick leave days shall be transferable from the immediately previous school corporation after state laws and regulationsthe first (1st) year of employment at the rate of three (3) days leave per year until accumulation is exhausted. 4. Each fullPart-time permanent employee is entitled teachers' sick days shall be prorated according to accumulate the number of hours per day worked. 5. Subject to notification made two (2) days before such leave (except in cases of emergency), teachers may use one-half (½) day per school year of sick leave in multiples of one (1) hour. The one-half (½) day shall entitle a teacher to four (4) such one (1) hour leaves. If a teacher uses one (1) of the one (1) hour leaves, one-half (½) day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four charged against the teacher immediately. The remaining one (1) hour multiples may be used during the school year, but will not carry over to the next school year nor will they accumulate as partial days of sick leave. B. ▇▇▇▇ leave at days accumulated by a teacher before a leave of absence, and not used during the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shallleave, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at teacher upon his return. C. The accumulated sick leave balance shall be included on the end of the month and which teacher’s pay stub. D. Teachers employed on Supplemental Agreements for regular summer school or ISTEP Remediation classes shall be granted sick days as follows: If employed to teach up to four weeks: one (1) day; If employed to teach four (4) weeks or more: two (2) days. Unused sick days granted under this section shall not be used prior accumulated or transferred to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentany other account. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the The teachers specified above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue use up to five (5) days of accumulated sick leave, as follows: Less than three (3) hours of summer school contracted service shall be considered as "one-half day". Three (3) hours or more shall be considered as a "day". Any sick time used, over and above the days granted shall be deducted from available sick leave accumulation. E. All of the Corporation’s professional personnel shall be allowed up to five (5) days leave per year, not accumulative, and not deducted from Sick Leave or Personal Leave, in case of illness of an immediate family member. If all five (5) family illness days have been used, the teacher may use up to six five (5) days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused of his accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1for purposes of additional family illness. At the Superintendent’s sole discretion, 1954 will additional days of accumulated sick leave may be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment allowed for this purpose. "Immediate family member", in the school systemthis instance, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband means spouse/significant other, parent, sibling, child(▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ), step-child(▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother), grandparent, great-grandparent, grandchild, father, mother, brother, sister, mother-in-law Sonlaw, father-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, brother-in-law Daughterlaw, sister-in-law Aunt Brotherlaw, daughter-in-law Grandmother Niece Sisterlaw, son-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside law, step-parent, step-sibling, or any other person domiciled in the same residence as teacher's home. The Administration will require the person who is requesting sick leavefamily member’s relationship and reason on the leave form.

Sick Leave. Section 123 a. Sick leave entitlement shall be deducted using the following procedures 24 25 a. Absent from work for the entire school day will be charged for eight (8) 26 hours of leave 28 b. Absent for part a school day will be charged in half-hour increments only 29 for the time, within their duty day, that they are off site. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves 30 31 For payroll computation: 32 33 .5 day = 4 hours leave 34 1.0 day = 8 hours leave 36 b. For each school year of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationsservice every employee employed five (5) days a 37 week (1.00 FTE) shall be entitled to the following leave of absence with full 38 pay for illness or injury: 39 40 177 work day employees: 9.98 days (79.36 hours) 41 198 work day employees: 11.09 days (88.77 hours) 42 247 work day employees: 12.0 days (96.00 hours) 43 44 Sick leave may be deducted in one-half (1/2) hour increments. Each 45 1 c. An employee in less than a full-time permanent assignment and/or employed for less 2 than a full contract year shall receive and have sick leave deducted in direct 3 proportion to the percentage of the assignment; e.g., an employee is with a fifty 4 (50) percent assignment shall earn fifty (50) percent of what one (1.00) 5 percent assignment shall earn. 6 7 d. Full time unit members shall be entitled to accumulate one day use six (6) days of accrued and 9 parent in law, spouse, registered domestic partner, grandparent, grandchild, 10 or sibling of the employee. This leave shall be prorated for part-time unit 11 members. 13 e. ▇▇▇▇ leave accrues at a rate of .056044 for each hour an employee has worked 14 in an hourly assignment. Accumulated hourly sick leave per month of employmentmay be used for 15 absences in any hourly assignment. Such Contract sick leave is to may not be accrued used for 16 absences in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent an hourly assignment. If an employee shall be credited with four days of serving in a contract 17 assignment has exhausted his/her contract sick leave, accumulated hourly 18 sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not may be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each statutory sick leave. 19 20 f. An employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue claims sick leave may use up be required to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided execute a certificate 21 or declaration to the effect that he/she was actually ill or injured on that day(s) 22 before such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrualmay be paid. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. 23 24 Sick leave shall not normally be approved in the following two categoriestaken for minor elective or cosmetic surgery. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each ‌ (a) All full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shalltime, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee regular employees shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times benefits at the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such following rate: Regularly Scheduled Sick Leave Earning Rate Hours Per Week Bi-weekly Pay Period 40 hours 4.0 hours Earned sick leave shall be may accumulate and is cumulative from year to year and there without limitation. Sick leave credits shall accrue for each pay period the employee is in full pay status a major portion of his regularly scheduled bi-weekly hours. (b) Sick leave may be no limit on granted only as the number result of: (1) Illness, medical or dental consultation, or injury of days the employee; (2) Illness or injury of sick leave an the employee’s spouse, child, or adopted child, mother or father, requiring the employee’s attendance in accordance with the requirements of subsection (f); or (3) Illness or injury of the employee’s brother, sister, grandmother, grandfather, stepchild, mother-in-law or father-in-law, requiring the employee’s attendance in accordance with the requirements of subsection (f). (c) An employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a fullbe granted three (3) days’ bereavement leave to attend the funeral of his spouse, child, adopted child, stepchild residing with the employee; mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, granddaughter, grandson, mother-in-law, or father-in-law. The employee may be required to provide proof of death. Additional time basis during needed in excess of three (3) days may be granted by the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-department head. Such time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current ’s sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativeleave. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick (d) Sick leave days earned after July 1may be granted due to medical necessity associated with pregnancy, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredchildbirth and recovery. Section 3. (e) Sick leave shall be approved charged on an hourly basis for each full hour or major portion of an hour of sick leave taken. Holidays occurring during sick leave periods shall not be counted as sick leave time. Sick leave taken during a bi-weekly pay period shall be charged before sick leave earned that pay period is credited. (f) An employee requiring sick leave must provide his Department Head/Division Head with evidence of such need. Thereupon, the Department Head/Division Head shall guarantee his personal knowledge of the need by certifying to the Payroll Clerk the granting of sick leave. To insure such knowledge, he may require the employee to provide a written doctor’s statement before sick leave may be granted. (g) If an employee does not have adequate accumulated sick leave time, the Department Head/Division Head may grant the use of accumulated vacation time in lieu thereof. In no case, however, will sick leave be granted in lieu of vacation time. (h) Upon retirement, except for cause, an employee shall be compensated for accumulated sick leave as follows: (1) Effective July 1, 2002, employees having a minimum of 450 to 750 hours shall be compensated at the rate of forty percent (40%) of total accumulated hours up to a maximum of forty percent (40%) of 750 hours at his/her base hourly rate of pay. The compensated amount is intended for retirement expenses, especially medical expenses and specifically to purchase additional PERS, deferred compensation, or to receive cash. (2) Effective July 1, 2002, employees having a minimum of 751 to 1300 hours shall be compensated at the rate of sixty percent (60%) of his/her total accumulated hours up to a maximum of sixty percent (60%) of 1300 hours, at his/her base hourly rate of pay. The compensated amount is intended for retirement expenses, especially medical expenses and specifically to purchase additional PERS, deferred compensation, or to receive cash. (3) Any employee hired after February 13, 2012, having between 450 and 1300 hours in his/her sick leave bank, when retiring from employment, except for cause, shall be cashed out at the rates described in paragraphs (1) and (2) above up to a maximum of $20,000.00 at his/her hourly rate of pay. (4) To be eligible for this benefit, an employee must not use more than one hundred sixty (160) hours of sick leave during the last twenty four (24) months of service, except in the following two categoriescase of a documented serious health condition. A. Illness (5) In case of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Motherof the employee prior to retirement, this cash-inout benefit will be paid to the employee’s estate. In case of on-law Sonthe-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or job death of: Persons who reside in of the same residence as employee prior to retirement, all accrued hours shall be paid to the person who is requesting sick leaveemployee’s estate.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. A. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. : Each unit member employed on a full-time permanent employee basis shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract fiscal year and shall, thereafter, shall thereafter be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however. However, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 1954, will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. B. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories.: A. 1. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband Mother Husband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Step-parents Sister Child Stepchildren Step-children Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent parents Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. 2. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave. C. A full-time permanent employee may authorize the donation of up to five sick leave days per year to another permanent DCSMEC bargaining unit member who: 1. has exhausted all personal sick leave days; 2. has been confined for 10 working days or more without pay. An employee who donates personal sick leave days to another employee must maintain a sick leave balance of 12 days. Any sick leave days donated shall not be deemed absences for purposes of determining eligibility for the Good or Perfect Attendance Incentives. D. The supervising administrator may release an employee for up to two hours for the purpose of medical and/or dental appointments. The employee may be required by the supervising administrator to provide verification of such appointments. The release must be requested of the supervising administrator at least 24 hours prior to the scheduled appointment.

Sick Leave. Section 1A. Sick leave for all personnel employed ten months or less shall be granted on the basis of 11 days per year for the first 5 years and 13 days annually thereafter and will accumulate until the employee qualifies for disability benefits or retirement. The contract provisions governing absences Sick leave for those employed for more than 10 months will be granted on the basis of 13 days each year for the first 5 years, and leaves 16 days annually thereafter. It shall be granted for personal illness and/or sickness of personnel are patterned family member or quarantine in the home; or critical illness or death of mother, father, spouse, children, brothers, sisters, legal guardian, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, father-in-law, grandparents, grandchildren, and death of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brother-in-law, and sisters-in-law. “Critical” shall be defined as an illness which requires attending physician’s presence at the bedside. During their first year of employment, employees shall receive one-half their annual allotment (5 ½ days or 6 ½ days, as the case may be) in the first semester and the remaining one-half of their annual allotment during the second semester. Sick leave shall be granted for dental or doctor’s appointments which must unavoidably be scheduled during the school day. Those employed before the second semester shall be granted the full number of days as stated, but those employed after state laws and regulationsthat time shall be allowed one-half the annual allotment. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited furnished with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an he/she has available at the beginning of the school year. Employees needing more than the maximum days allowed shall have their situation reviewed by the Board, upon written request of the individual. A written physician’s statement may be required of any employee may accruewhen that employee claims up to 3 consecutive sick days. The physician’s statement shall include the reasons for the absence. B. Employees who are employed on a fullBeginning with the third consecutive year of employment, noon-time basis during the summer session hour supervisors shall be eligible to accrue receive 3 non-cumulative sick leave pursuant to the above provisionsdays per school year. C. FullEmployees who have accumulated at least one hundred (100) days of sick leave upon completion of twenty (20) years of service to the District shall receive an additional one-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six allotment of forty (40) days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves This article applies to employees hired on or before December 31, 2008 who do not choose to participate in the Flex PTO program as described in Article 13 of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationsthis agreement. Each Sick leave shall be earned by full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day employees at the rate of sick leave per eight (8) hours for each full month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each service except that newly hired, re-employed or reinstated employees who have completed less than six (6) months (1,040 compensated regular hours) of full-time permanent employee service, shall be credited with four days of earn sick leave benefits at the end rate of the first 5.33 hours for each full month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativeservice. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick Sick leave days earned after July 1benefits shall only accrue when an employee is on compensated regular hours or, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school systemaccordance with state and federal laws, except for employees who have retiredis on approved military leave. Section 3. An employee may accumulate seven hundred twenty (720) hours of sick leave. For every eight (8) hours of sick leave accumulated in excess of seven hundred twenty (720) hours, the employee will be given credit for four (4) hours of additional vacation and four (4) hours of sick leave. Sick leave shall be approved charged off only for hours that would normally have been worked. Section 4. Upon complete termination of employment of any permanent employee, such employee shall be paid for their accumulated unused sick leave at the employee's base pay rate subject to the limitations on severance payment stated in the following two categoriesArticle herein titled "Severance Pay." A. Illness Section 5. An employee may utilize their allowance of self sick leave on the basis of application therefor approved by the EMPLOYER for absences necessitated by inability to perform the duties of their position by reason of illness or injury, by necessity for medical care or dental care, or by exposure to contagious disease under circumstances in which the health of employees with whom they are associated or members of the public with whom they deal would be endangered by their attendance on duty, or by illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in their immediate family for such periods as their absence shall be necessary subject to certification by medical authority. The term "immediate family" shall be limited to spouse, children, a person regularly residing in the same residence as employee's immediate household, or parent where the parent has no other person to provide the necessary nursing and care. Sick leave usage shall be subject to approval and verification by the EMPLOYER who is requesting sick leave.may, after three

Sick Leave. Section Sick leave shall be administered in accordance with the following guidelines, namely: 1. Sick leave may be used for: a. Any physical or mental condition which disables a Bargaining Unit Member from rendering professional services, excluding that portion of salary applicable to any condition compensable by Worker's Compensation, or resulting from other employment. Sick leave may be used for disability resulting from pregnancy to the extent expressly required by law. It is understood that sick leave may be used in fraction of days to offset lost wages not covered by Worker's Compensation. b. Any communicable disease which would be hazardous to the health of students or other employees. c. Physical examinations, medical, dental or other health treatment which cannot reasonably be scheduled outside of the regular work day. d. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves health condition of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationsa member of the immediate family as defined in Section 7.F. e. Sick leave shall run concurrently with FLMA leave as allowed by law. 2. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee Bargaining Unit Member shall be credited at the beginning of the school year with four Ten (10) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employmentwith pay, which shall be credited earned in the amount of One (1) day per month worked (September-June). Unused portions of said leave shall accumulate from year to year, and shall be used in not less than One Half (1/2) day increments, unless otherwise required by law. Bargaining Unit Members who have achieved Five (5) or more years of continuous active service with the employee District, and who retire under the provisions of the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System shall receive, upon retirement, a sum equal to Forty Five Dollars ($45) per day of unused sick leave which the Bargaining Unit Member has accumulated at the end time of his/her retirement. 3. If a Bargaining Unit Member does not complete the contract period, the Employer shall be reimbursed for any days or fractions of days used in excess of the month proportionate leave days earned as of the termination date. Any such amounts shall be deducted from the Bargaining Unit Member’s wages or other amounts due the Bargaining Unit Member at separation. 4. Sick leave shall be charged against workdays only and which shall cease to accumulate and shall not be used prior by a Bargaining Unit Member during such periods as the Bargaining Unit Member is on an unpaid leave of absence (except as is otherwise permitted by the Family and Medical Leave Act), laid off, or otherwise not regularly providing services to the time it is earned Employer. 5. For purposes of the Family and credited to the employee; howeverMedical Leave Act, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment allowed and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days which is taken under this Article shall be charged against the employee's current sick Bargaining Unit Member’s leave accrualentitlement under the Family and Medical Leave Act, if the leave meets the requirements of FMLA. This shall apply to: a. Sick leave which is utilized to care for a family member (child, spouse or parent) with a serious health condition, including where an Bargaining Unit Member must make arrangements for necessary medical and/or nursing care. b. Sick leave which is utilized pursuant to this Article due to a serious health condition which renders the Bargaining Unit Member unable to perform the functions of his/her job. c. Sick leave used in conjunction with any other FMLA qualifying event. Eligible employees shall be granted unpaid leave to the extent required under the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act for the purposes and subject to all of the terms and conditions of that Act and its implementing regulations. Any unpaid leave, which is otherwise available under the provisions of this Agreement for the same purposes for which leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1required to be provided under the Family and Medical Leave Act, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in used concurrently with the following two categoriesleave provided under the Family and Medical Leave Act and shall be credited toward fulfilling the leave entitlement of an eligible employee under the provisions of the Act to the extent permitted by the Act and its implementing regulations. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section Department Chairpersons shall be provided sick leave benefits as follows: 1. The contract College shall advance each Department Chairperson twelve (12) days sick leave on September 1 of each year. Department Chairpersons who receive an appointment after September 1 shall be advanced sick leave calculated on a pro-rata basis by multiplying twelve (12) days by the percentage of the school year remaining. Sick leave may be used in increments of one (1) day. A Department Chairperson will notify his/her supervisor as soon as possible of the need to use sick leave. 2. Subject to provisions governing absences of Section C. of this Article, a Department Chairperson may accrue up to one-hundred seventy-five (175) days of sick leave. If during a Department Chairperson’s last year of employment, he/she is prevented from receiving the full twelve (12) day credit for accumulated sick leave because of the one-hundred seventy-five (175) day limit, the last year’s uncredited number of sick leave days may be used to restore to accumulated sick leave any sick leave days used in the last year of employment. 3. After a Department Chairperson has exhausted all sick and leaves personal leave, his/her salary shall be suspended should his/her absence continue unless coverage (instruction) of personnel his/her classes is provided on a voluntary basis by a qualified member or members of the faculty and coverage of his/her duties as a Department Chairperson are patterned after state laws provided as approved by the appropriate School ▇▇▇▇. 4. Sick leave validation, including disability arising out of pregnancy, may be requested in the form of a physician’s certificate. 5. a. A Department Chairperson eligible to and regulationswho does retire under his/her retirement program shall have the irrevocable option of applying the dollar value of his/her accumulated sick leave credited to an account for the purpose of paying his/her full premium cost of the College health insurance plan following retirement. Each To be eligible for this benefit, the retiring Department Chairperson must have completed a minimum of five (5) years of compensated full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave service at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in Valley Community College. Upon exhaustion of this account, the same residence as premiums for health insurance will be paid by the person who is requesting sick leaveretiree.

Sick Leave. Section 1A. A member may use sick leave for absences due to pregnancy, medical appointments, personal illness, injury, exposure to contagious disease or for absence due to illness, injury or death in the member’s immediate family. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullImmediate family for this purpose shall include spouse, children, father, mother, brother, sister, in-time permanent employee laws, grandparents, grandchildren, person residing in the same household, or other persons who have assumed a similar position as parents to the member. B. A member who adopts a child twenty-four (24) months old or younger is entitled to accumulate one day use up to six (6) weeks of accumulated sick leave. Unless medical complications arise, a member who gives birth shall be entitled to use sick leave for a period of up to eight (8) calendar weeks from the date of delivery. C. Each member, by State Law, is granted a minimum of fifteen (15) days annually or 1-1/4 (one and one quarter) days per month of sick leave. Members who are in the first five years of employment. Such , whose sick leave is exhausted and who do not qualify for sick leave donation, will receive an advance of 5 sick days to be accrued repaid from future accrual. In the event a member leaves employment with the Board with a sick leave deficit, the Board may deduct the member’s per diem from the member’s final pay check for the deficit days. A member entering the school system from other school systems in the following mannerState of Ohio should file with the Treasurer of the Board a statement as to the cumulative sick leave credited to him/her in the system from which he/she transferred. A. Each fullD. Members shall accumulate 228 days sick leave. E. At the completion of the fifth month of service and the completion of each month of service thereafter, 1-time permanent employee shall be credited with four 1/4 days of sick leave shall be credited to the sick leave account of each beginning member for the actual number of months of service rendered and for which the member was paid. All other members with annual contracts shall receive 1-1/4 days per month on an annual basis. F. Sick leave credit of 1-1/4 days per month shall continue to accrue during the use of sick leave, provided the member has not been officially separated from the present payroll. G. Members will be furnished at the end of the first month of employment of each contract school year and shallon termination of contract, thereaftera statement of the total number of accumulated sick leave days. H. A member may donate accumulated sick leave to another member who has exhausted his/her sick leave due to a catastrophic illness, injury or disease afflicting the member or his/her immediate family. All donations must be credited for one day on forms provided by the Board Treasurer. A member may donate not more than five (5) days of the member’s accumulated sick leave per contract year, from July 1 to June 30. A recipient of sick leave for each month of employment, which donations shall be credited allowed to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn accumulate no more than one day thirty-five (35) days of donated sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueper contract year. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee All staff shall be credited with four days of sick earn leave at the end rate of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day 4.6 hours of sick leave for each month eighty (80) hours in active pay status. Section 2. Credit is given for all time the employee is in active service and pay status, including vacations and sick leave. Credit is NOT given for time on “leave of employmentabsence without pay,” while on “layoff,” or while suspended for disciplinary reasons. Section 3. An employee who transferred from one public agency to another, which or who is reinstated, or who transferred from one county department to another prior to April 28, 1986, shall be credited to with the employee at the end unused balance of the month and which shall not be used prior to his accumulated sick leave as accrued, provided the time it is earned between separation and credited to the employee; howeverreinstatement did not exceed ten (10) years. Section 4. The parties agree that any employees hired after May 31, each employee 1989, shall be entitled given up to earn no more than one day fifteen (15) days of credit for sick leave times accrued from any other public agency. Any employee reinstated to a position with the number Employer within thirty-one (31) days of months any break in continuous service shall keep his accrued sick leave. Section 5. The word “public agency,” as used in Sections 3 and 4 above, includes state, counties, municipalities, and all public boards of employment during education within the year State of employmentOhio. Section 6. If An employee is to be charged for sick leave only for days upon which he would otherwise have been scheduled to work. Sick leave payment will not exceed the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employeenormal work day payment. Section 7. Such Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there without limit. Section 8. Reporting off or “call offs” shall be no limit in accordance with established agency and departmental procedures. Additionally, on the number first day of days absence and for each day of absence thereafter, an employee must call his supervisor (on the day of the absence) unless the supervisor approves other notification arrangements (e.g., for an anticipated extended absence). For each use of sick leave, an employee shall also be required to furnish a satisfactory written, signed statement (sick leave authority form) to justify the use of sick leave. Where sick leave usage is due to the illness, injury, or death of an immediate family member, the familial relationship will be identified on the sick leave authority form, and in the case of a parent/in loco parentis relationship, the name of the impacted family member will be identified on the sick leave authority form. A physician’s certificate stating the nature of the illness or injury may be required if the illness or injury exceeds five (5) consecutive work days. Section 9. A physician’s certificate stating the nature of the illness or injury shall be submitted when the use of sick leave for an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativeillness or injury requires medical care. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 310. Sick leave shall be approved granted to an employee only upon approval of the appointing authority and for the following reasons: 1. Illness or injury of the employee or member of his/her immediate family. 2. Death of a member of the immediate family. Sick leave usage is limited to five (5) working days; or in the following two categoriescase of part-time employees, the equivalent of the regular scheduled hours per week. A. Illness 3. Exposure of self employee or illness and/or death ofa member of his or her immediate family to a contagious disease which would have the potential of jeopardizing the health of the employee or the employee’s presence on the job would jeopardize the health of others. 4. Employee medical appointments which cannot be scheduled outside of normal working hours. The Employer may elect to verify that no other appointments were available. (The least amount of travel time necessary shall be permitted.) Section 11. For purposes of this Article, the “immediate family” is defined as only: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mothermother, father, brother, sister, child, spouse, grandparent, grandchild, mother-in-law Sonlaw, father-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, sister- in-law, brother-in-law Daughterlaw, daughter-in-law Aunt Brotherlaw, son-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons law, legal guardian, or other person who reside stands in the same residence as place of a parent (in loco parentis). Section 12. When a staff member is off on extended leave due to serious illness, injury, or pregnancy, and has used all available sick leave hours earned, he may follow one (1) of the person who following rules: 1. If a staff member has earned vacation leave hours on record, he may use them if a written request is requesting sick approved by the Superintendent in advance. 2. If a staff member does not wish to use “vacation time” while being off, he must request, in writing, permission from the Superintendent to be granted “administrative leave” (without pay) for any additional time off. In an emergency, a call to the supervisor to start processing the proper paperwork for “leave without pay” will be allowed (at the discretion of the Superintendent). 3. If a staff member has reason to believe that he will be unable to return to work within three (3) additional days, the staff member must apply for any accrued vacation leave and then a disability leave. Section 13. Sick leave shall be charged in minimum units of one-quarter (1/4) hour.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved utilized only for illness of the Site Administrator, or for illness in the following two categories. A. Illness Site Administrator's immediate family residing in the household or for illness of self other regular household members. For purposes of this paragraph, “immediate family” is defined as the Site Administrator’s child; spouse; parent; and those individuals in an exclusive, financially interdependent, spousal equivalent relationship with the Site Administrator. The term “child” includes the Site Administrator’s biological, adopted, or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother child; step child; or legal ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside ; and the Site Administrator’s minor children not residing in the same residence Site Administrator’s household. It shall not be utilized for routine dental and physical examinations, except that one (1) day of sick leave may be utilized for purposes of acquiring a physical examination required for initial employment. Yearly accumulation of sick leave shall be available as of the first contract day of the school year, provided that any Site Administrator who does not complete his/her contract will have any excess payment made for used sick leave beyond that accrued deducted from his/her final pay. Site Administrators required to leave site due to illness as set forth above, shall notify the Superintendent or his/her designee at the earliest possible time in writing, stating the anticipated starting time and duration of such sick leave, the reason for requesting the sick leave (i.e. doctor’s appointment), and the name of the certificated staff member appointed or to be appointed by the Site Administrator as the person Acting Site Administrator during such absence. Off site sick leave shall not be utilized in conjunction to school vacation periods unless the leave allows the Site Administrator to minimize the amount of instructional time lost for medically necessary procedures. Site Administrators enrolled in TRS who is requesting would not be allowed to apply unused sick leaveleave in computing years of credited service pursuant to AS 14.25.115, may cash out their unused sick leave upon resignation or retirement at 25% of their current per day value after 5 years of continuous, full years of TRS service in LKSD.

Sick Leave. Regular employees shall receive sick leave benefits in accordance with the following: Section 9.1.1 Sick leave for regular employees shall be accrued at the rate of one (1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full) pro-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one rated day of sick leave per month of employment. Such . Section 9.1.1.1 For accrual purposes, sick leave is shall be determined by dividing the employee’s total number of straight-time hours compensated during the employee’s employment year by the total number of regular scheduled workdays within that same employment year. This computation shall be made in August of each year and added to be accrued in the following manneremployee's September sick leave balance. A. Each full-time permanent Section 9.1.2 A regular employee who qualifies for sick leave pay shall be credited with four eligible to receive one (1) pro-rated day of sick leave pay for each day of absence due to a qualifying illness or injury. Section 9.1.3 The Employer shall project the number of annual days of sick leave at the end beginning of the first month of employment of each contract school year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited according to the estimated calendar months the employee at is to work during the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each year. The employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the projected number of days of sick leave an at the beginning of the school year; provided, however, should the employee may accrueterminate prior to the end of the school year a deduction shall be made for sick leave used in excess of accrual. B. Section 9.1.4 The Employer reserves the right to request a doctor's certificate of illness and/or injury for any employee who has exhausted paid sick leave. Additionally, if it appears the leave provisions of this article are being abused and the employee is under investigation for abuse of leave, the District may require the employee to submit proof of illness or injury regardless of how many days absent. Section 9.1.5 For absence in excess of five (5) consecutive days, a doctor's certificate of illness must be on file with the Human Resources Department if payment for sick leave is to be allowed. Section 9.1.6 Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during whose employment is terminated shall lose the summer session benefit of accumulated days of sick leave; except for retirement purposes, in accordance with statutory law. Section 9.1.7 Employees granted an approved leave of absence by the Employer Board shall be eligible to retain accrued accumulated days of sick leave but shall not accrue sick leave pursuant to days during the above provisionsapproved leave of absence period. C. Full-time employees who are Section 9.1.8 An employee shall give notice of illness promptly in order to be eligible to accrue for sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days payments. Such notification shall be charged against given by telephone or message to the employee's current immediate supervisor or other Employer designated authority and shall state that the employee or a family member as identified below in Section Section 9.1.9 Sick leave pay shall be paid only for periods of absence caused by personal illness or injury and illness or injury of a dependent child related by blood, marriage, legal adoption or legal guardianship, who is not yet eighteen (18) years of age or disabled children who are eighteen (18) years or older who require treatment or supervision. Employees may also use sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativefor family members as defined in the definitions portion of this Agreement who have a serious health condition or emergency. Section 2. All unused accumulated 9.1.10 Employees who have accrued sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously while employed upon returning to employment by another public school district in the state of Washington shall be given credit for such accrued sick leave upon employment by the Employer; provided there is a direct transfer of employment from the other school system, except for employees who have retireddistrict to the Employer. The employee must request the transfer of such sick leave. Section 39.1.11 In the event an employee is absent for reasons which are compensable industrial injuries in accordance with Title 51 of Washington State Industrial Insurance Law, the employee may elect to have the Employer pay the employee an amount equal to the difference between the amount paid the employee as determined by Title Section 9.1.12 Employees who incur an on-the-job injury may be required to perform "light duty" work within another classification which may involve the crossing of jurisdictional lines within the jurisdiction covered by this Agreement. Sick leave shall be approved in In such event the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.employee

Sick Leave. Section 1a) Unit members shall be allowed sick leave with pay. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled Medical documentation to accumulate one day substantiate the use of sick leave may be required by the Employer. b) Sick leave for unit members shall accrue at the rate of one (1) day per calendar month of employmentconsecutive service during the first five (5) years of service. Such Those unit members who have completed six (6) or more years of consecutive service shall accrue sick leave is according to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days schedule: The accrual of sick leave at the end of shall begin the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of unused sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentmay be accumulated up to and including one hundred eighty (180) days [one thousand four hundred forty (1,440) hours]. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Unit members with appointments less than 1.0 FTE shall accrue sick leave shall at a proportional pro-rated amount. At no time will a unit member be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible allowed to accrue sick leave pursuant hours in excess of the one thousand four hundred forty (1,440) hours [or one hundred eighty (180) days] accumulation limit. c) Sick pay is available with the realization that a unit member may become ill or injured to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible extent of being unable to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3work. Sick leave may be taken for absences made necessary by reason of illness, injury, or disability, including temporary illnesses covered by or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth, and recovery there from, by exposure to dangerous disease which may endanger the unit member or public health, medical appointments, or by illness in the immediate family making it necessary that the unit member be absent from his or her duties. The term "immediate family" as used in this section shall be approved in defined to include the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband spouse, children (adopted, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇, step, biological, or legal ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew), grandchildren, siblings, parents, grandparents, or parents of the spouse. It is not intended as any earned time off with pay, and shall not be granted as such. Unit members shall be compensated for unused sick leave upon separation of employment as provided in subsection (f). B. Illness and/or death of: Persons d) The President may advance sick leave to unit members in an amount not to exceed a total of forty (40) hours. Sick leave earned thereafter will be applied toward the negative sick leave account balance until the amount advanced is fully reimbursed. Upon separation from employment, unit members who reside have been advanced sick leave shall reimburse the Employer for all advanced and unreimbursed sick leave. The Employer is authorized to deduct such amount from the final pay. e) Should a unit member become ill or disabled and require hospitalization while on vacation, vacation leave shall be changed to sick leave, effective the date of hospitalization, upon request to the immediate supervisor. Documentation regarding the hospitalization may be requested. f) A unit member who is transferred within the State College System will have his or her accrued sick leave transferred to the receiving College. Unit members transferring as an employee from Nebraska State Government or the University of Nebraska System may be eligible to have sick leave hours transferred to the receiving College at the discretion of receiving College. Employees transferring to Nebraska State Government or the University of Nebraska System may be eligible to have sick leave hours transferred to the new employer at the discretion of the new employer. g) Each unit member who is eligible for retirement in the same residence as the person who is requesting State College System will, upon separation of employment by reason of retirement, be entitled to a one-time payment of one-fourth (1/4) of their accumulated sick leave, with the rate of payment based upon their regular pay at the time of retirement. Upon the death of the unit member, his or her beneficiary will be paid one-fourth (1/4) of his or her accumulated, unused sick leave, with the rate of payment based upon the unit member’s regular pay at the time of death.

Sick Leave. Section 1. (Amended 1999) a. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent District will credit each employee is entitled to accumulate one day of with annual sick leave per month of employmenton the September pay date. Such Annual sick leave is to be accrued in calculated as 1.25 days per contracted pay period. An employee who does not complete the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of has used more sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is than actually earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates will have a like amount deducted from his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board final paycheck. (Amended 1999; amended 8/2002) b. Employees may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the accumulate an unlimited number of days of sick leave. (Amended 1999, 2022) c. Sick leave may be used for medical and dental appointments, disability, quarantine, maternity/paternity or illness suffered by the employee or immediate family. (amended 8-6- 10) d. With cause, employees may be required to provide proof of need for the use of sick leave when requested by an employee may accrueimmediate supervisor. B. Employees e. An employee who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue has exhausted all accumulated sick leave pursuant may request leave without pay. f. An employee must notify the immediate supervisor as soon as he/she knows that they will use sick leave. g. All qualified extended leaves of absence are subject to the above provisions.Federal Family and Medical Leave Act. (Amended 1999) C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave h. An employee may use up to six 10 days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current of sick leave accrualin the event of the death of an immediate family member. This leave is non-cumulative.For purposes of bereavement, aunt and uncle are considered immediate family. (Amended 1999) Section i. An Employee may use two (2. All unused accumulated ) sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 for bereavement for other than family members. (added 2005) j. The Association and Organization will be restored manage a Sick Leave Bank with membership open to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in all District staff members. Staff may join the school system, except for employees bank by donating one or more sick leave days. Only staff members who have retired. Section 3donated are eligible for benefits. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self The Bank will assist staff who have long-term illness or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting disabilities and have exhausted accumulated sick leave.. The Bank will conduct an annual request for members, donation of sick leave days, and will develop procedures for considering use requests. The Bank may assess members an additional day of sick leave if the Bank’s balance falls below twenty-five. Members may “drop-out” of the Sick Leave Bank by notifying the Association/Organization but may not withdraw donated days. Decisions by the Bank are final and not subject to the grievance procedure or appeal to the District. The District will maintain the accounting of Sick Leave Bank days for the Association/Organization. (added 6-28-07)

Sick Leave. Section 1At the beginning of each contracted school year the employee will be credited with an advanced leave allowance of twelve (12) days with full pay to be used for absence caused by illness, injury or emergency of the employee or immediate family member of the employee. The Employees under contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullwith the District as part-time permanent employee is entitled employees will receive up to accumulate one day twelve (12) days leave prorated based on FTE. "Immediate family" for purposes of sick leave per month this section shall be defined as the employee's spouse, son or daughter, parent, parent-in-law, grandparents or anyone permanently living at the employee's residence and considered part of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following mannerfamily. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four All twelve (12) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not may be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueillness or injury. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall Up to three (3) days may be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisionsused per year for emergencies as defined in Section 19.3. C. Full-time employees Employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness adopt and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother a child(ren), may take up to twenty-five (25) days for initial care of the child(ren). When both adoptive and/or ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parents are employed by the District, such leave can be used consecutively. D. In the case of the birth of a child, when both parents are employed by the District, the non-birth parent Grandchild Mothermay use his/her sick leave for up to six (6) calendar weeks after the birth parent’s temporary disability leave for childbirth has expired, in lieu of taking leave to care for the birth parent. E. Each employee's portion of unused leave will accumulate from year-into-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewyear up to a maximum of 204 days. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside F. Whenever possible, employees should schedule medical appointments outside of the regular workday. G. Should an employee be gone from the assigned work site for less than a half day, the employee will be charged the amount of sick leave for only the time that they are gone, rounded to the nearest quarter hour. H. A certificated employee may take up to a half day or a whole day of sick leave for medical appointments and shall be charged accordingly against their accumulated sick leave balance. Section 19.2.1.1 Employees with experience in other Washington school district(s) will, upon request, be allowed to transfer to the District any sick leave accumulated in the same residence as other Washington school district(s), in accordance with state statutes. Section 19.2.1.2 Employees terminating employment will lose the person who is requesting benefit of any cumulative sick leave, except that forty-five (45) days may be credited for purpose of retirement in accordance with law. Section 19.2.1.3 If an employee is absent for more than five (5) consecutive work days, the District reserves the right to request a doctor's certificate for absences due to illness or injury.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each 34.1 Regular, full-time permanent employees shall accrue paid sick leave as follows: Four and three one hundredths (4.0385) hours for each seventy (70) hours of service in active pay status, inclusive of holidays, vacations and paid leaves. No paid leave will accrue during unpaid leaves of absence, layoff, disciplinary suspensions or other times when an employee is entitled to accumulate one day of not in active pay status. 34.2 Part-time employees shall accrue paid sick leave per month at a rate of employmentfive one hundredths (0.0577) hours for each paid hour of service, inclusive of holidays, vacations and paid leaves. Such No paid leave will accrue during unpaid leaves of absence, layoff, disciplinary suspensions or other times when an employee is not in active pay status. 34.3 An employee who moves from a public agency that has a policy of honoring its new hires' accumulated unused sick leave is time (i.e., a "Reciprocating Agency"), to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall Employer will be credited with four days their unused balance of accumulated sick leave with the Reciprocating Agency, provided (i) the time between separation and appointment does not exceed ten(10) years; (ii) the employee has not been paid for the unused leave; and (iii) the Reciprocating Agency verifies, in writing, the number of hours the employee had remaining. Employees who resign and then subsequently return to active employment with the Employer, within ten (10) years from the date of separation, shall have all previously accumulated, but unused, sick leave credited to them, provided (i) the employee has not been paid for sick leave (as specified in this paragraph); (ii) the employee did not transfer and use the accumulated sick leave with another Agency; and (iii) employees who separate and avail themselves of the severance benefits contained herein shall not receive credit for unused sick leave. 34.4 Sick leave may be accumulated without limit. Employees of the ADAMHS Board may elect, at the end time of voluntary separation from active service with the ADAMHS Board, and with ten or more years of service with the state, any political subdivisions, or any combination thereof, to be paid in cash for one-fourth the value of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of employee's accrued but unused sick leave for each month of employment, which credit. The payment shall be credited to based on the employee's rate of pay at the time of voluntary separation and eliminates all sick leave credit accrued but unused by the employee at the end time payment is made. The aggregate value of accrued but unused sick leave credit that is paid in this situation shall not exceed, for all payments, the value of thirty days of accrued but unused sick leave. 34.5 The Employer will furnish each employee with quarterly written statements showing the amount of paid leave the employee has accrued. Any errors or omissions in such statements must be reported in writing to the Director of Human Resources within sixty (60) days of receipt of the month and which shall not be used prior to statement, or else the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times forever barred from challenging the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick accuracy thereof. 34.6 Paid leave shall be cumulative from year to year charged in minimum increments of one-quarter (0.25) hour, and there shall may be no limit on used for the number following purposes: A. The illness or injury of days the employee or of sick leave an employee may accruea member of the employee's immediate family. B. Employees who are employed on Medical examinations or treatments involving the employee or a full-time basis during member of the summer session employee's immediate family. C. Pregnancy and/or childbirth and related conditions. D. When, through exposure to a contagious disease, as verified by a physician's statement which shall be eligible submitted upon the employee's return to accrue sick work, either the health of the employee would be jeopardized or the employee's presence on the job would jeopardize the health of others. 34.7 An employee's immediate family is defined as: mother, father, sister, brother, child, spouse, domestic partner (i.e., one who lives with the employee and who stands in the place of a spouse), grandparent, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in- law, son-in-law, sister-in-law, legal guardian or other person who stands in place of a parent (loco parentis) where paid leave is requested to care for members of an employee's immediate family and such care requires the employee to be absent for three (3) or more consecutive days, the Chief Executive Officer may require that the employee submit a physician's certificate to the effect that the presence of the employee is necessary to care for the ill family member. 34.8 If a family member's condition continues beyond the employee's accrued paid leave, the employee may be granted an unpaid leave of absence pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA"), provided that the requested unpaid leave meets the requirements thereof. Any paid time off shall be credited against the maximum leave period provided for in the FMLA, and the Employer reserves the right to require employees to exhaust all available paid time off (including vacation time) before taking unpaid leave pursuant to the above provisionsFMLA. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall 34.9 Employees will be charged against for paid leave only for those days on which they otherwise would have been scheduled to work. 34.10 Paid leave payments will not exceed the lesser of the employee's current sick leave accrualscheduled work day or work week earnings not to exceed the maximum of seventy (70) hours per pay period. 34.11 To be eligible for paid leave, an employee must report the reason for the absence to the employee's immediate supervisor at least one (1) hour prior to the employee's scheduled starting time, unless emergency conditions prevent such notification. 34.12 The employer reserves the right to require a certification from a licensed physician certifying that the employee was under the physician's care and is medically able to return to work, when such illness or injury continues beyond five (5) working days. This leave is non-cumulativeto occur prior to the reporting to the employees work unit. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick 34.13 Employer reserves the right to require certification from a licensed physician for family related injury or illness from employees who use paid leave days earned after July 1, 1954 and such illness or injury continues beyond five (5) working days. 34.14 When an employee knows in advance that paid leave will be restored requested, the employee shall complete and submit, in advance, a "Request for Leave" form prior to the date(s) of such leave. When employees previously employed upon returning to employment know in the school systemadvance that they will be institutionalized and/or hospitalized, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave they shall be approved responsible for notifying their immediate supervisor, in advance, of the following two categoriesdate(s) of their anticipated absence. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences Back to Top (a) Each faculty member will earn one and leaves one-quarter(1 ¼) days of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of paid sick leave per month (up to 15 days per calendar year) beginning with the first full pay period. The maximum sick accrual shall not exceed 210 days. (b) If for reasons which qualify for the use of employmentsick leave, a faculty member is unable to discharge all of his or her responsibilities, either in person or virtually, including but not limited to regular or overload classes, labs, in- person or virtual office hours and meetings, the faculty member shall be charged with the use of one full sick day (8 hours). Such This includes use of sick days when faculty members are working in adjunct positions during their off-term. If for reasons which qualify for the use of sick leave, a faculty member can only discharge part of their responsibilities including but not limited to regular or overload classes, labs, regularly scheduled office hours and meetings, the faculty member shall be charged with one half of one full sick day (4 hours). This includes use of sick days when faculty members are working in adjunct positions during their off-term. In instances where the faculty member is teaching online and can demonstrate they completed a material part of the course online during a sick day (more than checking e-mail), that faculty member will only be charged 4 hours. The responsibility will remain on the faculty member to establish the completion of a material part of the course during the sick day. In instances and for limited periods, where the faculty member is teaching in person, obtains prior approval of the Assistant ▇▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇, and can complete assigned teaching responsibilities in an alternative mode, use of sick time can be modified. (c) Accumulated sick leave is shall not be transferred to the College from any other employment. (d) Notification of all absences due to sickness or disability shall be accrued made to the Assistant ▇▇▇▇/▇▇▇▇. Written notification shall be made via the Request for Leave form prior to the absences when foreseeable or upon return if unexpected. Failure to provide the Request for Leave form within seven (7) calendar days of the date of return to work may result in the following mannerdays being unpaid. A. (e) If absent for three (3) or more consecutive days, a certification of illness may be required from the attending physician. A physician’s statement may be required in any event of sickness or disability absence if circumstances such as repeated absences warrant, at the sole discretion of the College. (f) Paid sick leave may also be used when illness in the family requires the attendance of the faculty member only until other arrangements can be made to care for the family member. Absences of this nature will normally be brief of one or two day’s duration. Verification of such illness by presentation of a physician’s statement may be required. Family member is defined as parent, spouse or child. Deviation from this definition may be granted at the sole discretion of the Chief Academic Officer (or acting CAO). (g) Length of service (seniority) will continue to accumulate during a leave of absence for sickness or disability. There shall be no accumulation of sick leave or paid holidays when the faculty member has exhausted accumulated sick leave. (h) Other employment while on sickness and disability leave will be cause for termination unless specifically approved in writing by the College as related to the faculty member’s responsibility. (i) Employee and dependent tuition and fee waivers, in accordance with Board policy, will be continued during an authorized leave of absence. (j) Except for faculty members on FMLA leave, a faculty member on an unpaid leave of absence is responsible for the faculty member’s entire insurance premiums. (k) Each faculty member with ten (10) consecutive years or more of full-time permanent employee shall be credited service with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee College shall be entitled to earn no more than one day payment based on the faculty member’s rate of pay at retirement for thirty percent (30%) of the faculty member’s accrued but unused sick leave times at retirement up to the number maximum indicated in the table below. An eligible faculty member must simultaneously retire from the State Teachers Retirement System or Alternative Retirement Plan and from active service with the College. Payment for sick leave on this basis shall be considered to eliminate all sick leave credit accrued at that time. Such payment shall be made only once. Confirmation of months retirement shall be obtained from the appropriate retirement system. In the event of employment during extenuating circumstances, the year of employment. If the employee terminates faculty member may rescind his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned notification of retirement. Extenuating circumstances include situations that result in major financial losses. Review of extenuating circumstances will be performed by the employeeHuman Resources Director and the Contract Administrator. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year The administration reserves the right to year and there shall be no limit on make the number of days of sick leave an employee may accruefinal decision. B. Employees who are employed on (l) No obligation rests with the College for returning a full-time basis during faculty member to work prior to expiration of the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves A. Each member of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is the bargaining unit shall be entitled to accumulate one day of fifteen (15) days sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee with pay for each year under contract which shall be credited with four at the rate of one and one-quarter (1 1/4) sick days per month, as authorized by ORC, Section 3319.141. Sick leave accumulation shall be unlimited. B. Each member of the bargaining unit shall be entitled to an advancement of five (5) days of sick leave at the end beginning of each school year to be charged against sick leave the employee earns, as it is earned. Sick leave days advanced must be repaid in the same year. C. Employees advanced five (5) days sick leave at the beginning of the first month school year who, because of employment extended illness or otherwise, cannot repay the sick leave in the same school year with earned sick leave, will have the used but unearned sick leave days deducted from their salary. D. Each member of each contract year and shallthe bargaining unit shall qualify for sick leave absences with full pay, thereafter, up to the total number of days accumulated. Sick leave may be credited used for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end or all of the month and following reasons: 1. Personal illness; 2. Disability resulting from pregnancy; 3. Injury; 4. Exposure to contagious diseases which shall not could be used prior communicated to the time it is earned and credited others; 5. Absence due to illness, injury or death in the employee; however's immediate family. The immediate family is defined as husband, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day wife, children, mother, father, sister, brother, grandparents, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, aunt, uncle, legal guardian or any member of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentteacher's same household. 6. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board Bargaining unit member(s) may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of use three (3) days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against annually for bereavement for individuals not within the employee's current sick immediate family as defined as in this section. E. Each teacher shall enter his or her leave accrualinto Kiosk in a timely manner. This leave is If medical attention was required during the period of absence, the teacher's statement shall list the name and address of the attending physician and the dates he/she was consulted. F. Employees shall receive an incentive bonus for the non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated use of sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3each year. Sick leave The incentive shall be approved in the following as follows: Miss zero (0) days receive $600 Miss one (1) day receive $500 Miss two categories(2) days receive $400 Miss three (3) days receive $100 Miss four (4) or more days receive $0 Payment of incentive bonus shall be made annually prior to June 30th. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. A. As provided in Section 44978 of the Education Code: 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in Every unit member employed five (5) days a week by the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee District shall be entitled to earn no more than one day twelve (12) days leave of sick leave times absence for illness or injury, exclusive of all days he/she is not required to render service to the number of months of employment during the District, with full pay, for a school year of employmentservice. 2. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick A unit member employed for less than five (5) school days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave a week shall be cumulative from entitled, for a school year of service, to year and there shall be no limit on that proportion of twelve (12) days leave of absence for illness or injury as the number of days he/she is employed per week bears to five (5). 3. Pay for any day of such absence shall be the same as the pay which would have been received had the unit member served during the day. 4. Credit for leave of absence need not be accrued prior to taking such leave by the unit member and such leave of absence may be taken at any time during the school year. If a unit member does not take the full amount of such leave allowed in any school year the amount not taken shall be accumulated from year to year. 5. A unit member shall have the right to utilize the sick leave provided herein for absences necessitated by disability resulting from pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and recovery therefrom. 6. When administration, acting in good faith, suspects abuse of sick leave an employee by a unit member, the unit member will be given written non-disciplinary notice of the suspected abuse. This written non-disciplinary notice shall not be considered a step in Article XI, Progressive Discipline of this collective bargaining agreement. If suspected abuse continues, or if required by the Education Code, administration may accruerequire written justification signed by a physician. B. Employees 7. Unit members who are employed on a full-time basis during the teach summer session shall be eligible to school and/or intersession will accrue sick leave pursuant in accordance with Article XXXI, Sick Leave. Sick leave will be earned at the rate of .0656 hours (equivalent to the above provisions12 sick days per 183 contract days) for each contracted hour of intersession and/or summer school session. C. Full-time employees 8. Unit members who are eligible to accrue sick leave teach in a supplemental instruction program may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused one (1) day of accumulated sick leave days earned after July per each ten (10) contracted program workdays. One (1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness ) day of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence accumulated sick hours is defined as the person who is requesting sick leavenumber of hours contained in one contracted supplemental instruction program workday.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is person employed by the Board shall be entitled to accumulate one day of fifteen (15) days sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave pay for each month of employmentyear under contract, which shall be credited at the rate of one and one-fourth (1 ¼) days per month. Employees, upon approval of the responsible administrative officer of the school district, may use sick leave for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury, or death in the employee’s immediate family. Immediate family is defined as the employee’s spouse, children, parents, or anyone serving in loco parentis; or in case of illness of anyone living in the same house in a family relationship. If the death of a relative or friend requires the employee to travel more than 200 miles from Sebring, an additional absence of one (1) work day from cumulative sick leave shall be granted for travel time. An employee who transfers from one (1) public agency to another shall be credited with the unused balance of his accumulated sick leave up to the employee at the end maximum of the month and sick leave accumulation permitted in the public agency to which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; howeveremployee transfers. Employees who render part-time, each employee seasonal, intermittent, per diem, or hourly service shall be entitled to earn no more than sick leave for the time actually worked at the same rate as that granted like full-time employees. The Superintendent shall require an employee to furnish a written, signed statement on forms prescribed by the Board to justify the use of sick leave. If medical attention is required, the employee’s statement shall list the name and address of the attending physician and the dates when he was consulted. Each newly hired regular employee who has exhausted his accumulated sick leave shall be entitled to an advancement of five (5) days of sick leave each year, to be charged against the sick leave he subsequently accumulates. Accumulation of sick leave shall be limited to a maximum of two hundred seventy-five (275) days. Perfect Attendance Credit – Employees who during the entire school year: 1) use none of their sick leave days shall receive four hundred dollars ($400.00); 2) use one (1) day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of receive three hundred dollars ($300.00); 3) use two (2) days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall receive two hundred dollars ($200.00). This attendance credit shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant given to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with employee by the first pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after in July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in following the school system, except for employees who have retiredyear in which it was earned. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full(A) Full-time permanent Port Engineers shall receive one (1) day (eight [8] hours) of sick leave credit after being in pay status for eighty (80) hours in a calendar month. Sick leave credit is cumulative. An employee is entitled to accumulate one day use accrued, unused paid sick leave after they have been in pay status for eighty (80) hours in a calendar month. (B) Sick leave credits may be used as soon as granted. (C) Each Port Engineers sick leave credit days are canceled automatically upon termination of service. Terminating employees do not receive sick leave credit for the month in which they terminate unless they work at least eighty (80) hours in the month. Accumulated sick leave credit days follow the employee if the employee is transferred to another State Agency. (D) At the employee's option, annual leave may be used in lieu of sick leave per month of employment. Such but sick leave may not be used as annual leave. (E) Sick leave may be claimed from the accumulated days of credit for any employee for illness or injury which incapacitates the employee to the extent that the employee is unable to perform his work. (F) Sick leave up to five (5) days in any one instance may be accrued claimed as bereavement leave and taken for a death in the immediate family of a Port Engineer which shall include the following mannerrelatives: Any relative living in the Port Engineers household, as well as the Port Engineers spouse, state registered domestic partner as defined in RCW 26.60.020 and 26.60.030, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child, grandchild, aunt, uncle, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law; provided, however, that the Employer may extend such sick leave upon reasonable request. A. Each full-(G) All sick leave claims must be made by calling a Port Engineer’s supervisor in advance if possible. (H) No payments of wages chargeable to sick leave credits will be made unless the Port Engineer has provided notification as described above, except in cases of emergency. (I) A verifying statement from a professional provider may be requested by the Employer at the Employer's option to support claims of more than three (3) working days per RCW 49.46.210. (J) No sick leave claims will be honored for time permanent loss for which the employee is receiving State of Washington Industrial Insurance time loss payments (Workmen's Compensation). (K) All accumulated sick leave shall be credited restored when a previously separated employee is re-employed on a permanent basis consistent with four days of applicable statute. (L) Any accumulated sick leave up to three (3) days in any one (1) instance may be claimed and taken by a Port Engineer after notification is made to the employee’s superior when a member of the Port Engineers’ immediate family, as defined in Subsection 19(F), is ill or injured. (M) Sick leave may be claimed for preventive health care provided such care cannot be reasonably scheduled during non-work time and the employee notifies their supervisor in advance of such appointment. (N) Each January, employees are eligible to receive cash on a one (1) hour for four (4) hours basis for ninety-six (96) hours or less of their accrued sick leave, if: (1) Their sick leave balance at the end of the first month of employment of each contract previous calendar year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of exceeds four hundred eighty (480) hours; (2) The converted sick leave for each month of employmenthours do not reduce their previous calendar year sick leave balance below four hundred eighty (480) hours; and (3) They notify their payroll office by January 31st that they would like to convert their sick leave hours earned during the previous calendar year, which shall minus any sick leave hours used during the previous year, to cash. All converted hours will be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to deducted from the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of ’s sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentbalance. (O) Sick leave or vacation leave may be designated as a supplemental benefit while a Port Engineer receives a partial wage replacement for paid family and/or medical leave (PFML) under Washington State Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program, Title 50A RCW. The Employer may require verification that a Port Engineer has been approved to receive benefits for paid family and/or medical leave under Title 50A RCW before approving sick leave as a supplemental benefit. A Port Engineer must provide their supervisor with no less than thirty (30) days’ notice before PFML is to begin. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick need for leave is unforeseeable thirty (30) days available to him/herin advance, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year Port Engineer must provide notice of PFML as is reasonable and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accruepracticable. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled A. Instructional Assistants hired prior to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee June 30, 1994, shall be credited with four fifteen (15) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment start of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day school year. Accumulation of sick leave shall be limited to two hundred (200) days. Instructional Assistants hired after June 30, 1994, shall earn sick leave at the rate of one (1) day per month to a maximum of ten (10) days per year for each month their first three (3) years of employment. Effective with the start of the fourth (4th) year of employment the Instructional Assistant shall be credited with fifteen (15) days of sick leave at the start of each school year. Accumulation of sick leave shall be limited to two hundred (200) days. An employee on paid sick leave who works the extended day schedule will receive pay based on the extended day schedule. 1. A person who is collecting Workers’ Compensation may use accumulated sick leave to make up the difference, if any, between their regular pay and the Workers’ Compensation payments. 2. Employees who are physically unable to return to their original assignment may be asked to return to work in a different open position within the bargaining unit if they are capable of performing the duties of the new assignment and if they are willing to do so. C. Members of the bargaining unit will receive written notification of their accumulated sick leave by September 30th of each school year. D. In cases where the evidence appears to establish a pattern of sick leave abuse, the Superintendent or their designee may require an employee to verify by a doctor's certificate the listing of any absence as a sick day. An employee who fails to submit a medical certificate will not be paid for the absence and for any subsequent absences. When an employee is not paid for failure to submit a medical certificate, the Association will be notified. E. After an absence due to illness has exceeded five (5) consecutive school days, the employee shall provide the School Department with a physician's certificate describing the nature of the illness and the anticipated date of the employee's return to work. F. Members of the bargaining unit serving in the Worcester Public School system for a minimum of twenty (20) years inclusive of approved leaves of absence shall, upon termination, except for dismissal for just cause, receive compensation for unused accumulated sick leave at the rate of ten dollars ($10.00) per day for the first one hundred sixty-five (165) days and twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day for any days beyond one hundred sixty-five (165) days, which shall be credited to included in the employee at the end employee's final paycheck and recorded as part of the month annual salary for their final years of service. G. Whenever an Instructional Assistant is absent from their duties as a result of personal injury caused by assault occurring in the course of their employment, they will be paid their regular salary, less Workers’ Compensation payments, for the period of such absence up to two (2) years from the date of injury and which shall not no part of such absence will be used prior charged to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each their annual sick leave. H. An employee shall will be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four made aware in writing when their total sick days available to him/her, exceed nine (9) days in any school year. The employee and their Association representative will discuss the School Board may withhold the average daily amount reason(s) for the sick days utilized but unearned by absences with the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accruebuilding principal. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave I. Instructional Assistants may use up to six a maximum of ten (10) sick days personal leave with pay per yearyear to attend to the illness of a spouse, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current child or parent. J. No sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 allowance will be restored granted to employees previously employed upon returning an employee who is out of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, unless the employee can produce a doctor's note or other suitable documentation that: 1) medical treatment was sought while outside of the Commonwealth; or 2) the travel out of the Commonwealth is required in order to employment in secure necessary medical treatment. Other exceptions to this policy may be requested from the school systemSuperintendent, except for employees who shall have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categoriesdiscretion to either grant or deny such a request. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.Leaves with pay

Sick Leave. Section 1A. Each full time employee shall be allowed during each fiscal year fifteen (15) days leave without loss of pay for his/her own illness or quarantine, or for death in the immediate family or in his/her own home per year, which leave will accumulate at the rate of 1.25 sick leave days per month. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves immediate family includes wife, husband, child, mother, father, sister, brother of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationshusband or wife of the above named employee. Each full-time permanent If an employee is entitled absent for illness other than his/her own, a doctor’s statement will be required. If personal illness is claimed, a doctor’s statement, with a return date, shall be required when an employee has been absent three days. The employee is responsible for obtaining the doctor’s statement. A doctor’s statement may be required in certain other cases by the School District where the absence of the employee is less than three days. In this case, the cost of obtaining this certificate shall be borne by the District and the District may require in this instance the employee to accumulate one day see a doctor of sick leave per month of employmentits own choosing. Such sick leave If an employee is absent for serious illness or for hospitalization, a doctor’s release for regular duties must be presented before returning to be accrued in the following mannerwork. A. Each full-time permanent employee B. Employees hired after July 1 shall be credited with four days a proportionate number of sick leave at days rounded off to the end of nearest one-half (1/2) day. C. If the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day employee does not use the full amount of sick leave for each month during the fiscal year, the amount unused may accumulate to a total of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end 2,040 hours exclusive of the month and which current year. D. Accumulated sick leave shall not automatically terminate on the date that an employee’s employment terminates. Unused sick days will be used reported to IMRF for the purpose of service credit as allowed by law. Employees reduced in force who are re- employed within the recall limits of the contract shall receive the sick leave entitlement held prior to the time it termination. E. If an employee is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates released by his/her employment physician for light duty, and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/herBoard’s doctor concurs, with the School Board may withhold consent and on the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned conditions set forth by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year Director of Buildings and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave Grounds, an employee may accruebe assigned to light duty if an available position exists. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationsSick leave shall accrue as provided by ORS 332.507. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of Unused sick leave per month shall accumulate without limit. This provision shall be applicable to absences due to pregnancy-related complications and for required prenatal medical care as called for by a licensed physician. 2. When an employee will be absent from work because of employmentpersonal illness or injury or the illness or injury of an immediate family member he/she shall give notice to the principal or the superintendent's designee. Such If the absence is for five (5) consecutive days, the principal should be notified of the probable date of return. The superintendent may require substantiation of said illness. Immediate family includes mother, father, spouse, domestic partner, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, brother, brother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, grandparents, mother- or father-in-law, grandchild, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, first cousin, and any other person living in the employees’ household. 3. An employee returning from any illness, whether or not sick leave is benefits have been paid, may be required to be accrued submit to a medical examination at the expense of the District or furnish a licensed physician's certificate of health prior to returning to work in order to safeguard the following mannerhealth of students and fellow employees. A. Each full-time permanent 4. If, at the beginning of a school year, an employee shall be credited with four days of previously employed for at least one (1) school year is ill and unable to resume his/her teaching duties and such employee had unused accumulated sick leave days at the end of the first month prior school year, he/she will be allowed to use previously accumulated sick leave days while he/she remains ill and unable to work. 5. Any employee obtaining sick leave benefits by fraud, deceit or falsified statement shall be subject to disciplinary action. The District shall require the employee to reimburse the District for the actual salary, PERS contribution and all other District-paid payroll expenses incurred as the result of employment of each contract year and shallsuch fraud, thereafter, be credited for one day deceit or falsified statements in the usuage of sick leave benefits. 6. Any absence incurred by an employee in accordance with the sick leave provisions in excess of the sick leave allowed by this Agreement would be charged for each month and deducted from the employee's salary at the rate of employment1/174 (number of workdays). 7. Medical, which shall dental and optometry appointments should be credited to the employee scheduled at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it day. If a staff member is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no absent more than one two (2) periods but less than four (4), then one-half (1/2) day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentwill be charged. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the more than four sick days available to him/her(4) periods are needed, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days then a full day of sick leave an employee may accruewill be charged. B. 8. Pursuant to ORS 332.507, sick leave accumulated in another District shall be credited to newly employed employees' accounts. 9. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue have exhausted their sick leave may use up to six apply for additional days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against from the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativebank. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. 17.2.1 The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day purpose of sick leave per month utilization shall be for physical and mental disability absences which make attendance impractical, or for legally established quarantine. 17.2.2 Subject to other specific District policies, fullItime faculty who are employed fullItime for 2 semesters shall be entitled to 10 days of employmentleave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. Such Department chairs shall be entitled to 11 days of leave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. 100% coordinators shall be entitled to 12 days of leave of absence annually with pay for illness or injury. 17.2.3 Earned but unused sick leave is shall be accumulated from year to be accrued in the following manneryear. A. Each full-time permanent employee 17.2.4 Temporary contract faculty and those employed less than 10 months shall receive a proportionate share of sick leave based on length of assignment. 17.2.5 Faculty employed on partial contract shall be entitled to a proportionate amount of sick leave. 17.2.6 Sick leave is not credited with four to faculty on sabbatical leave. 17.2.7 Faculty elected on a oneIsemester fullItime contract basis shall be granted five days of sick leave for that period. 17.2.8 Effective Winter 2012, partItime teaching faculty shall be entitled to sick leave at the end rate of seven hours for each one hundred hours of teaching service. Effective Winter 2012, partItime nonIteaching faculty shall be entitled to seven hours for each one hundred hours of service. 17.2.9 Faculty who teach overload hours, or summer or winter intersessions, shall accrue sick leave at the hourly rate. Hours accrued in this manner will be accumulated in an hourly sick leave bank. Six hours shall be equivalent to one day. Overload and intersession absences will be deducted from the hourly sick leave bank until it is exhausted. Intersession absences in excess of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, hourly bank will be credited for one day of deducted from the regular sick leave for each month of employment, which bank. 17.2.10 Accumulated sick leave may be used during the regular academic year or during intersessions when employed. Sick leave accumulated in other California school districts shall be credited to the employee at the end all academic employees of the month District as provided in Education Code Section 87782 and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be 87783. As provided in Education Code Section 22717 members of STRS Defined Benefit Program are entitled to earn no more than one day of additional service credit for unused sick leave times the number at retirement. Every six hours of months accumulated unused hours of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from equivalent to one day of unused sick leave, subject to STRS interpretation and regulation. 17.2.11 Faculty members who do not complete an academic year due to year and there shall verified illness or maternity leave will not be no limit on required to repay the number of days of District for advanced sick leave an employee may accruedays used but not earned. B. Employees 17.2.12 Sick leave shall not be transferrable from one faculty member’s accumulated balance to that of another faculty member except under the provisions established in Board of Trustees Policy 4154, Catastrophic Illness/Injury Leave Donation (“Policy”), herein incorporated as Appendix P. The Policy shall extend and apply to any faculty member who needs to take extended time off from work to care for a family member with a catastrophic illness or injury as these terms are employed defined in the Policy. Contribution to and use of this pool is voluntary and not subject to grievance under this Agreement. 17.2.13 Faculty members who resign during the college year or go on personal or opportunity leave and have used more sick leave days than they have earned or accumulated shall have the appropriate proIrata amount deducted from his/her final warrant. 17.2.14 The Board of Trustees, the Superintendent/President or designee may require a medical verification statement from any academic employee who is absent due to illness or injury. Such requests may be made to determine fitness to return to work. Requests will be made on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue timely basis. 17.2.15 Faculty members who have used all accumulated sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave entitlement may use up to six days personal petition for extended illness or injury leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored for a period not to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.exceed five school

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. (A) Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of covered by this Agreement shall be given nine (9) days paid sick leave per month at the beginning of employment. Such the school year of which two (2) may be used for personal business To be eligible for sick leave is as above defined, an employee must notify their immediate supervisor at least one and one-half (1 1/2) hours prior to the start of their regular shift except in proper cases, exception shall be accrued in the following mannermade. A. Each full-time permanent (B) If personal business days are unused, the Employer will pay the employee shall be credited with four for unused personal business days of sick leave at the end of the first month school year at the usual rate of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, pay for that employee. There will be credited for one day of a deduction from sick leave for each month as a result of employmentsuch payment. Provided, which shall be credited to the however, that if an employee has already used all of his/her sick leave days at the end of the month and which shall school year, he/she will not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick eligible for reimbursement for any remaining unused personal business leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accruethat year. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. (C) Sick leave shall be approved in granted to an employee when he/she is incapacitated from the following two categories. A. Illness performance of self duties by sickness or injury. Sick leave also shall be granted when a member of the immediate family of the employee is affected with an illness requiring doctor's care and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Motherhospitalization (spouse, mother, father, parents-in-law Sonlaw, son, daughter, step-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewchild or member of the employee’s household). B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside (D) The Employer reserves the right to require verification of sickness the day before or the day after a holiday, the day before or after a vacation, after three (3) consecutive days of illness, or in the same residence as case where an employee's record indicates misuse. The Employer further reserves the person who right to have an employee examined by a physician that is requesting mutually agreed upon between the Employer and the Union, at the Employer's expense, to substantiate qualifications for sick leaveleave payment. (E) 1. Employees may accumulate unused sick days up to a maximum of sixty (60). Members with an accumulation above sixty (60) will retain their current days, but each year’s accumulation above that number will be paid at one-half (1/2) of their current daily rate. (i.e. one-half (1/2) regular daily hours X regular wage rate). Payment for accumulated days will be made by June 30th each year.

Sick Leave. Regular employees shall receive sick leave benefits in accordance with the following: Section 9.1.1 Sick leave for regular employees shall be accrued at the rate of one (1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full) pro-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one rated day of sick leave per month of employment. Such . Section 9.1.1.1 For accrual purposes, sick leave is shall be determined by dividing the employee’s total number of straight-time hours compensated during the employee’s employment year by the total number of regular scheduled work days within that same employment year. This computation shall be made in August of each year and added to be accrued in the following manneremployee's September sick leave balance. A. Each full-time permanent Section 9.1.2 A regular employee who qualifies for sick leave pay shall be credited with four eligible to receive one (1) pro-rated day of sick leave pay for each day of absence due to a qualifying illness or injury. Section 9.1.3 The Employer shall project the number of annual days of sick leave at the end beginning of the first month of employment of each contract school year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited according to the estimated calendar months the employee at is to work during the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each year. The employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the projected number of days of sick leave an at the beginning of the school year; provided, however, should the employee may accrueterminate prior to the end of the school year a deduction shall be made for sick leave used in excess of accrual. B. Section 9.1.4 The Employer reserves the right to request a doctor's certificate of illness and/or injury. Section 9.1.5 For absence in excess of five (5) consecutive days, a doctor's certificate of illness must be on file with the Human Resources Department if payment for sick leave is to be allowed. Section 9.1.6 Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during whose employment is terminated shall lose the summer session benefit of accumulated days of sick leave; except for retirement purposes, in accordance with statutory law. Section 9.1.7 Employees granted an approved leave of absence by the Employer Board shall be eligible to retain accrued accumulated days of sick leave, but shall not accrue sick leave pursuant to days during the above provisionsapproved leave of absence period. C. Full-time employees who are Section 9.1.8 An employee shall give notice of illness promptly in order to be eligible to accrue for sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days payments. Such notification shall be charged against given by telephone or message to the employee's current immediate supervisor or other Employer designated authority and shall state that the employee or a family member as identified below in Section Section 9.1.9 Sick leave pay shall be paid only for periods of absence caused by personal illness or injury and illness or injury of a dependent child related by blood, marriage, legal adoption or legal guardianship, who is not yet eighteen (18) years of age or disabled children who are eighteen (18) years or older who require treatment or supervision. Employees may also use sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativefor family members as defined in the definitions portion of this Agreement who have a serious health condition or emergency. Section 2. All unused accumulated 9.1.10 Employees who have accrued sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously while employed upon returning to employment by another public school district in the state of Washington shall be given credit for such accrued sick leave upon employment by the Employer; provided there is a direct transfer of employment from the other school system, except for employees who have retireddistrict to the Employer. The employee must request the transfer of such sick leave. Section 39.1.11 In the event an employee is absent for reasons which are compensable industrial injuries in accordance with Title 51 of Washington State Industrial Insurance Law, the employee may elect to have the Employer pay the employee an amount equal to the difference between the amount paid the employee as determined by Title Section 9.1.12 Employees who incur an on-the-job injury may be required to perform "light duty" work within another classification which may involve the crossing of jurisdictional lines within the jurisdiction covered by this Agreement. Sick leave In such event the employee shall be approved in compensated at the following two categoriesrate of pay designated for the particular classification within which the work is being performed, and the rate of pay shall not be lower than the worker's compensation entitlement for time loss. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section A. Accrual Regents employees 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves All permanent Regents bargaining unit employees of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee State shall be credited with four days of accrue sick leave at the end rate of the first one and a half (1-1/2) days for each full month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick service. Sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment accrue during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueany absence without pay. B. Employees who are employed on 2. The Employer and the Union will strive to develop a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time program in which employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearmay, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current at their sole discretion, select additional benefit options in return for reducing their sick leave accrual. This Non-Regents Employees 1. All permanent bargaining unit employees of the State shall accrue sick leave at a rate for each full month of service which is non-cumulativebased upon the amount of sick leave balance according to the chart in Article IX, Section 10(F) below. Section 2. All unused accumulated The Employer and the Union will strive to develop a program in which employees may, at their sole discretion, select additional benefit options in return for reducing their sick leave days earned after July accrual. (Airport Firefighters, see Appendix F) B. Utilization of Sick Leave 1. Employees may use accrued sick leave for personal illness (both physical and mental), 1954 bodily injuries, medically related disabilities resulting from pregnancy and childbirth, or exposure to contagious disease: (a) which require the employee’s confinement; or (b) which render the employee unable to perform assigned duties; or (c) where performance of assigned duties would jeopardize the employee’s health or recovery. The Appointing Authority may require a medical certificate or other appropriate verification for absences covered by this Section. It is not the Employer’s intent nor will the above language be construed in such a way as to constitute harassment of employees. This language is intended as a vehicle by which the Employer may scrutinize habitual sick leave usage or in those cases where sick leave abuse is suspected. Employees will be restored permitted to employees previously employed upon returning to employment use compensatory time off and/or annual leave in lieu of sick leave when they so request. When a holiday falls while an employee is on paid sick leave, the employee’s sick leave account shall not be charged for the holiday period. 2. Where death occurs in the school systemimmediate family of the employee, except accrued sick leave may be used, not to exceed three (3) scheduled work days for employees who have retired. Section 3each such occurrence. Sick leave shall be approved in Immediate family is defined as, and limited to, the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband employee’s spouse, children, grandchildren, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother children, stepchildren, legal wards, parents, grandparents, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Motherparents, stepparents, brothers, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ brothers, stepbrothers, sons-in-law Sonlaw, brothers-in- law, sisters, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ sisters, stepsisters, daughters-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, sisters-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewlaw, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, first cousins, corresponding relatives of the employee’s spouse, and other persons who are members of the employee’s household. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons 3. When an employee is a pallbearer or funeral attendant in a funeral service for someone who reside is not a member of the employee’s immediate family (as defined in paragraph 2 above), accrued sick leave shall be used not to exceed one (1) working day for each such occurrence. 4. Employees may use accrued sick leave for personal medical or dental appointments which cannot be scheduled at times other than during working hours. 5. Employees may use accrued sick leave for care of and necessary attention of ill or injured members of the immediate family (as defined in paragraph 2 above), or for the birth of their child. Use of sick leave for this purpose is limited to forty (40) hours per year. Employees may carry over up to forty (40) hours of unused family care leave to the next fiscal year, for a maximum utilization of eighty (80) hours in the same residence as the person who is requesting next fiscal year. 6. Employees may use accrued sick leaveleave during adoption. Such leave shall not exceed forty (40) hours. 7. Sick leave shall not be used for any reasons not specifically set forth above.

Sick Leave. Section 1▇. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full▇▇▇▇ leave is leave necessitated by personal illness or illness in the immediate family. B. Full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day teachers who first become TRS members before June 1, 2014, without deduction in pay, shall be credited with twelve (12) days of sick leave per month year. Beginning in the fifteenth year of employment. Such , and anytime thereafter, when a teacher has accumulated and continues to maintain at least 150 sick leave is to be accrued in days, the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee teacher shall be credited with four fifteen (15) days of sick leave per year. If a teacher who previously reached 150 sick leave day’s falls below 150 days he or she may request a meeting with the Association president and the superintendent to determine his or her future sick day allotment. Sick leave shall be cumulative to 350 days at the end of the school year. All days accumulated beyond 350 shall be deposited in the Sick Leave bank. A teacher may use sick leave up to the maximum he/she has accumulated. Should TRS rules regarding accumulated sick day creditable to retirement change, this section shall be opened for reconsideration. Full-time teachers who first month of employment of each contract year and shallbecome TRS members on or after June 1, thereafter2014, without deduction in pay, shall be credited for one day with twelve (12) days of sick leave for each month of employment, which per year. Sick leave shall be credited cumulative to the employee 180 days at the end of the month and which school year. A teacher may use sick leave up to the maximum he/she has accumulated. C. A teacher who is on an unpaid leave of absence at the beginning of a school year shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of with sick leave times days until he/she returns* to duty for at least five (5) consecutive work days. A teacher who is first hired by the number District after the start of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates school year, shall have his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount leave pro-rated for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employeefirst year. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year (*Teachers who return to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave duty temporarily, pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave 7.2(A), shall not be credited with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will until they return to duty on a permanent basis.) ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave of up to three (3) days may be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment used in the school systemevent of death within the immediate family; the superintendent shall extend such to allow a reasonable time to return to the district following burial, except for employees who have retiredor extend in special circumstances. Section 3▇. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Motherfamily shall mean spouse, parent, brother, sister, child, grandparent, grandchild, father- in-law, mother-in-law Sonlaw, step-parents, step-parents-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, daughter/son-in-law Daughterlaw, brother-in-law Aunt Brotherlaw, and sister-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside law, or persons living in the same residence as household. F. Any teacher hospitalized for surgery shall present medical clearance, signed by his/her physician, before returning to work. G. A teacher may use up to two (2) sick leave days per year for funeral attendance not covered under the person who is requesting terms for use of sick leave. Such leave may be taken in half- or full-day increments.

Sick Leave. Section 1(a) On commencement of employment each Employee shall begin to accumulate sick leave credits at the rate of 1.5 working days per month up to a maximum accumulation of 135 days. (b) A medical certificate may be required after absence due to illness of five (5) consecutive work days, or where there is reason to question the absence and such reason is communicated to the Employee and the Local in writing. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullIf the Employee incurs any expense in obtaining such a certificate, the Employer will reimburse the Employee. 24.02 Part-time permanent employee Employees will be credited with the sick leave credits specified in 24.01 on a prorated basis. (a) An Employee may choose to use her own sick leave time in order to care for a sick child for whom she is entitled normally responsible, or a spouse, with the knowledge that this will be charged against accumulated sick time. (b) Time off for medical, dental, and extended health care appointments taken during working hours may be charged against accumulated sick time. (c) An Employee may choose to accumulate one day use her sick leave time, up to a maximum of five (5) working days per calendar year, in order to care for the Employee’s parent or spouse’s parent who is dependent upon the Employee for care. 24.04 Special requests for extension of sick leave per month may be referred to the Chief Executive Officer or her designate, for consideration. 24.05 On January 15th of employment. Such each year, the Employer shall provide each Employee with a written statement of her accumulated sick leave is to be accrued in the following mannercredits. A. Each full-24.06 The Employer may require that an Employee visit a medical doctor where intermittent absences result in an accumulation of more than ten (10) working days in any two (2) month period. 24.07 In the event that an Employee is ill for three (3) consecutive days or more during her vacation, she may apply to the Director or her designate and, on presentation of a medical certificate, shall have that time permanent employee charged against her accumulated sick leave and shall be credited with four compensatory vacation time. 24.08 An Employee shall be allowed to use up to six (6) days of sick leave at time per calendar year as health promotion days. All health promotion days must be approved in advance by the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which Employee’s Supervisor. Such permission shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueunreasonably withheld. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences (Revised April 2003 and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullMay 2015) Full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee certified personnel shall be credited with four eight days of sick leave at the end beginning of each school year upon reporting for work on the contract date. Days not used shall accumulate at full pay to the credit of the first month employee to a maximum of employment fifty-eight days. Part-time certified employees working at least half- time are entitled to a proportionate part of each contract full-time sick leave. A person who has acquired sick-leave credit in this District the previous year and shall, thereafter, be credited who is unable to report for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to work on the employee at the end specified date of the month and which current contract because of illness but who is able to begin work at some later date is entitled to use the benefits of previously accumulated sick leave. Sick-leave credit for the current year shall not be used prior added until the employee has reported for work. No person in the first year of employment in the District will receive sick-leave credit until reporting for work. If an employee reports for work later than the first day of the school year, the days will be prorated to the time it nearest half-day. If a person discontinues employment in the District for any reason except an approved leave of absence or retirement, all accumulated sick leave credit will be forfeited. Sick leave may be used for death or illness in the employee’s immediate family (spouse, child, parent), spouse’s parents, other relatives, and other non-traditional family relationships. Sick leave used for death or illness of a non-relative shall be considered by the principal and/or superintendent based on the merits of each individual case. The building principals, Superintendent, and/or Board of Education reserve the right to require a report from a doctor of medicine or osteopath indicating the nature and severity of any employee’s illness, or that of a family member’s, non-relative’s, or non-traditional family relationship’s illness before sick leave is earned and credited approved for payment. The certified employees may establish a sick leave pool of 60 days. The sick leave pool shall be used for emergency illness or extended illness of an employee, a family member or a non-traditional family member as designated above. It can only be used with a written confirmation from a doctor excusing the employee until a work order has been issued by the doctor. To be eligible to use the sick leave pool, the employee must contribute one or more days to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled pool. New employees have ten (10) duty days from their first duty day to earn no more than one day of contribute to the sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentpool. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available Returning employees wishing to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for contribute to the sick leave pool have ten (10) duty days utilized but unearned by from the employeefirst duty day and the last ten (10) duty days of the current school year. Such Certified personnel who have first exhausted their own sick leave shall be cumulative and four (4) personal days may make a request to the Superintendent to use sick leave days from year to year and there shall be no limit on the pool. The employee may use the same number of days from the pool as they had sick days at the beginning of the school year provided that there are adequate days available. (Revised May 2008 and July 2018) If an employee has used a day or more from the sick leave an pool in a certain year, the employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on must contribute a full-time basis during day the summer session shall following year to be eligible to accrue use the sick leave pursuant to the above provisionspool again. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall may be approved used for absence of the Chief due to illness, accident, injury, disability, exposure to contagious disease, or visits to doctors, dentists and other practitioners in their offices. Sick leave may also be used for tending to a serious illness suffered by a member of the immediate family, in the following two categories. A. Illness event the illness requires the Chief’s personal time and attention. For purposes of self this section, an “immediate family member” includes spouse, parent, step-parent, child, step- or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside child, sibling, or any other relative residing in the same residence Chief’s household, or the equivalent, if approved in writing by Borough Council. If another person can attend to the needs of an ill family member, use of sick leave is not appropriate. 2. Chief shall be entitled to 10 sick days per year. Sick day entitlement shall be computed as if the person who Original Agreement were still in effect. Sick leave may be used as appropriate in hourly increments. A sick day shall be construed to consist of eight (8) hours. The Chief’s hourly rate shall be computed by dividing his base salary by 2,080 hours. 3. Sick leave not utilized during the calendar year shall be accumulated from year to year. The Chief shall also carry forward his balance of unused sick leave accumulated during his service with the Borough to the effective date of this Agreement. Sick leave shall continue to accrue and be carried forward as if the Original Agreement remains in effect. 4. Chief is requesting a member of the Police and Firemen’s Retirement System with more than 15 years of service to the Borough. If upon his retirement under that system he has accumulated a minimum of ninety (90) sick leavedays, he will be reimbursed for unused sick time at the rate of one (1) day of base salary for every three (3) accrued sick days up to a maximum of 90 sick days or 30 days base salary. The Chief shall provide written notice to the Borough Administrator regarding all use of sick time. The Borough reserves the right to request a doctor’s note for any sick leave absences in excess of 3 consecutive days or any use of sick leave which establishes a pattern. 5. This Amended Agreement incorporates by reference the Family and Medical Leave Act Policy of the Borough as set forth in the Borough Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual, Policy 4.11, as hereafter may from time to time be amended.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each A. All full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of employees are eligible for paid sick leave per month after the end of employment. Such the original probationary period. B. Employees reinstated from reduction in force (layoff) shall be credited with any accumulated sick leave is balance remaining at the end of their previous service. C. No employee hired, reappointed, or reinstated on or after July 1, 1985 will be permitted to transfer or carry forward any sick leave balance previously earned except as provided in Section B above. D. The following sick leave program will apply to bargaining unit members: 1. Sick leave entitlements shall be accrued credited for use in the following manner.: A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four a. Seven (7) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to a yearly short-term pool as of the employee first full pay period in January of each year and shall not be accumulated in the long-term sick leave pool. Employees hired after January 1 will have their short-term sick leave credit prorated based on the percentage of the year in active employment at the end University. b. Eight (8) days sick leave shall be accrued at a rate of 2.47 hours per pay period for credit to a cumulative extended sick leave pool beginning the month and which first full pay period in January of each year. The maximum accumulation of extended sick leave credit will be unlimited. Extended sick leave shall not be used prior as short-term sick leave. c. Sick leave for part-time employees will be prorated according to the percentage of the full-time it appointment. 2. Employees may use sick leave from the short-term sick leave pool for illnesses of one (1), two (2), or three (3) days in duration without health care provider’s certificate so long as a balance remains in the pool. Employees may use their short-term sick leave pool in case of bereavement for non-relatives. 3. Employees will be entitled to use sick leave from the extended sick leave pool for illness on the fourth (4th) workday of continuous absence and thereafter or on the first (1st) day of illness in accordance with Section 5(d), so long as there is earned a balance of sick leave remaining in the pool. Use of the extended sick leave pool shall: a. Be conditioned upon a healthcare provider’s certificate of illness indicating the necessity of the absence as well as the estimated date for the return to work; b. Not be permitted for the first three (3) days of any absence (illness or injury); The University may allow the retroactive use of unused accrued vacation for the first three (3) days of absence (illness or injury) when the short- term sick leave pool is exhausted and credited only when the extended sick leave pool is in use. 4. Any balance of sick leave that remains in the short-term sick leave pool on the close of business the last pay period of the year, shall be paid to the employee by the last pay period in February the following year. Employees may cash in a maximum 100% of twelve (12) days per year during the designated period. Employees may, upon notification to the University by December 1, transfer the balance of short-term sick leave remaining as of the last pay period of the year to the extended sick leave pool, to the short-term bank, to a maximum accrual of twelve (12) days, in lieu of payment as provided above. 5. Extended sick leave can be used upon receipt of the appropriate health care provider’s certification, (Section 3.a. above) and with the approval of the department in any of the following instances: a. Sickness or off-duty injury (except in non-University employment) to the employee; b. Quarantine because of contagious disease; c. Absence for family sickness in the immediate household will only be approved when an employee's presence at home is absolutely essential. The burden of proof will be on the employee as to the essential nature of the absence. When an employee wishes to stay home because of illness in the family, but does not qualify under the above sections, vacation credit may be used with the department's approval; d. Access to the long-term pool will be permitted during the first three (3) days of absence in the following instances: (1) The inpatient or outpatient treatment of an employee or family member by a medical or dental procedure at a hospital, emergency room or outpatient treatment center, including non-routine diagnostic procedures at the aforementioned facilities and surgical procedures in a health care provider’s office; however, each employee treatments excluded include routine health care provider examinations and consultations, dental treatments by dentists and orthodontists, and treatments for minor ailments such as the common cold, a sore throat, the flu or similar gastrointestinal condition, and a headache. (2) Follow-up treatments that are associated with and occurring within a reasonable period of a treatment that qualified under Subparagraph (d) (2) above or that qualified under this Subparagraph. (3) With respect to the treatment of a family member, the employee's presence must be established to be essential. (4) Bereavement in the immediate family, i.e., mother, father, spouse, domestic partner, children, grandparents, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister- in-law, daughter-in-l aw, son- in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, grandchild, legal guardian, or other person that stands in the place of a parent (in loco parentis). Use of the long-term bank shall be entitled to earn for no more than one day five (5) days. Vacation credits or accrued compensatory time may be used for bereavement upon approval of the department when there is no balance remaining in the long-term sick leave times pool. (5) Illness or injury eligible for coverage under Worker's Compensation (on-the-job illness or injury). e. The extended sick leave pool accumulation may be converted to cash upon death or retirement. The conversion shall be a maximum of one quarter (1/4) of one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days as provided in current University policy. f. An employee who is absent from work due to a non-work related illness or injury and who has exhausted their long-term sick leave pool may, if requested, continue to be paid from their remaining short-term sick leave pool and/or vacation pool. Such elections must be in writing prior to exhausting long-term sick leave pool and such election is irrevocable. E. The University must give the number Union at least sixty (60) days notification prior to December 31 of months any year, of employment during its intent to discontinue this sick leave program. Should the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/herprogram be discontinued, the School Board may withhold University shall be bound to honor the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such payment of short-term sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on balances remaining as of the number last pay period of days of sick leave an employee may accruethat year. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves 4.01.1 Each person who is employed by any Board of personnel are patterned after Education in this state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is shall be entitled to accumulate one day of fifteen (15) days sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shallpay, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employmentyear under contract, which shall be credited to the employee at the end rate of one and one-fourth (1-1/4) days per month. Teachers may use sick leave for absences due to personal illness, disability or illness due to pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, pregnancy, injury, or death in the employee’s immediate family. Accumulated sick leave shall be unlimited. The previously accumulated sick leave of a person who has been separated from public service shall be credited upon employment in this school district provided that such employment takes place within ten (10) years of the month and which date of the last termination from public service. A teacher who transfers from one public agency to another shall not be credited with the unused balance of his/her accumulated sick leave. In the absence of medical complications, the maximum amount of sick leave that may be used prior for post delivery purposes is sixty (60) workdays. Days used subsequent to delivery shall count toward the time it is earned and credited to the employee; howeverannual FMLA allowance. 4.01.2 Teachers who render part-time, each employee seasonal, intermittent, per diem, or hourly service shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by time actually worked at the employeesame hourly rate as that granted full-time employees. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on When a part-time teacher is assigned a full-time position, sick leave days accumulated on a part-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue converted into full-time sick leave days by dividing the total hours accumulated for the part-time days by the number of hours to be worked daily in the full-time position. 4.01.3 Sick leave will be entered on the district electronic leave system. Sick leave may be taken only in ½ day or full day increments. 4.01.4 Falsification of a statement for either sick leave or personal leave is grounds for suspension or termination. The Superintendent shall determine the severity of the length of the suspension without pay; or the Superintendent may recommend termination of contract. The teacher may request a just cause hearing pursuant to the above provisionsgrievance procedure contained in the negotiated agreement between the parties. If the grievance procedure is utilized, it will begin at the Board level. C. Full4.01.5 The term, employee's immediate family, is defined as the employee's spouse, significant other living in the same household or a fiancé/fiancée, parents, parents-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use in-law, grandparents, siblings, children, daughter/son-in-law, step- children and grandchildren. The term also includes other relatives domiciled in the employee's household. 4.01.6 A teacher shall be granted an advancement of up to six fifteen (15) days personal leave with pay per yearsick leave, if needed, provided that at the time of such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.advancement there are at least two

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times credit of one and one-fourth (1 1/4) work days with pay, per month, for a total of fifteen (15) days per year, of which five may be for serious illness or death in the immediate family. Regular part-time employees will accrue sick leave on a proportionate basis based on their teaching schedule. Upon application of the employee and for good cause shown, the Superintendent shall authorize the use of such additional sick days as may be required for illness or death in the immediate family not to exceed that number of months accumulated and unused sick leave to the credit of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Sick days must be used on days the employee is absent while attending the funeral of an immediate family member. B. The total unused portion of the annual sick leave allowance shall be permitted to accumulate without limit. C. Sick leave accumulated prior to a leave of absence shall be credited upon return. 1. The same monthly accrual of one and one-fourth (1 1/4) days per month shall continue during the use of sick leave, provided the employee has not been officially separated from the payroll. 2. If, while the employee is in an approved sick leave period, a calamity day is declared in the district, the employee's sick leave account shall not be charged for the calamity day. D. Any teacher who at the beginning of the first duty day for teachers has no accumulation of sick leave shall be cumulative from year entitled to year and there shall be no limit on the number an advancement of five (5) days of sick leave. This advance is to be charged against the sick leave an the employee may accruesubsequently accumulates. B. Employees E. The use of sick leave for more than five (5) consecutive days (required teacher work days) shall require the filing of a physician's statement documenting the need for sick leave and indicating any recommended additional sick leave with the Treasurer of the Board of Education. (The physician's statement should be attached to the absence and substitute report.) F. Teachers returning to duty from sick leave after thirty (30) consecutive working days during the same duty year in which the sick leave was initially granted shall be returned to the same assignment unless such assignments would significantly disrupt the academic achievement of the students within the class or classes. Said teacher will have the option to return to their original position at the beginning of the next semester subject to the provisions of this Master Agreement under Voluntary Transfer and Assignment. G. Teachers returning to duty from sick leave after thirty (30) consecutive working days absence shall submit a signed statement from their physician that they are able to resume their duties. Any teacher returning from an injury occurring at work that resulted in an incident report shall submit a signed statement from his/her physician that he/she is able to resume his/her duties. This also applies to an injury that occurred outside of the work place that resulted in absence from reporting to his/her duties. H. Immediate family shall be designated as spouse, partner living in the same household, children, parents, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren, mother-in-law, father-in- law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law. I. In the event of the serious illness or death of a person living in the same household as the employee or a person outside the immediate family who are employed on has the same relationships as though a member of the immediate family, each full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave employee may use up to six five (5) days personal sick leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section J. Two (2) days may be granted for funerals in case of death of other family members or close friends. All unused These days will be chargeable to sick leave. K. An employee whose personal illness extends beyond the termination of his/her accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1shall, 1954 will at his/her written request, be restored granted a leave of absence without pay for the duration of such illness, but not to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredexceed two (2) years. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-12.2.1 A full time permanent employee is Unit Member shall be entitled to accumulate ten (10) days leave with pay for each school year for purposes of personal illness or injury. Said days are to be credited each year at the start of the new fiscal year. A Unit Member employed for less than full time shall be entitled to that portion of the ten (10) days leave as the number of hours per week of scheduled duty relates to the number of hours for a full time Unit Member in a comparable position. 12.2.2 Sick leave may be used in no less than one quarter (1/4) hour increments, starting from the time the Unit Member fails to appear for service at his/her regular time or leaves his/her assigned place of service, exclusive of time outside the Unit Member’s regular work day of and lunch period. 12.2.3 Unused sick leave per month shall accumulate year to year. A Unit Member whose attendance record reflects total or partial leave docks and a possible pattern of employmentabuse, including but not limited to, Monday/Friday absences, absences that extend holiday periods, excessive partial absences, and routine failure to work a full week as evidenced by excessive payroll docks that create an undue hardship on the department/program and/or have a negative impact on service delivery, shall be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination, and/or disqualification of supplemental assignments. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following mannerSupplemental assignments include, but are not limited to, extended school year, intersession, summer sessions, and adjunct classes. A. Each full-time permanent employee 12.2.4 Unit Members employed for summer school and/or extended sessions shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one an additional day of sick leave for each month of employment, session which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not cumulative. Days accumulated may be used prior to during the time it is earned and credited to the employee; howeverregular school session, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day summer school, or extended session. 12.2.5 Upon exhaustion of all accumulated sick leave, a Unit Member who would otherwise qualify for sick leave times under the number provisions of months this Article shall receive differential leave for up to a maximum of employment during the year of employmentan additional five (5) calendar months. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Differential sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year paid at not less than the difference between his/her pay and there shall be the amount paid a substitute at the lowest daily rate of substitute pay; or, if no limit substitute has been employed, the amount that would have been paid a substitute. 12.2.6 A Unit Member on the number of days of differential sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on which extends into a full-time basis during the summer session new fiscal year shall be eligible to accrue only for the unexpended days of the initial differential sick leave for the same illness or injury. 12.2.7 As required by the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1996, employees on a paid differential sick leave (PDSL) will be notified at the beginning of a PDSL that the first twelve (12) weeks of a PDSL will be counted against the twelve (12) week FMLA leave entitlement noted in Article 12, Section 12.6. 12.2.8 The Employer or his/her administrative designee may require a Unit Member to provide proof of illness or injury when an Employee is absent three consecutive days or more or when a Unit Member’s attendance reflects a possible pattern of abuse. Potential patterns of abuse include, but are not limited to, Monday/Friday absences, absences to extend holiday periods. If the verification of illness or injury requires the services of a doctor, which the Unit Member would not otherwise have required, the employer, or his/her Administrative Designee, may designate the doctor and the Employer shall be liable for only the service fee necessary to procure said verification. If the Unit Member has already made an appointment with, or is under the care of a doctor relating to the illness for which verification requested, the Employer shall incur no liability. 12.2.9 Sick leave which has been credited and used but not earned upon termination shall be repaid by deduction from final salary settlement. Said deduction shall be the rate of pay in force as of the date of termination. 12.2.10 A certificated employee may have his/her sick leave balance at a school district or another County Office of Education transferred to his/her sick leave balance accumulated pursuant to 12.2.1 provided: a. He/she was employed at said prior school agency within the above provisionsstate of California for at least one (1) school year; and b. He/she is employed as a certificated employee by the County Office within the school year succeeding that in which he/she terminated said prior employment. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue 12.2.11 All additional provisions for the application of this sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearpolicy are detailed in E.C. 44977, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative44978. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall Teachers will be credited with four one and one-half days of sick leave for each calendar month of the school year (i.e., September through June) up to fifteen (15) days per year. Section 2. Unused sick leave will have unlimited accumulation from year to year. Any bargaining unit members as of September 1, 2017 shall be grandfathered for purposes of sick leave accrual. Any bargaining unit members hired after September 1, 2017 may accumulate up to one hundred eighty-five (185) sick days. Section 3. In order to receive the benefit of the article, when a teacher will be unable to be present because of illness, he shall notify the principal or designee of the building as promptly as possible. A teacher shall also notify the principal or designee on the evening before the day on which the teacher expects to return. Section 4. Sick leave with pay shall be granted only in cases of the employee’s own incapacitation due to sickness or injury, or that of the immediate family to include spouse/domestic partner* and children. *See Addendum I Except as specified below, persons absent beyond their accumulated sick leave will have 1/183 number of teacher work days of their contract salary deducted from his or her pay for each day of absence. Section 5. Absences for periods in excess of five (5) days’ duration will be paid only on submission of a doctor’s certificate to the Superintendent, if requested. Abuses of sick leave will be treated as individual disciplinary cases by the Superintendent. Section 6. Extension beyond stated sick leave shall be given in exceptional circumstances at the discretion of the Superintendent of Schools. Section 7. Teachers whose services are terminated for any reason shall not be entitled to compensation in lieu of any sick leave not taken, except as defined in Article XV, Section 9 of this contract. Section 8. Except on reinstatement after an approved leave of absence or from the recall list, no sick leave credit for prior employment will be allowed to any teacher rehired after termination of service. Section 9. In recognition of dedicated service to the children of Groton and Dunstable, any teacher covered by this agreement who has taught for fifteen (15) years in the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District (or 20 years total teaching, the last five (5) of which have been consecutive in the Groton-Dunstable Regional School District), may obtain an increase in compensation in the final year of teaching by following the established procedure. Eligible teachers who desire to participate in this program will notify the Superintendent by January 1 of the school year in which they intend to retire of their intention to retire under the provisions of the Massachusetts Teachers Retirement Act. If such notice is submitted in writing by January 1, then as of that date, all accumulated sick leave shall be wiped off the books (except that credited during the final year of teaching) and the individual shall be paid fifty-five dollars ($55.00) per day for each sick leave day surrendered up to a maximum of 185 days in a lump sum payment on or about the July 1 immediately following that school year. This benefit shall be paid to the estate or to the beneficiary of any eligible teacher who follows the above procedure, but dies prior to the receipt of the benefit. Section 10. Each teacher will be notified by November 1 of each school year as to how many days of sick leave he had accumulated as of the end of the previous school year. Section 11. To the extent that funds budgeted for that fiscal year remain available, eligible teachers, as defined in Section 9 of this Article, who elect to retire at the end of the first month current school year without having participated in the program as defined in Section 9 shall also be compensated at the rate of employment fifty-five dollars ($55.00) per day for each sick leave day surrendered up to a maximum of 185 days, provided that any teacher with over 200 days of accumulated sick leave as of June 30, 1989, shall be eligible to surrender up to that number of accumulated sick days if earned; provided further that teachers employed during the 1983-1984 school year, and previously, shall continue to be eligible to retire after ten (10) years of service, but shall receive twenty- five dollars ($25.00) for each contract year and shall, thereafter, accumulated sick day surrendered. Said compensation shall be credited for forwarded to the teacher by June 30th immediately following that school year. Section 12. 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 each month use by a participating employee whose sick leave is 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 employmentthe employee’s illness or injury and when this disability is of a prolonged nature, which that is, fifteen (15) consecutive working days or more. 2) Any employee who has met the eligibility requirements for participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be credited required to submit a doctor’s certificate using the employee at 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. 3) In order to access the sick leave bank, all eligible employees must first exhaust their accumulated sick days. Eligible employees may not apply for sick leave bank benefits more that 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) There will be a waiting period of three (3) working days between the end of the month applicant’s current allowance of sick days and which shall not be used prior the beginning of the withdrawal of Sick Leave Bank days. Individuals belonging to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick Sick Leave Bank may use personal days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned three-day waiting period before utilization of Sick Leave Bank time. The three-day waiting period may be waived at the discretion of the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon verification by the employee. Such ’s attending physician. 5) The initial grant of days from the sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use bank will cover up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.thirty

Sick Leave. Section 1. 19.01 The contract provisions governing absences Employer shall administer a sick leave plan and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each maintain a sick leave account for each Employee who is employed by the Employer. a) A permanent full-time permanent employee is entitled equivalent Employee shall earn sick leave credits at the rate of two (2) days per month actively at work, pro-rated for part-time Employees; b) ▇▇▇▇ leave credits will be prorated by the proportion that an Employee’s regular hours equate to normal full time hours; c) ▇▇▇▇ leave credits accumulated will be added to the account and sick days used thereafter will be deducted from the account; d) Notwithstanding the above, an Employee will continue to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such and vacation credit during the first 120 calendar day period that an Employee is off ill; e) Unused sick leave days may accumulate to a maximum of 280 days (see Appendix C, Letter of Understanding re: sick leave accumulation). f) All ten (10) month Employees whose regular work year is as defined in Article 15.01(c), and are actively at work will earn one (1) day sick leave credit for the five (5) days worked prior to be accrued the commencement of the school year and the five (5) days worked beyond the school year. 19.02 An Employee who previously has been employed by this Employer, a predecessor Board, another Board, or a municipality or local Board as defined in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee Municipal Affairs Act, which operated or operates a cumulative sick leave plan, shall be credited with four days of all sick leave at credits accumulated therein whether or not there has been any intervening period of unemployment. 19.03 All Literacy Basic Skills (LBS) Instructors who were in the end employ of the first month of employment of each contract year Upper Canada District School Board up to and shallincluding August 31, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month 2003 and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee continuously thereafter shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of accumulated sick leave times the number credits in accordance with Article 19 as of months of employment during the year of employmentSeptember 1, 2003. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave Where pro-rating is required it shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed based on a full-time basis equivalent of thirty-five (35) hours per week. 19.04 Where the sick leave of an Employee becomes depleted during a month, the Employee shall continue to receive payment during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue period of the Employee’s illness until the Employee’s accumulated sick leave pursuant is depleted. 19.05 When an Employee is absent from duty as the result of an accident for which compensation is being received by the Employee in accordance with the provisions of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, the Employer will supplement such compensation payments to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible Employee to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearthe full salary of the Employee, provided that such days supplementary payments by the Employer will be charged pro-rata against the reserves of sick leave credits of the Employee and provided further that the Employer’s obligation to supplement such compensation payments shall be charged against ended when the employee's current reserve of sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativeof the Employee has been exhausted. Section 219.06 To the extent of the Employee’s sick leave credits, that Employee shall be entitled to be absent without interruption of salary on account of his/her sickness. All unused The Employer shall require certification by a physician or a licentiate of dental surgery to support absences related to sickness in excess of five (5) consecutive working days, failing which no salary shall be payable. Should the Employer require a certification for a period of absence of less than five (5) working days, the Employer shall pay the cost of obtaining such a certificate. 19.07 An Employee who does not have any sick leave credits or whose absence on account of sickness will deplete such credits shall be granted, on written request, a medical leave of absence without pay to the end of the year, if necessary. Nothing in this article prevents an Employee from requesting an extension of the medical leave of absence without pay for all or part of the following year. 19.08 Except as required by law or as otherwise provided in this Agreement, sick leave credits shall not accrue during any leave of absence, except as provided in 19.01(d). 19.09 An Employee shall be permitted to utilize accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1credits for their own appointments with physicians and/or licentiates of dental surgery. It is understood that an Employee will make every reasonable effort to schedule such appointments outside the regular work day. When such an appointment requires the Employee to be absent for less than his/her scheduled work day, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick sick leave credits shall be approved in deducted for each hour or part thereof for which the following two categoriesEmployee is absent from work. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves ARTICLE 9.1 Every member of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullthe Fire fighting division (whose normal shift is twenty-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of four (24) hours) shall maintain a sick leave per month bank of employment. Such ten (10) shifts (24 hours), and every member of other divisions as prescribed in Article 3, covered by this agreement, shall maintain 24 (8 hour) days for the “sick leave bank”. ARTICLE 9.2 Every member of Fire fighting division (whose normal shift is twenty-four (24) hours) as prescribed in Article 3, shall receive an annual sick leave allocation of the equivalent of five (5) shifts (24 hours). Every member of other divisions as prescribed in Article 3, covered by this agreement shall receive an annual sick leave allocation of twelve (12) days (8 hours). As at December 1st of the applicable year, 50% of any unused portion of the annual sick leave allocation of each individual member shall be issued to be accrued the respective member pro rated to that member's annual salary. ARTICLE 9.3 Any member requiring to utilize in excess of the annual sick leave allocation, shall "draw" from the established sick leave bank, and must then replenish this bank to its limit with the following manneryear's allocation. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days ARTICLE 9.4 A statement of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such cumulative sick leave shall be cumulative from year issued to year and there each member annually. ARTICLE 9.5 The sick leave shall be no limit commence on the number first day that the member has been away from work, and at the request of days of the Fire Chief, the member shall produce a certificate from a qualified medical doctor certifying that he/she is entitled to sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on leave, if his/her absence exceeds three (3) consecutive calendar days. When a full-time basis during certificate is requested by the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 Corporation it will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3at their cost. Sick leave shall be approved in deducted on the following two categoriesbasis of one (1) hour sick leave per hour. A. Illness ARTICLE 9.6 It is agreed that a leave of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside absence of four (4) calendar days with pay may be granted to members for personal reasons. All requests for leave of absence will be made to the Fire Chief and shall be granted only in writing by the same residence as Fire Chief, Deputy Chief and, unless so issued, shall not be considered authentic. Employment elsewhere for pay during such a leave of absence shall be deemed to be a resignation and shall automatically cancel all seniority and other rights under this Agreement. Any leave of absence may be immediately canceled if obtained under false pretences and, if the person who member does not immediately report for work on notification of cancellation, shall be subject to disciplinarian action up to and including dismissal and shall lose all seniority. Where a leave of absence without pay is requesting sick granted in excess of thirty (30) days, for personal reasons, seniority will not accrue during said leave. If any member is granted a leave of absence in excess of thirty (30) days, such member may at his/her option and expense, continue the payment of any fringe benefits to which he/she may be entitled under this Agreement.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee bargaining unit member shall be credited with four granted fifteen (15) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave with pay for each month of employment, year under contract which shall be credited to the employee at the end rate of one and one-half (1½) days for each completed month of the month and which shall not be used prior to the school year, September through June. For less-than-full-time it is earned and credited to the employee; howeverstaff, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day usage of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative prorated. Unused sick leave may be accumulated up to three hundred fifteen (315) work days. Sick leave may be used for paid absence from work due to the bargaining unit member’s illness, injury, pregnancy, quarantine or exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others, and for absence due to serious illness or injury in the bargaining unit member’s immediate family. Use of paid sick leave in any given school year is for serious illness or injury, which requires time off from work to year attend to a relative residing in the bargaining unit member’s immediate household, or for a spouse, child, parent, brother or sister, residing outside of the bargaining unit member’s immediate household. Misuse of sick leave or falsification of sick leave documentation by the bargaining unit member may result in disciplinary action up to and there including dismissal. If the sick leave qualifies under The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”), then the provisions of the following Section 4 of this Article apply. See Appendix A. Absence of a portion of a day up to one-half (½) shall be no limit counted as one-half (½) day of sick leave. Absence beyond one-half (½) day, but less than a full day, shall be counted as a full day of sick leave. Sick leave may be used in one-quarter (1/4) day increments providing it is not necessary to hire a substitute teacher. In order to receive paid sick leave, proper documentation as designated by the District shall be provided by the bargaining unit member to the appropriate supervisor, including a written, signed personal statement justifying use of sick leave. For any absence exceeding three (3) consecutive work days, and in order to receive sick leave pay, the statement must list the name and address of the attending physician, the date of consultation or treatment, and shall authorize the physician to give verifying information of general condition to the Superintendent, or designee, if requested. Should the bargaining unit member prefer, medical verification information, including physician’s reports, medical files and test results may, instead, be provided to a physician designated by the Board for verification purposes. A bargaining unit member may be placed on sick leave for physical or mental disability when observable evidence indicates that the bargaining unit member’s ability to teach has been adversely affected. A physical or mental examination may be required by the Board at its expense to determine the fitness of the bargaining unit member. If so, the Board, through the Superintendent or his/her designee, will provide the bargaining unit member with a list of at least three (3) physicians whom the Board believes are qualified to perform the examination. Within five (5) working days of receiving the list, the bargaining unit member shall select one physician from the list to conduct the examination at Board expense. If the bargaining unit member does not do so, the Board may make its selection from the list or outside of the list. The bargaining unit member may obtain a second medical examination at his/her expense, which may be submitted by the bargaining unit member to the Board for consideration, but shall not be binding on the number of Board’s determination. Each new bargaining unit member shall be advanced five (5) days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session upon date of hire but shall be eligible to accrue not accumulate any additional paid sick leave pursuant to until days credited at the above provisions. C. Fullone and one-time employees who are eligible to accrue half (11/2) rate per completed month exceed five (5) days. A bargaining unit member may accumulate an additional fifteen (15) days of sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school systemmember’s final year of service immediately prior to his/her retirement above the three hundred fifteen (315) maximum accumulation. However, except any additional days above the maximum accumulation shall not be calculated for employees who have retireddetermining severance amounts. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times credit of one and one-fourth (1 1/4) work days with pay, per month, for a total of fifteen (15) days per year, of which five may be for serious illness or death in the immediate family. Regular part-time employees will accrue sick leave on a proportionate basis based on their teaching schedule. Upon application of the employee and for good cause shown, the Superintendent shall authorize the use of such additional sick days as may be required for illness or death in the immediate family not to exceed that number of months accumulated and unused sick leave to the credit of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Sick days must be used on days the employee is absent while attending the funeral of an immediate family member. B. The total unused portion of the annual sick leave allowance shall be permitted to accumulate without limit. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave accumulated prior to a leave of absence shall be credited upon return. 1. The same monthly accrual of one and one-fourth (1 1/4) days per month shall continue during the use of sick leave, provided the employee has not been officially separated from the payroll. 2. If, while the employee is in an approved sick leave period, a calamity day is declared in the district, the employee's sick leave account shall not be charged for the calamity day. D. Any teacher who at the beginning of the first duty day for teachers has no accumulation of sick leave shall be cumulative from year entitled to year and there shall be no limit on the number an advancement of five (5) days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible leave. This advance is to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrualthe employee subsequently accumulates. E. The use of sick leave for more than five (5) consecutive days (required teacher work days) shall require the filing of a physician's statement documenting the need for sick leave and indicating any recommended additional sick leave with the Treasurer of the Board of Education. (The physician's statement should be attached to the absence and substitute report.) F. Teachers returning to duty from sick leave after thirty (30) consecutive working days during the same duty year in which the sick leave was initially granted shall be returned to the same assignment unless such assignments would significantly disrupt the academic achievement of the students within the class or classes. Said teacher will have the option to return to their original position at the beginning of the next semester subject to the provisions of this Master Agreement under Voluntary Transfer and Assignment. G. Teachers returning to duty from sick leave after thirty (30) consecutive working days absence shall submit a signed statement from their physician that they are able to resume their duties. Any teacher returning from an injury occurring at work that resulted in an incident report shall submit a signed statement from his/her physician that he/she is able to resume his/her duties. This leave is non-cumulativealso applies to an injury that occurred outside of the work place that resulted in absence from reporting to his/her duties. Section 2▇. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother family shall be designated as spouse, partner living in the same household, children, parents, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren, mother-in-law, father-in- law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law. I. In the event of the serious illness or death of a person living in the same household as the employee or a person outside the immediate family who has the same relationships as though a member of the immediate family, each full-time employee may use up to five (5) days sick leave per year. ▇▇▇. ▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or (2) days may be granted for funerals in case of death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting of other family members or close friends. These days will be chargeable to sick leave. ▇. An employee whose personal illness extends beyond the termination of his/her accumulated sick leave shall, at his/her written request, be granted a leave of absence without pay for the duration of such illness, but not to exceed two (2) years.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. a. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent bargaining unit employee shall be credited with four days of accumulate sick leave at the end rate of the first month of employment of each contract year one and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the one-quarter (1-1/4) days per month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day a maximum of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentfifteen (15) days per year. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year accumulative to year and there shall be no limit on the number of 285 days of sick leave an employee may accrueduring this contract. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick b. Sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment used for sickness or death in the school systemimmediate family. Immediate family means: employees spouse, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, parent-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother child, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewparent, guardian(s) or individuals with whom the employee resides. B. Illness c. At the termination of any contract, the Board will transmit, if requested accumulated sick leave to any government agency or other public employment in accordance with state law. d. Employees may use sick leave upon approval of the local Superintendent for absence due to illness, injury and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person exposure to contagious disease. e. An employee who is requesting absent due to illness more than three (3) days in succession may be required by the Superintendent to furnish a written statement from a licensed physician certifying his/her illness. f. An employee is required to submit an application for use of sick leave upon return to work. If available, bargaining unit members must utilize the District’s automated system for reporting sick leave usage. g. Sick leave shall accrue to a maximum in each year. h. Sick leave may be advanced to a maximum of five (5) days in cases where employees have no sick leave accumulated. If the employee uses all or part of the five (5) days of sick leave credit and terminated employment before such sick leave has actually accrued, the employee shall reimburse the Board for the sick leave used but not earned. i. Nothing herein shall be considered to create an expectation that unpaid leave will be granted to any bargaining unit member who has exhausted all such leave nor is the Board in any way limited from taking appropriate disciplinary action for any unauthorized absence without approved leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled 8.1 Teachers shall be allowed up to accumulate one day fifteen (15) days of sick leave per month year. Any member of employment. Such the bargaining unit who leaves during the course of the year shall receive a pro-rated allotment of sick leave based on the portion of the year that is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four worked. One hundred ten (110) days of sick leave at the end may be accumulated by teachers on staff as of the first month 2008-09 school year. All hires after this date may accumulate ninety (90) days of employment sick leave. 8.2 Each year’s sick leave days are in addition to the accumulated total of each contract year and shallprior unused days. For those individuals that have reached their maximum number of accumulated sick leave days, thereafterone hundred ten (110), be credited for one day the number of sick leave for each month of employment, which days shall be credited added to the maximum. If sick leave days beyond the maximum are not used, the sick leave days will not accumulate. 8.3 A doctor's certification must be submitted to the Principal in the event an illness is beyond five (5) consecutive school days. If the employee at does not submit a doctor's certification within five (5) calendar days of his/her return to work, his/her pay will be reduced by the end equivalent number of days lost. The obligation to present a doctor's certificate is the duty of the month teacher and which the administration will not be held responsible for not notifying the teacher of any oversight. 8.4 A catastrophic sick leave bank shall be established for bargaining unit members who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave days due to the prolonged illness of a participating unit member. Participation shall be voluntary and only participating members will be eligible for sick bank use. Bargaining unit members who choose to participate shall initially donate two (2) sick leave days from their annual allotment. The intention to participate will be indicated on a form filed with the Superintendent of Schools on or before October 15th. Once an individual has chosen to participate and has donated days, he/she shall continue as a participant until the bank falls below the minimum number of total days. Every fall after the initial creation of the bank, new employees and individuals who previously chose not to participate will have an opportunity to join the bank, also on a form provided by the district and filed on or before October 15th. If the sick bank falls below a minimum threshold of forty (40) days, one (1) additional day shall be donated from the accumulated sick leave of each bargaining unit member who indicates that they wish to continue participation. A committee of two (2) School Board members, two (2) Association members, and one (1) Administrator shall comprise a panel to sit in governance over any decision to grant use of the sick leave bank. A request for use of the sick leave bank shall be made in writing to the Superintendent of Schools. Not more than twenty-five (25) days shall be granted at one time to an individual. The panel may review a case after an initial use of the sick leave bank and grant up to an additional twenty-five (25) days from the sick leave bank for the same illness. All unused sick bank days shall carry forward to the next school year, except that the total number of days shall not exceed 110 days 8.5 All prearranged medical appointments will be used prior deducted in whole or half days from sick leave. Prior approval must be obtained to be paid and to facilitate obtaining a suitable substitute. 8.6 Child Bearing leave shall be treated as any other disability. Usually the time it leave is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee 6-8 weeks. A teacher shall be entitled to earn no more than one day utilize accumulated leave for days of sick leave times actual disability. Except in cases of emergency, teachers are expected to notify the number Superintendent at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of months disability. 8.7 Eight (8) of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by allocated in 8.1 above may be used for illness in the employee. Such sick leave immediate family. 8.8 Bargaining unit members who maintain perfect attendance, exclusive of professional leave, shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number paid an award of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual$300. This leave is non-cumulativeavailable on an annual basis. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick Sick leave is to be accrued in used for personal illness or disability, medical appointments, and, as provided below, for illness or death of a family member. An employee who is out three days or more, or whose sick leave usage is determined by the following mannerUNIVERSITY to be excessive or patterned, may be required to submit satisfactory proof of the event occasioning the use of sick leave. A. Each 2. An employee on pay status for at least one-half of the working hours of the month shall earn sick leave for that month. The number of hours earned shall be based on the number of hours on pay status that month up to a maximum of eight (8) hours per month for full-time permanent employee employment. Overtime hours shall not be credited with four days of counted in calculating monthly sick leave at earnings. 3. Sick leave may be accumulated without limit. Sick leave shall accrue on the end first day of the first following month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited except that an employee terminating service who is eligible for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited accrue proportionate sick leave through the last day on pay status according to the employee at the end following table: Percent of the month and which Time on Pay Status Hours of Sick Leave Earned 0 ⎯ 49 0 50 ⎯ 56 4 57 ⎯ 68 5 69 ⎯ 80 6 81 ⎯ 93 7 94 ⎯ 100 8 (a) Sick leave shall not be used prior to the time it is earned accrued nor shall sick leave be used beyond a predetermined date of separation or leave without pay. Sick leave is allowed for pregnancy-related illness or disability, but not beyond a predetermined date of separation or during leave without pay. A pregnant employee on approved leave without pay on the date certified by her doctor as the date on which she can no longer work, or the date of delivery (whichever is earlier) is entitled to use accrued sick leave beginning at that time and credited continuing through the period she is physically unable to perform the employee; however, each normal duties of her job. (b) An employee shall be entitled allowed to earn no use not more than one day thirty (30) calendar days of accrued sick leave times in any calendar year when required to be in attendance or to provide care, because of the number illness of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, or grandchild. In-laws and step-relatives in the relationships listed are also covered. This paragraph also covers other related persons residing in the employee's household. (c) Up to forty (40) hours of accrued sick leave accrual. This leave per year may be used when the employee's attendance is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1required due to the death of the employee's mother, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school systemfather, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness husband, wife, son, daughter, brother or sister; or of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the any other related person who is requesting residing in the employee's household. (d) If, while on vacation, an employee becomes ill and is under the care of a physician and submits a physician's statement, the employee may use accrued sick leaveleave for that personal illness. Illness of a family member is not covered during the employee's vacation.

Sick Leave. Section A. Each permanent eight (8) hour employee shall accrue sick leave from the date of employment at the rate of one and one-third (1 1/3) days per month, per pay period according to an employee’s personnel action form with unlimited accumulation, regardless of status. A minimum of one (1) hour will be used for each absence. Absences that exceed one (1) hour will be recorded in 15-minute increments. 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of working less than eight (8) hours shall accrue sick leave from the date of employment on a prorated basis per month with unlimited accumulation. A minimum of employmentone hour will be used for each absence. Such Absences that exceed one (1) hour will be recorded in 15-minute increments. B. An employee may use accrued sick leave is for leave due to illness, accidents, or medical, C. Employees will be accrued eligible for sick leave due to personal disability caused orcontributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery in the following mannersame manner as all other disabilities. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four D. A maximum of ten (10) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited granted to an employee, in the employee at the end event of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to serious illness, accident, hospitalization or temporary confinement in the employee; however’s immediate family. Employees may be eligible to use additional leave under Provision I of Article 25, each employee shall be entitled to earn no and should contact Human Resources for more information. For leave of more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/herfive (5) days, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave District shall be cumulative require a written statement from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number a licensed physician or practitioner. E. A maximum of three (3) days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. be used for parental purposes within the first (1st) week of the birth or adoption of a child. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall may be eligible to accrue sick use additional leave pursuant to the above provisionsunder Provision I of Article 25, and should contact Human Resources for more information. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days F. All leaves contained in this section shall be charged against subtracted from the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativeallowance. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1G. For purposes of this section, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in members of the school systemimmediate family include husband, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband wife, father, mother, son, daughter, parent-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, guardian, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside H. Due to extenuating circumstances, exceptions to any of the provisions contained in this section may be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent. I. The District and the Association agree that employees in the same residence as bargaining unit are allowed to choose provisions of the person who is requesting sick leaveFederal or Alaska Family Medical Leave Acts, notwithstanding language in the Leave section of the Agreement. J. The employee’s estate shall receive the monetary value of sixty-seven percent (67%) of the K. Upon request by the District, the employee will submit proof that the leave was used for approved purpose(s).

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be granted sick leave of .0575 hours for each hour in active pay status which will be credited with four at the rate of 4.6 hours per (80) hours of work. Up to five (5) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year may be advanced to an employee who has either exhausted his accumulation or is newly hired and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited has no accumulation to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employeecredit. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days advancement shall be charged against the employee's current sick ’s subsequent accumulation and be limited to the number of days that can be earned during the balance of the year. Sick leave accrualmay be used in one-quarter (1/4) hour increments. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated The number of sick leave days earned after July 1employees may accumulate shall be unlimited. B. Credit for sick leave is given for all time the employee is in active service and pay status, 1954 will including vacations and sick leave. C. An employee is to be restored charged for sick leave only for days upon which he would otherwise have been scheduled to work. D. Upon approval of the Superintendent (which approval may not be unreasonably denied), sick leave may be used for absences due to personal illness, pregnancy, medical or dental treatment/injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees previously employed upon returning to employment or participants, and for illness, injury or death in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3employee’s immediate family. Sick leave Travel time to a doctor’s appointment shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self permitted. The “Immediate Family” is defined as mother, father, brother, sister, child (including step or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Motherchild), spouse, step brother, step sister, step mother, step father, grandparent, grandchild, mother-in-law Sonlaw, father-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, sister-in-law Daughterlaw, brother-in-law Aunt Brotherlaw, daughter-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-law, son- in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons law, legal guardian, or other person who reside stands in the same residence as place of a parent. In the person who case of death in the employee’s immediate family, sick leave may be used for a maximum of three (3) work days in addition to the funeral leave provided elsewhere in this Agreement unless the Superintendent or his designee allows usage of additional sick leave days. E. Each employee shall submit a signed request for leave form for each request for sick leave upon return to work. In addition, if the employee is requesting absent more than five (5) work days, the employee must submit a statement to the Employer which contains a projected date of return. F. After an employee has used three consecutive days of sick leave, the Employer may require the employee to submit a doctor’s statement verifying the sick leave usage. . Such statement shall contain only the name, address and telephone number of the doctor, the name of the employee or member of the employee’s immediate family treated, and date(s) of treatment, and shall identify any contagious disease for which treatment was rendered. G. Accrued sick leave will be verified/recorded. The Employer shall quarterly provide each employee with a written statement showing the sick leave balance. H. In cases other than an emergency, an employee using sick leave shall notify the Superintendent or his designee or the employee’s immediate supervisor: 1. Twenty-four (24) hours in advance of a scheduled medical, dental or vision appointment. 2. Thirty (30) minutes prior to the start of the employee’s scheduled workday for all other sick leave usages. I. Absences for injuries occurring on the job shall not be deducted from the employee’s sick leave, vacation leave, or personal leave days. J. Employees who do not use sick leave during any of the following quarters shall receive a $150 attendance incentive payment for each quarter in which sick leave is not used: January 1 through March 31 $150 April 1 through June 30 $150 July 1 through September 30 $150 October 1 through December 31 $150 An employee who has used no sick leave in the entire calendar year January 1 through December 31 would receive a total of $600 in attendance incentive payments. Use of sick leave in one quarter will not render an employee ineligible for receiving the attendance incentive payment for any other quarter. Nine-month employees shall be eligible to receive the attendance incentive payment for all four quarters; however, the incentive for the April 1 - June 30 and July 1 - September 30 quarters shall be $62.50 each. The attendance incentive payment shall be made within three (3) weeks of the end of the applicable quarter. Absence due to authorized release time to attend Union conferences shall not disqualify an employee from receiving the attendance incentive payments provided in this Section. K. The board will maintain a sick leave donation program. The sick leave donation program policy and procedures will be attached as Appendix E.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves This article applies to employees hired on or before December 31, 2008 who do not choose to participate in the Flex PTO program as described in Article 13 of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulationsthis agreement. Each Sick leave shall be earned by full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day employees at the rate of sick leave per eight (8) hours for each full month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each service except that newly hired, re-employed or reinstated employees who have completed less than six (6) months (1,040 compensated regular hours) of full-time permanent employee service, shall be credited with four days of earn sick leave benefits at the end rate of the first 5.33 hours for each full month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulativeservice. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick Sick leave days earned after July 1benefits shall only accrue when an employee is on compensated regular hours or, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school systemaccordance with state and federal laws, except for employees who have retiredis on approved military leave. Section 3. An employee may accumulate seven hundred twenty (720) hours of sick leave. For every eight (8) hours of sick leave accumulated in excess of seven hundred twenty (720) hours, the employee will be given credit for four (4) hours of additional vacation and four (4) hours of sick leave. Sick leave shall be approved charged off only for hours that would normally have been worked. Section 4. Upon complete termination of employment of any permanent employee, such employee shall be paid for their accumulated unused sick leave at the employee's base pay rate subject to the limitations on severance payment stated in the following two categoriesArticle herein titled "Severance Pay." A. Illness Section 5. An employee may utilize their allowance of self sick leave on the basis of application therefore approved by the EMPLOYER for absences necessitated by inability to perform the duties of their position by reason of illness or injury, by necessity for medical care or dental care, or by exposure to contagious disease under circumstances in which the health of employees with whom they are associated or members of the public with whom they deal would be endangered by their attendance on duty, or by illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in their immediate family for such periods as their absence shall be necessary subject to certification by medical authority. The term "immediate family" shall be limited to spouse, children, a person regularly residing in the same residence as employee's immediate household, or parent where the parent has no other person to provide the necessary nursing and care. Sick leave usage shall be subject to approval and verification by the EMPLOYER who is requesting sick leave.may, after three

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullFull-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate employees shall earn one day and a quarter (1 ¼) days of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be month, credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentfor all employees. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such The sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year for all employees who were actively employed or on approved leave during the 1997-1998 school year. A part-time employee will have his accumulative sick leave prorated and there brought forward. Employees shall be no limit permitted to accumulate up to three hundred (300) days of sick leave. 2. Employees without accumulated sick leave shall be advanced (5) days sick leave at the time of their initial contract. Additional sick leave shall not accrue beyond five (5) days until the fifth month of the contract. 3. Employees who have sick leave credit which was earned in other Ohio School systems or public agencies shall receive credit according to the Revised Code of Ohio. A certificate from the administrative officer showing the place of employment, number of cumulative sick leave days, and all dates shall be presented to the treasurer of the Board of Education before any cumulative sick leave may be given for this reason. All accumulated sick leave earned outside Ohio in public schools may be certified. 4. An employee on an approved absence for more than his/her accumulated sick leave or absent for other than as granted in this policy statement shall receive salary deductions in accordance with the following formula: Annual salary divided by the number of days in current contract year equals the amount of daily wages. Daily wage times the days of unauthorized absence equals the total deduction. 5. Acceptable reasons for sick leave with pay, with limitations as herein stipulated: a. Personal illness, injury, or pregnancy. b. Exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others. c. Illness or injury in the employee’s immediate family (mother, father, d. For purposes of those not residing in the employee’s same household and who are daughter-in-law, grandparent, brother, sister, brother-in- law, legal guardian, or a person whom the employee can reasonably establish has stood in the same relationship, a limit of thirty (30) days per year. e. A maximum of five (5) days sick leave may be used for the death of member of the immediate family unless additional days are granted by the superintendent. f. One (1) day of sick leave may be used upon the death of a close friend, distant relative, or neighbor, not to exceed five (5) days per year. g. An employee must furnish a written, signed statement on a form prescribed by the Board to justify use of sick leave exceeding five (5) consecutive days, or in those instances where the superintendent has reason to believe that an employee may accrueis falsifying sick leave. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six 6. No reduction from days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused of accumulated sick leave shall be made for such days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored when schools are closed due to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredsevere weather or other emergency. Section 37. Sick leave shall may be approved deducted in the following two categoriesone-eighth (1/8), one fourth (1/4), one-half (1/2), three-fourths (3/4), or one (1) day increments. A. Illness 8. If no sick leave is taken during the current year, then the teacher shall receive a stipend equivalent to two (2) days of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewpay at the effective substitute rate. If only one (1) sick leave day is taken during the current year, then the teacher shall receive a stipend equivalent to one (1) day of pay at the effective substitute rate. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons 9. Any teacher who reside in has perfect attendance during the same residence as the person who is requesting school year (has used no sick leave) will be given the option of not reporting for work on the last day of the school year. This day is defined as a teacher check-out day. The teacher must have completed all required tasks for the closing of the school year, and scheduled a time for check-out which is mutually convenient to the teacher and the principal or designee.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullFull-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day librarians shall accrue 4.16 hours of sick leave credit per month pay period (two (2) weeks) of active employment. Such Part-time librarians shall accrue sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each fullcredit on a pro-rated basis. The formula for pro-rating a part-time permanent employee librarian’s sick leave shall be credited with four days of as follows: 80 Full-time Employment Librarians hired after November 1, 2002 shall be advanced the first six (6) months sick leave accrual at the time of hire. No further accrual shall be permitted during such six (6) month period. Subsequent accrual shall commence with the end of the first month pay period following the completion of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month six (6) months service. If the librarian leaves within the first six (6) months of employment, which sick leave used in excess of actual accrued sick leave credit shall be credited to deducted from the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accruelibrarian’s final paycheck. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue 2. Accrued sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearbe utilized by librarians for the illness, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is noninjury or disability of themselves or a member of their immediate family (i.e. children, spouse, parents, parents-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1in-law, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother parents, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside children). Sick leave may also be used for the illness, injury or disability of a librarian’s brother, sister, grandparent and others, provided the librarian has direct custodial responsibility and such person is residing in the librarian’s household or an assisted care facility. Sick leave may also be used for medical or dental appointments. 3. All librarians are entitled to carry over their accrued unused sick leave from year to year up to a maximum of 1,600 hours (200 days). Librarians who have in excess of 1,600 hours in their sick bank as of the date this Agreement is executed by the parties shall accrue no additional hours until such time that their accrued sick bank falls below 1,600 hours. 4. Each librarian shall notify his or her manager of an absence by the appropriate method established, normally one and one-half (1 ½) hours before his/her duty day is to begin. Length of absence in excess of one (1) day, if ascertainable, shall be stipulated, and renewal of absence shall follow the same residence as the person who is requesting notification process. 5. The Employer may require an appropriate physician’s statement in support of a request for use of a sick leaveday on a day immediately before or after a holiday or vacation period. A physician’s verification may also be required for any use of sick leave exceeding three (3) consecutive workdays.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fulla. Employees will be granted one-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of day's sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave pay for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment work during the year of employmentregular school year. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from month to month during the school year and from year to year up to a maximum of 145 days. For employees hired on or after July 1, 2004, the monthly sick leave accrual will be .8333 (10/12) days, with a maximum sick leave accrual during the school year of 8.33 days for the first five (5) years of service. At the beginning of the sixth year of service, employees will be granted one-day's sick leave with pay for each month of work during the regular school year. i) Paraprofessionals will be allowed to use one of such sick days per year for personal business provided that reasonable advance notice is given to the head of the school and/or supervisor. Days off for personal business are intended to be used for personal business which cannot be conducted on other than a school day and there shall during other than school and/or work day hours. ii) Employees may use one day per year from their sick leave balances for the care of ill family members. Effective July 1, 2004, employees may use three days per year from their sick leave balances for the care of ill family members. Approval of such leave is discretionary with the supervisor and proof of such disability must be no limit on provided by the number employee, satisfactory to the supervisor within (5) five working days of days the employee’s return to work. iii) Effective July 1, 2004, the use of sick leave for care of ill family members shall be limited to a maximum of one-fourth (1/4) of the amount of sick leave hours accruable by an eligible employee may accrue. B. Employees who are employed on during the current leave year or one-fourth (1/4) of the sick leave hours accruable by a full-time employee in the same title during a leave year, whichever is less. Approved usage of sick leave for care of ill family members may be charged in units of one (1) hour. b. Employees whose sick leave allowance is exhausted shall have the right to apply to the Personnel Board to borrow against future sick leave in accordance with applicable administrative regulations. c. Information on accumulated sick leave will be given to each employee, in writing, once a year. d. Paraprofessionals serving in schools shall not suffer loss of sick leave days for absence due to illness from the following children's diseases: rubeola (measles), epidemic parotitis (mumps), and varicella (chicken pox). It is understood that this paragraph does not apply to rubella (German measles). e. Employees with two years of service who leave for reasons of illness shall, subject to approval of the Medical Board, be entitled to return within one year on the basis of seniority and shall regain the seniority and other rights they had before leaving. f. Employees who work during the summer session shall will be eligible to accrue granted one day of sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per yearfor each month of work or major portion thereof, provided except that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned employees hired on or after July 1, 1954 will 2004 shall be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in granted .833 days for each month of work for the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3first five (5) years of service. Sick leave days so earned are cumulative from month to month during the summer. Unused sick days earned during the summer shall be approved in carried over to the following two categoriesregular school year up to the 145 day maximum. A. Illness g. Sick leave may be used in units of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leaveone hour.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each Twelve sick leave days will be granted to each full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate member on July 1 of each year. Sick leave days are earned at the rate of one day per each month of employment and [Type here] [Type here] [Type here] shall accumulate up to a maximum of 150 days for full-time members. 2. Full-time members who commence work with the Employer will be granted one sick leave day for each remaining month from the date of employment through the following June 30. A member beginning work on or before the 15th of any month will be credited with a sick day for that month. If work is begun on or after the 16th of the month, no credit will be given for that month. 3. Members will be notified of the number of sick leave per month days accumulated on an annual basis. 4. Absence necessitated by an illness or injury resulting from the performance of employmentservices for the Employer and covered by the provisions of the Worker's Compensation Act, will not be chargeable to a member’s sick leave. 5. Such sick leave is In cases where a member frequently claims personal illness or when his/her ability to perform assigned duties appears to be accrued in impaired, the following mannerEmployer may require a medical or psychological statement certifying that the member is capable of performing his/her assigned duties. When such a medical or psychological statement is required, the physician or psychologist will be selected and paid by the Employer. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be credited with four days 6. The maximum number of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not days that may be used prior to the at any one time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accruenecessary to carry the member through the 90 calendar day qualification period for long term disability insurance. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session 7. Sick leave days shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to used only for the above provisions.following purposes: C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use (a) the member's illness, accident or hospitalization or; (b) illness in the member's immediate family (up to six days personal leave with pay per year). For purposes of this subsection, provided that such days shall be charged against a member of the employee's member’s immediate family is defined as current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1spouse, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school systemmother, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mothermother-in-law Sonlaw, father, father-in-law Uncle Fatherlaw, son, son-in-law Daughterlaw, daughter, daughter-in-law Aunt Brotherlaw, brother, brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sisterlaw, sister, sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside law, grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, step parent, step child, or other person residing in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leaveemployee’s house.

Sick Leave. Section 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullFull-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate employees shall earn one day and a quarter (1 ¼) days of sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall be month, credited with four days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, be credited for one day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employmentfor all employees. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such The sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year for all employees who were actively employed or on approved leave during the 1997-1998 school year. A part-time employee will have his accumulative sick leave prorated and there brought forward. Employees shall be no limit permitted to accumulate up to three hundred (300) days of sick leave. 2. Employees without accumulated sick leave shall be advanced (5) days sick leave at the time of their initial contract. Additional sick leave shall not accrue beyond five (5) days until the fifth month of the contract. 3. Employees who have sick leave credit which was earned in other Ohio School systems or public agencies shall receive credit according to the Revised Code of Ohio. A certificate from the administrative officer showing the place of employment, number of cumulative sick leave days, and all dates shall be presented to the treasurer of the Board of Education before any cumulative sick leave may be given for this reason. All accumulated sick leave earned outside Ohio in public schools may be certified. 4. An employee on an approved absence for more than his/her accumulated sick leave or absent for other than as granted in this policy statement shall receive salary deductions in accordance with the following formula: Annual salary divided by the number of days in current contract year equals the amount of daily wages. Daily wage times the days of unauthorized absence equals the total deduction. 5. Acceptable reasons for sick leave with pay, with limitations as herein stipulated: a. Personal illness, injury, or pregnancy. b. Exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others. c. Illness or injury in the employee’s immediate family (mother, father, child, spouse, or parent-in-law) or those residing in the same household. d. For purposes of those not residing in the employee’s same household and who are daughter-in-law, grandparent, brother, sister, brother-in- law, legal guardian, or a person whom the employee can reasonably establish has stood in the same relationship, a limit of thirty (30) days per year. e. A maximum of five (5) days sick leave may be used for the death of member of the immediate family unless additional days are granted by the superintendent. f. One (1) day of sick leave may be used upon the death of a close friend, distant relative, or neighbor, not to exceed five (5) days per year. g. An employee must furnish a written, signed statement on a form prescribed by the Board to justify use of sick leave exceeding five (5) consecutive days, or in those instances where the superintendent has reason to believe that an employee may accrueis falsifying sick leave. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six 6. No reduction from days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused of accumulated sick leave shall be made for such days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored when schools are closed due to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retiredsevere weather or other emergency. Section 37. Sick leave shall may be approved deducted in the following two categoriesone-eighth (1/8), one fourth (1/4), one-half (1/2), three-fourths (3/4), or one (1) day increments. A. Illness 8. If no sick leave is taken during the current year, then the teacher shall receive a stipend equivalent to two (2) days of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewpay at the effective substitute rate. If only one (1) sick leave day is taken during the current year, then the teacher shall receive a stipend equivalent to one (1) day of pay at the effective substitute rate. B. Illness and/or death of: Persons 9. Any teacher who reside in has perfect attendance during the same residence as the person who is requesting school year (has used no sick leave) will be given the option of not reporting for work on the last day of the school year. This day is defined as a teacher check-out day. The teacher must have completed all required tasks for the closing of the school year, and scheduled a time for check-out which is mutually convenient to the teacher and the principal or designee.

Sick Leave. Section SECTION 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each : As provided by MCA 2-18-618- A permanent full-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of earns sick leave per month credits from the first day of employment. Such For calculating sick leave is to be accrued in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee shall credits, two thousand eighty (2,080) hours (52 weeks x 40 hours) equals one (1) year. ▇▇▇▇ leave credits must be credited with four days of sick leave at the end of each pay period. ▇▇▇▇ leave credits are earned at the first month rate of employment twelve (12) working days for each year of each contract year and shall, thereafter, service without restriction as to the number of working days that may be credited for one day of accumulated. Employees are not entitled to be paid sick leave until they have been continuously employed for each month of employmentninety (90) days. (A) An employee may not accrue sick leave credits while in a leave-without-pay status. (B) Permanent part-time employees are entitled to prorated leave benefits if they have worked the qualifying period. SECTION 2: Upon termination, which shall be credited to employees who have worked the employee at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; however, each employee qualifying period shall be entitled to earn no more than one day be paid an amount equal to one-quarter (¼) of the amount attributed to the accumulated sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has not accrued the four sick days available to him/her, the School Board may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employeeleave. Such termination pay will only apply to those credits earned since July 1, 1971. The pay attributed to the accumulated sick leave shall be cumulative computed on the basis of the employee's regular rate of pay at the time of termination of employment with the EMPLOYER. SECTION 3: Sick leave credits may be used as follows: (A) Illness or injury of the employee. (B) Illness or injury in the employee's immediate family requiring the employee's personal attendance. (C) Quarantine for contagious disease control provided certification is obtained from year to year and there the attending physician. (D) Doctor or dental appointments for treatment of employee's illness, injury or preventive care. When possible the Sheriff or his Designee shall be no limit on notified of the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueappointment at least forty-eight (48) hours in advance. B. Employees who are employed on a full-time basis (E) Illness that occurs during the summer session shall be eligible to accrue sick leave pursuant to the above provisions. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days an employee's vacation shall be charged against the employee's current to sick leave accrual. This leave when documentation from a medical provider is non-cumulativereceived. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1SECTION 4: Immediate family shall mean current spouse, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self parents or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parents, children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother and immediate family of any of the above, and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephewchildren. B. Illness and/or death ofSECTION 5: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting (A) Any illness, medical appointments or emergency, which will necessitate use of sick leave, shall be reported by the employee to the EMPLOYER promptly, and it shall be the responsibility of the employee to assure proper reporting of use of sick leave for record keeping purposes. Failure to report such leave promptly will be considered absence without leave and a deduction from the employee's pay will be made for the period of such leave.

Sick Leave. Section A. Full-time MBUs hired on or after July 1, 2014 will earn twelve (12) sick days per year, cumulative to forty (40) days. Part-time MBUs hired on or after July 1, 2014 shall accrue sick time on a prorated basis. Full-time MBUs hired prior to July 1, 2014 will earn fifteen (15) sick days per year, cumulative to forty-five (45) days. Part-time MBUs hired prior to July 1, 2014 shall accrue sick time on a prorated basis. All MBUs working less than a scheduled forty (40) hour week assignment, even if temporary, will accrue sick time on a prorated basis. 1. The contract provisions governing absences and leaves of personnel are patterned after state laws and regulations. Each fullFull-time permanent employee is entitled to accumulate one day of MBUs who use two or fewer sick leave per month of employment. Such sick leave is to be accrued days in the following manner. A. Each full-time permanent employee fall semester shall be credited with four two personal days of which may be used at a mutually agreeable time. Full-time MBUs who use two or fewer sick leave at days in the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall, thereafter, spring semester shall likewise be credited for with two personal days which may be used at a mutually agreeable time. 2. Part-time MBUs who use one day of or fewer sick leave for each month of employment, which days in a full calendar year shall be credited with two personal days to be used in the employee following calendar year at the end a mutually agreeable time. ▇. ▇▇▇▇, after one (1) year of continuous employment, who are known to be ill, supported by satisfactory medical evidence, may be granted an unpaid, extraordinary sick leave of absence for a period not to exceed six (6) months, subject to approval of the month and Chief Human Resources Officer, which shall not be used prior arbitrarily or capriciously withheld. An MBU will be entitled to return to work in the time it same classification when the leave has expired. There will be no loss of seniority during a sick leave of absence. D. As part of the above provisions of this Article, and to run concurrently with any leave authorized hereunder when the illness is earned and credited to the employee; howeveran enabling event under law, each employee all MBUs shall be entitled to earn no more than one day unpaid leave as per the provisions of sick the State and Federal Family and Medical Leave Acts. The University agrees to comply with the provisions of the FMLA and Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act, including but not limited to notifying MBUs on each occasion when leave times time is credited against state and/or federal leave entitlements. E. At the number expiration date of months of employment during all such leaves, the year of employmentMBU will be returned to the same or a similar position. If the employee terminates his/her employment and has MBU does not accrued report to work following the four sick days available to him/herleave, the School Board MBU may withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year and there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrueterminated. B. Employees who are employed F. 1. An MBU on a full-time basis during authorized leave without health benefits shall have the summer session shall be eligible option to accrue sick leave pursuant to purchase health benefits at the above provisionsgroup rate. C. Full-time employees who are eligible to accrue sick leave may use up to six days personal leave with pay per year, provided that such days shall be charged against the employee's current sick leave accrual. This leave is non-cumulative. Section 2. All unused accumulated sick leave days earned after July 1, 1954 will be restored to employees previously employed upon returning to employment in the school system, except for employees who have retired. Section 3. Sick leave shall be approved in the following two categories. A. Illness of self or illness and/or death of: MotherHusband ▇▇▇▇▇▇ children Father Wife Stepparents Sister Child Stepchildren Brother ▇▇▇▇▇▇ parent Grandchild Mother-in-law Son-in-law Uncle Father-in-law Daughter-in-law Aunt Brother-in-law Grandmother Niece Sister-in-law Grandfather Nephew B. Illness and/or death of: Persons who reside in the same residence as the person who is requesting sick leave.