Common use of Sick Leave Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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-sick, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During Sick leave days should be entered in the first year AESOP system by the Employee no later than twenty-four (24) hours from the use of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members the sick day. Each Employee shall accrue fourteen be granted 12 (14twelve) 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-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of An Employee employed after the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part beginning of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days school year or terminated before the end of his/her accumulated contract period shall be granted a sick leave bank adjusted according to the above rules. a. All sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall be credited to him/her. Any sick leave days not used by the end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for the following year, up to a maximum of 150 days. b. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days by an Employee shall be: i. Personal illness, injury, quarantine or medical appointments; ii. Serious illness in the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from i.e., husband, wife, child, father or mother that requires the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in presence of the householdEmployee. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by c. The Employee shall notify the principal or administrator of his/her designeeimpending absence stating the period of leave and where he/she can be contacted during the day. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated sick leave when Each Employee shall give such notification prior to his/her classes are covered scheduled on-the-job starting time. d. The Employee may be required by regular teachersthe Superintendent to give a written, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and signed statement from the Employee’s physician or from the Employee indicating the reason for such absence when reporting to work on the first working day following his/her designee will not absence. Additionally, the Employee may be required asked to obtain complete paperwork to assist the Agency in determining if the use of sick time qualifies as a serious health condition under the Family Medical Leave Act. Failure to comply with this provision can result in the withholding of pay for such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availableleave days. C. e. Accumulated sick leave time shall terminate upon termination of employment. f. Upon notification to the Agency of retirement by the end of February, up to 50 sick days accumulated beyond 100 days shall be reimbursed at a unit memberrate of $75 per day upon the Employee’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During Any sick leave applied for in this section that qualifies for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Article of this Agreement shall be used in conjunction with the rules of that Article of this Agreement. a. All bargaining unit employees shall be eligible for sick leave as provided in this Article. b. All full time employees working forty (40) hours per week shall be entitled to 32 hours of sick leave on the last day of the first month of each school year and will earn eight (8) hours sick leave for each additional completed month of continuous, uninterrupted service. This leave shall be credited at the end of that month and shall not be used prior to the time that it is earned and credited. No employee shall be entitled to earn more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment employment. All employees working less then forty (40) hours per week will earn sick leave prorated in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County relation to the hours they regularly work. c. Sick leave cannot be utilized before it is earned and during each successive year thereaftercredited to the employee. d. Sick leave earned shall be credited to the employee on the last day of the pay period, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per yearor, in which the bargaining unit member case of separation on the last day the employee is entitled to on the flexibility payroll. e. There shall be no limit on the number of using hours of unused sick leave in an employee may accrue. f. Sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because the following manner (family employee is unable to perform his/her duty on account of personal sickness, accident disability, or extended personal illness, self-sickor because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative or member of his/her own household. Personal illness shall include disability caused or contributed by a pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and up recovery. g. Any employee who finds it necessary to be absent from his/her duties because of illness, as defined in this Article, shall notify his/her immediate supervisor before the beginning of the work day on which he/she must be absent except for emergency reasons recognized by the Superintendent as valid. The employee shall, before claiming and receiving compensation for the time absent from his/her duties while absent because of such leave, make and file within five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted working 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 following his/her return from such absence with the Superintendent a leave form which shall set forth the day or days absent, that such absence was necessary, and that he/she believes he/she is entitled or not entitled to receive pay for such absence in accordance with the provisions of this Article. The Superintendent may require a certificate of illness from a licensed physician at any time he/she feels it necessary prior to authorizing compensation for sick leave. Provided further that sick leave shall not be approved in less than one fourth (0.25) hour increments. h. The only condition under which an employee can be paid for unused sick leave is upon retirement, participation in DROP, or death and after six (6) months satisfactory, continuous and creditable service, and the employee has not been otherwise disqualified under the provision of this Article. In such case, the employee shall be paid at the employee's current hourly rate of pay as provided below. However, such terminal sick leave pay shall not exceed an amount as follows: A member of the non-instructional staff will be paid terminal pay for accumulated sick leave for illness at retirement, participation 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, fatherDROP, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeebeneficiary if service is terminated by death. The unit member Payment will not incur loss of salary be in the month following effective retirement date unless "5.(a)" is selected or accumulated “5.(b)” is applicable. Investment plan participants will be eligible for terminal sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistantspay only if the participant meets the normal retirement age or years of service as defined in paragraph b.(1)(a) below. 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) No payment for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted made to months of creditable service investment plan participants under the early retirement criteria for pension plan participants as listed in paragraph b.(2)(a) below except by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemspecific School Board action for retirement incentives for all employees. D. Unused sick leave 1. Any person entitled to terminal pay benefits shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of have been under contract to render services for 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 period immediately preceding retirement or death and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted under suspension from duty except for reasons pertaining to health, or have any bargaining unit member who 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 charges pending which could result in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick 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)dismissal from employment.

Sick Leave. A. During Each regular full-time or regular part-time employee shall accrue sick leave at the first rate of .0463 hours for each hour in a regular pay status excluding overtime, call- back and standby duty. B. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year of employment in to year, with no accrual limit. ▇▇▇. ▇▇▇▇ County and leave usage may not exceed the employee's accrued sick leave balance reported at the end of the prior pay period. D. The APCO may require evidence in the form of a physician's certificate, or otherwise, of the adequacy of the reason for any employee's absence during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of the time for which sick leave per yearwas requested. Under no circumstances is sick leave to be used in lieu of, in which addition to, or as vacation. A physician's certificate may also be required in order to determine correctness of payroll records. E. When a member of an SBCAPCDEA represented employee’s immediate family is ill or injured and requires his/her presence and attendance, an employee may be allowed by the bargaining unit member is entitled APCO to the flexibility of using use his/her accumulated sick leave in the following manner to attend such family member. F. Up to a maximum of five days (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (540 hours) 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 may be allowed by the APCO to an employee for illness absence from duty because of any and each death in the employee’s immediate family. G. For the purposes of Section 13E and 13F above, less any annual sick "immediate family" is defined as husband, wife, domestic partner, parent, brother, sister, child, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, grandparent, grandchild, and mother-in-law or father-in-law of the employee. H. An employee may, when necessary and at the discretion of the APCO, be granted up to two hours leave days previously with pay to make voluntary non-remunerated blood donations to non-profit blood banks in the county. Time off in excess of two hours and up to an additional two hours may be used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose, but such additional time off shall be charged to accumulated sick leave. Immediate family Leave for the purpose of donating blood shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly not exceed five times in the householdany one calendar year. B. A unit member may request I. No payment shall be made to any employee for unused sick leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or accumulated to his/her designee. The unit member will not incur loss credit at the time of salary or his/her termination from APCD service. J. Employees who retire from the APCD shall have their accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss credit of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount 2,088 hours added to their term of thirty dollars ($30.00) service for each unused day purposes of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemcalculating retirement benefits. 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 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 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. A. During Each Employee shall receive up to fifteen (15) paid days of leave for personal sickness or a disabling injury of the first year Employee or a member of employment in the Employee’s immediate family. The Boards agree to permit the accumulation of ninety (90) unused days of sick leave. For the purpose of use of sick leave, the term “immediate family” shall mean spouse or civil union partner, child, stepchild or ▇▇▇▇ who lives with the Employee, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ County child, parent, spouse, or parent of the Employee’s spouse. Sick leave for any person other than those listed above may be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent or designee; such decision shall be final, and during each successive year thereafternot subject to the grievance and arbitration provisions of the parties’ Agreement. Upon request, each bargaining unit members Employee 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-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all be notified annually 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 yearEmployee’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the available number of sick leave days. All leave days on shall be pro-rated for part-time staff. Leave for medical appointments may be taken in quarter-day increments (i.e. ¼ day, ½ day) with the employee portal. E. The Board prior permission of the Superintendent or designee. Under no circumstances shall an Employee use a sick leave day in order to work at a job or position for which the Employee is in any way compensated. When three (3) consecutive sick leave days are used, or in any instance in which the Superintendent has reason to believe that the use of leave has not been for a bona-fide reason, the Superintendent reserves the right to require an Employee to provide medical certification of illness. The Superintendent may require an Employee to submit to an independent medical review to determine eligibility for continued use of sick leave, fitness for duty or fitness to return to work following a physical examination, at Board expense, serious illness or injury. In that event the cost of unit members on extended the medical review will be paid by the District or Supervisory Union. An Employee who is or may be disabled shall apply for coverage under the LTD Plan. An Employee may not use more sick leave without pay. F. Unit members shall than is necessary to meet the elimination period of the LTD Plan. If an Employee is determined to be permitted ineligible for LTD, the Employee may continue to join and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) use accrued sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 while 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 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)disabling condition continues.

Sick Leave. A. During (1) An employee other than a casual employee as defined who is absent from his/her work on account of personal illness or on account of injury by accident, other than that covered by workers' compensation, shall be entitled to leave of absence, without deduction of pay, subject to the following conditions and limitations: (a) He/she shall within twenty-four hours of the commencement of such absence inform the employer of his/her inability to attend for duty, and, as far as practicable, state the nature of the injury or illness and the estimated duration of the absence. (b) He/she shall prove to the satisfaction of his/her employer (or in the event of dispute a Board of Reference) that he/she was unable on account of such illness or injury to attend for duty on the day or days for which sick leave is claimed. (c) An employee during his/her first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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 be entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in entitlement at the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all rate of one day at the beginning of each of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in first ten calendar months of this first year of employment. Provided that an employee who has completed one year of continuous employment shall be credited with a further 80 hours' sick leave entitlement at the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days beginning of his/her accumulated second and each subsequent year, which, subject to subclause (5) shall commence on the anniversary of engagement. (2) In the case of an employee who claims to be allowed paid sick leave in accordance with this clause for illness an absence of one day only such employee if 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, year he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of has already been allowed paid sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) on more than one occasion for each unused one day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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 yearonly, shall not be returned if entitled to payment for the member effects cancellationday claimed unless he/she produces to the employer a certificate of a duly qualified medical practitioner that in his/her, the medical practitioner's, opinion, the employee was unable to attend for duty on account of personal illness or injury. The plan Provided that an employer may agree to accept from the employee a statutory declaration, stating that the employee was unable to attend for duty on account of personal illness or injury in lieu of a medical certificate. Nothing in this subclause shall limit the employer's right under paragraph (b) of subclause (1) of this clause. (3) Sick leave with an employer shall accumulate from year to year so that any balance of the period specified in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subclause (1) of this clause which in any year has not been allowed to an employee and subject to the conditions herein prescribed shall be administered allowed by that employer in a joint committee composed subsequent year, without diminution of two the sick leave prescribed in respect of that year. Provided that sick leave which accumulates pursuant to this subclause shall be available to the employee for a period of ten years but for no longer from the end of the year in which it accrues. (24) members selected Any sick leave for which any employee may become eligible under this award by reason of service with one employer shall not be cumulative upon sick leave for which the employee may become eligible by reason of subsequent service with another employer. (5) If an employee is terminated by his/her employer and re-engaged by the President same employer within a period of six months then the employee's unclaimed balance of sick leave shall continue from the date of re- engagement. In such case the employee's next year of service will commence after a total of 12 months has been served with that employer excluding the period of interruption in service from the date of commencement of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by previous period of employment or the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)anniversary of the commencement of the previous period of employment, as the case may be.

Sick Leave. A. During Section 29.1 Sick leave shall be granted to regular and part-time Employees in accordance with the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of following provisions. Sick leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled provided as a benefit to the flexibility of using sick Employee. Employees have no vested right to Sick leave except as set forth below. Section 29.2 Sick leave for Employees is used in the following manner situations: A. When Employees are (1) incapacitated by their own sickness or non-job- related injury; or (2) absent for medical, dental, optical appointments or treatment; or for pregnancy related reasons (3) exposed to a contagious disease when the attendance at duty, in the opinion of the City Physician, jeopardizes the health of others. Sick leave is not available for job-related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City or another employer entity. B. For necessary care and attendance of a member of the Employee's immediate family illnesswho (1) is incapacitated by illness or injury or (2) for their medical treatment or appointments. For the purpose of this Section, "Immediate Family" shall be defined as a parent of the Employee, spouse, child, or "step" or “adoptive” situations within these relationships or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the Employee when the Employee was a child. A child is defined as under eighteen (18) years of age, or eighteen (18) years or older if the child is incapable of self-sickcare because of a mental or physical disability. This also includes individuals for whom the Employee is the current legal guardian. Section 29.3 Sick leave used shall not exceed the total amount accrued to the Employee at the time of his/her absence. Leave without pay may be granted for sickness extending beyond the amount of accrued sick leave. After each thirty (30) days during such leave without pay, and up the Employee shall present to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all his/her department head a doctor's statement of his/her continued inability to perform his/her normal duties. Section 29.4 Sick leave shall be accrued on the first day of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part month following completion of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of continuous service. Sick leave may not be expended until after completion of one full calendar month of employment. Section 29.5 Sick leave shall be accrued at a rate of eight (8) hours for each full calendar month of service for full time Employees. Sick leave shall be prorated for part- time Employees in accordance with Section 303.42 of the Human Resources Policy and Procedure Manual. An Employee may accrue a maximum of twelve hundred (1200) hours of sick leave. During any leave which is in excess of one-hundred sixty (160) hours, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave will be accrued during the entire period of the leave. The adjustment shall be prorated to the nearest week. Full time Employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. Such absence (except as provided for in the Military Leave Policy) shall not be used in computing time in grade for Satisfactory Performance Increases or for completion of probationary period. Section 29.6 Unless an Employee is approved to flex their time, the amount of sick leave used by an Employee shall be the amount of time the Employee was absent during his/her accumulated scheduled work day. Work and/or crew assignment shall be a factor in such a decision. Holidays and other days not scheduled for work are excluded in computing sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less any annual expenditures. Any sick leave days previously used from accruals lost due to inaction by the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdEmployee will not be reinstated. B. A unit member Section 29.7 Employees may request convert accrued sick leave in excess of nine hundred sixty (960) hours to vacation leave, provided the total accrued vacation leave school may not exceed the maximum allowed under “Vacation Leave" provisions. Conversion shall be at a ratio of one (1) hour of vacation for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or one (1) hour of sick leave. Section 29.8 An Employee transferring from one department to another shall have his/her designeetotal accrued sick leave transferred to the new department. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated accrued sick leave when shall be recorded on the Personnel Action form. Section 29.9 Upon retirement as defined in the Human Resources Policy and Procedures, death, or disability, Employees with at least nine hundred sixty (960) hours accrued sick leave shall receive payment for accrued sick leave at a rate of one (1) hour of pay for every three (3) hours of sick leave up to a maximum of three hundred twenty (320) hours of pay. Employees who lack the necessary sick leave accrual bank to qualify for the sick leave retirement buyout (960 hours), shall provide evidence of and receive credit for major illness or non-job-related injury leave periods of at least forty (40) consecutive work hours to reach qualification levels. In such cases, approved sick leave periods extending at least forty (40) hours shall be added back to the accrual bank for calculation purposes only. Any buyout would then occur only on the current actual, available sick leave balance. Section 29.10 An Employee who is separated, or resigns in lieu of discipline (regardless of eligibility for retirement benefits) for theft of City property or resources (including theft of time), embezzlement, fraud, falsification, deliberate destruction to City property, or inappropriate use of City property or P-card is ineligible for payment of accrued sick leave. ▇▇▇▇ leave payout at the end of employment may be withheld if the Employee owes any type of repayment to the City, including for overpayment of wages. Section 29.11 A regular or part-time Employee who leaves the classified service to enlist in active military service other than a reserve unit and who applies for re-employment within fifteen (15) days after having been rejected or ninety (90) days after an honorable discharge shall have the former unused sick leave credits reinstated. A regular or part-time Employee who is laid off and returns to City employment within one (1) year from the date of layoff shall have the former unused accrued sick leave reinstated (see provisions for military leave). Section 29.12 Sick leave shall not be used during periods of suspension. An Employee who is absent from duty for reasons which entitle him/her to sick leave shall notify his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 supervisor two (2) hours prior to the beginning of the work shift if physically able to do so. Section 29.13 When an absence charged to sick leave daysis forty (40) consecutive work hours or more, upon returning to work the Employee shall present to the City Physician a statement from his/her doctor describing the illness. Days The Employee will only return to work if given a medical release from the City Physician. The department head or designee may require a doctor’s statement for shorter absences if there has been an established pattern of abuse such as using sick leave on work days immediately preceding or immediately after a regularly scheduled day off or reason to suspect abuse before allowing the absence to be charged to sick leave. The department head or designee may request at any time a doctor’s statement or medical opinion from the City Physician regarding the Employee’s physical ability to perform the duties of the job. An Employee should be notified at the earliest possible time if management requires such a statement upon return to work. Without a doctor’s statement, the Employee will be charged leave without pay for the absence. Section 29.14 A supervisor may request an investigation the alleged illness of an Employee absent on sick leave. False or fraudulent use of sick leave by an Employee shall be cause for disciplinary action which may include dismissal. Any Employee who shall receive payment for work performed for any other employer other than the City of Tulsa while on approved sick leave shall be subject to immediate dismissal. This provision shall also apply to Employees who are self-employed and perform work in their private occupation while on approved sick leave. Sick leave is not available for job- related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City, another employer entity, or self-employed. Section 29.15 Employees who apply for promotional opportunity must meet the established guidelines on absenteeism as a factor in determining promotional qualifications prior to being certified. Section 29.16 After three (3) months of service, accrued vacation may be used for sick leave when accrued sick leave has been exhausted. The granting of such vacation time shall be at the discretion of the appropriate supervisor who may, prior to an approval determination, request medical verification of the absence when a question exists regarding the nature of the specific absence or when the Employee’s overall attendance record has been less than satisfactory. Upon receipt of the appropriate medical verification, the Employee shall be granted the use of available vacation leave for the absence. Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) documentation shall serve as appropriate medical verification for using available vacation leave for a sick absence. Section 29.17 During any leave which is in excess of one-hundred sixty (160) hours, including extended leave periods with breaks of twenty (20) hours or less of actual work, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave will be accrued during the entire period of the leave. Prorated accruals will be based on the percentage of hours worked during the month(s) of extended absence. Full time employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. It is not the intention of the City to allow the accrual of paid leave benefits to be reinstated for employees who are not expected to remain at work consistently. Further, such absence shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 used in computing time for completion 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 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)probationary period.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year Members shall be credited with two hours of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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-sick, 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 each week of service. Sick leave may be used when a member is quarantined or physically unable to work because of sickness or an off-duty injury. Sickness or injury caused by outside employment which results in inability to work cannot be charged to sick leave unless the outside employment is an extension of police service. A. The member of the immediate familyfamily is the husband, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spousewife, childrenparent, motherregistered domestic partner, fatherparent-in-law, child, sister or brother, grandchild, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit grandparent of 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion immediate household of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity planperson seeking to use sick leave. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution SWP-F shall not exceed two (2) days per occurrence, however additional time may be granted by the immediate supervisor provided the employee submits written verification by the treating physician; and B. It is necessary because of official quarantine or to care for and make arrangements for the sick person, or C. In the case of hospitalization, the following shall apply: Three days shall be granted to all sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department in cases of serious operations, injury, or illness in order to hospitalize a member of the family, be available on the day of any operation or serious test, or to assist in the discharge of the patient from the hospital. D. Childbirth - A member shall be granted one day 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 on the day a spouse is taken to the Sick Leave Bankhospital for the purpose of giving birth, one day on the day the spouse gives birth and one day on the day the child is brought home. Child under the age of twelve (12), the Member may take up to twenty-four (24) hours of leave time when properly authorized the child is brought home, provided that such days are on a workday or immediately before or after a workday for a given fiscal yearthe Member. This leave time will be charged to SWP, shall not be returned if vacation, or holiday comp. time at the discretion of the member effects cancellationand is limited to twenty-four (24) hours per adoption. The plan shall be administered by a joint committee composed of Employee must notify their supervisor at least two (2) members selected weeks in advance of the arrival of the adopted child. However, emergency situations will not automatically result in denial. The duration of this leave shall be determined on an individual basis by the President employee and her physician. The employee must notify her supervisor approximately two weeks before her expected date of departure. Employees experiencing unexpected emergencies will not be penalized for failure to give proper notification. All sworn members of the GCEA and two (2) members selected Cincinnati Police Department who are off sick or injured, whether service connected, or not, shall be carried on an "unrestricted" basis. No member will be considered on restricted status unless so ordered by the SuperintendentCity/Police Physician. (See Addendum I)The question of whether a member on sick leave shall be restricted to his or her home shall be left to the discretion of the City/Police Physician. The extent of the restriction shall be determined by the City/Police Physician. The City/Police Physician shall consult with the employee's personal or attending physician in making his determination of whether or not to grant or continue the "unrestricted" basis. No City employee shall in any way attempt to directly or indirectly influence the decision of the City/Police Physician.

Sick Leave. A. During 21.01 Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: 1) illness or injury to the first year employee; 2) exposure by the employee to a contagious disease communicable to other employees; and/or 3) serious injury, illness or death in the employee's immediate family. 21.02 All full-time employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of employment four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hours worked, excluding overtime, and may accumulate such sick leave hours to an unlimited amount. 21.03 An employee who is to be absent on sick leave shall notify the supervisor of such absence and the reason therefor at least one-half (1/2) hour before the start of his work shift each day he is to be absent, when possible. 21.04 Sick leave may be used in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County segments of not less than one (1) hour. 21.05 The Department Head may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, (e.g., obituary notice from a newspaper) or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by the Department Head and during each successive year thereafterpaid by the Employer. In the event, each bargaining unit members an employee absent for more than three (3) consecutive days must supply a physician's report to be eligible for paid sick leave. Such requirement shall accrue fourteen (14) days not be imposed in an arbitrary or capricious manner. 21.06 If the employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury or death upon request, or in the event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the report of medical examination, the Department Head finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness, injury or death sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave per yearmay be considered an unauthorized leave and shall be without pay. 21.07 Any abuse of sick leave or the patterned use of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for discipline as may be determined by the Department Head. 21.08 The Department Head may require an employee who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined, by a physician designated and paid by the Employer, to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his normal duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. 21.09 When the use of sick leave is due to serious illness or injury in the immediate family, "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employee's spouse and children unless the employee has no spouse in which case the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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 employee's parents shall be included in the immediate family. As part When the use 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 is due to death in the immediate family, less any annual "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employees parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, grandparents, parents-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, aunts and uncles. 21.10 An employee who transfers from this Department to another Department of the Employer, shall be allowed to transfer his accumulated sick leave days previously used from to the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spousenew Department, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. 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 providing that his amount or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will shall not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availableexceed the accumulation limit in effect in his new Department. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall 21.11 Each employee who has accumulated in excess of nine hundred (900) hours sick leave and has not used all the sick leave hours accumulated since December 31" of the previous year may receive thirty payment for the unused sick leave accumulated during that year to the ratio of one ($30.001) hour of pay for each unused day three (3) sick leave hours (one-third of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred accrual for that year) and nine one (2091) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) hour for each unused day three (3) sick leave hours (one-third of sick leave accrual for that year) will be added to the employee's total accumulated up sick leave. The eligible employee who has met the threshold amount of sick leave accumulation may, at his option, elect not to two hundred and nine take the cash option but may continue to accumulate two-third (2092/3) daysof his accrued sick leave for that calendar year. At the option One-third of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion annual unused sick leave shall be forfeited to the City each year upon accrual of the stipend may threshold amount The option to cash out one-third time or to accumulate two-thirds (2/3) must be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity planmade immediately after December 31st . Note: Unused days Employees who opt for the cash conversion of sick leave will also be converted to months paid in the first pay period in February at the prior year's rate of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limitpay. Unit members will be notified Upon retirement of the number of sick leave days on the a full-time 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 has not less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be years of continuous full- time service with the Employer and is eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution payments from a state pension plan, the employee shall be authorized annually entitled to receive a cash payment equal to his hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement multiplied by one-half (1/2) the total number of accumulated and unused sick leave hours, earned by the member on employee as certified by the appropriate form. If the Finance Director, providing that such resulting number of contributed days falls below thirty hours to be paid shall not exceed six hundred fifty (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2650) sick leave dayshours. 21.13 An employee shall be granted time off with pay without deduction from any sick leave for the purposes of attending the funeral of a member of the employee's immediate family. The annual rate employee shall be entitled to a maximum of contribution three (3) days off for each death in the immediate family. For the purposes of this article, "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employee's spouse, children, parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandparents-in-law, and parents-in-law or person in loco parentis. 21.14 Funeral leave may be extended upon approval, with the use of holidays, vacation days, sick days or compensatory days. 21.15 When an employee is unable to work due to a serious illness or injury and has used all available accumulated leave, the City may permit any other bargaining unit member(s), who has (have) a minimum of 400 hours of sick leave, at that employee's discretion, to transfer their accumulated sick leave up to eighty (80) hours and/or bonus sick leave from their own account to that of the employee without any accumulated leave. Such transfers shall not exceed two (2) days of count as 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 usage of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by employee donating the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)leave for purposes of this Agreement.

Sick Leave. A. During 21.01 Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: 1) illness or injury to the first year employee; 2) exposure by the employee to a contagious disease communicable to other employees; and/or 3) serious injury, illness or death in the employee's immediate family. 21.02 All full-time employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of employment four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hours worked, excluding overtime, and may accumulate such sick leave hours to an unlimited amount. 21.03 An employee who is to be absent on sick leave shall notify the supervisor of such absence and the reason therefor at least one-half (1/2) hour before the start of his work shift each day he is to be absent, when possible. 21.04 Sick leave may be used in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County segments of not less than one (1) hour. 21.05 The Department Head may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, (e.g., obituary notice from a newspaper) or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by the Department Head and during each successive year thereafterpaid by the Employer. In the event, each bargaining unit members an employee absent for more than three (3) consecutive days must supply a physician's report to be eligible for paid sick leave. Such requirement shall accrue fourteen (14) days not be imposed in an arbitrary or capricious manner. 21.06 If the employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury or death upon request, or in the event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the report of medical examination, the Department Head finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness, injury or death sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave per yearmay be considered an unauthorized leave and shall be without pay. 21.07 Any abuse of sick leave or the patterned use of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for discipline as may be determined by the Department Head. 21.08 The Department Head may require an employee who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined, by a physician designated and paid by the Employer, to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his normal duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. 21.09 When the use of sick leave is due to serious illness or injury in the immediate family, "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employee's spouse and children unless the employee has no spouse in which case the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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 employee's parents shall be included in the immediate family. As part When the use 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 is due to death in the immediate family, less any annual "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employees parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, grandparents, parents-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, aunts and uncles. 21.10 An employee who transfers from this Department to another Department of the Employer, shall be allowed to transfer his accumulated sick leave days previously used from to the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spousenew Department, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. 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 providing that his amount or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will shall not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availableexceed the accumulation limit in effect in his new Department. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall 21.11 Each employee who has accumulated in excess of nine hundred (900) hours sick leave and has not used all the sick leave hours accumulated since December 31" of the previous year may receive thirty payment for the unused sick leave accumulated during that year to the ratio of one ($30.001) hour of pay for each unused day three (3) sick leave hours (one-third of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred accrual for that year) and nine one (2091) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) hour for each unused day three (3) sick leave hours (one-third of sick leave accrual for that year) will be added to the employee's total accumulated up sick leave. The eligible employee who has met the threshold amount of sick leave accumulation may, at his option, elect not to two hundred and nine take the cash option but may continue to accumulate two-third (2092/3) daysof his accrued sick leave for that calendar year. At the option One-third of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion annual unused sick leave shall be forfeited to the City each year upon accrual of the stipend may threshold amount The option to cash out one-third time or to accumulate two-thirds (2/3) must be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity planmade immediately after December 31st . Note: Unused days Employees who opt for the cash conversion of sick leave will also be converted to months paid in the first pay period in February at the prior year's rate of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limitpay. Unit members will be notified Upon retirement of the number of sick leave days on the a full-time 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 has not less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be years of continuous service with the Employer and is eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution payments from a state pension plan, the employee shall be authorized annually entitled to receive a cash payment equal to his rate of pay at the time of retirement multiplied by one-half (1/2) the total number of accumulated and unused sick leave hours, earned by the member on employee as certified by the appropriate form. If the Finance Director, providing that such resulting number of contributed days falls below thirty hours to be paid shall not exceed six hundred fifty (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2650) sick leave dayshours. 21.12 An employee shall be granted time off with pay without deduction from any sick leave for the purposes of attending the funeral of a member of the employee's immediate family. The annual rate employee shall be entitled to a maximum of contribution three (3) days off for each death in the immediate family. For the purposes of this article, "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employee's spouse, children, parents, brothers, sisters, parents-in-law or person in loco parentis. 21.13 Funeral leave may be extended upon approval, with the use of holidays, vacation days, sick days or compensatory days. 21.14 When an employee is unable to work due to a serious illness or injury and has used all available accumulated leave, the City may permit any other bargaining unit member(s), who has (have) a minimum of 400 hours of sick leave, at that employee's discretion, to transfer their accumulated sick leave up to eighty (80) hours and/or bonus sick leave from their own account to that of the employee without any accumulated leave. Such transfers shall not exceed two (2) days of count as 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 usage of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by employee donating the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)leave for purposes of this Agreement.

Sick Leave. A. During a. For record keeping purposes only, the first year sick leave that each current MPFA member had accrued as of employment January 1, 2009 pursuant to the formula and terms set forth in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) this article is set forth in Appendix D. b. Upon completion of 30 days of leave per yearfull-time active employment, in which the bargaining unit a member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 MPFA 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 has less than allowed 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days hours of sick leave per fiscal month for each month of employment completed in any given calendar year provided such leave is caused by sickness or injury or by any exposure to contagious disease. For purposes of administration, in subsequent years after the first full year of employment, eligible employees will be credited with 120 (one hundred and twenty) hours of sick leave as of January first of each year. c. An employee in continuous employment shall be credited with the unused portion of sick leave granted under section (b) up to a maximum of twelve hundred (1200) hours. Contributions for new membership Upon retirement or death, payment shall be made during an open enrollment to the employee or the employee’s estate for 30% of July 1 to September 30 those hours accumulated over seven hundred and twenty (720) hours. d. If the amount of each fiscal year. A sick leave contribution credit provided for under subsection (b.) has been, or is to be exhausted, the employee may make application for additional allowance to that provided under (b.). Such application shall be made to the Fire Chief, who is authorized to grant such to advance additional allowance as it may determine to be equitable after reviewing all circumstances including the employee’s attendance and performance record prior to conditions supporting his/her request for additional allowance. Decision of the Fire Chief is not grievable or arbitrable. e. Sick Leave Bankleave must be reported to on-duty personnel as soon as possible but in no event later than thirty minutes before the start of his work shift each day the employee will be absent. f. The Chief will determine whether a member is eligible for sick leave provided that the Chief will only exercise his authority to require medical documentation pertaining to the sick leave if he has a reasonable suspicion that the employee’s absence is not caused by personal illness that renders the employee that renders the employee unable to perform his duties. The Chief will not exercise his authority in an unreasonable fashion. This provision is subject to Side Letter 2, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, attached to this agreement. g. Sick leave shall not be returned if available for illness or disability that resulting from the member effects cancellation. The plan use of alcohol and/or non-prescribed drugs provided that this shall be administered by a joint committee composed of two (2) members selected by not apply to circumstances where the President employee seeks the assistance of the GCEA Town before the alcohol or drug has an impact on the employee’s performance of his job duties and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)sick leave is part of a Town-approved treatment program.

Sick Leave. A. During (a) Full-time employees shall accumulate sick leave credits at the first year rate of four (4) hours for each full calendar month of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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-sick, and up to five a maximum of two hundred eight (5208) personal dayshours. A bargaining unit member may use any or all Credits shall accumulate only on full-time employment following the completion of the fourteen thirteen (1413) annual allotted days for illness in consecutive weeks full- time employment eligibility period. (b) The Employer may require the immediate family. As part of employee to provide a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up doctor’s certificate verifying any absence due to thirty disability. (30c) days of his/her The Employer shall apply any accumulated sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less any annual to absence due to sickness not covered by insured Weekly Indemnity benefits (or similar benefits) and shall supplement Weekly Indemnity benefits (or similar benefits) with unused sick leave days previously used from credits in an amount equal to but not to exceed the current yearemployee’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdnormal earnings. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must (d) Employees, if found abusing this privilege, shall be approved disciplined by the principal Employer. In such cases, the Employer may discontinue or his/her designeereduce the benefit of the employees. The unit member will not incur loss of salary However, such cases shall be subject to the grievance procedure. (e) If an employee retires on pension, is permanently laid off or is totally disabled due to occupational accident, injury or illness as recognized by the Workers’ Compensation Board, they shall be paid unused accumulated sick leave when his/credits. (f) An employee who returns to work after absence due to illness or injury must be returned to his or her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, job without loss of benefitsseniority when capable of performing his or her duties. Upon recuperation from an accident or illness, an employee will not give the Employer as much notice as possible of his or her intention to return to work. The Employer will give the Union ninety (90) days notice of its intention to terminate an employee for absence due to illness or injury. A copy of the notice will be provided if volunteers are not availablemailed to the employee’s last known address. C. Upon a unit member(g) The Employer agrees to comply with Provincial Legislation which applies to the accommodation of disabled employees. The Union and the Employer agree to review together, on an individual basis, the cases of employees who become disabled and are unable to perform their regular job duties. (h) An employee’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members credits will be notified of the number of sick leave days shown on the employee portaltheir pay stub. 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 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 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. A. During The District will allow sick leave according to the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen following policy: twelve (1412) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using annual sick leave in will be granted which will accumulate per the Revised Code of Washington and converted per Washington Administrative Code. Sick leave will be granted for the following manner purposes: (family illness, self-sick, a) doctor and up to five dental appointments only when such appointments cannot be scheduled after working hours or on Saturdays; (5b) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any illness or all of the fourteen injury; (14c) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family; or (d) maternity. As part (Immediate family will be defined as parents, spouse, children, siblings, and other persons residing in the household.) Absence on any one (1) day for four (4) hours but fewer than eight (8) hours shall be charged as one (1) full day of sick leave; absences on any day for fewer than four (4) hours shall be charged in a qualifying Family Medical Leaveone-half (½) day increment. For the day before Thanksgiving, winter vacation, and the last day of the school year, any absences will be charged as a bargaining unit half day. When a teacher is absent for one (1) or two (2) hours and is replaced by another staff member may use up paid at the hourly rate, the absent teacher should:  be charged only for the time he/she is absent rather than on a half day basis providing the District did not need to thirty pay for a half-day substitute  Submit leave request through AESOP Illnesses and injuries requiring three (303) days or more off the job will be subject to a doctor's verification in writing at the discretion of the Superintendent. Notice of illness requiring time off the job shall be reported to the building principal or his/her designee no later than 6 a.m. of the day to be missed. A predetermined online website and/or telephone number shall be provided to all teachers. If the person who is ill cannot return for the ensuing day, then an attempt shall be made to notify the applicable building principal no later than 3 p.m. of the preceding day. An absence due to injury incurred on the job shall be with full pay. Full pay shall mean that portion of the employee's regular monthly pay that, together with the industrial insurance payment, equals that employee's regular monthly salary. At the end of each year, the District will provide each teacher with an accounting of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less any annual and all transactions concerning his/her 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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 within that time period 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 nearest one-half (21/2) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)day.

Sick Leave. A. During Sick leave shall be earned at the first year rate of 3.7 hours per completed two-week pay period of service. Service shall begin on the date of State employment and time on layoff, suspension or leave without pay, except as otherwise provided by law or this Agreement, shall not be counted in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County determining the completion of a full two- week pay period. Should the HRMS system calculate earned sick leave at a different rate, in no case shall the calculation of earned sick leave result in an amount less than the 3.7 hours identified above. The maximum amount of sick leave which employees may accumulate shall be one hundred twenty (120) days. However, the amount of unused sick leave accruals which can be credited toward State service for retirement purposes shall continue as presently provided for by statute. When maximum limitation has been accumulated, days that would normally thereafter be earned shall lapse but shall be recorded by the appointing authority. Any employee who has such lapsed sick leave to his/her credit may apply to the Director of Human Resources to have the sick leave restored in the event of an extended illness. The Director of Human Resources shall grant such request unless just cause is shown to deny the request. Part- time employees employed normally the year-round and during each successive year thereafterestablished on a regular hourly work schedule shall be allowed sick leave credits prorated on the amount of time worked. Employees may utilize their allowance of sick leave on the basis of application approved by their respective appointing authorities and reported to the Director of Human Resources, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days for absences necessitated by inability to perform the duties of leave per yeartheir positions by reason of illness or injury, by necessity for acute medical or dental care, by exposure to contagious disease under circumstances in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all health of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for employees with whom associated or members of the public necessarily dealt with would be endangered by attendance on duty, or by illness in the immediate familyfamily of the employee for such periods as the attendance of the employee shall be necessary. As part Immediate family as used in this article shall mean the employee’s spouse, or significant other, the parents of the spouse or significant other, and the parents, stepparents, guardian, children, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, grandparents, grandchildren, stepchildren or wards of the employee. For the purpose of this Article, “significant other” means that a qualifying relationship exists between two people, neither of whom is married, that is intended to remain indefinitely and where there is joint responsibility for each other’s common welfare, there are significant shared financial obligations, and they must be living together in a shared primary residence. This relationship must have existed for at least six (6) continuous months before benefits under this Article may be provided. Employees are encouraged to consult with their agency-department Personnel Officer to determine if they are eligible for benefits available under the Federal Family and Medical LeaveLeave Act. Either the appointing authority or the Director of Human Resources may require such medical examination or certificate as he/she deems necessary before approving the utilization of sick leave. All sick leave shall expire on the date of separation from State service, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days and no employee shall be reimbursed for sick leave outstanding at the time of termination 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 householdState employment. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During 1. Sick leave credit shall be earned at the first year rate of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members one (1) day per calendar month of service. The current practices concerning the earning of sick leave credits shall accrue fourteen (14) days be continued. Sick leave shall be earned from the employee's date of employment. Sick leave per year, credit shall be earned for any month in which the bargaining unit employee has been in pay status for ten 2. Sick leave may be used for illness, necessary medical or dental care, or other disability of the employee or a member of the employee's immediate family which requires the attention or presence of the employee. Immediate family as used in this Article shall mean the spouse or significant other, the parents of the spouse or significant other, the children of the spouse or significant other, the parents, stepparents, guardian, children, stepchildren, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, wards, grandparents and grandchildren of the employee. For the purposes of this Article, “significant other” 3. Notifications of absence under the provisions of this Article shall be given as soon as possible on the first day of absence or as soon thereafter as circumstances permit. 4. Upon application of an employee, a leave of absence without pay may be granted by an appointing authority for a period of disability because of sickness or injury. If the appointing authority denies the requested leave, it shall state its reason in writing. The appointing authority may, from time to time, require that the employee submit a certificate from the attending physician or a designated physician. If a certificate from a physician other than the attending physician is entitled required, the State shall pay the difference between the cost of obtaining such certificate and the amount covered by insurance. 5. An employee who is transferred to the flexibility jurisdiction of using another appointing authority or who accepts employment under the jurisdiction of a new appointing authority without interruption of service to the State shall retain his/her accumulated unused sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal dayscredits. 6. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen former State employee who is reappointed within four (144) 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 years 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. A unit member separation may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or have his/her designee. The unit member will not incur loss previously accumulated and unused balance of salary or accumulated sick leave when revived and placed to his/her classes are credit upon approval of the new appointing authority. 7. Any employee returning from layoff, including seasonal employees covered by regular teachersthis Agreement, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and shall have the unused sick leave accrued as of the time of layoff restored upon 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 availablereinstatement. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of 8. A seasonal employee who accepts another seasonal position during his or her off season may use sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should accrued in either position, regardless of which position the unit member die while employee is serving in active service, at the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option time of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemuse. 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 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 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. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County The City shall accrue, pay 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 carryover sick leave in the following manner accordance with COPAR Chapter 4 (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5IV) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all as of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days date of this agreement for illness in the immediate family. As part duration 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 householdits terms. B. 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 (a) Authorization - When an Employee calls in sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) be required to notify communications dispatcher for each unused day of such absence. (b) Limitations – Sick leave may be used for the incapacitating illness of an Employee, the Employee’s spouse or the Employee’s minor child residing in the Employee’s household. (c) Sick leave may be taken in periods of one half (1/2) hour or more. (d) When an Employee uses sick leave accumulated up in excess of three or more consecutive days, upon return to two hundred work, he/she must, if requested by a supervisor, submit a certificate from the treating physician or licensed practitioner, which describes the dates of treatment, and nine (209) daysa release to return to work outlining any applicable work restrictions. Should Failure to provide the unit member die while documentation required by the City may result in active servicea denial of paid leave. If sick leave abuse is suspected, the designated beneficiary Employee may be notified that a doctor’s certificate will be required for future absences of less than three days. (e) Sick leave may be used for medical/dental/optical appointments; to the extent such appointments cannot be scheduled during non-working hours. (f) Sick leave may be carried over from one Fiscal year to the next with no maximum carry over limitation. (g) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, Employees who leave employment other than retirement from active service in the Unit shall receive not be paid for accumulated sick leave. (h) When an Employee retires from active service in the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each Unit, unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable credited towards retirement/pension service in accordance with regulations established by the Maryland State Retirement and System, Law Enforcement Officers Pension SystemSystem (LEOPS). 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 (2i) sick leave days. Days Employees shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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) abuse sick 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)leave.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen a. Ten (1410) 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, selfshall be granted each school year with unlimited accumulation. b. Bargaining unit members employed for less than a full school year shall receive a pro-sick, and up to five (5) personal rata portion of 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, . c. Each absence taken by a bargaining unit member may use up must be reported, and if necessary, changed, according to thirty (30) days the Board approved process which shall be clearly communicated to all employees prior to the start of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in each school year and shall be posted on the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current yearDistrict’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdwebsite. B. A unit member may d. The Employer may, for good cause, 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of statement from the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of 's physician regarding the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days need for the use of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemleave. 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. e. The Board reserves the right to require a physical examination, or mental examination at Board expense, the Board's expense and by a doctor of unit members on extended sick leave without payits choice should it seem in the best interest of the District. F. Unit members f. The Board reserves the right to require a written medical statement after the eighth (8th) consecutive workday of absence. Further, such a statement shall be permitted to join and receive benefits mandatory in all cases of absence covered by Worker Compensation regardless of the length of absence. g. A written statement from an attending physician also shall be mandatory following any period of hospitalization. h. From accumulated sick leave, five (5) days per period of illness of a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any parent, spouse, child, or person for whom the bargaining unit member who has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors is principally responsible shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefitsgranted. The contribution intent of this provision is to provide the employee time to make arrangements for the care of the sick members of his/her family. The Board reserves the right to require a statement from the doctor in attendance. In emergencies, additional leave days, as available, will be granted on approval of the bargaining unit member's supervisor. i. When a bargaining unit member has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave, he/she shall be authorized annually by the member placed on the appropriate form. If the number a health and hardship leave as provided in section B.2 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 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)this Article.

Sick Leave. A. During (a) Full-time employees will continue to receive full pay while off work on sick leave up to a limit of twenty (20) working days in a twelve (12) month period extending back from the first year current sick day. Employees may use from one hour to seven hours sick leave for the purpose of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen medical appointment. (14b) The Employer may request a medical report for any sick leave longer than three (3) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member duration. (c) An Employee other than a probationary Employee who is entitled unable to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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 perform his/her accumulated sick regular assigned duties with the Company because of disabling sickness or injury shall receive a leave of absence for illness in up to six (6) months as required. While the immediate familyEmployee is on such authorized leave of absence, less any annual sick continuous service will continue to accumulate for up to six (6 ) months. A leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation of absence for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request more than six (6) months 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 assistants. The principal and his/her designee will company but shall not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availableunreasonably denied. C. (d) Upon a unit member’s retirementreturn to work of an Employee who has been on an authorized leave of absence because of illness or injury, he/she shall will return to his/her former position if the position is still available and if he/she is capable of performing the work with accommodation up to undue hardship. If he/she cannot be given their original position, he/she will be offered other available work which he/she is capable of performing, if any is available, with accommodation up to undue hardship, at an hourly rate not less than 80% of the Employee's previous hourly rate. (e) Sick Leave for Part-time Employees Part-time employees will continue to receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of full pay while off work on sick leave accumulated on a day they were supposed to work up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should a limit of: Number of hours worked in the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of previous calendar year 1820 Employees may use from one hour to seven hours sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At for the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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 purpose 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)medical appointment.

Sick Leave. 10.01 All employees will follow the attached Sick Leave/Attendance Policy (Attachment #1). Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: A. During Illness or injury to the first year employee; B. Exposure by the employee to a contagious disease communicable to other employees; C. Pregnancy of employment in the employee; and/or ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafterillness, each bargaining unit members injury or death in the employee's immediate family. 10.02 All employees shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using earn sick leave at the rate of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hours in pay status and may accumulate such sick leave to an unlimited amount, provided no employee can earn or accrue more than one hundred sixty (160) hours in any calendar year. 10.03 An employee who is to be absent on sick leave shall notify the Employer of such absence and the reason therefore at least one (1) hour before the start of his work shift each day he is to be absent. 10.04 Each full-time employee eligible to earn sick leave shall commence earning time from the effective full-time hire date of employment with the City of Tallmadge. 10.05 Sick leave may be used in segments of not less than one (1) hour. 10.06 Before an absence may be charged against accumulated sick leave, the Employer may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by the Employer and paid by the Employer. In any event, an employee absent for more than two (2) tours of duty must supply a physician's report to be eligible for paid sick leave, unless waived by the Director of Safety. 10.07 If an employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury or death upon request, or in the following manner (family event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the report of medical examination, the Employer, at his sole discretion, finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness, self-sickinjury or death sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave may, at the Employer's sole discretion, be considered an unauthorized leave and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may shall be without pay. 10.08 Any abuse or patterned use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for illness disciplinary action as provided in the immediate family. As part City’s “Sick Leave/Attendance Policy” (Attachment #1). 10.09 The Employer may require an employee who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined by a qualifying Family Medical Leavephysician designated and paid by the Employer, a bargaining unit member may to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. 10.10 When the use up to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness is due to illness, injury or death in the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose"immediate family" shall be defined as is in Section 1.01G of Ordinance 95-2017. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly Children living in the household. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on same household as the employee portalare considered immediate family. 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 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 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. A. During An Employee during the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members with the Company shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is be entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in at the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all rate of one day at the beginning of each of the fourteen (14) annual allotted first ten calendar months. Provided that an Employee who has completed one year of continuous employment shall be credited with a further ten 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 entitlement at the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used beginning of the Employee’s second year and each subsequent year thereafter from the current year’s appropriation for this purposeanniversary of engagement. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved If an Employee is terminated by the principal or his/her designee. The unit member will not incur loss Company and is re-engaged by the Company within a period of salary or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teacherssix months, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit memberthen the Employee’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day unclaimed balance of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) daysshall continue from the date of reengagement. Should In such case the unit member die while Employee’s next year of service will commence after a total of twelve months has been served with the Company excluding the period of interruption in active service, service from the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount date of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option commencement of the bargaining unit member, all previous period of employment or a portion the anniversary of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified commencement of the number previous period of sick leave days employment, as the case may be. As soon as possible, an Employee shall inform their manager of their inability to attend for duty, and, as far as practicable, state the general nature of the injury or illness and the estimated duration of the Employee’s absence. An Employee shall prove to the Company’s satisfaction that the Employee was unable on account of such illness or injury to attend for duty on the employee portal. E. The Board reserves day or days for which personal leave is claimed. This will involve the right production of a medical certificate for 2 or more day’s consecutive leave. In the case of an Employee who claims to require a physical examinationbe allowed paid personal leave in accordance with this clause for an absence of 1 day only, 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 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 such Employee if in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick year the Employee has already been allowed paid personal leave days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions on 2 occasions 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 yearday only, shall not be returned if entitled to payment for the member effects cancellationday claimed unless the Employee produces to the Company a certificate of a duly qualified medical practitioner that in the medical practitioner's opinion, the Employee was unable to attend for duty on account of personal illness or injury or carer responsibility. Where an Employee’s entitlement to 2 paid days personal leave have been utilised, a personal leave day or days taken either side of a public holiday, RDO or weekend, without provision of a medical certificate, will only entitle the Employee to be paid for the public holiday, RDO or any actual time worked on a weekend. The plan shall other days where an Employee does not attend work will be administered by treated as leave without pay. The Company may agree to accept a joint committee composed Statutory Declaration, stating that the Employee was unable to attend for duty on account of two (2) members selected by the President personal illness or injury or carer responsibility in lieu of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)a medical certificate.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in a) The Employee must telephone ▇▇▇▇▇/Luke/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County personally 12 hours before work starts (unless the Employee is excused from such requirement) to explain the reason for absence. It is not acceptable to send a text message or communicate through another staff or family member, or other person. Failure to make contact personally or at all will be viewed seriously and during investigated as a disciplinary matter. b) Following the completion of six months continuous employment the Employee shall be entitled in each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) ensuing period of twelve months to five days of leave per year, in which paid sick leave. Thereafter the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using Employee may carry over any unused sick leave to a maximum total of 20 days total current entitlement in any one year. c) Sick leave may be taken only when the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any Employee is sick or all injured; or the spouse or partner of the fourteen Employee is sick or injured; or a person who depends on the Employee for care is sick or injured. d) The Employer requires the Employee (14at the Employee’s cost) annual allotted to produce proof of sickness or injury (a medical certificate) if the sickness or injury is for a period of 3 or more consecutive calendar days, whether or not those days would otherwise be working days for illness that Employee. e) Regardless of clause 13 d), the Employer may require the Employee to produce proof within three consecutive calendar days provided the Employer informs the Employee as early as possible that proof is required and the Employer agrees to meet the Employee’s reasonable expenses in obtaining the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30proof. f) days of his/her accumulated Payment for sick leave for illness in may be withheld until proof of sickness or injury is produced by 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 householdemployee. B. A unit member may request to leave school g) The payment 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systembasic wage rate for ordinary days work. D. Unused sick h) Sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will must be notified of the number of sick leave days applied for on the employee portalprescribed company leave form as soon as practicable upon return to work. 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 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 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. A. During 26.1 Each full-time employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay in accordance with the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members following provisions: 26.1.1 Sick leave shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled an amount equal to the flexibility number of using hours worked, excluding overtime, multiplied by a factor of 0.04688 for employees assigned to twenty-four (24) hour shifts, or a factor of 0.04616 for other eligible employees. Only paid leave for holidays, vacation, disability, compensatory time off, or other paid leave shall be considered as time worked for purposes of this section. 26.1.2 Accrued sick leave in may be utilized if the following manner (family illnessemployee is required to be absent from work on account of non-job related, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any illness or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for injury; routine medical or dental appointments; illness in the immediate family. As part family as defined herein, or absence of a qualifying Family Medical Leavean eligible female employee due to illness, a bargaining unit member may use up injury or disability related 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 purposepregnancy or childbirth. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, be limited to the eligible employee's mother, father, spouse, domestic partner registered with the Human Resources Department, child, stepfather, stepmother, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request stepchild. Up 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 forty-eight (48) hours of salary or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of accrued sick leave per fiscal yearcalendar year may be utilized if the employee is required to be absent for the care related to the illness or injury of the employee’s grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, father-in-law or mother-in- law. 26.1.3 Accrued sick leave may also be utilized for job-related illness or injury if the employee is medically required to be absent from work between the date an examining physician determines the employee's condition to be "permanent and stationary" and the date the employee is so notified. Contributions Such accrued sick leave may not be utilized if the employee is otherwise entitled to temporary disability leave compensation for new membership the above-referenced period of time. Accrued sick leave not to exceed three (3) working days may be granted at the discretion of the Director of Human Resources or designated representative, following the notification referred to above. Telephone notice or a notice mailed to the employee's last known address of record shall be made during an open enrollment of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A sick leave contribution determined notice 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)employee.

Sick Leave. A. During Section 1. Each employee covered by this Agreement will be entitled to sick leave of one (1) working day with pay for each month of service, beginning with the first year completed full calendar month and cumulative. Section 2. Sick leave shall be granted to employees when they are incapacitated from the performance of their duties by sickness, pregnancy, injury or for medical, dental or optical examination or treatment. (Medical proof of illness may be required.) Sick leave shall also be granted when, through exposure to contagious disease, the presence of the employee at his/her employment position would jeopardize the health of others. To receive sick pay for medical, dental or optical examination or treatment, three (3) days notice of the appointment must be given except in the case of emergency. a. Absence of less than seven (7) days resulting from a minor personal injury out of and in the course of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members with the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools shall accrue fourteen (14) not be deducted from accumulated allowable days of leave per yearabsence provided the employee files at the Central Administration Office, prior to returning to regular employment, a statement from his/her doctor stating the number of days he/she will be unable to work. b. Absence caused by a major personal injury arise out of and in the course of employment with the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools which entitles the bargaining unit member is entitled injured employee to compensation under the flexibility provisions of using Workers’ Compensation Act, shall not be charged against allowable sick leave until the eighth (8) day, allowable days of absence shall be charged only for that portion in excess of the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and compensation payment until the employee’s sick leave bank is exhausted. Section 4. All employees covered by this Agreement may take up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted working days off with pay for illness a death in the employee's 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 The immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall be construed to mean spouseone (1) of the following: husband, wife, children, parents, brother, sister, grandparents, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchildren and any other relative or anyone who lives regularly non-relative living and making their home in the householdhousehold of the employee. Additional time off will be granted for necessary time to travel to distant states for funeral services providing said time is arranged for with the Department of Maintenance and Custodial Operations at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the time taken (One day off for brother-in-law, sister-in-law, spouses grandparents). B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeeSection 5. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day Records of sick leave accumulated up and taken shall be available to two hundred the employee or the Union upon request. Section 6. All new employees after successfully completing the probationary period and nine upon working their first day as regular employee shall have placed in their sick leave bank one (2091) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) sick leave day for each unused day month between that month and June of that fiscal year. All regular employees, at the beginning of the fiscal year after working one (1) day, will have placed in their sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine bank twelve (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 (212) sick leave days. Days shall not Time taken off during the probationary period will be accepted deducted from any the employee's pay. Employees from the Plymouth-Canton Custodial-Maintenance bargaining unit member who has less than ten (10) go directly from their custodial-maintenance position to the position of plant engineer will maintain and carry over their 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 days. The annual rate upon completion 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 their probationary period as 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)plant engineer.

Sick Leave. A. During Employees covered by this Agreement shall earn sick leave by accumulating the first year equivalent of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during one (1) day for each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days full month of leave continuous service or a total of 96 hours per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using . Employees may accumulate sick leave in up to a total equivalent of 240 sick days. Sick leave is an insurance-type benefit not to be used as additional days off, that should be used by the employee only when needed. An employee may charge time for the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any reasons: • Personal illness or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part injury • Illness or death 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 necessitating the absence of the employee from his/her work. (Members of the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate immediate family shall mean spouseinclude wife, husband, children, mother, father, sister, brother, mother-in-law or anyone who lives regularly in father-in- law). • Funeral of a close friend or relative. Such leave shall be limited to travel time and necessary attendance at the household. B. A unit member may request funeral. If an employee recovers sufficiently from an illness or injury to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by return to duty, while on sick leave, the principal or his/her designeeemployee will contact the employee’s supervisor and return to duty as soon as possible. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated When absences chargeable to sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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 excess of two (2) members consecutive days, or when repetitive absences occur, or when there is a pattern of sick leave absences, the Chief of Police may require that such absences be supported by the presentation of a written statement from a licensed practicing physician certifying the officer’s inability to work while absent. For the purposes of this section, a pattern of sick leave absences shall include multiple instances in a calendar year where sick leave is taken: (1) in conjunction with another day off (e.g. scheduled days off, vacation days, compensatory time, holidays); (2) on weekends or holidays; (3) on the same day of the week; or (4) on a day which was previously requested by the employee as a day off but not granted. In such instances of repetitive absences or when there is a pattern of sick leave absences, the Chief of Police shall notify the employee and the Union that the Chief of Police is considering placing the employee on the sick leave abuse program if repetitive absences or a pattern of sick leave absences by the employee continue. The employee and the Union shall have the opportunity to meet with the Chief of Police to discuss the employee's sick leave absences prior to the employee being placed upon the sick leave abuse program. In the event repetitive absences or a pattern of sick leave absences continue after the aforesaid notification from the Chief of Police, the Chief of Police shall notify the employee and the Union that the employee has been placed on the sick leave abuse program. For employees who have been placed on the sick leave abuse program, the City may also require the employee to undergo a physical examination(s) with a licensed practicing physician with a written report(s) on such physical examination(s) to be provided to the City. Such written report(s) shall identify whether the employee is incapable of working on the day in question due to personal illness or injury. At the City’s direction, such physical examination(s) shall occur on the same day(s) of a sick leave absence. In the event the physician determines that the employee is incapable of working on the day in question due to personal illness or injury of the employee the sick leave absence shall be paid sick leave for such date. In the event the physician determines that the employee is capable of working on the day in question or in the event the employee fails to report for the required physical examination the sick leave absence shall be unpaid. At the employee's request, the City shall make available a physician for such a physical examination(s) required by the City at a time and location in the City of Elgin selected by the President City. In the case of absences by employees on the sick leave abuse program due to care of a covered immediate family member, the employee shall obtain and provide a written statement from a licensed practicing physician certifying the need for the employee to care for the covered family member during the employee's absence. An employee on the sick leave abuse program shall in all instances (including, but not limited to, any grievance proceedings) have the burden of proof to establish that the use of sick leave was for an authorized reason. The required burden of proof shall be to a reasonable degree of medical certainty. Medical records of the GCEA and employee shall be presumed admissible in grievance proceedings relating to such matters. For purposes of clarification the sick leave abuse program shall not apply to workers' compensation injuries. An employee on the sick leave abuse program who thereafter establishes regular attendance without repetitive absences or a pattern of sick leave abuse for a period of two (2) members selected by calendar years may submit a request to the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)Chief of Police to be removed from the sick leave abuse program and in such event the Chief shall remove such employee from the sick leave abuse program.‌

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇(a) ▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafterleave credits with pay shall be granted on the basis of ten point eight (10.8) working hours' per month, 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-sick, 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 cumulative from the current year’s appropriation for this purposedate of employment. Immediate family There shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request be no limit 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on credit(s) accumulated but the employee portalcan only utilize sick leave credits upon accumulation. E. The Board reserves (b) ▇▇▇▇ leave with pay is only payable because of sickness and employees who are absent from duty because of sickness may be requested to prove sickness to the right satisfaction of the Employer. Any employee who fails to require comply with this regulation upon request shall be considered as having left the employ of the Employer. Employees will notify the Employer as promptly as possible of any absence from duty because of sickness and employees will be expected to notify the Employer prior to their return. Employees who have been absent due to sickness for a physical examinationperiod of forty-five (45) calendar days or more must notify the employer one week prior to returning to work. In the event the employee does not advise the Employer as required under this section and the Employer is unable to make arrangements to accommodate relief staff, at Board expense, of unit members the employee shall be on extended sick leave without of absence for a period of one week, or until the Employer can make such arrangements, whichever is earlier. (c) Sick leave pay shall be paid for the one (1) day or less not covered by the Workers' Compensation Act, when the employee has accumulated sick leave credits. An employee shall be granted reasonable injury-on-duty leave with pay where it is determined by the Provincial Workers' Compensation Board that he/she is unable to perform his/her duties because of a compensable injury or illness if the employee agrees to pay to the Employer any amount received by him/her for loss of wages in settlement of any claim he/she may have in respect of such injury, sickness or exposure. Where an employee has insufficient or no credits to cover the granting of sick leave with pay, sick leave with pay will be granted: (1) for a period of up to twenty-five (25) days if he/she is awaiting a decision on an application for injury-on-duty leave, or (2) for a period of up to fifteen (15) days if he/she has not submitted an application for injury-on- duty leave, subject to the deduction of such advanced leave from any sick leave credits subsequently earned. When an employee is granted sick leave with pay and injury-on-duty leave is subsequently approved for the same period, it shall be considered, for the purpose of the record of sick leave credits, that the employee was not granted sick leave with pay. F. Unit members (▇) ▇▇▇▇ leave may be applied for to cover a medical appointment which, as the result of an accident, is necessary and is covered by Workers' Compensation. Employees qualifying for Workers' Compensation coverage shall be permitted continued on the payroll and shall not have their employment terminated during the compensable period. (e) ▇▇▇▇ leave pay shall be computed on the basis of scheduled work days and all claims will be paid on this basis. (f) An employee must apply for sick leave pay to join cover periods of actual time lost from work owing to sickness or accident. Employees will make every effort to secure Medical and receive benefits from a Unit I Dental appointments outside their normal working hours. If appointments cannot be secured outside normal working hours, Medical and Dental appointments will qualify for Sick Leave Bank by contributing two With Pay provided that employees give reasonable advance notice of such appointments to the Employer. (2g) sick leave days. Days Employees with more than one (1) year's service who are off because of sickness or accident shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 at 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days expiration of sick leave per fiscal be continued on the payroll under the heading of "Leave of Absence Without Pay" for a period of up to twenty-one (21) work days. Further Leave of Absence periods without pay will be granted upon written request by a medical practitioner. These written requests will be acknowledged in writing. If no written request is received by the Employer within the twenty-one (21) work days from such an employee explaining his/her condition, he/she will be removed from the payroll. The Employer will notify the employee prior to the expiration of the twenty-one (21) day clause of this Section. (h) Employees with less than one (1) year. Contributions for new membership 's service who are off because of sickness or accident shall be made during continued on the payroll under the heading of "Leave of Absence Without Pay" for a period of seven (7) work days. Further Leave of Absence periods of seven (7) work days without pay may be granted upon written request. These written requests will be acknowledged in writing. If no written report is received by the Employer within the seven (7) work days from such an open enrollment of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A employee explaining his/her condition, he/she will be removed from the payroll. (i) All sick leave contribution credits are cancelled when an employee terminates his/her employment except that when an employee transfers from a hospital to the Employer's place of business, his/her sick leave is portable in accordance with Article 6.01(b) except as provided in paragraph (j) below. (j) Cash Pay-Out of Unused Sick Leave BankCredits Upon completion of six (6) years of service, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, shall not be returned if the member effects cancellation. The plan employees who terminate shall be administered by paid in cash an amount equivalent to 40% of unused sick leave credits, to a joint committee composed maximum of two one hundred fifty-six (2156) members selected by days, calculated at the President employee's rate of pay at termination less any amounts that have been received from the GCEA hospital as cash pay out of unused sick leave credits. (k) Sick leave accumulation will appear on each employee's pay stub and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)shall be adjusted bi- weekly.

Sick Leave. A. During 17.1.1 Full time employees are entitled to ten (10) days sick leave each school year commencing on the first day of employment. Employees hired part way into the school year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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 are entitled to the flexibility proportionate number of using sick leave days. Those hired from the 1st of the month through the 15th of the month are granted one sick leave day (proportionate to their FTE). Those hired after the 15th of the month are not granted sick leave for that month. 17.1.2 Full time child development unit members (Children's Center) are entitled to twelve (12) days sick leave each school year commencing on the first day of employment. 17.1.3 In case of absence due to illness or accident, employees should notify the district substitute system as soon as possible. If you submit an absence after 6:00 am on the day of your absence, you will also need to notify your site. 17.1.4 Employees shall make every effort to notify the district two (2) months in advance, or as early as possible, of known long-term absences such as those required by childbirth or surgery, to allow the following manner (family illnessdistrict to obtain a qualified substitute. 17.1.5 Upon returning from sick leave, self-sickthe unit member shall be entitled to the same position if the return is within the same school year as the commencement. Otherwise, the unit member shall be entitled to the same position if available. The position shall be considered available if it is still in existence and up if it is filled by a substitute or a temporary employee whose term of hire expires at the time of the unit member's return. 17.1.6 A sick leave day once reported, may not be reinstated as a working day. 17.1.7 No payment for sick leave shall be made until submission by the employee on the form specified by the District and signed by the employee and the site principal. 17.1.8 Verification of the reason for absence due to illness or accident may be required by the District prior to payment. 17.1.9 Satisfactory evidence that the employee is fit to return to duty may be required of any employee who has been absent from duty for more than five (5) personal consecutive working days. A bargaining unit member . 17.1.10 If the District has reason to believe that an employee is unfit for duty, the District may use any require that an employee undergo a physical or all mental examination by a doctor selected by the employee and the cost for such examination shall be borne by the District. 17.1.11 The District shall provide each employee with a written statement 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 totals, including 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by advanced for the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limitensuing school year. 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 Such statement 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 has less issued no later 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 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)November pay warrant.

Sick Leave. A. During 25.01 An Employee shall earn sick leave credits at the first year rate of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County one and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen one-quarter (141 1/4) days for each calendar month during which they receive at least ten (10) days' pay. As sick leave is used, deductions shall be made from the Employee's accumulated credits. 25.02 An Employee shall be granted sick leave with pay when they are unable to perform their duties because of illness or injury provided that: a) they satisfy the Employer of this condition in such a manner and at such time as may be determined by the Employer, and b) they have the necessary sick leave per yearcredits. 25.03 Unless otherwise informed by the Employer, in which a statement signed by the bargaining unit member is entitled Employee stating that because of illness or injury they were unable to perform their duties, shall, when delivered to the flexibility Employer, be considered as meeting the requirements of using clause 25.02 a). 25.04 An Employee who has insufficient or no credits to cover the granting of sick leave in with pay under the following manner (family illnessprovisions of 25.02 may, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all at the discretion of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days Employer, be granted sick leave with pay for illness in the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use period up to thirty (30) days subject to the deduction of his/her accumulated such advanced leave credits earned or cash recovery upon voluntary termination of employment. In the case of death or layoff, an Employee who has been granted more sick leave for illness in than they have earned shall be considered to have earned 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 householdgranted. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors 25.05 Employees shall be eligible to receive accumulate sick leave credits. Such credits shall only be used for sick leave. 25.06 Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall leave may be authorized annually used as an interim arrangement pending determination by a provincial worker's compensation board that an injury or illness is work-related, as covered by the member on Government Employee's Compensation Act. Where injury-on-duty leave has been granted, and the appropriate form. If provincial workers' compensation board has determined that the number of contributed days falls below thirty (30)injury is work-related, bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick 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, time off shall not be returned if the member effects cancellation. The plan considered as sick leave with pay and no credits shall be administered by deducted. 25.07 Sick leave credits earned but unused shall be restored to an Employee whose employment was terminated due to the end of a joint committee composed specified period of two (2) members selected employment, and who is re-appointed by the President Employer within one (1) year from the end of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)specified period of employment.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen An employee employed full time for five (145) days a week by the District shall be granted one day per month worked leave of leave per yearabsence, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using with full pay, for illness or injury. (a) An employee employed less than five (5) days a week shall have sick leave in benefits based upon a proration of the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up number of days worked as it compares to five (5), based upon benefits earned in accordance with Article XIV, Section 4, of this Agreement. (b) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen An employee employed less than eight (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part of 8) hours a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated day shall have 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. 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 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. Upon benefits based upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified proration of the number of hours worked daily bears to eight (8), based upon benefits earned in accordance with Article XIV, Section 4 of this Agreement. (c) Pay for any day of such absence shall be the same as the pay which would have been received had the employee served during the day of illness or in any absence. (d) At the beginning of each fiscal year, the full amount of sick leave days on granted under this Agreement shall be credited to each employee. Credit for sick leave need not be accrued prior to taking such leave, and sick leave may be taken at any time during the year. Upon termination of an employee, the District shall collect for sick leave that has been taken by the employee, but has not been earned by the rendering of service. (e) Absence during pregnancy, for which the employees physician certifies that the employee portaldue to said pregnancy cannot perform regularly assigned duties, shall be treated as illness absence. E. The Board reserves (f) If an employee does not take the right to require a physical examination, at Board expense, full amount of unit members on extended leave allowed in any year under this sick leave without payprovision, the amount not taken shall be accumulated from year to year. F. Unit members (g) Any sick leave benefits earned but unused at the date of retirement, shall be permitted converted to join retirement credit in accordance with Government Code Section 20862.5, or its successor. (h) Classified employees who have accumulated a balance of one hundred (100) hours may choose to donate sick leave to another member of the classified bargaining unit who qualifies for leave due to an unforeseen event affecting the employee’s health. In order to receive donated sick leave, the unit member must be a member of the local chapter. (i) The affected employee must accept the donated leave and receive benefits also be in danger of exhausting all fully paid leaves of absence due to this condition. (ii) Classified employees who choose to donate sick leave may donate from his/her accrued sick leave. A classified employee shall donate no more than 5% of their earned sick leave. In no event may an employee donate hours that would result in his/her sick leave to drop below one hundred (100) hours. (iii) Sick leave donations shall be made in terms of hours and shall be utilized in terms of hours. (iv) Classified employees who would like to donate sick days to a Unit I specific employee will complete a Sick Leave Bank Donation Form and return it to the Director of Business Services. The Director of Business Services will compile a list indicating the number of days that will be donated by contributing two whom and for whom. Every effort shall be made by classified donors to deliver the Donation Form to the District at least 5 working days prior to the recipient exhausting his/her sick days. (2v) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall In order to be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefitsdonated sick leave under the program, the receiving employee must: 1. The contribution Suffer from an illness or injury expected to incapacitate the employee for an extended period of time which creates a financial hardship for the employee because he/she has exhausted all available sick leave entitlements. 2. Not be found eligible for benefits under Worker’s Compensation. (vi) Donated sick leave used by the recipient shall be authorized annually by the member on the appropriate formused before differential pay is enacted. If the number of contributed days falls below thirty Donated sick leave shall run concurrently with Day Differential Pay. (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation vii) Nothing in the Sick Leave Bank this section shall be required interpreted to contribute two (2) sick entitle an employee a leave daysof absence, with or without pay. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of sick Entitlement to leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership shall be made during an open enrollment regulated by other applicable provisions 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)this agreement.

Sick Leave. A. A full-time employee shall accumulate sick leave with pay credits at the rate of one day for each full payroll month of employment for a total of twelve (12) days per year. An employee on any leave with pay or industrial accident leave shall accumulate sick leave credits. B. A regular part-time employee shall accumulate sick leave credits in the same proportion that his/her part-time service bears to full-time service. C. Sick leave shall be granted at the discretion of the Chancellor and shall not be unreasonably denied to an employee only under the following circumstances: 1. When an employee cannot perform his/her duties because he/ she is incapacitated by personal illness or injury; 2. When the spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, or sibling of either a bargaining unit member or his/her spouse or domestic partner, or the bargaining unit member’s grandparent or grandchild, or a relative living in the immediate household of a bargaining unit member spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, sibling grandchild, or grandparent of either an employee or his/her spouse or domestic partner, or a relative living in the immediate household of an employee is ill, the employee may utilize sick leave credits to care for such person; 3. When through exposure to contagious disease, the presence of the employee at his/her work location would jeopardize the health of others and to keep appointments with health care professionals. In such instances, the normal requirement of advance notice will be at least five (5) working days. 4. When an employee cannot perform his/her duties because he/she is incapacitated by personal illness or injury; D. A full-time employee shall not accrue sick leave credits for any month in which he/she was on leave without pay or absence without pay for a total of more than one (1) day. E. During the first year ten (10) workdays of employment in ▇maternity or adoptive leave the employee shall receive his/her regular weekly salary. When eligible full time or part time employees and his/her eligible spouse are both employees of the University, they shall jointly be entitled to a combined total of not more than ten (10) days paid under the provisions of this Article. In addition, up to ten (10) days of accumulated sick leave may be used for pre- adoption and pre-▇▇▇▇▇▇ County care or ▇▇▇▇▇▇ care related activities including placement of a ▇▇▇▇▇▇ child in an employee’s home or appearance in court regarding a ▇▇▇▇▇▇ child. F. Where the Employer has reason to believe that sick leave is being abused; the Employer may require satisfactory medical evidence from the employee. This request shall be reduced to writing and during each successive year thereaftershall cite specific reasons for the request. When medical evidence is requested, each bargaining unit members such request shall accrue fourteen be made as promptly as possible. To the extent practicable, the employee shall receive prior notice that the Employer believes he/she is abusing sick leave and that he/she may be required to produce medical evidence for future use of sick leave. 1. Satisfactory medical evidence shall consist of a signed statement by a licensed Physician, Physician’s Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Chiropractor, or Dentist that he/she has personally examined the employee and shall contain the general nature of the illness or injury, a statement that the employee was unable to perform his/her duties due to the specific illness or injury on the days in question; and the prognosis for employee’s return to work. In cases where the employee is absent due to a family or household illness or injury, satisfactory medical evidence shall consist of a signed statement by medical personnel mentioned above indicating that the person in question has been determined to be seriously ill and needing care on the days in question. 2. A medical statement provided pursuant to this Article shall be on the letterhead of the attending physician or medical provider as mentioned above, and shall list an address and telephone number. Failure to produce such evidence within seven (147) days of leave per yearits request may result at the discretion of the Appointing Authority, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility denial of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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 householdperiod of absence. B. A unit member may request 3. If an employee's physician identifies an illness or injury as being confidential and the Employer challenges that determination, the issue shall be submitted to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeeMedical Director of the University Health Service. The unit member will not incur loss employee's physician shall submit to the Medical Director a description of salary the illness or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachersinjury, student teachers and/or assistantswhich the Medical Director shall review and determine if it is appropriately confidential. The principal Medical Director will notify the supervisor and his/her designee will employee only of the determination of whether the claim of confidentiality is appropriate and destroy the medical note. The determination of the Medical Director shall not be required subject to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availablegrievance and arbitration under this Agreement. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day 4. Any inappropriate use of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred may be recorded as unauthorized leave without pay and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while may result in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option discipline. G. The Chancellor may require that an employee be examined by a physician of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of employee's choosing and at the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 employee's expense, following absence by reason 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 has less illness or injury for more 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 consecutive working days. The annual rate sole purpose of contribution such examination shall not exceed two be to determine the employee's fitness to return to his/her regularly assigned duties. An employee absent by reason of illness or injury for more than ten (210) consecutive working days shall provide the Chancellor with reasonable notice of his/her intent to return. H. The Chancellor may require that an employee be examined by a physician or other health care provider of the Employer’s choosing and at the Employer's expense to determine the fitness of that employee to return to work from industrial accident leave or other health related leaves, to review the nature and extent of any claims of incapacity to perform job related tasks and to verify requests for use of sick leave per fiscal yearwhen the Employer has reasonable grounds to believe such use is not acceptable. I. Any employee having no sick leave credits, who is absent due to illness, shall be placed, unless otherwise notified by the employee, on personal leave; if no personal leave credits, then on vacation leave. Contributions If no sick leave credits or other accumulated leave credits are available, the employee shall be placed on an unpaid leave of absence. J. An employee who is reinstated or re-employed after an absence of less than three (3) years shall be credited with his/her sick leave credits at the termination of his/her prior employment. An employee who is reinstated or re-employed after a period of three (3) years or more shall receive prior sick leave credits, if approved by the Chancellor, where such absence was caused by: 1. Illness of said employee; 2. Dismissal through no fault or delinquency attributable solely to said employee; or 3. Injury while in the employment of the Employer in the line of duty and for new membership which said employee would be entitled to receive Workers' Compensation benefits. A person whose employment by the Commonwealth is uninterrupted shall retain all accrued sick leave credits. Sick leave earned in towns, cities, counties, districts, the federal government, etc. shall not be transferred to state service. K. A regular part-time employee shall not accrue sick leave credits for any payroll month in which he/she was on leave without pay or absence without pay in the same proportion that his/her service bears to one (1) day of service of a full-time employee. L. Notification of absences under this Article must be given to the designated representative of the Chancellor at least one hour prior to the beginning of the scheduled tour of duty. If such notification is not made, such absence may, at the discretion of the Chancellor be applied to absence without pay. In circumstances beyond the control of the employee such notification shall be made as early as possible on the day of absence. Within ninety (90) days after execution of this Agreement, and upon any change in the method of reporting during an open enrollment the term of July 1 the Agreement, the Institutional Personnel Officer shall notify each employee of the method by which such employee shall report such absence. M. No employee shall be entitled to September 30 of each fiscal year. A sick leave contribution to under the provisions of this Article in excess of the accumulated sick leave credits due such employee, excluding any extended Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, provisions. N. Employees whose service with the Employer is terminated shall not be returned if the member effects cancellationentitled to any compensation in lieu of accumulated sick leave credits. The plan Employees who retire shall be administered by a joint committee composed of two paid twenty (220) members selected by the President percent of the GCEA value of their unused accrued sick leave at the time of their retirement. It is understood that any such payment will not change the employee's pension benefits. O. Sick leave credits earned by an employee following a return to duty after a leave without pay or absence without pay shall not be applied to such period of time. P. An employee who, while in the performance of his/her duty, receives bodily injuries resulting from acts of violence, and two who, as a result of such injury, would be entitled to benefits under Chapter 152 of the General Laws, shall, if entitled under Chapter 30, Section 58 of the General Laws, be paid the difference between the weekly cash benefits to which he/she would be entitled under said Chapter 152 and his/her regular salary without such absence being charged against available sick leave credits, even if such absence may be for less than six (26) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)calendar days.

Sick Leave. A. During the first Teachers will be entitled to fifteen (15) days sick leave for each year of employment in ▇▇▇employment. Accumulation of sick leave shall be 180 days. ▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafterleave will be used only on account of a teacher’s own personal health, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen but five (145) days may be used in the case of illness of an immediate family member (parent, child, spouse, grandparent, grandchild, aunt/uncle, brother/sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law.) In addition, a teacher may apply up to fifteen (15) sick days per year for leave per yearto a period of qualified approved leave under MPLA and/or FMLA that would otherwise be unpaid. In the event parental leave qualified and approved under MPLA or FMLA requires taking of additional leave due to conditions of adoption, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled a teacher may apply up to an additional twenty-five (25) sick days to the flexibility period of using such leave required to meet such conditions. Illness or medical incapacity due to pregnancy or childbirth shall be considered eligible for sick leave to the same extent and under the same conditions as any other illness or medical incapacity. However, an employee shall be presumed eligible for sick leave in the first eight weeks immediately following manner (family illnessthe date on which such employee gives birth. To be eligible for sick leave benefits, self-sick, and up an employee must report his/her illness or disability as soon as possible prior to his/her scheduled reporting time on the first day of absence. Upon the use of five (5) personal consecutive sick days, or an unusual pattern of sick day use, a teacher may be required to produce sufficient medical documentation supporting the use of such leave. A bargaining unit member The employer may use any or all require an employee to submit to a medical examination by a physician at employer expense to determine the medical incapacity of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate familyemployee. As part Unauthorized use 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 may subject 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 householdemployee to discipline. B. A unit member may request to The sick leave school for emergency reasons; such request must bank previously established shall be approved by the principal or his/her designeecontinued. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 bank shall be permitted to join maintained at a minimum of one (1) day per professional staff member and receive benefits from at a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 maximum 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days per professional staff member. The initial grant 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 by the sick leave contribution bank committee to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, an eligible employee shall not exceed thirty (30) days. Upon completion of the thirty (30) day period, the period of entitlement may be returned if extended by the member effects cancellationsick leave bank committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. The plan sick leave bank shall be administered by a joint committee composed consisting of two four (24) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendentmembers. (See Addendum I)Two

Sick Leave. A. During the first year (a) On September 1 of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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-sick, 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 Board shall grant each employee who has completed his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in the immediate familyprobationary period, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 with two (2) sick leave dayscredits per month for each month in which the employee is scheduled to work between September 1 and August 31 of the current year. Days In subsequent years the Board shall not grant each member twenty (20) sick leave credits at the start of the work year. (b) Probationary employees will receive one (1) day of sick leave with pay for each month of his/her probationary period. Upon successful completion of his/her probationary period, the employee shall receive two sick leave credits for each month in which the employee is scheduled to work between completion of his/her probationary period and August 31. (c) Part-time members shall be accepted from credited on a pro-rated basis in accordance with their regularly scheduled hours of work. Any permanent alteration in a part-time member’s regular work schedule shall result in the appropriate adjustment for the balance of the year to said member’s sick leave credits. 15.02 The maximum accumulation of the reserve in any bargaining unit member who has less than year, shall be ten (10) accumulated times the number of sick leave credit given to the employee on September 1st of that year, that is, 200 days. 15.03 A member ill/injured as the result of an occupational injury or earned daysdisease shall report said injury immediately to the Human Resources Department (but no later than 24 hours). Contributors A member absent as a result of an occupational injury or disease shall be required to provide a medical certificate as soon as reasonably possible after attendance at his/her doctor, clinic, emergency department etc. 15.04 A member who has been given a leave of absence with or without pay for any reason or a member who is laid off shall not accumulate any sick leave credit for the period of such absence. Notwithstanding the above, a member 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) accumulate sick leave days. The annual rate credits where the period of contribution shall leave of absence does not exceed two twenty (220) consecutive working 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 or if the member effects cancellation. is on maternity/parental leave. 15.05 The plan Board shall be administered by require a joint committee composed member to submit a doctor’s note from a qualified medical or dental practitioner to justify an absence due to illness or injury of two (2) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)three

Sick Leave. A. During 18.1 Each full-time employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay in accordance with the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members following provisions: 18.1.1 Sick leave shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled an amount equal to the flexibility number of using hours worked, excluding overtime, multiplied by a factor of 0.04616. Only paid leave for holidays, vacation, compensatory time off or other paid leave shall be considered as time worked for purposes of this section. 18.1.2 Accrued sick leave in may be utilized if the following manner (family illnessemployee is required to be absent from work on account of non job related illness or injury; routine medical or dental appointments, self-sick, and up or for the care related to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any the illness or all injury 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 yearemployee’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, childrenchild, mother, father, spouse or anyone who lives regularly in domestic partner registered with the householdDepartment of Human Resources. In addition, accrued sick leave may be utilized by an eligible female employee due to illness, injury, or disability related to pregnancy or child-birth. B. A unit member 18.1.3 Up to forty-eight (48) hours of accrued sick leave per calendar year may request be utilized if the employee is required to leave school be absent for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal care related to the illness or his/her designeeinjury of the employee’s grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, step-father, step-mother, or step-child. The unit member will not incur loss provisions of salary or accumulated this section related to the use of sick leave when his/for the care related to the illness or injury of the employee’s family members as defined above shall expire at the end of the term of this Agreement. In the negotiations for a successor Agreement, the parties shall review and evaluate the appropriateness of this benefit. 18.1.4 Except as otherwise provided by resolution of the City Council, paid sick leave shall not be allowed for any absence from work occasioned by intoxication, chronic alcoholism or use of narcotics not prescribed by a licensed physician. 18.1.5 No employee shall be entitled to or be granted sick leave, either with or without pay, unless he, or someone on his or her classes are covered by regular teachersbehalf, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal notifies the employee’s immediate superior, Department Director, Director of Human Resources or designee, of the employee’s intent to take such sick leave, and his/her of the reasons therefore, prior to or within one (1) hour after the commencement of the sick leave provided, however, that the City Manager or designee will not may waive the requirement of such notice upon presentation of a reasonable excuse of such employee. 18.1.6 Any time an employee is required to report to work and is unable to report due to illness or injury, an employee may be required to obtain furnish medical verification or other substantiation for any such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availableabsence. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement18.1.7 A full-time employee of the City shall be entitled to sick leave without any pay if required to be absent from work on account of any non-job related illness, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day injury or disability, including absences of female employees related to pregnancy or childbirth, in all situations where such employee is not entitled to sick leave with pay. No single period of sick leave accumulated up without pay shall exceed twelve (12) consecutive months, or eighteen (18) cumulative months in any period of twenty-four (24) consecutive months. Any employee who is unable to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should return to work at the unit member die while in active expiration of either of these periods of time shall be separated from City service. 18.2 For employees hired on or before September 29, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of 2012, a sick leave accumulated up payout shall be given to two hundred and nine (209) days. At each full-time employee at the option time of retirement or death under one of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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)following conditions:

Sick Leave. A. During (i) Subject to the following limitation and conditions an employee shall be entitled to sick leave on full pay calculated by allowing seventy six rostered ordinary hours of work for each year of continuous service less any sick leave on full pay already taken. Such sick leave shall be granted, in advance, at the commencement of each year of service, subject to the provisions of paragraph (a): (a) An employee shall be granted sick leave progressively for the first three months of continuous service. At the completion of three months continuous service the employee shall be granted, in advance, the balance of their first year of employment entitlement of sick leave. (b) An employee shall not be entitled to sick leave on full pay for any period in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days respect of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member such employee is entitled to accident pay, or workers' compensation; provided, however that where an employee is not in receipt of accident pay, an employer shall pay to an employee, who has sick leave entitlements under this clause, the flexibility difference between the amount received as workers compensation and full pay. The employee's sick leave entitlement under this clause shall, for each week during which such difference is paid, be reduced by the proportion of using hours which the difference bears to full pay. On the expiration of available sick leave, weekly compensation payments only shall be payable. (c) All periods of sickness shall be certified to by the Medical Superintendent or Director of Nursing of the employer or by the employee's own legally qualified medical practitioner or dentist. The employer may dispense with the requirement of a medical certificate where the absence does not exceed two consecutive days or where, in the employer's opinion, the circumstances are such as not to warrant such requirement. (d) Each employee shall, as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of the commencement of such absence, inform the employer of his or her inability to attend for duty and as far as possible state the nature of the injury or illness and the estimated duration of the absence. (e) Where an employee is absent on sick leave for a total of ten working days in any one year of service and has no sick leave entitlement carried over from previous years, that employee will continue to be paid for an additional four hours on the tenth day even though no sick leave credit might exist. Such additional payment will not affect the subsequent year’s sick leave entitlement, i.e. it is “special sick leave”, not “sick leave in advance” (see NSW Health Policy Directive PD2017_028 Leave Matters for the NSW Health Service, as amended from time to time). (ii) The employer shall not change the rostered hours of an employee fixed by the roster or rosters applicable to the fourteen days immediately following the commencement of sick leave merely by reason of the fact that they are on sick leave. (iii) For the purpose of this clause "Service" means service in the industry of nursing. (iv) For the purpose of this clause continuity of service in the industry of nursing shall not be broken by: (a) absences from such industry on account of illness; (b) periods of absences from such industry immediately following termination of employment, in respect of which employment a pro rata payment has been made for annual leave or long service leave, but not exceeding the period the employee would have been required to work to earn as salary an amount equal to such pro rata payment; (c) absence from such industry for the purpose of pursuing a post-graduate course in nursing (i.e. a course which results in obtaining a certificate, diploma or qualification) whether in Australia or elsewhere; and where the course is pursued outside Australia an employee shall be deemed to be absent for the purpose of pursuing the course throughout the time reasonably occupied travelling to the place of study and return to Australia, the actual duration of the course, a period of three months after completion of the course and before returning to Australia and a period of one month after returning to Australia; (d) any reasonable absence from the industry occasioned by an employee transferring from one employer to another in such industry but not exceeding twenty eight days on any one occasion; (e) periods of employment nursing in hospitals in New South Wales other than the hospitals covered by this Agreement and in the Canberra Community Hospital and Woden Valley Hospital; provided that this period of absence shall not be counted as service for the purpose of calculating sick leave. (v) Part Time Employees: a part time employee shall be entitled to sick leave in the following manner same proportion of the seventy six hours as the average weekly hours worked over the preceding twelve months or from the time of the commencement of employment, whichever is the lesser, bears to thirty eight ordinary hours. Such entitlements shall be subject to all the above conditions applying to full time employees. Provided that only part time service on and from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 1 January 1970, shall count for the purpose of this subclause. (family illnessvi) Subject to the provision of a satisfactory medical certificate and sick leave being due, self-sickannual leave or long service leave (extended leave) shall be recredited where an illness of at least one week's duration occurs during the period of annual or long service leave: Provided that the period of leave does not occur prior to retirement, resignation or termination of services, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all provided further that the employer is satisfied on the circumstances and the nature of the fourteen incapacity. (14vii) annual allotted days for illness in In addition to 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 prescribed in the immediate familysubclause (i) of this Clause, less any annual Flight Nurses shall be entitled to an additional thirty eight hours sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purposein any period of twelve months. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each Any unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused additional sick leave shall not accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on the employee portalfrom year to year. 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 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 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. A. During 17.1.1 Full time employees are entitled to ten (10) days sick leave each school year commencing on the first day of employment. Employees hired part way into the school year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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 are entitled to the flexibility proportionate number of using sick leave days. Those hired from the 1st of the month through the 15th of the month are granted one sick leave day (proportionate to their FTE). Those hired after the 15th of the month are not granted sick leave for that month. 17.1.2 Full time child development unit members (Children's Center) are entitled to twelve (12) days sick leave each school year commencing on the first day of employment. 17.1.3 In case of absence due to illness or accident, employees should notify the district substitute system as soon as possible. If you submit an absence after 6:00 am on the day of your absence, you will also need to notify your site. 17.1.4 Employees shall make every effort to notify the district two (2) months in advance, or as early as possible, of known long-term absences such as those required by childbirth or surgery, to allow the following manner (family illnessdistrict to obtain a qualified substitute. 17.1.5 Upon returning from sick leave, self-sickthe unit member shall be entitled to the same position if the return is within the same school year as the commencement. Otherwise, the unit member shall be entitled to the same position if available. The position shall be considered available if it is still in existence and up if it is filled by a substitute or a temporary employee whose term of hire expires at the time of the unit member's return. 17.1.6 A sick leave day once reported, may not be reinstated as a working day. 17.1.7 No payment for sick leave shall be made until submission by the employee on the form specified by the District and signed by the employee and the site principal. 17.1.8 Verification of the reason for absence due to illness or accident may be required by the District prior to payment. 17.1.9 Satisfactory evidence that the employee is fit to return to duty may be required of any employee who has been absent from duty for more than five (5) personal consecutive working 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. A unit member may request 17.1.10 If the District has reason to leave school believe that an employee is unfit 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active serviceduty, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend District may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on the require that an employee portal. E. The Board reserves the right to require undergo 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 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 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 mental examination by a joint committee composed of two (2) members doctor selected by the President of employee and the GCEA and two (2) members selected cost for such examination shall be borne by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)District.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇‌ A) ▇▇▇▇ County Leave is the authorized absence of an employee with pay because of personal illness, pregnancy, complications due to pregnancy or birth, adoption, injury, exposure to contagious disease and visits to or treatment by medical providers that cannot be scheduled outside of the employee’s normal working hours. ▇▇▇▇ leave may also be used because of illness, injury, or death in the employee’s immediate family. B) Each full-time bargaining unit member earns sick leave at the rate of five (5) hours per semi- monthly pay period. Sick leave is cumulative without limit. Sick and other leave balances are available electronically in the employee self-service portal. C) Sick Leave may be used during each successive year thereafterany period of time in which the employee is under contract to perform services for the University. When using sick leave, each the bargaining unit member will promptly notify their unit supervisor, and whenever possible, advise of the estimated duration of absence. All bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen report all uses of sick leave via web leave reporting in the self-service reporting portal. D) If a bargaining unit member has been absent for five (145) or more consecutive work days for the above-mentioned reason(s), they shall provide written verification to support the use of sick leave per year, to be approved. ▇▇▇▇ leave is also authorized for an illness in which the bargaining unit member’s immediate family when the bargaining unit member's presence is reasonably necessary for the health and welfare of the affected family member. A physician’s certification of the family member's illness shall be required if the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner absent for more than three (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (53) personal consecutive 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 Such certification shall be submitted 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 householdHuman Resources Benefits. B. E) 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day continuous period of sick leave accumulated up commences with the first day of absence and includes all subsequent days until the employee returns to two hundred work. Saturdays and nine Sundays (209if the employee is not scheduled to perform services), and official holidays established and/or observed by the University shall not be counted. During any seven (7) days. Should the unit member die while in active serviceday period, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount maximum number of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also charged against any employee shall be converted five (5). F) All unused sick leave accumulated prior to months the effective date of creditable service this Agreement shall be available for use by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systememployee. D. Unused G) If an employee is afflicted or known to be exposed to a contagious disease, and the presence of that employee would jeopardize other employees as determined in writing by a physician, that employee shall take sick leave shall accumulate without limitand other pertinent leave. Unit members The University and YSU-APAS will abide by CDC or comparable State agency requirements for sending employees home because of contagious disease exposure. An employee who contracts a contagious disease will be notified of the number of charged sick leave days on the employee portalleave. 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 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 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. A. During Each full-time employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay in accordance with the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members following provisions: 31.1 Sick leave shall accrue fourteen in an amount equal to the number of hours worked, excluding overtime, multiplied by a factor of 0.04616. Paid leave for holidays, vacation, disability, or other paid leave shall be considered as time worked for purposes of this section. 31.2 Accrued sick leave may be utilized if the employee is required to be absent from work for the following reasons: 31.2.1 The employee is absent from work on account of non-job related illness or injury, including absences of female employees related to pregnancy or childbirth. 31.2.2 The employee is absent from work on account of routine medical or dental appointments of the employee or any of the following persons who need assistance: a child/stepchild for which the employee is legally responsible, or the employee’s mother/stepmother, father/stepfather, spouse or Domestic Partner. 31.2.3 The employee is absent from work for the care related to the illness or injury of a child/stepchild for which the employee is legally responsible, mother/stepmother, father/stepfather, spouse or Domestic Partner. 31.2.4 Up to forty-eight (1448) days hours of accrued sick leave per year, in which calendar year may be utilized if the bargaining unit member employee is entitled required to be absent for the care related to the flexibility illness or injury of using the employee’s grandchild, brother, sister, father-in-law, or mother-in-law. 31.3 Accrued sick leave not to exceed three (3) working days may be granted in circumstances where an alleged job-related illness or injury is involved, but the following manner (family illnessemployee fails to provide medical verification of such job-related illness or injury. 31.4 Accrued sick leave also may be used in accordance with the Catastrophic Illness Time Donation Program as set forth in Section 4.2.10 of the City Policy Manual in effect as of the Effective Date. 31.5 Except as otherwise provided by resolution of the City Council, self-sickpaid sick leave shall not be allowed for any absence from work occasioned by intoxication, or use of narcotics not prescribed by a licensed physician. 31.6 If approved by the City, an employee who is enrolled and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member participating in a substance abuse treatment program 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 absences resulting from participation in such program. The City may require appropriate verification. 31.7 No employee shall be entitled to or be granted sick leave, either with or without pay, unless he or she, or someone on his or her behalf notifies his or her immediate superior or the immediate familyCity Attorney, less any annual of his or her intent to take such sick leave days previously used from due to a personal or family illness prior to the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spousecommencement of the sick leave where such notice is possible; provided, childrenhowever, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in that the householdCity Attorney may waive the requirement of such notice upon presentation of a reasonable excuse by such employee. B. A unit member 31.8 An employee 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 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 availablefurnish substantiation for any absence for which sick leave payment is requested. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she 31.9 Any eligible part-time employee shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of be entitled to paid sick leave accumulated up to two hundred only for those days and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on hours the employee portal. E. The Board reserves the right is in fact regularly assigned 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 has less than ten (10) accumulated work 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 would have been required to contribute two (2) sick 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 work, notwithstanding the designation, scheduling and indefinite assignment made during an open enrollment of July 1 pursuant 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)this Article 30.

Sick Leave. 10.01 All employees will follow the attached Sick Leave/Attendance Policy (Attachment #1). Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: A. During Illness or injury to the first year employee; B. Exposure by the employee to a contagious disease communicable to other employees; C. Pregnancy of the employee; and/or D. Serious illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. 10.02 All employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hours in pay status and may accumulate such sick leave to an unlimited amount, provided no employee can earn or accrue more than one hundred sixty (160) hours in any calendar year. 10.03 An employee who is to be absent on sick leave shall notify the Employer of such absence and the reason therefore at least one (1) hour before the start of his work shift each day he is to be absent. 10.04 Each full-time employee eligible to earn sick leave shall commence earning time from the effective full-time hire date of employment with the City of Tallmadge. 10.05 Sick leave may be used in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County segments of not less than one (1) hour. 10.06 Before an absence may be charged against accumulated sick leave, the Employer may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by the Employer and during each successive year thereafterpaid by the Employer. In any event, each bargaining unit members an employee absent for more than two (2) tours of duty must supply a physician's report to be eligible for paid sick leave, unless waived by the Director of Safety. 10.07 If an employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury or death upon request, or in the event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the report of medical examination, the Employer, at his sole discretion, finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness, injury or death sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave may, at the Employer's sole discretion, be considered an unauthorized leave and shall accrue fourteen (14) days be without pay. 10.08 Any abuse or patterned use of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for disciplinary action as provided in the following manner City’s “Sick Leave/Attendance Policy” (family Attachment #1). 10.09 The Employer may require an employee who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined by a physician designated and paid by the Employer, to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. 10.10 When the use of sick leave is due to illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any injury 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 death in the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose"immediate family" shall be defined as is in Section 1.01G of Ordinance 95-2017. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly Children living in the household. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on same household as the employee portalare considered immediate family. 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 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 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. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members 11.01 Sick leave shall accrue fourteen (14be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: 1) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled illness or injury to the flexibility of using employee; 2) exposure by the employee to a contagious disease communicable to other employees; and/or 3) illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. 11.02 All employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hours of compensated employment and may accumulate such sick leave to an unlimited amount. 11.03 An employee who is to be absent on sick leave shall notify the Employer of such absence and the reason therefor at least fifteen (15) minutes before the start of his work shift each day he is to be absent. 11.04 Sick leave may be used in segments of not less than one (1) hour. 11.05 Before an absence may be charged against accumulated sick leave, the following manner (family Employer may require such proof of illness, self-sickinjury or death as may be satisfactory to him, or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by and up paid for by the Employer. In any event, an employee absent for more than two (2) work days must supply a physician's report to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may be eligible for paid sick leave, if requested by the Employer. 11.06 If the employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury or death, or in Event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the request of medical examination, the Department Head, finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness or death sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave may, be considered an unauthorized leave and shall be without pay. 11.07 Any abuse or patterned 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 shall be just and sufficient cause for disciplinary action. 11.08 The Department Head may require an employee who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, for more than ten (10) days, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined by a physician designated and paid by the Employer, to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. 11.09 When the use of sick leave is due to illness or injury in the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from “immediate family” shall be defined to only include the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean employee's spouse, children, stepchildren and parents. 11.10 When the use of sick leave is due to illness requiring hospitalization of an employee's spouse, child, step-child, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly brother, sister and any other relative living in the employee's household, leave shall be granted for the: 1) days of admittance to and discharge from hospital; 2) day of surgery, including childbirth; 3) time certified as "critical" by attending physician. B. A unit member may request to leave school 11.11 Upon the resignation, retirement or death of an employee who has not less than twenty (20) years of continuous employment with the Employer and who has qualified 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 retirement benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank state pension fund such employee shall be entitled to receive a cash payment equal to his hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement multiplied by contributing two one-half (21/2) the total number of accumulated but unused sick leave days. Days hours earned by the employee, as certified by the Finance Director, providing that such resulting number of hours to be paid shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member exceed a cash payment greater than one-half (1/2) the employee’s annual base salary. Employees who are involuntarily terminated (discharged) shall receive no payments under this paragraph. 11.12 Upon the resignation, retirement or death of an employee who has not less than fifteen (15) years of continuous employment with the Employer and who has qualified for retirement benefits from a state pension fund such employee shall be entitled to receive a cash payment equal to his hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement multiplied by forty percent (40%) the total number of accumulated but unused sick hours earned by the employee, as certified by the Finance Director, providing that such resulting number of hours to be paid shall not exceed a cash payment greater than one-half (1/2) the employee’s annual base salary. Employees who are involuntarily terminated (discharged) shall receive no payments under this paragraph. 11.13 Upon the resignation, retirement or death of an employee who has not less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors years of continuous employment with the Employer and who has qualified for retirement benefits from a state pension fund such employee shall be eligible entitled to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall be authorized annually a cash payment equal to his hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement multiplied by twenty-five percent (25%) the total number of accumulated but unused sick hours earned by the member on employee, as certified by the appropriate form. If the Finance Director, providing that such resulting number of contributed days falls below thirty (30), bargaining unit members who wish hours to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave days. The annual rate of contribution paid shall not exceed two a cash payment greater than one-half (21/2) days the employee’s annual base salary. Employees who are involuntarily terminated (discharged) shall receive no payments under this paragraph. 11.14 An employee who transfers from this department to another department of the Employer shall be allowed to transfer his accumulated sick leave to the new department. 11.15 Employees who have been laid-off for more than one (1) year shall receive a sick leave payment pursuant to either .12, .13 or .14, as appropriate. 11.16 Maternity leave shall be granted and administered in accordance with applicable Federal and State laws. 11.17 Employees hired by the Employer subsequent to December 31, 1992 shall not receive credit for sick leave that may have been accrued working for another public employer prior to being employed by the Employer. 11.18 Any employee who utilizes sixteen (16) hours or less of sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership in the prior year shall be made during an open enrollment of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A receive 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 cancellationbonus. The plan shall sick leave bonus may be administered by a joint committee composed of two (2) members selected taken by the President employee as one of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by following each year thereafter when such employee meets this standard in the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)previous year: two

Sick Leave. A. During Sick leave shall be earned at the first year rate of 3.7 hours per completed two-week pay period of ser­vice. Service shall begin on the date of State employment and time on layoff, suspension or leave without pay, except as otherwise provided by law or this Agreement, shall not be counted in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County determining the completion of a full two-week pay period. The maximum amount of sick leave which employees may accumulate shall be one hundred twenty (120) days. However, the amount of unused sick leave accruals which can be credited toward State ser­vice for retirement purposes shall continue as presently provided for by statute. When maximum limitation has been accumulated, days that would normally thereafter be earned shall lapse but shall be recorded by the appointing authority. Any employ­ee who has such lapsed sick leave to his/her credit may apply to the Director of Human Resources to have the sick leave restored in the event of an extended illness. The Director of Human Resources shall grant such request unless just cause is shown to deny the request. Part-time employees employed normal­ly the year-round and during each successive year thereafterestablished on a regular hourly work schedule shall be allowed sick leave credits pro­rated on the amount of time worked. Employees may utilize their allowance of sick leave on the basis of application ap­proved by their respective appointing authorities and reported to the Director of Human Resources, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days for absences necessitated by inability to perform the duties of leave per yeartheir positions by reason of illness or injury, by necessity for acute medical or dental care, by exposure to contagious disease under circumstances in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all health of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for employees with whom associated or members of the public necessarily dealt with would be endangered by atten­dance on duty, or by illness in the immediate familyfam­ily of the employee for such periods as the atten­dance of the employee shall be necessary. As part Immedi­ate family as used in this article shall mean the employee’s spouse, or significant other, the parents of the spouse or significant other, and the par­ents, stepparents, guardian, children, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, grand­parents, grandchildren, stepchildren or wards of the employee. For the purpose of this Article, “significant other” means that a qualifying relationship exists between two people, neither of whom is married, that is intended to remain indefinitely and where there is joint responsibility for each other’s common welfare, there are significant shared financial obligations, and they must be living together in a shared primary residence. This relationship must have existed for at least six (6) continuous months before benefits under this Article may be provided. Employees are encouraged to consult with their agency-department Personnel Officer to determine if they are eligible for benefits available under the Federal Family and Medical LeaveLeave Act. Either the appointing authority or the Director of Human Resources may require such medical examination or certificate as he/she deems necessary before approving the utilization of sick leave. All sick leave shall expire on the date of separation from State service, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days and no employee shall be reimbursed for sick leave outstanding at the time of termination 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 householdState employment. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During Section 29.1 Sick leave shall be granted to regular and part-time Employees in accordance with the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of following provisions. Sick leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled provided as a benefit to the flexibility of using sick Employee. Employees have no vested right to Sick leave except as set forth below. Section 29.2 Sick leave for Employees is used in the following manner situations: A. When Employees are (1) incapacitated by their own sickness or non-job- related injury; or (2) absent for medical, dental, optical appointments or treatment; or for pregnancy related reasons (3) exposed to a contagious disease when the attendance at duty, in the opinion of the City Physician, jeopardizes the health of others. Sick leave is not available for job-related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City or another employer entity. B. For necessary care and attendance of a member of the Employee's immediate family illnesswho (1) is incapacitated by illness or injury or (2) for their medical treatment or appointments. For the purpose of this Section, "Immediate Family" shall be defined as a parent of the Employee, spouse, child, or "step" or “adoptive” situations within these relationships or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the Employee when the Employee was a child. A child is defined as under eighteen (18) years of age, or eighteen (18) years or older if the child is incapable of self-sickcare because of a mental or physical disability. This also includes individuals for whom the Employee is the current legal guardian. Section 29.3 Sick leave used shall not exceed the total amount accrued to the Employee at the time of his/her absence. Leave without pay may be granted for sickness extending beyond the amount of accrued sick leave. After each thirty (30) days during such leave without pay, and up the Employee shall present to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all his/her department head a doctor's statement of his/her continued inability to perform his/her normal duties. Section 29.4 Sick leave shall be accrued on the first day of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part month following completion of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of continuous service. Sick leave may not be expended until after completion of one full calendar month of employment. Section 29.5 Sick leave shall be accrued at a rate of eight (8) hours for each full calendar month of service for full time Employees. Sick leave shall be prorated for part- time Employees in accordance with Section 303.42 of the Human Resources Policy and Procedure Manual. An Employee may accrue a maximum of twelve hundred (1200) hours of sick leave. During any leave which is in excess of one-hundred sixty (160) hours, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave will be accrued during the entire period of the leave. The adjustment shall be prorated to the nearest week. Full time Employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. Such absence (except as provided for in the Military Leave Policy) shall not be used in computing time in grade for Satisfactory Performance Increases or for completion of probationary period. Section 29.6 Unless an Employee is approved to flex their time, the amount of sick leave used by an Employee shall be the amount of time the Employee was absent during his/her accumulated scheduled work day. Work and/or crew assignment shall be a factor in such a decision. Holidays and other days not scheduled for work are excluded in computing sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less any annual expenditures. Any sick leave days previously used from accruals lost due to inaction by the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdEmployee will not be reinstated. B. A unit member Section 29.7 Employees may request convert accrued sick leave in excess of nine hundred sixty (960) hours to vacation leave, provided the total accrued vacation leave school may not exceed the maximum allowed under “Vacation Leave" provisions. Conversion shall be at a ratio of one (1) hour of vacation for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or one (1) hour of sick leave. Section 29.8 An Employee transferring from one department to another shall have his/her designeetotal accrued sick leave transferred to the new department. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated accrued sick leave when shall be recorded on the Personnel Action form. Section 29.9 Upon retirement as defined in the Human Resources Policy and Procedures, death, or disability, Employees with at least nine hundred sixty (960) hours accrued sick leave shall receive payment for accrued sick leave at a rate of one (1) hour of pay for every three (3) hours of sick leave up to a maximum of three hundred twenty (320) hours of pay. Employees who lack the necessary sick leave accrual bank to qualify for the sick leave retirement buyout (960 hours), shall provide evidence of and receive credit for major illness or non-job-related injury leave periods of at least forty (40) consecutive work hours to reach qualification levels. In such cases, approved sick leave periods extending at least forty (40) hours shall be added back to the accrual bank for calculation purposes only. Any buyout would then occur only on the current actual, available sick leave balance. Section 29.10 An Employee who is separated, or resigns in lieu of discipline (regardless of eligibility for retirement benefits) for theft of City property or resources (including theft of time), embezzlement, fraud, falsification, deliberate destruction to City property, or inappropriate use of City property or P-card is ineligible for payment of accrued sick leave. Sick leave payout at the end of employment may be withheld if the Employee owes any type of repayment to the City, including for overpayment of wages. Section 29.11 A regular or part-time Employee who leaves the classified service to enlist in active military service other than a reserve unit and who applies for re-employment within fifteen (15) days after having been rejected or ninety (90) days after an honorable discharge shall have the former unused sick leave credits reinstated. A regular or part-time Employee who is laid off and returns to City employment within one (1) year from the date of layoff shall have the former unused accrued sick leave reinstated (see provisions for military leave). Section 29.12 Sick leave shall not be used during periods of suspension. An Employee who is absent from duty for reasons which entitle him/her to sick leave shall notify his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 supervisor two (2) hours prior to the beginning of the work shift if physically able to do so. Section 29.13 When an absence charged to sick leave daysis forty (40) consecutive work hours or more, upon returning to work the Employee shall present to the City Physician a statement from his/her doctor describing the illness. Days The Employee will only return to work if given a medical release from the City Physician. The department head or designee may require a doctor’s statement for shorter absences if there has been an established pattern of abuse such as using sick leave on work days immediately preceding or immediately after a regularly scheduled day off or reason to suspect abuse before allowing the absence to be charged to sick leave. The department head or designee may request at any time a doctor’s statement or medical opinion from the City Physician regarding the Employee’s physical ability to perform the duties of the job. An Employee should be notified at the earliest possible time if management requires such a statement upon return to work. Without a doctor’s statement, the Employee will be charged leave without pay for the absence. Section 29.14 A supervisor may request an investigation the alleged illness of an Employee absent on sick leave. False or fraudulent use of sick leave by an Employee shall be cause for disciplinary action which may include dismissal. Any Employee who shall receive payment for work performed for any other employer other than the City of Tulsa while on approved sick leave shall be subject to immediate dismissal. This provision shall also apply to Employees who are self-employed and perform work in their private occupation while on approved sick leave. Sick leave is not available for job- related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City, another employer entity, or self-employed. Section 29.15 Employees who apply for promotional opportunity must meet the established guidelines on absenteeism as a factor in determining promotional qualifications prior to being certified. Section 29.16 After three (3) months of service, accrued vacation may be used for sick leave when accrued sick leave has been exhausted. The granting of such vacation time shall be at the discretion of the appropriate supervisor who may, prior to an approval determination, request medical verification of the absence when a question exists regarding the nature of the specific absence or when the Employee’s overall attendance record has been less than satisfactory. Upon receipt of the appropriate medical verification, the Employee shall be granted the use of available vacation leave for the absence. Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) documentation shall serve as appropriate medical verification for using available vacation leave for a sick absence. Section 29.17 During any leave which is in excess of one-hundred sixty (160) hours, including extended leave periods with breaks of twenty (20) hours or less of actual work, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave will be accrued during the entire period of the leave. Prorated accruals will be based on the percentage of hours worked during the month(s) of extended absence. Full time employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. It is not the intention of the City to allow the accrual of paid leave benefits to be reinstated for employees who are not expected to remain at work consistently. Further, such absence shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 used in computing time for completion 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 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)probationary period.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members Each Employee shall accrue fourteen be granted 12 (14twelve) 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-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of An Employee employed after the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part beginning of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days school year or terminated before the end of his/her accumulated contract period shall be granted a sick leave bank adjusted according to the above rules. a. All sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall be credited to him/her. Any sick leave days not used by the end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for the following year, up to a maximum of 130 days. b. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days by an Employee shall be: i. Personal illness, injury, quarantine or medical appointments; ii. Serious illness in the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from i.e., husband, wife, child, father or mother that requires the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in presence of the householdEmployee. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by c. The Employee shall notify the principal or administrator of his/her designeeimpending absence stating the period of leave and where he/she can be contacted during the day. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated sick leave when Each Employee shall give such notification prior to his/her classes are covered scheduled on-the-job starting time. d. The Employee may be required by regular teachersthe Superintendent to give a written, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and signed statement from the Employee’s physician or from the Employee indicating the reason for such absence when reporting to work on the first working day following his/her designee will not absence. Additionally, the Employee may be required asked to obtain complete paperwork to assist the Agency in determining if the use of sick time qualifies as a serious health condition under the Family Medical Leave Act. Failure to comply with this provision can result in the withholding of pay for such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availableleave days. C. Upon e. Accumulated sick leave time shall terminate upon termination of employment. f. Up to 30 sick days accumulated beyond 100 days shall be reimbursed at a unit memberrate of $75 per day upon the Employee’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During (1) All employees other than casual employees who are entitled to be absent from work due to personal illness or injury by accident, shall be entitled to leave of absence without deduction of pay, subject to the first year following conditions and limitations. (2) Employees eligible for sick leave shall be paid sick pay at the rate equal to a minimum days pay for each days leave. (3) Sick leave shall be accrued pro rata from commencement of permanent employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) to a maximum of 10 days of leave per year. If the full period of sick leave as prescribed above is not taken, such portion that is not taken shall, provided the employee remains in the service of the employer, be cumulative from month to month up to a maximum of 160 hours. (a) he or she shall not be entitled to be paid leave of absence for any period in respect of which the bargaining unit member he or she is entitled to workers' compensation under the flexibility of using sick leave in relevant State legislation. (b) the following manner employee shall within twenty four (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (524) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all hours of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days commencement of such absence inform the Employer of his or her inability to attend for duty and as far as is practicable state the nature of the injury or illness in and the immediate familyestimated duration of the absence. As part If on the expiration of a qualifying Family Medical Leavethis or any subsequent notified duration of absence the employee is unable to attend for duty, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days he or she shall notify the Employer forthwith and as far as is practicable state the estimated duration of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from further absence. And call the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in works by 12.00pm the householdday before resuming work. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00c) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 produce a medical certificate or other proof of illness or injury satisfactory to the Employer for any period of absence of 2 days or more to be entitled to payment for such absence. (2d) sick leave days. The annual rate Where the employment of contribution shall an employee who has become entitled to Sick Leave provided by this Agreement is terminated and the employee has not exceed two (2) days taken any part of sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership that leave, the Employer shall be made during an open enrollment of July 1 deemed to September 30 of each fiscal year. A sick have given the leave contribution to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, shall not be returned if worker from the member effects cancellation. The plan shall be administered by a joint committee composed of two (2) members selected by the President date of the GCEA termination of the employment and two (2) members selected by shall forthwith pay to the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)worker, in addition to all other amounts due to him or her, his or her ordinary pay for the period of that remaining Sick Leave.

Sick Leave. A. During 1. After the first year successful completion of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen six (146) days months 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-sick, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) excluding absence from work for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit memberany reason, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on the an 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed credited with two (2) days of accumulated sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership and shall be made during an open enrollment permitted to accumulate up to one thousand six hundred twenty (1620) hours of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A paid sick leave contribution to be applied toward time off due to illness or injury. Such leave shall be reduced by one day or fraction of a day actually taken for sick leave purposes. 2. Each employee will be credited with one (1) day of sick leave during each month his/her total credited sick leave is less than one thousand six hundred twenty (1620) hours, and during which he is actively at work for at least fifty percent (50%) of the regularly scheduled work days, exclusive of vacations. 3. Employees may in no event accumulate more than one thousand six hundred twenty (1620) hours of sick leave. 4. Sick Leave Bankleave benefits provided by this Agreement may be used in cases involving the illness or injury of the employee's child or children and/or spouse. 5. When continuous sick leave exceeds five (5) days, when properly authorized the Employer may require as a condition of payment a statement from the employee's physician certifying the nature of the illness and the probable period of disability. When continuous sick leave exceeds thirty (30) calendar days, the Employer may require a physical examination by a physician selected by the Employer. Where the Employer selects a physician for the examination of an employee, such examination will be paid for by the Employer. 6. Any false representation made by an employee in connection with a given fiscal year, claim for sick leave benefits shall be deemed just cause for discipline. 7. Accumulated sick leave shall not be returned if payable at the member effects cancellation. The plan shall be administered by time of termination of employment, whatever the reason, except in accordance with Paragraph 10 of the Article, and/or unless a joint committee composed of two (2) members physician selected by the President Employer certifies that the termination of the GCEA employment was necessitated by illness or injury and two then only so long as such illness or injury continues and the employee permits physical examination at reasonable intervals. 8. All present employees who have accrued sick leave shall be credited with such unused sick leave. Further accruals provided hereunder shall commence as of January 1, 1991. 9. Any employee with twenty (220) members selected or more years of cumulative service with the Employer and who retires from such employment shall, at the time of retirement, be credited with an amount computed by multiplying his/her number of accumulated, unused sick leave by his/her then current daily rate and then multiplying that amount by twenty-five percent (25%), and such amount shall be retained by the SuperintendentEmployer and utilized for the purpose of paying the retiree’s health insurance premium until such time as the monies are exhausted. The health insurance plan (individual or family) shall be the same as that which was in effect prior to the employee’s retirement. (See Addendum I)A retired employee may opt to change from family to individual coverage, but not from individual to family.) Upon exhaustion of the monies provided for herein, a retired employee may elect to continue in the health insurance plan at his/her own expense. The implementation of this provision shall in no way diminish the percentage of retiree health insurance premiums currently paid by the Employer. Unused sick accruals cannot be donated to the sick leave bank upon termination of employment.

Sick Leave. A. During a) Each teacher employed on a full-time basis shall be credited with four (4) days of sick leave on the first employment day of each contract year and one (1) day of sick leave for each month thereafter, to be credited at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the time it is credited to the teacher. b) The number of sick leave days earned during any one (1) year shall be equal to one (1) day for each contracted month of employment completed. Teachers contracted for a period of 30-89 days shall receive one (1) day of sick leave for each contracted month of employment completed. Such leave shall be credited as earned. c) Any teacher who has accrued sick leave outside the district but in ▇▇▇the State of Florida shall be credited on a day-for-day basis with all accrued leave. Said leave shall be credited in the same manner as sick leave earned within the district. d) ▇▇▇▇ County and during leave shall be cumulative from year to year. There shall be no limit placed upon number of days a teacher may accrue. ▇) ▇▇▇▇ leave accumulated by a teacher prior to an approved leave of absence shall be credited to the teacher upon return. f) On each successive year thereafterpay date, each bargaining unit members teacher shall accrue fourteen (14) days receive on his/her payroll voucher an accumulated balance of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility his/her total number of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5hours. g) Sick leave may be used either for personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any illness or all emergencies as defined below: 1) Personal illness of the fourteen (14teacher. 2) annual allotted days for Death or illness in the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical LeaveImmediate family shall mean husband, a bargaining unit wife, child, father, mother, brother, sister, or other close relative or 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. A unit member may 3) Extended illnesses and/or disability related to pregnancy if leave request to is accompanied by a physician's statement of disability. h) Sick leave school for emergency reasons; such request must will normally be approved by deducted in one-half (1/2) day units. When absence occurs during planning/conference days, 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into deducted in one (1) hour units. On other days when a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick teacher arranges for absence under subsection (g) above and instructional time is not affected, leave will also for such absence may be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 for 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 one (21) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 formhour unit. If the number sick leave is deducted in a one-half (1/2) day unit, the teacher is entitled to three and three quarter (3-3/4) hours of contributed days falls below thirty (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation leave provided sufficient time remains in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick 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)workday.

Sick Leave. A. During Professional Employees shall receive sick leave of ten (10) days per year for the first year three (3) years of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County service, and during each successive fifteen (15) days per year thereafter, accumulative to ninety (90) days. Sick leave days will be awarded at the beginning of the contract year. Sick leave accumulated prior to this date shall be retained and count toward such ninety (90) days. Sick leave shall only be used: 1. For illness or injury of the Professional Employee, including the time during which the Professional Employee is physically unable to perform normal work assignment because of childbearing; or 2. For necessary absence of the Professional Employee due to the illness of a member of his immediate family (spouse, child, parent of the Professional Employee, or any relative living in the immediate household of the Professional Employee), and subject to approval of the Administration. B. Payment for sick leave shall be subject, when requested by the Board, to medical certification from the Professional Employee's medical doctor for any absence of three (3) or more days. If the physician is chosen by the Professional Employee, such physician shall be paid by the Professional Employee. If the physician is chosen by the Board, such physician shall be paid by the Board. Accumulated sick leave shall terminate without pay at the time a Professional Employee's employment is terminated with the College. C. Sick leave is eligible for use during any time the Professional Employee is actively employed during an academic year. D. Professional Employees shall be advised in August of each bargaining unit members year of the amount of their accumulated sick leave. E. Accumulated sick leave shall accrue fourteen terminate without pay when the Professional Employee leaves the employment of the College for any reason other than retirement. If accumulated sick leave is eighty percent (1480%) or more of the working days in a semester and the Professional Employee qualifies for full KPERS retirement, then a retiring Professional Employee shall be allowed to end (be excused from) professional services one (1) semester before such Professional Employee's KPERS retirement date without loss of pay or benefits during such semester. A retiring Professional Employee must notify the Administration by May 15th if they wish to exercise their rights under this clause. The end of service date will be mutually agreed upon after considering personal and College circumstances. Exceptions will be made for extenuating circumstances due to health reasons. If the Professional Employee teaches both fall and spring semesters of the contract year, the Professional Employee would receive one-half their current year’s contract salary in equal payments during the spring semester before their KPERS retirement date. F. A sick leave bank shall be established for Professional Employees who desire to do so, on the following basis: 1. Professional Employees who have accumulated ten (10) or more days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in as of the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and beginning date of their contract of each year shall be allowed to contribute up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of such days to 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 familybank, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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 College after consultation with the President of the Association. 2. In the event a Professional Employee, who has contributed to the sick leave bank, becomes sick and two has exhausted accrued sick leave, such Professional Employee may request that sick leave be granted from the PHEA sick leave bank. A maximum of seventy-five (275) members selected by days may be granted from the Superintendentbank per Professional Employee per year. (See Addendum I)Upon PHEA approval and written notice thereof to the Administration, the College shall credit such person with such leave from the bank. 3. The Association shall be given a written accounting of the accumulated sick leave bank days on October 1 of each school year.

Sick Leave. A. During (A) Sick leave will be granted for absence from duty because of actual personal illness, non- compensable bodily injury or disease not connected with City employment. As of November 1, 2003, sick leave may also be used for a maximum of five (5) days per fiscal year for personal reasons. These five (5) days will be treated as sick leave and will not fall under the first provisions of personal leave (See Section 6.02). Sick leave may also be granted for a maximum of five (5) days in any one (1) year for illness in the household (i.e., family sick leave). (B) Upon retirement only, a Department Head shall receive payment for fifty (50) percent of employment in ▇his/her accrued sick leave but such payment shall not exceed a total of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars. Fire Chief ▇▇▇▇▇▇ County ▇▇▇▇▇▇ will be the last Fire Chief grandfathered in under the IAFF sick leave payout provision in effect on October 31, 2003. Retirement, as it applies here, will be understood as eligibility and during each successive year thereafterapplication for a pension in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of the State of Rhode Island or in the East Providence Police and Fire Pension System for the Police Chief, each bargaining unit members Deputy Police Chief and Fire Chief. (C) Whenever an employee dies while in the employ of the City, the City shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled pay to the flexibility of using sick leave in deceased employee's beneficiary, as designated under the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all Municipal Employees' Retirement System of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in State or to the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leavewidow, husband or heirs-at-law as hereinafter set forth, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days sum of money computed on the basis of his/her weekly earnings for accumulated sick leave for illness in and vacation leave which had accrued to such deceased employee at 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. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or time of his/her designeedeath. The unit member will In the event that such deceased employee has failed to designate a beneficiary for such payment, then such sum of money shall be paid first to the surviving widow or husband; and if there is no surviving widow or husband, then to the surviving children in equal shares provided that if such deceased employee has not incur loss of salary or accumulated sick leave when designated a beneficiary and leaves no widow, husband nor child, then such accrued benefits shall be paid to his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss next of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availablekin. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During a) On appointment a new Employee shall be entitled to ten (10) working days paid sick leave for the first year twelve months of employment in employment, and an additional ten (10) working days for each subsequent twelve- mo n t h period on their anniversary date of employment. b) In accordance with the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days an Employee may be required to produce a medical certificate issued by a medical practitioner as proof of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave sickness or injury in the following manner (family illnesscircumstances: i. If the sickness or injury is for a period of 3 or more consecutive calendar days, self-sick, whether or not the days would otherwise be working days for you; or ii. If the sickness or injury is for a period of less than 3 consecutive calendar days and the Employer informs you as early as possible that the proof is required and meets reasonableexpenses in obtaining the proof. c) An Employee is required to let the Employer know as soon as possible if they are unable to attend work due to sickness or injury. Failure to do this may result in the absence being treated as unpaid leave. d) The Employee can accumulate their sick leave entitlement up to five (5a maximum of 100 days. e) personal daysSick leave entitlement is available for an Employee to care for a person who is dependent upon the Employee’s care. f) At the Employer’s discretion an Employee may be granted anticipated sick leave. A bargaining unit member Any leave taken in advance and still remaining outside the entitlement will be paid to the Employer. The Employer 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 deduct monies due 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 final pay. F. Unit members shall be permitted to join and receive benefits g) Where an Employee is suffering 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 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 minor illness which could have a detrimental effect on the appropriate form. If the number of contributed days falls below thirty (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation patients or other staff in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required Employers care, the Employer may at their discretion, either; i. Place the Employee on suitable alternative duties, or ii. Direct the Employee to contribute two (2) take sick 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)leave

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members SECTION 1 The Employer agrees all Lodge member shall accrue fourteen eight (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-sick, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days 8) hours of sick leave per month, beginning the first day of employment, but is not available to be used within the first six (6) months of employment. Sick leave need not be used within a specific duration, but may be accumulated up to a maximum of eight hundred (800) hours at the end of the fiscal year. Contributions for new membership Sick leave will not be utilized unless the employee has accumulated said leave. Sick leave with pay shall be made during an open enrollment granted for the following reasons: (A) Personal illness or physical incapacity resulting from causes beyond the employee's control. (B) Enforced quarantine of July 1 to September 30 the employee in accordance with health regulations. Or; (C) Anyone who falls under the City of each fiscal year. A sick leave contribution Harrah's "Family Medical Leave Act" definition of immediate family member becomes, or is currently, ill or injured, and requires the employee's attention. SECTION 2 Employees absent from work because of illness must notify the Chief of Police, or designee, prior to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for start of the actual work period; giving a given fiscal year, shall not be returned if the member effects cancellation. The plan shall be administered by a joint committee composed minimum of two (2) members selected hours advanced notice except in cases of extreme emergencies. SECTION 3 Any employee who has accrued a total of two hundred (200) hours, or more, of sick leave may donate up to, but not to exceed, one-half (1/2) of his/her total amount accrued to any employee who has sustained a prolonged injury or illness. Such donations can only be made after the recipient has exhausted their own vacation, holiday, and/or sick leave and compensatory time. Final approval must be granted in writing by the President City Manager. No employee shall be allowed to donate as much leave as to reduce their own accrued sick leave below one hundred (100) hours. (A) An Employee who continues to be physically unable to perform his/her normal duties for a period of three (3) consecutive working days, or more, shall be required to provide a physician's written statement to the Chief of Police, or designee, and every subsequent thirty (30) day period of such absence, which confirms the employee's continued inability to perform his/her normal duties. Additionally, an employee may be placed on "proof status," requiring an employee to bring medical certification for any future sick leave occurrence when: (1) The employee has frequent sick leave usage, defined as nine (9) sick leave occurrences without a physician's written statement within a twelve (12) month period. (B) Proof status" shall be for a six (6) month period. Any sick leave occurrence while on "proof status" without a physician's written statement will automatically extend the period by an additional three (3) months and the Officer may be subject to disciplinary action for sick leave abuse. The City shall advise the employee, and designated FOP representative if applicable, of being place on such status, or any extension thereof. SECTION 5 For the purposes of this Agreement, a "physician's written statement" shall be defined as any printed, or written, notice to employer, which directly states the employee cannot, or should not, engage in work related activities, the basic nature of the GCEA employee’s illness and/or injury, and two (2) members selected when the employee will be deemed by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)physician to have sufficiently recovered from his illness in order to be able to return to his/her normal duties without limitations or restrictions. SECTION 6 The Lodge agrees the City shall no longer pay employees for any unused sick leave upon retirement.

Sick Leave. A. During Section 15.1 Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: (1) Illness or injury to the first year employee; (2) exposure by the employee to a contagious disease communicable to other employees; or (3) serious illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. Section 15.2 All part-time employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen 4.6 hours per eighty (1480) hours worked up to a maximum of fifteen (15) days of leave per year, in which . Sick leave shall accumulate without limit from year to year. Section 15.3 An employee who is absent on sick leave shall notify his supervisor or designee of such absence and the bargaining unit member is entitled reason therefore prior to the flexibility start of using his work shift each day he is to be absent. At least two (2) hours prior notification is preferred, but not required. Section 15.4 Sick leave maybe used in segments of not less than one (1) hour. Section 15.5 Before an absence may be charged against accumulated sick leave, the Chief may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by the Chief and paid by the Employer. Section 15.6 If the employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury or death upon request of the Chief, or in the event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the report of medical examination, the Chief finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness, injury or death sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave may be considered an unauthorized leave and shall be without pay. Section 15.7 Any abuse of sick leave in or the following manner (family patterned use of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for discipline as may be determined by the Chief Section 15.8 The Chief may require an employee who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined by a physician and paid for by the Employer, to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his normal duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. Section 15.9 When the use of sick leave is due to illness, self-sickinjury, 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 death in the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from "immediate family" shall be defined as the current yearemployee’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, childrenparent(s), motherstepparent(s), father, or anyone sisters, Section 15.10 An employee who lives regularly in transfers from this department to another department of the household. B. A unit member may request Employer shall be allowed 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 transfer his accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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 availablethe new department. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of Section 15.11 Any employee who has accumulated sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should earned from being employed by the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount State of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option Ohio or any other political subdivision of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion State of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service Ohio and who has become employed by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 has less than Employer within ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors years from his termination from such other public employee, shall be eligible allowed to transfer said accumulation to his sick leave accumulation with the Employer, providing that such sick leave accumulation shall be limited to the existing maximum accruable amount in effect at the time of transfer in this Agreement. Section 15.12 Upon retirement, an employee shall be entitled to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall be authorized annually a cash payment equal to his daily rate of pay at the time of retirement, multiplied by the member on the appropriate form. If the total number of contributed accumulated but unused sick days falls below earned by the employee and certified by the Finance Director, providing that such resultant number of days to be paid shall not exceed thirty (30)) days. Section 15.13 An employee eligible for cash payment pursuant to Section 16.12 above may, bargaining unit members who wish at his option, elect to continue their participation in take an early retirement with the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave days. The annual rate monetary value 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)such cash payment being applied towards said early retirement.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members Each full-time regular employee shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave at the rate of sixteen (16) hours per month of continuous employment. Times on layoff, suspension or leave without pay shall not be counted in the following manner determining a full month of service. Sick leave shall not be paid for off duty hours and shall be taken in increments of no less than one (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (51) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or hour. B. All employees shall retain 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 accumulated prior to the current year’s appropriation for effective date of this purposeagreement. Immediate family Maximum accumulation shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdbe 1400 hours. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by C. Unless the principal or his/her designee. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated privilege is abused, sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teacherswill be granted in case of: 1. Illness or injury of the employee causing absence from work, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee except that an employee will not be required to obtain such volunteersuse sick leave in the case of occupational illnesses or injuries except as outlined in Worker's Compensation article. 2. Emergency leave, without loss Acute need on the part of benefits, will the employee for medical or dental care; 3. Medical or dental care for the employee which cannot be provided if volunteers are not availabledeferred until, or obtained after, working hours or a day off. C. Upon 4. Illness of a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit memberemployee's immediate family defined as spouse or minor children living in the same household, all or a portion subject to the limitations of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemparagraph "D" below. D. Unused sick Sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified is not intended to provide for practical nursing care of the number of sick leave days on the immediate family. However, an employee portal. E. The Board reserves the right may use up 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 eight (2) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) 8) days of sick leave per fiscal yearcontract year for serious illness of a member of the employee's immediate family. Contributions Immediate family shall include the employee's spouse and/or minor children living in the same household, and family members listed in Article 8, Section A, who is solely dependent upon the employee for new membership health care needs. The employee may also use personal days, vacation and unpaid leave of absence for health care needs for members of the immediate family. E. When absence due to sickness or injury is necessitated, the employee shall notify the working supervisor in their division as soon as possible to the beginning of his/her scheduled reporting time. The notification of the immediate supervisor will be waived if the illness or injury is such that the employee is unable to contact the supervisor of their division. The notification of illness or injury may be made orally in the first instance, but must be subsequently confirmed in writing as soon thereafter as is convenientlypossible, stating the nature of the illness or injury and the name of the attending physician if applicable. The employee's supervisors shall be made during an open enrollment responsible for obtaining all data necessary and for determining whether or not the employee is abusing or has abused the sick leave. Abuse of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A sick leave contribution shall be grounds for disciplinary action. F. For absences due to illness or injury, the Sheriff may require satisfactory proof of illness or injury, which may include a physician's statement. The physician's statement shall contain a diagnosis of the illness or injury, whether the employee is capable of performing either regular or light duty, and an indication of the length of time it will be necessary for the employee to be absent from duty, should a complete absence be necessary. G. Abuse of sick leave is detrimental to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized welfare of the Department and other employees. Abuse of sick leave shall be considered basis for unfavorable promotional ratings as well as disciplinary action against the employee. H. When an employee requests vacation for a given fiscal yeardefinite period and the request is granted, any period of illness during the period of such leave shall be charged to vacation as originally requested. The only exception to this policy is in Section K of this article. If the illness extends beyond the period originally granted, sick leave may be used, subject to approval by the Sheriff to cover the additional absence. Employees on sick leave may use all accrued vacation, personal days, and paid leave after all sick leave accumulation has been exhausted. Thereafter, they will be considered to be on an unpaid medical leave of absence. I. Sick leave shall accrue but not be returned if granted during the member effects cancellation. The plan shall be administered by a joint committee composed first month of two (2) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)service.

Sick Leave. A. During (a) Full-time employees shall accumulate sick leave credits at the first year rate of four (4) hours for each full calendar month of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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-sick, and up to five a maximum of two hundred eight (5208) personal dayshours. A bargaining unit member may use any or all Credits shall accumulate only on full-time employment following the completion of the fourteen thirteen (1413) annual allotted days for illness in consecutive weeks full-time employment eligibility period. (b) The Employer may require the immediate family. As part of employee to provide a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up doctor’s certificate verifying any absence due to thirty disability. (30c) days of his/her The Employer shall apply any accumulated sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less any annual to absence due to sickness not covered by insured Weekly Indemnity benefits (or similar benefits) and shall supplement Weekly Indemnity benefits (or similar benefits) with unused sick leave days previously used from credits in an amount equal to but not to exceed the current yearemployee’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdnormal earnings. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must (d) Employees, if found abusing this privilege, shall be approved disciplined by the principal Employer. In such cases, the Employer may discontinue or his/her designeereduce the benefit of the employees. The unit member will not incur loss of salary However, such cases shall be subject to the grievance procedure. (e) If an employee retires on pension, is permanently laid off or is totally disabled due to occupational accident, injury or illness as recognized by the Workers’ Compensation Board, they shall be paid unused accumulated sick leave when his/credits. (f) An employee who returns to work after absence due to illness or injury must be returned to his or her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, job without loss of benefitsseniority when capable of performing his or her duties. Upon recuperation from an accident or illness, an employee will not give the Employer as much notice as possible of his or her intention to return to work. The Employer will give the Union ninety (90) days notice of its intention to terminate an employee for absence due to illness or injury. A copy of the notice will be provided if volunteers are not availablemailed to the employee’s last known address. C. Upon a unit member(g) The Employer agrees to comply with Provincial Legislation which applies to the accommodation of disabled employees. The Union and the Employer agree to review together, on an individual basis, the cases of employees who become disabled and are unable to perform their regular job duties. (h) An employee’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members credits will be notified of the number of sick leave days shown on the employee portaltheir pay stub. 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 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 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. A. During a. You are entitled to Sick Leave on pay as set out in the first year schedule below, or Sick Leave without pay may be granted on production of employment in a medical certificate. b. All sick leave is to be computed on working days only. c. You will receive 10 days of sick leave on appointment and a further 10 days for each 12 months of service after, with a maximum accumulation of 260 days. d. This leave is inclusive of the provisions of the Holidays ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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-sick, 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. A unit member e. We may request require you to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must undergo an examination by a registered medical practitioner of our choice where it is considered that your performance may be approved impaired 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) dayspossible medical condition. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up you be found to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend be unfit to perform your full duties you may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of on sick leave (with or without pay) until cleared to return to full duties. The cost of the medical examination will also be converted to months of creditable service met by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemus. D. Unused f. You should notify absence due to sickness to our representative whenever possible not less than 30 minutes, and preferably three hours or earlier, before normal starting time. A medical certificate will be required for all absences in excess of five consecutive days and may be required for absences of shorter periods. If information is received which indicates that the sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members entitlement is being misused, we may take such action as we deem necessary to investigate and determine the matter. g. When sickness occurs during annual or long service leave, we will permit the period of sickness to be notified of the number of debited against sick leave days on the employee portalentitlement provided a medical certificate is produced. E. The Board reserves the right to require a physical examination, at Board expense, of unit members on extended h. These sick leave without payprovisions apply equally when you are unable to attend work due to your illness and when you are required to attend to the ill health of a person dependent on you. F. Unit members shall be permitted to join and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick i. You will submit your leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 requests via 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 web kiosk 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)approval system.

Sick Leave. A. During 15.01 Sick leave means the first year period of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County time an employee is permitted to be absent from work with full pay by virtue of being sick or disabled or because of an accident for which compensation is not payable under the Workplace Safety and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members Insurance Act. 15.02 Sick leave credit shall accrue fourteen be granted to employees on the basis of one and one-half (14l-l/2) days for every month of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using service. 15.03 In any one year where an employee has not used up her/his sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirementcredit, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each be entitled to an accrual of the unused day portion of sick leave credit for her/his future benefit. A deduction shall be made from accumulated sick leave credit of all normal working days, exclusive of holidays, absent for sick leave as defined above. 15.04 If at the close of any fiscal year an employee has expended more sick leave than he/she is entitled to, the over-expenditure may be recovered from holiday time he/she has earned to a limit of two weeks, unless this over-expenditure is otherwise provided for. Any recovery from holidays will be approved by the employee in writing. 15.05 Time lost, including time lost for sickness, by an employee during her/his six (6) months probationary period shall be considered as leave without pay. However, on completion of her/his probationary period he/she shall be credited with nine (9) days sick leave (6 x 1-1/2). 15.06 Employees are required to produce a medical certificate for any illness in excess of five (5) consecutive working days. In addition, an employee shall be allowed up to two hundred seven (7) days uncertified sick leave per year, after which he/she may be, at the request of the Employer, required to produce a medical certificate from a qualified medical practitioner, certifying that such employee was unable to perform her/his duties due to illness. Failure to produce such a certificate may result in loss of pay. 15.07 When an employee is given leave of absence without pay for any reason, or is laid off on account of lack of work and nine returns to the service of the Employer upon expiration of such leave of absence, he/she shall not receive sick leave credit for that period of such absence, but shall retain her/his cumulative credit, if any, existing at the time of such leave or lay-off. 15.08 Sick leave without pay shall be granted to an employee who does not qualify for sick leave with pay or who is unable to return to work at the termination of the period for which sick leave pay is granted. 15.09 A record of all sick leave (209credits and debits) shall be kept by the Employer. A copy of these records will be issued to each employee in January and July of each year. 15.10 An employee will be allowed to transfer sick leave credits to a maximum of five (5) days. Should , from her/his accumulated credits to that of another employee, for extended periods of illness, provided that the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the total amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up transferred does not exceed the immediate requirements of the employee receiving such credits and the proper forms, provided by the Union, have been completed and submitted to two hundred and nine (209) daysthe Assistant Director, Maintenance Services. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days no time shall any transfer of sick leave will also be converted credits to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of another employee reduce the number of remaining sick leave credits to less than 12 days on for the employee portalemployee’s own use. Probationary employees are not subject to the provisions of this clause. E. The Board reserves 15.11 For all absences due to illness or accident not covered by the right to require Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, employees must complete 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 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 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)Report.

Sick Leave. A. During 8.1 Sick leave with pay shall be earned by eligible employees at the first year rate of employment 4.6154 hours per pay period. Sick leave accrual will be based on actual hours on paid status in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County a pay period. There will be no loss in accrual for unpaid union leave up to forty (40) hours per pay period for no more than two (2) consecutive pay periods. 8.2 Permanent employees may accumulate the unused portion of paid sick leave without any maximum restrictions. 8.3 Sick leave with pay may be used by the employee as needed for mental or physical illness, injury, dental care and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members medical care. The employee will notify his/her supervisor when absent under this Article. 8.4 Pregnant employees shall accrue fourteen (14) days be eligible for the use of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using paid and unpaid sick leave in the following same manner as any other disabled or ill employee. Such sick leave eligibility shall begin upon certification by the employee's attending physician that due to pregnancy the employee is disabled in terms of her ability to perform the duties of her position. Such employees shall then be eligible to receive sick leave benefits in the same manner as is provided for any other ill or injured employee during the remaining period of pregnancy and until such time as the employee is certified able to return to work by her attending physician. 8.5 Accumulated sick leave with pay may be used as follows: (family illness, self-sick, and up 1) Up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member days leave per employee per year may use any or all be used for the serious illness of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for employee's spouse, or serious illness of the employee's parents, spouse's parents, or a person regularly residing in the employee’s immediate familyhousehold to attend to the needs of the ill or injured person. (2) Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. As part The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member the birth or adoption. (3) An employee may use up to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated utilize 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option care of the bargaining unit memberemployee's sick or injured child. “Child” is as defined in Minnesota Statutes 181.940. As of 1/1/2000, all an individual under the age 18 or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systeman individual under age 20 who is still attending secondary school. 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 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 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. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members 7.2.1 Every employee (other than a casual) shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is become entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days’ sick leave for each completed year of their employment with an employer. Contributors Provided that part-time employees accrue sick leave on a proportional basis. Moreover, as respects any completed period of employment of less than one year with an employer, an employee shall be eligible become entitled to receive Sick Leave Bank benefitsone day’s sick leave for each 4.8 weeks of such period. The contribution shall be authorized annually by the member Every employee absent from work through illness on the appropriate form. If production of a certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner specifying the number nature of contributed days falls below thirty (30)the illness of the employee and the period or approximate period during which the employee will be unable to work, bargaining unit members who wish or of other evidence of illness to continue the satisfaction of the employer, and subject to their participation having promptly notified the employer of their illness and the approximate period aforesaid shall, subject as herein provided, be entitled to payment in full for all time they are so absent from work: Provided that it shall not be necessary for an employee to produce such a certificate if the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave days. The annual rate absence from work on account of contribution shall illness does not exceed two days. Sick leave shall be cumulative, but unless the employer and employee otherwise agree, no employee shall be entitled to receive, and no employer shall be bound to make, payment for more than thirteen weeks’ absence from work through illness in any one year. (2a) days The continuity of employment of an employee with an employer for sick leave accumulation purposes shall be deemed to be not broken by any of the following:- (i) Absence from work on leave granted by the employer: (ii) The employee having been dismissed or stood down by the employer, or the employee having terminated their employment with the employer, for any period not exceeding three months: Provided that employee shall have been re-employed by that employer. (b) The period during which the employment of the employee with the employer shall have been interrupted or determined in any of the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (i) hereof shall not be taken into account in calculating the period of employment of the employee with the employer. 7.2.3 Where an employee has a proven record of recurring absences on sick leave the employer shall, if it is considered appropriate to take such action, inform such employee that in the event of future absences a certificate will be required from a duly qualified medical practitioner in respect of each period 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 taken for a given fiscal year, shall not be returned if the member effects cancellationperiod of six (6) months thereafter. 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. A. During ‌ 1. Any employee contracting or incurring any non-service connected sickness or disability, which renders such employee unable to perform the first year duties of employment in their employment, shall receive sick leave with pay if accrued. 2. For purposes of this Agreement, sick leave shall only include those instances when an employee is confined by illness to their home or is hospitalized or other justified situations. 3. Sick leave shall be accrued at the rate of fifteen (15) days per year, accumulative to not more than one hundred and twenty (120) days. No employee shall receive credit for sick leave unless he notifies their job ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and or the City's representative at least one (1) hour or as soon as possible but not more than twelve (12) hours prior to the employee's scheduled work day. This shall not apply to employees who are out on extended illness. Exceptions to this requirement will only be allowed when an unforeseen emergency arises during each successive year thereaftersaid one (1) hour period. 4. A maximum of forty (40) hours per-week will be paid for any employee on sick leave. 5. Sick leave shall be charged when an employee is confined due to an officially posted quarantine, each bargaining unit when established by any official health agency which in itself prevents attendance at the place of work. 6. Any employee who willfully violates or misuses this sick leave policy or who misrepresents any statement or condition under the sick leave policy will be subject to disciplinary action under Article 20 of this Agreement. 7. Sick leave may be used in emergency situations for attendance upon members shall accrue fourteen of his family as listed in Article 9, Bereavement Leave, Section 1, of the Labor Agreement limited to fifteen (1415) days of leave per calendar year, in which . This paragraph is intended to cover only those emergency situations where the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all nature of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days illness is such that the employee himself be available to care 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 his 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. A unit member may request limited 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days per incident, the second available day must have the approval of the Airport Director, unless the employee submits Appendix B for a member of the family. Sick leave may be used by an employee who needs to tend to an immediate family member, as listed in Article 9, Section 1 Bereavement Leave, who is otherwise unable to care for themselves due to illness, injury, or for a newly born child. Usage of sick leave for these purposes are limited to fifteen (15) days per fiscal calendar year. 8. Contributions The Department Head (Airport Director), or designee may require as a condition precedent to the payment of sick leave a certificate attached as part of this Agreement (Appendix B) to be completed by a qualified physician certifying as to the conditions of the employee or member of their family when there is reason to believe that the employee is abusing sick leave. No physician's certificate will be required unless it is to be requested in advance 'in writing; however, if requested, certificate must be presented immediately, unless excused by the Department Head or designee, after employee has returned to work. Ninety (90) days from the date that the employee is required to furnish a physician's certificate, the employee may request the Department Head or designee to review their use of sick leave. 9. The requirement for new membership a certificate will be dropped unless abuse has occurred during the previous ninety (90) days. Whenever an employee is required to bring in a physician's certificate, they shall be made during notified in writing with a copy sent to the Union president. Failure to produce a doctor's certificate, once an open enrollment employee is posted, may lead to disciplinary action being taken against the employee. 10. ▇▇▇▇ leave will not be paid when an employee is capable of performing available work in the department. 11. Sick leave will accrue but not be paid until a permanent employee has completed six (6) months of continuous service. 12. During the terms of this Agreement, when an employee retires from active service with the City and is immediately eligible for retirement benefits pursuant to the Maine State Retirement System as it applies to the City, or is immediately eligible for retirement benefits pursuant to any other alternate retirement plan which may be offered in placeof Maine State Retirement, the employee shall receive an amount equal to his salary at the time of their retirement for one-third (1/3) the number of days of accumulated unused sick leave to a maximum of forty (40) days. 13. Employees completing six (6) consecutive months of employment (January 1 - June 30 or July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A - December 31) without using any sick leave contribution under any provision of Article 7 will be granted one (1) sick leave bonus day. Sick leave bonus days may accumulate to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, three (3) days and shall not be returned if charged against the member effects cancellationemployee as sick leave. The plan shall Sick leave bonus days may not be administered by a joint committee composed of two (2) members selected used to substitute for disciplinary action and must be taken in full day increments. Sick leave bonus days will be scheduled upon request by the President Department Head or their designee in accordance with the needs of the GCEA Department and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)preference of the employee.

Sick Leave. A. During An employee, in continuous service with Bega Cheese, who is unable to attend for duty during his/her ordinary working hours by reason of personal illness or personal incapacity shall be entitled to be paid at their ordinary rate of pay for the first year time of employment such non-attendance subject to the following:- (a) He/she shall not be entitled to paid leave of absence for any period in ▇▇▇respect of which he/she is entitled to workers' compensation, provided however, that Bega Cheese shall pay such to an employee, if the employee so requests, and who has sick leave entitlement under this clause, the difference between the amount received as workers' compensation and full pay. If Bega Cheese pays such difference the employee's sick leave entitlement under this clause shall, for each week during which such difference is paid be reduced by that proportion of 38 hours which the difference paid, bears to full pay. (b) He/she shall, as soon as is reasonably possible so as to allow Bega Cheese to make alternative arrangements and within 24 hours of the commencement of such absence, inform ▇▇▇▇ County 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-sick, 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 Cheese of his/her accumulated inability to attend for duty and as far as possible state the nature of the illness or incapacity and the estimated duration of the same. (c) He/she shall prove to the satisfaction of Bega Cheese that he/she is or was unable on account of such illness or incapacity, to attend for duty on the day or days for which sick leave for illness payment is claimed, (doctor’s certificate or statutory declaration will be accepted as satisfactory proof). (d) a full-time employee shall be entitled, in the immediate family, less respect of any annual year of continued employment to 10 days sick pay. Any period of paid sick leave days previously used allowed by Bega Cheese to the employee in any such year shall be deducted from the current period of sick leave which may be allowed or carried forward in this Agreement in respect of any such year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member (e) employees including casuals, who are genuinely ill or sick are not expected or required to attend for work. This should assist in their recovery and will protect against spread of illness and minimize the threat to product contamination. (f) Employees engaged on other than eight hour shifts on a permanent basis shall be entitled to sick leave based on the usual length of their shift. For example those engaged on twelve hour shifts shall be entitled to 120 hours paid sick leave. (g) Where an employee is not engaged permanently on other than eight hour shift, they shall still be entitled to claim sick leave based on the rostered hours they would have worked had they not been sick. In such cases the sick leave debit shall be made against their entitlements of 76 hours per annum. The rights to sick leave shall accumulate from year to year so long as the employment continues with Bega Cheese so that any sick leave which has not previously been allowed, may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved claimed by the principal or his/her designeeemployee in a subsequent year of such continued employment. The unit member In certain circumstances Bega Cheese will not incur loss of salary or accumulated pay long serving employees for sick leave when his/her classes are covered during sustained periods over and above the maximum sick days allowed to be accrued The actual amount Bega Cheese may pay will take into account the actual sick leave accrued by regular teacherseach particular long serving employee, student teachers and/or assistantsnet of actual sick leave taken, (from commencement of employment). The principal and his/her designee will Continuous service shall be deemed not to have been broken by: (h) any absence from work on leave granted by Bega Cheese; or (i) any absence from work by reason of personal illness, injury or other reasonable cause (proof whereof shall in each case be upon the employee). Employees who fail to notify their supervisor of their inability to attend work, shall be required to obtain such volunteersproduce a medical certificate. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, Failure to produce a medical certificate will mean that the employee shall not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) entitled to payment for each unused day the period of absence. Employees who take sick leave accumulated up on either Saturday, Sunday, where Saturday, Sunday work forms part of their ordinary hours of work public holidays or RDO or a day immediately preceding or succeeding a public holiday may be required to two hundred and nine (209) daysproduce a medical certificate or Statutory Declaration for such period of absence. Should Failure to produce a medical certificate will mean that the unit member die while in active service, employee shall not be entitled to payment for the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount period of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of absence Accrued sick leave accumulated up entitlements shall be shown on employee payslips. However, it should be noted that any employee who exhibits unsatisfactory behaviour in relation to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days use of sick leave will also be converted counselled and given adequate time to months demonstrate an improvement. If, at the end of creditable this period, the employee shows no willingness to improve in the opinion of management, then disciplinary action up to and including dismissal may be taken. Sick Leave payout upon termination: Employees with more than 5 years service who at their time of termination have a sick leave balance of 10 or more days, shall be paid 50% of their balance of untaken sick leave at the time of termination of employment, up to a maximum of 30 days total payment. Termination of employment shall be taken to mean termination by either the employer or the employee other than termination by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days employer on the employee portalgrounds of serious or wilful misconduct. 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 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 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. A. During Sick leave will be granted to any full-time employee who is unable to perform his/her duty in the school because of illness or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative such as grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, uncle, aunt, or anyone of like relationship by marriage or a member of his own household and consequently has to be absent from his work shall be granted leave of absence for sickness by the Employer. The following provisions shall govern sick leave: 1. An employee employed on a full-time basis shall be entitled to four days of sick leave as of the first day of employment of each contract year and shall thereafter earn one day of sick leave for each month of employment, in which the employee works or is paid a minimum of five (5) workdays in the month, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of that 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 or her employment in ▇▇and has accrued but not earned the 4 sick leave days available to him or her, the school board will withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because of sickness as herein prescribed. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year; provided that there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. 2. In accordance with ▇▇▇▇▇ County School Board policies, a teacher may authorize his or her spouse, child, parent, or sibling who is also an employee of the ▇▇▇▇▇ County Public Schools to use sick leave that has accrued to the authorizing teacher, provided that the recipient may not use the donated sick leave until all of his or her sick leave has been depleted, excluding sick leave from a sick leave pool, if the recipient participates in a sick leave pool. Donated sick leave under this paragraph shall have no terminal pay value as provided in Article XIII section G 2 (Terminal Pay). 3. As used in this section, one day of sick leave for the purpose of accrual and during each successive year thereafteruse, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days mean to be the equivalent in hours and may be accrued at the end of the month. Any portion of leave per year, days accumulated may be taken and charged in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility increments of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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 not less than thirty (30) minutes; provided, that leave may be taken only in one-half (½) day increments if any portion of the requested leave will be during student contact. 4. In the event that an employee uses more than five consecutive work or paid days of his/her accumulated leave allowance, the employee shall provide the District through ESS online leave process, a doctor's statement attesting to the illness with the anticipated date of return as soon after the sixth day as possible but, in any case, prior to receiving the paycheck for the pay period in which the sixth day occurred or any subsequent paychecks. Should the employee be unable to submit the doctor's statement as required above, he shall be paid for any sick leave to which he is entitled when the doctor's statement is submitted to the Payroll Office. 5. Principals are encouraged to monitor the use of sick leave to ensure that all teachers act in a manner consistent with the requirements of their positions. Excessive absences by any teacher places tremendous stress on the teachers who are present to render professional services for the absent teacher. Disciplinary measures may be taken when abuses are identified. When they must be absent, teachers are expected to provide adequate and appropriate notice. 6. Employees using accrued or extended sick leave for illness more than five consecutive work or paid days of leave allowance, shall be responsible for providing the principal with emergency plans that will allow a school official or substitute teacher to render professional services for the absent teacher. These emergency plans should be updated quarterly and kept on file with the principal in the immediate familyevent a teacher needs to go out on extended leave unexpectedly. When a teacher has advanced notice of the need to use extended leave, less any annual more detailed and time specific lesson plans and materials should be provided to the principal. For a planned extended FMLA absence, one week of lesson plans should be provided to the principal. Principals should not make work related contact with employees during the time accrued, extended sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, fatherleave, or anyone who lives regularly paid leave is being used except in the householdemergency situations. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During 1. Sick leave is hereby defined to mean an absence from the first year post of duty by the Chief of Police, while in good standing, due to illness, accident, injury, disability, exposure to contagious disease, or the necessity to attend to and care for a seriously ill member of his immediate family. 2. In the event the Chief of Police requires leave due to any of the above-stated reasons, not caused by other employment or business ventures, he may request and shall be granted a leave of absence, with full pay, as herein provided. 3. If the Chief of Police is absent from work on sick leave and is unable to report for duty for _______ ( ) or more consecutive working days, the Township may require a physician of its choice to provide a medical statement concerning the need for sick leave. In the alternative, the Township may require the Chief of Police to submit acceptable medical evidence substantiating the need for sick leave. 4. If the Chief of Police is absent from work for reasons that entitle him to sick leave, the Police Department shall be notified as early as possible, but no later than _______ ( ) hours prior to the start of the scheduled work shift from which he is absent, except in ▇the case of an emergency. Failure to so notify may be cause for denial of the use of sick leave for that absence and could constitute cause for disciplinary action. 5. The term “immediate family” for the purpose of this Article shall include the following: a) spouse; b) parent; c) step-parent; d) child; e) ▇▇▇▇▇▇ County child; and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members f) any other relative residing in the Chief of Police’s household. 6. Sick leave shall accrue fourteen (14for the Chief of Police at the rate of _______ ( ) working days in every calendar year of leave per employment, and shall accumulate from year to year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility be used as set forth herein. 7. The Chief of using Police, at his option, may be paid up to _______ % of his annual unused sick leave in from the following manner (family illnesspreceding year at the preceding year’s rate, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all payable no later than ____________ of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate familyyear of application. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated The sick leave for illness in payment cannot cause the immediate family, less any annual amount of accumulated unused 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 householdto drop below _______ ( ) days. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designee8. The unit member will not incur loss Chief of salary or accumulated Police, at his option, may be paid for a maximum of _______ ( ) days from his sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistantsbank if that balance is _______ ( ) days or greater as of ____________ of that year. The principal and his/her designee will not Payment shall be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option made no later than ____________ of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 formsucceeding year. If the number Chief of contributed days falls below thirty (30)Police exercises this option, bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation he is then precluded from exercising his option in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick 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)paragraph 7 above.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit Unit members shall accrue fourteen be granted ten sick leave days per year for 10 month employ­ ees, accumulative to one hundred sixty-five (14165) days, and 12 mondi employees shall be granted twelve (12) days of leave per year, in which accumulative to two hundred (200) days. Unit members hired prior to December 31, 2004 shall be credited for their accumulative sick leave with that number of days remaining unused for the bargaining 2004 year. Additional days of sick leave may lie granted upon the approval of the Superintendent of Schools or designee. absence for a period not to exceed twelve (12) months, such a leave to be without pay. A reason for a (cave may be extended illness of the unit member is entitled or the unit member s immediate family; child rearing leave, including adoption; unit member’s serving in political office; unit members accepting positions in union affiliates; professional or personal growth of the unit member in die District. Such requests shall not be unreasonably denied. Should permission for a leave of absence be denied, reasons for such denial will be in writing. b. Where leave has been granted, the unit member shall notify the Department of Human Resources in writing, at least one (I) month prior to the flexibility expiration date of using sick the leave period, of his/her intention to return to work or resign. Failure lo do so shall be deemed a resignation, except in cases when extenuating cir­ cumstances prevent such notification. c. Upon return from a leave of absence, in accordance with the following manner aforementioned conditions, the unit member will be reinstated lo active employment status in accordance with applicable regulations (family illnessi.e., self-sickCivil Service, and up to education Law, etc.). d. If a unit member requests lo be on an unpaid status for more Ilian five (5) personal work days, such request should he processed as an unpaid leave of absence. A bargaining unit member may use Payment will not be made for any holidays which occur during such unpaid leave of absence. e. An employee shall be required lo utilize all vacation benefits for which they are otherwise eligible before requesting unpaid or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave"deduct” absence. f. While on unpaid 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. 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 be entitled lo paid fringe or leave benefits. However, hc/she may continue to participate in die health insur­ ance plan at the group rale. g. Seniority and accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required to obtain such volunteersaccrue while on unpaid leave. Emergency leaveHowever, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of all seniority and sick leave accumulated up accrued prior to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemlie retained. 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 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 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. A. During the first (i) Full-time employees - A full-time employee shall be entitled to sick leave on full pay by allowing 76 rostered ordinary hours of work, granted in advance, for each year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of continuous service less any sick leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled on full pay already taken subject to the flexibility following conditions: (a) all periods of using sick leave in sickness shall be certified to by the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all Medical Superintendent of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part of hospital or by a qualifying Family legally qualified 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. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be Practitioner approved by the principal or his/her designee. The unit member will not incur loss employer; provided, however, that the employer may dispense with the requirements of salary or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should medical certificate where the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall absence does not exceed two (2) consecutive days or where in the employer's opinion the circumstances are such as not to warrant such requirements; (b) the employer shall not change the rostered hours of work of an employee fixed by the roster or rosters applicable to the seven days immediately following the commencement of sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership merely by reason of the fact that the employee is on sick leave; (c) an employee shall be made during an open enrollment of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A granted sick leave contribution progressively for the first 3 months of continuous service. At the completion of three months continuous service the employee shall be granted, in advance, the balance of their first year of entitlement of sick leave. (d) service, for the purpose of this clause, shall mean service with the employer and shall be deemed to have commenced on the Sick Leave Bankdate of engagement by the employer in respect of any period of employment with that employer current at the date of the commencement of this agreement in respect of employees then so employed and in respect of others it shall be deemed to commence on the first day of engagement by the employer after the commencement of this agreement; (e) employees who are employed at the date of the commencement of this agreement shall retain to their credit, when properly authorized until exhausted, any accumulation of sick leave to their credit immediately prior to such date, provided that such credit is not less than the entitlement otherwise prescribed by this clause. (f) Continuous Service", for a the purpose of this clause, shall be calculated in the same manner as provided under paragraph (a) of subclause (ii) of clause 14, Long Service Leave, of this agreement, excepting that all periods of service with the employer in any hospital (providing such service is not less than three months' actual service) shall be counted; (g) employees shall take all reasonably practicable steps to inform the employer of their inability to attend for duty and as far as possible state the estimated duration of the absence. Where practicable such notice shall be given fiscal yearwithin twenty-four hours of the commencement of such absence. (ii) A part-time employee as defined in Part I and Part II of clause 6, Part-time Employees shall be entitled to sick leave in the same proportion of 76 hours as the average weekly hours worked over the preceding twelve months or from the time of the commencement of employment, which ever is the lesser, bears to 38 ordinary hours of one week. Such entitlement shall be subject to all the above conditions applying to full-time employees. (iii) An employee shall not be returned if entitled to sick leave on full pay for any period in respect of which such employee is entitled to workers' compensation; provided, however, that an employer shall pay to an employee, who has sick leave entitlements under this clause, the member effects cancellationdifference between the amount received as workers' compensation and full pay. The plan employee's sick leave entitlement under this clause shall, for each week during which such difference is paid, be reduced by the proportion of hours which the difference bears to full pay. On the expiration of available sick leave, weekly compensation payments only shall be administered by payable. (iv) For the purpose of determining a joint committee composed full-time employee's sick leave credit as at 1 July 1984, sick leave entitlement shall be proportioned on the basis of two 76:80. (2v) members selected by Subject to the President provision of a satisfactory medical certificate and sick leave being due, annual leave or long service leave shall be recredited where an illness of at least one week's duration occurs during the period of annual or long service leave provided that the period of leave does not occur prior to retirement, resignation or termination of services and provided further that the employer is satisfied on the circumstances and the nature of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)incapacity.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members a. A full- time employee shall accrue fourteen (14be credited with ten ( 10 ) sick days per year. Sick leave days will be credited as follows: four ( 4 ) 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-sick, September 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 (30six ( 6) days in January. Days will be prorated for part- time staff, those on unpaid leaves of his/her absence, or those terminating during the year. b. All Sick leave days previously accumulated sick leave for illness in by an Employee while employed by the immediate family, less any annual Agency shall be credited to him/ her. Any sick leave days previously not used from by the current year’s appropriation end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for this purpose. Immediate family the following year provided, however, i t shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly not result in exceeding the householdninety (90 ) day maximum for sick leave accumulation. B. A unit member may request to leave school c. Criteria 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number utilization of sick leave days shall be: i. Personal i l lness, injury or quarantine. ii. Serious i l lness in the employee’s immediate family, i. e., husband, wife, child, father or mother. d. The Employee shall notify his/ her Program Supervisor using the AESOP attendance system of his/ her impending absence stating the nature of absence ( i l lness) and where he/ she may be contacted during the day. Each Employee shall give such notification at least two hours prior to his/ her scheduled on- the- job starting t ime unless the circumstances of the absence do not allow such notice. When the AESOP attendance system cannot be accessed a phone call to the Program Supervisor shall be made. e. The Employee may be required by the Superintendent to give a written, signed statement indicating the nature of the i l lness or injury for such absence when reporting to work on the f i rst working day following his/ her absence. The employee portalmay also be required by the superintendent to give a written, signed statement f rom the employee' s physician indicating the nature of the i l lness or injury when reporting to work in the first working day following his/her absence of three ( 3 ) or more working days. Failure to comply with such a request can result in the withholding of pay for such leave days. E. The Board reserves the right to require a physical examination, at Board expense, of unit members on extended f. Accumulated sick leave without payt ime shall terminate upon severance of employment. 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 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 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. A. During Section 15.1. The requirements of the first year New York City Earned Sick Time Act are waived pursuant to N.Y. Admin. Sec. 20-917 because comparable benefits are provided both in this Article XV and in other provisions of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafterthis Agreement. Section 15.2. Commencing January 1, each bargaining unit members 2016, all Operators 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 at the following manner rate of one (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (51) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days hour for illness in the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to every thirty (30) hours of time worked, up to a maximum of forty (40) sick leave hours per calendar year. Accrued and unused sick leave hours may be carried over to the next calendar year but an Operator shall not be able to use more than forty (40) sick leave hours per calendar year. Operators hired after January 1, 2016 may begin using accrued sick leave hours one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days of after he/she begins employment. Section 15.3. Accrued sick leave under Section 15.2, above, shall be taken in full shift increments (i.e., the Operator is required to call out for his/her accumulated entire shift for the applicable event, which: (i) for sporting events shall be based on the number of hours worked for the same sporting event immediately prior to the applicable sick leave leave; and (ii) for illness non-sporting events shall be based on the duration (in the immediate familyterms of number hours) of such non-sporting event). For example, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation if an Operator calls out for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. 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 5 hour shift and only has three (3) hours of salary or accumulated accrued sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty three ($30.003) for each unused day hours of straight time pay as sick leave accumulated up to two hundred pay and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 remaining two (2) hours of the minimum call shall be unpaid. In the event such shift is at least four hours duration, the Operator must use a minimum of four hours of accrued sick leave. In the event an Operator must use sick leave daysafter the commencement of a shift, the Operator may elect to use accrued sick leave for the duration of the shift. Days shall not Sick leave may be accepted from taken for any bargaining unit member who has reason permitted by the New York City Earned Sick Time Act. Section 15.4. An Operator is required to notify the Company using the phone number (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ at least seven (7) days in advance of any reasonably foreseeable need to take sick leave. Barring unforeseen circumstances, as determined by the Company, an Operator is required to notify the Company of the need to take unforeseeable sick leave using the phone number (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, no less than ten four (104) accumulated or earned dayshours in advance of his/her scheduled call time. Contributors An Operator shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefitspaid for accrued sick leave in accordance with Sections 15.2 and 15.3 above for which the Company has been provided the notice specified in this Section 15.4. An Operator must provide written verification that the Operator used sick leave for sick leave purposes. The contribution Company agrees to prepare a written verification form for these purposes (set forth in Exhibit A). An Operator must present a note to the Company from a licensed healthcare professional certifying the need for such sick leave if such Operator uses twenty four (24) or more consecutive hours of sick leave. Regardless of the applicable event, sick leave pay shall be authorized annually by the member based 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 days. The annual regular hourly straight time rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of sick pay. 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 Bankhours, when properly authorized for a given fiscal yearpaid or unpaid, 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)count as hours worked for overtime purposes or otherwise.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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 with pay will be granted for a bona fide personal illness, self-sickmedical examination, medical treatment, legal quarantine, dental care, and up to five (5) personal daysfor pre-natal examination. A bargaining unit member When an employee is eligible for Worker's Compensation payments from the City, he/she may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part of supplement these pay- ments with a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days prorated portion of his/her accumulated sick leave, so that the combination of the two (2) will equal regular pay. When his/her sick leave account is exhausted, he/she will receive Worker's Compen- sation payments only. B. Sick leave also may be used in accordance with the provisions outlined in the City’s Organizational Policy, Sick Leave, Section D/1. C. No sick leave shall be granted to an employee during the first (1st) month of employment, but leave shall accrue from the start of his/her employment. D. Employees shall be granted eight (8) hours of sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less any annual each calendar month of employment or major fraction thereof. Unused sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purposeshall accrue. Immediate family There shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdbe no maximum accumu- lation limit. B. A unit member E. Employees using earned sick leave shall be considered to be working for the purpose of accumu- lating additional vacation leave or sick leave. Only days that an employee would normally have worked will be charged against his/her sick leave account. F. An employee claiming sick leave may request be required to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by file competent written evidence to the principal Chief or his/her designeerepresentative that he/she has been absent as authorized. The unit member will not incur ▇▇▇▇ leave taken immediately preceding termination or retirement of an employee must be substantiated by written medical re- port. G. An employee who has been unable to work for a period of time because of illness or accident, may be required, before being permitted to return to work, to provide medical evidence, as the Chief or his/her representative determines is necessary, that he/she is again able to perform all significant duties of his/her job in a competent manner and without hazard to himself/herself or others. H. ▇▇▇▇ leave is a benefit intended to prevent the loss of salary regular income during a time of personal illness or accumulated accident, or serious family crisis as defined in this Article. Each employee shall be held responsible for the reasonable, prudent, and bona fide use of sick leave benefits. I. Claiming sick leave when physically fit, except as provided in this Article, may be cause for disciplinary action. The employee must notify his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and duty Lieutenant of his/her designee will not be required need for leave at the earliest possible moment and preferable before the start of his/her scheduled working hours. Failure to obtain make diligent effort to give such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availablenotification may result in payroll deduction for such time taken. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of J. No sick leave will also be converted to months allowed for illness, injury, or physical inability resulting from misconduct or excessive use of creditable service by alcohol or narcotics, except in the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemcase of an employee pursuing appropriate treatment for the illness of alcoholism or other forms of chemical dependency. No sick leave benefits of any kind will be granted after termination of employment except as provided in Article 13, UNUSED SICK LEAVE. D. Unused sick K. 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 may not be accepted used for injury or illness resulting from any bargaining unit member who has less employment other than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall be authorized annually by with 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 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)City.

Sick Leave. A. The Employee shall be entitled to sick leave as specified in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. The Employee shall be entitled to 36 (thirty six) days paid sick leave in a cycle of 36 (thirty six) months of employment with the Employer, if he/she works a 6 (six) day week alternatively 30 (thirty) days paid sick leave if he/she works a 5 (five) day week. During the first year 6 (six) months of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafteremployment, each bargaining unit members the Employee shall accrue fourteen only be entitled to 1 (14one) days’ sick paid leave for every 26 (twenty six) days worked. On any day that the Employee is unable to attend work for any reason, the Employee is obliged to notify the Employer before on the day in question of leave per yearthe reason for the absence and the expected date of return to work. Failure to so notify the Employer will be regarded as an act of misconduct and disciplinary action will be taken. In the event of absence for more than 2 (two) consecutive days, in which the bargaining unit member employee is entitled required to produce a medical certificate as prove of the incapacity. Such certificate may be issued only by a medical practitioner who is certified to diagnose and treat illnesses. Note that it is the duty of the Employee to hand the medical certificate to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeeEmployer. The unit member will Employer shall not incur loss of salary or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required chase after the Employee to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) daysthe medical certificate. Should the unit member die while in active serviceEmployee fail to produce the required medical certificate on demand, then the period of absence shall be taken as unpaid leave. The Employee shall be paid sick leave only from the date of consultation with the medical practitioner. Should it be noted or suspected that an Employee is abusing sick leave privileges, disciplinary action will be taken. Should the Employee be absent on sick leave on more than 2 (two) occasions during the same 8 (eight) week period, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 Employer reserves the right to require insist that the Employee produce a physical examinationmedical certificate for such absence, at Board expense, failing which the period of unit members on extended sick leave without pay. F. Unit members absence shall be permitted to join and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick treated as unpaid leave. There is no Family Responsibility Leave Bank by contributing two entitlement during the first 4 (2four) sick leave daysmonths of employment. Days The Employee shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has entitled to family responsibility leave where the Employer employs less than ten 10 (10ten) accumulated Employees. After that, the entitlement is 3 (three) days per annum on full pay in the event of the Employee’s child being born or earned daysis sick, or upon the death of the Employee’s spouse or life partner, parent or grandparent or adoptive parent, child or adopted child, grandchild or sibling. Contributors shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefitsFamily Responsibility leave lapses at the end of each leave cycle. The contribution shall be authorized annually Employer is entitled to request proof of the event for which Family Responsibility leave is requested, and failure by the member employee to produce such proof shall entitle the employer to treat the period of absence as unpaid leave. There is an obligation on the appropriate form. If Employee to advise 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 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 Employer of the GCEA aforementioned absence and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)reason therefore at the soonest.

Sick Leave. A. During Section A - Sick leave is paid leave granted to employees which may be used for personal illness or injury, dental, medical or optical treatment, or disability resulting from pregnancy, childbirth, or other health related condition which precludes them from performing the duties of their normal position. Sick leave may also be used for an absence required by the serious illness of a member of an employee's immediate household or by the death of an employee's parent, legal guardian, grandparent, parent-in-law, spouse, child, sibling, or a relative living with the employee at the time of death. Section B - Employees shall be credited with 4.6 hours of sick leave every two weeks if they have received pay for all 80 hours in the two-week leave period. However, neither sick leave used to cover a job-related injury nor illness or disciplinary time off shall affect an employee's eligibility for sick leave credits. Section C - New employees shall be credited with sick leave at the end of the first year two-week leave period of employment in their employment. They may request sick leave as soon as it has been credited. Section D - In order to be eligible to use sick leave to cover an absence, an employee must promptly notify his or her supervisor or have someone else notify the supervisor of the reason for his/her absence. If the absence is due to personal illness or a serious health condition and lasts for three (3) or more consecutive workdays, the employee must submit a medical certification to support the request for leave to Human Resources or his/her supervisor, before the employee may receive payment for the period of absence (per Md. Code ▇▇▇., Pub. Util., §18-117). If it appears that an employee is abusing sick leave, the supervisor may require the employee to submit written certification from a physician for fewer than three (3) days of sick leave usage. The supervisor will consider extenuating circumstances. Abuse shall be defined as (a) the employee is on sick leave for three (3) days or more and does not provide medical certification, (b) the employee uses sick leave for absences other than those authorized by Policy 5.6 Sick Leave, or (c) the employee has established a documented pattern of using excessive sick leave. The requirements for represented employees shall not exceed those of non- represented employees. In addition, should Md. Code ▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter., each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per yearPub. Util. §18-116 be changed to remove this requirement, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled requirement will revert back to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to original five (5) personal daysday requirement. Section E - Upon retirement, in accordance with the Retirement Plan unused accumulated sick leave may be applied to an employee's creditable service time for retirement, at the rate of one day of creditable time for one day of accumulated sick leave. Section F - An employee absent on sick leave for six (6) or more consecutive workdays, or who has been admitted to the hospital or hospitalized for a period of twenty- four (24) hours or more shall be required to authorize and have completed and signed by his/her treating physician the WSSC Release to Return to Work/Physician’s Report form. A bargaining unit member may use If there are no restrictions to return to work, the form must be provided to Human Resources at least four (4) hours, Monday through Friday, prior to the employee’s anticipated return date, to allow for adequate review, consultation and/or scheduling. Should any restrictions be noted or all accommodations requested, the form must be provided to Human Resources at least forty-eight (48) hours, Monday through Friday, prior to the employee’s anticipated return date, to allow for adequate review, consultation, scheduling and/or coordination of any necessary accommodations. Employees who fail to provide the WSSC Release to Return to Work/Physician’s Report form and any other applicable required documentation shall not be permitted to resume work. If there are any restrictions noted or accommodations requested, employees must receive authorization from the Human Resources Office prior to being permitted to return to work. The requirements for represented employees shall not exceed those of non-represented employees. Section G - Employees who terminate for reasons other than retirement shall not receive any pay or time off for unused sick leave. An employee who uses any amount of sick leave during the two-week period prior to the employee's resignation or termination of employment shall not be paid for any portion of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in leave, unless the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days employee supplies medical proof 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 householdillness. B. Section H - 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 new employee covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend this Agreement may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 participate in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) upon employment. An employee covered by this Agreement may donate sick 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 directly 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 another employee covered 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)this Agreement.

Sick Leave. A. During Sick leave shall be administered in accordance with the first year of employment following guidelines and may be used in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County one hour (1 hour) increments. When a sick day is used, the employee will fill out the proper form and during each successive year thereafterthe District shall be allowed to fill unscheduled absences without regard to seniority. Those absences which are scheduled (sick days, each bargaining unit members personal leaves, etc.) shall accrue fourteen be placed in the sub system by the employee requesting said leave. a. Sick leave may be used for: (141) days of Any physical or mental condition which disables an employee from rendering services but excluding any condition compensable by Workers' Compensation. Sick leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled may be used for a disability resulting from pregnancy to the flexibility extent expressly required by law. (2) Any communicable disease which would be hazardous to the health of students, employees, or other persons using sick the facilities of the district. (3) The serious illness of a member of the immediate family. Such leave in shall be limited to the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and use of up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all days and shall be taken only to the extent that the presence of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the employee is reasonably required. The term "immediate family" shall be: spouse, child, parent, brother or sister, corresponding step- relations, or a member of the employee's household. As part of a qualifying Family Medical LeaveIf more time is required, a bargaining unit member may use up approval must be given by the Superintendent. b. Each employee will be entitled to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness accumulation in the immediate family, less any annual a single sick leave days previously used from bank at 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Notefollowing rate: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days per school year times the number of contributed days falls below thirty (30), bargaining unit members who wish hours assigned to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave dayswork per day. The annual rate of contribution amount allocated annually to full-year employees shall not exceed two ten (210) days of sick days. Sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership may accumulate without limit. c. Sick leave shall be made during an open enrollment of July 1 charged against work days only and shall cease to September 30 of each fiscal year. A sick leave contribution to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, accumulate and shall not be returned if the member effects cancellation. The plan shall be administered used by a joint committee composed an employee during such period as employee is on an unpaid leave of two (2) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)absence or is absent without authorization.‌

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen a. Full time employees will be credited with one (141) 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-sick, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused work day of sick leave accumulated up credited for each completed full calendar month of service. b. Sick Leave shall not be taken by an employee at his discretion, but shall only be available for use by full time employees with an illness or injury over which the employee has no reasonable control. During the probation period, employees will accumulate sick leave, and can use sick leave only with the approval of the Police Chief. c. In order to two hundred receive compensation while on sick leave, the employee must notify his immediate supervisor or the duty officer at least one (1) hour prior to the time set for beginning his/her daily duties. In the event of an emergency the one (1) hour requirement may be excused, provided the employee provides written medical data to the nature of the emergency. d. The Village may require that employees provide specific and nine detailed medical data from the employee.s doctor, and/or a personal affidavit stating the cause of the absence whenever sick leave exceeds three (2093) consecutive days. Should the unit member die while in active serviceFalsification of such evidence will be cause for discipline. e. No sick leave may be taken until earned, however, the designated beneficiary Village Manager may grant an exception to this requirement when he believes it is warranted by the circumstances. f. Employees on leave of absence without pay shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of not accumulate sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemvacation while on such leave. 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. g. The Board Village reserves the right to require an employee. to take an involuntary sick or health leave of absence if the employee suffers from a physical examinationdisability, at Board expensemental or physical, of unit members on extended as shown by medical evidence. h. Employees who have exhausted their sick leave without paycredit and are still unable to return to work may be allowed to utilize any unused vacation credits upon written request. F. Unit members i. Once earned thirty days (30) to a maximum of sixty days (60) shall be permitted held on the books. One-half (1/2) of any unused sick days over thirty (30) to join sixty (60) days (employee.s request) will be paid to the employee at the end of each calendar year with the other one- half (1/2) erased from the books. An employee who retires under the Village Retirement System or resigns and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing gives two (2) weeks. notice, will be paid one-half (1/2) of all earned sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors accumulated. j. Employee shall be eligible allowed one (1) paid personal day per year. Employees shall give a minimum of twenty-four (24) hour advance notice on use of personal day to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution the Village Manager. k. Employees shall be authorized annually by the member on the appropriate form. If the number of contributed days falls below thirty allowed to use up to four (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (24) days of their twelve (12) sick leave days per fiscal yearyear as personal days if approved by their Department Head, and/or the Village Manager. Contributions for new membership shall Additional sick days may be made during an open enrollment of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A sick leave contribution to taken as personal days upon 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 approval of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)Village Manager.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen a. Ten (1410) 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, selfshall be granted each school year with unlimited accumulation. b. Bargaining unit members employed for less than a full school year shall receive a pro-sick, and up to five (5) personal rata portion of 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, . c. Each absence taken by a bargaining unit member may use up must be reported, and if necessary, changed, according to thirty (30) days the Board approved process which shall be clearly communicated to all employees prior to the start of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in each school year and shall be posted on the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current yearDistrict’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdwebsite. B. A unit member may d. The Employer may, for good cause, 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of statement from the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of 's physician regarding the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days need for the use of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemleave. 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. e. The Board reserves the right to require a physical examination, or mental examination at Board expense, the Board's expense and by a doctor of unit members on extended sick leave without payits choice should it seem in the best interest of the District. F. Unit members f. The Board reserves the right to require a written medical statement after the eighth (8th) consecutive workday of absence. Further, such a statement shall be permitted to join and receive benefits mandatory in all cases of absence covered by Worker Compensation regardless of the length of absence. g. A written statement from an attending physician also shall be mandatory following any period of hospitalization. h. From accumulated sick leave, five (5) days per period of illness of a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any parent, spouse, child or person for whom the bargaining unit member who has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors is principally responsible shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefitsgranted. The contribution intent of this provision is to provide the employee time to make arrangements for the care of the sick members of his/her family. The Board reserves the right to require a statement from the doctor in attendance. In emergencies, additional leave days, as available, will be granted on approval of the bargaining unit member's supervisor. i. When a bargaining unit member has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave, he/she shall be authorized annually by the member placed on the appropriate form. If the number a health and hardship leave as provided in section B.2 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 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)this Article.

Sick Leave. A. During (i) An employee shall not be entitled to sick leave until after three months' continuous service with the first Mater. (ii) A full-time and permanent part-time employee on a pro-rata basis, shall be entitled to sick leave on full pay, calculated by allowing seventy-six ordinary hours for each year of employment continuous service. Any unused sick leave prior to the commencement of this agreement or subsequently not bought out shall remain to the employee's credit. (iii) Each employee shall notify the Mater of their absence from work due to illness, where practicable prior to the commencement of their ordinary working time or rostered shift, and shall inform the employer of the expected duration of the absence. (iv) The Mater shall not change the rostered hours of work of an employee fixed by the roster or rosters applicable to the seven days immediately following the commencement of sick leave merely by reason of the fact that the employee is on sick leave. (v) All periods of sickness shall be certified by a legally qualified medical practitioner, provided however that the Mater shall dispense with the requirement of a medical certificate where the absence does not exceed two consecutive days or where in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members the employer's opinion the circumstances are such as not to warrant such requirements. This dispensation shall accrue fourteen not apply when employees have submitted their notice of termination. (14vi) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is An employee shall not be entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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 a period during which the employee is receiving Workers' Compensation. (vii) Notwithstanding sub-clause (vi), where an employee continues to receive Workers' Compensation for a period in excess of 26 Weeks, the immediate family, less any annual Hospital shall pay to the employee the difference between the amount received as Workers' Compensation and their full weekly wage until all the employee's sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for entitlement under this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the householdclause has been used. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During Each full-time Bargaining Unit member shall be entitled, for each complete month of service to the first year City, to be absent for one and one-fourth (1-1/4) workdays with pay for the reasons specified in Subsection D hereof. For the purpose of this Section, a total of one hundred sixty (160) hours of work within any one (1) calendar month shall be considered as one (1) month of full-time employment. However, in computing such total of one hundred sixty (1.60) hours in any calendar month, no deduction shall be made for the absence of a Bargaining Unit member due to illness of or injury to the Bargaining Unit member, which illness or injury shall be established by the evidence required by Subsection D hereof, or due to paid vacations or legal holidays. B. Compensation to be allowed for such days of sick leaveactually taken by a Bargaining Unit member shall be on the same basis to which the Bargaining Unit member would have been entitled as compensation for his/her usual service if it had been performed on such days. C. Unused sick leave may be accumulated without limit. D. When approved by the Mayor, a Bargaining Unit member may usesick leave as provided in Subsection A above, for absence due to illness, injury, pregnancy-related condition, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other Bargaining Unit members and to illness or death in the Bargaining Unit member's immediate family. Immediate family shall mean the employee's spouse, child, parent, brother, sister, grandparent or grandchild. Nothing contained in this Section shall be construed to authorize sick leave with pay for any sickness or accident resulting from moral turpitude, intoxication or use of narcotics, E. Except as provided in Subsection F hereof, sick leave credit shall be effective only during such time as a Bargaining Unit member remains in the employ of the City and no Bargaining Unit member shall be entitled to any compensation in any form for any unused sick leave credit remaining upon the termination of his/her employment with the City. However, the previously accumulated sick leave of a Bargaining Unit member whose employment with the city has been terminated may, with approval of the Mayor, be placed to his/her credit in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County the event of his/her re-employment by the City within a period of three (3) years from the date of his/her last employment by the City. A full-time employee who becomes part-time shall not lose any accrued sick leave bank. In such cases an employee whowould have been eligible for a sick leave cash out uponretirement shall maintain such right of cash out. F. After ten (10) years full-time employment with the City of Willowick and during each successive year thereafterupon the retirement under PERS terms and conditions, each bargaining unit members death or injury resulting in total and permanentdisability to perform the work for the City for which such Bargaining Unit member is currently employed, there shall accrue fourteen be paid an amount representing any previously accumulated sick leave earned while in the employ of the City of Willowick as follows: 1. Payment shall be for a maximum of one hundred twenty (14120) days of accumulated, unused sick leave per yearupon retirement, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to any Bargaining Unit member. 2. In case of death, to the flexibility Bargaining Unit member’s estate. 3. In the case of using sick leave injury resulting in total and permanent disability to perform the following manner (family illnesswork for the City for whichsuch Bargaining Unit member was employed, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal daysthe employee or for his/her use to the guardian or conservator of his estate. 4. 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 Such payment will be made when a qualifying Family Medical Leave, event occurs while currently employed with the City of Willowick. No payment will be made to a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days former employee. G. An employee of any public agency or state or federally funded program who is hired by the City of Willowick shall be credited with the unused balance of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in with such public, state or federal agency or program, provided that no cash out provision was exercised and that such balance is evidenced to the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used satisfaction of the Mayor by an appropriate certificate or letter from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouseappropriate official of such public, children, mother, father, state or anyone who lives regularly in the householdfederal agency or program. B. A unit member may request to H. ▇▇▇▇ leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal transfer credited from any public, state or his/her designee. The unit member will not incur loss of salary federal agency or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 program shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be eligible added 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) total sick leave daysearned as a City of Willowick employee for purposes of any type of cash out. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of Transferred sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership shall may only be made during an open enrollment of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A used as sick leave contribution to after exhausting sick leave accrued with 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 City of two (2) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)Willowick.

Sick Leave. A. During (a) Each full-time Employee in the Bargaining Unit shall accumulate 10 (ten) hours of sick leave with pay for each completed calendar month of service. An Employee appointed on or before the fifteenth (15th) day of the month shall be eligible to begin accumulating sick leave credits from the first year (1st) day of employment the month. An Employee appointed after the fifteenth (15th) day of the month shall be eligible to begin accumulating sick leave credits from the first (1st) day of the month following the date of appointment. Sick leave credits shall accumulate up to a maximum of one hundred and seventy-five (175) working days and are reduced by any time missed by the Employee due to illness or injury. No sick leave credits will accumulate for a month if an Employee misses eleven (11) or more working days in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafterthe calendar month due to uncompensated leave. (b) For part-time Employees the sick time entitlement will be accumulated at the time it is earned, each bargaining unit members prorated based on the hours worked. 21.2 In all cases of absence for medical reasons, the Employee shall accrue fourteen notify the Manager or her/his designate of her/his possible absence not later than one (141) hour before the commencement of her/his normal starting time. Employees absent from duty for medical reasons shall submit to the Manager or her/his designate, at the first opportunity, an application for sick leave on the appropriate form, as provided stating the nature of the medical reasons. This form will be sent by the Manager to the Human Resources Office. 21.3 After five (5) working days of leave per yearabsence for medical reasons, in which the bargaining unit member Employee shall ensure that suitable medical evidence from a licensed physician outlining the functional limitations preventing the employee from performing her/his duties, including the anticipated date of return to work, is entitled forwarded to Human Resources. Human Resources may require that a fitness to return to work assessment be completed by a licensed physician and submitted before his/her return to work. 21.4 Where the flexibility of using Employer has reason to believe that sick leave in provisions are being misused, an employee may be required by his/her Managing Supervisor to provide Human Resources with suitable medical evidence from a licensed physician outlining the following manner (family illnessfunctional limitations preventing the employee from performing her/his duties, self-sickincluding the anticipated date of return to work, and to support any claim for sick leave up to five (5) personal days. 21.5 Failure to provide appropriate medical evidence in accordance with Articles 21.3 and 21.4 will result in deduction from an employee’s pay for the time absent from work. A bargaining unit member Misuse of sick leave provisions may result in disciplinary action in accordance with Article 11. 21.6 An Employee may be required to undergo, without cost to her/him, medical examination(s) by a physician of the Employer's choice, in order to obtain health certificates where the Employer in its discretion deems this necessary or desirable. 21.7 At the Employer’s discretion, Employees who are absent from duty, because of illness or injury, who are requested to participate in a “Return to Work Program” will be expected to do so. 21.8 At the discretion of the University, Employees 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 familypurposes of attending appointments with medical doctors, less any annual sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, fatherdentists, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request physiotherapist. Employees shall make every effort to leave school for emergency reasons; schedule such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeeappointments outside normal working hours. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 University reserves the right to require a physical examination, at Board expense, request proof of unit members on extended sick leave without paysuch attendance. F. Unit members shall be permitted to join 21.9 Sick leave and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick leave days. Days shall vacation credits are not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 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)interchangeable.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year Members of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit shall be allowed sick leave with full pay in accordance with the following provisions: SECTION I Four (4) hours of sick leave shall be accumulated per pay period. The maximum hour’s that may be accumulated is 1440. Sick leave pay shall be at the regular rate of pay. SECTION II Sick leave accrual starts with the date of employment, but sick leave may not be used until the member is entitled of the bargaining unit completes 90 days service with the County. Sick leave does not accrue while using sick leave, and only that sick leave that has been accrued prior to the flexibility time of using sick illness may be used. SECTION III Sick leave in the following manner (family may be used for absence from duty because of personal illness, self-sickpregnancy, 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 Leavelegal quarantine, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in the immediate family, less or for any annual sick leave days previously used from reason covered under the current year’s appropriation for this purposeFamily and Medical Leave Act. Immediate family for the purpose of this subsection shall mean include spouse, childrenparent, mother, father, guardian or anyone who lives regularly in the householddependent child. B. A unit member SECTION IV The Sheriff may request and obtain verification of the circumstances surrounding any use of sick leave, and documentation of all sick leaves shall be provided to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved the Auditor's office by the principal or his/her designeeSheriff. 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 assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required Failure to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) provide appropriate documentation for each unused day the use of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) daysmay result in disciplinary action. Should While out on sick leave, an officer must maintain regular contact with the unit member die while in active serviceappropriate supervisor. Sick leave benefits are contingent upon maintenance of regular contact. SECTION V Sick leave may be used for elective surgery only when the procedure is recognized as an allowable, reimbursable expense under the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option County's Health Insurance Plan. SECTION VI Members of the bargaining unit memberemployed prior to October 1, all or 2012, with at least eight (8) years of continuous service who terminate employment shall receive payment for one-half of their unused, accrued sick leave up to a portion maximum of 720 hours. Members of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity planbargaining unit employed after October 1, 2012, with at least eight (8) years of continuous service who terminate employment shall receive payment for 10 % of their unused, accrued sick leave. Note: Unused days However, any member of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service the bargaining unit who is re-employed by the Maryland State Retirement County and Pension System. D. Unused who was previously paid for terminal sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will not be notified of the number of entitled to any pay for sick leave days on the employee portalupon his/her subsequent termination of employment. 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 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 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. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇. ▇▇▇▇ County 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, selfauthorized for illness or non-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all job-related injuries of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in employee or the employee’s immediate family. As part The immediate family shall mean grandparents, parents, spouse, children, grandchildren, brother, or sister of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated the employee. B. When an employee uses sick leave for because of illness in the immediate family, less any annual the illness must be of very serious nature and there must be no other person in the family who can take care of the ill family member. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave accumulation shall begin upon employment. Shift employees accumulate sick leave days previously used from at the current year’s appropriation for this purposerate of 8.5 hours per month to a maximum of 1020 hours. Immediate family Non-shift employees shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. 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 accumulate sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should at the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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 hours per week or eight (8) hours per month to a maximum of 1020 hours. D. Employees who do not use any sick leave between July 1 and June 30 (one full fiscal year) shall receive one day off with pay. Employees may take this bonus day off subject to scheduling approval of the GCEA Chief. E. Employees whose sick leave time bank balance is 480 hours or greater shall be allowed to take two personal leave days per calendar year. Hours taken as personal leave shall be deducted from the employee’s sick leave bank. F. An employee shall notify the Chief or his direct supervisor of his or her illness or incapacity before the time that he or she is due to report for work on the first day of sick leave. If the employee is not physically able to report as such, he or she shall give notice as soon as possible. G. The Chief may require the employee to present a medical certificate as to the fact of illness or as to the ability of the employee to perform his work upon returning from sick leave. H. Upon termination of employment, banked sick leave may be converted to pay in accordance with the Section 5.26 of the Employee Handbook, a copy of which is attached as Appendix E. I. Sick leave benefits shall cease if the employee, while drawing sick leave benefits, engages in any other work inconsistent with the reasons for which the employee is receiving sick leave benefits, including self-employment, where any form of remuneration is received. Any abuse of or excessive sick leave shall be grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including termination. When an employee returns from any unscheduled absence from work whereby two (2) members selected by or more consecutive days of absence occurred, the Superintendentemployee may be required to submit to substance abuse screening. ▇. (See Addendum I)▇▇▇▇ leave borrowing, and donation is permitted in accordance with Section

Sick Leave. A. During Section A - Sick leave is paid leave granted to employees which may be used for personal illness or injury, dental, medical or optical treatment, or disability resulting from pregnancy, childbirth, or other health related condition which precludes them from performing the first year duties of employment in ▇▇▇their normal position. ▇▇▇▇ County leave may also be used for an absence required by the serious illness of a member of an employee's immediate household or by the death of an employee's parent, legal guardian, grandparent, parent-in-law, spouse, child, sibling, or a relative living with the employee at the time of death. Section B - Employees shall be credited with 4.6 hours of sick leave every two weeks if they have received pay for all 80 hours in the two-week leave period. However, neither sick leave used to cover a job-related injury nor illness or disciplinary time off shall affect an employee's eligibility for sick leave credits. Section C - New employees shall be credited with sick leave at the end of the first two-week leave period of their employment. They may request sick leave as soon as it has been credited. Section D - In order to be eligible to use sick leave to cover an absence, an employee must promptly notify his or her supervisor or have someone else notify the supervisor of the reason for his/her absence. If the absence is due to personal illness or a serious health condition and during each successive year thereafterlasts for three (3) or more consecutive workdays, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen the employee must submit a medical certification to support the request for leave to Human Resources or his/her supervisor, before the employee may receive payment for the period of absence (14per Md. Code ▇▇▇., Pub. Util., §18-117). If it appears that an employee is abusing sick leave, the supervisor may require the employee to submit written certification from a physician for fewer than three (3) days of sick leave per yearusage. The supervisor will consider extenuating circumstances. Abuse shall be defined as (a) the employee is on sick leave for three (3) days or more and does not provide medical certification, in which (b) the bargaining unit member is entitled employee uses sick leave for absences other than those authorized by Standard Procedure (“SP”) Chapter 9.310, Sick Leave, or (c) the employee has established a documented pattern of using excessive sick leave. The requirements for represented employees shall not exceed those of non- represented employees. In addition, should Md. Code ▇▇▇., Pub. Util. §18-116 be changed to remove this requirement, the requirement will revert back to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to original five (5) personal daysday requirement. Section E - Upon retirement, in accordance with the Retirement Plan unused accumulated sick leave may be applied to an employee's creditable service time for retirement, at the rate of one day of creditable time for one day of accumulated sick leave. Section F - An employee absent on sick leave for six (6) or more consecutive workdays, or who has been admitted to the hospital or hospitalized for a period of twenty- four (24) hours or more shall be required to authorize and have completed and signed by his/her treating physician the WSSC Release to Return to Work/Physician’s Report form. A bargaining unit member may use If there are no restrictions to return to work, the form must be provided to Human Resources at least four (4) hours, Monday through Friday, prior to the employee’s anticipated return date, to allow for adequate review, consultation and/or scheduling. Should any restrictions be noted or all accommodations requested, the form must be provided to Human Resources at least forty-eight (48) hours, Monday through Friday, prior to the employee’s anticipated return date, to allow for adequate review, consultation, scheduling and/or coordination of any necessary accommodations. Employees who fail to provide the WSSC Release to Return to Work/Physician’s Report form and any other applicable required documentation shall not be permitted to resume work. If there are any restrictions noted or accommodations requested, employees must receive authorization from the Human Resources Office prior to being permitted to return to work. The requirements for represented employees shall not exceed those of non-represented employees. Section G - Employees who terminate for reasons other than retirement shall not receive any pay or time off for unused sick leave. An employee who uses any amount of sick leave during the two-week period prior to the employee's resignation or termination of employment shall not be paid for any portion of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in leave, unless the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days employee supplies medical proof 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 householdillness. B. Section H - 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 new employee covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend this Agreement may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 participate in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) upon employment. An employee covered by this Agreement may donate sick 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 directly 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 another employee covered 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)this Agreement.

Sick Leave. A. During a) Sick leave means the first period of time a member is absent from work with full pay by virtue of being sick or disabled or under examination or treatment of a physician, chiropractor or dentist, or because of an injury for which compensation is not payable under the Workers Compensation Act. b) The City may at any time require a member to submit documentation attesting to the necessity of the member to be absent from work on account of illness or injury. Moreover, even if the City does not specifically request medical documentation with respect to a particular absence, the member must submit such documentation whenever one (1) or more of the following conditions exists: i) if the absence for which the sick leave is claimed exceeds four (4) consecutive work days, or ii) if the member has taken six (6) separate periods of sick leave within the last twelve (12) months, or iii) if the Police Service has, for any reason, advised the member that all future requests for sick leave must be supported by a proper medical certificate. Medical documentation for the specific absence shall be submitted by the member from the City's medical practitioner, or from the member's physician, chiropractor or dentist which may be subject to review by the City's medical practitioner. c) Effective from January 1st, 1981, every employee shall be granted sick leave credits at the rate of ten (10) working hours per month while in the employ of the City or one hundred and twenty (120) working hours per year for purposes of employment being sick as defined in ▇▇▇this section. ▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per credits will be credited to an employee on a monthly basis for employees who are employed less than a full calendar year, in which and on a yearly basis for employees who are employed for a full calendar year, less the bargaining unit deduction of days absent from work due to sickness. d) Subject to what is hereinafter provided, every employee shall be allowed to accumulate unused sick leave credits to a maximum of two thousand and eighty-eight (2,088) working hours. e) When any member is of the Police Service retires on pension or dies, he, or his estate, as the case may be, shall be entitled to receive pay, or leave with pay, for the flexibility of using unused and unexpired sick leave in the following manner standing to his credit at that time to a maximum of one thousand and fifty-six (family illness1056) working hours as a form of retirement, self-sick, and up to five (5death or separation leave. f) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all Members of the fourteen (14Police Service who are on sick leave on their regular day of weekly leave will be credited with being on weekly leave and this will not count as a day of sick leave. g) annual allotted days for illness Members of the Police Service will be advised in writing of the immediate family. As part total number 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 familydays credited to each of them as at December 31, less 1973. Members may obtain this information each subsequent year on request at any annual sick leave days previously used from time after March 31st of 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During ‌ 15.01 Sick leave means the first year period of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County time an employee is permitted to be absent from work with full pay by virtue of being sick or disabled or because of an accident for which compensation is not payable under the Workplace Safety and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members Insurance Act. 15.02 Sick leave credit shall accrue fourteen be granted to employees on the basis of one and one-half (14l-l/2) days for every month of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using service. 15.03 In any one year where an employee has not used up her/his sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirementcredit, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each be entitled to an accrual of the unused day portion of sick leave credit for her/his future benefit. A deduction shall be made from accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) sick leave credit of all normal working days. Should , exclusive of holidays, absent for sick leave as defined above. 15.04 If at the unit member die while in active serviceclose of any fiscal year an employee has expended more sick leave than he/she is entitled to, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend over-expenditure may be placed into recovered from holiday time he/she has earned to a tax deferred or sheltered annuity planlimit of two weeks, unless this over-expenditure is otherwise provided for. Note: Unused days of sick leave Any recovery from holidays will also be converted to months of creditable service approved by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systememployee in writing. D. Unused sick leave 15.05 Time lost, including time lost for sickness, by an employee during her/his six (6) months probationary period 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 considered as leave without pay. However, on completion of her/his probationary period he/she shall be credited with nine (9) days sick leave (6 x 1-1/2). F. Unit members 15.06 Employees are required to produce a medical certificate for any illness in excess of five (5) consecutive working days. In addition, an employee shall be permitted allowed up to join and receive benefits seven (7) days uncertified sick leave per year, after which he/she may be, at the request of the Employer, required to produce a medical certificate from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) qualified medical practitioner, certifying that such employee was unable to perform her/his duties due to illness. Failure to produce such a certificate may result in loss of pay. 15.07 When an employee is given leave of absence without pay for any reason, or is laid off on account of lack of work and returns to the service of the Employer upon expiration of such leave of absence, he/she shall not receive sick leave dayscredit for that period of such absence, but shall retain her/his cumulative credit, if any, existing at the time of such leave or lay-off. 15.08 Sick leave without pay shall be granted to an employee who does not qualify for sick leave with pay or who is unable to return to work at the termination of the period for which sick leave pay is granted. 15.09 A record of all sick leave (credits and debits) shall be kept by the Employer. Days shall not A copy of these records will be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than issued to each employee in January and July of each year. 15.10 An employee will be allowed to transfer sick leave credits to a maximum of ten (10) days, from her/his accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be eligible credits to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall be authorized annually that of another employee, for extended periods of illness, provided that the total amount of sick leave transferred does not exceed the immediate requirements of the employee receiving such credits and the proper forms, provided by the member on Union, have been completed and submitted to the appropriate formDirector, Administrative Services. If At no time shall any transfer of sick leave credits to another employee reduce the number of contributed remaining sick leave credits to less than 12 days falls below thirty (30)for the employee’s own use. Probationary employees are not subject to the provisions of this clause. 15.11 For all absences due to illness or accident not covered by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation in the employees must complete a Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick 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)Report.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County or Death ELIGIBILITY- Any member of the instructional staff of a district school system employed on a full-time basis in the public schools of the state who is unable to perform his duty in the school on account of personal sickness, accident disability, or extended personal illness, or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, other close relative, or member of his own household, and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members consequently has to be absent from his work shall accrue fourteen (14) days be granted leave of leave per year, absence for sickness by the Superintendent or by someone designated in which writing by him to do so. EXTENT OF LEAVE- Each member of the bargaining unit member is instructional staff employed on a full-time basis shall be entitled to the flexibility 30 hours of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all as of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in the immediate family. As part first day of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days employment of his/her accumulated each contract year and shall thereafter earn 7.5 hours of sick leave for illness in each month of employment, which shall be credited to the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from member at the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family end of that month and which shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. 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 assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required used prior to obtain such volunteersthe time it is earned and credited to the member. Emergency leaveHowever, without loss of benefits, will not the member shall be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day entitled to earn no more than 7.5 hours of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of times the number of sick leave days on months of employment during the employee portal. E. The Board reserves the right to require a physical examinationyear of employment (i.e., 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 has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned daysmonths equals 75 hours, eleven (11) months equals 82.5 hours, and twelve (12) months equals 90 hours). Contributors Such leave shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefitstaken only when necessary because of sickness as herein prescribed. The contribution Such sick leave shall be authorized annually by the member cumulative from year to year. There shall be no limit 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of sick leave, which a member of the instructional staff may accrue, except that at least one-half of this cumulative leave per fiscal yearmust be established within the district. Contributions for new membership shall be made during an open enrollment of July 1 to September 30 of each fiscal year. A An employee may transfer their earned sick leave contribution to the Sick Leave Banka spouse, when properly authorized for a given fiscal yearsister, shall not be returned if the member effects cancellation. The plan shall be administered by a joint committee composed of two (2) members selected brother, parent, child or any designated person who is also employed by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)District, in accordance with School Board Policy.

Sick Leave. A. During Any sick leave applied for in this section that qualifies for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Article of this Agreement shall be used in conjunction with the rules of that Article of this Agreement. a. All bargaining unit employees shall be eligible for sick leave as provided in this Article. b. All full time employees working forty (40) hours per week shall be entitled to 32 hours of sick leave on the last day of the first month of each school year and will earn eight (8) hours sick leave for each additional completed month of continuous, uninterrupted service. This leave shall be credited at the end of that month and shall not be used prior to the time that it is earned and credited. No employee shall be entitled to earn more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment employment. All employees working less then forty (40) hours per week will earn sick leave prorated in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County relation to the hours they regularly work. c. Sick leave cannot be utilized before it is earned and during each successive year thereaftercredited to the employee. d. Sick leave earned shall be credited to the employee on the last day of the pay period, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per yearor, in which the bargaining unit member case of separation on the last day the employee is entitled to on the flexibility payroll. e. There shall be no limit on the number of using hours of unused sick leave in an employee may accrue. f. Sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because the following manner (family employee is unable to perform his/her duty on account of personal sickness, accident disability, or extended personal illness, self-sickor because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative or member of his/her own household. Personal illness shall include disability caused or contributed by a pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and up recovery. g. Any employee who finds it necessary to be absent from his/her duties because of illness, as defined in this Article, shall notify his/her immediate supervisor before the beginning of the work day on which he/she must be absent except for emergency reasons recognized by the Superintendent as valid. The employee shall, before claiming and receiving compensation for the time absent from his/her duties while absent because of such leave, make and file within five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted working 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 following his/her return from such absence with the Superintendent a leave form which shall set forth the day or days absent, that such absence was necessary, and that he/she believes he/she is entitled or not entitled to receive pay for such absence in accordance with the provisions of this Article. The Superintendent may require a certificate of illness from a licensed physician at any time he/she feels it necessary prior to authorizing compensation for sick leave. Provided further that sick leave shall not be approved in less than one fourth ( 0.25) hour increments. h. The only condition under which an employee can be paid for unused sick leave is upon retirement, participation in DROP, or death and after six (6) months satisfactory, continuous and creditable service, and the employee has not been otherwise disqualified under the provision of this Article. In such case, the employee shall be paid at the employee's current hourly rate of pay as provided below. However, such terminal sick leave pay shall not exceed an amount as follows: A member of the non-instructional staff will be paid terminal pay for accumulated sick leave for illness at retirement, participation 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, fatherDROP, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeebeneficiary if service is terminated by death. The unit member Payment will not incur loss of salary be in the month following effective retirement date unless "5.(a)" is selected or accumulated “5.(b)” is applicable. Investment plan participants will be eligible for terminal sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistantspay only if the participant meets the normal retirement age or years of service as defined in paragraph b.(1)(a) below. 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) No payment for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted made to months of creditable service investment plan participants under the early retirement criteria for pension plan participants as listed in paragraph b.(2)(a) below except by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemspecific School Board action for retirement incentives for all employees. D. Unused sick leave 1. Any person entitled to terminal pay benefits shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of have been under contract to render services for 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 period immediately preceding retirement or death and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted under suspension from duty except for reasons pertaining to health, or have any bargaining unit member who 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 charges pending which could result in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick 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)dismissal from employment.

Sick Leave. A. During Sick leave is herby defined to mean absence from post of duty by an employee because of illness, exposure to contagious disease, or attendance upon a member of the immediate family who is seriously ill and requires the care or attendance of such employee. B. Any employee who shall be absent from work for three (3) or more consecutive working days due to illness, leave and attendance of a member of the employee’s immediate family, shall be required to submit acceptable medical evidence substantiating the illness. C. In case of sick leave due to exposure to a contagious disease, a certificate from the family doctor shall be required. D. Sick leave shall accrue for the regular full-time employees at the rate of one (1) per month during the first fiscal year of employment and thereafter each December 31st commencing the following calendar year fifteen (15) working days in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive every calendar year thereafterof employment, each bargaining unit members which shall accrue fourteen accumulate from year to year. E. If an employee is absent from work for reasons that entitle him to sick leave, the Chief of Police or his representative shall be notified as early as possible, but no later than two (142) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled hours prior to the flexibility start of using sick leave the scheduled work shift for which he/she is absent, except in the following manner case of emergency. F. Annual Sell Back Effective in 2017 and 2018, an employee having seventy-five (family illness, self-sick, and 75) or more accumulated sick days at the end of a calendar year shall be allowed to sell back up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all days at the end 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, each calendar year as long as he/she maintains at least seventy-five (75) sick days accumulation after such sell back. Such payment shall receive thirty ($30.00) for be computed at an employee’s daily straight time rate of pay including longevity. Notice of such intent shall be provided to the City no later than December 30 of each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred year and nine (209) days. Should payment by the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary City shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option be made no later than January 31 of the bargaining unit memberimmediate succeeding year. This provision shall “sunset” as of December 31, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement 2018 and Pension System. 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 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 carried forward into the successor agreement unless agreed upon by the member on the appropriate form. If the number of contributed days falls below thirty (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue parties in their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick 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 negotiations 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)successor agreement.

Sick Leave. A. During ▇▇▇▇ leave will be granted to any full-time employee who is unable to perform his/her duty in the school because of illness or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative such as grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, uncle, aunt, or anyone of like relationship by marriage or a member of his own household and consequently has to be absent from his work shall be granted leave of absence for sickness by the Employer. The following provisions shall govern sick leave: 1. An employee employed on a full-time basis shall be entitled to four days of sick leave as of the first day of employment of each contract year and shall thereafter earn one day of sick leave for each month of employment, in which the employee works or is paid a minimum of five (5) workdays in the month, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of that 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 or her employment in ▇▇and has accrued but not earned the 4 sick leave days available to him or her, the school board will withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because of sickness as herein prescribed. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year; provided that there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. 2. In accordance with ▇▇▇▇▇ County School Board policies, a teacher may authorize his or her spouse, child, parent, or sibling who is also an employee of the ▇▇▇▇▇ County Public Schools to use sick leave that has accrued to the authorizing teacher, provided that the recipient may not use the donated sick leave until all of his or her sick leave has been depleted, excluding sick leave from a sick leave pool, if the recipient participates in a sick leave pool. Donated sick leave under this paragraph shall have no terminal pay value as provided in Article XIII section G 2 (Terminal Pay). 3. As used in this section, one day of sick leave for the purpose of accrual and during each successive year thereafteruse, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days mean to be the equivalent in hours and may be accrued at the end of the month. Any portion of leave per year, days accumulated may be taken and charged in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility increments of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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 not less than thirty (30) minutes; provided, that leave may be taken only in one-half (½) day increments if any portion of the requested leave will be during student contact. 4. In the event that an employee uses more than five consecutive work or paid days of his/her accumulated leave allowance, the employee shall provide the District through ESS online leave process, a doctor's statement attesting to the illness with the anticipated date of return as soon after the sixth day as possible but, in any case, prior to receiving the paycheck for the pay period in which the sixth day occurred or any subsequent paychecks. Should the employee be unable to submit the doctor's statement as required above, he shall be paid for any sick leave to which he is entitled when the doctor's statement is submitted to the Payroll Office. 5. Principals are encouraged to monitor the use of sick leave to ensure that all teachers act in a manner consistent with the requirements of their positions. Excessive absences by any teacher places tremendous stress on the teachers who are present to render professional services for the absent teacher. Disciplinary measures may be taken when abuses are identified. When they must be absent, teachers are expected to provide adequate and appropriate notice. 6. Employees using accrued or extended sick leave for illness more than five consecutive work or paid days of leave allowance, shall be responsible for providing the principal with emergency plans that will allow a school official or substitute teacher to render professional services for the absent teacher. These emergency plans should be updated quarterly and kept on file with the principal in the immediate familyevent a teacher needs to go out on extended leave unexpectedly. When a teacher has advanced notice of the need to use extended leave, less any annual more detailed and time specific lesson plans and materials should be provided to the principal. For a planned extended FMLA absence, one week of lesson plans should be provided to the principal. Principals should not make work related contact with employees during the time accrued, extended sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse, children, mother, fatherleave, or anyone who lives regularly paid leave is being used except in the householdemergency situations. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During A) All classified employees covered by this Agreement shall be entitled to the following sick leave of absence with pay: 1) New employees shall receive only one working day for the initial month of employment if they begin work on the 1st through 8th day of the calendar month, and one-half working day if they begin on the 9th through the 23rd day of the month. If an employee commences work after the 23rd day of the month, no sick leave accrues to that employee for that month. After the initial month of employment and up to the end of the first year calendar year, employees shall be credited with one working day for each month of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during service. Thereafter, at the beginning of each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per calendar year, in which anticipation of continued employment, employees shall be credited with fifteen (15) working days sick leave. Effective each calendar year, employees shall be credited with fifteen (15) working days sick leave. If any such employee required none or a portion only of such allowable sick leave for any calendar year, the bargaining unit member is amount of such leave not taken shall accumulate to his/her credit from year to year, and he/she shall be entitled to the flexibility of using such accumulated sick leave in with pay if and when needed. Sick leave for purposes herein is defined to mean absence from duty of an employee because of personal illness by reason of which such employee is unable to perform the following manner (usual duties of his/her position, exposure to contagious disease, a short period of emergency attendance upon a member of his/her immediate family illness, self-sick, critically ill and up to requiring the presence of such employee. 2) If an employee is absent for five (5) personal consecutive working days. A bargaining unit member may use , for any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness reasons set forth in the immediate familyabove rule, the appointing authority shall require acceptable evidence on the form prescribed. As part The nature of the illness and length of time the employee will be absent should be stated on the doctor's certificate. An employee who has been absent on sick leave for periods totaling more than 15 days in one calendar year consisting of periods of less than five days shall have his or her sick leave record reviewed by the respective appointing authority and thereafter may be required to submit acceptable medical evidence for any additional sick leave in that year. In cases where an illness is of a qualifying Family Medical Leavechronic or recurring nature causing recurring absences of one day or less, only one submission of such proof shall be necessary for a bargaining unit member may use up period of six months. 3) The immediate supervisor may, in his discretion, at any time, require the employee seeking sick leave, or on return from sick leave, to thirty (30submit acceptable medical evidence, so long as the employee is advised in advance of the requirement, or undergo a physical examination. If the sick leave is not approved, the employee shall suffer loss of pay for such time. 4) days Any employee who does not expect to report for work because of personal illness or for any other reasons included in the definition of sick leave herein above set forth, shall notify his/her accumulated immediate superior, by telephone or personal message within one half (½) hour of the regularly scheduled starting time. 5) Sick leave claimed by reason of quarantine or exposure to contagious disease shall be approved only upon presentation of a certificate from the local department of health. B) Full time temporary employees in the City service shall be entitled to the same 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 householdas permanent employees. B. A unit member may request C) Employees who are laid off from a permanent position through New Jersey Civil Service Commission (NJCSC) layoff procedures and are rehired to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal permanent positions under NJCSC procedures, through reemployment rights 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 teachersopen competitive examination, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefitswithin five (5) years, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirementretain their seniority from their prior service with the City for longevity, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred sick, vacation, salary step placement and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active serviceseverance pay purposes, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on unless 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 is not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who 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 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 entitled to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, shall not be returned if specific benefit pursuant to the member effects cancellation. The plan shall be administered by a joint committee composed provisions of two (2) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)this Agreement.

Sick Leave. A. During a. A full-time employee shall be credited with one (1) sick leave days for each month during which they are scheduled to work a majority of the first days noted on the calendar of operations. b. All Sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall be credited to him/her. Any sick leave days not used by the end of the school year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County 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 be added to the flexibility of using sick leave in days available for the following manner year provided, however, it shall not result in exceeding the ninety (family 90) day maximum for sick leave accumulation. c. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days shall be: i. Personal illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal daysinjury or quarantine. ii. A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for Serious illness in the employee’s immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days i.e., husband, wife, child, father or mother. d. The Employee shall notify his/her Program Supervisor using the AESOP attendance system of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in impending absence stating the immediate family, less any annual sick leave days previously used from nature of absence (illness) and where he/she may be contacted during the current year’s appropriation for this purposeday. Immediate family Each Employee shall mean spouse, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request give such notification at least two hours prior to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeescheduled on-the-job starting time unless the circumstances of the absence do not allow such notice. When the AESOP attendance system cannot be accessed a phone call to the Program Supervisor shall be made. e. The unit member will not incur loss Employee may be required by the Superintendent to give a written, signed statement indicating the nature of salary the illness or accumulated sick leave injury for such absence when reporting to work on the first working day following his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistantsabsence. The principal and employee may also be required by the superintendent to give a written, signed statement from the employee's physician indicating the nature of the illness or injury when reporting to work in the first working day following his/her designee will not be required absence of three (3) or more working days. Failure to obtain comply with such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss a request can result in the withholding of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not availablepay for such leave days. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of f. Accumulated sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary time shall receive the amount terminate upon severance of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systememployment. 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 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 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. A. During 1. An employee's absence from work by reason of personal sickness or disability, substantiated by a physician's certificate when required, and/or absence due to family illness, shall be considered and known as "Sick Leave." 2. No employee shall be entitled to any part of his/her wages while absent from work because of personal sickness, family illness, or disability, except as herein provided. (a) An employee shall be granted sick leave credit at the rate of one (1) day per calendar month for a total of twelve (12) work days per year and sick leave credit may be accumulated to a total of one-hundred-eighty-five (185) days. ▇▇▇▇ leave shall be credited to the employee on the last work day of each calendar month beginning with the first year full month of employment employment. During any month that an employee takes in ▇▇excess of ten (10) days’ leave without pay, no leave credits shall be granted. (b) In addition to sick leave used for illness of the employee, sick leave may also be used for illness in the employee's immediate family, which requires the employee's personal care and attendance, not to exceed fifteen (15) days per year. For purposes of the Article, "immediate family" shall be defined as the employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent. 4. An employee absent on sick leave may elect to draw accrued sick leave credits in one-half (1/2) hour segments for part or all of his/her absence and shall be entitled to one (1) day's pay for each day of accumulated sick leave credit drawn. The day's pay shall be based upon the employee's hourly day rate, applicable to the employee at the time of his/her sick leave absence. 5. Sick leave time shall be considered for all purposes as continuous service, but in the event of resignation by, or discharge of, an employee, his/her accumulated and unused sick leave time shall be canceled as of the termination of his/her employment, and not paid for. 6. An employee isolated or quarantined because of exposure to a communicable disease shall be considered absent because of sickness and shall be granted sick leave with pay during such isolation or quarantine to the extent of his/her accumulated and unused sick leave time. 7. The Department Head may require any employee to file with the Department Head a physician's certificate in any case where the employee is absent from work for more than one (1) day. Where the absence from work for illness or disability shall equal or exceed fourteen (14) days of continuous absence, the employee is required to file with the Department Head a physician's certificate every fourteen (14) days during the employee's absence. 8. In any case where the employee has been absent from work for more than one (1) day due to sickness or disability, the Department Head may require the employee to have a medical examination by a physician of the County's choice, at County expense and/or the Department Head may require the employee to submit other reasonable medical records respecting the illness or disability. No more than one (1) such examination by a physician of the County's choice shall be required of the employee more than once every sixty (60) days, except, if in the opinion of the Department Head, the employee has an apparent history of abuse of sick leave, then more frequent examinations, at County expense, may be required. If the Employer believes an employee is utilizing sick leave for purposes other than those for which it was intended, then the Employer shall request a meeting with the CSEA Unit President or his or her designee and the affected employee(s) to discuss the situation. Subsequent to such meeting, should the Employer continue to believe that there is a misuse of sick leave, the Employer shall have the right to take whatever action is available to him under the Civil Service Law. 9. If an employee shall be entitled to payment of Compensable Disability Benefits for sick leave time for which the County has paid the employee sick leave pay, the County shall be entitled to reimbursement from such Compensable Disability Benefits to the extent that the County has granted sick leave pay to the employee for the same time. To the extent that the County is so reimbursed, the County shall restore sick leave credits to the employee. 10. It shall be the duty of the Department Head to make a written report to the County Personnel Officer, prior to the payment of each payroll, setting forth the names of employees and the date for which sick leave was approved during the period between the employee's last pay and the date of such report. 11. Upon retirement, an employee may elect to have the dollar value of the employee's unused accumulated sick leave used for the continuation of his/her health insurance coverage from the date of his/her retirement, for a period of time until said dollar value is exhausted. The dollar value of the employee's unused accumulated sick leave shall be the result of multiplying the hours of unused accumulated sick leave by the employee's regular hourly pay rate to which the employee was entitled in his/her last work week immediately preceding retirement. There shall not be included in the regular hourly day rate any amount that the employee may have earned during his/her last work week for overtime pay, holiday pay or longevity bonus, but there shall be included any "evening" and/or "night shift" pay that the employee earned during his/her last work week. If such employee elects to continue said insurance coverage, he/she must deliver a written notice of such election to the Office of the ▇▇▇▇▇ County Treasurer within twenty (20) calendar days immediately following the effective date of the employee's retirement. 12. Upon retirement an employee may elect to apply unused accumulated sick leave as a credit toward additional retirement benefits under New York State Retirement and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members Social Security Law. Such election shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per yearbe made, in which writing, by the bargaining unit member is entitled to employee at the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, 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 time of his/her accumulated sick leave application for illness in retirement and written notice of such election shall be given to 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▇▇▇▇▇ County Treasurer. B. 13. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership established and its operation 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 conducted by a joint committee composed of five (5) member committee, two (2) members selected of which shall be appointed by the President Chairman of the GCEA County Legislature and two three (23) members selected appointed by the SuperintendentCSEA Unit President. (See Addendum I)Employees who wish to participate in the Bank shall be allowed to contribute three

Sick Leave. A. During All employees, following completion of their probationary period, shall be entitled to receive sick leave with pay in accordance with the first year provisions of this Article; The employee shall report his inability to attend work to his immediate supervisor or in the case of the absence or unavailability of the immediate supervisor, to the alternate person designated from time to time by the Employer for such purpose; Notification under provisions of Clause shall be given at least one hour before the scheduled time of the commencement or work; An employee who fails to notify the Employer as provided in Clauses and shall be deemed to be absent without permission; Pay for hours or days on sick leave shall be computed on the basis of the normal working hours for such employee for the day on which sick leave occurs, at the employee’s regular straight time hourly rate of pay; If required by the Employer, acting reasonably, the employee shall produce and provide a medical certificate from a qualified physician in a form satisfactory to the Employer, to support absences from work for medical reasons; An employee shall not take other paid employment or work while in receipt of sick leave benefits from the Employer. Violation of this provision shall result in immediate termination of employment; No employee shall be entitled to receipt of sick leave benefits as the result of injury arising out of or during the course of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during with another employer; Entitlement to sick leave benefits shall terminate automatically upon termination of employment of the employee. Without restricting the generality of the foregoing, an employee who is under notice of termination shall receive sick leave benefits, if applicable, only until the expiration of the period of such notice or of the period of benefit, whichever first occurs; Sick leave shall not be granted to an employee for any injury covered by the provision of Worker’s Compensation payments; The total sick leave entitlement of any employee shall be computed on the basis of days entitlement for each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen completed month of service to a maximum benefit of ten (14IO) days of leave per in any calendar year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner three (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (53) days are considered personal days. A bargaining unit member Unused sick and personal days in any period 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. 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 assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required carried forward to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of sick leave per fiscal subsequent 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. A. During Section 12.1. Employees with regular full-time status shall earn paid sick leave at the first year rate of one (1) day for each month of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafterwhich they work the majority of their scheduled workdays. For purposes of this section, each bargaining unit members time paid for shall accrue fourteen (14) days be considered time worked. The levels 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-sick, 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 said sick leave for illness in part-time employees is to be prorated on the immediate family, less any annual same basis as part-time vacations. Section 12.2. Use of Leave. Any employee may use sick leave days previously used from the current year’s appropriation for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouse(1) in case of his own illness, children, mother, fatherinjury, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request exposure to leave school for emergency reasonscontagious disease; 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be eligible pregnancy based upon the length of time deemed necessary prior to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall be authorized annually and following delivery as certified by the member on employee’s physician; or (3) for attendance upon members of his household whose illness or injury requires the appropriate form. If care of the number of contributed days falls below thirty employee except that no more than three (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (23) days of sick leave per fiscal yearmay be used in each instance of this type. Contributions for new membership As used in this section, the term "household" shall mean husband, wife, child, parent, mother-in-law or father-in-law of the employee residing together in a single dwelling unit. All leave used shall be made during charged in multiples of tenths of an open enrollment of July 1 hour. The department head may require reasonable evidence to September 30 of each fiscal year. A support a claim for sick leave contribution to the Sick Leave Bankand shall, when properly authorized in case of absence for more than three (3) consecutive working days, require a given fiscal year, doctor's Section 12.3. Employees shall not be returned if eligible to use sick leave benefits during the member effects cancellation. The plan probationary period, but upon completion of the probationary period, employees shall be administered by a joint committee composed credited with sick leave earned from the original date of two (2) members selected by the President employment. Upon completion of the GCEA probationary period, employees shall receive back pay for any sick leave used during the probationary period up to the extent of their accumulation. Section 12.4. Sick leave shall not be used for periods of absence resulting from injury incurred in supplemental employment. Section 12.5. An employee who exhausts his sick leave and two annual leave credits and is still unable to return to work due to illness or injury shall be granted a leave of absence without pay provided that a doctor's certificate is submitted indicating the extent of the employee's illness or injury and the length of time the employee will be unable to work. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph, such leave shall not extend for more than one (21) members selected by year without mutual agreement of the SuperintendentEmployer and the Union. (See Addendum I)Upon return to work from an extended leave due to illness or injury, an employee

Sick Leave. A. During Requests for and approval of sick leave shall be made as far in advance as practicable and shall be made directly to the employee's immediate supervisor or supervisor's designee(s) in the absence of the supervisor. B. When it is necessary to request emergency sick leave, i.e., the need is not known in advance, the request to the supervisor or designee is to be made by the employee by 9:30 a.m., the first year day of employment absence. Unless prior approval is obtained for absences of several days duration, sick leave must be requested by 9:30 a.m. each succeeding morning the employee is absent. C. Sick leave requests shall be granted for purposes approved by law and government-wide regulations. D. All requests for sick leave are to be made in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County writing, using a Standard Form 71, Request for Leave. E. Sick leave must be used when unit employees go to the Health Unit for one hour or longer. F. A person shall be placed on sick leave restriction only if there is evidence of sick leave abuse and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days the restriction is justified in writing. The mere amount of leave per yearused for illness does not constitute abuse. G. Where the Office has reasonable ground to believe that an employee has abused sick leave, in which a written warning may be issued informing the bargaining unit member is entitled to employee that if the flexibility of using described abuse continues, sick leave restriction may be imposed. If subsequently imposed, another written notice will be provided explaining that, for a stated period, but not to exceed 6 months, request for approval of sick leave must be accompanied by a medical certificate. At the end of the stated period, the Office shall review the employee's situation and shall give the employee notice of recession or renewal of the restriction due to continued abuse. H. Requests for advanced sick leave will normally be granted in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or accordance with governing regulations when all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in following conditions are met: 1. the immediate familyemployee is eligible to earn sick leave; 2. 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, fatheremployee's request does not exceed 240 hours, or anyone who lives regularly for temporary employees only the amount to be earned during the period of temporary employment if appropriate; 3. there is no reason to believe the employee will not return to work after having used the leave, and the employee has sufficient funds in his or her retirement account or‌‌ any other source of monies owed to the householdemployee by the Government to reimburse the Employer for the advance, should the employee not return to work; 4. the employee has provided acceptable medical documentation of the need for advanced sick leave; and 5. the employee is not subject to leave restriction. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeeI. 1. 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 assistants. The principal and his/her designee will Employees shall not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon furnish a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) medical certificate to substantiate requests for each unused day approval of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine unless: (209a) the leave exceeds 5 consecutive work days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ; or ($30.00b) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number of sick leave days on the employee portalhas been placed on leave restriction. 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 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 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. A. During 15:01 An employee having accumulated an entitlement to sick leave may claim basic pay against such accumulation with respect to the first year period during which he was unable to work because of an incapacitation due to an accident or illness. 15:02 Each employee shall accumulate sick leave at the rate of one and one quarter (1 ¼) days for each full month of employment to a maximum of one hundred and twenty (120) days. 15:03 An employee who is unable to perform his regular work with the Employer as a result of injury or illness which is recognized as compensable by the Workers Compensation Act will be entitled to payment for the difference between the compensation and his regular salary. Such difference will be deducted from his accumulated sick leave entitlement and payment will cease when his entitlement has been totally claimed. 15:04 Notwithstanding Section :03, an employee‟s pay may only be “topped up” by ten percent (10%) of net salary. 15:05 If, at any time, it is decided by the Workers Compensation Board that the additional amount referred to in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County Section :04 must be offset against benefits otherwise payable by the Workers Compensation Board, then such additional amount shall not be payable. 15:06 An employee who is unable to report for work due to illness shall inform her supervisor or designate prior to the commencement of her next scheduled shift(s). An employee who fails, without valid reason, to give notice as specified below will not be entitled to receive income protection benefits for the shift(s) in question. 15:07 An employee who has been absent because of sickness for a period of more than three (3) consecutive days shall furnish, when requested by the Employer, at any time during or after this period of sickness, a medical certificate that the employee is or was unable to be present at work because of illness. Where an employee fails to produce a medical certificate acceptable to the Employer, the employee shall not be entitled to be paid for the period of absence. 15:08 The Employer reserves the right to require a certificate from a qualified 15:09 Days off and during Recognized Holidays which fall within a period of sick leave shall not be considered a part of, or charged to, accumulated sick leave. (a) For each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen one and one-quarter (141 ¼) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave accumulated, one (1) day shall be reserved exclusively for the employee‟s personal use as outlined in 15:01. The remaining one-quarter (¼) day shall be reserved for either the employee‟s personal use as outlined in 15:01, or to provide care in the following manner event of family illness as specified in 15:10(b). The Employer shall maintain an up-to-date record of the balance of sick leave credits reserved for each of these purposes. (family illness, self-sick, and b) An employee may use up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use days sick leave in any or all of the fourteen one (141) annual allotted days for illness calendar year to provide care in the immediate family. As part event of illness of a qualifying Family Medical Leavespouse, child or parent. Such days that may be utilized for this purpose are set out in 15:10 (a). 15:11 Upon sufficient notification to the Employer, and providing such time off does not unduly effect departmental operations, employees shall be allowed time off with pay to attend appointments with a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of his/her doctor, dentist, chiropractor, physiotherapist, or other recognized medical therapist recommended by a physician. The time utilized for such appointments shall be deducted from 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 householdleave. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During 1. Full-time Employees in the Bargaining Unit shall earn sick leave at a rate of one and one- fourth (1-1/4) days per month provided the Employee is in paid status for a majority of calendar days within the month. Such leave shall be earned from the commencement of employment but shall not be available for use or compensation during the first three (3) months of employment. a. When an Employee is unable to report to work because of illness or injury, he or she is required to notify his or her immediate supervisor or designee thirty (30) minutes before his or her scheduled work time. b. Notification will only be required on the first day of any absence, and must include the reason for the absence, the expected date of return, and the address and telephone number where the Employee can be reached if different from that on file in the Human Resources Office. c. If the Employee is unable to return to work on the expected date of return, the Employee is expected to call their immediate supervisor or designee again giving the new expected date. 2. Sick leave shall continue to accrue during: • leaves of absence with pay, • approved leaves of absence without pay of under thirty (30) days, • holidays, • the time an Employee is on authorized annual or vacation leave, • administrative leave, • sick leave, • compensatory time leave, and • the time an Employee is out on Workers’ Compensation. 3. Use of sick leave prior to its being earned is prohibited. 4. Sick leave may be used with the approval of the Employee’s supervisor for any non- service-connected illness or injury to the Employee. 5. Employees in the Bargaining Unit shall be required to submit medical certification for any use of sick leave which extends for more than two (2) continuous workdays and said certification is subject to verification by the Employer. Employees may submit medical certification for occurrences of sick leave whose duration is less than three (3) days. Medical certifications must be submitted to the Human Resources prior to submitting the timesheet for the period which the sick leave is being used or on the Employee’s first day back to work. 6. Employees in the Bargaining Unit shall accumulate earned, unused sick leave from year to year up to a maximum of employment 200 days. 7. Upon retirement from the Employer, an Employee in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafterthe Bargaining Unit shall be entitled to receive, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) at the Employee’s current rate of pay, a payment for 30% of the number of days of leave per yearaccumulated sick leave. The maximum number of days is not to exceed two hundred (200) days. However, in which should an Employee be separated from employment at the bargaining unit member is end of a service-connected disability leave, the Employee shall not be entitled to the flexibility of using compensation for accumulated sick leave in consideration for that disability leave. 8. Authorized sick leave includes, with the approval of the Employer: • the absence from duty with pay of an Employee because of his/her illness or non- service-connected injury, • his/her appointments with doctors or other recognized practitioners in the treatment of such illness or injury to the extent of time required to complete such appointments, or • his/her exposure to contagious diseases. 9. Employees may use, with the approval of the Employer, up to five days per calendar year of accrued sick leave on an hourly basis at their option, for the illness or injury of any dependent child, spouse, or parent and for appointments of any such dependents with recognized practitioners in the treatment of such illness or injury. 10. Employees who are eligible for either a service pension or a non-service-connected disability pension and who have been determined to be permanently disabled with a non- service injury or illness may be separated from employment. 11. If the average number of sick days used per Employee in the Agency in a calendar year is 20% less than the average number of sick days used in the prior calendar year, then all Employees in the agency will be eligible for the following manner bonus: a. an Employee who uses no sick time will receive two (family illness, self-sick, and up to 2) Administrative Leave Days. b. an Employee who uses less than 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave time will also receive one (1) Administrative Leave Day. Administrative Leave Days granted under this section must be converted to months used on or before June 30th of creditable service by each year in accordance with Article 23.D. of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension SystemCollective Bargaining Agreement. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit12. 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 Each full-time Employee may convert two (2) accumulated sick leave days to one (1) vacation day provided the Employee maintains a balance of at least eighty (80) accumulated sick days. Days Such conversion shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than permitted up to a maximum of ten (10) accumulated or earned vacation days each calendar year and must be converted as full vacation days. Contributors Employees shall be eligible inform Human Resources, in writing, of the conversion of earned but unused sick days during the period of time from January 1 to receive Sick Leave Bank benefitsMarch 31 of each year. 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days Conversion of sick leave per fiscal yearto vacation may only be accomplished during the above-stated period of time. Contributions for new membership The scheduling of such vacation days shall be made during an open enrollment in accordance with the provisions 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)Article 23.

Sick Leave. A. During (a) The sick leave plan herewith presented provides for continuation of payment of salary as set forth in the table of credits outlined in this plan to Employees who are absent due to bona fide illness. Its purpose is to ensure insofar as is reasonable and just that the Employee shall not be deprived of income while absent due to illness. Credits are established on the basis of length of service and are cumulative. No contributions are required from the Employee. (i) Sick leave shall be granted for complications which may arise from a pregnancy and shall be granted before and/or after completion of a maternity leave as granted under Article 22.02. (ii) Sick leave shall be granted during maternity leave for valid health related absences due to pregnancy if supported by a medical certificate. (iii) Unless otherwise provided in this Collective Agreement, sick leave shall not be granted during any leave of absence, nor for any intentionally self-inflicted illness or injury. (c) The Employer recognizes that alcoholism, drug addiction, and mental illnesses are illnesses which can respond to therapy and treatment and that absence from work due to such therapy shall be considered sick leave. 19.02 All regular full-time and regular part-time Employees and regular full-time and regular part-time probationary Employees are eligible for benefits provided under this plan. 19.03 The Employee must observe all of the following regulations to obtain the benefits available: (a) advise her manager or designate of illness or accident on the first year day of employment disability, except in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereaftercase of extenuating circumstances; (b) upon the request of the Employer, each bargaining unit members submit satisfactory proof of illness or accident from a qualified medical practitioner; (c) where the Employer requires completion of an Employer treatment provider form, the Employer shall accrue fourteen reimburse the Employee for the full cost. (14d) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled report to the flexibility Employer any change in place of using residence or address during disability; (e) An Employee, who must leave work prior to the completion of the workday due to illness, must notify the manager/supervisor or designate of such prior to leaving the work site. (f) Employees who become sick on overnight mobiles must report their illness to the supervisor/designate in charge of the clinic. Should their illness require the Employee to return to the Centre/Satellite Site all scheduled hours not worked and travel time shall be paid from her sick leave bank at her basic hourly rate. 19.04 The amount of credit an Employee has at a particular date is based on the Employee’s length of continuous service in completed years to that date, less any benefits that the Employee has received in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to previous five (5) personal days. year period. 19.05 Based on continuous service, sick leave credits will accrue to each Employee as listed below: On the first calendar day after 3 months continuous service has been completed 5 days 5 days 65 days 1 year 10 days 20 days 45 days 2 years 15 days 35 days 25 days 3 years 4 years 5 years 6 years 7 years 8 years 9 years 10 years 11 years 12 years 13 years 14 years 15 years 16 years 17 years 18 years 19 years 20 years 21 years 22 years 23 years 24 years 25 years 20 days 25 days 30 days 35 days 40 days 45 days 50 days 55 days 60 days 65 days 70 days 75 days 80 days 85 days 90 days 95 days 100 days 105 days 110 days 115 days 120 days 125 days 130 days 50 days 65 days 80 days 95 days 110 days 125 days 140 days 155 days 170 days 185 days 190 days 185 days 180 days 175 days 170 days 165 days 160 days 155 days 150 days 145 days 140 days 135 days 130 days 5 days A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness regular part-time Employee shall be entitled to sick leave credits in the immediate family. As part direct relation to her FTE compared to that of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days full-time Employee. There shall be no prorating of his/her accumulated years of service. 19.06 Where an Employee at the time sick leave for illness in the immediate familycommences, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day through earlier use of sick leave accumulated up credits, has less than fifteen (15) weeks of credit in her sick leave bank, additional sick leave will be provided, if required, in order to two hundred and nine bring the total period available to fifteen (20915) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day weeks of sick leave accumulated up at not less than 66 2/3% pay. 19.07 When an Employee returns to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or active employment following a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days period of sick leave as provided under Article 18.06 above, credits up to a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks at 66 2/3% pay will also again be converted made available after the following intervals: (a) one (l) month after return to active employment in the case of a new disability; and (b) three (3) months after return to active employment in the case of creditable service by a recurrence of the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemsame disability. D. Unused 19.08 For regular part-time Employees, payment from sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members banks will be notified made based on posted scheduled hours of the number of sick leave work only for days on the employee portal. E. The Board reserves the right which Employees are required to require a physical examination, at Board expense, of unit members on extended sick leave without pay. F. Unit members shall be permitted work but cannot attend due 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 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 formillness. If the Employee’s illness continues beyond her posted scheduled hours of work (i.e., no further work is scheduled for her in the meantime because of her illness), payment per day from the sick leave banks will be based on the average number of contributed days falls below thirty (30), bargaining unit members who wish hours worked per day by the Employee rounded to continue their participation the nearest hour in the Sick Leave Bank two calendar week period immediately preceding her sick absence. (a) When an Employee is required by her attending physician to travel for the purpose of medical referral and/or treatment to a recognized institution she shall be required allowed to contribute two (2) sick leave days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed utilize up to two (2) days of her accumulated sick leave credits for such travel. (b) Each Regular full-time Employee will be allowed leave of absence with pay to a maximum of twenty-two point five (22.5) hours per fiscal yearannum to attend optical, medical, and dental appointments when such appointments cannot be arranged outside of working hours. Contributions for new membership Thereafter such leaves shall be made during an open enrollment without pay. Employees will be required to give four (4) weeks advance notice in writing except in extenuating circumstances and may be required to submit satisfactory proof of July 1 such appointments. This shall apply to September 30 regular part-time and temporary Employees on a pro rata basis. 19.10 An Employee who has been receiving Long Term Disability benefits and who is able to return to work shall provide the Employer with reasonable written notice of each fiscal yearreadiness to return to work. A Upon return to duty she shall be reinstated in the same or a similar position she held immediately prior to being placed on LTD at not less than the same step in the pay scale and she shall be credited with sick leave contribution and vacation entitlement that accrued to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, her prior to her disability. 19.11 The reinstatement of an Employee in accordance with this Article shall not be returned if construed as being a violation of the member effects cancellation. The plan posting and/or scheduling provisions of Articles 7 and 14. 19.12 Upon termination of employment, all sick leave credits shall be administered by a joint committee composed of two (2) members selected by cancelled and no payment shall be due thereafter. 19.13 Upon the President request of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by Employee, but not more frequently than quarterly, the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)Employer shall advise an Employee each year of her or his accrued sick leave credits. 19.14 Sick leave credits shall not accumulate during periods of illness or injury.

Sick Leave. A. During Section 1 All full-time Employees shall accrue sick leave at the rate of twelve (12) days per year without loss of pay for absence caused by illness or injury. Accrual of sick leave will commence upon successful completion of the probationary period and shall be retroactive to the first day of employment. Sick leave not used in the year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive service for which it is granted shall be accumulated from year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen to year up to a maximum of (14180) days for (10) month employees and 200 days for (12) month employees. Part-time Employees shall receive one (1) hour of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave for every thirty (30) hours worked, as stated in M.G.L. chapter 149, section 148C(d)(1).” Section 2 An Employee may be required to furnish a doctor's certificate after absence of three (3) consecutive or more working days because of illness. Section 3 Accrual of sick leave is pro-rated each year for an Employee who does not serve for the following manner full year. Sick leave may be used in one-half (family illness, self-sick, and up 1/2) day increments due to personal illness or injury. 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also may be converted used each year for the purpose of attending to months ill immediate family members. See Article 21 for definition of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System“immediate family”. D. Unused Section 4 Once per year all Employees shall be provided information concerning sick leave accumulation. Section 5 Sick leave not used prior to the termination of an Employee's service shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will lapse and said Employee shall not be notified entitled to any compensation in lieu thereof. Section 6 Any Employee who by reason of the number of an industrial accident receives statutory compensation pursuant to Worker's Compensation may receive previously accrued sick leave days on in the employee portal. E. The Board reserves amount necessary to make up their regular weekly compensation. However, in no event shall the right to require a physical examination, at Board expense, use of unit members on extended supplementary sick leave without result in the Employee receiving after tax compensation in an amount greater than that received in their normal pay. F. Unit members Section 7 Each Employee, upon voluntary or compulsory retirement under the Retirement Law or upon death, shall be permitted paid as part of their termination pay, their unused accumulated sick days up to join a maximum of one hundred and receive benefits from a Unit I Sick Leave Bank by contributing two twenty (2120) sick leave daysdays at their then in effect per diem rate. Days shall not To be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than eligible for this benefit, the Employee must have ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall be authorized annually years of service in a position covered 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 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)this Agreement.

Sick Leave. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members Employees shall accrue fourteen be credited with twelve (1412) days paid leave of absence per year for sick leave. Sick leave per yearis defined as absence due to personal illness, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled medical appointment, or that of their dependent child or spouse’s child. Such leave shall accumulate to the flexibility a maximum of using one hundred and eighty (180) days. B. Employees may use sick leave in the following manner (family for illness, self-sickinjury, or disability to attend to family members – grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, spouse, children, grandchildren, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all those of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days employee’s spouse. Additionally, it may be used for illness in children whom the immediate familyemployee or the employee’s spouse is the legal guardian. As part of a qualifying Family Medical LeaveAlso, a bargaining unit member an employee 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership birth of a grandchild. C. Notice of illness requiring time off from work shall be made during reported to the District office no later than 7 a.m. of the day to be missed. If an open enrollment employee is certain that he/she cannot return to work for the ensuing day, he/she shall notify the District office of July 1 such anticipated absence no later than 3:00 PM of the preceding day. D. Absence due to September 30 injury incurred in the course of each fiscal year. A employment may be compensated for in the following manner: For absence due to job-related injuries which qualify for Industrial Accident and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Compensation coverage, a prorated portion of sick leave contribution may be used, which when added to any of the Sick Leave Bankabove compensation shall equal, when properly authorized for but not exceed the employee's normal salary, to a given fiscal yearmaximum of the employee's accumulated sick leave. E. Monthly, shall not be returned if the member effects cancellation. The plan District will provide each employee with an accounting of his/her accumulated sick leave and transactions concerning his/her sick leave days within that time period. F. At the exhaustion of an employee's sick leave, an employee who is unable to continue to perform his/her duties because of illness or injury as verified by a written statement from a licensed physician so stating shall be administered by granted a joint committee composed leave of two absence without pay or benefits for the duration of such sickness or illness up to a period of one (21) members selected by the President of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)year.

Sick Leave. A. During Section 1 Sick leave shall be granted at the first year rate of employment one and one quarter (1 1/4) day per month. For employees on roll as of 6/30/09, sick leave shall become due as earned at the end of the month and may accumulate, if not used, to a maximum of one hundred (100) days, except that any employee with an accumulation in ▇▇▇excess of one hundred (100) days as of July 1, 2003 shall be grandfathered at the higher accumulated amount. For eligible employees hired on or after 7/1/09, sick leave shall become due as earned at the end of the month and may accumulate, if not used, to a maximum of sixty (60) days. Section 2 The Town shall have the right at all times to investigate any sickness claimed by an employee. At the discretion of the Department Head or Town Manager, a doctor’s certificate may be required for absence due to illness. When such certificate is required for three or more days of absence, it shall be at the expense of the employee. When a doctor’s certificate is required for less than three days, it shall be at the expense of the Town. If the absence is for an FMLA-qualifying reason, the provisions of the Town’s FMLA policy shall control. Section 3 Sick leave may be used for actual non-work related sickness or injury of the employee. ▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen leave may be used for an instance of illness of a member of the employee’s immediate family not to exceed eight (14) 8) working days of leave per year. For purposes of this Section, immediate family shall be husband, wife, dependent child or parent of either the employee or employee’s spouse. The Town shall have the right at all times to investigate absences related to an employee’s immediate family on the same basis as provided in which Section 2 above. If the bargaining unit member absence is for an FMLA-qualifying reason, the provisions of the Town’s FMLA policy shall control. Section 4 At the time of voluntary termination of employment or layoff, an employee shall be entitled to the flexibility receive compensation of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five ten (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 (3010) days of his/her accumulated remaining accrued 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 householdleave. B. 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 4.1: For employees on roll as of salary or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers6/30/09, student teachers and/or 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. Upon a unit member’s upon retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 twenty (20) additional days falls below thirty provided said employee has at least ninety-five (30), bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (295) days of unused, accrued sick leave per fiscal year. Contributions for new membership shall be made during an open enrollment at the time 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)retirement.

Sick Leave. A. During (a) The sick leave plan herewith presented provides for continuation of payment of salary as set forth in the table of credits outlined in this plan to Employees who are absent due to bona fide illness. Its purpose is to ensure insofar as is reasonable and just that the Employee shall not be deprived of income while absent due to illness. Credits are established on the basis of length of service and are cumulative. No contributions are required from the Employee. (i) Sick leave shall be granted for complications which may arise from a pregnancy and shall be granted before and/or after completion of a maternity leave as granted under Article 22.02. (ii) Sick leave shall be granted during maternity leave for valid health- related absences due to pregnancy if supported by a medical certificate. (iii) Unless otherwise provided in this Collective Agreement, sick leave shall not be granted during any leave of absence, nor for any intentionally self-inflicted illness or injury. (c) The Employer recognizes that alcoholism, drug addiction, and mental illnesses are illnesses which can respond to therapy and treatment and that absence from work due to such therapy shall be considered sick leave. 19.02 All Regular Full-time and Part-time Employees and Regular Full-time and Part-time probationary Employees are eligible for benefits provided under this plan. 19.03 The Employee must observe all of the following regulations to obtain the benefits available: (a) advise their manager or designate of illness or accident on the first year day of employment disability, except in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereaftercase of extenuating circumstances; (b) upon the request of the Employer, each bargaining unit members submit satisfactory proof of illness or accident from a qualified medical practitioner, (c) where the Employer requires completion of an Employer treatment provided form, the Employer shall accrue fourteen reimburse the Employee for the full cost. (14d) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is entitled report to the flexibility Employer any change in place of using residence or address during disability; (e) An Employee, who must leave work prior to the completion of the workday due to illness, must notify the manager/supervisor or designate of such prior to leaving the work site. (f) Employees who become sick on overnight mobiles must report their illness to the supervisor/designate in charge of the clinic. Should their illness require the Employee to return to the Centre/Satellite Site all scheduled hours not worked and travel time shall be paid from their sick leave bank at their basic hourly rate. 19.04 The amount of credit an Employee has at a particular date is based on the Employee’s length of continuous service in completed years to that date, less any benefits that the Employee has received in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to previous five (5) personal daysyear period. For Regular Part Time Employees on April 14, 2008 continuous service shall be determined from April 14, 2008 onward. 19.05 Based on continuous service, sick leave credits will accrue to each Employee as listed below: On the first calendar day after three (3) months continuous service has been 5 days 5 days 65 days completed 1 year 10 days 20 days 45 days 2 years 15 days 35 days 25 days 3 years 4 years 5 years 6 years 7 years 8 years 9 years 10 years 11 years 12 years 13 years 14 years 15 years 16 years 17 years 18 years 19 years 20 years 21 years 22 years 23 years 24 years 25 years 20 days 25 days 30 days 35 days 40 days 45 days 50 days 55 days 60 days 65 days 70 days 75 days 80 days 85 days 90 days 95 days 100 days 105 days 110 days 115 days 120 days 125 days 130 days 50 days 65 days 80 days 95 days 110 days 125 days 140 days 155 days 170 days 185 days 190 days 185 days 180 days 175 days 170 days 165 days 160 days 155 days 150 days 145 days 140 days 135 days 130 days 5 days A bargaining unit member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness Regular Part-time Employee shall be entitled to sick leave credits in the immediate family. As part direct relation to their FTE compared to that of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days Full-time Employee. There shall be no prorating of his/her accumulated years of service. 19.06 Where an Employee at the time sick leave for illness in the immediate familycommences, 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. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day through earlier use of sick leave accumulated up credits, has less than fifteen (15) weeks of credit in their sick leave bank, additional sick leave will be provided, if required, in order to two hundred and nine bring the total period available to fifteen (20915) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day weeks of sick leave accumulated up at not less than 66 2/3% pay. 19.07 When an Employee returns to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or active employment following a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days period of sick leave as provided under Article 19.06 above, credits up to a maximum of fifteen (15) weeks at 66 2/3% pay will also again be converted made available after the following intervals: (a) one (l) month after return to active employment in the case of a new disability; and (b) three (3) months after return to active employment in the case of creditable service a recurrence of the same disability. 19.08 For Regular Part-time Employees, payment from sick leave banks will be made based on posted scheduled hours of work only for days on which Employees are required to work but cannot attend due to illness. If the Employee’s illness continues beyond their posted scheduled hours of work (i.e., no further work is scheduled for the Employee in the meantime because of their illness), payment per day from the sick leave banks will be based on the average number of hours worked per day by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of Employee rounded to the number of sick leave days on nearest hour in 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) calendar week period immediately preceding their sick leave days. Days shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than ten absence. (10a) accumulated or earned days. Contributors When an Employee is required by their attending physician to travel for the purpose of medical referral and/or treatment to a recognized institution the Employee shall be eligible allowed 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 utilize up to continue their participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick leave days. The annual rate of contribution shall not exceed two (2) days of their accumulated sick leave credits for such travel. (b) Regular Full-time Employees will be allowed leave of absence with pay to a maximum of twenty-two point five (22.5) hours per fiscal yearannum to attend optical, medical, and dental appointments when such appointments cannot be arranged outside of working hours. Contributions for new membership Thereafter such leaves shall be made during an open enrollment without pay. Employees will be required to give four (4) weeks advance notice in writing except in extenuating circumstances and may be required to submit satisfactory proof of July 1 such appointments. This shall apply to September 30 Regular Part-time and Temporary Employees on a pro rata basis. 19.10 An Employee who has been receiving Long Term Disability benefits and who is able to return to work shall provide the Employer with reasonable written notice of each fiscal yearreadiness to return to work. A Upon return to duty the Employee shall be reinstated in the same or a similar position they held immediately prior to being placed on LTD at not less than the same step in the pay scale and they shall be credited with sick leave contribution and vacation entitlement that accrued prior to the Sick Leave Bank, when properly authorized for a given fiscal year, their disability. 19.11 The reinstatement of an Employee in accordance with this Article shall not be returned if construed as being a violation of the member effects cancellation. The plan posting and/or scheduling provisions of Articles 7 and 14. 19.12 Upon termination of employment, all sick leave credits shall be administered by a joint committee composed of two (2) members selected by cancelled and no payment shall be due thereafter. 19.13 Upon the President request of the GCEA and two (2) members selected by Employee, but not more frequently than quarterly, the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)Employer shall advise an Employee each year of their accrued sick leave credits. 19.14 ▇▇▇▇ leave credits shall not accumulate during periods of illness or injury.

Sick Leave. A. During Section 1. Administrators shall be allowed leave of sickness, and for physical or mental disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, at the rate of one (1) day every month worked, and one (1) day at the start of the first semester, and one (1) day at the start of the second semester cumulative to a total of twelve (12) days within the school year. Section 2. Physical or mental disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, or termination of pregnancy for whatever reason, provided said termination of pregnancy is lawful under the law of the State of Michigan, are temporary disabilities and shall be treated as such. Written and unwritten employment policies and practices involving matters such as the commencement and duration of leave, the availability of extensions, the accrual of seniority and other benefits and privileges, reinstatement and payment under this Article shall be applied to such disability due to pregnancy or childbirth on the same terms and conditions as they are applied to other physical or mental disabilities. For purposes of the implementation of this Article, the period of commencement of disability shall be determined by certification of the administrator's attending physician. Section 3. After a beginning administrator, new to the system, has worked one month, he/she will be eligible for his/her full sick leave for the first year. Section 4. After his/her first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafteremploy- ment, 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 an administrator will be immediately eligible for sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up amounting 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 allotment 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 householdyear plus any days accumulated from previous years. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by a. In the principal or event an administrator works less than his/her designee. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated sick leave when regular service year, his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and sick leave shall be prorated for that year. b. In the event an administrator terminates 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. Upon a unit member’s retirementemployment, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) reimburse the Board for each unused day any overpayment of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should which may have been made or the unit member die while in active service, Board may deduct such overpayment from the designated beneficiary final salary check or retirement benefit. a. Credit shall receive be given an administrator at the amount end of thirty dollars ($30.00) his/her service year for each the unused day portion of his/her sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemallowance. 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 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 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. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members Employees shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per year, in which the bargaining unit member is be entitled to the flexibility following number of using sick days with pay: During the 1st calendar year of employment, sick days shall be earned at the rate of one sick day per month of employment up to December 31 of that calendar year. For each subsequent calendar year the earned sick leave shall be fifteen (15) sick days effective January l of that year. Sick leave is defined as a temporary inability to perform one’s duties by reason of illness or injury. Sick time shall be called in on each day of illness prior to the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal daysdesignated starting time. A bargaining unit member An employee may use any his sick leave for reasons of personal illness 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 Immediate member may use up to thirty (30) days of his/her accumulated family is someone who resides in the employee’s household. The Authority may require proof of illness or injury when there is a reason to believe that an employee is abusing sick leave; an employee has been absent on sick leave for five (5) or more consecutive work days; or an employee has been absent on sick leave for an aggregate of more than fifteen (15) days in a 12-month period. If an employee reports for work and works any portion of his normal shift and then leaves work for reasons of illness, his sick leave shall be charged hour for hour for the time not worked. Sick leave may be accumulated without limit during each employee’s length of service. Accumulated sick leave may be used by an employee for personal illness, illness in the immediate family which requires his attendance upon the ill person, death 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, fatherquarantine restrictions, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or his/her designeedisabling injuries. The unit member will not incur loss of salary or accumulated No employee, while on sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefitsshall be elsewhere, otherwise employed or engaged in any outside work or employment whatsoever. Employees will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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) sell back annual unused sick leave days. Days shall at the end of the year (December 31) in which it was earned, at full pay in an amount not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than to exceed ten (10) accumulated or earned daysdays in each of the years of this Agreement. Contributors shall be eligible to receive Sick Leave Bank benefits. The contribution shall be authorized annually Any remaining annual sick leave which was neither used nor sold back by the member on employee will be carried forward as accumulated, unused sick leave. This provision is specifically agreed to be the appropriate form. If subject of negotiations for a successor agreement between the number of contributed days falls below thirty (30)parties, bargaining unit members who wish to continue their participation and if no agreement is reached thereon by the parties, this provision shall not automatically be carried over and continued in the Sick Leave Bank shall be required to contribute two (2) sick 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)successor agreement.

Sick Leave. A. During ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave is made available so that an employee may, under the first year proper circumstances, have wage continuation when he/she is unable to perform his/her regular duties. ▇▇▇▇ leave should not be considered as "additional days off" earned by employment. Abuse of employment sick leave may be cause for disciplinary action. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave may be used in the following instances: 1. Personal illness which renders an employee unable to perform his/her duties. 2. Presence of serious illness in the immediate family which requires the employee's short term personal care. Immediate family means an employee's spouse, child, legal ▇▇▇▇, grandchild, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ County child, father, mother, legal guardian, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and other relatives residing in the employee's household. 3. Dental, optical or medical treatment that cannot be scheduled during non-work hours. One week advance notice of such treatment is required except in emergent circumstances. A doctor's note is required as verification of the appointment. C. A new full-time employee earns one (1) day sick leave for each successive full calendar month of service in his/her first calendar year thereafterand can be utilized only as earned. In subsequent calendar years, an employee will earn 1 1/4 days for each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen full calendar month of service for a total of fifteen (1415) days of leave per year, which are 100% allocated on January 1st of each year. Sick time is not earned while an employee is on Leave of Absence without pay. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave shall not be recorded in which denominations of less than one-half days with the bargaining unit member is entitled following exceptions: 1. medical or dental treatment that cannot be scheduled during non-working hours 2. medical emergencies of the employee or an immediate family member. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave time not used in any calendar year shall accumulate to the flexibility of using employee's credit from year to year to be used when needed for such purposes. F. All sick leave will be monitored. It is mandatory that the employee phone his/her supervisor or designee as far in advance as possible, but not later than one hour before the following manner shift begins, with the exception of unit members employed at Shoreview, who shall phone their supervisor no later than 9 a.m. (family illness, self-sick, and up to 1) If an employee is absent for five (5) personal or more consecutive working days for any reason set forth in the above, the employee may be required to produce medical evidence. The employer may require proof of illness or injury when there is a reason to believe that an employee is abusing sick leave, an employee has been absent on sick leave for five or more consecutive work days, or an employee has been absent on sick leave for an aggregate of more than eight (8) days in the 12-month calendar year. A bargaining unit member On January 1st of each year, the requirement of mandatory notes shall cease for all employees and a new recording period will commence. (2) Anytime the County detects a pattern of sick leave abuse and can articulate a basis for reasonable suspicion of sick leave abuse, the County may use any require medical evidence. The employee shall be given timely notice in each instance. (3) Medical evidence shall be in the form of a physician's certification which states the date of illness, and the reasons for the absence within the parameters of confidentiality, and the date the employee will return to work and certifies the need for the employee to be absent. (4) The County reserves unto itself the right to send an employee to a County appointed and County paid for physician to verify the usage of sick leave. The County may require an employee who is absent because of serious illness or all injury before returning to duty, to be examined at the expense of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for illness in County by a physician. Such examination shall determine whether the immediate family. As part employee is capable of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days of performing 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. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or normal duties and that his/her designeereturn will not jeopardize the health of the employee or that of other employees. H. Any employee covered under the terms of this agreement who "retires" from County service under the Public Employees Retirement System (P.E.R.S.) shall be paid fifty (50%) of accrued sick leave up to a maximum of $20,000. The unit member will not incur loss definition of salary or accumulated "retiree" is found in Article XXVII, Section C. I. Any employee utilizing less than forty-one (41) hours (for eight (8) hour employees) and less than thirty-six (36) hours (for seven (7) hour employees) of sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not be required time to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss include all uses of benefitssick time in a calendar year, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while an annual bonus in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars $500. Attendance bonuses shall be prorated for part-time employees. Employees must be on board for the entire calendar year and have no “W” time or suspension or LAWs during the calendar year except that no employee will be excluded from eligibility for having accumulated one ($30.001) for each unused day hour or less per year of sick leave accumulated up “W” time due to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemtardiness. D. Unused sick leave shall accumulate without limit. Unit members will be notified of the number J. The advancement of sick leave days is an employee convenience; sick leave is still earned on a monthly basis and upon separation from the service of the employer, advanced sick leave which was paid but not earned, will be recouped, on a hour-for-hour basis. K. Days lost to injury or illness arising from or caused by County employment for which 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 has received Worker's Compensation shall not be accepted from any bargaining unit member who has less than ten (10) accumulated or earned days. Contributors shall be eligible charged 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 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)leave.

Sick Leave. A. During Sick leave shall be earned at the first year rate of 3.7 hours per completed two-week pay period of service. Service shall begin on the date of State employment and time on layoff, suspension or leave without pay, except as otherwise provided by law or this Agreement, shall not be counted in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County determining the completion of a full two- week pay period. The maximum amount of sick leave which employees may accumulate shall be one hundred twenty (120) days. However, the amount of unused sick leave accruals which can be credited toward State service for retirement purposes shall continue as presently provided for by statute. When maximum limitation has been accumulated, days that would normally thereafter be earned shall lapse but shall be recorded by the appointing authority. Any employee who has such lapsed sick leave to his/her credit may apply to the Director of Human Resources to have the sick leave restored in the event of an extended illness. The Director of Human Resources shall grant such request unless just cause is shown to deny the request. Part-time employees employed normally the year-round and during each successive year thereafterestablished on a regular hourly work schedule shall be allowed sick leave credits prorated on the amount of time worked. Employees may utilize their allowance of sick leave on the basis of application approved by their respective appointing authorities and reported to the Director of Human Resources, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days for absences necessitated by inability to perform the duties of leave per yeartheir positions by reason of illness or injury, by necessity for acute medical or dental care, by exposure to contagious disease under circumstances in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sick, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all health of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for employees with whom associated or members of the public necessarily dealt with would be endangered by attendance on duty, or by illness in the immediate familyfamily of the employee for such periods as the attendance of the employee shall be necessary. As part Immediate family as used in this article shall mean the employee’s spouse, or significant other, the parents of the spouse or significant other, and the parents, stepparents, guardian, children, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, grandparents, grandchildren, stepchildren or wards of the employee. For the purpose of this Article, “significant other” means that a qualifying relationship exists between two people, neither of whom is married, that is intended to remain indefinitely and where there is joint responsibility for each other’s common welfare, there are significant shared financial obligations, and they must be living together in a shared primary residence. This relationship must have existed for at least six (6) continuous months before benefits under this Article may be provided. Employees are encouraged to consult with their agency-department Personnel Officer ▇▇ determine if they are eligible for benefits available under the Federal Family and Medical LeaveLeave Act. Either the appointing authority or the Director of Human Resources may require such medical examination or certificate as he/she deems necessary before approving the utilization of sick leave. All sick leave shall expire on the date of separation from State service, a bargaining unit member may use up to thirty (30) days and no employee shall be reimbursed for sick leave outstanding at the time of termination 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 householdState employment. B. 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 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. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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. A. During 8.2.1 Each member of the first unit shall be entitled to ten (10) days leave of absence during the school year for illness or injury, and such days shall be cumulative and carried forward to the succeeding year. Unit members may use up to six (6) days per calendar year, to be deducted from sick leave, to attend to an illness of employment a child, parent, or spouse of the unit member. All conditions regarding the use of regular sick leave shall apply to the use of such leave, and this section is not intended to extend the maximum period of leave to which a unit member may be entitled under the Family and Medical Leave Act. As used in this section, “child” means biological, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County and during each successive year thereafter, each bargaining unit members shall accrue fourteen (14) days of leave per yearor adopted child, stepchild, legal ▇▇▇▇, or a child standing in which the bargaining unit member is entitled to the flexibility of using sick leave in the following manner (family illness, self-sickloco parentis, and up to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit “parent” means biological, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, adoptive parent, stepparent, or legal guardian. 8.2.2 When a member may use any or all of the fourteen (14) annual allotted days for unit is absent from his/her duties due to illness in or injury, the immediate family. As part of a qualifying Family Medical Leave, a bargaining unit member may shall use up to thirty (30) days all of his/her accumulated sick leave for illness in before the immediate family, less any annual provision of extended sick leave days previously used from shall apply. Upon exhaustion of all accumulated sick leave credit, a member who continues to be absent under the current year’s appropriation provisions of this Article shall receive for this purpose. Immediate family shall mean spouseup to five (5) months, children, mother, father, or anyone who lives regularly in the household. B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or difference between his/her designeepay and the amount actually paid a substitute, or, if no substitute has been employed, the amount that would have been paid a substitute, or fifty percent (50%) pay, whichever is greater. When an outside consultant is hired for the absent unit member, the cost of the consultant to be deducted from the unit member’s pay shall be calculated at the substitute daily rate of pay for a period of up to thirty (30) days. Extended leave must be on the basis of a doctor’s statement. The unit member will not incur loss personnel office may require medical verification of salary or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee the cause of absence. 8.2.3 Compensation will not be paid to any member of the unit absent for any reason other than those covered in this Article for which compensation is provided. 8.2.4 Any absence due to illness or accident for four (4) or more consecutive days may be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency be verified by the member’s physician or recognized practitioner of those who follow a well-recognized faith which depends upon prayer for healing. 8.2.5 For purposes of deduction of sick leave, without loss the following shall be applicable: Persons leaving the site prior to one-half of benefits, will not a workday shall be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon deducted a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused full day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should leave; persons leaving the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount site after one-half of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused a workday will be deducted one-half day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) daysleave. At Exceptions may be made at the option discretion of the bargaining unit member, all or a principal for that portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension Systemday after normal student dismissal. 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 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 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. A. During the first year of employment in ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ County Section 1. Employees earn 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 are granted sick leave in accordance with applicable Agency directives and this Agreement at a rate of four (4) hours a pay period. Section 2. Available sick leave shall be approved for an employee who is incapacitated for the following manner performance of his/her duties. Sick leave for medical, dental or optical examination or treatment shall be granted provided it is requested in advance and the employee can be spared from work. Under circumstances involving a contagious disease which requires isolation, quarantine or restriction of movement of a member of an employee’s immediate family, sick leave is warranted if the employee is required to care for the patient or his/her presence at work might endanger the health of his/her coworkers. Requests for unanticipated sick leave shall be made as soon as possible, but usually within one (family 1) hour after the employee’s scheduled starting time. If the degree of illness or injury prohibits compliance with the one-hour limit, the employee will notify his/her supervisor as soon as possible. Section 3. There shall be no sick leave counseling based on an established number of sick leave hours used. Section 4. The employee shall notify the Employer of his/her request for sick leave and the nature of his/her illness if known. An employee shall not be required to furnish a medical certificate to substantiate a request for sick leave of four (4) days or less. An employee shall be required to furnish a medical certificate for absences of more than four (4) workdays, except that this requirement may be waived by the Employer in individual cases. If a physician was not consulted, a signed statement from the employee giving the facts about the absence, the treatment used, and the reasons for not having a physician’s statement may be accepted as supporting evidence by the supervisor. Section 5. In individual cases, where there is just and sufficient cause to believe the employee may be abusing sick leave, the employee shall be advised in writing of the reasons a medical certificate may be required for each subsequent absence. If just cause continues to exist, an employee may be given advance written notice that he/she will be required for a period of time, not to exceed six (6) months, to furnish a certificate. When it has been determined by the Employer that the requirement is no longer necessary, the employee shall be notified and the previous notice(s) shall be removed from the records. Section 6. An employee who, because of illness, self-sickis released from duty, shall not be required to furnish a medical certificate for the day released from duty. Section 7. Whenever an employee’s request for sick leave is disapproved, he/she will be given a signed written reason therefor, if he/she so requests. Section 8. Request for sick leave and up individual sick leave records shall not be available or distributed as general information or publicized. Section 9. Normal sick leave usage will not be a factor for promotion, discipline, or other personnel action. Section 10. Each employee shall be entitled to five (5) personal days. A bargaining unit member may use any or all an advance 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 days’ sick leave for serious disability or ailment except when: a. it is known that he/she does not intend to return to duty or when available information indicates that his/her return is only a remote possibility; b. he/she is absent because a member of his/her accumulated sick leave family has a contagious disease; c. he/she filed or the Agency has filed an application 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.disability retirement; B. A unit member may request to leave school for emergency reasons; such request must be approved by the principal or d. he/she has signified his/her designeeintention of resigning for disability. The unit member will not incur loss absence because of salary or accumulated sick leave when his/her classes are covered by regular teachers, student teachers and/or assistants. The principal and his/her designee will not illness must be required to obtain such volunteers. Emergency leave, without loss of benefits, will not be provided if volunteers are not available. C. Upon a unit member’s retirement, he/she shall receive thirty ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. Should the unit member die while in active service, the designated beneficiary shall receive the amount of thirty dollars ($30.00) for each unused day of sick leave accumulated up to two hundred and nine (209) days. At the option of the bargaining unit member, all or a portion of the stipend may be placed into a tax deferred or sheltered annuity plan. Note: Unused days of sick leave will also be converted to months of creditable service by the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System. 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 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 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 period of two (2) members selected or more consecutive workdays, but the actual advance of sick leave may be for any part of the total absence. Section 11. The Employer shall arrange for transportation for a seriously ill or injured employee at work to a physician, medical facility or other employee designated location. The Employer shall be responsible for notification of the occurrence and location of the employee to the employee’s family or designated Party if requested by the President employee. Section 12. When an employee is unable to do so because of serious injury or illness, the GCEA and two (2) members selected by Employer shall make every reasonable effort to assist the Superintendent. (See Addendum I)employee’s family in filing the appropriate documents for entitlements to the employee or the employee’s family.