Xxxx Leave and Payout of Accumulated Sick Leave. 1. Sick Leave Beginning September 1, 1973, all full-time professional employees of the District of Omaha shall be entitled to an annual sick leave allocation equal to one sick leave day per month of employment, with the total annual allocation being made available for use at the beginning of each fiscal year. Sick leave may be accumulated, based on the individual's annual allocation, to a maximum based on the following formula: number of contract days minus the number of paid vacation days multiplied by the ratio 90/190. Eight (8) days per year of the employee's accumulated sick leave may be used for the illness of an immediate family member. Immediate family member will include the employee's spouse, children, parents in a care facility, or an individual who is a permanent resident in the employee's home or for whom the employee has specific legal responsibility. Any employee with accrued sick leave of at least 90 days on September 1, 1976, and each September 1 thereafter, shall be entitled, following the use of sick leave subsequent to that use, to accumulate one day per month of employment, for those months remaining during the fiscal year to a maximum number of days as defined in Section III, J, a, 1. All employees with sick leave accumulation of less than 90 days on September 1, 1976, and each September 1 thereafter, shall have such leave credited to them in accordance with the Policies and Regulations of the School District of Omaha. Any employee with maximum accrued sick leave will maintain the accrued days during the last year of employment prior to retiring or taking early leaving incentive unless more than 10 days of sick leave are used. Beginning September 1, 1997, after an employee has accumulated the maximum days of sick leave, appropriate to the length of the employee's contract, the employee shall be awarded two additional days toward the employee's maximum accumulation, thereby increasing their maximum an additional two days, for each year of perfect attendance occurring after accumulation of the maximum days of sick leave. For purposes of this provision, the maximum accumulation allowed shall be a ratio of 0.6316 of the length of the employee's contract minus the number of vacation days. Absences counting against perfect attendance are as defined in Section III. Each school year that an employee has unused personal leave days, the employee shall be awarded one additional day of accumulated sick leave for each day of unused personal leave, ...
