Absence Due to Personal Injury - Workers' Compensation a. Whenever a Professional Employee is temporarily absent from school due to a personal injury suffered on the job and is temporarily unable to perform the Professional Employee's duties, and the injury is not the result of the Professional Employee's own negligence, the Professional Employee may, at the employee's option, use accumulated sick leave to supplement their income beyond the Workers' Compensation payments or award made for temporary disability because of said injury. If the employee selects sick leave to supplement the employee's salary or if the injury was caused by a battery under subsection (b), then the employee will be paid by the District on a daily basis equal to ten percent (10%) of the employee's first $82 on a daily basis of earnings plus eighty-five percent (85%) of the employee's earnings over $82 on a daily basis. The District shall make said payments only during the school year in which the injury occurred, and in no event shall said payments continue beyond a period of 180 consecutive calendar days from the date upon which said injury occurred. The employee's record will be charged sick leave on the basis of the supplemental income paid divided by the employee's daily pay rate, but in no case will the sick leave amount charged exceed 1/2 day per day of absence. There will be no charge to sick leave for the first five (5) scheduled workdays of temporary leave.
