Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unit.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member In the event an employee has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave and, upon notification by the Office of the bargaining unit who elects Treasurer of the advance of five days from the District, as per Ohio Revised Code, the employee will, prior to participate actual use, contact the Association for approval of borrowing days from the Sick Leave Bank. Upon written approval from the Association’s Executive Committee, the District shall advance days from the Sick Leave Bank. The individual can request annually up to twenty (20) days of additional sick leave from the days of sick leave that have been deposited in the District Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank may accumulate donated days to a maximum of one hundred ten (110) days. No individual shall be permitted to accrue more than sixty (60) days of advanced sick leave from the sick leave bank during their career with the District. These days will be paid back after all days have been paid back to the District. In the event that an individual leaves the District with a negative balance of sick days, the teacher shall be financially responsible to the District for the cost of those days. Loans from the Sick Leave Bank must will be limited to those individuals who have contributed a day or days to the bank. Each bargaining unit member may contribute one (1) day of the member's his/her accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipduring the enrollment period. Such contributions must The enrollment period will be made within 30 calendar days from the first workday of the date year through September 15 of each year. New teachers hired after the person begins employment or within 30 calendar school year has commenced shall have thirty (30) days to enroll. The donated day is not returnable. A donated day guarantees a bargaining unit member Sick Leave Bank membership for the length of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2employment. Whenever Should the number of donated days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day drop below ten (10 days), sick leave bank members will be required to donate an additional day. A written application is required for approval of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any A doctor's excuse may be requested. The member of who borrows days will pay back the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment rate of the bank will be continued as members 50% of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and his/her annual accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment end of the bank will be continued as members salary contract year, each year until the total number of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute borrowed has been restored to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unit.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member In the event of the bargaining unit who elects to participate in catastrophic illness or serious illness or disability, an employee may obtain sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank based on the following conditions: • Present Sick Leave accumulation is exhausted. • There is medical documentation for the condition. • The employee must have contributed to the Bank, as described below. Voluntary contributions will be accepted and recorded in September. An employee must contribute one day of the member's two authorized leave (replace with sick leave leave) days to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipjoin the Sick Leave Bank. Such contributions Thereafter, the employee must be made within 30 calendar days contribute one day per year to remain a member of the date Sick Leave Bank to be eligible for Sick Leave Bank time. Teachers shall sign and return a form indicating whether they will or will not join the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days Sick Leave Bank by the last school day of a call for replenishment September. The administration shall provide the President of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever Union with the number of those participating in the Sick Leave Bank no later than the second week of October each year. The administration shall also provide to members, no later than the second week of October, confirmation of the days contributed to the Sick Leave Bank. An employee who has contributed to the Sick Leave Bank and who desires days from the Sick Leave Bank shall make written application addressed to the chair of the Sick Leave Bank Committee with the medical documentation attached. A committee of three employees (one from each level and elected by the bargaining unit) and two administrators (appointed by the Superintendent) will review all applications and forward a decision to the Superintendent. An employee who has been denied days from the Sick Leave Bank may appeal, in writing, the decision of the Sick Leave Bank Committee to the Superintendent within ten days. Committee members will serve for three-year terms. Upon presentation of satisfactory medical evidence of disability or illness to the Committee and approval by said Committee, an employee participating in the Sick Bank may be granted up to 30 additional days of Sick Leave Bank time. Should the employee still be disabled after this time, he/she may request an additional 30 days for a maximum of 60 days. Any unused days in the Sick Leave Bank on will carry over to the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the next year. The maximum number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify days to be utilized by all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank employees shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unit180 days per year.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any A Sick Leave Bank, for the purpose of providing additional coverage after the exhaustion of individual annual and/or accumulated sick leave only in the event of serious illness as evidenced by medical certification or quarantine by order of the Health Department or serious illness of a member of the employee’s immediate family or permanent household requiring the personal care of that member by the employee, is hereby established as of September l, 1980 exclusively for the use of the members of this bargaining unit. Participation by members of the Unit shall be mandatory. New members of the bargaining unit who elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute shall be assessed one day of the member's their annual and/or accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days as of the date they enter the person begins employment or within 30 calendar Unit. Said days of a call for replenishment of are to be “deposited” in the bank as provided Bank. Unused days in this Article 6:2the Bank shall carry over from year to year. Whenever Should the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on reach the level of five hundred (500) days or less, than each teacher in the bargaining unit shall be assessed one day of his or her annual and/or accumulated sick leave as of the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 next calendar daysmonth. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects Said days are to continue participation be “deposited” in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of Bank. In the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time event a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and teacher has no accumulated and/or annual sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of said assessment that teacher shall be assessed the bank will be continued as members amount of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day days owing to the bank on Bank the first following September 1. Subject to the provisions of this Article each teacher may, following a maximum of ten (10) school day waiting period, be granted by the Bank Committee a maximum of the new thirty (30) school days per school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to Bank. If days are granted, they shall cover retroactively the bankwaiting period. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee made up of two (2) teachers selected by appointees of the UNION Association and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records two (2) appointees of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Association and the Superintendent shall also each appoint one alternate member to the Bank Committee. Said alternates may attend all meetings of the Bank Committee, but shall vote only in the absence of one or both of his/her respective appointees. The Bank Committee shall have the power to establish its rules procedural and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and functional guidelines for the operation of the Bank consistent with the Article. Attendance history can be used as a factor in all cases the decision(s) rendered approving sick bank days. All decisions by the Bank Committee shall be by three (3) affirmative votes and all decisions by the Bank Committee shall be final and bindingbinding and not subject to grievance and/or arbitration. The total number Chair of accumulative days the Bank Committee shall, on an annual basis, alternate between the Association and the Superintendent's appointees. During the year commencing July 1, 1994 the Association shall appoint the Chair; commencing July 1, 1995 the Superintendent shall appoint the Chair, and so on. If a teacher has exhausted his/her sick leave and another teacher residing in the bank shall not exceed two times same household is suffering a life threatening illness and requires the number of members personal care of the bargaining unitfirst teacher, then the first teacher is eligible for Sick Bank benefits. Should the first teacher exhaust Sick Bank benefits and is still required to provide personal care to the teacher suffering a life threatening illness, then the first teacher is eligible for Sick Bank benefits for a second time in the same year. A teacher suffering a life-threatening illness who has exhausted Sick Bank benefits shall be eligible for Sick Bank benefits for a second time in the same school year.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member In the event an employee has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave and, upon notification by the Office of the bargaining unit who elects Treasurer of the advance of five days from the District, as per Ohio Revised Code, the employee will, prior to participate actual use, contact BSEA for approval of borrowing days from the Sick Leave Bank. Upon written approval from the BSEA Executive Committee, the District shall advance days from the Sick Leave Bank. The individual can request annually up to twenty (20) days of additional sick leave from the days/hours of sick leave that have been deposited in the BSEA Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank may accumulate donated days to a maximum of one hundred ten (110) days/eight hundred eighty (880) hours. No individual shall be permitted to accrue more than sixty (60) days of advanced sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank must during their career with the District. These days will be paid back after all days have been paid to the District. In the event that an individual leaves the District with a negative balance of sick days, the employee shall be financially responsible to the District for the cost of those days. Loans from the Sick Leave Bank will be limited to those individuals who have contributed days/hours to the bank. Each bargaining unit member may contribute one day (1) day/eight (8) hours of the member's his/her accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipduring the enrollment period. Such contributions must The enrollment period will be made within 30 calendar days from the first workday of the date year through September 15 of each year. New employees hired after the person begins employment or within 30 calendar school year has commenced shall have thirty (30) days to enroll. The donated day/hours are not returnable. A donated day guarantees a bargaining unit member Sick Leave Bank membership for the length of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2employment. Whenever Should the number of days donated days/hours in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one drop below ten (l10) times the number of members of the bargaining unitdays/eighty (80) hours, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute members will be required to donate an additional day day/hours. A written application is required for approval of days. A doctor's excuse may be requested. The member who borrows days will pay back the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank days/hours at the time a call is made for replenishment rate of the bank will be continued as members 50% of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and his/her annual accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment end of the bank will be continued as members salary contract year, each year until the total number of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute borrowed has been restored to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unit.
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Samples: Agreement, Agreement Between
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The purpose of the bargaining unit a sick leave bank is to loan additional days to a teacher who elects has experienced an accidental injury, surgery or serious illness to participate him/herself or his/her spouse or dependent child and has exhausted all personal leave days, accumulated sick leave, advancement of sick leave and is not eligible for disability retirement under STRS. Prior to October 1 of each school year, a teacher may activate his/her participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute by contributing one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave. After this initial enrollment, an additional one (1) day will automatically be deducted from the memberteacher's accumulated sick leave to during the month of October of each year. Such days shall be placed in the Sick Leave Bank Bank. Membership and subsequent deductions shall be continuous unless the teacher notifies the treasurer's office, in writing, between September 1 and September 15 that he/she cancels his/her membership. A teacher must be an active participant in order to qualify be eligible to borrow sick leave days from the bank. The maximum number of days that a teacher can borrow for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days one (1) illness is fifteen (15%) percent of the date total number of days in the person begins employment or within 30 calendar bank. The teacher shall pay back the days he/she borrows at the rate of a call for replenishment fifty (50%) percent of his/her annual accumulated sick leave at the end of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2contract year, each year until the total number of borrowed days has been restored to the bank. Whenever A teacher making a request for the number use of days in the Sick Leave Bank on must complete the first day application form in Appendix H and submit it to the Director of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number Human Resources. The Director of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall Human Resources will notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Committee that a request has been received. The Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from Committee shall convene and review all applications for approval and/or disapproval. The Director of Human Resources shall forward the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed decision of the Sick Leave Bank by Committee to the Human Resources Office at the time applicant. The decisions of their orientation interview provided, however, that it this committee shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report final and shall not be subject to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interviewgrievance procedure in Article 4. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the The Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom Committee shall be carried out by a Committee consist of two (2) teachers selected representatives appointed by the UNION Association co-presidents and one administrator selected two (2) representatives appointed by the Superintendent which Board who shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to oversee the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members functions of the bargaining unitSick Leave Bank, effective with the ratification of this agreement, the parties will review the appointment of the representatives to this committee and make final selections.
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement, dam.assets.ohio.gov
Sick Leave Bank. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, a Sick Leave Bank may be established for each unit covered by this Agreement where such bank does not currently exist. Every sick leave bank that exists at the University, prior to the effective date of this Agreement, shall be deemed to have been established pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and any employee who is a member of any such bank on the effective date of this Agreement may remain a member thereof subject to the terms and conditions of this section. During the term of this Agreement, an employee who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank may become so by assigning to the Bank one (1) or more full days of his/her personal sick leave accumulation, during the annual thirty (30) day period established by the Union Management-Committee for such purpose. A member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be eligible to draw upon the Bank after the exhaustion of the member’s personal sick leave, vacation leave, and personal leave accumulation as well as any compensatory days. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a joint Union-Management Committee with majority representation of Union members. The Committee shall establish applicable rules and regulations not in conflict with this Article. This Local Union-Management Committee will determine at what level the Sick Leave Bank will be replenished. However, members can donate one or more full days each time it is required that the Bank be replenished. Any member of the bargaining unit Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who elects has exhausted his/her personal sick leave accumulation shall assign such additional day or days as of the date on which such member is next entitled to participate in personal sick leave. A member of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day shall begin drawing on the Bank only upon presentation of the member's sick leave a medical certificate satisfactory to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipCommittee. Such contributions must medical certificate shall be made within 30 calendar days signed by a physician and shall set forth the nature of the date the person begins employment employee’s illness or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2disability and its anticipated duration. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed A unanimous vote of the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be required to authorize the employee to begin drawing on the Sick Leave Bank. After an employee has drawn on the Bank for ten (10) working days, his/her case shall be reviewed by the Human Resources Office Sick Leave Bank Committee which may, by unanimous affirmative vote, authorize the employee to continue drawing on the Bank. This process shall be repeated after each successive period of ten (10) working days. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any employee drawing on the Sick Leave Bank may at any time be disqualified from continuing to draw on the time Bank by unanimous vote of their orientation interview the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Any vacation leave, sick leave or personal leave which accrues to an employee during a period in which he/she is drawing on the Sick Leave Bank shall be credited automatically to the Sick Leave Bank. Any provisions of this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, for those Sick Leave Banks in existence on the date of execution of this Agreement, the current Committee structure shall continue; provided, however, that it at least one management representative shall be a member of each Committee. All decisions that the responsibility of the teacher Committees are empowered to report make pursuant to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitmajority vote.
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Samples: www.umass.edu, www.umass.edu
Sick Leave Bank. Any member Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, a Sick Leave Bank shall be established at the University if 50% of the unit members subscribe to such bank or a minimum of one hundred (100) days is donated by the unit members, whichever is less. Such bank shall be maintained for the benefit of all those members of the bargaining unit who elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's sick leave shall have chosen, pursuant to the Sick Leave Bank in order terms of this Agreement, to qualify for Bank membershipbecome a member thereof. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar Within ninety (90) days of after the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the execution date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time this Agreement, an employee may become a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed member of the Sick Leave Bank by assigning one (1) or more full days of his/her personal sick leave accumulation to the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview Bank; provided, however, that it on the date of making such assignment the employee shall have accumulated not fewer than six (6) days of personal sick leave. During the term of the Agreement, an employee who shall have accumulated six (6) days of personal sick leave who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank may become so by assigning to the Bank (1) or more full days of his personal sick leave accumulation, during the annual thirty (30) day period established for such purpose. A member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be eligible to draw upon the responsibility Bank five (5) working days after the exhaustion of the teacher member’s personal sick leave, vacation leave and personal leave accumulation in the event such member is hospitalized, suffers a catastrophic or prolonged illness or is totally incapacitated from work. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a joint labor-management committee with equal representation between unit member and the administration. This local labor-management committee will determine at what level the Sick Bank will be replenished. However, members can donate one or more full days each time it is required that the Bank be replenished. Any member of the Bank wishing to report remain a member thereof and who has exhausted his/her personal sick leave accumulation shall assign such additional full day or days as of the date on which such member is next entitled to personal sick leave. A member of the Sick Leave Bank shall begin drawing on the Bank only upon presentation of a medical certificate satisfactory to the Human Resources Office Sick Leave Bank Committee. Such medical certificate shall be signed by a physician and shall set forth the nature of the employee’s illness or disability and its anticipated duration. The initial award of time shall be no greater than six weeks and shall be awarded unless a majority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee votes against such an award. A one-time extension may be granted for no greater than six weeks by a majority of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Any vacation leave, sick leave or personal leave which accrues to an employee during a period in which he/she is drawing on the Sick Leave Bank shall be credited automatically to the Sick Leave Bank. An employee who is transferred to the unit covered by this Agreement, from a position at another Institution of Higher Education where he/she was an active member of the Sick Leave Bank may, within thirty (30) days of the date of such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in transfer, become a member of the bank may rejoin Bank at the bank University by contributing assigning one day or more full days of their accumulated personal sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitBank.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member The Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of teacher’s’ sick leave days administered by the bargaining unit who elects to participate in district, which may be used for serious illness only by participating employees. The official record of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute will be housed in the District Office. Only those employees who donate a minimum of one (1) sick leave day will be members of the member's Sick Leave Bank during the same school year. Employees shall not be allowed to request days from the Sick Leave Bank unless they have exhausted all of their existing personal leave, and sick leave first. At the beginning of each school year, employees will have an opportunity to donate sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank. Employees may donate up to 10 sick leave days at this time. Donation of sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank in order is final and irrevocable. Employees shall provide written notice of their decision to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar donate days of to the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever Sick Leave Bank, and the number of sick leave days to be donated if they choose to donate sick leave days to the Sick Leave Bank, to the Superintendent (District office) by the end of the 5th school day of each school year. Upon request by the Association to the Superintendent, the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank on will be reported to the first day Association. An account of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation unused days in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day will be reported to the Association at the end of the memberschool year, to be done no later than the final teacher SIP day. In the event that the Sick Leave Bank falls below 20 days during the school year, the Association President will be informed by the Superintendent (District office). All employees will be given the opportunity to donate at least one day, and no more than five days, to the Bank at this time. Any employee who was not previously a member of the Sick Leave Bank will immediately become a member of the Bank if they choose to donate at least one day under these circumstances. Days in the Sick Leave Bank shall be for serious illness on the part of themployee, spouse, parent or child. It does not cover elective surgery. Employees who are drawing retirement benefits under the Teacher Retirement System will not be eligible to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. Doctor's sick leave verification of serious illness may be required by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Days from the Sick Leave Bank may be used non-consecutively pending approval by the Superintendent and the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Sick Leave Bank days used for serious illness of a employee, spouse, parent or child shall be limited to 20 days per request. A six (6) member committee consisting of one (1) Board Member/Administrator, the Superintendent, and four (4) members of the Association (made up of one teacher from each building currently participating in the bank and the Association President) shall serve as member of the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall review all requests submitted to the Sick Leave Bank. Requests to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from must be made in writing (electronic mail is sufficient) to the date of notice. Teachers Superintendent and Association President who are drawing days from will then convene the Sick Leave Bank at Committee as soon as reasonably possible. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may also be convened for the time a call is made for replenishment purposes of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current reviewing procedures and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed provisions of the Sick Leave Bank by upon the Human Resources Office at request of either the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be Association or the responsibility of Board/Administration. In the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days event of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from challenge by an employee to the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged procedure, distribution, selection, or continuing illness or incapacitating accident any other matter relevant to this section of the contributing member in accordance with collective bargaining agreement, the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion Association shall appear on behalf of accumulated sick leavethe Board, defend the Board and hold the Board harmless against any loss or liability incurred as a function of this language. The operation Association hereby acknowledges and agrees that the purpose of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall this language is to provide a privilege to employees which will be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected managed collaboratively by the UNION Board and one administrator selected by Association and which the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the SuperintendentAssociation will be exclusively responsible for defending against loss. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsAssociation waives the grievance procedure against the Board for purposes of this section, and in all cases agrees to defend the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number Board against any loss as a result of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitany grievances filed.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank Employees will be continued as members allowed to contribute their personal sick days to one of two employee Catastrophic Illness/Accident Leave Bank(s). Depending upon the employee’s position and certification, he/she may contribute to either the certificated employees bank or the non-certificated employees bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank No days contributed will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree returned to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office an employee at the time of separation or retirement. The two banks combined accumulated illness days may not exceed a total of 500 days. Any employee who qualifies to be credited with sick leave pay for days taken from either bank must meet the following criteria: • Employee must have contributed their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher sick days to report The Bank prior to the Human Resources Office catastrophic illness, diagnosis or serious accident injury and have been continuously employed by the Hampton Township School District for such orientation interview3 years and 1 day prior to being diagnosed with said illness or accident. Teachers who elect not • Employee qualification is subject to continue their membership in the Superintendent’s review and approval of illness documentation from a licensed physician. • The employee must have exhausted all of his or her individual sick leave, personal leave, family leave and vacation leave prior to receiving bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day illness days. • The employee can request up to a maximum of their accumulated sick leave 150 days subject to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment containing same number or greater and the transfer of the bank as days are subject to Board of Education approval. • The HTEA President and a majority of the HTEA officers may approve, in writing, an employee to receive an additional 30 days beyond the 150 day maximum provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal the HTEA receives prior approval from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons Board of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident Education. • The Secretary of the contributing member HTEA shall be responsible for maintaining official records of the days transfer into and out of sick leave bank in accordance conjunction with the Sick Leave Bank rulesofficial district personnel records maintained by the Secretary to the CSA. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals • Any employee wishing to donate personal sick leave days may only begin do so by submitting a written request to the CSA and the Secretary to the HTEA. A written response regarding the approval of the transfer will come from the CSA’s office as well as the HTEA. • Any unused sick days donated to an employee may not be eligible for Board reimbursement upon depletion retirement, or separation from employment and the remainder of accumulated the sick days will be returned to the sick bank. • No outside employment while on sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unit.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any A Sick Leave Bank shall be available to all bargaining unit members and shall be administered by a committee consisting of three bargaining unit members appointed by the President or Co-President of CUE and three administrators appointed by the Superintendent of Schools. This committee shall review and pass upon applications for sick leave bank days submitted by the members of the Sick Leave Bank. The intention of the Sick Leave Bank is to protect the unit member from financial burden resulting from extended absences due to a serious health condition. For the purposes of this Article, the term “serious health condition” shall be defined as an illness, injury, impairment or physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care or treatment by a health care provider. Requests to the sick bank will only be considered for illness of the unit member, his/her spouse, or children. Each member of the bargaining unit who elects to will participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's sick leave bank by filing a signed authorization statement no later that September 15th . A unit member who begins employment after September 1 will have thirty schools days from the beginning date of employment in which to sign such authorization. Each unit member shall contribute two days, one from the Sick Leave Bank 2011-2012 school year and one from the 2012-2013 school year, from their accumulated personal sick leave no later than September 15th. In subsequent years of participation, a unit member shall contribute when notified of need to replenish the bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipmaintain membership in the bank. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the The number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on shall be maintained by: • contributions by current members as needed • contributions made by new participants • automatic contribution of unused, non-cumulative sick leave days awarded to members with the first day maximum accumulation of a new semester is less than one (l) times 220 days. To draw from the number bank, the unit member must have utilized all but 9 days of members current and accumulated Sick Leave entitlement available to him/her. The submission of the bargaining unit, application for days from the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave bank shall be submitted to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar Committee on the appropriate form, which shall be mutually developed and agreed upon by the parties. Sick Leave Bank days shall be limited to twenty (20) days per request or one month. Should the member need additional days, successive requests shall be considered. Sick Leave Days borrowed from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from Bank shall be repaid at a rate agreed to be determined by the unit member and the Sick Leave Bank Committee. APPENDIX G Note: Some of the information listed in the memorandum or letters in this appendix has been revised or updated. In all cases, information listed in the main body of the contract takes precedent over items in this appendix. CAZENOVIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE EMPLOYEES’ BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD SURGICAL/MEDICAL PROGRAM TYPES OF ENROLLMENT There are two types of enrollment for which you may apply. Individual Coverage, which provides protection for yourself only. Family Coverage, which provides protection for yourself, your spouse and any eligible children. You must have been hired for an anticipated period of employment of at least six months. In addition: You must work a regularly scheduled work week of 20 hours or more OR be paid an annual salary at a rate of $2,800 or more per year OR Your major source of income is from your public employment. Anyone employed by two or more public employers who participate in the program may elect coverage with only one such employee. Hourly employees are not eligible for Health Insurance coverage under the District’s Plan Hourly employees are defined as those employees whose Salary Notice indicates that they will receive a specific rate per hour worked and not a specific annual salary total. All categories of employees formerly eligible under the State Health Plan shall continue to be eligible for participation under the RegionWide Plan. DEPENDENT ELIGIBILITY The following types of dependents are eligible for coverage under your enrollment: Your spouse (a legally separated spouse is eligible for coverage under the Program but a former spouse is not); Your unmarried children under 19 years of age; Your unmarried children 19 years of age or older but under 25 who receive more than half of their support from you and who are full-time students at a secondary or preparatory school or college or other accredited educational institution. A dependent child whose 19th birthday occurs during school vacation period will continue to be covered under the Program, provided the child is enrolled in a school and it is anticipated the child will resume full-time student status at the end of the vacation period. Your unmarried child 19 years of age or older who is incapable of self-support by reason of mental or physical disability and who became so incapable before reaching age 19. The eligibility of such a dependent should be established as early as possible. This should be done at the time a call of your initial enrollment if the child is made age 19 or older at the time. If the child is younger than age 19 when you first enroll in the Program, eligibility for replenishment of the bank will continued coverage should be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave established at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank child’s 19th birthday. In this Program, the term “child” or “children” includes: An employee’s own child or legally adopted child, regardless of the child’s place of residence or the degree of support provided. Any step-child of the employee who permanently resides in the employee’s home. Any other child supported by the employee or the spouse of the employee and permanently residing in the employee’s home, provided the support and residence began before the child reached age 19. Residence of a temporary nature, as in the case of an exchange student, does not qualify for a dependent for coverage. An employee’s parents are not eligible for coverage even though they may qualify for income tax purposes. EFFECTIVE DATES OF COVERAGE As a new employee your effective date of coverage will be continued as members established in one of the bank provided they agree to contribute a following ways: If you apply on or before your day to the bank of employment (usually your date of employment), your coverage will begin on your day of employment. If you apply within one month of your date of employment, your coverage will begin on the first day of the new school year next followingmonth following your application. Teachers returning from authorized leave during If you do not apply within one month after your date of employment, your coverage can begin no earlier than the 30-first day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank third month following your application. ENROLLMENT CHANGES Changes in your family status may make it necessary or desirable for you to change the coverage for which you are enrolled. You must go to your Business Office and apply for a change. It does not happen automatically. You may request a change from individual coverage to Family coverage for one of the deadline following reasons: To provide coverage for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from newly acquired spouse or dependent child; to provide coverage for a previously eligible but un-enrolled spouse and/or dependent children. If you wish to change to Family coverage, you should do so as soon as possible. Any delay in applying for a change could mean a delay in obtaining coverage for your dependents. If you apply for Family coverage within one month of the effective date of your individual coverage or the date their employment resumes to contribute to you first acquire an eligible dependent, Family coverage will become effective on the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed first day of the Sick Leave Bank by month following your request for Family coverage. If you apply after this one month period, coverage for your dependents will not begin until the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility first day of the teacher third month following your request. If you apply in advance, arrangements can be made to report begin coverage on your date of marriage or the date you acquire an eligible dependent child. You may request a change from Family coverage to Individual coverage at any time if you: No longer have dependents eligible for coverage; No longer wish to provide coverage for your dependents even though they are still eligible (in this case, if you re-enroll for Family coverage at a later date, coverage for your dependents may be deferred until the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one first day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days third month following the month of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitre- application).
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Sick Leave Bank. Any The Support Staff Sick Leave Bank is established to provide protection for a support staff member in the event s/he must be absent from school for a period of time which exceeds that individual’s accumulated sick leave. The absence for which Sick Leave Bank days are requested must be the result of true hardship, and must be of such a nature that absence from school is unavoidable. An enrolled employee may apply to draw up to 60 days from the Bank, or up to the number of days needed until eligible to receive disability insurance, whichever is less. The number of days deposited in the Sick Leave Bank will carry from year to year. The Office of the bargaining unit Superintendent administers the bookkeeping of the Sick Leave Bank. Building representatives from each school will distribute Sick Leave Bank forms during September to the Support Staff who elects are not members of the Sick Leave Bank. Membership for enrolled members shall automatically continue from year to year. Members wishing to leave the Sick Leave Bank must indicate such by notifying the assistant superintendent of schools in writing by September 15th of a new school year. The assistant superintendent shall notify the Sick Leave Bank Committee of any changes to the Sick Leave Bank roster by September 30th of each year. By September 15th of each year, support staff wishing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute indicate by their signature their willingness to: (1) donate the number of hours worked in one day from accumulated sick leave upon initial enrollment in the bank; and (2) to donate additional hours worked in one day from their accumulated sick leave each time the total number of hours in the bank falls below the total number of participating support staff times the number of hours each works in a day. However, when an individual using the sick leave bank is expected to go on long-term disability (LTD), the hours used shall be computed as one-third hours. This reflects the fact that, upon payment by the LTD provided, the district returns two-thirds of the member's sick leave hours to the Sick Leave Bank. Employees new to the District may enroll in the Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipwithin twenty (20) school days after employment is approved by the Board. Such contributions must Additional hours beyond the original donation need not be made within 30 calendar days of donated until the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the total number of days hours in the Sick Leave Bank on falls below the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times minimum. However, support staff who indicate they are in their retiring year shall not be assessed additional hours when the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation total in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of falls below the member's sick leave minimum. An individual resigning, retiring, or choosing not to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of noticerenew membership shall not be able to withdraw previously contributed days. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made All requests for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed use of the Sick Leave Bank by must be submitted in writing to the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility Chairman of the teacher to report to Sick Bank Committee, and should be supported by a written statement from the Human Resources Office for such orientation interviewsupport staff member’s physician or other appropriate professional. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2All requests will be kept confidential. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from The Committee which oversees the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged shall have the option to request additional information from the applicant, or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of to deny the contributing member request in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of event that the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by information from the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals applicant is insufficient, to the Superintendentmake an informed decision. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsrender a written decision within 10 school days, and in all cases shall inform the decision(s) rendered Superintendent’s Office and the applicant. In the event that the request is denied, the applicant may appeal to the assistant superintendent of schools. Applications to the Support Staff sick bank shall be administered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitAssociation.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. A sick leave bank has been established to provide members income protection. If a teacher’s illness or injury exhausts their accumulated sick leave days, they would be eligible to use the sick leave bank before other income protection insurance begins. The bank will be administered by the superintendent or designee. A three (3) member sick leave bank committee shall be established to receive written requests and allot days from the bank per guidelines established herein. The committee shall be composed of two (2) persons appointed by the Association and one (1) person appointed by the Superintendent. The sick leave bank will be for teachers and will operate under the following conditions: Any member teacher in the school corporation shall have fifteen (15) days from the date of initial duty assignment, or until September 1st of that school year, whichever is later, during which time such Teacher may choose to participate in the bank by contributing two (2) sick leave days or opt out of the bargaining unit who elects sick leave bank Any returning teacher in the school corporation will have a second opportunity to join the Sick Leave Bank during the second year of this contract. The returning teacher must notify the superintendent/corporation treasurer between August 1 and August 15, 2022 stating that he/she wants to participate in the Sick Leave Bank by contributing two (2) sick days. The Teacher must contribute one day have utilized and exhausted all paid leave benefits of the member's whatever nature, including said Teacher’s own accumulated sick leave to the and personal leave. Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify days will not be granted for Bank membershipperiods of time when the employee is covered by Worker’s Compensation or has become eligible for long term disability coverage. Such contributions Written certification will be provided from said Teacher’s physician substantiating the illness and certifying that the absence will continue during a period of at least ten (10) consecutive days following the utilization and exhaustion of all said paid leave benefits as provided herein; Written application must be made within 30 calendar no later than twelve (12) days after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits. The Teacher must have been absent for at least four (4) consecutive duty days after exhaustion of said paid leave benefits; which may be reimbursed by the date sick leave bank. Upon resumption of employment after using days from the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever bank, said Teacher shall repay the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute owed to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of , minus the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee initial contribution of two (2) teachers selected by days, at the UNION and one administrator selected by rate of three (3) sick leave days per year, plus said Teacher shall continue to contribute three (3) sick leave days per year until all days have been repaid. If a Teacher leaves employment of the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals school corporation, any days owed to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall be repaid at the daily substitute teacher rate. If the sick bank is exhausted, teachers may be asked to donate to the bank again for the sick bank to continue. A participating teacher may borrow up to twenty (20) days per year, but not exceed two times more than sixty (60) days during the number teacher’s employment. Retiring teachers or those leaving SES may donate up to twenty (20) unused days to the sick leave bank. The teacher will notify the superintendent and association president via email or letter of members of the bargaining unithis/her intention to donate these days.
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Samples: Master Contract
Sick Leave Bank. Any A voluntary teacher sick leave bank is in existence. A new member must contribute one (1) sick leave day each year for three years. In order to qualify for membership in the sick leave bank, a teacher wishing to participate shall notify the designee of the bargaining unit who elects Board in writing of his/her intention to participate on or before the last school day of September. Such authorization shall remain in force until the participating teacher withdraws from the program in writing. In order to qualify for sick leave benefits pursuant to Schedule A, a teacher must begin to participate in the sick leave bank at his/her first opportunity for enrollment. If the teacher fails to participate in the sick leave bank during the first year of eligibility, his/her benefits under the sick leave bank shall be governed by Schedule B. Upon exhaustion of accrued personal illness days, any member may borrow additional personal illness days according to whether he/she qualifies for Schedule A benefits or Schedule B benefits. SCHEDULE A 0 - 5 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 10 day 6 - 8 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 25 days 9 - 12 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 35 days 13 - 16 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 45 days 17 - 20 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 55 days Over 20 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 65 days SCHEDULE B 0 - 5 years participation in sick leave bank - 10 days 6 - 8 years participation in sick leave bank - 25 days 9 - 12 years participation in sick leave bank - 35 days 13 - 16 years participation in sick leave bank - 45 days 17 - 20 years participation in sick leave bank - 55 days Over 20 year’s participation in sick leave bank - 65 days Requests for the use of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day shall be made by presentation of the member's sick leave sufficient medical evidence (i.e., a medical slip) to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipCommittee here under provided. Such contributions must Additional Days may be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in borrowed from the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of if and only if, a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar teacher has repaid any previously borrowed days. Any member Upon resumption of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in employment, said teacher will repay the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day the personal illness days owed as noted below. On October 1 of the member's sick leave each school year (beginning with 2003-2004), a teacher shall repay days to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar based on their accumulated sick leave at that time, and the following schedule: Sick Leave Days Accumulated Days Repaid per Year 21 or more 5 At any time a teacher wishes to pay a greater number of days, or all the days from owed, he/she may do so. If a teacher dies or retires before his debt is repaid, any days remaining in his sick leave account shall be placed in the date sick leave bank up to the number of noticedays owed. Teachers who After those days are drawing placed in the sick leave bank, the debt shall be considered repaid. Said teacher must have contributed, or will contribute, three (3) sick leave days from total to remain a member of the sick leave bank. When the days in the bank drop below 200 days, contributions at the rate of one (1) sick day per member per year will begin the next school year. Such contributions shall continue until the bank has amassed at least 300 sick days at the end of the school year. The members will not have to contribute again until the sick bank has fewer than 200 days at the end of the school year. As of June 30, 2002, data relative to the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as maintained in the Central Office with utilization reports to the Union due on October 31 of each year, beginning with October 31, 2002. A Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of three (3) Union members of appointed by XXXX and one (1) administrator appointed by the Superintendent will be established. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will review all applicants desiring to borrow personal illness days from the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed The decision of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it Committee shall be the responsibility of the teacher final. It is specifically agreed that illnesses or ailments due to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank prior existing conditions, which existed within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee period of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals years prior to the Superintendentteacher’s enrollment in the bank, are specifically excluded and the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall not allow applicants to borrow personal illness days from the bank for a condition that existed within a period of two (2) years prior to the applicant’s enrollment in the bank. The Committee administration shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number provide each new teacher with a sick leave bank application not later than their first contract day of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitemployment.
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Samples: www.hebronschools.k12.in.us:443
Sick Leave Bank. Any member All Unit IV members on active duty in Xxxx Arundel County are eligible to contribute to a sick leave bank. Contributors shall be permitted to apply for use of the bargaining unit who elects bank for salary payment to participate cover periods of incapacitating personal illness of the employee during the regularly scheduled duty days, after regular sick leave has been exhausted. The contribution on the appropriate form shall be authorized by the member and continued from year to year until cancelled in writing by the member. Cancellation, on the proper form, may be elected at any time and the member shall not be eligible to use the bank as of the effective cancellation date. Sick Leave leave properly authorized for contribution to the bank shall not be returned if the member effects cancellation. Contributions shall be made between July 1 and September 30. Members returning from extended leave of absence, reassigned employees and new employees may contribute within 30 school days upon reassignment or employment. The annual rate of contribution may be a maximum of one day per year and must be in whole day increments. Members shall be permitted to apply for leave from the sick leave bank, in no case shall the granting o f leave from the bank cause a member to receive more than her/his annual salary. Members must use all accumulated sick leave before applying for leave from the bank. Application for use of the bank shall be made on the required form and submitted to the approval committee. A three-member approval committee, appointed by the president of SAAAAC, shall have the responsibility of receiving requests, verifying the validity of requests, recommending approval or denial of the requests, and communicating its decision to the member and the Director of Personnel. The committee shall develop its rules of procedure and shall give wide distribution to said rules upon approval o f the Executive Officers of SAAAAC and the Superintendent's Council. The Director of Personnel shall approve these bank grants as being for incapacitating illness and that sick leave is exhausted, and forward payment authorization to the Payroll Department. Bank must contribute grants shall not be automatically carried over from one fiscal year to another. All bank grants shall end as of June 30 or the last duty day of the member's school year and must be renewed through the approval com m ittee and the Director of Personnel each fiscal year. If a member does not use all o f the days granted from the bank, the unused sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must bank days shall be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute returned to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from Any unused sick leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership days remaining in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within on June 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by into the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitnext fiscal year.
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Samples: core.ac.uk
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The Board shall establish a Sick Leave Bank for the full and part-time teachers of the bargaining unit District to be used for illnesses of a serious nature as identified in 105 ILCS 5/24-6 of the Illinois School Code, which precludes him/her from performing the essential functions of his/her teaching position. The sick leave bank shall be funded solely by donations from full and part-time teachers. Participation in the sick leave bank is voluntary for all full and part-time teachers employed in the School District. All full and part-time teachers may apply to participate in the sick leave bank within 20 working days of the beginning of the school year. No full or part-time teacher may apply for sick leave from the sick leave bank unless he/she agreed to participate and contributes his/her sick leave days as described below. Any full or part time teacher may voluntarily choose to participate in the sick leave bank by donating a minimum of two (2) non-redeemable sick leave days equivalent to two (2) of that teacher’s work days. Any such teacher choosing to participate shall continue to participate by donating a minimum of one (1) sick day per year, unless such teacher notifies the Superintendent and Sick Leave Bank Committee that he or she elects not to participate within twenty (20) working days of any subsequent school year. Any teacher first choosing to voluntarily participate in a subsequent year must notify the Superintendent and Sick Leave Bank Committee that he or she elects to participate within twenty (20) working days of any subsequent year. If the bank is decreased to 20 days or less in any given school year, each participating teacher shall contribute one non-redeemable sick leave day equivalent to one of that teacher’s work day. The bank is capped at 100 days. Any teacher who elects to participate in the sick leave bank and all teachers hired after June 1, 2012, who are employed in the District shall be entitled to draw sick leave days from the Bank, provided the teacher has used all his/her accumulated sick and personal leave days. The maximum number of any days that can be granted to a teacher is twenty-five (25) days per school year. In no case will the granting of leave from the Bank cause a teacher to receive more than his or her annual salary. Sick Leave may not be granted for the period of disability when monies are paid to the teacher under the Worker’s Compensation Law. Time spent on such sick leave days shall be considered as continuous service. A Sick Leave Committee will be established to act as the governing body for the administration of the sick leave bank. The Committee shall consist of three (3) employees named by the Association. The Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day Committee shall have the responsibility of reviewing member applications, initially verifying the validity of applications, recommending approval or denial of the member's sick leave applications, and communicating its recommendation to the teacher and the Superintendent’s office. The Committee shall also maintain the records of all applications and use of the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipBank. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the The Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member develop rules of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made procedure for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed administration of the Sick Leave Bank by and annually review the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it guidelines. The Committee shall be have the responsibility to maintain records of the status of the bank to verify information regarding the sick leave of the teacher and to make the final decision on the application. The Committee shall report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day status of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons and any decision upon the request of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules provide all documents to the Superintendent pertaining to the teacher’s application for sick leave bank and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsthe Committee’s decision and, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by any other records or data the Committee shall has maintained in its file with regard to the usage of the Sick Leave Bank. Any records or data in the Committee’s possession will be final and bindingmaintained in a confidential manner. The total number Application for use of accumulative days in the bank shall be submitted in writing to the Sick Leave Bank Committee by the teacher or designated representative. The application must be accompanied by a physician’s statement confirming the application. If an application is for other than consecutive days of illness, a separate application including a physician’s statement should be submitted for each separate period of illness. As a condition of participation, a teacher must consent to release his/her physician’s statements to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. If a teacher does not exceed two times the number of members use all of the bargaining unitdays granted, the unused days will be returned to the bank. All requests to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank must be made in writing and submitted to the Committee at least ten (10) calendar days prior to the teacher’s anticipated use of the Bank. (Note: In extreme and unusual cases, exceptions may be approved.) The existence of the Sick Leave Bank does not negate or eliminate any other sick leave policies of District #327 nor does it in any way negate a member’s right to other sick leave benefits included in this Agreement. The Association agrees with respect to the operation of the Sick Leave Bank that it will hold harmless and defend the District, the Board, its members, administrators, employees and/or agents, as regards any action, complaint or suit of any type, provided only that the Board or District shall fulfill its responsibilities as set forth above. In the event any action, complaint or suit of any type in any form shall be brought against the District, the Board its members, administrators, employees and/or agents, the Board or District shall retain the exclusive right to select counsel, to defend such action, complaint or suit and/or to determine whether such action, complaint or suit should be compromised or settled.
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Samples: Dallas Elementary
Sick Leave Bank. Any member A sick day bank will be established for the members of Council. Membership in the bargaining unit who elects sick day bank will be voluntary. Those electing to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must sick day bank will contribute one day from her/his sick leave accumulation. Council members shall have the opportunity to elect to participate in the sick day bank no later than October 1 of each year or within 30 days of employment if hired after the beginning of the school year. Only such members will be eligible to use days from the bank. The sick day bank may only be used for disabilities or illnesses that are not job related. Medical reports by the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify physician may be required as a condition for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members use of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at Other than new enrollees, no new days will be added to the time a call is made for replenishment bank until it has been depleted to 40 days or less. When the bank has been so depleted, all members of the sick day bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a automatically assessed one day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution which will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute be added to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave This process will be informed repeated at any future time the bank is again depleted to 40 days. A person withdrawing from the bank will not be able to withdraw her/his contributed day (or days). Eligibility for award from the sick day bank requires the employee to be legitimately ill for a minimum of 5 consecutive workdays, and to have completely exhausted all of her/his own accrued sick leave time, exclusive of frozen sick days. Awards will be granted up to a maximum of 60 days. Extension of the Sick Leave Bank 60-day maximum is possible up to a maximum of 120 total days, subject to the approval of the sick-day-bank committee. A teaching faculty member who has used 120 days from the bank must be back to work for 8 work weeks before a further application will be considered. The sick day bank will be administered by a 3-person sick-day bank committee consisting of the Human Resources Office Officer, the Vice Chairperson and the Secretary of the Council. The Human Resources Officer shall serve as convener of the committee at appropriate times, as required, to deal with applications for awards of the time of their orientation interview providedsick bank days. The Human Resources Officer shall also serve as secretary for the committee, however, that it and shall be the responsibility individual to give written notice of award of sick bank time to both the teacher applicant and to report to the College Finance Office. The Office of the Human Resources Office Officer shall be the location to which applications for such orientation interviewaward are made. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply All applications for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident sick day bank must be in writing, and will be effective only when filed with theHuman Resources Officer. Human Resources Officer shall prepare, and direct to the attention of the contributing member President of the College and to the Chairperson of the Council, a confidential summary report on sick-day-bank awards and status, on or before October 15 and April 15 of each year. In the event that the sick-day-bank committee requires any medical records in accordance with support of an application, the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion Human Resources Officer is designated as the custodian of accumulated sick leavesuch information. The operation medical information shall be held as confidential, shall be available only to committee members and the President of the bank College and withdrawals therefrom to the Chairperson of the Council. All such information shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals returned to the Superintendentapplicant as soon as an award has been completed. The Committee decision of the sick-day-bank committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsbe final, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee no award or denial of an award under this Article shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in subject to the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitgrievance or arbitration procedure.
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Samples: Contract
Sick Leave Bank. Any The District agrees to establish a Sick Leave Bank, hereinafter called the “Bank” to cover teachers in the event of personal extended illness or disability. The Bank shall be administered by a joint Sick Leave Bank Committee, hereinafter called the “Committee,” composed of two members of the Association appointed by the President of the Association and a designee of the MVEA Board. Each member shall serve for one year and until a successor is appointed. A majority of the members present shall constitute a quorum and a majority vote of those present and voting shall decide all questions. Each teacher may donate two days from the number of days that the teacher is allowed to accrue in a one-year period to be deposited in said Bank, such days to be deducted from the teacher’s annual sick leave. Each new member of the bargaining unit who elects will be asked by the Association if s/he wishes to participate in join the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipupon being hired. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever If the number of days in the Sick Leave bank at the time of enrollment exceeds the limit described in paragraph seven below, said new employee shall not be denied enrollment and/or access to the Bank. Only teachers who have chosen to donate to the Bank on shall become eligible to request extended benefits from the first day Bank, after an incapacitating illness or disability of thirty (30) calendar days, provided they have exhausted all of their own accrued sick leave. Upon presentation of satisfactory medical evidence of disability or illness to the Committee and approval by said Committee, a new semester teacher may be granted up to thirty (30) additional days of sick leave. Guidelines for application by a teacher to the Committee shall be determined and published by the Committee. In the event the Superintendent questions a recipient’s eligibility to receive sick leave benefits from the Bank, the Superintendent may require proof that the recipient is less than eligible to receive such benefits as well as a physician’s certificate certifying to the disability or illness of such recipient. The total number of days in the Bank shall not exceed, in any one (l) calendar year, a number equal to three days times the number of members teachers enrolled. If at the beginning of the bargaining unitschool year the Bank exceeds forty-five days, teachers shall not be requested to donate any sick leave days to the Committee Bank. If the Bank drops below thirty days at any time during the school year, each teacher will donate two days to the Bank. However, in no case shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar daysdonate more than two days per year to the Bank. Any member The Association will be notified when, because the number of days in the Bank falls below thirty (30), an additional two (2) days is to be taken from members of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued enrolled as members of the bankBank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time If a call teacher is made eligible for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30long-day interval between the time a call term disability insurance payments, s/he is made no longer eligible for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unit.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member A Sick Leave Bank consists of the bargaining unit who elects accumulated sick leave days contributed by Educational Support Service staff members. All Educational Support Service personnel earning sick leave days are eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank must will be funded as follows: Participation in the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary. After one academic year of service, a staff member is eligible to contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Bank and to make a request for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank in order Bank. Each sick day donated will be commensurate with the staff member’s contracted work day. For example, a staff member who works six hours a day will donate a sick day equivalent to qualify for Bank membershipsix hours. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of Unused days in the Sick Leave Bank on as of June 30th of each year will roll over to the first following school year. If necessary, an additional sick day will be assessed whenever the total number of a new semester days in the bank is less than one fifth (l1/5) times the number of members of the bargaining unitparticipating members. No more than two days per year will be assessed. For example, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation if 100 Educational Support Service personnel are participating in the Sick Leave Bank must Bank, each eligible staff member will contribute an additional day the appropriate number of the member's sick leave hours to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar when the number of sick days from falls below 20 days (160 hours). Administration of the date Sick Leave Bank plan will be managed by Assistant Superintendent of noticeHuman Resources and two representatives of the Educational Support Service staff. Teachers who are drawing The committee will grant days from the Sick Leave Bank at based on the time following: The Sick Leave Bank is intended to cover individuals who have experienced a call is made for replenishment of the bank catastrophic illness or accident. Medical reports from licensed medical doctors will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current required and accumulated must be provided to receive sick leave at hours from the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank Sick Leave Bank. These reports will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day submitted to the bank Assistant Superintendent-Human Resources on the first day a form developed for this purpose. The staff member must have an illness or accident requiring an absence of the new school year next followingmore than five consecutive work days. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will The staff member must have 30 calendar used all their sick days, personal days, and, if applicable, vacation days, before they are eligible to use any sick days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interviewBank. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank The staff member may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated only request sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing their own illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with injury. Staff members may not request sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank rulesbecause of the illness or injury of immediate family members. Approved The maximum number of days granted for an illness or accident will be 20 days per illness/accident. Days awarded will be retroactive to the first day of eligibility. A staff member may make a maximum of two separate requests for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin in any school year if the reasons for the requests are not related. More information regarding the Educational Support Service sick leave bank can be found on the Staff Connections website (xxx.xxxxxx000.xxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by clicking on the Support Staff link. Family Medical Leave: The Family Medical Leave Act provides for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for eligible employees on an annual basis. Additional information about Family Medical Leave (Board Policy 5:185) and eligibility for this type of leave is available upon depletion request from the Office of accumulated Human Resources. Personal Leave: Class I, II, III, IV, and V employees are eligible for personal leave. Personal leave is to be used to attend to personal matters that cannot be attended to any time other than during work hours. Personal leave will be allocated as follows: Completed Years of Service Personal Leave (reported to the employee in hours) 10 + 4 days Personal leave shall not be used for the purpose of secondary employment, recreational (extended) weekends or for recreational purposes in general, or for the purpose of extending vacation or holiday periods. Personal leave can be used to conduct legal business, observe religious holidays, attend funerals not covered by sick leave, or attend to family matters (e.g., weddings, graduations, taking a child to college, accompanying a child on a field trip). The operation Personal leave need not be used when an employee is called to jury duty. Educational Support Service Personnel should request personal leave by using the appropriate system supplied by the Office of Human Resources. When possible, the personal leave request should be submitted no less than two days in advance of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of absence. Employees are not required to disclose the reason for requesting personal leave except in the following situations: when the request is for two (2) teachers selected consecutive days or more; is adjacent to a holiday (e.g., the Friday before the Labor Day weekend, the Tuesday after President’s Day) or vacation period (e.g. summer, Thanksgiving, winter or spring break); is the Friday before parent conference week in November; is during any parent/teacher conference day (10 or 12 month employees); is during a teacher institute day (10 or 12 month employees), before or during a school day with a half day of instruction, or is during the months of May and June. The reason should be submitted in writing through the appropriate system. All personal leave requests are subject to review by the UNION building principal and one administrator selected subject to review and final approval by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records Assistant Superintendent-Human Resources. Educational support service personnel should not assume approval of deposits a personal leave request if it involves one of the situations outlined in the preceding paragraph. These requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. In the event that an employee has exhausted all personal leave and/or requests a day off without pay for a reason that would not allow for the use of a paid personal day, the personal leave request should be completed and withdrawals submitted through appropriate system. Educational support service personnel should not assume approval of day off without pay. These requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Unused days will rollover into accumulated sick leave at the end of the fiscal year. Class VI employees are not entitled to personal leave. For employees working less than a 7.5 hours day, a day of absence refers to the Superintendentamount of time an employee would have worked on that day. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsFor example, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall an employee who takes personal leave on a half-day of instruction for students will be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times charged the number of members hours that he/she would have worked on that half- day. In the event that a new employee leaves the District before the end of the bargaining unitschool year, a compensating adjustment will be made to the final paycheck for the employee if more personal leave days have been taken than have been earned (similar to the process used with sick leave).
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Samples: Geneva Community Unit
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The Boards of Education shall permit the formation of a Sick Leave Bank in each District. A committee in each District shall be composed of the bargaining unit who elects District Superintendent, the Association President and the Association Vice- President. They will decide at the beginning of each school year if it is necessary to participate deposit additional days in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute of that District. When the Sick Leave Bank Committee of either District deems it necessary, each teacher in that district will be given the opportunity, at the beginning of the school year, to transfer no more than one day of the member's their entitled sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order of that District. Only those teachers who have made a contribution will be eligible to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar withdraw days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the from their Sick Leave Bank on Bank. Teachers new to the first day districts will automatically be given the option of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave contributing to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar when they begin teaching. Any teacher who participates in their Sick Leave Bank beginning in the 1984-85 school year and thereafter may withdraw no more than ten (10) days per school year. Contributions to and withdrawals from the date Sick Leave Banks will be subject to prorating for those teachers employed less than full-time. In order for participating teachers to withdraw from their respective Sick Leave Banks, a period of noticethree (3) teaching days must pass following the exhaustion of the teacher's accumulated sick leave. Teachers who are drawing Withdrawal of days from the Sick Leave Bank at Banks shall be for serious illness on the time a call is made for replenishment part of the bank will be continued as members Employee only. It does not cover illness on the part of the bankEmployee's family or elective surgery on the part of the Employee. It does cover pregnancy related problems providing the doctor has signed a written statement that the woman is medically unable to return to work. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days draw benefits from the date their employment resumes Teacher Retirement System or who draw Worker's Compensation benefits will cease to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning withdraw from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interviewBanks. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply Application for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of Banks will be made to the contributing member in accordance with District Superintendent. At no time can more days be withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Bank(s) than have been contributed by the teachers to the District's Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitBank.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The Union and the District agree to discuss the legal and financial implications related to the possible creation of a sick leave bank. These discussions will take place at the Professional Issues Committee (PIC) during the term of this Agreement but no later than the June 2012 meeting of the bargaining unit who elects PIC. MEMORANDA OF AGREEMENT/UNDERSTANDING Regarding Nurses Work Schedule Regarding Discipline Regarding Federation of Teachers Use of District Email System Regarding Alternative Pay Regarding Administrative Intern Process Regarding a Professional Issues Committee Regarding Ideal Day Regarding Workload Clarification Regarding Special Education Professional Issues Committee Regarding Post Employment Health Insurance Regarding Special Education, English Language Learners Professional Development Regarding Class Size Regarding Sixth Grade to participate Middle School Transition Process Labor Management Joint Training Sessions Carts and Portables Regarding: Nurses Work Schedule The Federation and the District acknowledge that a nurse’s daily work schedule can fluctuate dramatically due to the nature of the work and requirements of the position. It is understood that injuries, life threatening emergencies and other health and safety related issues are unpredictable and therefore make it difficult for nurses to plan a scheduled time for completing and processing required medical reports and special education documentation. Nurses may meet with their principal and jointly develop a work schedule that includes a daily 30 minute period within the normal workday established for the purpose of processing and completing student data and reporting. Service to students must not be adversely affected by this schedule and emergency and other health/safety related situations that require immediate attention must continue to be provided throughout the entire workday. Nurses may use this scheduled time to complete medical reports, special education documentation and perform other related duties as may be required. It is understood that this scheduled time is not guaranteed and is not considered to be a daily preparation period as provided for classroom teachers. Further, this provision is not subject to grievance or additional compensation as provided under the loss of preparation time for classroom teachers. This provision will expire with the termination of this agreement on June 30, 2013. INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 625 SAINT XXXX FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL NO. 28 Chair, Board of Education President Executive Director of Human Resources Organizer Assistant Director, Employee/Labor Relations Date Date Discipline This Memorandum of Understanding is by and between the Board of Education, Independent School District No. 625, (hereinafter “Employer”), and the Saint Xxxx Federation of Teachers Local No. 28, exclusive representative for teachers in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day Saint Xxxx Public Schools (hereinafter “Union”). The Federation is the exclusive representative of teachers in all matters relating to a disciplinary action. It is entered into for the sole and exclusive purpose of establishing, for a specified and limited period of time, the teacher discipline procedure described herein. This Memorandum shall be effective for the duration of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify 2011-2013 Labor Agreement and shall expire on that date without further obligation for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days continuation on either of the date parties. Disciplinary actions commenced during the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment life of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank 2011-2013 Labor Agreement will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current considered subject to this process and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish completed under its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitprovisions.
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Samples: www.nctq.org
Sick Leave Bank. Any member of Teachers who use up their accumulated sick time may apply to the bargaining unit who elects to participate in sick leave bank for additional time using the proper forms. If the bank is overdrawn (as determined by the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day Committee) teachers will receive a prorated share of the member's days needed for each day contributed by the teachers. Sick bank usage shall be limited to one hundred eighty (180) days’ maximum lifetime coverage; except, however, where one or more maternity-related disability periods occur, the affected teacher’s lifetime maximum shall be increased to two hundred ten (210) days. At the point at which the employee has exhausted the 180-day long-term disability waiting period, they shall not be entitled to further sick bank day withdrawals. Employees who reach the 180-day LTD qualification point must make application for LTD benefits. Employees who have remaining sick leave may, but shall not be required to, delay the onset of the LTD benefit and continue using the personally accumulated sick leave until such time as that leave is exhausted. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be composed of an Association Sick Bank Chair and the superintendent and shall meet at monthly HEA/District meetings as needed. This committee shall be empowered to approve or disapprove all such applications and determine the number of days allowable if approved. The Association Sick Bank Chair and/or Superintendent shall be allowed to bring other persons to the committee meeting for information as needed with prior notice of at least one school day. The teacher receiving such an allowance from the bank shall not be expected to repay the day(s) so provided. If such application is not approved, those absences shall be without remuneration. Bank days deposited each year by the teachers will accumulate in the bank from year to year less withdrawals. Teachers are responsible for requesting leave from the bank in accordance with the guidelines. No leave will be granted until all accumulated sick leave is exhausted. Teachers are not expected to repay the bank when the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipCommittee approves their withdrawal. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days Abuse of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's teacher’s sick leave allowance may result in denial of sick bank benefits by the committee. The personnel department will continue to assist the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from committee in processing claims and in record keeping. The Association will define, indemnify and hold the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from district and board harmless regarding any claim related in any way to administering the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the sick bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current The Association has the right to choose legal counsel and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank settle any and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leaveall claims. The operation board is required to give adequate advance notice of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitany claims being asserted.
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the bargaining unit The Frankfort-Elberta Area Support Staff who elects wish to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's initially join a sick leave to bank may do so only before the Sick Leave Bank last Friday of September of that year by authorizing in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than writing that one (l1) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's be taken from their sick leave to for the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current year and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute credited to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave Membership will be informed continuing as long as the Employee remains employed with the school district. The Board of Education will match up to one half (1/2) the total sick bank membership each year. (Example: If 22 sick bank members, 11 days). Each member will authorize one (1) day each year until a maximum shall be attained. One (1) credited sick leave day each year will be deducted from each member of the Sick Leave Bank sick leave bank until such time as member days and matching Board-contributed days reach the one hundred twenty (120) day maximum. Such deduction shall not require an individual bank member's authorization. It is understood by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, parties that it may take several years for the sick bank total to reach the maximum. The maximum shall be one hundred twenty (120) days plus the responsibility membership minus one. If during any school year the number of accumulated banked sick leave days drops below twice the teacher to report to number of sick bank member participants, the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing Board shall deduct one day of their (1) accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment day from each member of the sick leave bank. This deduction may be made without individual sick leave bank as provided member authorization, but the individual sick leave bank members shall be notified that the deduction was made. The maximum number of days that any member shall be required to give in this Article 6:2. Contributing any one (1) year shall be two (2); however, individual members may apply for withdrawal from elect to donate more. Any Employee who is a member can draw on the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of after his/her accumulated sick leaveleave and personal business days have been depleted. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of Employees who have at least two (2) teachers years of experience with the district may be awarded up to forty (40) days over the life of their employment with the Frankfort-Elberta Area Schools provided written application is made to the Sick Bank Board. Employees may join the sick leave bank after two (2) years in the district. Any member who withdraws from participation in the sick leave bank may not rejoin the sick leave bank. Any sick days that have been properly deducted from a sick bank member's accumulated sick leave total will stay in the bank and not be re-credited to the member's accumulated total should he/she decide to end his/her participation in the sick bank. A Board shall be selected to administer the Sick Leave Bank. Two members shall be selected by the UNION Board of Education and one administrator selected two by the Superintendent which participating members. A majority of this Sick Bank Board shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals have the authority to grant sick leave days from the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitsick leave bank.
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Samples: Master Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The Sick Leave Bank Committee is responsible for managing the Sick Leave Bank, rendering determinations with respect to grants of the bargaining unit who elects to participate in leave from the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the and for receiving applications from eligible employees covered by this contract. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall consist of the Superintendent or Business Administrator, one school committee member, and two association members. The Sick Leave Bank Committee is charged with providing grants of Sick Leave to those support staff employees under its jurisdiction who are disabled as a result of a prolonged or catastrophic illness or injury, and who have no remaining unused Sick Leave/Personal Leave in order to qualify for Bank membershiptheir personal account. Such contributions must grants of Sick Leave from Bank shall be made within 30 calendar days by a majority vote of the date Committee after the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days receipt of a call for replenishment written request from a support staff employee together with any medical certification of illness or injury as may be required by the Committee. The vote of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2Committee shall be final and not subject to the grievance procedure and/or arbitration. Whenever the number The Sick Leave Bank Committee may not provide grants of Sick Leave totaling more than one hundred and eighty (180) days (prorated for part-time employees) to any individual employee during any five-year period. The maximum accumulation of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than shall not exceed two and one (l) half times the number of members participating members. In the event the total accumulated sick leave days in the bank becomes less than one half the allowable maximum accumulation, then each participating employee shall be assessed one or two days of their personal entitlement of sick leave and such days shall be added to the bargaining unit, bank. No more than two days of personal sick leave may be assessed per participating employee in any one school year. A grant of sick leave for an employee having less than a full time assignment shall provide for the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar dayspayment of a per diem rate of pay prorated in accordance with the prorated pay policy for part-time employees. Any member An employee who is not eligible to receive sick leave pay cannot receive grants of sick leave from the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in sick leave bank. In the case of assessment of sick leave days of part-time employees for the purpose of crediting the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an with additional day of the member's sick leave to days, the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current pro-rationing rule shall not apply and said employees’ personal accumulated sick leave at entitlement shall be debited by the number of hours necessary to equal a full time a call is made employee’s normal work day for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a each day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute credited to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from Any unused sick leave will remaining in the bank at the end of any school year shall automatically be informed carried over to the next school year. Membership must be decided during an open enrollment period in September of each year. Anyone who wishes to join must contribute two (2) days to the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office sick bank at the time of enrollment. New members cannot draw from the bank during their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall first year of membership. The Association will be the responsibility notified in writing of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day current balance of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment no later than October 1st of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitacademic year.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any A voluntary teacher sick leave bank is in existence. A new member must contribute one (1) sick leave day each year for three years. In order to qualify for membership in the sick leave bank, a teacher wishing to participate shall notify the designee of the bargaining unit who elects Board in writing of his/her intention to participate on or before the last school day of September. Such authorization shall remain in force until the participating teacher withdraws from the program in writing. In order to qualify for sick leave benefits pursuant to Schedule A, a teacher must begin to participate in the sick leave bank at his/her first opportunity for enrollment. If the teacher fails to participate in the sick leave bank during the first year of eligibility, his/her benefits under the sick leave bank shall be governed by Schedule B. Upon exhaustion of accrued personal illness days, any member may borrow additional personal illness days according to whether he/she qualifies for Schedule A benefits or Schedule B benefits. SCHEDULE A 0 - 5 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 10 day 6 - 8 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 25 days 9 - 12 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 35 days 13 - 16 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 45 days 17 - 20 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 55 days Over 20 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 65 days SCHEDULE B 0 - 5 years participation in sick leave bank - 10 days 6 - 8 years participation in sick leave bank - 25 days 9 - 12 years participation in sick leave bank - 35 days 13 - 16 years participation in sick leave bank - 45 days 17 - 20 years participation in sick leave bank - 55 days Over 20 year’s participation in sick leave bank - 65 days Requests for the use of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day shall be made by presentation of the member's sick leave sufficient medical evidence (i.e., a medical slip) to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipCommittee here under provided. Such contributions must Additional Days may be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in borrowed from the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of if and only if, a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar teacher has repaid any previously borrowed days. Any member Upon resumption of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in employment, said teacher will repay the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day the personal illness days owed as noted below. On October 1 of the member's sick leave each school year (beginning with 2003-2004), a teacher shall repay days to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar based on their accumulated sick leave at that time, and the following schedule: Sick Leave Days Accumulated Days Repaid per Year 21 or more 5 At any time a teacher wishes to pay a greater number of days, or all the days from owed, he/she may do so. If a teacher dies or retires before his debt is repaid, any days remaining in his sick leave account shall be placed in the date sick leave bank up to the number of noticedays owed. Teachers who After those days are drawing placed in the sick leave bank, the debt shall be considered repaid. Said teacher must have contributed, or will contribute, three (3) sick leave days from total to remain a member of the sick leave bank. When the days in the bank drop below 200 days, contributions at the rate of one (1) sick day per member per year will begin the next school year. Such contributions shall continue until the bank has amassed at least 300 sick days at the end of the school year. The members will not have to contribute again until the sick bank has fewer than 200 days at the end of the school year. As of June 30, 2002, data relative to the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as maintained in the Central Office with utilization reports to the Union due on October 31 of each year, beginning with October 31, 2002. A Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of three (3) Union members of appointed by PEPC and one (1) administrator appointed by the Superintendent will be established. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will review all applicants desiring to borrow personal illness days from the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed The decision of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it Committee shall be the responsibility of the teacher final. It is specifically agreed that illnesses or ailments due to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank prior existing conditions, which existed within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee period of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals years prior to the Superintendentteacher’s enrollment in the bank, are specifically excluded and the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall not allow applicants to borrow personal illness days from the bank for a condition that existed within a period of two (2) years prior to the applicant’s enrollment in the bank. The Committee administration shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number provide each new teacher with a sick leave bank application not later than their first contract day of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitemployment.
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Samples: www.hebronschools.k12.in.us:443
Sick Leave Bank. Any faculty member of District #145 may belong to the bargaining unit who elects sick leave bank if he/she agrees to donate one full day of his/her annual or accumulated sick leave to the bank each year that he/she wishes to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute plan. Xxxx donated to the bank may not be withdrawn if the member decides to withdraw from the plan at a later date. Membership will only be taken during the first five (5) days (working days) of the teacher’s contract. The association agrees to provide the Office of the Superintendent with a list of those members of the teaching staff who agree to donate one day of the member's their annual or accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. This list will be made available on the end of the fifth working day of the contract year. The Superintendent’s Office agrees to be responsible for the bookkeeping necessary for the Sick Leave Bank. Any member who has contributed to the plan in the current contract year may draw out days of sick leave only after he/she has expended the sum of his/her annual and accumulated sick leave. Unused days in the bank will expire at the end of the contract year. When any participating member has used the entire amount of his/her annual and accumulated sick leave, application may be made to the Executive Council of the Education Association requesting additional days of sick leave. Valid applications for additional sick leave will be granted by the Executive Council, and a withdrawal will be made from the Sick Leave Bank in order the amount requested whenever possible. Withdrawals are not limited to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in deposited by the Sick Leave Bank individuals, but are based on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members days requested. The Application Form is attached as Attachment “D”. By June 20, the president of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave Education Association will give to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date Superintendent’s Office a list of notice. Teachers teachers who are drawing will receive days from the Sick Leave Bank at Bank. Payroll adjustments will be made in July, July and August, or August paychecks. The District agrees to honor days of sick leave granted by the time a call is made for replenishment Executive Council of the bank will be continued as Association, in amount not to exceed the total number of days donated by the members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time Bank. The days of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from granted by the Sick Leave Bank for reasons are intended to be used only in case of prolonged or continuing personal illness or incapacitating accident injury and or other conditions noted in the Negotiated Agreement under sick leave. Teachers working beyond the regular 186-day contract will be excluded from the provisions of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsBank, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitduring their extended contract period.
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Samples: Negotiated Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to participate in the The Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day will be operated by Trustees made up of officers of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar daysAssociation. Any Association member of may voluntarily join the bargaining unit Bank who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree willing to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected of his/her personal sick days to the Bank during the enrollment period to be determined by the UNION and one administrator selected Trustees from time to time when the Trustees determine the Bank so requires. New Association members must apply within thirty (30) days of initial employment. Participation withdrawal from the Bank may be at any time. Said individual may not withdraw his/her donated sick days. Withdrawal must be done in writing. Individuals may withdraw Bank days from the Bank only after all personal sick days have been used. Application for Bank days may be made only when an individual is affected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals a catastrophic illness or accident determined by medical certification. Application will be made to the SuperintendentTrustees. Beginning a school year, an individual unable to return to active teaching or secretarial duty who is entitled to annual sick leave must draw from his/her annual sick leave before reapplying for the Bank. At the end of the school year, any unused sick days remaining in the Bank will be carried over to the next year. If in the judgment of the Trustees the individual qualifies, the Trustees shall submit the request to the Board. If the Board agrees with the Trustees, the Board will arrange payment to the employee. If the Board rejects the request, the Board will notify the Trustees of the Bank. A contributor will be entitled to ninety (90) Bank days in a school year at which time an individual may reapply. N.J.S.A. 18A:30-6 and Article VII of this Agreement will apply when Sick Leave Bank days have been exhausted. Should the Bank be dissolved, each contributing member will receive an equal amount, or fraction thereof, of the remaining Sick Leave Bank days not to exceed the original amount each individual contributed. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases parties acknowledge that the decision(s) rendered by decision of the Committee Board shall be final and bindingbinding and shall not be reviewable by a court or agency of competent jurisdiction or subject to the grievance procedure of this agreement. The total number cost of accumulative days in the bank substitute or the estimated cost of the substitute shall be deducted from each additional sick day granted. For teachers, the actual cost of a substitute shall not exceed two times the number of members Step 1BA of the bargaining unitnegotiated guide and the estimated cost of a substitute shall not exceed the per diem rate of substitute pay. For secretaries, the actual or estimated cost of a substitute shall not exceed the hourly rate established by the Board. A day’s salary is defined as 1/200th of the annual salary for teachers and ten (10) month secretaries and 1/240 for twelve (12) month secretaries. The Board and the Association shall maintain a current accounting of the Bank, to include members who have joined, sick leave days utilized and sick leave days on deposit in the Bank. A joint accounting will take place in June of each year.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member A Sick Leave Bank consists of the bargaining unit who elects accumulated sick leave days contributed by Educational Support Service staff members. All Educational Support Service personnel earning sick leave days are eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank must will be funded as follows: • Participation in the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary. After one academic year of service, a staff member is eligible to contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Bank and to make a request for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank in order Bank. • Each sick day donated will be commensurate with the staff member’s contracted work day. For example, a staff member who works six hours a day will donate a sick day equivalent to qualify for Bank membershipsix hours. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of • Unused days in the Sick Leave Bank on as of June 30th of each year will roll over to the first following school year. • If necessary, an additional sick day will be assessed whenever the total number of a new semester days in the bank is less than one fifth (l1/5) times the number of members of the bargaining unitparticipating members. No more than two days per year will be assessed. For example, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation if 100 Educational Support Service personnel are participating in the Sick Leave Bank must Bank, each eligible staff member will contribute an additional day the appropriate number of the member's sick leave hours to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar when the number of sick days from falls below 20 days (160 hours). Administration of the date Sick Leave Bank plan will be managed by Assistant Superintendent of noticeHuman Resources and two representatives of the Educational Support Service staff. Teachers who are drawing The committee will grant days from the Sick Leave Bank at based on the time following: • The Sick Leave Bank is intended to cover individuals who have experienced a call is made for replenishment of the bank catastrophic illness or accident. • Medical reports from licensed medical doctors will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current required and accumulated must be provided to receive sick leave at hours from the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank Sick Leave Bank. These reports will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day submitted to the bank Assistant Superintendent-Human Resources on the first day a form developed for this purpose. • The staff member must have an illness or accident requiring an absence of the new school year next followingmore than five consecutive work days. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will • The staff member must have 30 calendar used all their sick days, personal days, and, if applicable, vacation days, before they are eligible to use any sick days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interviewBank. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank • The staff member may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated only request sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing their own illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with injury. Staff members may not request sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank rulesbecause of the illness or injury of immediate family members. Approved • The maximum number of days granted for an illness or accident will be 20 days per illness/accident. Days awarded will be retroactive to the first day of eligibility. A staff member may make a maximum of two separate requests for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin in any school year if the reasons for the requests are not related. More information regarding the Educational Support Service sick leave bank can be found on the Staff Connections website (xxx.xxxxxx000.xxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by clicking on the Support Staff link. Family Medical Leave: The Family Medical Leave Act provides for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for eligible employees on an annual basis. Additional information about Family Medical Leave (Board Policy 5:185) and eligibility for this type of leave is available upon depletion request from the Office of accumulated Human Resources. Personal Leave: Class I, II, III, IV, and V employees are eligible for personal leave. Personal leave is to be used to attend to personal matters that cannot be attended to any time other than during work hours. Personal leave will be allocated as follows: Completed Years of Service Personal Leave (reported to the employee in hours) 10 + 4 days Personal leave shall not be used for the purpose of secondary employment, recreational (extended) weekends or for recreational purposes in general, or for the purpose of extending vacation or holiday periods. Personal leave can be used to conduct legal business, observe religious holidays, attend funerals not covered by sick leave, or attend to family matters (e.g., weddings, graduations, taking a child to college, accompanying a child on a field trip). The operation Personal leave need not be used when an employee is called to jury duty. Educational Support Service Personnel should request personal leave by using the appropriate system supplied by the Office of Human Resources. When possible, the personal leave request should be submitted no less than two days in advance of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of absence. Employees are not required to disclose the reason for requesting personal leave except in the following situations: when the request is for two (2) teachers selected consecutive days or more; is adjacent to a holiday (e.g., the Friday before the Labor Day weekend, the Tuesday after President’s Day) or vacation period (e.g. summer, Thanksgiving, winter or spring break); is the Friday before parent conference week in November; is during any parent/teacher conference day (10 or 12 month employees); is during a teacher institute day (10 or 12 month employees), before or during a school day with a half day of instruction, or is during the months of May and June. The reason should be submitted in writing through the appropriate system. All personal leave requests are subject to review by the UNION building principal and one administrator selected subject to review and final approval by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records Assistant Superintendent-Human Resources. Educational support service personnel should not assume approval of deposits a personal leave request if it involves one of the situations outlined in the preceding paragraph. These requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. In the event that an employee has exhausted all personal leave and/or requests a day off without pay for a reason that would not allow for the use of a paid personal day, the personal leave request should be completed and withdrawals submitted through appropriate system. Educational support service personnel should not assume approval of day off without pay. These requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Unused days will rollover into accumulated sick leave at the end of the fiscal year. Class VI employees are not entitled to personal leave. For employees working less than a 7.5 hours day, a day of absence refers to the Superintendentamount of time an employee would have worked on that day. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsFor example, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall an employee who takes personal leave on a half-day of instruction for students will be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times charged the number of members hours that he/she would have worked on that half- day. In the event that a new employee leaves the District before the end of the bargaining unitschool year, a compensating adjustment will be made to the final paycheck for the employee if more personal leave days have been taken than have been earned (similar to the process used with sick leave).
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Samples: Geneva Community Unit
Sick Leave Bank. Upon the date of execution of this Agreement, a Sick Leave Bank may be established for members of this bargaining, if such bank does not currently exist. Every sick leave bank that exists at any institution prior to the effective date of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been established pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and any employee who is a member of any such bank on the effective date of this Agreement may remain a member thereof subject to the terms and conditions of this section. During the term of this Agreement, an employee who is not a member of the Sick Leave Bank may become so by assigning to the Bank one (1) or more full days of his personal sick leave accumulation, during the annual thirty (30) day period established by the Union/Management Committee for such purpose. A member of the Sick Leave bank shall be eligible to draw upon the Bank after the exhaustion of the member's personal sick leave, vacation leave, personal leave accumulation as well as any compensatory days. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a joint Union /Management committee with majority representation of Union members. The Committee shall establish applicable rules and regulations not in conflict with this Article. This Local Union/Management committee will determine at what level the Sick Bank will be replenished. However, members can donate one or more full days each time it is required that the Bank be replenished. Any member of the bargaining unit Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who elects has exhausted his/her personal sick leave accumulation shall assign such additional full day or days as of the date on which such member is next entitled to participate in personal sick leave. A member of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day shall begin drawing on the Bank only upon presentation of the member's sick leave a medical certificate satisfactory to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipCommittee. Such contributions must medical certificate shall be made within 30 calendar days signed by a physician and shall set forth the nature of the date the person begins employment employee's illness or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2disability and its anticipated duration. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed A unanimous vote of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it Committee shall be required to authorize the responsibility of employee to begin drawing on the teacher to report to Sick Leave Bank. After an employee has drawn on the Human Resources Office Bank for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank ten (10) working days, his/her case shall be reviewed by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons Committee which may, by unanimous affirmative vote, authorize the employee to continue drawing on the Bank. This process shall be recreated after each successive period often (10) working days up to a maximum of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of sixty (60) days. Notwithstanding the contributing member in accordance with foregoing, any employee drawing on the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved may at any time be disqualified from continuing to draw on the Bank by unanimous vote of the Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated Committee. Any personal vacation leave, sick leave. The operation of leave or personal leave which accrues to an employee during a period in which he/she is drawing on the bank and withdrawals therefrom Sick Leave Bank shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals credited automatically to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitSick Leave Bank.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member A Sick Leave Bank consists of the bargaining unit who elects accumulated sick leave days contributed by Educational Support Service staff members. All Educational Support Service personnel earning sick leave days are eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank must will be funded as follows: Participation in the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary. After one academic year of service, a staff member is eligible to contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Bank and to make a request for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank in order Bank. Each sick day donated will be commensurate with the staff member’s contracted work day. For example, a staff member who works six hours a day will donate a sick day equivalent to qualify for Bank membershipsix hours. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of Unused days in the Sick Leave Bank on as of June 30th of each year will roll over to the first following school year. If necessary, an additional sick day will be assessed whenever the total number of a new semester days in the bank is less than one fifth (l1/5) times the number of members of the bargaining unitparticipating members. No more than two days per year will be assessed. For example, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation if 100 Educational Support Service personnel are participating in the Sick Leave Bank must Bank, each eligible staff member will contribute an additional day the appropriate number of the member's sick leave hours to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar when the number of sick days from falls below 20 days (160 hours). Administration of the date Sick Leave Bank plan will be managed by Assistant Superintendent of noticeHuman Resources and two representatives of the Educational Support Service staff. Teachers who are drawing The committee will grant days from the Sick Leave Bank at based on the time following: The Sick Leave Bank is intended to cover individuals who have experienced a call is made for replenishment of the bank catastrophic illness or accident. Medical reports from licensed medical doctors will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current required and accumulated must be provided to receive sick leave at hours from the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank Sick Leave Bank. These reports will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day submitted to the bank Assistant Superintendent-Human Resources on the first day a form developed for this purpose. The staff member must have an illness or accident requiring an absence of the new school year next followingmore than five consecutive work days. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will The staff member must have 30 calendar used all their sick days, personal days, and, if applicable, vacation days, before they are eligible to use any sick days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interviewBank. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank The staff member may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated only request sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing their own illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with injury. Staff members may not request sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank rulesbecause of the illness or injury of immediate family members. Approved The maximum number of days granted for an illness or accident will be 20 days per illness/accident. Days awarded will be retroactive to the first day of eligibility. A staff member may make a maximum of two separate requests for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin in any school year if the reasons for the requests are not related. More information regarding the Educational Support Service sick leave bank can be found on the Staff Connections website (xxx.xxxxxx000.xxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by clicking on the Support Staff link. Family Medical Leave: The Family Medical Leave Act provides for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for eligible employees on an annual basis. Additional information about Family Medical Leave (Board Policy #4430.01) and eligibility for this type of leave is available upon depletion request from the Office of accumulated Human Resources. Personal Leave: Class I, II, III, IV, and V employees are eligible for personal leave. Personal leave is to be used to attend to personal matters that cannot be attended to any time other than during work hours. Personal leave will be allocated as follows: Completed Years of Service Personal Leave (reported to the employee in hours) 10 + 4 days Personal leave shall not be used for the purpose of secondary employment, recreational (extended) weekends or for recreational purposes in general, or for the purpose of extending vacation or holiday periods. Personal leave can be used to conduct legal business, observe religious holidays, attend funerals not covered by sick leave, or attend to family matters (e.g., weddings, graduations, taking a child to college, accompanying a child on a field trip). The operation Personal leave need not be used when an employee is called to jury duty. Educational Support Service Personnel should request personal leave by using the appropriate system supplied by the Office of Human Resources. When possible, the personal leave request should be submitted no less than two days in advance of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of absence. Employees are not required to disclose the reason for requesting personal leave except in the following situations: when the request is for two (2) teachers selected consecutive days or more; is adjacent to a holiday (e.g., the Friday before the Labor Day weekend, the Tuesday after President’s Day) or vacation period (e.g. summer, Thanksgiving, winter or spring break); is the Friday before parent conference week in November; is during any parent/teacher conference day (10 or 12 month employees); is during a teacher institute day (10 or 12 month employees), before or during a school day with a half day of instruction, or is during the months of May and June. The reason should be submitted in writing through the appropriate system. All personal leave requests are subject to review by the UNION building principal and one administrator selected subject to review and final approval by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records Assistant Superintendent-Human Resources. Educational support service personnel should not assume approval of deposits a personal leave request if it involves one of the situations outlined in the preceding paragraph. These requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. In the event that an employee has exhausted all personal leave and/or requests a day off without pay for a reason that would not allow for the use of a paid personal day, the personal leave request should be completed and withdrawals submitted through appropriate system. Educational support service personnel should not assume approval of day off without pay. These requests will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Unused days will rollover into accumulated sick leave at the end of the fiscal year. Class VI employees are not entitled to personal leave. For employees working less than a 7.5 hours day, a day of absence refers to the Superintendentamount of time an employee would have worked on that day. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsFor example, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall an employee who takes personal leave on a half-day of instruction for students will be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times charged the number of members hours that he/she would have worked on that half- day. In the event that a new employee leaves the District before the end of the bargaining unitschool year, a compensating adjustment will be made to the final paycheck for the employee if more personal leave days have been taken than have been earned (similar to the process used with sick leave).
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Samples: www.geneva304.org
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The purpose of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank shall be to provide extended paid sick leave for employees who have exhausted their personally accumulated sick leave and due to personal serious illness or disability as determined by a physician, are unable to return to work. Short-term illnesses (such as maternity disability) are not subject to the use of the following Sick Leave Bank provisions. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary. Each employee shall be given an application form at the beginning of each school year. An employee desiring to participate shall sign the application, return it to his/her building representative and will contribute one (1) day of his/her accumulated sick leave. Each year thereaGer, each employee will donate one (1) day to the Bank. Any days transferred by the employee shall remain in the Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Education shall not be liable for any days transferred and shall not contribute any days to the Sick Leave Bank. The total number of days to accumulate in the Bank will not exceed two hundred (200). Once the total maximum of days has been reached, the Bank will be closed for membership, except any new employee who was not given an opportunity to donate shall be allowed to donate one (1) day. If it becomes necessary to seek additional days to maintain the Bank at its maximum level of two hundred (200) days, additional days will be deducted from employees' personal accumulations on a rotating basis. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will conduct the random selection to determine who will transfer personal accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. Only members of the Sick Leave Bank shall be allowed to withdraw days from the Bank. In order to remain an active member, an employee must contribute to the Bank when asked by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Once an employee withdraws from the Bank or elects not to seek membership, he/she shall not be eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute Bank. No member shall be allowed to draw more than twenty (20) days during one day (1) school year. The balance of days accumulated at the member's sick leave end of one (1) school year shall carry over to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipfollowing year. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of Should the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the total number of days in withdrawn from the Sick Leave Bank on equal the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times balance at any time, the number of members Bank will cease operations until it can be replenished at the start of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar daysnext school year. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee A committee consisting of two (2) teachers members selected by the UNION Association and one administrator two (2) members of the administration will be selected by to govern the Superintendent which shall furnish use of the Sick Leave Bank. A teacher will be entitled to draw from the Bank, provided the employee has exhausted his/her personally accumulated sick leave and personal leave days and has made written records of deposits and withdrawals application to the SuperintendentCommittee for withdrawal of days from the Bank. Should the employee be unable to make application, his/her designee may do so on his/her behalf. The Committee application shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsstate the reason for the inability to return to work, and in all cases along with a physician's statement specifying the decision(s) rendered by nature of the Committee shall be final and bindingemployee's illness. The total number of accumulative days in the bank application shall not exceed two times also state the number of members of days requested to be used from the bargaining unit.Bank. Before granting the request, the Committee must elicit affirmative answers to the following:
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member A Sick Leave Bank consists of the bargaining unit who elects accumulated sick leave days contributed by Educational Support Service staff members. All Educational Support Service personnel earning sick leave days are eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank must will be funded as follows: Participation in the Sick Leave Bank is voluntary. After one academic year of service, a staff member is eligible to contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Bank and to make a request for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank in order Bank. Each sick day donated will be commensurate with the staff member’s contracted work day. For example, a staff member who works six hours a day will donate a sick day equivalent to qualify for Bank membershipsix hours. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of Unused days in the Sick Leave Bank on as of June 30th of each year will roll over to the first following school year. If necessary, an additional sick day will be assessed whenever the total number of a new semester days in the bank is less than one fifth (l1/5) times the number of members of the bargaining unitparticipating members. No more than two days per year will be assessed. For example, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation if 100 Educational Support Service personnel are participating in the Sick Leave Bank must Bank, each eligible staff member will contribute an additional day the appropriate number of the member's sick leave hours to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar when the number of sick days from falls below 20 days (160 hours). Administration of the date Sick Leave Bank plan will be managed by Assistant Superintendent of noticeHuman Resources and two representatives of the Educational Support Service staff. Teachers who are drawing The committee will grant days from the Sick Leave Bank at based on the time following: The Sick Leave Bank is intended to cover individuals who have experienced a call is made for replenishment of the bank catastrophic illness or accident. Medical reports from licensed medical doctors will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current required and accumulated must be provided to receive sick leave at hours from the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank Sick Leave Bank. These reports will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day submitted to the bank Assistant Superintendent-Human Resources on the first day a form developed for this purpose. The staff member must have an illness or accident requiring an absence of the new school year next followingmore than five consecutive work days. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will The staff member must have 30 calendar used all their sick days, personal days, and, if applicable, vacation days, before they are eligible to use any sick days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interviewBank. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank The staff member may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated only request sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing their own illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with injury. Staff members may not request sick leave days from the Sick Leave Bank rulesbecause of the illness or injury of immediate family members. Approved The maximum number of days granted for an illness or accident will be 20 days per illness/accident. Days awarded will be retroactive to the first day of eligibility. A staff member may make a maximum of two separate requests for sick leave from the Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin in any school year if the reasons for the requests are not related. More information regarding the Educational Support Service sick leave bank can be found on the Staff Connections website (xxx.xxxxxx000.xxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) by clicking on the Support Staff link. Family Medical Leave: The Family Medical Leave Act provides for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for eligible employees on an annual basis. Additional information about Family Medical Leave (Board Policy 5:185) and eligibility for this type of leave is available upon depletion request from the Office of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitHuman Resources.
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Samples: Geneva Community Unit
Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the bargaining unit member shall be eligible to participate in a VOLUNTARY district‐wide Sick Leave Bank. The intent is to provide extended sick leave benefits to those persons who elects incur a period of extended illness, injury, or hospitalization. Only those bargaining unit members who donate the required days to the bank shall be eligible to apply to draw from the bank when needed. New participants in the voluntary sick leave bank shall submit written notice between August 15 and September 15 of intent to participate on a form created by the Sick Leave Bank Committee and provided by the Jacksonville School District. If a new employee is hired during the school year he/she may take part in the Sick Leave Bank by submitting intent to participate form provided by the JSD. New bargaining unit members will have two (2) weeks from the first day of employment to decide if he/she wishes to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must Bank. Each employee electing to participate in the bank shall contribute one day two (2) sick days to the sick bank each year until the sick leave bank reaches the minimum capacity of 600 days. In case of depletion of the member's sick leave bank below 200 days all bargaining unit members enrolled will automatically have one (1) sick day deducted and added to the sick bank. HR will notify all members of the sick bank in writing of the depletion of sick bank days and that an automatic one (1) sick day will be taken out of their personal sick days on said date that it will occur. Membership is automatically renewed each year unless a member submits written notice of cancellation by September 15 of the school year in which cancellation is desired. A participant may cancel membership by indicating in writing directed to the attention of HR. HR shall then transfer the letter of cancellation to the Sick Leave Bank in order Committee within 5 business days after receipt. Cancellation of sick leave bank membership, regardless of reason, shall mean forfeiture of any claim to qualify for Bank their contributed days and benefits of membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment The intent of the bank is to provide additional financial protection to those bargaining unit members who incur a period of catastrophic illness, prolonged illness, serious injury, or hospitalization, as provided verified in this Article 6:2writing by a physician, if requested by the Committee. Whenever The bank is not applicable to any employee utilizing days for illness in the number family except in emergency situations following approval of days in the Superintendent and the Sick Leave Bank Committee. It remains the intent of both parties to strive to retain good attendance in the district. It is not the purpose of this bank to provide additional days to bargaining unit members who have exhausted their accumulated sick leave and are applying for days because of colds, sore throats, flu, or some other non‐catastrophic illness. Beginning with the fourth (4th) unpaid day after the employee has exhausted all of his/her sick, vacation, and personal leave, an employee may be eligible to submit an application (appendix F) to use the Sick Leave Bank. If the employee is eligible, the plan coverage shall be retroactive to include the first (1st) day of eligibility which begins on the first fourth (4th) unpaid consecutive day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of absence. The consecutive day rule does not apply to intermittent absences due to life threatening occurrences. Authorized withdrawals by participating bargaining unit members of the bargaining unit, the Committee sick leave bank shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member be made only upon approval of the bargaining unit who elects sick leave bank committee and their decision shall be final. No one shall draw from the bank until a doctor's certificate of illness is presented to continue participation the sick bank leave committee, certifying that the employee is unable to work due to a prolonged illness, injury, or hospitalization. An employee may be eligible to draw a maximum of sixty (60) days in one (1) school year and a maximum of one hundred eighty (180) days during his/her employment in the District. An employee must notify in writing the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day Committee and the Superintendent or his/her designee at least five (5) working days before returning to work. Upon returning to work, the employee will pay back 25% of their allotted days each year to reimburse half of the member's sick leave to days borrowed from the bank. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will be composed of 3 from association members (with one always appointed by JEA president) and 2 from district administration. They will act on all matters that concern the policies and decisions of the Sick Leave Bank. The admin to work with the associations to create guidelines for this committee; the guidelines will then be adopted in an MOU. Once completed, these guidelines shall be listed in this contract and subsequent contracts. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall hold an initial meeting prior to October 1 of each school year. The purpose of the initial meeting will be to review the qualifications and procedures of the plan. Subsequent meetings will be held as needed to review applications and determine eligibility. In making decisions, the committee will use the simple majority rule. Following the date of a decision rendered by the Committee, an employee may appeal in writing said decision to the Board of Education within 30 thirty (30) calendar days. All accrued personal and vacation days shall be used before eligibility to request sick bank days. Bargaining unit members requesting days from the date sick bank shall first be required to use a maximum of noticetwice their annual sick day allotment earned at the beginning of the current school year. Teachers For example, an employee who are drawing earns 12 sick days at the beginning of the current school year shall be required to use 24 sick days from those the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment employee has accrued and saved. Any retiring member of the sick bank may donate his/her unused sick days to the sick bank. Any member who is absent for illness or injury due to a work‐related accident (which is compensational under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act) will be continued as members not avail himself/herself to any benefits of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated The voluntary sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times be subject to the number of members grievance procedure contained in this Agreement. This section of the contract shall not be an open issue for subsequent bargaining unitunless both parties agree.
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Samples: cdnsm5-ss13.sharpschool.com
Sick Leave Bank. Any member A Sick Leave Bank shall be maintained at the University, if 50% of the unit members subscribe to such bank or a minimum of one hundred (100) days is donated by the unit members, whichever is less. Such bank shall be maintained for the benefit of all those members of the bargaining unit who elects shall have chosen, pursuant to participate the terms of this Agreement, to become a member thereof. Any employee who is a member of this bank on the effective date of this Agreement shall remain a member thereof subject to the terms and conditions of this section. A unit member from UMass Extension, who was a member of the Non-Unit Sick Leave Bank on October 4, 1995, shall automatically become a member of the USA/MTA Sick Leave Bank without further contribution. During the months of October, February and May, an employee who is not already a member of the Sick Leave Bank may become a member by assigning one (1) or more full days of his/her personal sick leave accumulation to the Bank; provided, however, that on the date of making such assignment the employee shall have accumulated not fewer than three (3) days of personal sick leave. A member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be eligible to draw upon the Bank five working days after the exhaustion of the member's personal sick leave, personal leave, and any compensatory time accumulation, and all but ten (10) days of accrued vacation leave. Once an employee has used up leave in accordance with this section, they shall immediately be eligible to draw days from the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a joint labor-management committee with equal representation between unit members and the administration. In order to maintain membership in the Sick Leave Bank, members must donate one (1) or more full days each year if the balance in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day is less than two (2) times the number of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipmembers. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of If, however, the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number balance of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less greater than one two (l2) times the number of members of in the bargaining unitSick Leave Bank, the Committee annual assessment of days shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar dayscease until such time as the balance of days in the Sick Leave Bank is less than the number of members. Any member of the bargaining unit Bank wishing to remain a member thereof and who elects has exhausted his/her personal sick leave accumulation shall assign such additional full day or days as of the date on which such member is next entitled to continue participation in personal sick leave. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall be authorized to establish the schedule for determining if and when the annual assessment will occur. To be approved to draw from the Sick Leave Bank, a Sick Leave Bank member must submit a completed Sick Leave Bank Application form completed and signed by a physician, which states the nature of the employee’s illness or disability and its anticipated duration. The Sick Leave Bank member must also submit a written statement requesting to use the Sick Leave Bank. After review and a majority affirmative vote by the Sick Leave Bank must contribute Committee, a unit employee may draw upon the Bank. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the period of time the member may draw from the Bank. After an additional day employee has drawn from the Bank for the approved period of the member's sick leave time, not to exceed xxxxxx (90) days, his/her case shall be reviewed by the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from Committee upon the date written request of noticethe employee. Teachers who are drawing days from The employee must provide additional medical documentation to support the continuation of Sick Leave Bank at use. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may, by majority affirmative vote, authorize the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree employee to contribute a day to the bank continue drawing on the first day Bank. The duration of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time each participation shall be determined by a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed majority affirmative vote of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any employee drawing on the Sick Leave Bank may at any time be disqualified from continuing to draw on the Bank by majority vote of the Human Resources Office Sick Leave Bank Committee. Any personal vacation leave, sick leave or personal leave which accrues to an employee during a period in which he/she is drawing on the Sick Leave Bank shall be credited automatically to the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank is intended to be used for short term disabilities where the employee has a reasonable expectation of returning to work. It is not meant as a substitute for long term disability income protection. An employee who is hired into the unit covered by this Agreement, from a position at another Institution of Higher Education where he/she was an active member of the Sick Leave Bank may, within thirty (30) days of the date of such hire, become a member of the Bank at the time University by assigning one or more full days of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated personal sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in Bank. Benefits under this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitprorated for part-time employees.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The parties agree to allow members of the bargaining unit to participate in a Sick Leave Bank. The following provisions shall be basic to the plan. At the start of each school term members of the bargaining unit entering their third full- time year, or beyond, who elects desire to participate in the plan shall have one sick leave day deducted from their accumulation of sick leave days and the day deducted shall be placed in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day Bank. Members of the member's bargaining unit become eligible to withdraw only after contributing one sick leave to day for two consecutive years. A staff member may draw upon the Sick Leave Bank only for personal illness and only in order circumstances where the member has been ill for fifteen (15) consecutive work days, has exhausted their accumulated sick days and only after seven (7) days beyond the exhaustion of sick leave. A staff member may only draw a maximum of forty (40) days from the Sick Leave Bank during one school year and may apply for temporary disability immediately following or concurrently with the use of sick days from the Sick Leave Bank should the employee’s illness warrant. The Sick Leave Bank shall be maintained at a minimum of 250 days. At any time the Sick Leave Bank falls below 250 days, each participating member shall donate one day from their accumulated sick leave. Any vested member unable to qualify contribute because of a lack of accumulated sick days shall donate two days at the start of the next term when they receive their yearly sick days. Previous participating members need not contribute at the start of a new term unless the Sick Leave Bank falls below 250 days. No vested staff member shall be eligible to draw from the Sick Leave Bank except that they have presented proof of an illness that prevents them from working for Bank membershipan extended period of time. Such contributions must proof shall be made within 30 calendar days in the form of a stated diagnosis from the employee’s physician with a prognosis of a possible date to return to work. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by the Association and any rules and regulations needed to operate the plan in compliance with the preceding provisions shall be developed by the Association. Sick Bank will be the responsibility of an NBEA elected executive board member. At the start of each school year the president of the date NBEA will communicate the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days appointed Sick Bank liaison to the superintendent’s designee. All requests for use of a call for replenishment Sick Leave Bank should be addressed to the Vice President of N.B.E.A. Upon request, the Association shall provide the Superintendent with an accounting of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever status of the Sick Leave Bank which shall include the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank request, days used, and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days names of staff who accessed the Sick Leave Bank. The Association shall indemnify and save the Board harmless against all liability that arise from action taken to comply with the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed provisions of the Sick Leave Bank plan, whether those provisions are part of this contract or separately developed by the Human Resources Office at Association to operate the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitplan.
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Samples: Professional Negotiation Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member A voluntary sick leave bank program shall be provided for faculty who meet the eligibility criteria of the bargaining unit sick bank. Human Resources will be responsible for the administration of the sick bank procedures. The purpose of the sick leave bank shall be to provide extended sick leave for faculty members who elects have exhausted their individually accumulated sick leave and due to personal or immediate family or household illness or injury are unable to return to work. Participation in the sick leave bank shall be voluntary. No faculty member who submits application within the specified time limits shall be denied membership. New faculty shall be given a membership application by the Human Resources office at the time of their benefits orientation to participate in the Sick Leave Bank sick leave bank. They must contribute one day complete the application and return it to the Human Resources office within 60 days of their hire date. Copies of the application forms signed by participating faculty shall be submitted to the Association President or designee. Upon receipt of the application, the Human Resources office shall be empowered to deduct the appropriate number of days (0, 1, 2, as specified below) from each faculty member's ’s individually accumulated sick leave and deposit same in the sick leave bank. Membership is continued automatically unless a faculty member who wishes to withdraw from the sick leave gives written notice to the Sick Leave Bank Human Resources office by August 16. A faculty member who voluntarily withdraws from the sick leave bank cannot resume participation at a later date. New faculty who choose to participate in order to qualify for Bank membershipthe sick leave bank shall contribute 2 days the first year of their employment. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days If during any year of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever operation the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on bank falls below 120, each participating faculty member shall contribute 2 days to the first day bank. If during any year of a new semester is less than one (l) times operation the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation days in the Sick Leave Bank must bank ranges from 120 through 300, each participating faculty member shall contribute an additional 1 day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar bank. If in any year the number of days from the date is over 300, no contribution shall be required of noticeparticipating faculty. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time Days deposited shall not be withdrawn when a call is made for replenishment of the bank will faculty member ceases to be continued as members a member of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank at the end of one year shall not exceed two times carry over to the number following year. Should the total of members days withdrawn from the bank equal the balance at any time, the bank shall cease operations until it can be replenished at the start of the bargaining unit.next school year. Operational Guidelines Human Resources will be responsible for the administration of the sick bank procedures. No faculty member shall be allowed to withdraw more than 30 days during one academic year. Should the faculty member be unable to make the application, the Association President or designee may do so on his or her behalf. Before granting the request, the Human Resources office elicit affirmative answers to the following questions:
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. The purpose of the Sick Leave Bank shall be to provide extended paid sick leave for employees who are members of the Greenview Education Organization who have exhausted their personally accumulated sick leave and due to personal serious illness or injury, are unable to return to work. Short-term illnesses and regular maternity care are not subject to the use of the following sick leave bank provisions. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be voluntary. Each employee shall be given an application and return it to the bookkeeper. Each employee shall be given an application form at the beginning of the school year and will contribute two (2) days of his/her accumulated sick leave for the first year membership. Second year membership will also require a donation of two (2) days. Subsequent years will require a donation of one (1) day at the discretion of the Sick Leave Bank committee until a minimum of 120 days are reached. Any new employee who wishes to be a member of the bargaining unit Sick Bank will be required to follow the initiating schedule. In addition, the donation of days by the new employee will receive priority with the Sick Leave Bank committee. A member may begin drawing from the Sick Bank beginning the third year of membership. Any days transferred by the employee shall remain in the Sick Leave Bank. The Board of Education shall not be liable for any days transferred and shall not contribute any days to the Sick Leave Bank. If it becomes necessary to seek additional days to maintain the bank at its minimum level of 120 days, an additional day may be deducted from an employee's personal accumulation on a rotating basis. The Sick Leave Bank committee will conduct the alphabetical selection to determine who will transfer personal accumulated sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank. Only members of the Sick Leave Bank shall be allowed to withdraw days from the Bank. In order to remain an active member, an employee must contribute to the Bank when asked by the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Once an employee withdraws from the Bank or elects not to seek membership, he/she shall only be eligible to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute by reinitiating the requirements. No members shall be allowed to draw more than twenty (20) days during one day school year and no more than forty (40) during his/her employment in the Greenview CUSD #200. The balance of days accumulated at the end of one school year shall carry over to the following year. Should the total number of days withdrawn from the Bank equal the balance at any time, the Bank will cease operations until it can be replenished at the start of the member's sick leave next school year. A committee consisting of two (2) members selected by the GEO and two members of the administration will be selected to govern the use of the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipBank. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of Only members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by will be entitled to draw from the Human Resources Office at Bank provided the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their employee has exhausted his/her personally accumulated sick leave and personal leave days and has made written application to the bank within 30 calendar Committee for withdrawal of days of from the Bank. Should the employee be unable to make application, his/her designee may do so on his behalf. The application shall state the reason for the inability to return to work along with a call for replenishment physician's statement specifying the nature of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leaveemployee's illness. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom application shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times also state the number of members of days requested to be used from the bargaining unit.Bank. Before granting the request, the Committee must elicit affirmative answers to the following:
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member the Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by the CSEA Administrative Unit Sick Leave Bank Committee. The Committee will be appointed by the CSEA President or his/her designee. Use of the bargaining unit Sick Leave Bank may be requested by its members for absences from work consistent with those conditions covered by the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) or for conditions consistent with the Basic Leave Entitlement or Military Family Leave provisions of the FMLA for serious illness or injury that is expected to be at least seven (7) calendar days in duration according to a statement from the employee’s treating physician. This can also include a qualifying disability as defined in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). To be eligible to join the Sick Leave Bank employees must be employed a minimum of twelve (12) months prior to joining the Sick Leave Bank. Employees shall be required to contribute two (2) sick days from their accumulated total to the Sick Leave Bank to enroll at open enrollment. There shall be four (4) open enrollment periods per year, in January, April, July and October, at which time new members may join. There will be no enrollment outside of open enrollment periods. During these open enrollment periods, the Sick Leave Bank Committee may solicit additional days if deemed necessary. A member may donate up to three (3) additional days per open enrollment. Under no circumstances shall any employee be permitted to donate time above and beyond the limits set forth above. Employees who elects wish to participate maintain membership in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's (1) sick leave day annually to the Sick Leave Bank in order prior to qualify for Bank membershipDecember 31 of each year. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit Members who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave have been under repayment to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 or who are currently using Sick Leave Bank hours during the year shall be considered to have met their membership obligation for that calendar year. Employees may apply for Sick Leave Bank hours as soon as practicable for conditions stated above. Sick Leave Bank hours can only be used after the employee has exhausted their own sick leave accruals and any compensatory time accrued. Requests for time from the Sick Leave Bank shall be approved by the CSEA Sick Leave Bank Committee, the respective Department Head or designee, and a representative from the Human Resources Department by a majority vote. The CSEA shall have three (3) votes as part of the voting process when an employee requests time from the Sick Leave Bank. Such requests shall not be unreasonably denied. Once the Sick Leave Bank Committee makes a determination on a request, such determination must be in writing. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall notify the designated person in the Human Resources Department. The Human Resources Department or designee shall arrange a meeting with the Human Resources Department, the respective Department Head, and the Sick Leave Bank Committee designee to vote on the request no later than four (4) days from the date of noticethe written notification to the Human Resources Department unless all parties mutually agree to waive the meeting. Teachers who are drawing A member may borrow a maximum of four (4) days from per week. Coverage by the Sick Leave Bank at shall not exceed twelve (12) weeks per year. Special consideration may be given to extend the twelve (12) weeks in exceptional circumstances. If additional time is needed, the employee must re-apply utilizing the appropriate form. If the employee is incapacitated and unable to re-apply, the Committee shall make such notation on the appropriate form. Repayment shall be based on the number of years the employee has been a call is made for replenishment member of the bank Sick Leave Bank; this will be continued as members different than the number of years of employment with the bankCounty. Teachers Those employees who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as been members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at for 1-3 years will pay back 100% of the time used, employees who have been members of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident 4-7 years will pay back 75% of the contributing member in accordance with time used and employees who have been members of the Sick Leave Bank rulesfor 8 or more years will pay back 50% of the time used. Approved Repayment will be at the rate of one-half sick day per month and shall commence after the member returns to full-time status. In the event a member leaves County employment for any reason while maintaining a due balance to the Sick Leave Bank, reimbursement to the Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leavewill be taken from any final accrual pay out that the employee is entitled to. The operation Human Resources Department shall provide the Unit President and the Sick Leave Bank Committee a list of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsemployees, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members hours used, and the number of hours repaid by the employees on a monthly basis. A complete accounting of the bargaining unitSick Leave Bank status that includes a list of current members and the number of hours donated, requested and granted shall be provided by the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall be given to the Human Resources Department on a quarterly basis.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member A Sick Leave Bank shall be maintained at the University, if 50% of the unit members subscribe to such bank or a minimum of one hundred (100) days is donated by the unit members, whichever is less. Such bank shall be maintained for the benefit of all those members of the bargaining unit who elects shall have chosen, pursuant to participate in the terms of this Agreement, to become a member thereof. Any employee who is a member of this bank on the effective date of this Agreement shall remain a member thereof subject to the terms and conditions of this section. A unit member from UMass Extension, who was a member of the Non-Unit Sick Leave Bank on October 4, 1995, shall automatically become a member of the USA/MTA Sick Leave Bank without further contribution. During the months of October, February, and May an employee who is not already a member of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute may become a member by assigning one day (1) or more full days of his/her personal sick leave accumulation to the Bank; provided, however, that on the date of making such assignment the employee shall have accumulated not fewer than three (3) days of personal sick leave. A member of the Sick Leave Bank shall be eligible to draw upon the Bank five working days after the exhaustion of the member's personal sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar leave, personal leave, and any compensatory time accumulation, and all but ten (10) days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided accrued vacation leave. Once an employee has used up leave in accordance with this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unitsection, the Committee they shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects immediately be eligible to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing draw days from the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank shall be administered by a joint labor-management committee with equal representation between unit members and the administration. Effective February 2008, in order to maintain membership in the Sick Leave Bank, members must donate one (1) or more full days each year, which shall be deducted at the time rate of 1/26th of a call is made day per pay period for replenishment each of the bank will 26 pay periods.However, Sick Leave Bank members may elect to donate more than one (1) day annually. To be continued as members approved to draw from the Sick Leave Bank, a Sick Leave Bank member must submit a completed Sick Leave Bank Application form completed and signed by a physician, which states the nature of the bankemployee’s illness or disability and its anticipated duration. Teachers who have exhausted their current The Sick Leave Bank member must also submit a written statement requesting to use the Sick Leave Bank. After review and accumulated sick leave at a majority affirmative vote by the Sick Leave Bank Committee, a unit employee may draw upon the Bank. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall determine the period of time a call is made the member may draw from the Bank. After an employee has drawn from the Bank for replenishment the approved period of time, not to exceed ninety (90) days, his/her case shall be reviewed by the Sick Leave Bank Committee upon the written request of the bank will be continued as members employee. The employee must provide additional medical documentation to support the continuation of Sick Leave Bank use. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may, by majority affirmative vote, authorize the bank provided they agree employee to contribute a day to the bank continue drawing on the first day Bank. The duration of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time each participation shall be determined by a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed majority affirmative vote of the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any employee drawing on the Sick Leave Bank may at any time be disqualified from continuing to draw on the Bank by majority vote of the Human Resources Office Sick Leave Bank Committee. Any vacation leave, sick leave or personal leave which accrues to an employee during a period in which he/she is drawing on the Sick Leave Bank shall be credited automatically to the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank is intended to be used for short term disabilities where the employee has a reasonable expectation of returning to work. It is not meant as a substitute for long term disability income protection. An employee who is hired into the unit covered by this Agreement, from a position at another institution of higher education where he/she was an active member of the Sick Leave Bank may, within thirty (30) days of the date of such hire, become a member of the Bank at the time University by assigning one or more full days of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated personal sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in Bank. Benefits under this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitprorated for part-time employees.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The Sick Leave Bank is a voluntary bank of teachers’ sick leave days administered by the bargaining unit who elects to participate in district, which may be used for serious illness only by participating teachers. The official record of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute will be housed in the District Office. Any teachers who donate, or have donated in the past, a minimum of one (1) sick leave day will be members of the member's sick leave Sick Leave Bank. Teachers shall not be allowed to request days from the Sick Leave Bank in order unless they have exhausted all of their existing personal leave and sick leave days first. At the beginning of each school year, teachers will have an opportunity to qualify for Bank membershipdonate sick leave days to the sick leave bank. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar Teachers may donate up to 10 sick leave days at this time. Donation of sick leave days to the date sick leave bank is final and irrevocable. Teachers shall provide written notice of their decision to donate days to the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever sick leave bank, and the number of sick leave days to be donated if they choose to donate sick leave days to the sick leave bank, to the Superintendent by the end of the 5th school day of each semester. An account of the number of unused days in the Sick Leave Bank on will be shared with the first day Association electronically at the end of a new semester is less than one (l) times each semester. In the number of members of event that the bargaining unitSick Leave Bank falls below 20 days during the school year, the Committee shall notify all Association President will be informed by the Superintendent. All teachers within l0 calendar will be given the opportunity to donate at least one day, and no more than five days, to the Bank at this time. Any teacher who was not previously a member of the bargaining unit who elects Sick Leave Bank will immediately become a member of the Bank if they choose to continue participation donate at least one day under these circumstances. Days in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day shall be for serious illness on the part of the member's sick leave teacher, spouse, parent or dependent children through age 21. It does not cover elective surgery. Teachers who are drawing retirement benefits under the Teacher Retirement System will not be eligible to draw from the Sick Leave Bank. Doctor’s verification of serious illness may be required by the Sick Leave Bank committee. Days from the Sick Leave Bank may be used non-consecutively pending approval by the Superintendent and the Sick Leave Bank committee. Sick Leave Bank days used for serious illness of a spouse, parent or dependent children through age 21 shall be limited to a cumulative total of ten (10) days per request. A six (6) member committee consisting of one (1) Board Member/Administrator, the Superintendent, and four (4) members of the Association (made up of one teacher from each building currently participating in the bank and the Association President) shall serve as members of the Sick Leave Bank Committee and shall review all requests submitted to the Sick Leave Bank. Requests to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from must be made in writing (electronic mail is sufficient) to the date of notice. Teachers Superintendent and the Association President who are drawing days from will then convene the Sick Leave Bank at Committee as soon as reasonably possible. The Sick Leave Bank Committee may also be convened for the time a call is made for replenishment purpose of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current reviewing procedures and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed provisions of the Sick Leave Bank by upon the Human Resources Office at request of either the time Association or the Board/Administration. The Sick Leave Bank Committee shall have the authority to recommend the dissolution of their orientation interview provided, however, that it the Sick Leave Bank. Such a recommendation shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report submitted to the Human Resources Office KEA membership and Board of Education for such orientation interviewconsideration. Teachers who elect not to continue their The Sick Leave Bank may only be dissolved by a simple majority vote of both the KEA membership in and the bank may rejoin Board of Education. In the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from event that the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with is dissolved, the Sick Leave Bank rulesCommittee will decide how unused sick leave days shall be dispersed. Approved A retiring teacher may donate up to ten (10) sick days to the Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of Bank, provided the bank and withdrawals therefrom donation is received in writing (electronic mail shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2sufficient) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals prior to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be retiring teachers’ final and binding. The total number day of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitservice.
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Samples: Letter of Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to participate A. General Rules and Regulations: Participation in the Sick Leave Bank program is limited to certified personnel and designated administrators who donate to the Bank in the current year and shall be for personal illness. Accumulated sick days must contribute one day be exhausted before days granted from the Sick Leave Bank may be used. The maximum number of days that may be borrowed, not to exceed ninety (90) per school year for all incidents, shall be figured by counting the number of days until long term disability insurance takes effect. The number of contracted days between the approval of the member's sick leave request and the granting of long term disability is the maximum number of days a member may borrow per incident. Requests may be made multiple times but the total number of days granted is capped at ninety (90) school days. There is NO required waiting period before the application to the Sick Leave Bank in order may be filed. The medical authorization (section B), signed by a licensed physician, verifying illness must accompany the application to qualify for Bank membershipthe Sick Leave Bank. Such contributions Two (2) sick days must be made within 30 calendar days contributed the first year of enrollment as a member of the date Sick Leave Bank during the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2September contribution period. Whenever the number of days Participation in the Sick Leave Bank shall be on a voluntary basis. Should a member withdraw and choose to reenter, the first day of a new semester is less than contribution to reenter shall be one (l1) times day. However, contributed days will be forfeited by the number of members individual if the membership is canceled. Any unused Sick Leave Bank days remaining in the Bank at the conclusion of the bargaining unit, school year shall be carried over to the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar daysnext school year. Any member All contributions of sick leave days will be from the employees. No days will be contributed by the Board. A committee of one (1) teacher from each building will be designated each September to administer the Bank. All requests for utilization of the bargaining unit who elects Bank will be directed to continue participation in this Committee anonymously for approval or denial. The Rules and Regulations governing the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day shall be available to all certified staff in the office of each building principal. Upon reasonable notice, all records concerning the member's sick leave Sick Leave Bank shall be made available to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from Committee. The HSEA President will select the date of notice. Teachers Sick Bank Chairperson who are drawing days from shall be responsible for communicating any request anonymously to the Sick Leave Bank at committee members. The Sick Bank must maintain a minimum of 100 days but not exceed 200 days per hundred eligible employees, or a major fraction thereof after new members contribute days. If the time a call is made for replenishment bank falls below the minimum requirements then continuing members must contribute one (1) day. All records as to the number of days within the Sick Leave Bank, contributed to the Bank, and authorized use from the Bank shall be maintained by the Office of the bank will be continued as members Superintendent. Two-thirds (2/3) of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by Committee must agree to the Human Resources request of an applicant in order for the Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher Superintendent to report award days requested. If all eligible employees withdraw their Sick Bank membership, the Bank will divide the remaining days among the current Bank members. Eligible employees may be granted up to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the ninety (90) Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing days per illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member incident, but in accordance with the no case may an eligible employee draw more than ninety (90) Sick Leave Bank rulesdays per school year. Approved The Sick Leave Bank withdrawals Committee may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leaveexercise its right to deny requested days even if a doctor’s note is given. The operation of No appeals exist for the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitSick Bank Committee’s decision.
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Samples: Professional Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member The Board agrees to allow the Union to establish and operate a Sick Leave Bank for certified teachers of the bargaining unit District. The purpose of the Sick Leave Bank shall be to provide extended sick leave for teachers who elects have exhausted their personally accumulated sick leave and, due to participate personal or immediate family catastrophic illness or injury, are unable to return to work. Participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day shall be voluntary. Each teacher shall be given an authorization form at the beginning of each school year. Any teacher desiring to participate shall sign the member's sick leave authorization and return it to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank his/her building representative. No teacher, who is regularly certified and submits application within time limits specified below, shall be denied membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days In the first year of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided operation and in this Article 6:2. Whenever subsequent years, if the number of days in the Bank falls below 100 days, each participating teacher shall contribute two days to the Bank. If the number of accumulated days in the Bank falls between 100 to 200 days, each participating teacher shall contribute one day to the Bank. The Sick Leave Bank on the first day shall be capped at a maximum of a new semester is less than one (l) times the 200 days. The number of members days contributed shall not exceed two days per applicant per year. Copies of new authorizations from each participating teacher shall be submitted to the Superintendent. Upon receipt of copies of authorizations, the Superintendent shall be empowered, on behalf of the bargaining unitBoard, to deduct either 1 or 2 days from each applicant’s personally accumulated sick leave and add the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar daysdifference subtracted to the total in the Sick Leave Bank. Any member of New employees in the bargaining unit District who elects to continue participation become participants in the Sick Leave Bank must shall contribute an two days. Employees already in the District, who become participants in the Bank, shall contribute four days, plus any additional day assessments during said employee’s tenure. The number of the member's sick leave to days transferred for each applicant shall be determined by the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days Committee to be appointed by the Union from its membership. The Committee shall inform the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment Superintendent of the bank will number of days to be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on transferred per applicant no later than two weeks following the first day of the school. No new school year next followingmemberships shall be allowed after that date. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made The School Board will not be held liable for replenishment of the bank any days transferred except as provided for below and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar not contribute additional days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bankBank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed Only members of the Sick Leave Bank by shall be allowed to withdraw days from it. No member shall be allowed to withdraw more than thirty days per career. Days deposited shall not be withdrawn when a teacher ceases to be a member of the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview providedBank, however, that it shall be any member who terminates employment with the responsibility district after at least 10 years of full time service may withdraw the teacher to report number of days equal to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from he/she has deposited into the Sick Leave Bank for reasons . The number of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident days accumulated at the end of one year shall carry over to the following year. Should the total of days withdrawn from the Bank equal the balance at any time, the Bank will cease operations until it can be replenished at the start of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitnext school year.
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Samples: Agreement
Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the All bargaining unit who elects to participate in members covered by this Agreement shall be members of the Sick Leave Bank on their campus. A bargaining unit member must contribute make no contribution of time to the bank in order to be a member. The Sick Leave Bank on each campus will be administered by a Board consisting of two employees selected by the Union, two individuals selected by the administration, and a neutral Chair, to be selected by the four other members, who shall vote only in the event of a tie. Starting with the effective date of this Agreement, the University will make no further contributions of time to the Sick Leave Banks. Additional time shall accrue to the banks only in the following ways: Sick, vacation and personal time that would otherwise be accrued by employees during any time period during which they are being paid through the bank will instead accrue to the bank. At any time that the total number of days in the bank falls below 500 on the Boston campus, or 1,000 on the Amherst campus, each full-time employee shall donate seven and one day half (7.5) hours of the member's sick leave to the bank. A regular part- time employee shall donate sick leave in the same proportion that her/his part- time service bears to full-time service. In October of each year, members with at least fourteen (14) days of sick leave may voluntarily donate additional time to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar one (1) day increments so long as they member maintains at least ten (10) days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2sick leave. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of Bargaining unit members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an may voluntarily donate additional day of the member's sick leave time to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of noticeupon retirement. Teachers who are Before drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment Bank, an employee must use up all accrued sick and personal leave, and all but ten (10) days of the bank will accrued vacation leave. Once an employee has used up leave in accordance with this section, he/she shall immediately be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree eligible to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar draw days from the date their employment resumes Sick Leave Bank. Effective January 1, 2009, the Sick Leave Bank Policies in Appendix A of this agreement shall govern both the Amherst and Boston Sick Leave Bank Boards. If the Sick Leave Bank Board is unable to contribute make a determination regarding a request for benefits based on the information provided on the Sick Leave Bank application, the Board may request information it perceives will assist it in making a determination, and which is relevant to consideration of that application. Information that may be requested may include, but is not limited to: Clarification of the bankemployee's and/or medical practitioner's portion of the application Submission of a completed federal Certification of Health Care Provider form A medical practitioner's written feedback regarding: the Sick Leave Bank applicant's ability to return to his/her pre-injury/illness job (hours and duties), and any job modifications necessary for this to occur. New hires and teachers returning from leave This feedback will be informed made based on a copy of the applicant's University position description (as forwarded by the Board with its request for information) and a discussion between the applicant and medical practitioner regarding the applicant's University working environment. This same information may be requested from a second medical practitioner. If this is requested, any resultant costs shall be paid by the University. The purpose of such additional information shall be exclusively to aid the Board of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview providedin determining whether to grant, howevermodify, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office or reject an application for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar drawing days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Bank. Application of Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals Policies and all Board procedures may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out determined by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining uniteach campus’ Board.
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Samples: www.umass.edu
Sick Leave Bank. Any A voluntary teacher sick leave bank is in existence. A new member must contribute one (1) sick leave day each year for three years. In order to qualify for membership in the sick leave bank, a teacher wishing to participate shall notify the designee of the bargaining unit who elects Board in writing of his/her intention to participate on or before the last school day of September. Such authorization shall remain in force until the participating teacher withdraws from the program in writing. In order to qualify for sick leave benefits pursuant to Schedule A, a teacher must begin to participate in the sick leave bank at his/her first opportunity for enrollment. If the teacher fails to participate in the sick leave bank during the first year of eligibility, his/her benefits under the sick leave bank shall be governed by Schedule B. Upon exhaustion of accrued personal illness days, any member may borrow additional personal illness days according to whether he/she qualifies for Schedule A benefits or Schedule B benefits. SCHEDULE A 0 - 5 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 10 day 6 - 8 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 25 days 9 - 12 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 35 days 13 - 16 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 45 days 17 - 20 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 55 days Over 20 years teaching service in MSD Xxxxx Township - 65 days SCHEDULE B 0 - 5 years participation in sick leave bank - 10 days 6 - 8 years participation in sick leave bank - 25 days 9 - 12 years participation in sick leave bank - 35 days 13 - 16 years participation in sick leave bank - 45 days 17 - 20 years participation in sick leave bank - 55 days Over 20 years participation in sick leave bank - 65 days Requests for the use of the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day shall be made by presentation of the member's sick leave sufficient medical evidence (i.e., a medical slip) to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membershipCommittee here under provided. Such contributions must Additional Days may be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in borrowed from the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of if and only if, a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar teacher has repaid any previously borrowed days. Any member Upon resumption of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in employment, said teacher will repay the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day the personal illness days owed as noted below. On October 1 of the member's sick leave each school year (beginning with 2003-2004), a teacher shall repay days to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar based on their accumulated sick leave at that time, and the following schedule: Sick Leave Days Accumulated Days Repaid per Year 21 or more 5 At any time a teacher wishes to pay a greater number of days, or all the days from owed, he/she may do so. If a teacher dies or retires before his debt is repaid, any days remaining in his sick leave account shall be placed in the date sick leave bank up to the number of noticedays owed. Teachers who After those days are drawing placed in the sick leave bank, the debt shall be considered repaid. Said teacher must have contributed, or will contribute, three (3) sick leave days from total to remain a member of the sick leave bank. When the days in the bank drop below 200 days, contributions at the rate of one (1) sick day per member per year will begin the next school year. Such contributions shall continue until the bank has amassed at least 300 sick days at the end of the school year. The members will not have to contribute again until the sick bank has fewer than 200 days at the end of the school year. As of June 30, 2002, data relative to the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as maintained in the Central Office with utilization reports to the Union due on October 31 of each year, beginning with October 31, 2002. A Sick Leave Bank Committee consisting of three (3) Union members of appointed by PEPC and one (1) administrator appointed by the Superintendent will be established. The Sick Leave Bank Committee will review all applicants desiring to borrow personal illness days from the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed The decision of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it Committee shall be the responsibility of the teacher final. It is specifically agreed that illnesses or ailments due to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank prior existing conditions, which existed within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee period of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals years prior to the Superintendentteacher’s enrollment in the bank, are specifically excluded and the Sick Leave Bank Committee shall not allow applicants to borrow personal illness days from the bank for a condition that existed within a period of two (2) years prior to the applicant’s enrollment in the bank. The Committee administration shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number provide each new teacher with a sick leave bank application not later than their first contract day of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitemployment.
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Sick Leave Bank. Membership in this bank will be open to all eligible bargaining unit employees and will be voluntary. Any member of the bargaining unit bank who elects receives benefits from the State Universities Retirement system (SURS), or who is absent for illness due to a work related injury (which is compensable under the Illinois Worker's Compensation Act) may not avail himself of any benefits of the bank. To become a member of the bank, a staff member will notify the Sick Leave Bank Committee of the intention to do so on a form that will be provided. After the exhaustion of his sick leave and vacation accumulation, each member of the bank may be entitled to draw upon the Sick Leave Bank. The granting of such leave shall be subject to the same criteria as regular sick leave days and shall be, in all other respects, consistent with the negotiated Agreement. Sick leave shall be available only for the illness of the employee and not for the illness of the family. Any member who wishes to withdraw from membership in the bank can do so by written notice to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Official withdrawal will be effective five (5) working days after the official notification. However, because the contribution of the two days is treated in the same manner as insurance, the days will not be returned. It will be the responsibility of the Classified Association Executive Committee to establish the basic rules and regulations of the bank. Once these rules have been completed, they will be published and membership will be opened. Classified employees who participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day and who have complaints regarding the decision(s) of the member's sick leave Sick Leave Bank Committee shall bring those complaints directly to the Sick Leave Bank Committee. Classified employees shall absolve and hold harmless, in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days all respects, the Board of Trustees and the Administration regarding the implementation of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days Sick Leave Bank provisions of this agreement. When a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days participant in the Sick Leave Bank on requests and is approved for sick leave benefits by the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unitCommittee, the said Committee shall notify forward the name and all teachers within l0 calendar daysother appropriate pertinent information to the Associate Vice President of Human Resources. Any member Determination of participation, discontinuance of participation and particulars with regard to the bargaining unit who elects withdrawal of days shall be furnished to continue participation in the Associate Vice President of Human Resources by the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day Committee in the appropriate year. An employee who retires may donate up to 10 days of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their employee’s accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar sick leave bank. These days of a call may not be counted for replenishment of the bank as provided in this SURS or remuneration under Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsXII, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitSection F.4.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member The members of the bargaining Andover Instructional Assistants unit and the Licensed Practical Nurses unit have agreed to create a joint sick bank. All Instructional Assistants and LPNs who elects have completed three continuous full school years will be enrolled into the Sick Leave Bank. The Sick Leave Bank will be jointly administered by the Superintendent or his designee and the Andover Assistants’ Organization and the LPNA. The Sick Leave Bank is aimed at giving assistance to participate those members who have long- term, terminal, mental, or accidental illnesses, which result in the exhaustion of their accumulated sick leave. Only enrolled members, those who have completed three consecutive full years or service, may petition the bank. The Sick Leave Bank will be established by a deduction of the number of hours worked in one (1) day from each sick bank member’s accrued sick leave. This deduction will be made by the payroll coordinator and will be based on a member’s work schedule for the current school year. If the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one falls below fifty-eight (l58) times the number of members of the bargaining unitdays, the Committee shall payroll coordinator will notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed Chairperson of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, Committee and said Chairperson will authorize that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report each member make an additional contribution to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interviewBank. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave This contribution will be equal to the bank within 30 calendar days number of hours each Assistant works in one (1) day. There will be a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident Board comprised of the contributing AAO President, the LPN President, and one (1) other member in accordance with chosen by the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank AAO, and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected representatives appointed by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. All decisions will be made by a simple majority vote. Leave will be granted in allocations of up to twenty (20) calendar days in amounts proportional to the member’s actual work schedule over a twenty-day period. The Committee shall establish its rules maximum allotment of sick bank leave that may be granted to any one member during the course of an illness will be forty (40) calendar days made in allocations proportional to the member’s actual schedule over this period. The petitioner or her/his representative must present pertinent medical data and regulations and proof of illness. A response to any petitioner will be forwarded within two (2) weeks. If the board suspects any case of sick leave abuse or sick bank abuse, it will refer such suspicions to the Superintendent who may require substantiating the individual to submit to medical documents, and in all cases examinations or provide proof of illness from medical experts. The Superintendent may take disciplinary action against any employee who abuses sick leave or sick bank whether or not such abuse has been referred to the decision(s) rendered Superintendent by the Committee board. Upon retirement, an assistant may donate unused sick time to the Sick Bank up to a maximum of 40 individually accrued sick days, provided such an amount does not put the Sick Bank’s balance over 80 days. Once the Sick Bank’s balance has reached 80 days, no further retirement contributions shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitaccepted until such balance again drops to 40 days.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects The parties to participate in the this Agreement agree to establish a Sick Leave Bank must to be administered by a four member Committee comprised of two members representing the Union and two members representing the City. The duties of the Committee would be to compute, deduct, record and balance Sick Bank contributions and to consider applications for the use of the Sick Bank from employees. Should the members of the Committee fail to agree on a decision, the question would be referred to the City Manager. The Bank will operate on the following basis: When the Sick Bank reaches its' critical low as identified in Article each eligible employee shall contribute one sick day of his days (pro-rated for eligible casual and part-time employees based on their annual entitlement) and the member's sick leave City shall match the Union members' contribution. Casual and Part-Time employees shall not contribute to the Bank or be entitled to utilize the Bank until they have completed hours of accumulative employment. Employees will be allowed to withdraw their own contributions from the Bank without the consent of the Joint Committee. All unused Sick Leave accumulated in excess of days shall be deposited to the Sick Leave Bank in order upon termination of employment by the employee, subject to qualify of this Article. Employees requesting to access the Local Sick Bank will follow the outlined procedure: When applying for Bank membership. Such contributions Sick Bank, Medical documentation must be made within 30 calendar days of accompany application; Use all accumulative sick credits; Exhaust up to weeks annual leave (depending on availability); Use banked time and banked leaving the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is employee with no less than one (l) times a totaled amount balance of hours in their bank; The First hours of Sick Bank will be coded against Banked Time or Vacation whichever the number of members of employee requests, if the bargaining unit, employee does not have the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects vacation or banked time to continue participation in the Sick cover these hours these hours will be coded to Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days Without Pay; The hours used from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will start after hours; There will be continued as members a review every days by the Sick Bank Committee; Employee may be requested, by the Committee, to attend the monthly meetings; The Sick Bank Committee may request that a "City of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current Prince Xxxxxx Physician's Report Form" be completed and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day returned to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time Committee; may work towards a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes Return to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documents, and in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitWork Program.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member of the bargaining unit It is agreed that any nurse who elects to participate in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute one day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank in order to qualify for Bank membership. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of currently has a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first excess of will have their sick leave bank frozen. Such bank shall be utilized and no further credit shall be given until these individuals have reached sick leave credits. Dated at Ottawa, Ontario, this day of May, Officer FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR THE UNION OF UNDERSTANDING Between VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES OTTAWA-CAR And ONTARIO NURSES’ ASSOCIATION Re: of Care Pilot The Continuity of Care Pilot has been implemented to establish procedures and guidelines to meet the requirements for continuity of care for the primary customer. In the event that a new semester regular part-time nurse is less than one (l) times cancelled, she may exercise her right to bump the number most junior part-time nurse working outside her nurse manager area. When the pilot program achieves the objectives for continuity of members client care, these procedures will be implemented branch wide. In the interim, current branch practice for day to day cancellation will continue as described below: In the event that a regular part-time nurse is cancelled, she may exercise her right to bump the most junior part-time nurse in her Nurse Manager area. If there is no junior nurse in her Nurse Manager area, then she may exercise her right to bump the most junior part-time nurse working. Dated at Ottawa, Ontario, this day of the bargaining unitMay, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation Labour Officer FOR THE EMPLOYER FOR THE UNION LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING Between VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES’ OTTAWA-XXXXXXXX XXXXXX And ONTARIO NURSES’ ASSOCIATION Re: Shift Nursing Nurses working in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from the date of notice. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank shift nursing program will be continued as members of the bank. Teachers who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank covered by the Human Resources Office at Collective Agreement except where modified by this agreement. Articles on Hours of Work, Scheduling, Vacation, Compensation and Weekend Work will not apply to Shift Nursing. Shift Nursingwill be defined as nursing care requiredto meet the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days needs of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided single client at a time. A shift ranges in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal length from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by to twelve (12) hours based on client need. For each five hours of the UNION and one administrator selected by shift, the Superintendent which nurse shall furnish written records be provided with a minute paid meal break as the nurse is expected to remain in the client’s home. Nurses working in the Shift Nursing Program will be treated as casual nurses. For assignments longer than two weeks, nurses in the Shift Nursing Program may be expected to work alternate weekends. Assignments will be made in order to provide continuity of deposits and withdrawals care to the Superintendentclient. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsAssignments will be based on availability, skills, experience, and in when all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank shall not exceed two times the number of members of the bargaining unitthis is equal, seniority.
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Sick Leave Bank. Any member Additional leave (up to 10 days) above and beyond all other chargeable leave, except for disability leave, may be in the best interest of a teacher and the bargaining unit Interlocal. To accomplish this a sick leave bank will be established by the interlocal and participating certified staff who elects to fall under the negotiated agreement. To participate in the Sick Leave Bank must sick leave bank an employee will contribute one day 8 hours of universal leave. An employee may elect not to join the sick leave pool but may join on a later enrollment date by contributing 8 hours plus 4 extra hours of universal leave for each year of non-participation. All contributed hours will become part of the member's sick leave bank and removed from the employee’s individual record. Employees will only be asked to contribute more hours if the sick leave bank falls below 1200 hours. At that time, members will be notified of any additional contribution to remain a member in the sick leave bank. An employee may withdraw from the sick leave bank at any time but all contributed hours will remain with the sick leave bank and the withdrawing employee will forfeit any right to draw hours from the bank. All decisions to join must be made by the employee on or before Sept. 1 each year. The interlocal will contribute 50 days during the 2018-2019 school year to assist in the establishment of the sick leave bank. To request hours from the bank a participating employee must make a written application to the Sick Leave Bank in order Committee and provide medical information to qualify support the need for Bank membershipadditional sick leave. Such contributions must be made within 30 calendar days The Butler County Special Education Association-NEA will establish a committee to approve applications for use of the date the person begins employment or within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Whenever the number of days in the Sick Leave Bank on the first day of a new semester is less than one (l) times the number of members of the bargaining unit, the Committee shall notify all teachers within l0 calendar days. Any member of the bargaining unit who elects to continue participation in the Sick Leave Bank must contribute an additional day of the member's sick leave bank. By application for bank hours the employee consents to the release of requested personal information to the Sick Leave Bank within 30 calendar days from Committee. The committee shall determine the date number of noticehours allowed (not to exceed the number of hours allocated for the current year), if any, and report their decision to the employee and to the Director. Teachers who are drawing days from the Sick Leave Bank at the time shall be restricted to cases involving dread diseases or catastrophic and life-threatening accidents or illnesses, or any ill-defined or un-diagnosed illness producing a call is made for replenishment of the bank will disability. The leave shall be continued as members of the bank. Teachers available only to persons who have exhausted their current and accumulated sick all other chargeable leave at the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank will be continued as members of the bank provided they agree to contribute a day to the bank on the first day of the new school year next following. Teachers returning from authorized leave during the 30-day interval between the time a call is made for replenishment of the bank and the deadline for making a contribution will have 30 calendar days from the date their employment resumes to contribute to the bank. New hires and teachers returning from leave will be informed of the Sick Leave Bank by the Human Resources Office at the time of their orientation interview provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the teacher to report to the Human Resources Office for such orientation interview. Teachers who elect not to continue their membership in the bank may rejoin the bank by contributing one day of their accumulated sick leave to the bank within 30 calendar days of a call for replenishment of the bank as provided in this Article 6:2. Contributing members may apply for withdrawal from the Sick Leave Bank for reasons of prolonged or continuing illness or incapacitating accident of the contributing member in accordance with the Sick Leave Bank rules. Approved Sick Leave Bank withdrawals may only begin upon depletion of accumulated sick leave. The operation of the bank and withdrawals therefrom shall be carried out by a Committee of two (2) teachers selected by the UNION and one administrator selected by the Superintendent which shall furnish written records of deposits and withdrawals to the Superintendent. The Committee shall establish its rules and regulations and may require substantiating medical documentsexcept disability, and to whom no other options for leave exist within the negotiated agreement or board policy. This leave used in all cases the decision(s) rendered by the Committee shall be final and binding. The total number of accumulative days in the bank conjunction with any Worker’s Compensation payments shall not exceed two times the number of members amount of the bargaining unitteacher’s daily net salary. The Board of Education will continue to pay full base salary to the teacher using this leave provision.
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