Common use of Extended Sick Leave With Difference Pay Clause in Contracts

Extended Sick Leave With Difference Pay. Consistent with Education Code section 45196, when a unit member has exhausted all available paid sick leave, described in this Agreement and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for an additional period of five school months whether or not the absence arises out of or in the course of the employment of the unit member, the amount deducted from the salary due the unit member shall not exceed the sum that is actually paid a regular substitute employed to fill the absent unit member's position. If another unit member is assigned to work out of class to replace the absent unit member, the amount deducted from the salary of the absent unit member shall be the amount actually paid the substitute employed to replace the unit member working out of classification. If no substitute is employed to perform the unit member's duties the unit member shall be paid full pay. The paid sick leave described in this Agreement and the five-month period described in this Section shall run concurrently. Unless a unit member submits a written request to the District prior to being placed on Extended Sick Leave with Difference Pay, a unit member must exhaust vacation pay prior to going on Extended Sick Leave with Difference Pay. Unit members on industrial illness or accident leave must exhaust all vacation, compensatory time and other paid leaves before being on Extended Sick Leave with Difference Pay.