Sick Leave Allowance Faculty with a full-time assignment shall accrue sick leave at the rate of eight
Sick Leave Pool 24.1 All full-time instructional employees shall be eligible for voluntary participation in the sick leave pool after one (1) year employment in Bay County, provided such employee has accrued a minimum of five (5) sick leave days. 24.2 Participating employees shall make equal contributions to the sick leave pool. A. One (1) day shall be contributed in the first (lst) month of eligibility. B. An additional day shall be contributed each time the balance of days in the sick leave pool falls below twenty-five percent (25%) of the number of members in the sick leave pool. C. In the event a member does not have a day of sick leave to contribute to the pool, one (1) day will be taken or contributed as soon as that day becomes available. 24.3 A participating employee who chooses to withdraw from participation in the sick leave pool shall not be eligible to withdraw any sick leave days already contributed, and withdrawal from the pool will not be effective until one (1) pay period after the employee submits written notice to the Human Resources Department of his/her intent of withdrawal. 24.4 Any sick leave time drawn from the pool by a participating member must be used for the instructional employee’s personal catastrophic illness, accident, or injury, excluding workers’ comp and pregnancy that keeps an employee temporarily off the job. A. Sick leave pool days are not intended to be used in place of disability retirement. B. Sick leave pool members are not eligible for benefits for a pre-existing condition. ▇. ▇▇▇▇ leave pool days shall not be used for an employee who is on unpaid leave of absence. 24.5 Participating employees shall be eligible to draw three (3) ten (10) day increments from the sick leave pool for any one (1) illness, injury, accident or complication thereof during one (1) school year. A. A maximum of thirty (30) sick leave days per year may be utilized. Exceptions may be considered at the discretion of the Sick Leave Pool Committee. B. A school year shall be defined as the fiscal year employed by the school district. C. Employees may draw no more than sixty (60) sick leave days during his/her entire membership period. 24.6 Each application for ten (10) days shall be accompanied by a physician’s statement, including the doctor’s description in lay terms of the condition. A. Photo copies of the doctor’s statement will be accepted. B. A certificate from a second doctor attesting to the member’s illness or accident may be required. 24.7 A participating employee shall not be eligible to use sick leave from the pool until all of his/her sick leave has been depleted. A. Application for sick leave days must be made within twenty (20) working days after the sick leave is depleted. B. The employee will be eligible to draw from the pool only after the member has been absent for seven (7) continuous working days without pay. Sick leave days would become effective on the eighth (8) day of absence. C. Applications for extension must be submitted prior to the expiration of the sick leave pool days. 24.8 Participating employees withdrawing sick leave days shall not be required to replace those days except as a regular contributing member to the sick leave pool. 24.9 The Sick Leave Pool Committee will consist of seven (7) members who are appointed annually. Five (5) of the members shall be appointed by the ABCE President. The Superintendent shall appoint the remaining members. (One person from the Human Resources Department will be a non-voting member of the committee). A. The committee shall establish procedures for identifying and recording contributions to and withdrawals from the sick leave pool. The procedures shall be reviewed annually. B. Periodic notification of the status of the pool shall be reported to members. C. Immediate notification shall be given if additional days are levied to replenish the pool. D. The committee shall review each request from the members to preclude abuse or misuse of the days in the sick leave pool and monitor the member’s responsibility in using his/her own personal sick leave.
Sick Leave Pay A Nurse granted sick leave shall be paid for the period of such leave at her or his regular hourly rate of pay and the number of hours thus paid shall be deducted from the accumulated sick leave credits of the Nurse.
Sick Leave Payout No cash payment for unused sick leave will be paid to any employee leaving the service of the Employer.
Sick Leave Accrual All eligible employees shall accrue sick leave at the rate of four (4) hours per pay period of continuous employment beginning with their date of eligibility. Eligible employees being paid for less than a full eighty (80) hour pay period shall have sick leave accruals pro-rated in accord with the schedule set forth in Appendix D.