Common use of Sick Leave Donation System Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave Donation System. The Sick Leave Donation System is designed to assist members who experience a serious accident or major illness member for which they do not have adequate sick leave as provided under Section A of this article. To be eligible, a member must have used all available sick leave requested and then used the fifteen (15) days advance provided for in this Contract or a member of his/her immediate family must be recovering from a specific illness or injury of twenty (20) days or more. If an injury or illness continues into a subsequent school year, the member must reapply for approval to use sick leave pool days and eligibility must be re-certified. However, in no case may a member apply for or receive more than one hundred sixty (160) days from the sick leave pool during a member’s career with Galion City Schools. Emergency sick leave shall be approved for all members who have: 1. used all available sick leave, earned and borrowed; 2. presented a physician's certificate indicating an absence due to a single illness or accident that will last, or exceed twenty (20) consecutive days (a second opinion may be required); 3. contributed to the sick leave pool of this program. Eligibility is based on the annual contribution of a sick leave day by September 1 of each school year. In the case of new employees hired, such contribution must be made within the first fifteen (15) days of their hiring by the Board. The annual contribution may be suspended by mutual agreement of the Association and the Superintendent when the aggregate days contained in the pool has reached two hundred fifty (250) days, and shall be reinstated when the total is less than seventy-five (75) days. The sick leave pool is formed from the contribution of at least one day of accumulated sick leave from each member who wishes to participate in the program, and members who wish to donate additional days. Once a day has been contributed to the pool, it cannot be withdrawn. Members are not eligible to use the sick leave pool if: 1. they have not donated a day of accumulated sick leave;