Sickness In the event that an employee requires hospitalization or is seriously ill during his/her annual vacation period, the employee shall, upon request and upon presentation of a physician's statement, apply the period of illness or hospitalization to sick leave rather than vacation, provided the sick bank is not used. The employee must inform the College of the claim within one (1) week of returning to work.
SICKNESS ABSENCE Absence Due to Sickness or Quarantine Prior to the Eighth Full Calendar Day of Absence 29.01 An employee having six (6) months net credited service, or more, who is absent on account of sickness or quarantine, shall be paid for continuous absence prior to the eighth full calendar day of such absence, as follows: (a) An employee with six (6) months but less than two (2) years net credited service shall be paid for that part of the absence in excess of four (4) consecutive half tours. (b) An employee with two (2) but less than four (4) years net credited service shall be paid for that part of the absence in excess of two (2) consecutive half tours. (c) In the determination of pay treatment in Subsections 29.01 (a) and (b), a return to work not exceeding two (2) half tours shall not be considered to have interrupted the continuity of the absence, nor the consecutiveness of the half tours of absence. However, for purposes of determining the eighth full calendar day of absence, any return to work shall interrupt the continuity of an absence. (d) An employee with four (4) or more years net credited service shall be paid for the full absence. (e) An employee is not entitled to any pay or other benefit provided under this Article for any day in which she is in receipt of, or entitled to, any pay or other benefit under any other provision of this Agreement. 29.02 Upon the eighth full calendar day of an absence covered under Section 29.01, such an absence shall be treated in accordance with applicable Company practices currently in effect, or as amended from time to time following notification to the Union.
Illness Leave 1. Illness is defined as any pronounced deviation from a normal healthy state which makes it disadvantageous to the District and or detrimental to the employee for them to be at work. 2. A new employee must render service before being entitled to illness leave. 3. An employee who is absent from duty on account of illness, injury, or quarantine shall be allowed illness leave pay under the following conditions: a. Each employee who receives an initial regular appointment will be credited as of the date of their appointment with twelve (12) working days of full-time illness leave and eighty-eight (88) days of half (½) pay illness leave for employees assigned to a twelve (12) month position and ten (10) working days of full-pay illness leave and ninety (90) days of half-pay illness leave for all employees assigned to other than a twelve (12) month position. (1) An employee serving an initial probationary period shall not be eligible to be paid for more than five (5) days of full-pay illness leave until the first day of the pay period after completion of one hundred thirty (130) days of paid service in regular assignments. Half (½) pay illness leave shall not be paid during this time. (2) Thereafter, they will be credited annually with twelve (12) working days of full- pay illness leave and up to eighty-eight (88) working days of half (½) pay illness leave if they are assigned to a twelve (12) month position, or ten (10) working days of full-pay illness leave and up to ninety (90) working days of half (½) pay illness leave if they are assigned to other than a twelve (12) month position, as of the first (1st ) date of the pay period in which July 1 falls. (3) There shall be no limit to the year-to-year accumulation of unused full-pay illness leave privileges. b. No half (½) pay illness leave shall be allowed until after all full-pay illness leave is exhausted. c. The number of working days of half (½) pay illness leave to be credited is the difference between accumulated working days of full-pay illness leave and one hundred (100) days, provided that the accumulated working days of full-pay illness leave are less than one hundred (100) days. d. A day of paid illness leave for an employee assigned to a position for less than eight (8) hours a day or forty (40) hours a week shall consist of the number of hours in their basic daily assignment as determined by the District. Authorization to work additional hours beyond the basic daily assignment shall not increase illness leave benefits. e. No paid illness leave shall be allowed during layoff or leave of absence, except illness leave of absence. f. Employees who are absent because of illness or injury resulting from industrial accidents or industrial illness qualifying under provisions of Workers’ Compensation shall be allowed illness leave as provided in Section G., Industrial Accident Leave. Employees who have not completed their initial probationary period and are absent because of industrial accident shall receive whatever paid illness benefits as may be provided by other sections of this Article, within the limitations set forth in Section G., Industrial Accident Leave. g. Salary differentials shall be included in computing illness pay for employees who receive such salary differentials. h. When a regular employee (whose regular assignment is on other than a twelve [12] month assignment basis code) is assigned during the summer as a relief, substitute, or provisional employee, the employee shall be allowed to take illness leave with pay during such summer assignment(s) in accordance with the limitations set forth in the previous paragraphs of this Section. Nothing in this paragraph shall be interpreted to permit such employees to receive illness leave in excess of the limit established in the preceding paragraphs of this Section. 4. An employee who is absent on account of illness or injury shall sign, on the prescribed form, a statement that such absence was due to illness or injury. Compensation for illness leave shall be paid only when the employee’s supervisor certifies on the prescribed form that such absence was on account of illness or injury. Such official may take steps necessary to verify the validity of the illness leave. Upon obtaining such verification, they shall complete the required certification. a. If the employee is absent because of illness or injury for more than five (5) consecutive days, the employee must submit a certificate from a licensed physician or other recognized practitioner certifying such absence to have been on account of illness or injury. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to limit management from requiring such certification for less than five (5) days, when it appears to management that the employee is attempting to abuse the illness leave privilege. b. In any case, when an employee is incapacitated and unable to sign the prescribed form, the Human Resources Division may approve an illness leave without the employee’s signature. 5. In order to receive compensation while absent on illness leave, the employee must notify their immediate supervisor of their absence within the first half-hour (½) of each day’s absence, if possible. Further, they must submit the appropriate illness leave form(s) and physician’s certification, if required, upon return to service. When an employee intends to be or is absent because of illness or injury for more than twenty (20) consecutive days, a formal Leave of Absence, subject to the approval of the Human Resources Division, is required. Application for such leave of absence shall be sent by an employee’s college or division to an employee who has been absent because of illness or injury for ten (10) consecutive days. Salary payments shall be withheld from an employee who has been absent because of illness or injury for more than twenty (20) consecutive days, if formal leave of absence has not been approved by the Human Resources Division. 6. If an employee has been absent on illness leave, they shall notify their supervisor at least one (1) day in advance of their expected return in order that any substitute service may be terminated. In case of failure to comply with this provision, if it happens that both the regular employee and the substitute report for duty, the latter is entitled to the assignment for the day. An employee returning to duty shall also be subject to the provisions of Section ▇.▇.
Critical Illness Leave (i) An Employee who has completed at least ninety (90) days of employment, and is a family member of a critically ill child or a critically ill qualified adult relative, is entitled to leave of absence without pay or benefits: • for a period of up to thirty-six (36) weeks to care for their critically ill child; or, • for a period of up to sixteen (16) weeks to care for a critically ill qualified adult relative.
Extended Illness Leave When an employee is absent from his/her duties on account of illness or accident for a period of five school months or less, whether or not the illness or accident arises out of or in the course of employment, the amount deducted from the salary due the employee for any of the five-school-month periods in which absence occurs shall not exceed the sum which is actually paid a substitute employee employed to fill the employee’s position during his/her absence, or if no substitute employee was employed, the amount that would have been paid to the substitute had a substitute been employed. The sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and the five-month period shall run consecutively. In other words, the five-month period stipulated above begins immediately after use of the employee’s current annual ten days plus any accumulated sick leave. When the employee remains absent after use of the five-month differential pay leave, the employee shall be in unpaid status. When the employee has exhausted all available sick leave, including accumulated sick leave, and continues to be absent on account of illness or accident for a period beyond the five-month period, and the employee is not medically able to resume the duties of his/her position, the employee shall, if not placed in another position, be placed on a reemployment list for a period of 24 months if the employee is on probationary status or for a period of 39 months if the employee is on permanent status. When the employee is medically able, during the 24- or 39-month period, the employee shall be returned to employment in a position for which he/she is credentialed and is qualified. The 24-or 39-month period shall commence at the expiration of the five-month period described above. This five-month period shall be implemented as set forth in the mandatory provisions of Education Code Section 44977 (as amended by SB 1019, Chapter 30 of the Statutes of 1998) and the mandatory provisions of Education Code Section 44978.1 (as newly enacted by the same Chapter 30 of the Statutes of 1998.)