The Community R-VI School District provides, as fringe benefits, certain allowable absences from duty as set forth in the paragraphs below. Such benefits apply equally to all regularly employed employees of the district, but not to temporary employees, substitutes or persons employed on a trial basis. Employees contracted half-time or more but less than full-time shall be entitled to such benefits, on a pro-rated basis, as their regular schedule bears to a normal full-time schedule for a similar position.
Requests for absence shall be considered in minimum segments of 2 hours and shall be directed, through the building principal, to the superintendent of schools.
Payment for absence for any of these reasons may be withheld by the board of education if, in the judgment of the board, such action is justified due to circumstances connected with the cause of absence.
Payment for absence before actually beginning the work of any given school year shall not be allowed new employees.
Sick Leave
Sick leave refers to absence due to personal illness or accidental injury of the employee, the employee’s spouse, or the employee’s dependent child.
Certified employees under nine-months' contract and full time regularly assigned nine-month support staff shall be allowed (eleven (11) days of) sick leave during the contract period according to the following formula:
Staff employed half-time or more, but less than full-time shall be entitled to such benefits, on a pro-rata basis, as their regular schedule bears to a normal full-time schedule for a similar position.
(Ten-month full-time employees will add an additional 8 hours to each of the above leave amounts; eleven-month full-time employees will add an additional 16 hours to each of the above leave amounts; and twelve-month full-time employees will add an additional 24 hours to each of the above leave amounts.)
The Board of Education, or its duly appointed administrative authority, may, when deemed appropriate, require the absent employee to submit a signed statement from a licensed physician (M.D. or D.O.) concerning absence due to illness.
Unused days of sick leave shall be allowed to accumulate to a maximum of ninety 720 hours which may be carried forward to future years. The employee shall be entitled to the current year's sick leave allowance in addition to the days carried forward from former years. Employees whose accumulation exceeds 720 hours at the end of a fiscal year shall be reimbursed for those days exceeding 720 hours at the rate of one fourth of the employee’s current hourly rate of pay for each hour exceeding 720 hours. The number of hours exceeding 720 hours will then be removed and the following year’s entitlement will be added on the first day of the new fiscal year.
An employee with more than twenty (20) years of continuous service in the school system, and whose sick leave has been exhausted, may file a written request for additional days of leave; and this request will be given consideration by the Board of Education.
Termination of employment for any reason shall automatically cancel all sick leave accumulation.
Employees with a minimum of ten (10) years of experience with the Community R-VI School District leaving the system at the end of the contract period shall be paid $40.00 for each day (8 hours) of accumulated unused sick leave.
Employees with a minimum of ten (10) years of experience with the Community R-VI School District that find it necessary to leave the system during a contract year for reasons over which they have no control, as verified by the superintendent of schools, shall also receive the compensation.
Personal Leave
(absence due to personal matters)
Requests for personal leave are to be made to the employee's building principal at least forty-eight (48) hours in advance, unless an emergency situation develops. The reason for requesting the personal leave need not be given to the building principal. However, the building principal shall have the authority to deny the request for personal leave if in his or her opinion the time of taking the personal leave would work a hardship on the school. Personal Leave will not be granted on the days immediately preceding or following school vacation or the first and last days of the school calendar (If leave is needed on one of these days due to special situations or circumstances, the employee may appeal to the superintendent of schools). Examples of times that may be considered a hardship are days on which several employees in the same school request a personal leave day or days on which it is known that a suitable substitute cannot be located.
Vacation
Employees working twelve (12) months of the year will be granted 80 hours of vacation after the first year of employment; 120 hours of vacation after completion of the tenth (10th) year of employment
Bereavement Leave
Bereavement leave refers to absence due to death in the employee's family.
Upon written request, the employee may be permitted to use sick leave, up to a maximum of five additional days, after bereavement leave has been used.
Family Emergency
Family emergency refers to absence due to illness or accidental injury of a member of the employee's immediate family, as defined in the Board Policy Manual.
In case of illness or accidental injury of a member of the employee's immediate family, the employee, upon written request, may be permitted to use sick leave, not to exceed three days on any one emergency.
Extended Contract - Such bereavement and family emergency leave benefits are not applicable to extended contract. If an employee is absent due to bereavement or family emergency during extended contract time, it is expected that the employee will make the time up.