503 Paid Sick Leave

Full-time employees (those who maintain a regular schedule of 35 or more hours per week) earn sick leave coverage at a rate of one day a month at full pay and one day a month at 60% of pay.  The 60% of pay will be referred to as Short-Term Disability (STD).

Part-time employees who are regularly scheduled to work 17 ½ hours or more per week, will receive sick leave at a rate of ½ day a month at full pay and ½ day a month at 60% of pay. Temporary workers and employees working less than 17 ½ hours a week are not eligible for sick leave accrual.

Newly hired employees will become eligible for the program after three months of continuous employment.

Use of Sick Leave - Earned sick days cannot be used for any reason other than:

• the illness of the employee and their child(ren);
• scheduled/ approved medical/dental appointments for employee and their child(ren);
• birth of a child, or placement of a child with you for adoption or foster care;
• in the event of a serious health condition of a spouse/domestic partner and/or parent ordinarily as defined under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In extraordinary cases where the spouse/domestic partner (as defined on page 53), or parent could not provide self-care as provided for under the FMLA, but does not meet the more than 3-day requirement of FMLA, the employee could utilize one to two days of sick leave. (An example would be someone having outpatient surgery and may need transportation on the date of treatment);
• in the event of a serious health condition, as defined under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) above for whom the staff member has power of attorney;
• in the event of a serious health condition, as defined under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) above for the employee’s mother-in-law and father-in-law;
• qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse/partner, child, or parent is on active duty or has been called to active duty status in support of a contingency operation as a member of the National Guard or Reserves;
• you are the spouse/partner, child, parent or next of kin of a covered service member with a serious injury or illness.

Use of 60% of Pay (STD) -

• employees will accrue one day a month at 60% of pay up to 65 days in their account at the end of the calendar year.  It is accrued at the end of each month worked, after 3 months of continuous employment;
• employees eligible for accruing time at 60% of pay may request the use of Short-Term Disability once they have exhausted all of their 100% days.
• the waiting period for Short-Term Disability is 5 work days.  An employee may use PTO days to cover the five day waiting period before Short-Term Disability begins.

Refer to the Short Term Paid Sick Leave, Section VI: Benefit number 405 for more details.