409.2R3FC - Classified Employee Sick Bank Leave

 

Regularly scheduled classified employees who are eligible for paid illness leave may contribute up to three (3) sick leave days per year to other classified employees who are eligible as provided in paragraph 2 below.  The total of all sick leave donations shall not exceed sixty (60) days per year.  On or before September 10, the Business Manager will notify the Superintendent of the names of individuals who have contributed sick leave and the amount of sick leave which they will contribute.  If the number of days offered for donation exceeds sixty (60) days, then priority in donation shall be given to employees who have accumulated less than seventy (70) days of sick leave as of July 1 of the contract year in which a sick leave donation is requested. There will be no carryover of donated sick leave days from year to year. 

1. Donated sick leave days will not be returned to the donor.

2. Donated sick leave days will be available only to those employees who: (1) have accumulated less than seventy days of sick leave as of July 1 of the contract year in which a sick leave donation is requested, (2) have donated at least one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank, (3) have used all of their paid leave days (sick leave days and personal leave days), (4) have not yet met the elimination period for long term disability insurance, and (5) suffer from a serious health condition as defined in the Family and Medical Leave act, 29 Code of Federal Regulations '825.114.  Donated sick leave days will not be available to an employee on a day-to-day basis, that is, donated sick leave days will not be available for brief absences such as one or two days.

3. Requests for the use of donated sick leave days will be submitted to the Business Manager on a form provided by the District.  The decision of whether to provide donated sick leave benefits to an employee and the number of donated sick leave days to allocate to the employee shall be made by the Board.  Up to twenty (20) donated sick leave days per year will be allocated to each eligible participant.  If an employee's absence which is eligible for sick leave bank usage exceeds twenty (20) days and if there are days remaining in the sick leave bank at the end of the school year, then any days remaining in the sick leave bank at the end of the school year will be allocated to employees on a pro-rata basis. 

Licensed Employees are not eligible to participate in the Classified employee sick leave bank as they are covered by a separate sick leave bank as specified in their comprehensive master agreement between the Forest City Community School District and the Forest City Education Association.

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Classified Staff Sick Leave Bank Request Form

Donated sick leave days will be available only to those employees who:

1. have accumulated less than seventy days of sick leave as of July 1 of the contract year in which a sick leave donation is requested,

2. have donated at least one (1) day of sick leave to the sick leave bank,

3. have used all of their paid leave days (sick leave days and personal leave days),

4. have not yet met the elimination period for long term disability insurance, and

5. suffer from a serious health condition as defined in the Family and Medical Leave act, 29 Code of Federal Regulations '825.114. 

Donated sick leave days will not be available to an employee on a day-to-day basis, that is, donated sick leave days will not be available for brief absences such as one or two days.

Requests for the use of donated sick leave days will be submitted to a representative of the Board and a representative of the Association on a form provided by the District.  The decision of whether to provide donated sick leave benefits to an employee and the number of donated sick leave days to allocate to the employee shall be made by mutual agreement of the representative of the Board and the representative of the Association.  Up to twenty (20) donated sick leave days per year may be allocated to each eligible participant.  If an employee's absence, which is eligible for sick leave bank usage exceeds twenty (20) days and if there are days remaining in the sick leave bank at the end of the school year, then any days remaining in the sick leave bank at the end of the school year will be allocated to employees on a pro-rata basis. 

Eligible Family and Medical Leave Requests from Sick Leave Bank:

 

A.         Birth of a son or daughter of the employee in order to care for that child prior to the first anniversary of the child’s birth.

 

B.         Placement of a son or daughter of the employee for adoption or foster care prior to the first anniversary of the child’s placement.

 

C.         To care for a spouse, son, daughter or parent of an employee who has a serious health condition.

 

D.         Employee’s serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of the employee’s position.

 

 

 

Employee Signature                                         Days Requested                 Date                                       

 

Board Signature                                                            Date                                   Approved/Denied

Number of Days Approved                             Number of Days Denied     

 

Legal Reference:
29 U.S.C. §§ 2601 et seq.
Pub.L. 116–127
29 C.F.R. §§ 825; 826.
Iowa Code §§ 20; 29A; 55; 85; 216; 279.40; 607A.
Whitney v. Rural Ind. School District, 232 Iowa 61, 4 N.W.2d 394 (1942).
Bewley v. Villisca Community School District, 299 N.W. 2d 904 (Iowa 1980).

Cross Reference:
401.9 Employee Political Activity
403.2 Employee Injury on the Job
409.3 Employee Family and Medical Leave Series 
409.6 Drug & Alcohol Testing Program Series
706.3 Pay Deductions Series
 

 

 

 

Approved:  5-9-22  Reviewed: 5-8-23 Revised: 5-8-23