| Boston Archdiocesan Teachers
Association
Current Contract - Article XV - Sick Leave |
1. Teachers, other than teachers new to the system, will be granted fifteen (15) days of sick leave each school year, as of the first official day of said school year, whether or not they report for duty on that day. Teachers new to the system will accumulate sick leave at the rate of one and one-half (1 1/2) days for each month of active employment, and any such teacher who is absent beyond his/her accumulated sick leave shall, if still employed at the end of the school year, be reimbursed for any days of absence due to sickness, up to a yearly total of fifteen (15) days (including days previously paid). Sick leave not used by elected teachers in the year of service for which it was granted shall be accumulated from year to year without limitation.
2. Upon severance from the school system, teachers with either two or three years of service shall be compensated for unused sick leave on a pro-rated daily basis up to a maximum of fifteen (15) days accumulated sick leave or unused portion thereof. Teachers with more than three years of service shall be compensated for unused sick leave on a pro-rated daily basis up to a maximum of thirty (30) days accumulated sick leave or unused portion thereof. This is to be computed on a 1/225th of the annual salary.
b. Teachers shall be entitled to unused sick leave compensation for terminations resulting from incapacitating accident, death, lay off, or resignations from the system up to August 1 of any year.
c. A teacher who is riffed and collects severance pay will continue to carry all accumulated sick leave less the amount of days cashed in for severance. However, that teacher is ineligible to collect severance pay again when RIFFED except when that teacher has taught for two (2) additional years at which time the teacher will be eligible only to cashin unused sick leave up to fifteen (15) days. If a teacher has taught for three years after recall that teacher will be eligible to cash-in unused sick leave up to thirty (30) days.
b. r maximum of five (5) days per school year for a critical illness in the immediate family subject to the approval of the principal. Immediate family shall be defined as spouse and children, also parents and any relatives residing in the teacher's household.
5. The principals, in their discretion, may request the teacher to produce a medical certificate before the teacher can be credited with sick leave benefits. Such requests may only be made in cases where the teacher in question has missed 6 or more consecutive school days. In such cases, the doctor's certificate shall be required to contain, if requested by the administration, a medical diagnosis, the specific sickness, injury, condition for which sick leave is used or requested, prognosis, and to the extent possible, the expected date an employee will return to work. The absent employee claiming sick leave is expected to keep the Principal informed of the progress of the sickness, injury, or disability and may be required to provide additional doctor certificates in the form set forth above from time to time at the discretion of the Principal if such absence is prolonged. If deemed in the best interests of the School System, and the teacher has been out for 20 school days due to the same illness, the Principal may require any employee, claiming a right to, or using sick leave, to be examined by a physician chosen by the system, such examination to be administered without charge to the teacher.
If there is a dispute between the two physicians relative to the medical condition of the teacher, these two physicians shall then select a third physician who shall be a specialist in the area in which the employee is alleged to be deficient. The expense for the third physician will be shared by both parties. If the number of absences in the school system warrants a suspicion by the Superintendent of a work-stoppage, then a medical certificate may be demanded forthwith.
6. Sick Leave shall be pro-rated for part-time teachers.
7. By October 1st of each school year, each individual teacher shall be given an updated accounting of the number of total sick days he has accumulated. Aside letter will be forwarded from the Association to the Corporation stating that: "the Association promises that in those schools where past sick leave records are incomplete, the individual teacher will make a good-faith effort to assist the principal in reconstructing the sick leave records."