File: GCBD-1A

SICK LEAVE BANK PLAN

1. Eligible employees may enroll in the sick leave bank by donating one day of their sick leave. In order to be eligible, the individual must be employed on a full-time basis under a contract or salary agreement.

2. Employee may enroll within the first 30 days of employment. If employees do not enroll at that time, they may apply during any subsequent open enrollment period.

3. An employee must be enrolled in the plan and have actively worked for six months before becoming eligible to use the sick leave bank. (Summer months of non-employment do not count towards this requirement. However, consecutive days, which include the end of one year and continue into the next, may be combined to meet the 30 day requirement.)

4. Membership in the bank shall be continuous, unless the employee withdraws in writing from participation during any subsequent open enrollment period.

5. Members must make application for use of the sick leave bank. Benefits are not automatic.

6. The sick leave bank does not cover the first 30 consecutive contract days of disability/sick leave. The waiting period must be covered by the employee's accrued sick leave or leave without pay. A member may use up to a maximum of 45 sick leave bank days in a rolling 12-month period measured backward from the date the medical leave began.

7. Members will not be able to utilize sick leave bank benefits until their accrued sick leave days are depleted.

8. Members do not have to replace the sick leave bank days that they use.

9. After members return to work, they must satisfy the waiting period before qualifying to use the sick leave bank again. However, if members suffer a relapse within 30 days due to the original disability, they do not have to satisfy another waiting period.

10. Members are required to submit a physician's certificate of disability to qualify for use of sick leave bank benefits.

11. Participants in the sick leave bank will be assessed an additional day (or days) of sick leave at such time as the bank balance is reduced to 200 days. Members, who do not have sick leave to contribute at the time of assessment, shall be assessed from their first sick leave day(s) accrued subsequently.

12. Upon termination of employment or membership, participants will not be permitted to withdraw their contributed day(s).

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01/12 RCPS ROCKINGHAM COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD