FILE: GBRIB

SICK LEAVE

Sick Leave for all personnel is accumulated at the rate of one day per month of employment, and one may carry over unused leave to the next year of employment.  An employee may accumulate an unlimited number of sick leave days.

Authorization for, and verification of, sick leave shall be the responsibility of the employee’s immediate supervisor.  The Superintendent may require a statement from the attending physician in verifying the need to use sick leave by an employee.

Sick leave is defined as the absence from regular duty due to any of the following reasons:

• Personal illness or doctor’s quarantine;
• Incapacitating personal injury;
• Attendance upon an ill member of the employee’s immediate family (parent,  spouse, child, sibling); or an individual with a close personal tie;
• Death in the immediate family of the employee (parent, spouse, child, sibling, parent-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, grandchild, grandparent, uncle, or aunt);
• Where unusually strong personal ties exist due to an employee having been supported or educated by a person of some relationship other than those listed, such relationship may be recognized for leave purposes.  In each case, the employee concerned shall file with the Board a written statement of the circumstances, which justify an exception to the general rule.

ADOPTED:     August 13, 2002
REVISED:       December 10, 2002

LEGAL REF:  Code of Alabama  16-1-18.1 

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