Sick Leave

An employee earns 1¼ days sick leave per month of service, for a total of 15 days per year for full-time regular employees working at least 35 hours per week. Regular employees working fewer than 35 hours per week will be eligible for pro-rated sick leave. Absences due to illness or medical appointments may be charged to sick leave. Absences due to illness of, or medical appointments for, an employee’s spouse, domestic partner, child or dependent, or domestic partner’s dependent may also be charged to that employee’s sick leave. Any accumulated sick leave will be carried over into the next fiscal year. The maximum accumulation, however, is 40 days.

As of the eighth consecutive day of absence due to illness, an employee is eligible for short- term disability insurance payments. While an employee who is physician-certified as disabled is absent from work and receiving full pay from sick leave, he or she must assign the short- term disability insurance payments to the Fund. Once an employee's sick leave is exhausted, an employee may keep short-term disability payments to which he or she is entitled. (For further discussion of short-term disability insurance, see page 32.) Please contact the Personnel & Benefits Administrator for details about short- term disability insurance coverage and benefits.

The Fund may require a doctor's certificate of illness for any absence exceeding three consecutive days. For discussion of extended medical leave (unpaid), see Unpaid Family and Medical Leave.