| 24.1 |
Following completion of one (1) academic qualifying
pay period or one (1) qualifying pay period, a full-time faculty
unit employee shall accrue eight (8) hours of credit for sick
leave with pay. Thereafter, for each additional academic qualifying
pay period or qualifying pay period, eight (8) hours of credit
for sick leave with pay shall be accrued. |
| 24.2 |
Faculty unit employees who are appointed less
than full-time shall accrue credit for sick leave with pay on
a pro rata basis. |
| 24.3 |
Sick leave may be accumulated without limit. No
additional sick leave with pay beyond that accumulated shall
be granted. |
| 24.4 |
Upon request, a faculty unit employee who returns
to CSU employment within ten (10) months following the date
of separation shall be credited by the campus with his/her sick
leave balance at the time of separation from previous CSU employment.
If the faculty unit employee is appointed to a classification
in which sick leave is not accrued, this provision shall not
apply. |
| 24.5 |
A faculty unit employee shall be responsible for
immediately reporting an absence to the appropriate administrator. |
| 24.6 |
A faculty unit employee shall be responsible for
promptly completing and signing the campus absence form and
returning the absence form to the appropriate administrator. |
| 24.7 |
A faculty unit employee may be required to provide
a physician's statement or other appropriate verification for
absences after three (3) consecutive days charged to sick leave.
A faculty unit employee shall not normally be required to provide
such a statement or verification for an absence of three (3)
consecutive days or less charged to sick leave. |
| 24.8 |
Under no circumstances may a faculty unit employee
be granted sick leave for days during layoff periods, during
a leave of absence without pay or during an officially scheduled
campus closure, unless the faculty unit employee is officially
scheduled to work during such a closure. |
| Absences
for Which Sick Leave May Be Charged |
| 24.9 |
The use of sick leave may be authorized by the
President only when a faculty unit employee is absent because
of: |
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a. |
illness or injury, or disability related to pregnancy or childbirth; |
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b. |
exposure to contagious disease; |
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c. |
dental, eye, or other physical or medical examinations or
treatments by licensed practitioners; |
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d. |
illness or injury in the immediate family; |
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e. |
death of a person in the immediate family, or |
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f. |
an extension of the maternity/paternity leave benefit pursuant
to provision 23.5
of the Agreement. |
| 24.10 |
The term "immediate family" as used
in this Agreement shall refer to the employee's spouse or domestic
partner, parent, grandparent, grandchild, son, son-in-law, daughter,
daughter-in-law, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, stepchild or
stepparent of the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and
close relative or persons residing in the immediate household
of the employee (except domestic employees or roomers). Also
included in this definition shall be any minor children or incapacitated
individuals for whom the employee has primary responsibility
or l egal guardianship or conservatorship. |
| 24.11 |
The President may authorize up to forty (40) hours
of accrued sick leave credits for each death in the immediate
family. |
| 24.12 |
Sick leave for family care is primarily for emergency
situations. Up to forty (40) hours of accrued sick leave credit
may be used for family care during any one (1) calendar year. |
| 24.13 |
An employee may use accrued sick leave upon mutual
agreement between the employee and appropriate administrator
during the period of family leave provided in Article 22, Leaves
of Absence Without Pay. The use of such sick leave during this
period of family leave shall not be limited to forty (40) hours
as required in provision 24.12 above. |
| 24.14 |
A full-time faculty unit employee shall be charged
eight (8) hours sick leave for each day he/she was not available
to work due to an absence chargeable to sick leave. Sick leave
shall be charged for each day, exclusive of days on which the
campus is closed, from the onset of such an absence until the
employee resumes attendance at the campus or until the employee
notifies the appropriate administrator he/she is available to
resume work. A faculty unit employee shall not be considered
to work more than five (5) days in a seven (7) day period for
the purpose of charging sick leave. |
| 24.15 |
The President may authorize up to sixty (60) days
of unpaid sick leave or the use of vacation for a faculty unit
employee who has exhausted his/her accumulated sick leave. |
| 24.16 |
The President may, when he/she determines a critical
need exists, authorize unpaid sick leave in excess of sixty
(60) days. |
| 24.17 |
If the President determines that a faculty unit
employee is unable to carry out his/her duties due to medical
incapacity, the President may authorize directed sick leave. |
| Supplement
to Industrial Disability Leave |
| 24.18 |
Upon written notification to CSU by an eligible
faculty unit employee, the faculty unit employee may elect to
supplement Industrial Disability Leave (IDL) payments with charges
to his/her accrued sick leave. Such a notice shall be no later
than fifteen (15) days after the report of the injury. |
| 24.19 |
Such supplementation shall continue until the
faculty unit employee has exhausted his/her accrued sick leave
or until the faculty unit employee provides to the CSU written
notification he/she wishes to discontinue supplementation. |
| 24.20 |
Such a supplement to IDL payments shall not result
in the faculty unit employee receiving a payment in excess of
his/her regular salary or wage. |
| 24.21 |
All payments received by a faculty unit employee
while on IDL shall be subject to mandatory and authorized voluntary
deductions. |
| Catastrophic
Leave Donation Program |
| 24.22 |
Any CSU employee who accrues vacation or sick
leave credits may voluntarily donate either of those credits
to any other CSU employee on the same campus, if the recipient
employee has exhausted all accrued leave credits, i.e., sick
leave, vacation, and CTO, due to a catastrophic illness or injury.
Catastrophic illness or injury is an illness or injury that
has totally incapacitated the employee from work. The following
provisions shall apply: |
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a. |
An employee, his/her representative or the employee's family
member must request the employee's participation and provide
appropriate verification of illness or injury as determined
by the campus president. The president shall then determine
the employee's eligibility to receive donations based upon the
definition provided above. |
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b. |
An incapacitated employee may elect to defer a request to
participate during a period of Industrial Disability Leave eligibility. |
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c. |
An employee may donate a maximum of sixteen (16) hours of
leave credits per fiscal year in increments of one hour or more.
Donations are irrevocable. |
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d. |
Donated leave credits may be used to supplement Industrial
Disability Leave, Non-Industrial Disability Leave or Temporary
Disability payments from the State Compensation Insurance Fund
upon the application for these benefit(s) by an eligible employee.
The total amount of leave credits donated and used may not exceed
an amount sufficient to ensure the continuance of the employee's
regular monthly rate of compensation. |
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e. |
The total donated leave credits shall normally not exceed
an amount necessary to continue the employee for three calendar
months calculated from the first day of catastrophic leave.
The president may approve an additional three-month period in
exceptional cases. The leave should not be deemed donated until
actually transferred by the campus record keeper to the record
of the employee receiving leave credits. |
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f. |
For employees whose appointments have not been renewed, donated
time may not be used beyond the employee's appointment expiration
date in effect at the beginning of the disability. |
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g. |
Only vacation and sick leave credits may be donated. |
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h. |
Donated leave credits may not be used to receive service credit
following a service or disability retirement. |
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i. |
Any CSU union may solicit leave donations from bargaining
unit employees for direct transfer to employees eligible to
receive such leave credits. |
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j. |
Catastrophic illness or injury may also include an incapacitated
member of the employee's immediate family if this results in
the employee being required to take time off for an extended
period of time in order to care for the family member and the
employee has exhausted both all of his/her accrued vacation
credits and all of his/her accrued sick leave credits which
may be used for family care in accordance with the appropriate
collective bargaining Agreement. Only donated vacation credits
may be used for such family care catastrophic leave. Immediate
family members shall be defined in accordance with the definition
contained in the sick leave provisions of the collective bargaining
Agreement covering the recipient employee. |
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k. |
The provisions of this Agreement shall be subject to the grievance
procedure contained in the collective bargaining Agreement applicable
to the grieving employee. |
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l. |
Pledged leave credits will be formally transferred to the
recipient employee only at the end of a pay period, and then
in chronological order of the dates actually pledged. This will
insure that any unused leave credits are never actually transferred
until they can in fact be used by the recipient employee. In
the event that an employee is unable to use all pledged credits
in a pay period, the most recently donated leave credits which
cannot be utilized will then never formally be transferred,
thereby guaranteeing that they are in no way lost by an employee
who wants to donate them in order to help a co-worker who needs
the credits. |
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m. |
Campuses, with the approval of the president, may implement
this program through the creation of a sick leave bank which
would be available for use by all campus employees, including
non-bargaining unit personnel. Such implementation is contingent
upon the agreement of all bargaining units. |
