a) A teacher shall be entitled to and shall receive sick leave without loss of salary only where the teacher is unable to perform his/her regular duties as a result of personal illness or injury.
b) Teachers shall accumulate entitlement for sick leave at the rate of one (1) day of sick leave for every nine (9) days of actual teaching service, or fraction thereof, to a maximum of twenty (20) days per year, but the total sick leave which he/she shall be entitled to accumulate shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-four (124) days.
(Effective Fall Term 2015) Teachers shall accumulate entitlement for sick leave at the rate of one (1) day of sick leave for every nine (9) days of actual teaching service, or fraction thereof, to a maximum of twenty (20) days per year, but the total sick leave which he/she shall be entitled to accumulate shall not exceed one hundred and thirty (130) days.
c) At the start of each school year a teacher shall be advanced twenty (20) days of sick leave toward annual entitlement, including circumstances when a teacher is unable to attend to duties at the start of the school year because of the need for sick leave, provided that the teacher is not receiving Disability Benefits, is not disabled and in the waiting period for Disability Benefits and is not on an extended leave of absence.
If a teacher terminates his/her employment with the Division the sick leave advanced but not subsequently accumulated shall be reimbursed to the Division or otherwise recovered by the Division.
Teachers employed under contract at a time other than the start of the school year shall receive a prorated advance on sick leave as hereinbefore provided.
d) The number of days a teacher is on sick leave shall be deducted from his/her accumulated sick leave entitlement at the time of his/her returning to work. Teachers who have accumulated maximum sick leave entitlement of one hundred and twenty-four (124) days under either a) or b) above and who subsequently use sick leave shall regain sick leave entitlement at the rate of one (1) day of sick leave for every nine (9) days of actual teaching service after return from sick leave until the maximum entitlement of one hundred and twenty-four (124) days is again accumulated.
(Effective Fall Term 2015) The number of days a teacher is on sick leave shall be deducted from his/her accumulated sick leave entitlement at the time of his/her returning to work. Teachers who have accumulated maximum sick leave entitlement of one hundred and thirty (130) days under either a) or b) above and who subsequently use sick leave shall regain sick leave entitlement at the rate of one (1) day of sick leave for every nine (9) days of actual teaching service after return from sick leave until the maximum entitlement of one hundred and thirty (130) days is again accumulated.
e) For the purposes of this Article only, any day during which the teacher is absent from school because of sickness does not constitute part of actual teaching service.
As required by the Employment Insurance Reduction Program, the amount of employment insurance premium reduction allowed and granted to an employer must be shared to the extent of 5/12 with the employees to whom the reduction rate is applicable. The employment insurance premium reduction amount will be submitted to the Association by April 30 of each year.
A teacher shall be entitled to use up to four (4) days of accumulated sick leave per school year to attend to the illness or injury or medical appointment of his or her spouse or common law partner, child, parent, sibling, step-parent or grandparent. In the case of a child, if both parents are teachers in the Division, both parents cannot access the provisions of this article concurrently.
(Effective Fall Term 2015) A teacher shall be entitled to use up to five (5) days of accumulated sick leave per school year to attend to the illness or injury or medical appointment of his or her spouse or common law partner, child, parent, sibling, step-parent or grandparent.
Sick leave is not payable to a teacher:
i) who, while receiving sick leave benefits from the Brandon School Division, is engaged in employment for wage or profit with another employer, except when such employment occurs as a result of a program of rehabilitative employment approved by the Disability Benefits Plan; or
ii) who, in respect of injury resulting from a motor vehicle accident, is receiving wage-loss replacement benefits from Manitoba Public Insurance (“M.P.I.”) to the extent that such benefits and paid sick leave exceed the teacher’s normal salary and up to the maximum number of sick leave days accumulated by the teacher. In such cases, the teacher shall reimburse the Division the amount of benefit received from M.P.I.
The Division may require teachers to produce reports from a duly qualified health care practitioner(s) on matters related to their illness and absence from the workplace.