(a) Where a teacher is sick, he/she shall be entitled to sick leave during his/her illness and to be paid his/her salary during his/her sick leave, but subject to subsection (b), the leave shall not exceed twenty (20) teaching days in any school year.
(b) ( i) Where the employment of a teacher is continued for more than one (l) year, the unused portion of the sick leave in any year(s) shall be carried forward and accumulated from year to year to a maximum of:
- 40 teaching days in the second year.
- 60 teaching days in the third year.
- 80 teaching days in the fourth year.
- 100 teaching days in the fifth year.
- 120 teaching days in the sixth year
- 130 teaching days in the seventh and consecutive years
1. In any school year where a teacher has actually taught for the Board and has exhausted all previously accumulated sick leave, the Board, upon request from such teacher, shall advance up to twenty (20) days sick leave less the accumulated entitlement already taken for that school year.
If the employment of such teacher is terminated or the sick leave advanced and used but not subsequently earned by the end of the following school year, it shall be reimbursed to or recovered by the Board at the said teacher’s daily rate of pay in effect at the time the days were advanced.
ii) The provision of twenty (20) sick days in any year shall be pro-rated in the following circumstances:
a) where an employee commences employment at a time other than the commencement of the fall term,b) where an employee returns from a leave at a time other than the commencement of the fall term,
c) where an employee terminates employment during the school year for reasons other than sickness,
d) where an employee does not work a full school year for reasons other than sickness.
iii) For purposes of paragraph (b) (iii), pro-rating of the twenty (20) sick days provided in any year shall be calculated as set out below:
No. of days of actual teaching service
(including paid sick days)
_______________________________ X 20
Total no. of teaching days in the school year
iv) Sick leave accumulation balances shall be rounded to the nearest whole day.
(c) There shall be no accumulation of sick leave credited for periods of "leave of absence" and/or "educational leave".
(d) In the event a teacher is injured during the course of other employment, the amount of sick leave payable shall be reduced by the amount of compensation, salary, or other benefits the teacher is entitled to receive as a result of that employment, provided however that the Division shall only pay an amount necessary to bring the teacher's income to the net level it would have been had he/she provided services to the Division.
(e) For the purposes of determining sick leave under the Collective Agreement the number of days a teacher is on sick leave with pay shall be deducted from that teacher's accumulated sick leave with pay entitlement.
(f) Teachers employed on a part-time basis and who have a contract with the Division shall be granted sick leave with pay pro-rated based on full-time equivalents.
(g) Teachers employed on a Limited Term-General contract pursuant to the provisions of The Public Schools Act shall be entitled to sick leave during the term such contract under the same terms and conditions as teachers regularly employed by the Division but the number of days entitlement shall be in the proportion as the total number of days taught over the number of days in the current school year multiplied by twenty (20).