(i) Each teacher shall be credited with twenty (20) teaching day’s sick leave with full salary at the beginning of each year of continuous employment as a teacher with the Education Authority.
(ii) A teacher may accumulate up to a maximum of two hundred (200) un-used sick leave days. A teacher will not be entitled to accumulate sick leave during any Sabbatical Leave. The Education Authority shall include on the bi-weekly pay stub the used and un-used sick time accumulated.
(iii) Additional days may be granted at the discretion of the Education Authority.
(iv) A teacher shall be entitled to use banked sick leave to a maximum of ten (10) days to attend to the medical needs of a parent, spouse/common-law spouse, child, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother, sister, grandparent or grandchild. Additional days may be granted at the discretion of the Education Authority.
(v) This Article shall become effective on August 13th, 2013, with the exception of un-used sick leave from the 2005-2013 school years, which will be carried forward to form part of the credited sick leave set out in Article 15.00 above. The earliest date upon which a teacher will qualify for sick leave payout will be after one (1) full year of service following the implementation date of this clause.
(vi) Upon a teacher's death, retirement or termination of employment, either the teacher or his/her designated beneficiary of record with the Education Authority will be entitled to receive a lump sum payment representing a percentage of un-used sick leave, to a maximum of one hundred and fifty (150) days. The lump sum payment shall be based upon the teacher's salary in his/her last year of employment.
(vii) A lump sum of accumulated sick leave payments to a maximum of one hundred and fifty (150) shall be set as follows based on the final year of employment.
18% First year
20% Second year
20% Third year
22% Fourth year
25% Fifth year
30% Sixth year
35% Seventh year
45% Eighth year
50% Ninth Year
75% Tenth year
100% Over the tenth year
For the purposes of (vii), a teacher shall only be entitled to a pro-rated portion of the sick leave payout from the portion of the current year if the teacher leaves the current year part way through the year.
(viii) Effective August 1st, 2005, short term disability coverage will become effective on the sixteenth (16th) calendar day of the teacher’s absence due to illness.
(ix) In the event Article 15 in this Agreement is deleted from any future agreement between the Association and the Education Authority, it is agreed that the Authority shall pay out banked sick days on either February 15th (for teachers ending employment in November), and July 31st (for teachers ending employment in April).