Where a teacher is sick, he/she shall be entitled to sick leave during his/her sickness and to be paid his/her salary during his/her sickness subject to the following conditions:
a) Each teacher who is continuously employed by the Division shall accumulate entitlement for sick leave at the rate of one (1) day sick leave for every nine (9) days of actual teaching service to maximum of twenty (20) days per year. 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:
- forty (40) teaching days in the second year
- sixty (60) teaching days in the third year
- eighty (80) teaching days in the fourth year
- one hundred (100) teaching days in the fifth year
- one hundred twenty (120) teaching days in the sixth and subsequent years.
Teachers on less than full-time contracts shall have sick leave pro-rated accordingly.
Teachers employed on a Limited Term Teacher General Contract shall be entitled to sick leave on a pro-rata basis.
b) In any school year where a teacher has actually taught for the Division, and has exhausted all previously accumulated sick leave, the Division upon request from such teacher, shall advance up to (20) twenty 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 paid out is not subsequently earned by the end of the following year, it shall be reimbursed to or recovered by the Division as paid out.
c) There shall be no accumulation of sick leave credited for periods of "Leave of Absence" and/or "Sabbatical Leave".
d) Should the Division be eligible for a reduction in premiums under the Employment Insurance Act, the teachers’ five-twelfths (5/12th) share of the premium reduction shall be remitted to the Association. Remittance shall be made at the end of the spring and fall terms each year.
e) The Board, in its discretion, may in any school year grant a teacher sick leave for any period longer than that required in clause (a).
f) Teachers shall be entitled to use up to five (5) days of sick leave per year to attend to the emergency illness or injury or medical appointment of that teacher’s parent(s), spouse or pre-school or school age children.