a) Sick leave shall be granted to provide lost income when a teacher is unable to be at work and perform regular duties due to illness or injury.
b) Effective the fall term 2015, a full-time teacher who is under contract to the Division as of the first (1st) day of the fall term shall be credited with twenty (20) days sick leave (subject to a maximum accumulation of 130 days) on that date except that the employee must actually teach for at least one day before any sick leave days are credited to this teacher. A full-time teacher coming under contract at a later date in the school year shall be credited with a pro-rata share of twenty (20) days, calculated to the closest whole day. A regular part-time teacher is entitled to a pro-rata share of twenty (20) days sick leave per year and the principle of accumulation, and the total to be accumulated applies as to a full-time teacher.
The provisions of twenty (20) days sick leave shall be pro-rated where an employee returns from a leave at a time other than the commencement of the fall term.
Teachers employed on a part-time basis who have a Form 2, Teacher General, or Limited Term Teacher-General contact with the Division shall be granted sick leave with pay pro-rated based on full time equivalence.
c) Where a teacher is absent from school because of sickness, the Division may require the teacher to submit to the Division a medical certificate from a duly qualified medical practitioner, certifying that the teacher was sick during the period of absence.