Guidelines of the Mountain Brook Schools Sick Leave Bank

1. No employee shall be allowed to owe more than 15 days to the SLB, unless over 50 percent of the members of the bank vote to extend the limit.

    

2. Appropriate administrative forms for administering the SLB shall be developed by the SLB committee.

    

3. Sick leave days shall be repaid to the SLB monthly as re-earned by the member. Upon the resignation or other termination of an employee who has an outstanding loan of sick leave days, the value of the loan shall be deducted from the final paycheck at the employee’s prevailing rate of pay.

    

4. A member of the sick leave bank shall not be allowed to accumulate more days than allowed by state law, including days in the bank.

    

5. Employee membership in the SLB shall be voluntary.

    

6. Any alleged abuse of the SLB shall be investigated by the SLB committee. On the finding of wrongdoing, the member shall repay all of the sick leave credits drawn from the SLB and be subject to other appropriate disciplinary action as determined by the local Board.

    

7. Upon retirement or transfer of a SLB member, days on deposit with the SLB shall be withdrawn and transferred with the employee or made accessible for retirement credit as applicable.

    

8. Before being eligible to use catastrophic sick leave days, the member of the SLB shall first borrow and utilize days from the SLB, up to a maximum of 15 days. However, if the member later qualifies for catastrophic sick leave, donated catastrophic sick leave days may be used to repay days owed to the SLB to the credit of the affected member.

    

9. From August 15 through September 30, or in the month of February, or upon employment of a new employee, two sick leave days shall, upon application of the employee, be credited to the employee’s account to enable the employee to join the SLB if the employee does not have the days to enable him or her to join the bank. The first two days of earned sick leave will replace the two credited to the account.

    

10. The enrollment period shall be from August 15 to September 30 each year and again during the month of February. Those employees who do not choose to join during the enrollment period upon initial employment may join during the enrollment periods in succeeding years.

     

11. A donation of two days from an employee’s sick leave account must be placed on deposit in the SLB in order for an employee to become a member.

     

12. An employee who donates days to another SLB member for use during a catastrophic illness shall not be able to recover the donated days unless the person does not require all the days donated to him or her. In that circumstance the donated days will revert to the credit of the employee(s) who donated them on a prorated basis.