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Sick Leave Information
Eligible employees are entitled to use sick leave. Employees may begin to use their sick leave accruals immediately upon hire with no waiting period. Sick leave accruals are earned at a rate of eight hours per month for a full-time employee and earned proportionally down to 50% effort (50%-effort employee will earn four sick leave hours per month).
Absences Qualifying for Sick Leave With and Without Pay
You may use sick leave for the following reasons:
- Your Condition – when injury, illness, or pregnancy prevents you from performing your duty
- Care for Your Immediate Family
- Who lives in your household
- Eligible: related by kinship, adoption, or marriage
- Who do NOT live in your household
- Eligible: employee’s child, spouse, parent; must have a documented medical condition
Sick Leave and Documentation
You must account for your use of sick leave in the following instances:
- Absences of less than three continuous working days
- must specify if for family member
- no medical documentation required unless supervisor suspects abuse
- Absences in excess of three continuous working days
- must specify if for family member
- medical documentation required indicating estimated date of recovery and cause of illness or some other written statement of the facts concerning the illness that is acceptable to the CEO or his/her designee
Sick Leave Upon Retirement
Employees who retire may not have their previous sick leave balances restored in the event they re-employ with another state agency. Employees planning to retire have three options regarding sick leave upon retirement:
- Donate any or all remaining sick leave to the sick leave pool.
- Apply any or all remaining sick leave toward retirement service credit.
- Lose any remaining sick leave upon retirement.
An employee may use any or all of these options; however, upon retirement, the employee’s sick leave balance will be zero.
Sick Leave Quick Facts
- The estate of active employees who die will be paid for one-half of unused sick leave, or 336 hours, whichever is less, provided the employee has fulfilled 6 continuous months of service with the state
- An employee may use up to eight hours of sick leave with pay each fiscal year to attend parent-teacher conferences for the employee’s children in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade (Reasonable advance notice must be provided)
- An employee who adopts a child younger than three years may use the amount of available sick leave following the adoption that would normally be granted for recovery from pregnancy and childbirth (up to six weeks)
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