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Food Service Sick Bank Guidelines

The contract between the School Board of Broward County and the Federation of Public Employees (School Food Service) creates a "Sick Leave Bank" for seriously ill employees who have exhausted their sick leave. 

The bank shall be governed by the following procedures:

A.  Member Prerequisites

1. You must be a full-time employee to participate in the Sick Leave Bank.

2. You must have worked for the School Board one (1) full year prior to enrollment.

3. Participating employees must have ten (10) days of sick leave accrual at the time of enrollment in the bank.

B.   General

1. At the time of the employee's contribution to the Sick Leave Bank, the sick leave day shall be converted to a monetary sum by multiplying the day donated times the donor's daily base rate of pay when contributed.  If the Sick Leave Bank is depleted to a point where only $4,000 or less remains, all members of the Sick Leave Bank shall automatically have another day of sick leave subtracted from their personal accumulated total and transferred to the Sick Leave Bank.

2. Membership in the bank is voluntary and revocable upon sixty (60) days written notice to the School Board's Employee Relations Department.  Days deposited however, shall remain in the Sick Leave Bank even if an employee decides to cease participation in the Sick Leave Bank.

C.  Sick Leave Bank Committee

The Committee shall be appointed by the Federation for the purpose of administering the sick leave bank.  The Committee shall:

1. Maintain adequate records relative to all functions of the bank.

2. Meet periodically, as requested by the Superintendent, with a designated administrator of the county to review Federation sick leave bank records.

3. Operate the bank in accordance with rules and procedures mutually agreed to by the parties.  However, the Superintendent shall establish and the Federation will comply with procedures for identifying the recording contributions to and withdrawals from the Bank.  The parties authorize the Committee to establish additional administrative procedures necessary for the operation of the Bank as long as said procedures are consistent with and do not change any of the criteria contained in the Sick Leave Bank Addendum of the Federation contract.

4. Not grant more sick leave than is available in the bank.

D.  Withdrawal

In the event of catastrophic illness or injury of a participating member necessitating the employee's absence from work over an extended period of time, a participating member may receive paid leave under the following conditions:

1. A withdrawal may be approved only upon the total depletion of the respective employee's accumulated sick leave and vacation leave.  In addition, the affected employee must have exhausted or be ineligible for any type of leave granted by the Board related to accident, illness or injury.

2. The maximum withdrawal for any employee for one (1) illness or injury or complications thereof shall be fifteen (15) days.

3. Withdrawals shall be in full day units and must be for a minimum of five (5) consecutive days.  This may be waived by the Superintendent.

4. An employee may apply to the Committee for withdrawal in advance of the depletion of such employee's accumulated sick leave and vacation leave, to be granted, if needed, upon such depletion.

5. All applications for withdrawal shall be in writing and shall be verified by the Committee.  The Committee may submit a request to the Superintendent concerning the implementation of this article.

6. The salary of a Food Service employee participating in the bank will be reduced by any benefits drawn from Workers' Compensation or disability income.

7. When days are awarded from the bank, they will be withdrawn at the affected employee's daily base rate of pay.

8. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be used for the purposes of cosmetic surgery.

9. The Sick Leave Bank shall be used only for the personal illness or injury of the participating member.

10. The Sick Leave Bank shall not be used for purposes of elective surgery when such procedures could be safely performed during non-working times.

11. The Sick Leave Bank may request a second medical opinion at the applicant's expense.

12. Those applicants with an undetermined recovery period may be asked to provide the Sick Leave Bank Committee with intermittent verification of illness.

13. The Sick Leave Bank may be used for complications during pregnancy/delivery, but shall not be used for maternity leave.  Applicants may be asked to provide additional information to the Sick Leave Bank Committee.

14. Applications will only be approved for an illness or injury, which occurred during that fiscal year (July 1 - June 30).

15. Applications for withdrawal can be obtained from the Employee Relations Department by calling 754-321-2140.