2.3.6 Medical Leave

Policy: 2.3.6

Medical Leave

Date of Policy Adoption: January 25, 2000

Revised Effective Date: January 25, 2000

Scope: All Employee Groups

Policy

The College provides medical leave plans for qualifying employees. Sick leave compensates an employee at full pay for day(s) missed due to illness or injury. Family and Medical Leave allows employees to take extended family and medically related leaves and maintain medical benefits for the duration of the leave. The College also maintains disability benefit plans that provide employees determined to be “totally disabled” with a level of financial remuneration.

Procedure

1. Sick Leave

Full-time employees accrue one day illness absence credit for each month worked, not to exceed twelve days per year. Full-time faculty members working a 160-day contract earn ten days of paid sick leave per year. An employee hired on or before the 15th of the month receives illness absence credit for the month.

Employees should notify their supervisor, or his/her designee, of an absence within one hour of the start of the scheduled reporting time on the day of the absence. Failure to so notify may jeopardize the use of the sick leave benefit for the day.

Illness absence credit may be accumulated to 70 days maximum. Employees are not paid for unused illness absence credit accrued unless the employee is retiring as outlined in section 3.8 of these policies.

The employee's supervisor may require a doctor's written statement or other proof that an employee is not available for work due to illness as a condition of making sick leave payment. The supervisor may further require the employee to be examined by a physician chosen by the College, at the College’s expense.

Employees returning to work from a condition that precluded their ability to perform their normal work responsibilities for one week or more must provide the College with a written statement from the employee's attending physician or similarly qualified medical practitioner indicating that the employee is ready and able to resume work.

2. Leave Under the Family And Medical Leave Act (please click link to read)

3. Disability

The College provides for insurance for both short term and long term disabilities. The short-term plan is administered through the Yavapai Combined Trust. The long-term disability plan is administered through either the Arizona State Retirement System or TIAA-CREF. Information about each plan can be attained through the Human Resources office or by contacting the respective plan administrator.

Date of Policy Adoption: January 25, 2000

Effective Date: January 25, 2000

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Dr. Ed Harris, Board Chair