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SICK LEAVE

Earning

Sick leave is earned and accumulated at the rate of one-half day each bi-
weekly pay period for a total of 13 days per year and may be accumulated

to a maximum of 200 days. It is earned only for pay periods during which
an employee is in full pay status for at least seven of the ten workdays in

the pay period.
Use

Proper uses of sick leave include personal illness, visits to doctor or
dentist or other recognized medical practitioner and illness or death in the

employee’s family (up to 15 days per year). For this purpose, family is
defined as any relative or relative-in-law, or any person with whom the

employee has been making his or her home. Family sick leave is available
to employees who are providing direct care to a family member who is ill.

Employees who have exhausted sick leave credits are entitled to charge
absences otherwise chargeable to sick leave to other leave credits

(vacation, personal leave, etc.) subject to the same approval procedures and
documentation requirements as apply to use of sick leave credits. Section

10.20 of the ISU Agreement establishes circumstances under which this
use of other credits for absences due to illness may be denied.

Section 10.8 of the ISU Agreement identifies some of the information
that an employee must provide when calling in and identifies how often an

employee needs to call in.
Medical Documentation

The Attendance Rules provide that an appointing authority is entitled to

satisfactory medical documentation before approving absence due to
illness or before authorizing return to work.
Satisfactory medical documentation generally meets the following

criteria:

1. A brief diagnosis will not be required as part of any required medical
documentation unless the employee has been absent from work due to

illness or injury for greater than 30 consecutive calendar days.
2. It specifies the inclusive dates of disability covered by the doctor’s note

and the date or dates of treatment during the period covered.
3. It certifies that the employee is disabled from the performance of his

or her job duties. In some cases (for example, partial disability) it may

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