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provide information on the kinds of job duties the employee is unable to

perform.

4. It indicates the anticipated date of return to work.
5. It is signed by an appropriate medical practitioner.

Agencies are required to treat medical documentation in a confidential
manner. The ISU Agreement provides the opportunity for employees, upon

proper notice, to submit medical certificates directly to a personnel office,
instead of a supervisor, for additional confidentiality.

The ISU Agreement provides that a doctor’s certificate will not be
routinely required for absences of four consecutive work days or less due

to illness. This in no way limits management’s rights to require medical
documentation for a specific absence in order to substantiate use of sick

leave.
The ISU Agreement further provides that the appointing authority must

provide written notice when requiring an employee to submit a medical
certificate. When the requirement is the result of a review of the

employee’s attendance record, the requirement shall be for absences
occurring after the written notice was provided.

Separation
There is no provision for cash payment for unused sick leave upon

separation from State service. However, employees who retire directly
from State service may use up to 200 days of unused sick leave for

retirement service credit and to defray the cost of health insurance in
retirement.

Extended Sick Leave

Under the Attendance Rules, an employee who has exhausted all leave
credits and who is absent due to personal illness may, at the discretion of
the appointing authority, be advanced up to five days of sick leave credits.

Sick leave credits may be advanced to avoid a payroll deduction, but it is

generally not appropriate to advance sick leave credits simply to postpone
sick leave at half-pay or a leave without pay or when the employee will not

be able to return to work. Advanced sick leave must be repaid as soon as
possible following the employee’s return to work from subsequent

accumulations of leave credits. Any advanced sick leave not repaid at time
of separation is deducted from any compensation due the employee.

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