A normal workday is 7.5 hours. Leave earned in excess of the maximum allowable for each group will be transferred to the employee's sick leave account annually on their anniversary hire date.
Employees can accumulate an unlimited number of sick days.
Upon retirement, accumulated sick leave is creditable service in computing retirement benefits. The member employee must meet the criteria established by the sick leave bank trustees and have been in a without pay status for five days. Sick leave may be transferred to sick leave bank members who have suffered disability due to unplanned personal illness or injury and who have exhausted all sick, annual and compensatory leave and leave approved through the sick leave bank. Other optional plans paid by the employee include life, accident, and dental insurance. State and federal deductions apply.