These employees are advanced three days of personal leave at the beginning of the school year. Personal leave is provided to enable employees who do not earn annual leave to attend to personal and business needs that cannot be addressed at times other than their regular hours and days of work. Generally, personal leave cannot be taken on days immediately before or after a school holiday, a legal holiday, the winter vacation, the spring vacation or the summer vacation. Employees may carry a balance of no more than six personal days. Like excess annual leave, excess personal leave days are credited to the employee's sick leave balance.
Employees earn one day of sick leave each month.
Sick leave may be used for personal illness, or for the illness or death of a member of the employee's immediate family. There is no limit on the amount of sick leave that an employee may accumulate. Employees must donate one day of sick leave to join the bank. Members of the bank may borrow a maximum of sixty days of leave. If approved, donation forms are forwarded to the requester's principal or department head for distribution at the employee's work site.