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TN Code § 49-5-608 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 6 - Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act of 2011|§ 49-5-608. Scope of Conferencing

  A local board of education shall be required to participate in collaborative conferencing with professional employees, or their designated representatives, if any, with respect to only those terms and conditions of employment that are specified in this section. Such terms and conditions include and are limited to the following:  Salaries or wages;   Grievance procedures;   Insurance;   Fringe benefits, but not to include pensions or retirement programs of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system or locally authorized early retirement incentives;   Working conditions; except those working conditions which are prescribed by federal law, state law, private act, municipal charter or rules and regulations of the state board of education, the department of education or any other department or agency of state or local government;   Leave; and   Payroll deductions; except as provided in subsection (b).     No other terms or conditions of employment shall be the subject of collaborative conferencing between the board of education and the professional employees or their representatives and no collaborative conferencing shall be conducted on the following subjects:  Differentiated pay plans and other incentive compensation programs including stipends and associated benefits that are based on professional employee performance that exceeds expectations, or that aid in hiring and retaining highly qualified teachers for hard-to-staff schools and subject areas;   Expenditure of grants or awards from federal, state or local governments and foundations or other private organizations that are expressly designated for specific purposes;   Evaluation of professional employees pursuant to federal or state law or state board of education policy;   Staffing decisions and state board of education or local board of education policies relating to innovative educational programs under § 49-1-207; innovative high school programs under chapter 15 of this title; virtual education programs under chapter 16 of this title; and other programs for innovative schools or school districts that may be enacted by the general assembly;   All personnel decisions concerning assignment of professional employees, including, but not limited to, filling of vacancies, assignments to specific schools, positions, professional duties, transfers within the system, layoffs, reductions in force, and recall. No agreement shall include provisions that require personnel decisions to be determined on the basis of tenure, seniority or length of service; and   Payroll deductions for political activities.     The director of schools shall be permitted to communicate with professional employees employed by the local board of education concerning any subject relevant to the operation of the school system, including the terms and conditions of professional service that are subject to collaborative conferencing, through any means, medium or format the director chooses.
TN Code § 49-5-609 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 6 - Professional Educators Collaborative Conferencing Act of 2011|§ 49-5-609. Memorandum of Understanding

  The scope of a memorandum shall extend to those matters of mutual agreement between the board of education and the professional employees; provided, that its scope shall not include proposals contrary to:  Federal or state law or applicable municipal charter;   Professional employee rights defined in this part; or   Board of education rights contained in this title.     If agreement is reached by the management personnel of the board of education and the representatives of its professional employees, they shall jointly prepare a proposed memorandum of understanding. The board of education may enter into the memorandum for a period not to exceed three (3) years. Any items included within the memorandum that require funding shall not be considered effective until such time as the body empowered to appropriate the funds has approved a budget that includes sufficient funding. If the amount of funds appropriated is less than the amount required to address the matters of collaborative conferencing, then the parties may continue to confer to reach agreement within the amount of funds appropriated.   A memorandum of understanding shall be binding on the parties from the date of its approval by the board of education as an item on the agenda of a regular or special called board meeting or at a later effective date that is explicitly stated in the memorandum of understanding.   Nothing in this part shall be construed to require collaborative conferencing, agreement on any terms and conditions of employment, or, if agreement has not been reached between the board of education and the representatives of the professional employees, a memorandum of understanding. Absent an agreement and memorandum of understanding on terms and conditions specified for collaborative conferencing in this part, the board of education shall have the authority to address such terms and conditions through board policy.
TN Code § 49-5-701 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-701. State Board of Education — Rules and Regulations

  The state board of education shall adopt rules and regulations setting up sick leave and personal and professional leave for the teachers in the public schools of this state, and for payment of substitute teachers. Every LEA shall participate in the state leave plan as established in this part.   The state board of education shall prescribe forms and procedures to be followed by the local boards of education participating in the state leave plan. The commissioner of education may withhold state leave funds from any participating system that fails to comply with this section or the implementing rules and regulations of the state board of education.
TN Code § 49-5-702 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-702. Application for Leave

  Any person holding a position that requires a teacher's license shall be granted leave for military service, legislative service, maternity, adoption, recuperation of health or visitation of a spouse, child or parent deployed for military duty out of the country who has been granted rest and recuperation leave and may be granted leave for educational improvements or other sufficient reason without forfeiture of accumulated leave credits, tenure status or other fringe benefits. Local boards of education may compensate teachers the difference between their regular pay and their military pay while engaged in military service. Nothing in this subsection (a) shall be construed to affect any rights granted public employees under title 8, chapter 33.   All leaves shall be requested in writing at least thirty (30) days in advance on forms adopted by the local board of education and uniformly used throughout the school system. The thirty-day notice may be waived or reduced by the director of schools or upon a certified statement of a physician approved by the director of schools.   The teacher's application for leave forms shall require, but not be limited to:  A description of the type of leave requested;   The requested dates for beginning and ending the leave; and   A statement of intent to return to the position from which leave is granted.
TN Code § 49-5-703 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-703. Director's Action on Application

 Each request for leave must be acted upon in accordance with board policy, any negotiated contract or applicable state or federal law by the director of schools within fifteen (15) days. Each applicant shall be notified in writing of the action of the director of schools, and the beginning and ending dates of the leave that is granted.
TN Code § 49-5-704 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-704. Term and Extension of Leave

 All leaves, except military leave, shall be from a date certain to a date certain; however, any leave may be extended to a later specified date upon written request from the teacher. The procedure for extending a leave and the conditions under which a leave may be extended are the same as those used when originally requesting and granting the leave. Military leave and leave to hold legislative office shall be granted for whatever period may be required. Leave to visit a spouse, child or parent deployed for military duty out of the country who has been granted rest and recuperation leave shall be granted for no longer than ten (10) days.
TN Code § 49-5-705 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-705. Teacher's Reinstatement After Leave

 Positions vacated for less than twelve (12) months by teachers on leave shall be filled with an interim teacher for such time as the teacher is on leave. Upon return of the teacher within the twelve (12) months, the interim teacher shall relinquish the position, and the teacher shall return to the position. If the leave exceeds twelve (12) months, the teacher shall be placed in the same or a comparable position upon return from leave.
TN Code § 49-5-706 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-706. Teacher Not Returning After Leave

 Any teacher on leave shall, at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of return, notify the director of schools in writing if the teacher does not intend to return to the position from which the teacher is on leave. Failure to render such notice may be considered breach of contract.
TN Code § 49-5-707 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-707. Pay While on Leave

 The regularly employed teacher who is on leave authorized by § 49-5-701, § 49-5-710 or § 49-5-711 shall receive the pay prescribed by the teacher's contract during such absence, but the right to receive such pay shall be subject to all the conditions set forth in §§ 49-5-701, 49-5-710 and 49-5-711.
TN Code § 49-5-708 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-708. Effect of Leave on Teacher's Rights

 Any teacher on leave shall retain any accumulated tenure, salary or fringe benefit credits; and the leave shall not be construed to work a forfeiture of any accumulated tenure, salary or fringe benefit credits.
TN Code § 49-5-709 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-709. Substitute Teachers

 Substitute teachers are those teachers used to replace teachers on leave authorized by § 49-5-701, § 49-5-710 or § 49-5-711, or to fill temporary vacancies as defined by the state board of education and granted under written local school board policies. Substitute teachers may be employed and paid directly by a local education agency or by a third party public or private employer through an agreement between such third party employer and the local education agency. Substitute teachers employed by third party entities shall be subject to the same unemployment benefit eligibility conditions as substitute teachers employed directly by local education agencies.
TN Code § 49-5-711 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-711. Personal and Professional Leave — Accumulation and Use

  Under policies adopted by the local board of education, a teacher shall be allowed personal and professional leave earned at the rate of one (1) day for each one-half (½) year employed. A teacher may take not more than two (2) days of personal or professional leave prior to having earned it, but it shall be charged against the teacher's year's allowance. Any personal and professional leave remaining unused at the end of a year shall be credited to that teacher as sick leave.   If, at the termination of a teacher's services, the teacher has been absent for more days than the teacher had accumulated or earned leave, there shall be deducted from the final salary warrant of the teacher an amount sufficient to cover the excess days used by the teacher.    Personal leave is intended to be used for personal reasons. Subject to the following conditions, it can be taken at the discretion of a teacher, who shall not be required to give reasons for the use of any personal leave. The approval of the director of schools or the director's designee shall be required under the following conditions:  If more than ten percent (10%) of the teachers in any given school request its use on the same day; provided, that on making this calculation, any major fraction shall be considered as one (1); and in schools of five (5) teachers or less, one (1) teacher may take personal leave at the teacher's discretion;   If personal leave is requested during any prior established student examination period;   If personal leave is requested on the day immediately preceding or following a holiday or vacation period;   If personal leave is requested for days scheduled for professional development or in-service training, according to a school calendar adopted by the local board of education prior to the commencement of the school year; or   If personal leave is requested for days scheduled for parent-teacher conferences, according to a school calendar adopted by the local board of education prior to the commencement of the school year.     Except in an emergency, a teacher shall give at least one (1) day's advance notice of intent to take personal leave.
TN Code § 49-5-712 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-712. Part-Time Leaves

 Part-time leaves may be granted upon written request with the conditions prevailing as recorded in the minutes of the board of education.
TN Code § 49-5-713 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-713. Legislative Service Leave

 Leave to hold legislative office shall not be granted for more than any portion of four (4) calendar years without the consent of the local board of education. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to require the board or school system to pay the teacher during the leave of absence.
TN Code § 49-5-714 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-714. Injuries in Course of Employment by Violent Criminal Act

  Whenever a teacher is absent from assigned duties as a result of personal injury caused by a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against the teacher in the course of the teacher's employment activities, the teacher shall receive benefits, comparable to a workers' compensation program, for up to one (1) year after the injury, if the LEA has workers' compensation coverage. If the LEA does not have workers' compensation coverage, the benefits, procedures and standards for determining eligibility shall be the same as if the LEA had workers' compensation. A leave of absence for personal injury resulting from an assault or other violent criminal act shall not be charged to the teacher's sick leave, personal leave or professional leave accumulated or granted pursuant to this part. The state board of education shall adopt rules and regulations for the implementation of personal injury leave resulting from assault or other violent criminal acts.   In the event a teacher is absent from assigned duties as a result of personal injury caused by a physical assault or other violent criminal act committed against the teacher in the course of the teacher's employment activities, the LEA shall continue to pay the teacher's full benefits including, but not limited to, health insurance benefits, until the earlier of the date on which the teacher is released by the teacher's physician to return to work or the date on which the teacher is determined by the teacher's physician to be permanently disabled from returning to work.   Nothing in this section shall be construed to discourage, diminish, invalidate or supersede any LEA's policy, benefit package or contract providing greater benefits or leave for teachers injured in the course of employment activities.
TN Code § 49-5-715 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-715. Leave to Hold Statewide Office of a Professional Employees' Association

  Leave to hold statewide office as an officer, director, trustee or agent of a professional employees' association may be granted if the local board approves the leave after the person requesting the leave provides the director of schools with proof of election and proof of the term of office. Acceptable proof of election shall include, but not be limited to, certification by the professional employees' association of the date of the election and the results of the election. Leave shall be granted from a date certain to a date certain pursuant to § 49-5-704.   For purposes of this section only, “professional employees' association” or “association” means any organization or association granting membership to professional employees of LEAs and professionals employed by the state department of education; provided, however, that membership in the organization or association statewide exceeds one thousand (1,000) dues-paying members.   Any person on leave under this section shall retain all rights enumerated in § 49-5-708.   Association service leave shall be leave without pay. The person on leave is entitled to maintain benefits only if the full cost of the benefits is paid by either the person on leave or the association for which the person is serving as an officer, director, trustee or agent. During the leave period, the person's position with the LEA shall be maintained without advancement on the salary scale and with no accrual of sick leave or personal and professional leave. At the end of leave taken pursuant to this section, the person taking the leave shall be returned to the person's former position or a comparable position. Leave shall only be granted with the understanding that the recipient, immediately following the leave of absence, will return to the LEA for a period at least equal to the period of the leave. Prior to the person being allowed to return to a position in the LEA, the person or the association shall reimburse the LEA for any additional expenses incurred in staffing the position while the person was on leave.   Any president of a professional employees' association who was granted leave from an LEA to hold the office prior to April 25, 2013, may continue to hold the office of president with leave from the LEA until the end of the leave and termination of the agreement that covers the leave; provided, however, that the agreement shall not be modified or extended after April 25, 2013. If a person who was president of an association before April 25, 2013, is reelected after April 25, 2013, then any new agreement between an LEA and a person who is reelected shall be entered in accordance with subsections (a)-(d).
TN Code § 49-5-716 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 7 - State Leave Plan|§ 49-5-716. Leave Not Charged When School Closed for Unexpected Events

 A teacher, including a teacher on preapproved leave or other type of leave, shall not be charged with a day of leave for any day on which the teacher's school or the school district is closed due to natural disaster, inclement weather, serious outbreak of contagious illness, or other unexpected event.
TN Code § 49-5-801 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 8 - Tennessee Teachers' Sick Leave Bank Act|§ 49-5-801. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Teachers' Sick Leave Bank Act.”
TN Code § 49-5-802 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 8 - Tennessee Teachers' Sick Leave Bank Act|§ 49-5-802. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Employee organization” means any organization with membership open to teachers in which the teachers participate and that exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of representing teachers' interest to boards of education of local public school systems;   “Local school system” or “system” means any local public school system, as defined in § 49-1-103;   “Member” or “participant” means any teacher who has joined the bank by making the initial donation of the minimum number of days necessary and has donated the subsequently assessed days;   “Sick leave” means a designated amount of compensation leave accumulated pursuant to § 49-5-710 that is to be granted to a member who, through personal illness, injury, disability or quarantine, is unable to perform the duties of the teaching position. Sick leave may not be granted for the period of disability when moneys are paid to the member under the Workers' Compensation Law under title 50, chapter 6, part 2;   “Sick leave bank” or “bank” means a local system accounting of voluntarily pooled and irrevocably donated accumulated personal sick leave that is collected for the purpose of providing sick leave to members of the program who have suffered an unplanned personal illness, injury, disability or quarantine and whose personal sick leave is exhausted;   “Sick leave bank trustees” or “trustees” means those persons appointed to administer a local school system sick leave bank; and   “Teacher” means all persons entitled to sick leave under § 49-5-710.
TN Code § 49-5-803 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 49 - Education|Chapter 5 - Personnel|Part 8 - Tennessee Teachers' Sick Leave Bank Act|§ 49-5-803. Establishment

  Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, a sick leave bank may be established in any local school system.   Sick leave accumulated under § 49-5-710 may be donated to the bank.   Only one (1) bank shall be allowed per system.   To form a sick leave bank in a local school system, a minimum of twenty (20) teachers from that system shall petition the local board of education for permission to establish a sick leave bank in accordance with this part. Upon approval by the local board of education, the request, along with the proposed operating guidelines, shall be submitted to the commissioner of education. Upon the commissioner's determination that the proposed operating guidelines are consistent with this title, the commissioner shall officially authorize the establishment of a sick leave bank within the system effective the next August 1.   To form a sick leave bank in a local school system in any county having a population of not less than forty-four thousand five hundred (44,500) nor more than forty-five thousand (45,000) or not less than six thousand seven hundred (6,700) nor more than six thousand nine hundred fifty (6,950), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, a minimum of ten (10) teachers from that system shall petition the local board of education for permission to establish a sick leave bank in accordance with this part. Upon approval by the local board of education, the request, along with the proposed operating guidelines, shall be submitted to the commissioner. Upon the commissioner's determination that the proposed operating guidelines are consistent with this title, the commissioner shall officially authorize the establishment of a sick leave bank within the system effective August 1, following the date of such decision.