New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter V - State University of New York › Subchapter B - Policies of the Board of Trustees › Part 337 - Leave Of Absence For Employees In The Professional Service › Title C - Sick Leave › Section 337.10 - Authorization for use

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) For
					 purposes of this section, temporary disability shall be defined as any
					 temporary mental or physical impairment of health, including such an impairment
					 resulting from pregnancy, which disables an employee from the full performance
					 of duty.
(b) The chief
					 administrative officer shall permit employees who are unable to perform their
					 duties because of claimed temporary disability to use any and all sick leave
					 credits which they have accumulated pursuant to sections
					 337.7 and
					 337.8  of
					 this Part.
(c) The chief
					 administrative officer may at any time require an employee to furnish suitable
					 medical evidence from the employee's physician to substantiate a claimed
					 temporary disability. In the absence of such suitable medical evidence, the
					 chief administrative officer may require an employee to be examined by a
					 physician selected by the college at its expense. In the event medical evidence
					 does not substantiate a claimed temporary disability, the use of sick leave
					 credits shall be disallowed and the employee shall be placed on leave without
					 pay.
(d) Subject to prior approval
					 of the chief administrative officer, an employee shall be allowed to use up to
					 a maximum of 30 days of sick leave from July 2nd of each year to July 1st of
					 the succeeding year accumulated pursuant to sections
					 337.7 and
					 337.8  of
					 this Part for absences from work necessitated by a death or illness in the
					 employee's immediate family. The chief administrative officer's approval of
					 requests for sick leave for purposes described in this subdivision shall not be
					 unreasonably withheld.
(e) The
					 chief administrative officer may require an employee who has been absent due to
					 a temporary disability, prior to and as a condition of return to work, to be
					 examined, at the expense of the college, by a physician selected by the
					 college, to establish that the employee is no longer disabled and that a return
					 to work will not jeopardize the health of other employees. Such examination may
					 not be regularly required.
(f)
					 Subject to prior approval of the chief administrative officer, an employee
					 certified as visually handicapped by the New York State Commission for the
					 Blind and Visually Handicapped shall be allowed to use, up to a maximum of 26
					 days in any one calendar year, sick leave accumulated, pursuant to sections
					 337.7 and
					 337.8  of
					 this Part, for the purpose of obtaining a guide dog and required training
					 related thereto. Upon written request, the chief administrative officer also
					 may, in the chief administrative officer's discretion, advance up to 26 days of
					 sick leave for the purposes described in this subdivision to such certified
					 employee who has exhausted accumulated leave credits, provided the cumulative
					 total of sick leave credits charged and/or advanced for this purpose does not
					 exceed 26 days in any one calendar year. Such advanced sick leave credits shall
					 be repaid, as soon as practicable after the employee's return to duty, from
					 subsequent accumulations of time credits. The outstanding unrepaid sick leave
					 credits advanced to an employee under the provisions of this subdivision shall
					 not at any time exceed a total of 26 days. The chief administrative officer's
					 approval of requests for sick leave for purposes described in this subdivision
					 shall not be unreasonably withheld.