Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3356 - Youngstown State University › Chapter 3356-7 - University Employees and Benefits › Section 3356-7-13 - Sick leave accrual, use and conversion, excluded professional/administrative and excluded classified staff

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Policy statement. The university is
			 committed to employment practices that promote the health and welfare of its
			 employees. Through its leave programs, it provides for and encourages
			 preventive health care; physical, emotional, and mental well-being;
			 professional growth and development; and civic responsibility.
(B) Parameters.
(1) Professional/administrative and
			 classified staff who are excluded from a bargaining unit earn fifteen days of
			 sick leave per year. Said sick leave is accrued at the rate of five hours per
			 semimonthly pay period for excluded professional/administrative staff and 4.6
			 hours per biweekly pay period for excluded classified staff.
(2) Professional/administrative and
			 classified staff who are excluded from a bargaining unit may utilize up to four
			 days of accrued but unused sick leave per fiscal year for personal reasons not
			 necessarily associated with an illness or injury to the employee or an
			 immediate family member.
(3) Sick
			 leave may be accumulated without limit provided the employee remains in an
			 active pay status at the university.
(4) Sick leave may be utilized for personal
			 illness, injury or exposure to a contagious disease which could be communicated
			 to other employees, and visits to, or treatments by, medical providers that
			 cannot be scheduled outside the employee's normal work hours.
(5) Sick leave may also be utilized for an
			 illness in the employee's immediate family when the employee's presence is
			 reasonably necessary for the health and welfare of the affected family
			 member.
(6) Paid sick leave shall
			 be used concurrently with Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in
			 accordance with rule
			 3356-7-05 of the Administrative
			 Code. See university policy
			 3356-7-05, "Family and Medical
			 Leave Act (FMLA)."
(7) As used in
			 this policy, retirement refers to retirement under the provision of one of the
			 Ohio public retirement systems at the time of separation and requested sick
			 leave conversion. At the time of retirement, excluded
			 professional/administrative staff that have completed ten or more years of
			 active service or a combination of active university service, together with
			 other state of Ohio units as specified by law, shall receive payment for
			 one-fourth of the unused sick leave days up to a maximum of fifty days. Payment
			 is based on the rate of pay at the time of retirement. Such payment will be
			 made only once to an employee. After the employee accepts the payment, all
			 remaining sick leave credit accrued will be eliminated. (Please see section
			 21.5 of the association of
			 classified employees agreement regarding sick leave for excluded classified
			 employees.)
(8) A retired employee
			 who returns to university service may accrue and use sick leave as before, but
			 cannot receive a second sick leave conversion payment.
(9) Sick leave conversion does not apply to
			 any separation other than retirement.
(10) Employees covered by collective
			 bargaining should refer to their respective labor agreement.