All staff members are expected to swipe in to the building with their badge each day (including staff housed in portable classrooms). Failure to swipe in indicates an absence. All certificated staff and SEIAs must log absences using Frontline so that coverage can be arranged. Custodians, IA’s and secretaires need to email administrators, Susan Thompson, and Cary Fletcher with absence information.
All leave types are regulated by the negotiated agreements. For details on the type, duration, and procedures for each, please consult the negotiated agreements for the applicable bargaining unit. The categories of leave include:
Annual Leave
Personal Leave; Regulation 300-04 2 of 4
Sick Leave (including Annual Leave Grant, as applicable)
Bereavement Leave
Professional Leave
Leave Due to Religious Observance
Leave Without Pay Due to Personal Disability
Jury Duty/Legal Proceedings
Military Leave
Leave Without Pay
Leave of Absence (LOA)
Assault/Work-Related Injury Leave.
Family and Medical Leave. Family and medical leave is a job protection statute and not a leave status, which entitles eligible employees to take up to twelve (12) weeks of unpaid job-protected leave per year for specific family and medical reasons. FMLA leave may be unpaid or used concurrently with employer-provided paid leave. FCPS Regulation 300- 42, Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)/ Non-Military, and FCPS Regulation 300-47, Military Family and Medical Leave, detail the benefits available to eligible employees under the FMLA.
When an employee has entered leave and used a leave type in which they have no balance left, PeopleSoft HR will automatically alter the type of leave that has been submitted to use a leave type with a positive balance. This leave rule will process each leave type completely before moving to the next leave type.
The order of depletion is as follows based on the original leave type requested: SICK > ADDITIONAL LEAVE GRANT > PERSONAL > ANNUAL > NO LEAVE AVAILABLE.
Catastrophic – sick leave bank/crisis leave bank.
If annual leave is requested but not available, PeopleSoft HR will alter the type of leave to Personal Leave before no leave being available.
After an employee has utilized all available protected leave, the remaining available options include:
Unpaid leave of absence
Return to work
Resignation
Sick and safe leave (non-benefited positions only)
Employees are not permitted to utilize multiple days of unpaid leave without selecting one of the options below.