279.40 - SICK LEAVE.
279.40 SICK LEAVE.
Public school employees are granted leave of absence for medically
related disability with full pay in the following minimum amounts:
1. The first year of employment 10 days.
2. The second year of employment 11 days.
3. The third year of employment 12 days.
4. The fourth year of employment 13 days.
5. The fifth year of employment 14 days.
6. The sixth and subsequent years
of employment .................... 15 days.
The above amounts shall apply only to consecutive years of
employment in the same school district and unused portions shall be
cumulative to at least a total of ninety days. The school board
shall, in each instance, require such reasonable evidence as it may
desire confirming the necessity for such leave of absence.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the right
of a school board to grant more time than the days herein specified.
Cumulation of sick leave under this section shall not be affected
or terminated due to the organization or dissolution of a community
school district or districts which include all or the portion of the
district which employed the particular public school employee for the
school year previous to the organization or dissolution, if the
employee is employed by one of the community school districts for the
first school year following its organization or dissolution.
Any amounts due an employee under this section shall be reduced by
benefits payable under sections 85.33 and 85.34, subsection 1. Section History: Early Form
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