Hackensack Education Association - Hackensack Board of Education Contract Article 12

ARTICLE 12 - SICK LEAVE

All employees may be absent twelve (12) days per year for personal illness without loss of pay; unused days are to be accumulated from year to year. Additional sick leave may be granted at the discretion of the Board upon recommendation of the Superintendent.
When requested by the Superintendent, a physician's certificate shall be submitted in the case of personal illness which extends beyond five (5) school days.
When an employee exhausts sick leave the employee may, at the discretion of the Superintendent, be fully reduced in salary or reduced in salary for the cost of a fully certified substitute. When absence due to illness extends beyond six (6) months of the exhaustion of sick leave, a full deduction shall be made unless there is formal action by the Board to the contrary.
Whenever an employee is absent from the employee's post of duty as a result of personal injury caused by an injury arising out of and in the course of the employee's employment, the employee's employer shall pay to such employee the full salary of wages for the period of such absence for up to one calendar year without having such absence charged to the annual sick leave or the accumulated sick leave. Any amount of salary or wages paid or payable to the employee pursuant to this section shall be reduced by the amount of any workers' compensation award made for temporary disability.