Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

(a) At the beginning of each new
employment year and thereafter as necessary during the employment year, each
noncertificated employee of any school district, including charter districts,
who regularly works twenty (20) hours or more per week or certificated
employee who works half time or more per week for a school district, including
charter districts, shall be entitled to sick leave with full pay of one (1)
day, as projected for the employment year for each month of service in which
they work a majority portion of that month, subject to the limitations
provided by this chapter. Sick leave for noncertificated employees shall be
calculated proportionate to the average hours worked per day. Sick leave for
certificated employees shall be calculated by the day, or percentage thereof,
as defined in their individual employment contracts. The local board of
trustees shall not provide compensation for unused sick leave. This shall not
prohibit the local board of trustees from establishing a policy providing
retirement severance pay.
(b) The board of trustees may require proof of illness adequate to
protect the district against malingering and false claims of illness. Any
accumulated sick leave earned prior to July 1, 1976, shall be used before the
use of any accumulated sick leave earned subsequent to July 1, 1976.
Each local board of trustees may establish a policy governing leave for
certificated and noncertificated employees in the case of illness or death of
members of the families of such employees, for professional conferences and
workshops, and for such other purposes as the board may determine.
(c) Each local board of trustees may establish a policy governing leave
for certificated and noncertificated employees in the case of absence during a
period for which the employee is paid by worker's compensation. In addition
the board may supplement the worker's compensation payment by an amount not to
exceed an amount which when combined with the worker's compensation payment
would be equal to the amount the employee would have been paid if he had not
been injured. Supplementation may come from accrued vacation leave,
compensatory time or sick leave time as may be provided in the policy of the
district. Time for which a person is paid worker's compensation shall not be
allowed as straight sick leave which would result in duplicate compensation.
(d) The board of trustees of any school district, including any specially
chartered district, may also grant a leave of absence to any certificated
employee of such district for service to a professional educational
organization of which such certificated employee is a member and has been
elected to hold the office of president therein, such leave to be for a period
not exceeding one (1) year. During the period of any such leave of absence the
said certificated employee shall receive the same compensation and receive or
accrue such other rights and benefits that he would have been entitled to or
have received or accrued had he been present and working for the school
district, and he shall remain an active member of the public employee
retirement system of Idaho; provided that such professional educational
organization shall first pay to the said school district an amount equal to
any and all compensation, contributions to the public employee retirement
system of Idaho and any other amounts paid to or accrued in the name of said
employee during such period.

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