Ohio Admin. Code 3358:5-5-06 - Sick leave policy

The purpose of this policy is to ensure compliance with section 124.38 of the Revised Code and to set parametrs for its authorized use.

(A) Each regular employee of Clark state college with an FTE of .50 and above is entitled up to fifteen days sick leave with, each year (accrued at 4.61 hours per pay period)., There is no maximum limit of sick leave days an employee can accrue.

(B)(A) Sick leave may be used for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others, and for absence due to illness, injury, or death in the employee's immediate family (as defined in the leave policies for regular employeesparagraph (B)(2) of rule 3358:5-5-07 of the Administrative Code (Leave Policies for Regular Employees).
(C)(B) Forty hours sick leave credit on an FTE basis is granted initially to a new full-time exempt staff, full-time non-exempt staff and full-time faculty regular employees who have has no prior accumulated sick leave. No additional sick leave days are accrued during the first four months of employment.
(C) Sick leave is accrued at 4.6 hours per pay period and there is no maximum limit of sick leave hours an employee can accrue.
(D) New, full-time Regular employees who transfer from an Ohio public agency shall will be credited with the unused balance of their accumulated sick leave provided the person is employed within ten years of the date of the last termination from public service. The college must receive documentation from the previous institution, documenting the sick leave balance.
(E) Regular employees Employees using sick leave shall be are required to document their absence(s) on their bi-weekly timesheet. Sick leave must be taken in no less than thirty-minute increments.
(F) Sick leave hours are not considered hours worked in the calculation of overtime. If aWhen a legal holiday, as noted designated on the official college calendar, falls in the midst of during an employee's paid sick leave, the employee's shall be paid for the holiday by not having the holiday charged against their accrued sick leave balance will not be reduced for that holiday.
(G) Sick leave shall will not be accrued accrue while on an during unpaid leaves of absence, except in cases where the employee is using accrued, paid time off concurrently with unless under an approved FMLA absence leave.
(H) An employee's unused, sick leave balance is only paid out upon retirement, according to the formula in the separation from employment procedures. Payment on this basis is considered to eliminate all sick leave credit accrued by the employee at the time of retirement and such payment shall only be made once to any employees.

Notes

Ohio Admin. Code 3358:5-5-06
Effective: 6/13/2025
Promulgated Under: 111.15
Statutory Authority: 3358.
Rule Amplifies: 3358.
Prior Effective Dates: 01/28/1978, 03/13/1978, 06/15/1982, 07/01/1994, 07/01/1998, 11/08/2002, 04/24/2006, 06/07/2006, 06/01/2011, 03/27/2015, 10/23/2015, 11/14/2022

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