The Board of Education recognizes its statutory duty to pay employees of this District in full for days on which they are absent from work for reasons of personal disability, pregnancy, illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family.

All employees of the District eligible for sick leave not otherwise covered by the terms of a negotiated agreement shall receive fifteen (15) such sick leave days annually at the rate of one and one-quarter (1 1/25) a month. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative up to the limits established by the negotiated agreement between the Board and the professional staff.

The Board shall accept by transfer the accumulated sick leave which any new employee has acquired in another position of public service in Ohio, provided that the last termination of such service shall have been within the last ten (10) years, the limits of the accumulated sick leave should be set by the negotiated agreement between the Board and the professional staff.

New employees shall be credited with five (5) days sick leave in advance which shall be part of the fifteen (15) days that can be accumulated for the year.

R.C. 124.39, 143.29, 3319.08, 3319.141