- A - Foundations and Basic Commitments
- B - School Board Governance and Operations
- C - General School, administration
- D - Fiscal Management
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- GBJ-PERSONNEL RECORDS AND FILES
- GBJC-RETENTION OF APPLICATION MATERIALS
- GBN-FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE POLICY
- GBN-R1/FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT (FMLA) ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
- GBN-R2/MAINE FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE
- GBO-FAMILY CARE LEAVE
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- GCOC-EVALUATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
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- GCQCA-SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEE REFERENCES
- GCRD-TUTORING FOR PAY
- GCS-PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING
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- GDA-SUPPORT STAFF POSITIONS
- GE-NON-UNIONIZED PERSONNEL COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
GBO-FAMILY CARE LEAVE
File: GBO
FAMILY CARE LEAVE
This policy governs employee leave under 26 MRSA § 636, "An Act to Care for Families", referred to in this policy as the "Family Care Act." Leave under this policy is referred to as "Family Care Leave."
The MSAD #11 Board recognizes that under Maine's "Family Care Act," if an employer provides paid leave under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement or employment policy, the employer must allow an employee to use the paid leave for the care of an immediate family member who is ill.
In law and for the purpose of this policy, the following definitions apply:
1. "Employer" means a public or private employer with 25 or more employees.
2. "Immediate family member" means an employee's child, spouse or parent.
3. "Paid leave" means time away from work by an employee for which the employee receives compensation. Paid leave is limited to sick time, vacation time, compensatory time and leave that is provided as an aggregate amount for use at the discretion of the employee for any of these purposes. Paid leave does not include paid short-term or long-term disability, catastrophic leave or similar types of benefits.
Employees may take up to 40 hours of paid leave as Family Care Leave per 12 month period, or the amount provided by an applicable collective bargaining agreement, whichever is greater.
the 12-month period shall be the same for all employees and shall be the 12-month period consistent with the 12-month period identified for the school district's administration of the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
An employee is not entitled to use paid leave until that leave has been earned.
a. An employee may elect which type of paid leave and the amount of each type of paid leave to use for Family Care Leave.
b. Any employee electing to take Family Care Leave must apply such leave against available paid sick leave and if sick leave is exhausted, against personal, then against (and so on) until all paid leave available has been exhausted, except as otherwise provided in applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Notice/verification of illness of Family Care Leave shall be the same as that required for the employee's own illness. The employee must specify that leave is being taken pursuant to the Family Care Act.
For purposes of applying family medical leave requirements (i.e., FMLA), the school unit shall treat leave under the Family Care Act in the same manner as the employer treats leave for an employee illness. Therefore, Family Care leave and FMLA leave shall run concurrently.
Legal Reference: 26 MRSA §636
Cross Reference: GBN/Family and Medical Leave
Adopted: October 6, 2005
Revised: February 1, 2007