HCEA Negotiated Agreement - Harford County Public Schools

leave shall be taken at such time as to include the service.
An employee will be permitted up to two (2) days of absence at any one time
without the loss of salary upon the death of a step-parent, step-brother, step-sister,
brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law. One of the two days of
absence must be the day of the funeral or interment.
10.5 Jury Duty. A teacher who serves on jury duty will continue to receive his or her
regular salary.
10.6 Legal Summons. A teacher may be absent in response to a legal summons without
loss of salary provided that he or she is summoned as a witness or, if charged, he or
she is found not guilty of an offense involving gross misconduct. This provision
does not preclude appropriate action by the Superintendent in the event that there is
an alleged violation of a policy.
10.7 When schools are closed due to unsafe road conditions, teachers are not required to
report, except in the event of previously planned circumstances which cannot be
rescheduled.
10.8 When schools are open, teachers are expected to be present. However, when in the
opinion of the teacher, driving conditions prevent his or her presence at school, the
salary of the teacher for that day shall be reduced by 1/380th for each day absent.
10.9 Summer School. Because the best interests of the pupils are served by an orderly
and unhurried closing of school, teachers will not be permitted to leave before the
official closing of school in June except when the circumstances allow no
alternative. If no other alternatives are possible, teachers may, with written
permission from the Human Resources Department and principal approval, be
permitted to leave early for summer school. In the case of such early leaving,
however, the teacher will have his or her salary deducted at the rate of 1/380th for
each day’s absence.
10.10 In the case of extended sessions of summer school lasting into the preschool
meetings, a teacher may with permission of the principal, be late in returning. His or
her salary shall be deducted at the rate of 1/380th for each day absent.
ARTICLE XI
Sick Leave
11.1 Sick Leave. Sick leave shall be defined as personal illness of the teacher. Teachers
shall be granted sick leave at a rate of one (1) day per month during the first two (2)
years of service with the Harford County Public Schools. Beginning in the third
year of service in Harford County, sick leave shall be granted at a rate of one and a
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