FMLA (Family & Medical Leave Act) Provides eligible employees up to 12 work-weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in a 12month period; and requires group health benefits to be maintained during the leave. Employees are entitled to return to their same or an equivalent job at the end of their FMLA leave.
Leave available for: o Birth of child or placement of a child for adoption or foster care o To care for the employee’s spouse, child, or parent who has a qualifying serious health condition o For the employee’s own qualifying serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the employee’s job
Eligibility: o Have worked for HEB ISD for at least 12 months; AND o Have at least 1250 hours of service in the 12 months before taking leave.
If you need to be out for more than 4 consecutive work days due to sickness self or family sickness or want to request FMLA, please contact: Karen Rose, Benefits & Risk Manager, (817) 399-2056, karenrose@hebisd.edu
Order of Use Employees have the right to designate the order of use for local sick & state personal leave days. For example, if you are absent due to sickness self, you have the right to have the day pulled from your local sick leave bank or your personal leave bank. As long as the absence is code sickness-using a personal day, the day will NOT be counted as one of your 5 allowed personal leave days during a school year. Bereavement (Funeral Leave) Use of state leave and/or local sick leave for a death in the immediate family must not exceed ten workdays per occurrence, subject to the approval of the District. The ten workdays do not have to be used consecutively but must be taken within the employee’s duty year of when the family member’s death occurred.
Use of state leave for the death of a non-immediate family member must not exceed a total of five workdays per school year, subject to the approval of the District. Bereavement documentation may be required.
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