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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Disability leave for academic and administrative staff members for the 1983-84 appointment year is determined under Interim Guidelines adopted by the Board of Trustees on January 19, 1984. Effective with the 1984-85 appointment year, academic and administrative staff members will earn disability (sick) leave of 12 work days for each appointment year, the unused portion of which shall accrue and be cumulative to a maximum of 240 work days. If these 12 days are fully utilized in any appointment year, up to 13 additional work days will be available for extended disability leave in that appointment year, no part of which shall be cumulative or eligible for payment under Public Act 83-976. No additional disability leave is earned for a summer appointment. In the case of an appointment for less than a full appointment year, and in the case of a part-time appointment, the 12 days cumulative and the 13 days non-cumulative leave shall be prorated. In the event the 25 days of disability leave described above, or the prorata share (for those who are appointed as part-time staff, or for less than one appomtment year) are exhausted in an appointment year, any balance of leave accrued on or after January 1, 1984, will be available for use. After that amount is completely depleted then any balance of disability leave accumulated prior to January 1, 1984, will be used. No deduction of time from disability leave is made at a time when that staff member is not expected to furnish regular service to the University. Disability leave may be used for illness of, injury to, or need to obtain medical or dental consultation for the staff member or the staff member's spouse or children. A female staff member may use sick leave as maternity leave. Exceptions to and applications of this policy beyond spouse and children, e.g., members of the household may be granted. Members of the household are defined as dependent residents of the staff member's household. After an academic staff member has exhausted the 12 days of cumulative sick leave, the 13 days of non-cumulative extended disability leave, the sick leave accrued on or after January 1, 1984, and the sick leave accumulated prior to January 1, 1984, and subject to the approval of the President, or Chancellor as appropriate, 1 a staff member who has completed at least three full years of service may be granted a disability leave with full pay for a period (including the annual and extended leaves and accumulations described above) not to exceed one-half of his/her appointment year. Those staff members who transfer to the University of Illinois from another State agency or employer, and complete the transfer within 120 days, will receive a credit for the balance of unused and uncompensated disability leave accrued at the State agency or employer from which the employee is transferring. Such transferred disability leave credit will be treated in the same manner as disability leave accumulated by University of Illinois employees prior to January 1, 1984. T h e transferring staff member will accrue compensable disability leave at the beginning of h i s / her employment with the University. Reporting will be made on use of disability leave at the unit level and recorded centrally as required.

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In the case of staff members of Central Administration offices, the President will act.