37-5. Short-Term Disability Leave
The BOARD shall provide short-term disability leave benefits at no cost to employees who are eligible for health care benefits.
37-5.1. Benefits.
The short-term disability policy shall provide disability benefits for employee illness in excess of ten consecutive days as follows: (a) one hundred percent of the employee’s regular full-time pay for the first thirty calendar days of the employee’s disability leave; (b) eighty percent of the employee’s regular full-time pay for calendar days thirty-one through sixty of the employee’s disability leave; and, (c) sixty percent of the employee’s regular full-time pay for calendar days sixty-one through ninety of the employee’s disability leave. Employees on approved short-term disability leave shall not be required to have any number of sick days deducted from any sick day bank for any days during the leave, provided that such employees may elect to supplement their STD benefit to reach 100% of their regular pay by using sick days.
37-5.2. Eligibility for Short-Term Disability Benefits.
Employees are eligible for short-term disability if they satisfy the following requirements: (a) they have been employed for at least sixty calendar days; (b) they have not exhausted ninety paid calendar days of short-term disability leave in the preceding twelve-month period; (c) they have submitted a qualifying medical certification of their disability status; (d) they are not receiving worker’s compensation, victims of violence leave or long-term disability benefits for the disability; and (e) they satisfy any other eligibility requirements to qualify for the benefit approved by the LMCC, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
37-5.3. Employee Benefits During Paid Short-Term Disability Leave.
Employees on short-term disability leave may continue their employee benefits [e.g., health, dental, life, or 403(b)] on the same terms as if they were actively employed. Deductions shall be made from short-term disability payments for those benefits.
37-5.4. Coordination with FMLA and Supplemental FMLA Leaves of Absence.
Short-term disability leaves and any period of sick leave used immediately preceding the short-term disability leave period run in parallel with qualifying FMLA leaves of absence. Time spent on a short-term disability leave of absence shall count towards the maximum number of days or weeks of FMLA or Supplemental FMLA leaves of absence.