Section 87781 Of Article 7. Leaves Of Absence From California Education Code >> Division 7. >> Title 3. >> Part 51. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 7.
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. (a) (1) Every academic employee employed five days a week by
a community college district shall be entitled to 10 days' leave of
absence for illness or injury and any additional days in addition
thereto that the governing board may allow for illness or injury,
exclusive of all days he or she is not required to render service to
the district, with full pay for a college year of service.
(2) An employee employed for less than five schooldays a week
shall be entitled, for a college year of service, to that proportion
of 10 days' leave of absence for illness or injury as the number of
days he or she is employed per week bears to five, and is entitled to
those additional days in addition thereto as the governing board may
allow for illness or injury to academic employees employed for less
than five schooldays per week. Pay for any day of those absences
shall be the same as the pay that would have been received had the
employee served during the day.
(b) Credit for leave of absence need not be accrued prior to
taking leave by the employee, and the leave of absence may be taken
at any time during the college year. If the employee does not take
the full amount of leave allowed in any school year under this
section, the amount not taken shall be accumulated from year to year
with additional days as the governing board may allow.
(c) The governing board of each community college district shall
adopt rules and regulations requiring and prescribing the manner of
proof of illness or injury for the purposes of this section. These
rules and regulations shall not discriminate against evidence of
treatment and the need therefor by the practice of the religion of
any well-recognized church or denomination.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to modify or repeal
any provision in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 120175) of Part 1
of Division 105 of the Health and Safety Code.
(e) Section 87780 does not apply to the first 10 days of absence
on account of illness or accident of any employee employed five days
per week or to the proportion of 10 days of absence to which the
employee employed less than five days per week is entitled hereunder
on account of illness or accident or to additional days granted by
the governing board. Any employee shall have the right to utilize
sick leave provided for in this section and the benefit provided by
Section 87780 for absences necessitated by pregnancy, miscarriage,
childbirth, and recovery therefrom.