Section 87787 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) The governing board of a community college district
shall provide by rules and regulations for industrial accident and
illness leaves of absence for all academic employees. The governing
board of a district that is created or whose boundaries or status is
changed by an action to organize or reorganize districts completed
after January 1, 1976, shall provide by rules and regulations for
those leaves of absence on or before the date on which the
organization or reorganization of the district becomes effective.
(b) The rules or regulations shall include all of the following
provisions:
(1) Allowable leave shall be for not less than 60 days during
which the schools of the district are required to be in session or
when the employee would otherwise have been performing work for the
district in any one fiscal year for the same accident.
(2) Allowable leave shall not be accumulated from year to year.
(3) Industrial accident or illness leave shall commence on the
first day of absence.
(4) (A) When an academic employee is absent from his or her duties
on account of an industrial accident or illness, the employee shall
be paid the portion of the salary due him or her for any month in
which the absence occurs as, when added to his or her temporary
disability indemnity under Division 4 (commencing with Section 3200)
or Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 6100) of the Labor Code,
will result in a payment to the employee of not more than his or her
full salary.
(B) The phrase "full salary," as utilized in this subdivision,
shall be computed so that it shall not be less than the employee's
"average weekly earnings" as that phrase is utilized in Section 4453
of the Labor Code. For purposes of this section, however, the maximum
and minimum average weekly earnings set forth in Section 4453 of the
Labor Code shall otherwise not be deemed applicable.
(5) Industrial accident or illness leave shall be reduced by one
day for each day of authorized absence regardless of a temporary
disability indemnity award.
(6) When an industrial accident or illness leave overlaps into the
next fiscal year, the employee shall be entitled to only the amount
of unused leave due him or her for the same illness or injury.
(c) Upon termination of the industrial accident or illness leave,
the employee shall be entitled to the benefits provided in Sections
87780, 87781 and 87786, and, for the purposes of each of these
sections, his or her absence shall be deemed to have commenced on the
date of termination of the industrial accident or illness leave.
However, if the employee continues to receive temporary disability
indemnity, he or she may elect to take as much of his or her
accumulated sick leave which, when added to his or her temporary
disability indemnity, will result in a payment to the employee of not
more than his or her full salary.
(d) The governing board of a district, by rule or regulation, may
provide for additional leave of absence for industrial accident or
illness as it deems appropriate.
(e) During a paid leave of absence, the employee may endorse to
the district the temporary disability indemnity checks received on
account of his or her industrial accident or illness. The district,
in turn, shall issue the employee appropriate salary warrants for
payment of the employee's salary and shall deduct normal retirement,
other authorized contributions, and the temporary disability
indemnity, if any, actually paid to and retained by the employee for
periods covered by the salary warrants.
(f) In the absence of rules and regulations adopted by the
governing board of a district pursuant to this section, an employee
shall be entitled to industrial accident or illness leave as provided
in this section but without limitation as to the number of days of
leave.