Tennessee Code 49-5-811 – Participation of nonteacher employees of LEA in teachers’ sick leave bank
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 49-5-811
- bank: means a local system accounting of voluntarily pooled and irrevocably donated accumulated personal sick leave that is collected for the purpose of providing sick leave to members of the program who have suffered an unplanned personal illness, injury, disability or quarantine and whose personal sick leave is exhausted. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Sick leave: means a designated amount of compensation leave accumulated pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
- Teacher: means all persons entitled to sick leave under §. See Tennessee Code 49-5-802
Notwithstanding any provision of this part to the contrary, if an LEA has established a teachers’ sick leave bank, then the LEA may permit any employee of the LEA who is not a teacher to participate in either the teachers’ sick leave bank or a classified employee sick bank; provided, that the employee is eligible to accrue sick leave under the employee’s contract of employment. The requirements for teachers’ participation in the sick leave bank in §§ 49-5-806, 49-5-807, 49-5-808 and 49-5-809 shall apply to an employee who is not a teacher and who is seeking to participate in the sick leave bank. Nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with existing LEA policies relative to the sick leave bank that are in effect on May 1, 2014.