Type of Charge	Options in Aesop	Details
	Jury Duty	No charge to the employee at all Half or whole days
Local Charge	Death Family Medical Personal Medical	Non-discretionary 5 days per year Rolls over, but caps at 20 days ONLY taken for medical reasons (not vacation or “mental health”) Professional employees are charged $60/day Paraprofessional employees are charged $30/day Half or whole days
Local No Charge	Death Family Medical Personal Medical	Non-discretionary 2 days per year Rolls over, but caps at 20 days ONLY taken for medical reasons (not vacation or “mental health”) If retiring, these days will be paid Half or whole days
	Non Duty Days	11 days in 2010-2011 school year Includes vacation for 226-day employees “Use it or lose it” Half or whole days
	School Business	Used when away from all MISD campuses (not used just because you are off of home campus) Paraprofessional record use of comp time Good practice to report ‘School Business’ absences to track any professional development Half or whole days
State Personal	Death Family Medical Personal Medical Personal Business	Discretionary 5 days per year Rolls over, no cap Includes “happy days” taken off for fun Includes days taken off for “not-happy” reasons unrelated to medical needs Half or whole days
State Sick '95	Death Family Medical Personal Medical	If you have been in Texas education since before May 30, 1995, you may also have State Sick days remaining. ONLY taken for medical reasons (not vacation or “mental health”) Can transfer within Texas school districts Half or whole days

State Personal Leave

Each year in September employees receive 5 State Personal Days.  State Personal Days may be used for any reason.  These days accumulate in an employee’s bank and will be carried forward from one district to another, if the employee should leave.  Leave days are given up front in September but are earned throughout the year at the rate of ½ day for each 18 days worked.  If an employee is out and doesn’t work enough to earn their days, a charge will be taken at the end of the school year for the days that were not earned, but were taken.

There are 2 types of personal leave that can be taken:

 

Discretionary (Personal Business) - Discretionary personal leave may be taken for any reason.  However, no more than 5 discretionary days may be taken each year.  Use of these days must be requested 5 days in advance using the Request for Discretionary Leave form.

 

Nondiscretionary – Nondiscretionary personal leave is not limited by days, but may only be taken for employee illness or medical appointments, illness or medical appointments of the immediate family or death in the immediate family.

 

For leave purposes, the Board Policy defines immediate family as: 

 

1.   Spouse.

 

2.   Son or daughter (including stepchildren, adopted children and son- or daughters-in-law).

 

3.   Parents (including stepparents, and in-laws)

 

4.   Siblings (including stepsiblings and sibling-in-law)

 

5.  Grandparents and grandchildren.

 

6.  Any person residing in the employee’s household at the time of death.

If employees are out for Personal Business reasons, and they do not have any State Personal leave available, they will be charged their daily rate of pay for the absence (even if they have Local No Charge or Local Charge days available).  We are not allowed to use any Local days for personal business.

If employees are planning to be out to chaperone field trips for their children, they will need to be sure they have some State Personal days available, or they will be charged their daily rate of pay for this.  It is not School Business to go on a field trip with your child.  Employees must take a Personal Business day for this.

In September, employees receive 2 Local No Charge days.  These are free days that do not cost the employee when they are used.  These days may only be used for illness or medical appointments for the employee or their immediate family, or for a death in the immediate family.  Employees may not use any of these days for personal business.  These days accumulate in an employee’s bank to the maximum allowed of 20 days.

If employees are out for an absence due to illness or a medical appointment, and they are out of Local No Charge days, they can use State Personal leave, but they need to keep in mind that these are the only days that can be used for personal business.  They may want to consider using the Local Charge leave even if they have State Personal leave available.

In September employees receive 5 Local Charge days.  These days cost professional employees the current sub rate ($60 per day) when they are used and paraprofessional employees one-half of the current sub rate ($30 per day) when they are used.  These days may only be used for illness or medical appointments for the employee or their immediate family, or for a death in the family.  They may not be used for personal business.

Local Charge Days accumulate in an employee’s bank to the maximum allowed of 20 days.  These days do not transfer to other districts.

Some employees who have been with the District since before May 30, 1995 may also have days in the category of State Sick.  This is how the State used to give their days each year, but now they give them all as personal days.  If by chance employees have been here long enough, they may have a balance in this category.  If not, the balance will show to be -0-, or the category will not show up on their check stub at all.

These days may only be used for employee or family illness or medical appointments or for a death in the immediate family.  If an employee leaves the District, these days will transfer from one district to another.

It is the employee’s responsibility to fill record their absence AESOP correctly and make the decision on how they want the absence to be charged.  If, for instance, they were out ill and they check that they want to take a State Sick Day, and they don’t have any of these days listed as State Sick, we will assume they wanted to take a State Personal day and credit it that way.