Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And no, there is no limit to the number of days you can accumulate. There is no cash value for teachers if you have leave remaining when you leave FCPS; however, if you retire with leave it is added to your years/months of service upon retirement.

Only if you are in Legacy plan. For most teachers now, leave is lost once you leave. IMO, they should reinstate paying for leave not used at retirement. You will absolutely have less absences if there is an incentive.

First it’s fewer absences, not less. Second, people take leave when they need to take leave. They’re not thinking of retirement. I am in the Legacy plan and that has never entered my mind or impacted my decision to take leave or not.

I am halfway to retirement now and where I once went crazy trying to schedule appointments as late as possible so I never missed any teaching time, now I just take the half day or full day. Might as well use that paid benefit since I won’t get compensated for that time at retirement.

Anonymous wrote:It says that new teachers (new teachers have start dates in August rather than July) have prorated leave rather than the automatic 13 days that teachers whose contracts start in July have.
Anyone know about this?

The way I read the policy, that would only apply if you started after the first contract date, which would have been August 4 for new teacher hires:

Fourteen (14) days of sick leave will be granted to the employee upon reporting on their first scheduled contract day at the beginning of each contract year. Employees who start after the first scheduled contract day or has a full time equivalent (FTE) and daily schedule hour (DSH) change in the contract year, the sick leave grant shall be prorated and adjusted accordingly. Employees on a short-term disability, long-term disability, leave of absence or workers’ compensation leave status will have their prorated sick leave granted when they return to work.

It says that new teachers (new teachers have start dates in August rather than July) have prorated leave rather than the automatic 13 days that teachers whose contracts start in July have.
Anyone know about this?

Anonymous wrote:Reviving this old thread. Do brand new FCPS teachers get sick leave right away or do they have to work a few months to “earn it?” In And how many sick days a year do brand new teachers get in 2025?

All your answers are here: https://www.fcps.edu/about-fcps/employees/salary-and-benefits/benefits-package/time-away-work

Teachers (no matter their seniority) are front loaded 14 days of leave in August to last the whole year.

Reviving this old thread. Do brand new FCPS teachers get sick leave right away or do they have to work a few months to “earn it?” In And how many sick days a year do brand new teachers get in 2025?

Anonymous wrote:What year did the legacy plan end? I started FCPS in 2009

2000

What year did the legacy plan end? I started FCPS in 2009

Anonymous wrote:We get 13 sick days a year when we start and 5 of those can be used as personal leave.

How many carry over to following years if we don't use them? Is there any use or lose? Is there a cap on how many days you can have banked over the years?

It’s slightly less than 13 per school year. And no maternity leave separate from these days so if you’re hoping to be paid for maternity leave better start saving those days…It takes approx 4 years without ever taking off to save enough to be paid for your entire 12 weeks FMLA when you have a baby ( you’re required to use the first 4 weeks of your own leave ( 20 day elimination period) then you get STD for 2 weeks ( regular birth…max of 4 weeks for c-section) then for the remaining 6 (or 4 for c-section) weeks you’re only paid if you have enough days saved).

60 days FMLA broken down as follows:
20 days elimination period - sick leave (1.5 years without taking a day off needed to accumulate this)
10 days STD ( not paid at 100 percent.. this is the total “maternity benefit” from FCPS)
30 days remaining FMLA ( takes another 2.3 years to save up this much)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And no, there is no limit to the number of days you can accumulate. There is no cash value for teachers if you have leave remaining when you leave FCPS; however, if you retire with leave it is added to your years/months of service upon retirement.

Only if you are in Legacy plan. For most teachers now, leave is lost once you leave. IMO, they should reinstate paying for leave not used at retirement. You will absolutely have less absences if there is an incentive.

DP
That’s what I thought too, but if you read the policy posted above it seems all employees vested in ERFC receive service credit. I fall under the Legacy Plan, but my DW does not. We thought the benefit dropped for her. We’ll have to get clarification on that.

I’ve been with the county for 29 years and in that time employees have never been compensated for unused leave other than with the service credit. Administrators did get monetary compensation for their unused annual leave, but I don’t see that addressed in the linked policy.

12 month employees get annual leave. They can cash out up to 320 hours of that upon retirement, but can't cash out sick leave. They get annual leave instead of things like spring break, "summer break," winter break, etc. It is in the annual leave reg and not the sick leave reg.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All leave carries over to the following year, but rolls over as sick leave (in the event you do not use some or all of the personal leave days).

It’s ALL designated as SICK LEAVE. There are three types of SICK LEAVE:
-SELF for when you are sick
-FAMILY for when a family member is sick
-PERSONAL for when you have a non-medical reason to be out

All of your unused sick leave rolls over to the next year. In any given year, no matter how much sick leave you have, only 5 days can be used as SICK LEAVE—PERSONAL.

The Sick Personal Leave is not monitored. I put in my notice to leave FCPS back in Dec. I’ve used approximately 7-8 Sick Personal Days for various things - I can’t take the 500 hrs with me.

I have over 2000 hours.

DP
I'm up in the mid 1,000 range. I should have used more of it in my earlier years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All leave carries over to the following year, but rolls over as sick leave (in the event you do not use some or all of the personal leave days).

It’s ALL designated as SICK LEAVE. There are three types of SICK LEAVE:
-SELF for when you are sick
-FAMILY for when a family member is sick
-PERSONAL for when you have a non-medical reason to be out

All of your unused sick leave rolls over to the next year. In any given year, no matter how much sick leave you have, only 5 days can be used as SICK LEAVE—PERSONAL.

The Sick Personal Leave is not monitored. I put in my notice to leave FCPS back in Dec. I’ve used approximately 7-8 Sick Personal Days for various things - I can’t take the 500 hrs with me.

I have over 2000 hours.