Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 156.808, Chapter 337, 29 C.F.R. 825, 29 U.S.C. 201-219
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 156.808 requires the
Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations consistent
with the provisions of KRS 156.800 to 156.860. KRS 156.808(3)(g) requires the
Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for the
certified and equivalent staff of state-operated area technology centers
governing attendance, including hours of work, compensatory time, and annual,
court, military, sick, voting, and special leaves of absence. The Family and
Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., as implemented by 29 C.F.R.
Part 825 , requires the granting of family and medical leave. This
administrative regulation establishes those leave requirements.
Section 1. Attendance.
(1) A full-time employee shall be required to
work thirty-seven and one-half (37.5) hours per week for any positions unless
otherwise specified by the appointing authority.
(2) The normal work day for a school-based
employee shall coincide with the appropriate school schedule as recommended by
the principal and approved by the associate commissioner for career and
technical education.
(3) The
associate commissioner for career and technical education may require an
employee to work hours and work days other than the normal schedule including
an inclement weather schedule if it is in the best interest of the
agency.
(4) An employee who works
within a division which requires more than one (1) shift or seven (7) days a
week operation may be reassigned from one (1) shift to another and from one (1)
post to another or alternate days to meet staffing requirements, or to maintain
or provide essential services of the agency, or to meet scheduling needs of
students. An employee shall be given as much advance notice as possible when
schedules are changed.
(5) The
employee shall give reasonable notice in advance of absence from a work
station.
(6) An employee may be
allowed up to two (2) professional days for the purpose of continuing staff
development or participation in professional organization workshops and
meetings without loss of pay.
Section
2. Compensatory Leave and Overtime.
(1) Accrual of compensatory leave and
overtime.
(a) An appointing authority shall
comply with the overtime and compensatory leave provisions of the Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. Chapter 8.
(b) An employee who is directed to, or who
requests and is authorized to, work in excess of the prescribed hours of duty
shall be granted compensatory leave or paid overtime subject to the provisions
of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Kentucky Revised Statutes and this
administrative regulation.
(c) An
employee, except teachers and principals, deemed to be "exempt" under the
provisions of the FLSA shall accumulate compensatory time on an hour-for-hour
basis for hours actually worked in excess of the regular work schedule.
Teachers and principals shall not accumulate compensatory time.
(d) An employee deemed to be "nonexempt" by
the provisions of the FLSA shall be paid for all hours worked in excess of
forty (40) hours per week.
(e)
Compensatory leave shall be accumulated or taken off in one-quarter (1/4) hour
increments.
(f) The maximum amount
of compensatory leave that may be carried forward from one (1) pay period to
another shall be 200 hours.
(g) An
employee who is transferred or otherwise moved from the jurisdiction of one (1)
agency to another shall retain the compensatory leave in the receiving
agency.
(2) Reductions
in compensatory leave balances.
(a) An
appointing authority may require an employee who has a balance of at least 100
hours compensatory leave to use compensatory leave before annual leave, unless
the employee's annual leave balance exceeds the maximum number of hours that
may be carried forward under Section 3(2)(f) of this administrative regulation,
and shall otherwise allow the use of compensatory leave if it shall not unduly
disrupt the operations of the agency.
(b) If an employee's prescribed hours of duty
are normally less than forty (40) hours per week, the employee shall receive
compensatory leave for the number of hours worked that:
1. Exceed the number of normally prescribed
hours of duty; and
2. Do not exceed
the maximum amount of 200 compensatory hours.
(c) Upon separation from state service, an
employee shall be paid for all unused compensatory leave at the greater of the:
1. Regular hourly rate of pay; or
2. Average regular rate of pay for the final
three (3) years of employment.
(d) Any school-based employee who has
accumulated compensatory leave shall be permitted to take time off when school
is not in session.
(e) All
certified and equivalent employees shall be permitted to use accumulated
compensatory time when practicable and requested in advance and if approved by
the respective supervisor.
Section 3. Annual and Personal Leave.
(1) Accrual of annual leave.
(a) Each full-time employee, except teachers
and principals, shall accumulate annual leave at the following rate:
Months of Service
|
Annual Leave Days
|
0-59 months
|
1 day per month
|
60-119 months
|
1 1/4 days per month
|
120-179 months
|
1 1/2 days per month
|
180-239 months
|
1 3/4 days per month
|
240 months & over
|
2 days per month
|
(b) A
full-time employee shall have worked, or been on paid leave, other than
educational leave with pay, for 100 or more regular hours per month to accrue
annual leave.
(c) Annual leave
shall be accumulated only in the months in which the employee is hired to
work.
(d) Beginning in the
2018-2019 school year, teachers and principals shall be entitled to twenty-two
and one-half hours (22.5) of personal leave. Personal leave shall accumulate at
the beginning of each school year. Any unused personal leave in accordance with
this section shall be converted to sick leave at the end of each school
year.
(e) Accrued leave shall be
credited on the first day of the month following the month in which the annual
leave is earned.
(f) In computing
months of total service for the purpose of earning annual leave, only the
months for which an employee earned annual leave shall be counted.
(g) An employee, who retired from a position
covered by a state-administered retirement system, who is receiving retirement
benefits and who returns to state service, shall not receive credit for annual
months of service prior to retirement.
(h) A former employee who is appointed,
reinstated, or re-employed, other than a former employee receiving benefits
under a state-administered retirement system, shall receive credit for prior
annual months of service.
(i) An
employee dismissed for cause who has been reinstated to state service shall
receive credit for annual months of service prior to dismissal, except if the
dismissal resulted from a violation of KRS 156.838.
(j) Part-time, temporary, or seasonal
employees shall not be entitled to annual leave.
(2) Use and retention of annual and personal
leave.
(a) Annual leave shall be used in
increments of hours or of one-quarter (1/4) hours. Teachers and principals
shall use personal leave in three and three-quarter hour (3.75)
increments.
(b) Except as provided
in paragraph (c) of this subsection, an employee who makes a timely request for
annual or personal leave shall be granted annual or personal leave by the
appointing authority, up to at least the amount of time earned that year, if
the operating requirements of the agency permit.
(c) An appointing authority may require an
employee who has a balance of at least 100 hours of compensatory leave to use
compensatory leave before the employee's request to use annual leave is
granted, unless the employee's annual leave balance exceeds the maximum number
of hours that may be carried forward under Section 3(2)(f) of this
administrative regulation.
(d)
Absence due to sickness, injury, or disability in excess of the amount
available for those purposes shall, at the request of the employee, be charged
against annual leave or personal leave.
(e) An employee who is transferred or
otherwise moved from the jurisdiction of one (1) agency to another shall retain
his accumulated annual leave in the receiving agency.
(f) Annual leave may be carried from one (1)
calendar year to the next as provided in this paragraph:
Months of Service
|
Maximum Amount
|
0-59 months
|
Thirty (30) workdays
|
60-119 months
|
Thirty-seven (37) workdays
|
120-179 months
|
Forty-five (45) workdays
|
180-239 months
|
Fifty-two (52) workdays
|
240 months and over
|
Sixty (60) workdays
|
(g)
Leave in excess of the maximum amounts specified in paragraph (f) of this
subsection shall be converted to sick leave at the end of the calendar year or
upon retirement, whichever comes first.
(h) The amount of annual leave that may be
carried forward and the amount of annual leave that may be converted to sick
leave shall be determined by computing months of service as provided by
subsection (1)(e) of this section.
(3) Annual and personal leave on separation.
(a) An employee who is separated by proper
resignation or retirement shall be paid in a lump sum for accumulated annual
leave not to exceed the amounts established by subsection (2)(f) of this
section. Following payment of annual leave at resignation, leave remaining
after the payment of the maximum provided shall be removed from the balance. A
teacher or principal who is separated by proper resignation or retirement shall
be paid in a lump sum for accumulated personal leave not to exceed twenty-two
and one-half hours (22.5).
(b) An
employee who is laid off shall be paid in a lump sum for all accumulated
annual, or personal, or annual and personal leave. Payment for personal leave
shall not exceed twenty-two and one-half hours (22.5).
(c) An employee in the unclassified service
who resigns or terminates one (1) workday and returns to certified and
equivalent service the next workday shall retain accumulated annual leave in
the receiving agency.
(d) An
employee who has been dismissed for cause related to misconduct or who has
failed, without proper excuse, to give proper notice of resignation or
retirement shall not be paid for accumulated annual or personal
leave.
(e) Upon the death of an
employee, the employee's estate shall be entitled to receive pay for the unused
portion of the employee's accumulated annual, or personal, or annual and
personal leave. Payment for personal leave shall not exceed twenty-two and
one-half hours (22.5).
(f) An
employee may request in writing that accumulated annual leave not be paid upon
resignation, and that all or part of the amount of his accumulated annual leave
that does not exceed the amount established by subsection (2)(f) of this
section be waived, if:
1. The employee
resigns, or is laid off because of an approved plan of privatization of the
services he performed; and
2. The
successor employer has agreed to credit the employee with an equal amount of
annual leave.
Section 4. Sick Leave.
(1) Accrual of sick leave.
(a) An employee, except teachers, principals,
and part-time employees, shall accumulate sick leave with pay at the rate of
one (1) working day per month.
(b)
An employee, except teachers and principals, shall have worked or been on paid
leave, other than educational leave, for 100 or more regular hours in a month
to accrue sick leave.
(c) An
employee, except teachers and principals, shall be credited with additional
sick leave upon the first day of the month following the month in which the
sick leave is earned.
(d) Beginning
in the 2018-2019 school year, teachers and principals shall be credited with
seventy-five (75) hours of sick leave at the beginning of each school
year.
(e) A full-time employee who
completes 120 months of total service with the state shall be credited with ten
(10) additional days of sick leave upon the first day of the month following
the completion of 120 months of service. A teacher or principal who completes
ten (10) years of total service with the state shall be credited with ten (10)
additional days of sick leave upon the first day of the following school
year.
(f) A full-time employee who
completes 240 months of total service with the state shall be credited with ten
(10) additional days of sick leave upon the first day of the month following
the completion of 240 months of service. A teacher or principal who completes
twenty (20) years of total service with the state shall be credited with ten
(10) additional days of sick leave upon the first day of the following school
year.
(g) In computing months of
total service for the purpose of crediting sick leave, only the months for
which an employee earned sick leave shall be counted.
(h) The total service shall be verified
before the leave is credited to the employee's record.
(i) An employee, who retired from a position
covered by a state-administered retirement system, who is receiving retirement
benefits and who returns to state service, shall not receive credit for sick
months of service prior to retirement.
(j) A former employee who is appointed,
reinstated, or re-employed, other than a former employee receiving benefits
under a state-administered retirement system, shall receive credit for the
unused sick leave balance credited upon the separation and shall receive credit
for prior sick months of service.
(k) An employee dismissed for cause who has
been rehired to state service shall receive credit for sick months of service
prior to the dismissal, unless the dismissal resulted from a violation of KRS 156.838.
(l) Sick leave may be
accumulated with no maximum.
(2) Use and retention of sick leave with pay.
(a) The appointing authority or his designee
shall grant or may require the use of accrued sick leave with pay if an
employee:
1. Is unable to work due to medical,
dental, or optical examination or treatment;
2. Is disabled by illness or injury. The
appointing authority or his designee may require the employee to provide a
doctor's statement certifying the employee's inability to perform his duties
for the days or hours sick leave is requested;
3. Is required to care for or transport a
member of the immediate family in need of medical attention for a reasonable
period of time. The appointing authority or his designee may require the
employee to provide a doctor's statement certifying the employee's need to care
for a family member;
4. Would
jeopardize the health of himself or others at the work station because of a
contagious disease or demonstration of behavior that might endanger the
employee or others;
5. Has lost by
death a spouse, parent, grandparent, child, brother or sister, or the spouse of
any of them, or, if granted by the appointing authority, another relative of
close association. Leave under this subparagraph shall be limited to three (3)
days; or
6. Requires leave for the
birth, placement, or adoption of a child.
(b) At the termination of sick leave with
pay, the appointing authority shall return the employee to his former
position.
(c) Sick leave shall be
used in increments of hours or increments of one-quarter (1/4) hours.
(d) An employee who is transferred or
otherwise moved from the jurisdiction of one (1) agency to another shall retain
accumulated sick leave in the receiving agency.
(e) An employee shall be credited for
accumulated sick leave if separated by proper resignation, layoff, or
retirement.
(3) Sick
leave without pay.
(a) The appointing
authority or his designee shall grant sick leave without pay for the duration
of an employee's impairment by injury or illness, if:
1. The total continuous leave does not exceed
one (1) year; and
2. The employee
has used or been paid for all accumulated annual, compensatory and sick leave,
unless he has requested to retain up to ten (10) days of accumulated sick
leave.
(b) For
continuous leave without pay in excess of thirty (30) working days, excluding
holidays, the appointing authority or his designee shall notify the employee in
writing of the leave without pay status.
(c) The appointing authority or his designee
may require a periodic doctor's statement during the year attesting to the
employee's continued inability to perform essential functions of his duties
with or without reasonable accommodation.
(d) The appointing authority or his designee
may grant sick leave without pay to an employee who does not qualify for family
and medical leave due to lack of service time and who has exhausted all
accumulated paid leave if the employee is required to care for a member of the
immediate family for a period not to exceed thirty (30) working days.
(e) If an employee has given notice of his
ability to resume his duties following sick leave without pay, the appointing
authority or his designee shall return the employee to the original position or
to a position for which he is qualified and which resembles his former position
as closely as circumstances permit.
(f) If reasonable accommodation is requested,
the employee shall:
1. Inform the employer;
and
2. Upon request, provide
supportive documentation from a certified professional.
(g) An employee shall be considered to have
resigned if he:
1. Has been on one (1) year
continuous sick leave without pay;
2. Has been requested by the appointing
authority or his designee in writing to return to work at least ten (10) days
prior to the expiration of sick leave;
3. Is unable to return to his former
position;
4. Has been given
priority consideration by the appointing authority or his designee for a
vacant, budgeted position with the same agency, for which he qualified and is
capable of performing its essential functions with or without reasonable
accommodation; and
5. Has not been
placed by the appointing authority or his designee in a vacant
position.
(h) Sick leave
granted under this subsection shall not be renewable after the employee has
been medically certified as able to return to work.
(i) An employee who has been resigned under
paragraph (g) of this subsection shall retain reinstatement
privileges.
(4) Workers'
compensation.
(a) If an absence is due to
illness or injury for which workers' compensation benefits are received,
accumulated sick leave may be used to maintain regular full salary.
(b) If paid sick leave is used to maintain
regular full salary, workers' compensation pay benefits shall be assigned to
the state for the period of time the employee received paid sick
leave.
(c) The employee's sick
leave shall be immediately reinstated to the extent that workers' compensation
benefits are assigned.
(5) Application for sick leave and supporting
documentation.
(a) An employee shall file a
written application for sick leave with or without pay within a reasonable
time.
(b) Except for an emergency
illness, an employee shall request advance approval for sick leave for medical,
dental or optical examinations, and for sick leave without pay.
(c) If the employee is too ill to work, an
employee shall notify the immediate supervisor or the designee. Failure,
without good cause, to do so in a reasonable period of time shall be cause for
denial of sick leave for the period of absence.
(d) The appointing authority or his designee
may, for good cause and on notice, require an employee to supply supporting
evidence in order to receive sick leave.
(e) A medical certificate may be required,
signed by a licensed practitioner and certifying to the employee's incapacity,
examination, or treatment.
(f) The
appointing authority or his designee shall grant sick leave if the application
is supported by acceptable evidence but may require confirmation if there is
reasonable cause to question the authenticity of the certificate or its
contents.
Section
5. Family and Medical Leave.
(1)
The appointing authority or his designee shall comply with the requirements of
the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2601, et seq., and
the federal regulations implementing the Act, 29 C.F.R. Part 825 .
(2) An employee in state service shall
qualify for twelve (12) weeks of unpaid family and medical leave if the
employee has:
(a) Completed twelve (12) months
of service; and
(b) Worked or been
on paid leave at least 1,250 hours in the twelve (12) months immediately
preceding the first day of family and medical leave.
(3) Family and medical leave shall be awarded
on a calendar-year basis.
(4) An
employee shall be entitled to a maximum of twelve (12) weeks of accumulated
annual or sick leave, unpaid family and medical leave, or a combination
thereof, for the birth, placement, or adoption of a child.
(5) While an employee is on unpaid family and
medical leave, the state contribution for health and life insurance shall be
maintained by the employer.
(6) If
the employee would qualify for family and medical leave, but has an annual,
compensatory or sick leave balance, the agency shall not designate the leave as
FMLA leave until:
(a) The employee's leave
balance has been exhausted; or
(b)
The employee requests to reserve ten (10) days of accumulated sick leave and be
placed on unpaid FMLA leave.
Section 6. Court Leave.
(1) An employee shall be entitled to court
leave during his scheduled working hours without loss of time or pay for the
amount of time necessary to:
(a) Comply with a
subpoena by a court, administrative agency, body of the federal or state
government, or any political subdivision thereof; or
(b) Serve as a juror or a witness, unless the
employee or a member of his family is a party to the proceeding.
(2) Court leave shall include
necessary travel time.
(3) If
relieved from duty as a juror or witness during normal working hours, the
employee shall return to work or use annual or compensatory leave.
(4) An employee shall not be required to
report as court leave attendance at a proceeding that is part of his assigned
duties.
Section 7.
Military Leave.
(1) Upon request, an employee
who is an active member of the United States Army Reserve, the United States
Air Force Reserve, the United States Naval Reserve, the United States Marine
Corps Reserve, the United States Coast Guard Reserve, the United States Public
Health Service Reserve, or the Kentucky National Guard shall be relieved from
the civil duties, to serve under order or training duty without loss of the
regular compensation for a period not to exceed the number of working days
specified in KRS 61.394 for a federal fiscal year.
(2) The absence shall not be charged to
leave.
(3) Absence that exceeds the
number of working days specified in KRS 61.394 for a federal fiscal year shall
be charged to annual leave, compensatory leave, or leave without pay.
(4) The appointing authority or his designee
may require a copy of the orders requiring the attendance of the employee
before granting military leave.
(5)
The appointing authority or his designee shall grant an employee entering
military duty a leave of absence without pay for a period of the duty not to
exceed six (6) years. Upon receiving military duty leave of absence, all
accumulated annual and compensatory leave shall be paid in a lump sum, if
requested by the employee.
Section
8. Voting and Election Leave.
(1)
An employee who is eligible and registered to vote shall be allowed, upon prior
request and approval, four (4) hours, for the purpose of voting.
(2) An election officer shall receive
additional leave if the total for election day does not exceed a regular
workday.
(3) The absence shall not
be charged against leave.
(4) A
central office employee who is permitted or required to work during the
employee's regular work hours, in lieu of voting leave, shall be granted
compensatory leave on an hour-for-hour basis for the hours during the time the
polls are open, up to a maximum of four (4) hours. School-based employees shall
receive time off to vote.
Section
9. Special Leave of Absence.
(1)
If approved by the associate commissioner for career and technical education,
the appointing authority or their designee may grant a leave of absence for
continuing education or training.
(a) Leave
may be granted for a period not to exceed twenty-four (24) months.
(b) If granted, leave shall be with pay if
the employee enters into a service commitment contract, or without pay in the
absence of a service commitment contract.
(c) Leave shall be restricted to attendance
at a college, university, vocational or business school for training in
subjects that relate to the employee's work and will benefit the
state.
(2) The
appointing authority or his designee, with approval of the secretary, may grant
an employee a leave of absence without pay for a period not to exceed one (1)
year for purposes other than specified in this administrative regulation that
are of tangible benefit to the state.
(3) The appointing authority or his designee
may place an employee on special leave with pay for investigative purposes for
a period of time not to exceed sixty (60) working days pending an investigation
into allegations of employee misconduct.
(a)
The employee shall be notified in writing by the appointing authority or his
designee that he is being placed on special leave for investigative purposes,
and the reasons for being placed on leave.
(b) If the investigation reveals no
misconduct on behalf of the employee, all records relating to the investigation
shall be purged from the Office of Career and Technical Education.
(c) The appointing authority or his designee
shall notify the employee, in writing, of the completion of the investigation
and the action taken. This notification shall be made to the employee, whether
the employee has remained in state service, or has voluntarily resigned in the
interim.
Section
10. Absence Without Leave.
(1) An
employee who is absent from duty without prior approval shall report the reason
for the absence to the supervisor immediately.
(2) Unauthorized or unreported absence shall:
(a) Be considered absence without
leave;
(b) Be treated as leave
without pay for an employee covered by the provision of the Fair Labor
Standards Act; and
(c) Constitute
grounds for disciplinary action.
(3) An employee who has been absent without
leave or notice to the supervisor for a period of ten (10) working days shall
be considered to have resigned the employment.
Section 11. Absences Due to Adverse Weather.
(1) An employee, who is not designated for
mandatory operations, and who chooses not to report to work or chooses to leave
early in the event of adverse weather conditions, shall have the time of the
absence reported as:
(a) Charged to annual or
compensatory leave;
(b) Taken as
leave without pay, if annual and compensatory leave has been exhausted;
or
(c) Deferred in accordance with
subsections (3) and (4) of this section.
(2) An employee who is on prearranged annual,
personal, emergency, compensatory or sick leave shall charge leave as
originally requested.
(3) If
operational needs allow, except for an employee in mandatory operations,
management shall make every reasonable effort to arrange schedules whereby an
employee shall be given an opportunity to make up time not worked rather than
charging it to leave.
(4) An
employee shall not make up work if the work would result in the employee
working more than forty (40) hours in a workweek.
(a) Except as provided in this paragraph,
time lost shall be made up within four (4) months of the occurrence of the
absence. If it is not made up within four (4) months, annual or compensatory
leave shall be deducted to cover the absence, or leave without pay shall be
charged if no annual or compensatory leave is available.
(b) If an employee transfers or separates
from employment before the leave is made up, the leave shall be charged to
annual or compensatory leave or deducted from the final paycheck.
(5) If adverse weather conditions
occur, and it becomes necessary for authorities to order evacuation or shut
down the place of employment, the provisions established in this subsection
shall apply.
(a) An employee who is required
to evacuate or who would report to a location that has been shut down shall not
be required to make up the time that is lost from work during the period
officially declared hazardous due to adverse weather conditions.
(b) An employee who is required to work in an
emergency situation shall be compensated pursuant to the provisions of Section
2 of this administrative regulation and the Fair Labor Standards Act as
amended.
(6) Adverse
weather leave shall not be used by school-based employees when school is in
session. Adverse weather leave may be used by school-based employees under
extraordinary circumstances, as determined by the associate commissioner for
career and technical education.
Section 12. Blood Donation Leave.
(1) An employee who, during regular working
hours, donates blood at a licensed blood center certified by the Food and Drug
Administration shall receive four (4) hours leave time, with pay, for the
purpose of donating and recuperating from the donation.
(2) Leave granted under this section shall be
used at the time of the donation unless circumstances as specified by the
supervisor require the employee to return to work. If the employee returns to
work, the unused portion of the leave time shall be credited as compensatory
leave.
(3) An employee shall
request leave in advance to qualify for blood donation leave.
(4) An employee who is deferred from donating
blood shall not:
(a) Be charged leave time for
the time spent in the attempted donation; and
(b) Qualify for the remainder of the blood
donation leave.
(5)
School-based employees shall not receive blood donation leave.
Section 13. Emergency Leave.
Beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, teachers and principals shall be
entitled to twenty-two and one-half (22.5) hours of emergency leave.
(1) Emergency leave shall accumulate at the
beginning of each school year. Any unused emergency leave in accordance with
this section shall expire at the end of each school year. Remaining emergency
leave balances shall not be paid out upon separation of an employee.
(2) Emergency leave may be used due to death,
illness, injury, or certain other urgent matters. Teachers and principals shall
give as much advance notice as possible to their supervisor prior to using
emergency leave.
(3) Emergency
leave shall be used in three and three-quarter hour (3.75) increments when
possible.
Section 14.
Eligibility for State-paid Health and Life Insurance Benefits.
(1) A twelve (12) month employee who is
eligible for state-paid life insurance benefits under the provisions of KRS
Chapter 156 shall have worked or been on paid leave or family and medical
leave, other than educational leave, during any part of the previous
month.
(2) A twelve (12) month
employee who is eligible for state-paid health insurance benefits under the
provisions of KRS Chapter 156 shall have worked or been on paid leave or family
and medical leave, other than educational leave, during any part of the
previous pay period.
(3) A teacher
or principal who is eligible for state-paid life insurance benefits under the
provisions of KRS Chapter 156 shall have worked or been on paid leave or family
and medical leave, other than educational leave, during any part of the
previous month, except between the last day of school of the previous year and
first day of school of the following year.
(4) A teacher or principal who is eligible
for state-paid health benefits under the provisions of KRS Chapter 156 shall
have worked or been on paid leave or family and medical leave, other than
educational leave, during any part of the previous pay period, except between
the last day of school of the previous year and first day of school of the
following year.
(5) A teacher or
principal who is eligible for state-paid health and life insurance benefits
under the provisions of KRS Chapter 156 shall be entitled to state-paid health
and life insurance benefits between the last day of school of the previous year
and first day of school of the following year.
(6) If an employee is unable to work and uses
paid leave to qualify for state-paid health and life insurance benefits, the
employee shall use paid leave days consecutively.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 156.808(3)(g)