<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Thank you! </div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:14pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><br><font face="Century Gothic, sans-serif">Andrea Disch</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Business
Manager<br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Maine School Administrative District No. 11<br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">150 Highland Avenue</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">•</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Gardiner, Maine 04330</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:"Perpetua Titling MT",serif"><font color="#666666"> </font></span><span style="font-family:"Perpetua Titling MT",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444">207-582-5346</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="mailto:aDisch@msad11.org" target="_blank">aDisch@msad11.org</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#444444"><a href="http://www.msad11.org" target="_blank">www.msad11.org</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM Winslow, Natasha <<a href="mailto:nwinslow@rsu50.org">nwinslow@rsu50.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Andrea, <div><br></div><div>RSU 50 added maternity/ paternity leave two years ago to our language as acceptable uses of the sick bank. We have not had anyone out on maternity/ paternity leave until recently and no requests have come in for that spacific use yet. Here is our language:</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.7pt 14.9pt 0in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">D. Sick
Leave Bank</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.7pt 10.9pt 19.15pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.45pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Board agrees to maintain a sick-leave bank under the
following conditions:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.7pt 9.65pt 19.15pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.45pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">l. Only teachers
covered by this Agreement are eligible.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.7pt 14.9pt 20.15pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">2. The Sick Bank Committee shall
administer the sick-leave bank. The Committee shall be comprised of the
Superintendent of Schools and the President of the Association. Unanimity is
required to grant days from the sick-leave bank.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.7pt 14.9pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">3. Participation in the sick-leave bank
shall be voluntary.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.7pt 14.9pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">4. Each sick-leave-bank participant will
donate one (l) day of his/her sick leave to the bank at the beginning of each
school year (no later than September 15). New teachers may only donate a day
after completing six (6) months of employment (March 1).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0.7pt 14.9pt 22.5pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">5. To qualify for sick leave from the
sick-leave bank, the following conditions must be met:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 4.7pt 14.9pt 0.5in;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">a. Use
of the sick-leave bank is limited to serious illness, disability, maternity
leave and paternity leave.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 4.7pt 14.9pt 9.6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.45pt;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> b. The bank may not be utilized until
the teacher has exhausted his/her own personal sick leave.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 4.7pt 14.9pt 31.5pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">c. The member must have been ill and absent
from work at least five (5) consecutive school days. Reimbursement will be
retroactive to the beginning of the five-day period.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 4.7pt 14.9pt 31.5pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">d. Upon approval, a member may draw on the
sick-leave bank up to forty (40) days of sick leave for serious illness or
disability that has been substantiated by appropriate medical information upon
initial application and is satisfactory to the Sick Bank Committee of the need
for sick-bank leave. In extreme cases,
ten (10) additional days may be granted by the Sick Bank Committee.<span style="background:yellow"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 4.7pt 14.9pt 31.5pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">e. Members withdrawing sick leave from the
bank are under no obligation to replace those days used except as a regular
contributing member of the bank.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 4.7pt 14.9pt 21.15pt;text-indent:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
f. The bank shall accumulate
whole or partial sick-leave days on an annual basis not to exceed a total of
one hundred fifty (150) days, excepting that days that must be contributed by
new teachers shall be added to the 150-day maximum. When the bank reaches a
level below twenty (20) days during any given year, teachers will be assessed
an additional day, providing all teachers have at least one (l) day of
accumulated sick leave.</p></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM Andrea Disch <<a href="mailto:adisch@msad11.org" target="_blank">adisch@msad11.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><p><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Dear Colleagues,</font></p>
<p><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">I’m reaching out to ask whether any of your districts currently restrict staff members recovering from childbirth—who lack sufficient personal sick leave—from drawing time from an associated sick leave bank.</font></p>
<p><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Our current Collective Bargaining Agreement specifies that this is not permitted. However, we were previously advised by counsel that prohibiting employees from accessing the sick leave bank for postpartum recovery could constitute discrimination, prompting a change in past practice.</font></p>
<p><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">I’d appreciate learning whether others are facing similar language in their agreements, and if so, how your districts are addressing it in practice.</font></p>
<p><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Thank you in advance for any insights you can share.</font></p>
<p><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif" size="4">Best,<br>
Andrea</font></p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4y02vtQLN6pwWGVEguRSdTE-1TkYG-o9RHWWMnAGvXWOAnsY3fcBcye_4dEyhUUmM9bDDQNmmK_HZmX"><br></div></div></div></div>
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