Human Resources

Staff Handbook

Sick Leave

Eligible employees earn sick leave at the rate of eight hours per month or fraction of month’s service. Part time eligible employees earn sick leave in the same proportion as their percent effort is to full-time employment. Sick leave may be accumulated without limit and there is no waiting period before sick leave may be taken.

Sick leave may be taken when sickness, injury or pregnancy and confinement prevent the employee's performance of duty, or when the employee is needed to care for and assist a member of his/her immediate family who is actually ill. When a medical condition has been in excess of three working days, the supervisor may require that the employee submit a certification from the attending physician. For purposes relating to sick leave, immediate family is defined as those individuals related by kinship, adoption, marriage or foster children who are so certified by the Department of Human Services and are living in the same household.

An employee's use of sick leave for family members not residing in that employee's household is strictly limited to the time necessary to provide care and assistance to a child or parents of the employee who needs such care and assistance as a direct result of a documented medical condition.

Employees may use sick leave, with pay, to attend parent-teacher conferences. If a child is in school from kindergarten through grade 12, the employee may use up to eight hours of sick leave each calendar year with reasonable advance notice for the leave. (TAMUK procedure 31.03.02.K1.01)

If an employee is out on Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for three consecutive months and on qualified medical leave, the University retains the right to ask the University physician, or their designee for a second opinion, at the expense of the University. (SAGO Policy 31.03.05)

This page last updated 21 December, 2004