Sick Leave
Sick leave is allowed for personal illness, family illness, or death in the immediate family or other relatives in the household. All full-time employees earn sick leave at the rate of 1.0 day of sick leave for each contracted month. Full-time employees may accumulate an unlimited number of sick days. Upon retirement (or upon death-in-service) with five years of continuous service to the Fredericksburg City Public Schools and written request, an employee (or their estate) will be paid up to 200 days at the rate of $30 per day for any unused sick leave. Sick leave may be transferable to/from other school divisions in Virginia.
Sick leave is allowed for personal illness, including quarantine, injury, or pregnancy. Up to three days leave can be used in any one case of illness of a family member of the employee requiring the attendance of the employee. A “family member” for sick leave shall include natural parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, stepmother, stepfather, wife, husband, children, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and any other relative living in the household of the employee.
Personal Leave
Personal Leave shall be defined as leave taken without loss of pay for personal matters. Full-time employees with up to 15 years of continuous service to the Fredericksburg City Public Schools shall be granted two days of personal leave annually; full-time employees with more than 15 years of continuous service will earn three days annually. Up to 5 days of personal leave may be taken in a single year; any accumulated personal leave over 5 days which is not used by the end of the school year will be transferred to the employee's sick leave account. Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent.
Vacation (12-month employees)
All full-time 12-month contracted employees with up to 5 years of continuous service to the Fredericksburg City Public Schools earn 12 vacation days per year. Full-time employees with more than 5 years and up to 10 years of continuous service will earn 15 days annually. Full-time employees with more than 10 years of continuous service will earn 18 days annually. Upon termination of employment with Fredericksburg City Public Schools, and with a written request an employee will be paid their current daily rate of pay for any unused vacation (annual leave) days up to 30 days.