Legal Eagles
This federal law provides up to 12 work weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for family and medical reasons.
What is the FMLA (Family & Medical Leave Act)?
This association represents Paramount USD’s certificated employees.
What is the Teachers Association of Paramount (TAP)?
This is the number of bereavement days paid in full when an employee travels out of state.
What is 5 days?
This is the one thing a site administrator should do with a doctor’s note an employee hands them directly.
What is send it to HR immediately (the same day)?
In this type of system, an employee receives benefits regardless of who caused the accident.
What is a no-fault system?
This state law is California’s counterpart to FMLA and runs concurrently for most qualifying leave.
What is CFRA (California Family Rights Act)?
This association represents the District’s classified employees.
What is CSEA (California School Employees Association)?
This leave type covers an accident, a serious illness of an immediate family member, imminent danger to the home, or a court appearance.
What is Personal Necessity Leave?
This is the District’s timeline goal, in hours, for holding an interactive accommodation meeting after HR receives medical documentation.
What is 24–48 hours?
This is the service every injured employee must call, no matter how minor the injury.
What is the Company Nurse line?
This section of the Government Code requires a timely, good-faith interactive process for reasonable accommodation.
What is Government Code § 12940(n), part of FEHA?
Certificated Illness Leave is found in this article of the TAP contract.
What is Article XIII?
This is the number of paid illness days a full-time classified employee earns per fiscal year.
What is 12 days (one per month worked)?
This is the appropriate, confidentiality-protecting response when a coworker asks why a colleague has been out.
What is “They’re on approved leave — I don’t have further details to share”?
Up to this many hours per medical appointment tied to a workplace injury are paid as Industrial Accident time instead of sick leave.
What is 2 hours?
This is the maximum number of days of leave available annually under SB 848 for a reproductive loss event.
What is 30 days?
This CSEA-only benefit lets classified employees draw from a shared pool once their own leave balance is exhausted.
What is the Sick Leave Bank?
This is the maximum number of days available under Industrial Accident Leave for an on-the-job injury or illness.
What is 60 days?
Even without any paperwork, this kind of comment from a staff member in a hallway can be enough to trigger an administrator’s legal duty to act.
What is an informal or offhand disclosure (e.g., mentioning they’re struggling and may need time off)?
This is the strict window, in hours, for administrators to report an incident to Risk Management.
What is 24–48 hours?
Found at 42 U.S.C. § 12112(b)(5)(A), this federal law requires reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities absent undue hardship.
What is the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)?
This TAP-only benefit lets certificated employees donate leave days to a colleague facing a catastrophic illness or injury.
What is Catastrophic Leave?
For bereavement travel of 201 miles or more, this many days are paid in full before Personal Necessity Leave has to cover the rest.
What is 4 days?
This is the specific step in the Helios leave request process that belongs to the site administrator.
What is Supervisor Acknowledgment (Step 5)?
Name two of the “top 5” school injury types administrators should watch for on safety walks.
What are slips/trips/falls, ergonomic or repetitive strain, muscular lift injuries, special education physical interventions, and defective campus equipment (any two)?