Full-time employees are eligible for local sick leave. 10-month employees receive 5 days per year, 11-month employees receive 6 days per year, and 12-month employees receive 7 days per year.

If you are hired after the year starts or resign before the year ends, you'll receive a prorated amount of accrued leave. If employment ends before the last duty day of the year, your final paycheck will be reduced by the amount of leave used in excess of the prorated entitlement for the year.

Local leave may only be used for personal or family illness, death in the family, family emergency (as defined by policy DEC(Local)), or adoption (for up to six workweeks beginning no later than one month after placement of the child in the home).

Unused local sick leave will carry-forward to the next year, and may accumulate to a maximum of 50 days.

If you resign, unused local leave will be donated to the leave bank on your behalf, to benefit other employees.

All employees receive 5 equivalent work days per year.

If you are hired after the year starts or resign before the year ends, you'll receive a prorated amount of accrued leave. If employment ends before the last duty day of the year, your final paycheck will be reduced by the amount of leave used in excess of the prorated entitlement for the year.

Discretionary Use: State personal leave may be used for any reason, subject to approval of the requested date(s) by your supervisor. Discretionary use of state personal leave is limited to 5 consecutive days per use.

Non-Discretionary Use: If you report an absence for personal illness, family illness, family emergency (as defined in policy DEC(Local)), or death in the family, your state personal leave may be used to cover these absences. You may also use your state personal leave if your absence is due
to an FMLA-qualifying reason.

There is no maximum to the amount of state personal leave that may carry-forward from year to year.

If you resign, unused state personal leave will be shown on your service record, and will transfer with you to another Texas school district.

These are the remaining unused days that were earned by employees before 1995.

State sick leave may only be used for illness of the employee, illness of a member of the employee’s immediate family, family emergency (as defined by policy DEC(Local)), or a death in the employee’s immediate family.

No additional leave time will be added to this category, since the law was changed in 1995. Unused state sick leave will carry-forward to the next year.

If you resign, unused state sick leave will be shown on your service record, and will transfer with you to another Texas school district.

Full-time employees in certain year-round positions (working 246 days or more) receive 10 days of vacation leave (15 days after 5 years of continuous employment).

If you are hired after the year starts or resign before the year ends, you'll receive a prorated amount of accrued leave. If employment ends before the last duty day of the year, your final paycheck will be reduced by the amount of leave used in excess of the prorated entitlement for the year.

Vacation leave may be used for any reason, subject to approval of the requested date(s) by your supervisor.

Unused vacation leave will carry-forward to the next year, and may accumulate to a maximum of 40 days. Unused vacation leave in excess of the 40-day maximum will be deleted after September 30.

If you resign from PISD or transfer to a different job within PISD that is not eligible for vacation leave, you will receive payment for any unused vacation leave that you have earned.