• Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)

• Sick Bank
• Extended Health Leave
• Child Rearing Leave
• Personal Leave
• Education Leave
• Military/Civic Participation Leave
• Voluntary Sick Leave Donation

• Leave Accruals

1. Sick
2. Vacation

• Leave Payouts

1. Resignation
2. Retirement

Sick Leave: Employees who work the full contract year will earn sick days as followed:  

10-month employees: 10 days 

• 10-month employees will earn 4 sick days at the end of August once they return after summer break. After that, they will earn 1 full day of sick time on the final Friday of every month through February.  

11-month employees: 11 days 

• 11-month and 12-month employees will receive 4 days at the end of July. After that, they will earn 1 full day of sick time on the final Friday of every month through February.  

12-month employees: 12 days 

• 12-month employees will receive 4 days at the end of July. After that, they will earn 1 full day of sick time on the final Friday of every month through March.  

Since sick leave is earned in advance, if an employee resigns or retires prior to the end of their contract, their sick time will be adjusted based on the number of days they worked. For example, if an employee works 40 days of their contract, they will be entitled to 2 days of sick time. 

Personal Leave:  Of the total earned sick days, 6 of them may be used for personal reasons. When checking your Employee Self-Service, 6 personal days will be listed in a separate category. Please keep in mind, those are not additional days, this time is a part of your sick leave balance. Should you take a personal day, this time will be deducted from your personal leave balance AND your sick leave balance.  For example, if your sick time says 75 hrs. and your personal time says 45 hrs., that means you can use 45 of those 75 hrs. for personal reasons. 

Vacation Leave: Only 12-month employees are eligible to earn vacation time. Eligible employees will earn a minimum of a half day per pay period. Hours earned are based on continuous years of service with Pasco County Schools. 

0-5 years of service 

.5 days per biweekly pay period 

6-10 years or service 

.625 days per biweekly pay period 

10+ years of service 

.75 days per biweekly pay period 

Holidays: Paid holidays vary from school year to school year.  For information regarding what holidays are paid this year, please reference your work calendar.  

Beginning October 1, 2015, employees will be allowed to donate sick time to fellow employees that are experiencing a major medical emergency of their own, legal spouse or dependent child. Additional information about this program is available on the Voluntary Sick Leave Donation page.

COVID-19 Update: 

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 remains an important public health threat, but it is no longer the emergency that it once was, and its health impacts increasingly resemble those of other respiratory viral illnesses, including Influenza (FLU) and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). 

Pasco County Schools remains committed to preventing the spread of any illness in our schools by continuing to be proactive and implementing our illness protocol. Given this guidance, Pasco County Schools has updated its health procedures to include COVID-19 in our previous respiratory virus guidance and procedures which include FLU and RSV. 

Student Illness Procedure: 

A student may not attend or remain in school with the following symptoms (List is not exhaustive): 

• Fever (100.4 or greater)/Chills 
• Sore Throat 
• Repeated episodes of vomiting/diarrhea 
• Severe Cold – runny nose/bad cough that prevents the child from sleeping at night or disrupts normal activities 
• Has distracting pain from earache, headache, or sore throat 

Students exhibiting these symptoms must be excluded from school and remain home for 24 hours AFTER the symptoms are gone without the use of over-the-counter medications to treat these symptoms. 

Employee Illness Procedure: 

An employee may not attend or remain in school with the following symptoms (List is not exhaustive): 

• Fever (100.4 or greater)/Chills 
• Sore Throat 
• Repeated episodes of vomiting/diarrhea 
• Severe Cold – runny nose/bad cough that prevents the employee from sleeping at night or disrupts normal activities 
• Has distracting pain from earache, headache, or sore throat 

Employees exhibiting these symptoms must be excluded from school and remain home for 24 hours AFTER the symptoms are gone without the use of over-the-counter medications to treat these symptoms. Employees will be required to use available sick/vacation leave for time missed from work.  

Furthermore, any food service worker experiencing gastrointestinal illness such as diarrhea and/or vomiting with or without low-grade fever should be excluded from ALL food service duties until they are symptom free for at least 48 hours. Any food service worker caring for someone with gastrointestinal symptoms should be excluded until the ill person is symptom free for at least 48 hours. 

Questions: 

Student Questions: Contact a member of the school health team.

Employee Questions: Email Human Resources at hr@pasco.k12.fl.us. 

Pasco County Schools (Board) will continue to pay premiums for your health benefits (employee only), which includes medical, pharmacy, behavioral health and basic core life as long as you remain on an approved FMLA leave. If you currently pay a buy-up premium for your medical plan, you will be required to pay the buy-up premium while on leave.

While on an approved workers’ compensation leave of absence, the District will continue to pay the Board’s portion for your (employee only) group health benefits. Employee Benefits will bill you for any additional premiums due. Please refer to your collective bargaining agreement (union contract) for more information about Board-paid benefits while on an approved workers’ compensation leave.

During an unpaid professional or personal leave of absence, the Board will not continue to pay the Board’s portion of your group health benefits. Benefits will terminate at the end of the month following the effective date of your leave of absence. Please see the COBRA section for more information on continuing your benefits while on an unpaid leave of absence.