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Policy

Personnel

AIDS Affected Personnel

This policy applies to any disease not known to be spread by casual, incidental contact. Such diseases include but are not limited to AIDS, ARC, and Hepatitis B.

The term" AIDS Affected Personnel" is defined to include any paid employee or voluntary worker of the school system who has been diagnosed as having Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS Related Complex(ARC) which is a lesser form of AIDS. Whenever the Phrase "Aids Affected Personnel" is used in this policy, it includes any employee/volunteers diagnosed as having AIDS or ARC.

The board of education intends to handle cases involving AIDS affected personnel in a manner that protect the employment rights and safety of the individual staff member, other staff and students with whom the individual may come in contact, and the right of confidentiality of the individual.

Whenever possible, it is the board's intent for AIDS affected personnel to continue in their regular employment assignment as long as no direct health threat or hazard in the workplace exists for those person(s) with who he or she comes in contact. The superintendent is responsible for assuring that procedural safeguards are used when deterring the employee status of AIDS affected personnel

AIDS affected personnel may be temporally excluded from their work upon the advise of a medical advisor until such time that the case has been thoroughly reviewed and a decision made about appropriate permanent action. If so, this exclusion will not result in a loss of compensation to the employee.

Adopted: March 15, 1990

Revised: September 18, 2006