Napa Valley Educators' Ass'n v. Napa Valley Unified School District

Opinion

KLINE, P. J.

This appeal presents a question of interpretation of two sections of the Education Code relating to compensation of employees absent from their duties because of illness or injury. Education Code section 44977 provides that certificated employees who are absent from duty for a period of five months or less because of illness or accident are to be paid at least the difference between their salary and the amount paid to the substitute who replaces them (differential pay). Section 44978 provides that such employees are to receive 10 days of sick leave at full pay each year,…