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Paid Leave Donation With the written consent of the Utilities's General Manager or Finance and Office Manager, employees wishing to do so may voluntarily donate accrued paid leave time that is presently available for use by the donor employee to a co-worker who is experiencing a medical emergency in the form of a major or catastrophic life event necessitating time off from work for which the receiving employee has insufficient paid time off available. Examples of such a life event include, but are not limited to, a heart attack, stroke, organ transplant, or other medical condition of the employee or a family member for whose care the employee bears substantial responsibility. An employee will be eligible to receive donated paid sick leave only if the following conditions are satisfied: 1. The receiving employee must submit a request for paid leave donation in the form prescribed by the Utilities. 2. The receiving employee's request for leave must be based on medical need to be absent from the workplace that is supported by documentation from a health care provider. 3. There is a reasonable expectation based on a treating provider's documentation that the receiving employee will return to work within a reasonable time following any leave of absence unless the employee qualifies for long term disability insurance benefits. 4. The receiving employee is currently eligible to accrue sick leave under the Utilities's policies. 5. The receiving employee has exhausted all of the employee's own paid leave time including all sick, vacation, compensatory, and other paid time. 6. The sick leave taken by the receiving employee will not be subject to income replacement by disability or workers compensation insurance. The following additional conditions apply to leave donation under this policy: 1. The total amount of paid leave donated to any individual employee in any rolling twelve month period measured backward from the employee's most recent request for leave donation may not exceed 240 hours. 2. Donation of paid leave is permanent and final and cannot be rescinded. Donated paid leave may not be transferred back to the donor under any circumstances. If the donated paid leave is not use by the receiving employee it is forfeited by all parties. 3. Donated leave paid leave time may be used by the receiving employee only for purposes of the leave necessitated by the catastrophic life event supporting leave donation under this policy. 4. Donated paid leave may be used by the receiving employee only for work time actually and necessarily missed due to the leave taken for the purpose set forth in the leave request submitted under this policy, and for no other purpose. 5. Donated paid leave may be used by the receiving employee only to replace the employee's normal work hours lost, up to a maximum of the receiving employee's FTE (measured as of the date on which the leave begins).