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Vacation and sick leave will not accrue during a General Leave. Further,the employee on General Leave will not be eligible for holiday pay during the leave. The Utilities will not contribute to the cost of insurance premiums for an employee on General Leave. Employees are expected to return from General Leave when the reason for the leave expires. Employees who take a General Leave have no right to reinstatement. 57. VOTING LEAVE; SERVICE AS ELECTION JUDGE Under Minnesota Statutes Section 204C.04, employees who are eligible to vote in an election to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator, United States Representative, State Senator or State Representative, or a presidential primary have the right to be absent from work for the time necessary to vote and return to work on the day of that election without penalty or deduction from salary or wages because of the absence. The Utilities will not abridge or interfere with this right. The Utilities will provide an employee with paid time off to serve as an election judge, provided that the employee gives the Utilities at least 20 days' advance written notice. The Utilities will reduce the employee's pay by the amount the employee is paid to serve as an election judge. 58. 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 .resentl available for use as sick leave by the donor emnlo ee to a co-worker who is experiencing a medical emergency in the form of a ma'or or catastro s hic life event necessitating time off from work for which the receivinn employee has insufficient •aid 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 ems to ee bears substantial res.onsibilit . An ems to ee will be eli ible to receive and use donated said leave onl if the followin conditions are satisfied: 1. The receivin em s to ee must submit a res uest for s aid leave donation in the form prescribed b 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 treatina srovider's documentation that the receiving employee will return to work within a reasonable time following 39 August 2011 November 2015 106