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<br /> <br /> 50 <br />January 2020 <br />a family member, or other extraordinary circumstance (subject to management approval) <br />necessitating time off from work for which the receiving employee has insufficient paid <br />time off available. Examples of such a life event include, but are not limited to, a heart <br />attack, stroke, organ transplant, or other medical condition of the employee or a family <br />member for whose care the employee bears substantial responsibility. <br /> <br />An employee will be eligible to receive and use donated paid leave only if the following <br />conditions are satisfied: <br /> <br />1. The receiving employee must submit a request for paid leave donation in the form <br />prescribed by the Utilities. <br /> <br />2. The receiving employee’s request for leave must be based on medical need to be <br />absent from the workplace that is supported by documentation from a health care <br />provider. <br /> <br />3. There is a reasonable expectation based on a treating provider’s documentation <br />that the receiving employee will return to work within a reasonable time following <br />any leave of absence unless the employee qualifies for long term disability <br />insurance benefits. <br /> <br />4. The receiving employee is currently eligible to accrue sick leave under the <br />Utilities’s policies. <br /> <br />5. The receiving employee has exhausted all of the employee’s own paid leave time <br />including all sick, vacation, compensatory, and other paid time. <br /> <br />6. The sick leave taken by the receiving employee will not be subject to income <br />replacement by disability or workers compensation insurance. <br /> <br />The following additional conditions apply to leave donation under this policy: <br /> <br />1. The total amount of paid leave donated to any individual employee in any rolling <br />twelve month period measured backward from the employee’s most recent request <br />for leave donation may not exceed 240 hours. <br /> <br />2. Donation of paid leave is permanent and final and cannot be rescinded. Donated <br />paid leave may not be transferred back to the donor under any circumstances. If <br />the donated paid leave is not used by the receiving employee it is forfeited by all <br />parties. <br /> <br />3. Donated paid leave time may be used by the receiving employee only for purposes <br />of the medical leave necessitated by the catastrophic life event supporting leave <br />donation under this policy. <br /> <br />137