Catastrophic Illness or Injury. (a) A catastrophic illness or injury shall be defined as a medical condition not covered by Workers’ Compensation, requiring absence from work greater than fifty (50) working days of consecutive absence for a single illness or injury.
(b) Any employee who sustains a catastrophic illness or injury may apply for and receive, for use on a matching basis, supplementary catastrophic illness or injury leave not to exceed the number of regular unused sick leave days that the employee had accumulated on the first day of the regular sick leave applied to the catastrophic illness or injury.
(c) Two (2) medical verifications (M.D. or D.O.) of such catastrophic illness or injury shall be required. The employee shall fully cooperate with the Board and shall authorize the release of any medical records necessary. The Board shall satisfy itself that any claim for catastrophic illness or injury leave is legitimate and correctly states the facts. The Board may, at its expense, require an independent medical examination.
(d) Catastrophic illness or injury leave shall begin on the fifty-first (51st) day of consecutive absence and not be awarded retroactively.
Catastrophic Illness or Injury. Catastrophic illness or injury is defined as an illness or injury 40 that has been concisely identified as such by the treating physician; the medical prognosis is 41 the employee will be incapacitated for an extended period of time; and the employee’s 42 absence exceeds the individual’s accrued paid leave. 43 44 45
Catastrophic Illness or Injury a. An employee, their representative or the employee's family member must request the employee's participation and provide appropriate verification of illness or injury as determined by the campus President. The President shall then determine the employee's eligibility to receive donations based upon the definition provided above.
b. An incapacitated employee may elect to defer a request to participate during a period of Industrial Disability Leave eligibility.
c. Employees may donate a maximum of forty (40) hours leave credits per fiscal year in increments of one hour or more. Donations are irrevocable.
d. Donated leave credits may be used to supplement each of the following: Industrial Disability Leave, Non-Industrial Disability Leave or Temporary Disability payments from the third party administrator, upon application for the appropriate disability benefit by an eligible employee. The total amount of leave credits donated and used may not exceed an amount sufficient to ensure the continuance of the employee's regular monthly rate of compensation.
e. The total donated leave credits shall normally not exceed an amount necessary to continue the employee for three (3) calendar months calculated from the first day of catastrophic leave within a twelve (12) month period. The President may approve an additional three-month period in exceptional cases. The leave should not be deemed donated until actually transferred by the campus record keeper to the record of the employee receiving leave credits.
f. For employees whose appointments have not been renewed, donated time may not be used beyond the employee's appointment expiration date in effect at the beginning of the disability.
g. Only vacation and sick leave credits may be donated.
h. Donated leave credits may not be used to receive service credit following a service or disability retirement.
i. Any CSU union may solicit leave donations from bargaining unit employees for direct transfer to employees eligible to receive such leave credits.
j. Catastrophic illness or injury may also include an incapacitated member of the employee's immediate family if this results in the employee being required to take time off for an extended period of time in order to care for the family member and the employee has exhausted both all of their accrued vacation credits and all of their accrued sick leave credits which may be used for family care in accordance with the appropriate collective bargaining agreement. Only donated va...
Catastrophic Illness or Injury. Catastrophic illness or injury means an illness or injury that is expected to incapacitate an employee from work for an extended period of time, or that incapacitates a member of the employee’s immediate family which incapacity requires the employee to take time off from work for an extended period of time to care for that family member, and taking extended time off work creates a financial hardship for the employee because he or she has exhausted all of his or her eligible sick leave, vacation, and other paid time off and is in less than full pay status. Catastrophic Leave may be utilized one time per diagnosis.
Catastrophic Illness or Injury. Catastrophic illness or injury means an illness or injury that is expected to incapacitate a unit member from work for an extended period of time, or that incapacitates a member of the unit member’s immediate family which incapacity requires the unit member to take time off from work for an extended period of time to care for that family member, and taking extended time off work creates a financial hardship for the unit member because he or she has exhausted all of his or her eligible sick leave, vacation, and other paid time off (except Five Month Law) and is in less than full pay status.
Catastrophic Illness or Injury. As defined by Education Code Section 44043.5(a)(1) “catastrophic illness” or “injury” means an illness or injury that is expected to incapacitate the employee for an extended period of time, or that incapacitates a member of the employee’s family which incapacity requires the employee to take time off from work for an extended period of time for that family member, and taking extended time off work creates a financial hardship for the employee because her or she has exhausted all of his or her sick leave and other paid time off.
Catastrophic Illness or Injury. 5.4.1 Represented employees may donate portions of their vacation or Administrative Leave accumulations to other employees who have suffered catastrophic illness or injury. Employees receiving donations of time from other employees must first exhaust all available vacation, compensatory time and sick leave.
Catastrophic Illness or Injury. A medically certified illness, injury, impairment, physical or mental condition of the employee or the employee’s immediate family member that prevents an employee from returning to work for a period of thirty (30) calendar days or more.
Catastrophic Illness or Injury. Catastrophic illness or injury is defined as a 22 serious illness or injury identified by the unit member’s treating physician; 23 requiring hospitalization or recovery therefrom for an extended period of 24 time, which would result in a financial hardship. 25
Catastrophic Illness or Injury. As defined in AB2007, a catastrophic illness or injury is one that is expected to incapacitate the Officer for an extended period of time and taking extended time off work creates a financial hardship for the Officer because he or she has exhausted all sick leave and other paid time off. Examples include life threatening injury or illness; cancer, AIDS, heart surgery, stroke, etc.
