Common use of Catastrophic Leave Clause in Contracts

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report); (3) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid time off; (4) The receiving employee must be prevented from returning to work for at least 30 days and must have applied for a medical leave of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 4, and 5. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one hour of sick leave for every four hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, or comp time). Donated time will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's sick leave balance on an hour-for-hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of pay of the receiving employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 hours and thereafter in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one year. Donations shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by the donating employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, any excess leave will be returned to donating employees on a last in- first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated).

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report); (3) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid time off; (4) The receiving employee must be prevented from returning to work for at least 30 days and must have applied for a medical leave of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp Compensatory time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 4, and 5. Compensatory time may not be transferred by employees in work groups 2 and 3. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one (1) hour of sick leave for every four (4) hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, MOT or comp compensatory time). Donated time will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's sick leave balance on an hour-for-hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of pay of the receiving employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 eight hours and thereafter in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one year. Donations approved shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by the donating employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, any excess leave will be returned to donating employees on a last in- in-first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated).

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report); (3) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid time off; (4) The receiving employee must be prevented from returning to work for at least 30 thirty (30) days and must have applied for a medical leave of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp Compensatory time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 4, and 5. Compensatory time may not be transferred by employees in work groups 2 and 3. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one (1) hour of sick leave for every four (4) hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, MOT or comp compensatory time). Donated time will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's sick leave balance on an hour-for-hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of pay of the receiving employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 eight (8) hours and thereafter in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one year. Donations approved shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by the donating employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, any excess leave will be returned to donating employees on a last in- in-first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated).

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time part‐time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report); (3) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid time off; (4) The receiving employee must be prevented from returning to work for at least 30 days and must have applied for a medical leave of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp Compensatory time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 2, 4, and 5. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one (1) hour of sick leave for every four (4) hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, MOT or comp compensatory time). Donated time will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's sick leave balance on an hour-for-hour hour‐for‐hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of pay of the receiving employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 eight hours and thereafter in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one year. Donations approved shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by the donating employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, any excess leave will be returned to donating employees on a last in- first in‐first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated).

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her their department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report); (3) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid time off; (4) The receiving employee must be prevented from returning to work for at least 30 days and must have applied for a medical leave of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 4, and 5. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one hour of sick leave for every four hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, or comp time). Donated time will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's sick leave balance on an hour-for-for- hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of pay of the receiving employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 hours and thereafter in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one year. Donations shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by the donating employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that , in which event, any excess leave will be returned to donating employees on a last in- in-first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated).

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report); (3) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid time off; (4) The receiving employee must be prevented from returning to work for at least 30 days and must have applied for a medical leave of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp Compensatory time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 2, 4, and 5. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one (1) hour of sick leave for every four (4) hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, MOT or comp compensatory time). Donated time will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's sick leave balance on an hour-for-hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of pay of the receiving employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 eight hours and thereafter in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one year. Donations approved shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by the donating employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, any excess leave will be returned to donating employees on a last in- in-first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated).

Catastrophic Leave. ‌ The District maintains a Catastrophic Leave credits Policy to assist employees who have exhausted accrued leave time due to a serious or catastrophic illness or injury. Catastrophic Leave will allow employees to donate time to affected employees within and outside the bargaining unit, so that he/she can remain in a paid status for a longer period of time, thus partially ameliorating the financial impact of the illness, injury or condition. Catastrophic Leave will be administered as follows: Upon the request of an employee and upon the approval of the General Manager or Human Resources Director, leave hours (either sick leave or vacation leave) may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1A) The When the receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, faces financial hardship due to injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that prolonged illness of the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report);employee, employee’s spouse, child or legal dependent. (3B) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid sick leave, vacation leave and accrued compensatory time off;. (4C) The receiving employee must be prevented from returning Employee may donate up to work for at least 30 days 40 hours of accrued vacation or sick leave per calendar year and must have applied for a medical leave minimum of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 4, and 5. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one hour of sick leave for every four 160 hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, or comp time)leave in chosen leave bank to be eligible to make a donation. Donated time will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's sick leave balance on an hour-for-hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of pay of the receiving employee. Donations The donations must be a minimum of 8 hours one (1) hour and thereafter thereafter, in whole hour increments. . D) The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months520 hours; however, if in exceptional cases, an additional 520 hours may be approved by the department headGeneral Manager. Each situation will be evaluated on its own merit. If approved by the General Manager, the total leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one year. 1040 hours. E) Donations shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form to be supplied by the Human Resources Department and signed by the donating employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these These donations are irrevocable except in irrevocable. F) Any unused catastrophic leave hours remaining upon the event of the untimely employee’s return to work, death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, any excess leave or separation from employment will be returned to the donating employees on a last in- first out basis (i.e., excess leave would pro-rata basis. G) The names of all donors shall remain confidential and shall not be returned released to the last employee(sreceiving employee. H) A doctor’s note must accompany the employee request and indicate any special circumstances that cause the illness or injury to have donated)be catastrophic. Not all illnesses or injuries that disable an employee from working qualify as catastrophic. Donations of sick leave will not be treated as sick leave use when calculating eligible hours for the Annual Sell Back of Sick Leave. Donations of sick leave or vacation leave will not be allowed within 14 days of a donating employee’s notification of resignation.

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her their department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report); (3) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid time off; (4) The receiving employee must be prevented from returning to work for at least 30 thirty (30) days and must have applied for a medical leave of absence. The County shall address changes to the Catastrophic Leave policy through a County-wide process. The County will prepare a modified policy and present it to all labor organizations for comments at the Benefits Committee in January 2019. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp Compensatory time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 2, 4, and 5. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one (1) hour of sick leave for every four (4) hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, MOT or comp compensatory time). Donated time will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's sick leave balance on an hour-for-hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of pay of the receiving employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 eight hours and thereafter in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one year. Donations approved shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by the donating employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, any excess leave will be returned to donating employees on a last in- in-first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated).

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may 1. Employees in regular positions shall be transferred eligible to participate in the strictly voluntary catastrophic leave program. To be eligible, an employee must provide a written medical verification of long-term illness or injury, or to have a member of the employee’s immediate family with a long term illness or injury which results in the employee being requested to take time off from one work to care for that family member. The employee must have exhausted all accrued leave and CTO, or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or part-time employee whose participation has been approved by his/her department head; (2) The receiving employee or the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report); (3) The receiving employee has or soon will have exhausted all paid such leave, resulting in the employee being in a no-pay status. Employees who are receiving workers' compensation or long term disability benefits are not eligible for catastrophic leave. Catastrophic leave shall be coordinated with Family Leave with respect to CITY payment of insurance contributions. 2. When a Department Director has determined that an employee would benefit from the establishment of a leave bank, and has approved an employee's request for Catastrophic Leave, the Department Director will notify the Personnel Office requesting the establishment of a leave bank in the employee’s name. The Department Director will be responsible for notifying CITY employees of the need for donations. The Department Director will take necessary actions to help ensure that individual employee decisions to donate or not to donate to a leave bank are kept confidential and that employees are not pressured to participate. ALL DONATIONS SHALL REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL. 3. The maximum time off;that may be initially donated into an employee’s leave bank account is 1040 hours. To be eligible to receive more than the original 1040 hour limit, there must be a favorable prognosis for recovery and a predictable date of return to work or the employee terminates. 4. An employee may donate vacation, holiday, grandfathered holiday, Management Leave, CTO, and up to forty (40) hours of sick leave only in increments of four (4) The receiving hours to a specific employee must be prevented from returning to work for at least 30 days and must have applied for which a medical leave bank has been created. An employee may donate leave only if their own total accrued leave balance(s) remains in excess of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 4, and 5. Sick leave may be transferred at the rate of one hour of sick leave for every four hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, or comp time)168 hours. Donated time will hours shall be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave and credited to the receiving employee's leave bank of the affected employee as sick leave balance on an hour-for-hour basis and shall be paid at "as needed" basis. Once the rate of pay authorized hours are credited to the leave bank of the receiving affected employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 hours and thereafter in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total donation of leave credits received may be up to a maximum of one yearhours is irreversible. Donations shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by the donating When an employee and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once postedis utilizing leave bank hours, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, they will not accrue any excess leave will be returned to donating employees on a last in- first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated)time.

Catastrophic Leave. Leave credits may be transferred from one or more donating employees to another receiving employee under the following conditions: (1) The receiving employee is a permanent full or partA regular full-time employee whose participation may be eligible to receive donations of vacation hours, to be included in the recipient employee’s sick leave balance if he or she has been approved a catastrophic illness or injury which prevents the employee from being able to work for an extended period of time. Catastrophic illness or injury is defined as a critical medical condition, diagnosed by his/her department head;a licensed physician, considered terminal or causing long-term major physical impairment or disability. (2) A. The receiving recipient employee, recipient’s family member, or other person designated in writing by the recipient employee or must submit a request to the District Manager. B. The recipient employee is not eligible so long as she/ he has paid leaves available however, the request may be initiated prior to the anticipated date leave balances will be exhausted. C. The recipient employee must be eligible and willing to receive the donated vacation hours. All medical information will be kept confidential unless otherwise authorized in writing by the receiving employee's spouse/domestic partner or direct family member has sustained a life threatening or debilitating illness, injury or condition. (The Department Head may require that the condition be confirmed by a doctor's report);. (3) The receiving employee has or will have exhausted all paid time off; (4) The receiving employee D. A recipient must be prevented from returning on an approved Leave of Absence, (FMLA, Sick Leave) with supporting medication certification. E. Donations shall be a minimum of twenty-four (24) vacation hours. The donor employee may donate vacation hours up to work for any amount so long as the donor employee retains at least 30 days and must have applied for a medical leave ninety-six (96) hours of absence. Vacation and holiday time may be transferred by employees in all work groups. Comp time may be transferred only by employees in work groups 1, 4, and 5vacation. Sick leave hours may not be transferred at donated. F. Once the rate vacation leave is donated and posted to the receiving employee, the employee donating the vacation hours shall irrevocably lose all rights and privileges to the vacation hours donated. G. Donated leave cannot be used for longer than twelve (12) months without approval of one hour of sick leave for every four the District Manager. H. The vacation hours of other time (i.e., holiday, vacation, or comp time). Donated time donated will be converted from the type of leave given to sick leave hours and credited to the receiving recipient employee's ’s sick leave balance on an hour-for-for hour basis and shall be paid at the rate of the pay of the receiving recipient employee. Donations must be a minimum of 8 hours and thereafter . I. Time donated in whole hour increments. The total leave credits received by the employee shall normally not exceed three months; however, if approved by the department head, the total leave credits received any pay period may be up to a maximum used in the following pay periods. No retroactive donations will be permitted. J. The determination of one year. Donations the employee’s eligibility for the Catastrophic Leave Donation shall be made on a Catastrophic Leave Time Grant form signed by at the donating employee District Manager’s sole discretion and approved by the receiving employee's department head. Once posted, these donations are irrevocable except in the event of the untimely death of a Catastrophic Leave recipient. In that event, any excess leave will shall be returned to donating employees on a last in- first out basis (i.e., excess leave would be returned to the last employee(s) to have donated)final and non- grievable.