Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions. (a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees. (b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee. (c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2. (d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave. (e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. (f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals. (g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from Such donation is subject to approval by both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedappointing authority/designee. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for insurance contributions made pursuant to Article 31, unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees within the bargaining unit at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by eligible recipients university bargaining unit employees as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover exhaust donated leave for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agencypurpose for which it was donated, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated unused leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the will be pooled for use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedby future recipients. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(aA) The recipient and donor must be regular employeesemployees of the university/college.
(bB) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(cC) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 22 of this Article.
(dD) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agencyuniversity’s Personnel Section Human Resource Unit and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) calendar days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(eE) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the university for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 24 - Insurance unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
(fF) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(gG) Employees otherwise eligible for receiving Workers’ Compensation, or receiving workers’ compensation short or long-term term disability, will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement. Employees on parental leave that does not qualify under FMLA, will not be eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions Section 1. This Article shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by eligible recipients employees as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow Agency employees to make donations of accumulated accrued vacation leave or compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)this Article, to a coworker co-worker in the Agency.
Section 2. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular status employees of the Agency.
(b) The Employer and the Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that Agency would otherwise accrue to this employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found in Article 38, Section 4 (Sick Leave).
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Staff Development & Employee Services Section and accompanied by the treating physician’s written statement certifying that the illness or different Agencyinjury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following the donee’s projected exhausting of the accrued leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) days. Donated leave may be used intermittently.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
Section 3. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing regular status employees represented by SEIU Local 503 at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by another regular status eligible recipients SEIU Local 503 represented university employees of the same University as sick leave. Agencies will allow Hardship Leave is intended to support represented employees to make donations with donated leave when an employee has exhausted all forms of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, leave and either the employee (donoror the employee’s qualifying family member(s) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designeeexperience temporary serious medical condition(s). The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedQualifying family members are defined under Section 2. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(aA) The recipient Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and donor must be regular employeessent to the university’s Human Resource Unit and accompanied by the treating physician’s written statement certifying that the specific illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days for the specific illness or injury, following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave accruals.
(bB) Applications for hardship leave should be made prior to the employee falling into sick leave without pay or leave without pay status, otherwise there may be a delay in processing the request.
(C) Once approved, employees must exhaust all monthly accrued leave (sick, vacation, personal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave) prior to the use of any donated Hardship Leave, except that an employee may request in writing to accrue up to forty (40) hours of vacation leave annually(D). Requests for and use of donated leave shall be consistent with Section 2 of the Article, and limited to the serious medical condition for which it was donated.
(D) Donated leave may be used intermittently when there is such a need as indicated by the treating physician.
(E) Hardship Leave Donations are intended to coincide with the use of FMLA, OFLA and ADA leaves of absences and shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Use of hardship leave donations outside of these intended programs is at the discretion of the University based on operational needs. Donations shall be used to reimburse the university for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 24 - Insurance unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and/or Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA).
(F) Employees receiving Workers’ Compensation, or short or long-term term disability, will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement. Employees on parental leave that does not qualify under FMLA and/or Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA), will not be eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
(G) If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to exhaust donated leave for the purpose for which it was donated, the unused leave will be pooled for use by future
(H) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(cI) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied Upon request by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that Local Union President or designee, and no more than once per year, the illness or injury University will continue for at least fifteen (15) days provide a report with the following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently information for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive preceding year for each Hardship Leave case: donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sickhours and converted dollar amounts, vacation, personalused hours, and compensatory leave accrualspooled dollar amounts.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing regular status employees represented by SEIU Local 503 at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by another regular status eligible recipients SEIU Local 503 represented university employees of the same University as sick leave. Agencies will allow Hardship Leave is intended to support represented employees to make donations with donated leave when an employee has exhausted all forms of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, leave and either the employee (donoror the employee’s qualifying family member(s) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designeeexperience temporary serious medical condition(s). The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedQualifying family members are defined under Section 2. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(aA) The recipient Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and donor must be regular employeessent to the university’s Human Resource Unit and accompanied by the treating physician’s written statement certifying that the specific illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days for the specific illness or injury, following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave accruals.
(bB) Applications for hardship leave should be made prior to the employee falling into sick leave without pay or leave without pay status, otherwise there may be a delay in processing the request.
(C) Once approved, employees must exhaust all monthly accrued leave (sick, vacation, personal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave) prior to the use of any donated Hardship Leave, except that an employee may request in writing to accrue up to forty (40) hours of vacation leave annually
(D) Requests for and use of donated leave shall be consistent with Section 2 of the Article, and limited to the serious medical condition for which it was donated.
(E) Donated leave may be used intermittently when there is such a need as indicated by the treating physician.
(F) Hardship Leave Donations are intended to coincide with the use of FMLA, OFLA and ADA leaves of absences and shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Use of hardship leave donations outside of these intended programs is at the discretion of the University based on operational needs. Donations shall be used to reimburse the university for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 24 - Insurance unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and/or Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA).
(G) Employees receiving Workers’ Compensation, or short or long-term term disability, will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement. Employees on parental leave that does not qualify under FMLA and/or Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA), will not be eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
(H) If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to exhaust donated leave for the purpose for which it was donated, the unused leave will be pooled for use by future recipients. Unused donated leave will be transferred to the pool after the treating physician has certified that the illness or injury for which the leave was donated has been resolved and the hardship leave case is closed.
(I) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(cJ) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied Upon request by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that Local Union President or designee, and no more than once per year, the illness or injury University will continue for at least fifteen (15) days provide a report with the following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently information for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive preceding year for each Hardship Leave case: donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sickhours and converted dollar amounts, vacation, personalused hours, and compensatory leave accrualspooled dollar amounts.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave and compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)d below, to a coworker co-worker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.:
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employeesstatus employees of the Agency.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s 's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen thirty (1530) days or a period of time agreed to by the Appointing Authority following donee’s 's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
e) Access to hardship leave shall cease if the recipient fails to provide an updated physician’s certificate verifying the continuation of the illness or injury within ten (e10)-working days of a request for an updated certificate.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipientdonor’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 11 for which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of their use of donated hardship leave.
(fg) Accumulated leave includes includes, but is not limited to sickto, vacationArticle 15 – Paid Leave, personalArticle 16 – Sick Leave, and compensatory leave accruals.
(gh) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation Workers' Compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time vacation leave to a co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or vacation leave, not to exceed injury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. Hardship leave donations will be administered under the hours necessary to cover for following stipulations and the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
a) The donor must be a regular employee of the Agency. However, to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different another Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their the appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or authority/designee from for both the donor’s and recipient’s recipient agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave and compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)d below, to a coworker co-worker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.:
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employeesstatus employees of the Agency.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s 's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen thirty (1530) days or a period of time agreed to by the Appointing Authority following donee’s xxxxx's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
e) Access to hardship leave shall cease if the recipient fails to provide an updated physician’s certificate verifying the continuation of the illness or injury within ten (e10)-working days of a request for an updated certificate.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipientdonor’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 11 for which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of their use of donated hardship leave.
(fg) Accumulated leave includes includes, but is not limited to sickto, vacationArticle 15 – Paid Leave, personalArticle 16 – Xxxx Leave, and compensatory leave accruals.
(gh) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation Workers' Compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions Section 1. This Article shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by eligible recipients employees as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow Agency employees to make donations of accumulated accrued vacation leave or compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)this Article, to a coworker co-worker in that Agency or different the Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied.
Section 2. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employeesstatus employees of the Agency.
(b) The Employer and the Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the this employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under in Article 5638, Section 24 (Sick Leave).
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Staff Development & Employee Services Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following the donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated accrued leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leavedays. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for insurance contributions made pursuant to Article 27 (Health and Welfare), unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
Section 3. Donated vacation leave or compensatory time may be provided to employees in other AFSCME Central Table participating agencies subject to the approval of the appointing authorities for the involved agencies.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended or different Agencyqualified intermittent illness or injury or while attending a family member suffering from an illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
A. Donating employees must have completed initial trial service with the State.
(a) B. The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) C. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other sections of this Article.
(d) D. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Human Resources Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for intermittently. Such application must be no later than the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements month during which all paid leave is exhausted. However, in no instances will applications be accepted following an employee’s return to receive donated leavework.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) E. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, personal and compensatory leave accruals.
F. Donations shall be credited to the recipient’s sick leave account. Donated vacation hours are converted to a dollar amount based on the donor’s regular hourly rate of pay, and credited to the recipient based on the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (g2) Employees otherwise eligible hours. Recipients will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for or receiving workers’ compensation future sick leave use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will not be considered deducted from the donor’s vacation account. In non-FMLA situations, donations shall be credited at the donor’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
G. Donated hours shall be converted and credited to the recipient’s account only as needed for the period of recuperation. Any unused donated hours will not be deducted from the donor’s account.
(1) Employees on parental leave for other than a pregnancy related disability are not eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
(2) Employees eligible for or receiving workers compensation time loss payments may receive donated leave if:
(a) The Employee meets all of the eligibility requirements outlined in Section 9 of this article to receive donated leave.
(b) Pursuant to Section 5 of this Article, the use of donated leave payments to the employee shall be equal to the difference between the workers compensation time loss payment for lost time and the employee’s regular salary.
(c) If SAIF determines the employee has been overpaid as result of receiving donated leave in excess of what has been determined in Section 5, the employee will be financially responsible for any overpayments back to SAIF. The Agency shall not have any financial liability for any overpayments the employee has received from SAIF.
(3) Employees eligible for or receiving disability payments may receive donated leave provided all of the following requirements are met:
(a) Meets the criteria to receive donated leave under Section 9 of this Article.
(b) The employee is solely responsible for any representations made to the insurance company/PERS and Agency.
(c) Any overpayments or tax consequences will be the sole responsibility of the employee. The Agency will have no liability or be required to pay for any overpayments.
(d) If the insurance company/PERS disallows employees receiving donated leave while receiving disability insurance payments, then this Section will be null and void.
(e) The Agency will not be liable for paying any monies to the employee if the disability insurance company reduces its disability payment as a result of the employee using donated leave.
I. For recipient employees on trial service, time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of his/her trial service period nor toward the salary eligibility date for a step pay increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of trial service date and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Department will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave and compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)d below, to a coworker co-worker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedDepartment. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.:
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be regular employeesstatus employees of the Department.
(b) b. The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56this Article, Section 2.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Department's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen thirty (1530) days or a period of time agreed to by the Appointing Authority following donee’s 's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
e. Access to hardship leave shall cease if the recipient fails to provide an updated physician’s certificate verifying the continuation of the illness or injury within ten (e) 10)-working days of a request for an updated certificate.
f. Donations shall be credited at the recipientdonor’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Department for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 14 for which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of their use of donated hardship leave.
(f) g. Accumulated leave includes includes, but is not limited to sickto, vacationsick leave, personalvacation leave, personal business leave, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) h. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation Workers' Compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
i. Donated vacation leave or compensatory time may be provided to employees in other AFSCME Central Table participating agencies subject to the approval of the appointing authorities for the involved agencies.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be regular employeesemployees of the Agency.
(b) b. The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s 's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) e. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f. Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s 's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 12 which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of the employee's use of donated hardship leave. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ disability benefits, workers compensation or on parental leaves will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
h. Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count towards completion of the employee’s initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time vacation leave to a co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or vacation leave, not to exceed injury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. Hardship leave donations will be administered under the hours necessary to cover for following stipulations and the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
a) The donor must be a regular employee of the Agency. However, to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different another Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or authority/designee from for both the donor’s and recipient’s recipient agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h) Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of the employee’s initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions Section 1. This Article shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by eligible recipients employees as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow Agency employees to make donations of accumulated accrued vacation leave or compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)this Article, to a coworker co-worker in the Agency.
Section 2. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular status employees of the Agency.
(b) The Employer and the Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that Agency would otherwise accrue to this employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found in Article 38, Section 4 (Sick Leave).
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Staff Development & Employee Services Section and accompanied by the treating physician’s written statement certifying that the illness or different Agencyinjury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following the donee’s projected exhausting of the accrued leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) days. Donated leave may be used intermittently.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
Section 3. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick 2011-2013 SEIU Local 503, OPEU/State of Oregon CBA 56 leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from Such donation is subject to approval by both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedappointing authority/designee. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for insurance contributions made pursuant to Article 31, unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for insurance contributions made pursuant to Article 31, unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing regular status employees represented by SEIU Local 503 at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by another regular status eligible recipients SEIU Local 503 represented university employees of the same University as sick leave. Agencies will allow Hardship Leave is intended to support represented employees to make donations with donated leave when an employee has exhausted all forms of accumulated compensatory time leave and either the employee or vacation the employee’s qualifying
(A) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the university’s Human Resource Unit and accompanied by the treating physician’s written statement certifying that the specific illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days for the specific illness or injury, following xxxxx’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal leave, not exchange time, and compensatory leave accruals.
(B) Applications for hardship leave should be made prior to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee falling into sick leave without pay or leave without pay status, otherwise there may be a delay in processing the request.
(donorC) Once approved, employees must submit a written request exhaust all monthly accrued leave (sick, vacation, personal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave) prior to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization any donated Hardship Leave, except that an employee may request in writing to accrue up to forty (40) hours of vacation leave annually.
(D) Requests for transfer and use of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedconsistent with Section 2 of the Article, and limited to the serious medical condition for which it was donated.
(E) Donated leave may be used intermittently when there is such a need as indicated by the treating physician.
(F) Hardship Leave Donations are intended to coincide with the use of FMLA, OFLA and XXX leaves of absences and shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. For purposes Use of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will outside of these intended programs is at the discretion of the University based on operational needs. Donations shall be administered used to reimburse the university for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 24 - Insurance unless health insurance payments are mandated under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptionsFamily Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and/or Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA).
(aG) The recipient and donor must Employees receiving Workers’ Compensation, or short or long-term term disability, will not be regular employeesconsidered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement. Employees on parental leave that does not qualify under FMLA and/or Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA), will not be eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
(bH) If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to exhaust donated leave for the purpose for which it was donated, the unused leave will be pooled for use by future recipients. Unused donated leave will be transferred to the pool after the treating physician has certified that the illness or injury for which the leave was donated has been resolved and the hardship leave case is closed.
(I) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(cJ) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied Upon request by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that Local Union President or designee, and no more than once per year, the illness or injury University will continue for at least fifteen (15) days provide a report with the following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently information for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive preceding year for each Hardship Leave case: donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sickhours and converted dollar amounts, vacation, personalused hours, and compensatory leave accrualspooled dollar amounts.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Department will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave and compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)d below, to a coworker co-worker in that Agency Department. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
a. The recipient and donor must be regular status employees of the Department.
b. The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under this Article, Section 2.
d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Department's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician's written statement certifying that the illness or different Agencyinjury will continue for thirty (30) days or a period of time agreed to by the Appointing Authority following donee's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently.
e. Access to hardship leave shall cease if the recipient fails to provide an updated physician’s certificate verifying the continuation of the illness or injury within ten (10)-working days of a request for an updated certificate.
f. Donations shall be credited at the donor’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
g. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick leave, vacation leave, personal business leave, and compensatory leave accruals.
h. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving Workers' Compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
i. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended or different Agencyqualified intermittent illness or injury or while attending a family member suffering from an illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
A. Donating employees must have completed initial trial service with the State.
(a) B. The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) C. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other sections of this Article.
(d) D. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Human Resources Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for intermittently. Such application must be no later than the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements month during which all paid leave is exhausted. However, in no instances will applications be accepted following an employee’s return to receive donated leavework.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) E. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, personal and compensatory leave accruals.
F. Donations shall be credited to the recipient’s sick leave account. Donated vacation hours are converted to a dollar amount based on the donor’s regular hourly rate of pay, and credited to the recipient based on the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (g2) Employees otherwise eligible hours. Recipients will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for or receiving workers’ compensation future sick leave use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will not be considered deducted from the donor’s vacation account. In non-FMLA situations, donations shall be credited at the donor’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
G. Donated hours shall be converted and credited to the recipient’s account only as needed for the period of recuperation. Any unused donated hours will not be deducted from the donor’s account.
(1) Employees on parental leave for other than a pregnancy related disability are not eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
(2) Employees eligible for or receiving workers compensation time loss payments may receive donated leave if:
(a) The Employee meets all of the eligibility requirements outlined in Section 9 of this article to receive donated leave.
(b) Pursuant to Section 5 of this Article, the use of donated leave payments to the employee shall be equal to the difference between the workers compensation time loss payment for lost time and the employee’s regular salary.
(c) If SAIF determines the employee has been overpaid as result of receiving donated leave in excess of what has been determined in Section 5, the employee will be financially responsible for any overpayments back to SAIF. The Agency shall not have any financial liability for any overpayments the employee has received from SAIF.
(3) Employees eligible for or receiving disability payments may receive donated leave provided all of the following requirements are met:
(a) Meets the criteria to receive donated leave under Section 9 of this Article.
(b) The employee is solely responsible for any representations made to the insurance company/PERS and Agency.
(c) Any overpayments or tax consequences will be the sole responsibility of the employee. The Agency will have no liability or be required to pay for any overpayments.
(d) If the insurance company/PERS disallows employees receiving donated leave while receiving disability insurance payments, then this Section will be null and void.
(e) The Agency will not be liable for paying any monies to the employee if the disability insurance company reduces its disability payment as a result of the employee using donated leave.
I. For recipient employees on trial service, time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of their trial service period nor toward the salary eligibility date for a step pay increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of trial service date and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees within the bargaining unit at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by eligible recipients university bargaining unit employees as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover exhaust donated leave for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agencypurpose for which it was donated, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated unused leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the will be pooled for use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedby future recipients. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(aA) The recipient and donor must be regular employeesemployees of the university/college.
(bB) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(cC) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 22 of this Article.
(dD) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agencyuniversity’s Personnel Section Human Resource Unit and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen thirty (1530) days following donee’s xxxxx's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(eE) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s 's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the university for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 24 - Insurance unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
(fF) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(gG) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation Workers' Compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.. Employees on parental leave that does not qualify under FMLA, will not
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury injury, including medical appointments for treatment of the illness or injury, will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following doneexxxxx’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementagreement until worker’s compensation benefits are exhausted.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended or different Agencyqualified intermittent illness or injury or while attending a family member suffering from an illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
A. Donating employees must have completed initial trial service with the State.
(a) B. The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) C. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other sections of this Article.
(d) D. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Human Resources Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) E. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, personal and compensatory leave accruals.
F. Donations shall be credited to the recipient’s sick leave account. Donated vacation hours are converted to a dollar amount based on the donor’s regular hourly rate of pay, and credited to the recipient based on the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (g2) hours. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for any insurance contributions pursuant to Article 19, Insurance, which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of his/her use of donated hardship leave. Recipients will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future sick leave use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will not be deducted from the donor’s vacation account.
G. Donated hours shall be converted and credited to the recipient’s account only as needed for the period of recuperation. Any unused donated hours will not be deducted from the donor’s account.
H. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ disability benefits or worker’s compensation will benefits or on parental leave are not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
I. For recipient employees on trial service, time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of his/her trial service period nor toward the salary eligibility date for a step pay increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of trial service date and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be a regular employeesemployees of the Agency.
(b) b. The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel 's Human Resources Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) e. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f. Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s 's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 12 which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of the employee's use of donated hardship leave. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ disability benefits, workers compensation or on parental leaves will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
h. Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of his/her trial service period, nor toward salary eligibility dates for a step pay increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of trial service date and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be a regular employeesemployee of the Agency.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions, unless health insurance contributions are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In FMLA situations, the Agency will continue to pay for the employee’s health insurance contribution until the employee’s qualifying FMLA period ends. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h) Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of the employee’s initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time vacation leave to a co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or vacation leave, not to exceed injury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. Hardship leave donations will be administered under the hours necessary to cover for following stipulations and the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
a) The donor must be a regular employee of the Agency. However, to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different another Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their the appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or authority/designee from for both the donor’s and recipient’s recipient agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h) Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of the employee’s initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions provision shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Department will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker co-worker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedDepartment. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.:
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be regular employeesstatus employees of the Department.
(b) b. The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions provision found under Article 56this Article, Section 2.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Department's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen thirty (1530) days or a period of time agreed to by the Appointing Authority following donee’s xxxxx's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) e. Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s 's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Department for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 14 for which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of their use of donated hardship leave.
(f) f. Accumulated leave includes includes, but is not limited to sickto, vacationsick leave, personalvacation leave, personal business leave, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation Workers' Compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co- worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be regular employeesemployees of the Agency.
(b) b. The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s 's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) e. Accumulated leave includes includes, but is not limited to to, sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
f. Donations shall be credited at the recipient's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 12 which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of the employee's use of donated hardship leave. Xxxxx’s will be allowed to keep forty (g40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donor’s per Agency policy.
g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ disability benefits, workers compensation or on parental leaves will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
h. Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count towards completion of the employees initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be a regular employeesemployee of the Agency.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Agency‘s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s physician‘s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s recipient‘s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions, unless health insurance contributions are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In FMLA situations, the Agency will continue to pay for the employee‘s health insurance contribution until the employee‘s qualifying FMLA period ends. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h) Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of the employee‘s initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing regular status employees represented by SEIU Local 503 at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by another regular status eligible recipients SEIU Local 503 represented university employee of the same University as sick leave. Agencies will allow Hardship Leave is intended to support represented employees to make donations with donated leave when an employee has exhausted all forms of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, leave and either the employee (donoror the employee’s qualifying family member(s) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designeeexperience temporary serious medical condition(s). The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedQualifying family members are defined under Section 2. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(dA) Applications for hardship leave Hardship Leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agencyuniversity’s Personnel Section Human Resource Unit and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the specific illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days consecutive calendar days, following doneexxxxx’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personalpersonal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave accruals.
(gB) Employees Applications for hardship Leave should be made prior to the employee falling into leave without pay status, otherwise eligible there may be a delay in processing the request.
(C) Once approved, employees must exhaust all monthly accrued leave (sick, vacation, personal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave) prior to the use of any donated Hardship Leave, except that an employee may request in writing to accrue up to forty (40) hours of vacation leave annually (D) . Requests for or receiving workers’ compensation will not and use of donated leave shall be considered eligible consistent with Section 2 of the Article, and limited to receive donations under this agreementthe serious medical condition for which it was donated.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave and compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)d below, to a coworker co-worker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.:
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employeesstatus employees of the Agency.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s 's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen thirty (1530) days or a period of time agreed to by the Appointing Authority following donee’s 's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
e) Access to hardship leave shall cease if the recipient fails to provide an updated physician‟s certificate verifying the continuation of the illness or injury within ten (e10)-working days of a request for an updated certificate.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s donor‟s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 11 for which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of their use of donated hardship leave.
(fg) Accumulated leave includes includes, but is not limited to sickto, vacationArticle 15 – Paid Leave, personalArticle 16 – Sick Leave, and compensatory leave accruals.
(gh) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation Workers' Compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended or different Agencyqualified intermittent illness or injury or while attending a family member suffering from an illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
A. Donating employees must have completed initial trial service with the State.
(a) B. The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) C. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other sections of this Article.
(d) D. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Human Resources Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for intermittently. Such application must be no later than the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements month during which all paid leave is exhausted. However, in no instances will applications be accepted following an employee’s return to receive donated leavework.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) E. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, personal and compensatory leave accruals.
F. Donations shall be credited to the recipient’s sick leave account. Donated vacation hours are converted to a dollar amount based on the donor’s regular hourly rate of pay, and credited to the recipient based on the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (g2) Employees otherwise eligible hours. Recipients will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for or receiving workers’ compensation future sick leave use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will not be considered deducted from the donor’s vacation account. In non-FMLA situations, donations shall be credited at the donor’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for all hardship leave cost that includes all direct and indirect costs such as wages, insurance premiums, retirement contribution and payroll taxes.
G. Donated hours shall be converted and credited to the recipient’s account only as needed for the period of recuperation. Any unused donated hours will not be deducted from the donor’s account.
(1) Employees on parental leave for other than a pregnancy related disability are not eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
(2) Employees eligible for or receiving workers compensation time loss payments may receive donated leave if:
(a) The Employee meets all of the eligibility requirements outlined in Section 9 of this article to receive donated leave.
(b) Pursuant to Section 5 of this Article, the use of donated leave payments to the employee shall be equal to the difference between the workers compensation time loss payment for lost time and the employee’s regular salary.
(c) If SAIF determines the employee has been overpaid as result of receiving donated leave in excess of what has been determined in Section 5, the employee will be financially responsible for any overpayments back to SAIF. The Agency shall not have any financial liability for any overpayments the employee has received from SAIF.
(3) Employees eligible for or receiving disability payments may receive donated leave provided all of the following requirements are met:
(a) Meets the criteria to receive donated leave under Section 9 of this Article.
(b) The employee is solely responsible for any representations made to the insurance company/PERS and Agency.
(c) Any overpayments or tax consequences will be the sole responsibility of the employee. The Agency will have no liability or be required to pay for any overpayments.
(d) If the insurance company/PERS disallows employees receiving donated leave while receiving disability insurance payments, then this Section will be null and void.
(e) The Agency will not be liable for paying any monies to the employee if the disability insurance company reduces its disability payment as a result of the employee using donated leave.
I. For recipient employees on trial service, time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of his/her trial service period nor toward the salary eligibility date for a step pay increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of trial service date and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended or different Agencyqualified intermittent illness or injury or while attending a family member suffering from an illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
A. Donating employees must have completed initial trial service with the State.
(a) B. The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) C. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other sections of this Article.
(d) D. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Agency‟s Human Resources Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s physician‟s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for intermittently. Such application must be no later than the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements month during which all paid leave is exhausted. However, in no instances will applications be accepted following an employee‟s return to receive donated leavework.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) E. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, personal and compensatory leave accruals.
F. Donations shall be credited to the recipient‟s sick leave account. Donated vacation hours are converted to a dollar amount based on the donor‟s regular hourly rate of pay, and credited to the recipient based on the recipient‟s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (g2) hours. Recipients will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future sick leave use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will not be deducted from the donor‟s vacation account. In non-FMLA situations, donations shall be credited at the donor‟s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for all hardship leave cost that includes all direct and indirect costs such as wages, insurance premiums, retirement contribution and payroll taxes.
G. Donated hours shall be converted and credited to the recipient‟s account only as needed for the period of recuperation. Any unused donated hours will not be deducted from the donor‟s account.
H. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ disability benefits or worker‟s compensation will benefits or on parental leave are not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
I. For recipient employees on trial service, time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of his/her trial service period nor toward the salary eligibility date for a step pay increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of trial service date and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from Such donation is subject to approval by both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedappointing authority/designee. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following doneexxxxx’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for insurance contributions made pursuant to Article 31, unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation compensation, or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing regular status employees represented by SEIU Local 503 at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by another regular status eligible recipients SEIU Local 503 represented university employees of the same University as sick leave. Agencies will allow Hardship Leave is intended to support represented employees to make donations with donated leave when an employee has exhausted all forms of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, leave and either the employee (donoror the employee’s qualifying family member(s) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designeeexperience temporary serious medical condition(s). The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedQualifying family members are defined under Section 2. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the university’s Human Resource Unit and accompanied by the treating physician’s written statement certifying that the specific illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (a15) The consecutive calendar days for the specific illness or injury, following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave accruals. Applications for hardship leave should be made prior to the employee falling into sick leave without pay or leave without pay status, otherwise there may be a delay in processing the request. Once approved, employees must exhaust all monthly accrued leave (sick, vacation, personal leave, exchange time, and compensatory leave) prior to the use of any donated Hardship Leave, except that an employee may request in writing to accrue up to forty (40) hours of vacation leave annually(D). Requests for and use of donated leave shall be consistent with Section 2 of the Article, and limited to the serious medical condition for which it was donated. Donated leave may be used intermittently when there is such a need as indicated by the treating physician. Hardship Leave Donations are intended to coincide with the use of FMLA, OFLA and ADA leaves of absences and shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Use of hardship leave donations outside of these intended programs is at the discretion of the University based on operational needs. Donations shall be used to reimburse the university for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 24 - Insurance unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and/or Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA). Employees receiving Workers’ Compensation, or short or long-term term disability, will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement. Employees on parental leave that does not qualify under FMLA and/or Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA), will not be eligible to receive donations under this Agreement. If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to exhaust donated leave for the purpose for which it was donated, the unused leave will be pooled for use by future recipients. Unused donated leave will be transferred to the pool after the treating physician has certified that the illness or injury for which the leave was donated has been resolved and donor must be regular employees.
(b) the hardship leave case is closed. The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied . Upon request by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that Local Union President or designee, and no more than once per year, the illness or injury University will continue for at least fifteen (15) days provide a report with the following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently information for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive preceding year for each Hardship Leave case: donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sickhours and converted dollar amounts, vacation, personalused hours, and compensatory leave accrualspooled dollar amounts.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for Employee(s) within the purpose Agency may transfer accumulated vacation leave or comp time in blocks of allowing employees one (1) hour or more to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations another employee of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designeeagency provided:
1. The appointing authority employee receiving the transferred leave has exhausted all but forty (40) hours of accrued paid leaves as a result of recuperating from or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization caring for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
an immediate family member (a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under as defined in Article 5630 – Sick Leave, Section 2.
(d4) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing who is recuperating from an extended and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness continuous illness, injury, or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of similar catastrophic event. Accrued paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes leaves include, but is are not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
2. The recipient of the transferred leave is not otherwise qualified for disability insurance or retirement benefits. Not-withstanding the time requirements of Section 1(g)(4) below, employees who are qualified for workers’ compensation may request and receive hardship leave for the three (3) day waiting period if not covered by workers’ compensation.
3. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Human Resources Section. The Agency may require that the employee submit a certificate from the attending physician or practitioner verifying that the expected time duration of the illness or injury or effects from a catastrophic event will continue for at least fourteen (14) days. Upon determination that the employee’s request qualifies for hardship leave, Human Resources will issue requests as appropriate for leave donations per qualifying event.
4. Donated leave shall be credited to the sick leave balance of the receiving employee on a dollar-for-dollar exchange basis.
5. The donated leave once posted to the donee's sick leave account is unrecoverable by the donor. All donated leave will be used as sick leave.
6. Cross-donating between management and represented employees may occur if mutually agreed to by the parties. Employees on trial service shall have that vacation leave time which has been credited to their leave balance available for use in circumstances that would qualify them to use hardship leave subject to the above Subsection (g) Employees otherwise eligible conditions. Donated vacation leave or compensatory time may be provided to employees in other AFSCME Central Table participating agencies subject to the approval of the appointing authorities for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementthe involved agencies.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be a regular employeesemployee of the Agency.
(b) b. The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s 's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) e. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f. Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s 's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (2) hours. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions, unless health insurance contributions are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In FMLA situations, the Agency will continue to pay for the employee’s health insurance contribution until the employee’s qualifying FMLA period ends. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h. Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of the employee’s initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Department will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave and compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)d below, to a coworker co-worker in that Agency Department. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
a. The recipient and donor must be regular status employees of the Department.
b. The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under this Article, Section 2.
d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Department's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician's written statement certifying that the illness or different Agencyinjury will continue for thirty (30) days or a period of time agreed to by the Appointing Authority following donee's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently.
e. Access to hardship leave shall cease if the recipient fails to provide an updated physician’s certificate verifying the continuation of the illness or injury within ten (10)-working days of a request for an updated certificate.
f. Donations shall be credited at the donor’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
g. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick leave, vacation leave, personal business leave, and compensatory leave accruals.
h. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving Workers' Compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
i. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons.
Section 1. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the The following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement compensable holidays shall be strictly enforced with no exceptionsrecognized:
a. New Year's Day on January 1;
x. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xx.'s Birthday on the third Monday in January;
(a) c. President's Day on the third Monday in February;
d. Memorial Day on the last Monday in May;
e. Juneteenth on June 19;
f. Independence Day on July 4;
g. Labor Day on the first Monday in September;
h. Veterans Day on November 11;
i. Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday in November;
j. The recipient and donor must be regular employees.Friday after Thanksgiving;
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.k. Christmas Day on December 25; and
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied l. Every day appointed by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting Governor of the accumulated leave State of Oregon as a holiday and everyday appointed by the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days President of absence in combination the United States as a day of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for mourning, rejoicing, or other special observance only when the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveGovernor also appoints that day as a holiday.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be a regular employeesemployees of the Agency.
(b) b. The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel 's Human Resources Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) e. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f. Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s 's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (2) hours. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions unless health insurance contributions are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In FMLA situations, the Agency will continue to pay for employee’s health insurance contribution until the employee’s qualifying FMLA period ends. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leaves will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h. Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of his/her trial service period, nor toward salary eligibility dates for a step pay increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of trial service date and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be a regular employeesemployee of the Agency. However, to donate to a specific employee in another Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority/designee for both the donor’s and recipient agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicating funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons.
(b) The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h) Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of the employee’s initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave or compensatory time to a co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave due to an extended serious illness or vacation leave, injury to the employee or his/her immediate family member or a member of the immediate household. The donated leave shall not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agencyabsence. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be regular employeesemployees of the Agency.
(b) b. The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting exhaustion of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leavedays. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) e. Accumulated leave includes includes, but is not limited to to, sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) f. Donations shall be credited at the recipient's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 13 which the recipient is eligible to receive as a result of the employee's use of donated hardship leave.
g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leaves will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
h. Donated vacation leave or compensatory time may be provided to employees in other AFSCME Central Table participating agencies subject to the approval of the appointing authorities for the involved agencies. Employees determined to be eligible in accordance with provisions of federal and State leave laws shall have all the rights, and be subject to all of the requirements of those laws. Such laws include, but are not limited to, the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), the Oregon Parental Leave Law (ORS 659.360), the Oregon Pregnancy Leave Law (ORS 659.389), and the Oregon Family Medical Leave Law (ORS 659.560).
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees police officers represented by SEIU Local 503 at the University to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by eligible recipients SEIU Local 503 represented University officers as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover exhaust donated leave for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agencypurpose for which it was donated, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated unused leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the will be pooled for use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedby future recipients. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(aA) The recipient and donor must be regular employeespolice officers of the University.
(bB) The Employer University shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employeepolice officer.
(cC) Hardship leave donations will not extend past twelve (12) weeks. This may be extended up to an additional twelve (12) weeks at the sole discretion of the University. At the end of this period, the University’s Human Resources Office is available to provide information and resources regarding longer term options.
(D) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 22 of this Article.
(dE) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the AgencyUniversity’s Personnel Section Human Resource Office and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) calendar days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) intermittently. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(gF) Employees otherwise eligible Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the University for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 28 - Insurance unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
(G) Police officers receiving Workers’ Compensation, or receiving workers’ compensation short or long-term term disability, will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement. Officers on parental leave that does not qualify under FMLA, will not be eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Department will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave and compensatory time or vacation leavetime, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d)d below, to a coworker co-worker in that Agency Department. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
a. The recipient and donor must be regular status employees of the Department.
b. The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under this Article, Section 2.
d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Department's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician's written statement certifying that the illness or different Agencyinjury will continue for thirty (30) days or a period of time agreed to by the Appointing Authority following donee's projected exhausting of the accumulated leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently.
e. Access to hardship leave shall cease if the recipient fails to provide an updated physician’s certificate verifying the continuation of the illness or injury within ten (10)-working days of a request for an updated certificate.
f. Donations shall be credited at the donor’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
g. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick leave, vacation leave, personal business leave, and compensatory leave accruals.
h. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving Workers' Compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
i. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2.
(d) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees represented by SEIU Local 503 at the University to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leaves and leave or compensatory time for use by eligible recipients SEIU Local 503 represented University employees as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover exhaust donated leave for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agencypurpose for which it was donated, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated unused leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the will be pooled for use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably deniedby future recipients. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(aA) The recipient and donor must be regular employeesemployees of the University.
(bB) The Employer University shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(cC) Hardship leave donations will not extend past twelve (12) weeks. This may be extended up to an additional twelve (12) weeks at the sole discretion of the University. At the end of this period, the University’s Human Resources Office is available to provide information and resources regarding longer term options.
(D) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 22 of this Article.
(dE) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the AgencyUniversity’s Personnel Section Human Resource Office and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) calendar days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) intermittently. Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(gF) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be used to reimburse the University for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions pursuant to Article 28 - Insurance unless health insurance payments are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
(G) Employees otherwise eligible for receiving Workers’ Compensation, or receiving workers’ compensation short or long-term term disability, will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement. Employees on parental leave that does not qualify under FMLA, will not be eligible to receive donations under this Agreement.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for Employee(s) within the purpose Agency may transfer accumulated vacation leave or comp time in blocks of allowing employees one (1) hour or more to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations another employee of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designeeagency provided:
1. The appointing authority employee receiving the transferred leave has exhausted all but twenty-four (24) hours of accrued paid leaves as a result of recuperating from or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization caring for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
an immediate family member (a) The recipient and donor must be regular employees.
(b) The Employer shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under as defined in Article 5630, Section 2.
(d4) Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing who is recuperating from an extended and sent to the Agency’s Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s written statement certifying that the illness continuous illness, injury, or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of similar catastrophic event. Accrued paid and unpaid leave. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leave.
(e) Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s current regular hourly rate of pay.
(f) Accumulated leave includes leaves include, but is are not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
2. The recipient of the transferred leave is not otherwise qualified for workers' compensation coverage, disability insurance or retirement benefits. Eligibility for other such entitlements would preclude an otherwise eligible employee from receiving donated leave. Entitlement for hardship leave is not intended to supplant or otherwise diminish an employee's responsibility for prudent planning.
3. No hardship leave shall be granted solely for the birth or adoption of a child except in the case of circumstances of extended and continuous illness, injury or similar catastrophic event.
4. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Human Resources Section. The Agency may require that the employee submit a certificate from the attending physician or practitioner verifying that the expected time duration of the illness or injury or effects from a catastrophic event will continue for at least fourteen (14) days. Upon determination that the employee’s request qualifies for hardship leave, Human Resources will issue requests as appropriate for leave donations per qualifying event.
5. Donated leave shall be credited to the sick leave balance of the receiving employee on a dollar-for-dollar exchange basis.
6. The donated leave once posted to the donee's sick leave account is unrecoverable by the donor. All donated leave will be used as sick leave.
7. Cross-donating between management and represented employees may occur if mutually agreed to by the parties. Employees on trial service shall have that vacation leave time which has been credited to their leave balance available for use in circumstances that would qualify them to use hardship leave subject to the above subsection (g) Employees otherwise eligible conditions. Donated vacation leave or compensatory time may be provided to employees in other AFSCME Central Table participating agencies subject to the approval of the appointing authorities for or receiving workers’ compensation will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementthe involved agencies.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be a regular employeesstatus employee of the Agency.
(b) b. The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s 's Personnel Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) e. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f. Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s 's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (2) hours. Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions, unless health insurance contributions are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In FMLA situations, the Agency will continue to pay for the employee‟s health insurance contribution until the employee‟s qualifying FMLA period ends. Donees will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leave will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h. Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of the employee‟s initial trial service period, nor towards salary eligibility dates for a step increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of the initial trial service and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), leave to a coworker in that Agency co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or different Agencyinjury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to their appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
(a) a. The recipient and donor must be a regular employeesstatus employees of the Agency.
(b) b. The Employer Agency shall not assume any tax liabilities that would otherwise accrue to the employee.
(c) c. Use of donated leave shall be be, consistent with those provisions found under Article 56, Section 2the other Sections of this Article.
(d) d. Applications for hardship leave shall be in writing and sent to the Agency’s Personnel 's Human Resources Section and accompanied by the treating physician/practitioner’s 's written statement certifying that the illness or injury will continue for at least fifteen (15) days following donee’s projected exhausting of the accumulated leave and the total leave is at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days of absence in combination of paid and unpaid leaveinjury. Donated leave may be used intermittently for the same event after the employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements to receive donated leaveintermittently.
(e) e. Accumulated leave includes, but is not limited to, sick, vacation, and compensatory leave accruals.
f. Donations shall be credited at the recipient’s 's current regular hourly rate of pay. Donations shall be in amounts of no less than two (2) hours Donations shall be used to reimburse the Agency for such costs as are incurred for insurance contributions unless health insurance contributions are mandated under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In FMLA situations, the Agency will continue to pay for employee's health insurance contribution until the employee's qualifying FMLA period ends. Donee's will be allowed to keep forty (40) hours of donated leave for future use after they return to work. All other unused donated leave will be returned to donors per Agency policy.
(f) Accumulated leave includes but is not limited to sick, vacation, personal, and compensatory leave accruals.
(g) g. Employees otherwise eligible for or receiving workers’ workers compensation or on parental leaves will not be considered eligible to receive donations under this agreementAgreement.
h. Time spent by the recipient on donated hardship leave shall not count toward completion of his/her trial service period, nor toward salary eligibility dates for a step pay increase. When the recipient is released to return to duty, the end of trial service date and salary eligibility date will be adjusted by the period of the donated hardship leave taken.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
