Common use of Leave Donation Program Clause in Contracts

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be used a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received. (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 9, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, ; minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, ; sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, ; short-term absences due to contagious diseases, ; or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Effective April 1, 2004, the State System implemented a leave donation program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency university or a permanent employee in the Office of the Chancellor who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. Permanent employees of the Office of the Chancellor may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee at a university or in the Office of the Chancellor who has used all accrued and anticipated paid leave for the current calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or consistent with policy for absences related to an organ donation by the recipientuse of additional sick family leave under Article 13, Section 5. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 13, Section 6. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partnerspouse, child, step-childstepchild, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, or a severe illness or injury, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-short- term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 twenty (20) workdays in the current leave calendar year. The twenty (20-) workday absence absences may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required twenty (20-) workday accumulation period. g. e. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received. (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five (5) days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. f. Up to 12 twelve (12) weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. g. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family family-care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. h. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. i. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.six

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. The Commonwealth will implement and administer a Leave Donation Program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. The Commonwealth will implement and administer a Leave Donation Program. Permanent employees may donate annual leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or donation, catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the same organ donation or the same donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the same organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. Section 3. Donors a. A donor may voluntarily donate annual leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. b. Donations must be made in increments of one day (8.0 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (40.0 hours). c. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. d. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. Section 4. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 32 of this Agreement. Section 5. Notwithstanding the requirement in Sections 1 and 3 of this Article that annual leave donations be from a permanent employee in the employee’s agency, in the event that an employee does not receive sufficient donations from employees within the employee’s own agency, the employee needing donations will be permitted to seek donations from permanent employees in other agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction within a reasonable geographic distance through the requesting employee’s designated local Human Resource contact. An exception to the reasonable geographic distance limitation will be allowed for relatives of the employee who wish to make donations.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency agency/university who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury injury/illness or illness, for the catastrophic or severe injury or injury/illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 8, Section 5. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or illness/injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or catastrophic illness/injury of the employee, employee or a the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or illness/injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or illness/injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or injury/illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 twelve weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or illness/injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness illness/or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Effective April 1, 2004, the State System implemented a leave donation program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency university or a permanent employee in the Office of the Chancellor who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. Permanent employees of the Office of the Chancellor may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee at a university or in the Office of the Chancellor who has used all accrued and anticipated paid leave for the current calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or consistent with policy for absences related to an organ donation by the recipientuse of additional sick family leave under Article 13, Section 5. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 13, Section 6. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partnerspouse, child, step-childstepchild, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, or a severe illness or injury, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-short- term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 twenty (20) workdays in the current leave calendar year. The twenty (20-) workday absence absences may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required twenty (20-) workday accumulation period. g. e. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received. (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five (5) days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. f. Up to 12 twelve (12) weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two (2) consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. g. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family family-care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. h. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. i. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.six

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 12, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-20- workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received. (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. Section 3. Donors a. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. b. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.50 or 8.0 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37.5 or 40.0 hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. c. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. d. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 10, Section 6. Section 4. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 5 of this Agreement. Section 5. For the purpose of this Article, domestic partner shall be defined as a same sex domestic partner who meets the eligibility criteria established by the Commonwealth. Section 6. Notwithstanding the requirement in Sections 1 and 3 of this Article that annual and personal leave donations be from a permanent employee in the employee’s agency, in the event that an employee does not receive sufficient donations from employees within the employee’s own agency, the employee needing donations will be permitted to seek donations from permanent employees in other agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction within a reasonable geographic distance through the requesting employee’s designated local Human Resource contact. An exception to the reasonable geographic distance limitation will be allowed for relatives of the employee who wish to make donations.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 14, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received. (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. Section 3. Donors a. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. b. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.5 or 8 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37.5 or 40.0 hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. c. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. d. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 14, Section 6. Section 4. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 37 or 38 of this Agreement. Section 5. For the purpose of this Article, domestic partner shall be defined as a same sex domestic partner who meets the eligibility criteria established by the Commonwealth. Section 6. Notwithstanding the requirements in Sections 1 and 3 of this Article that annual and personal leave donations be from a permanent employee in the employee’s agency, in the event that an employee does not receive sufficient donations from employees within the employee’s own agency, the employee needing donations will be permitted to seek donations from permanent employees in other agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction within a reasonable geographic distance, through the requesting employee’s designated local Human Resource contact. An exception to the reasonable geographic distance limitation will be allowed for relatives of the employee who wish to make donations.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. A. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations of Article 18, Section F. a. B. Recipients 1. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. 2. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or 3. A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. 4. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. 5. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) a. For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) b. For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. 6. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. 7. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. 8. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. 9. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. 10. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. C. Donors 1. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. 2. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.5 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37 ½ hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. 3. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. 4. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 18, Section F. D. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 7 of this Agreement. E. Notwithstanding the requirement in Sections A and C of this Article that annual and personal leave donations be from a permanent employee in the employee’s agency, in the event that an employee does not receive sufficient donations from employees within the employee’s own agency, the employee needing the donations will be permitted to seek donations from permanent employees in other agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction within a reasonable geographic distance through the requesting employee’s designated local Human Resource contact. An exception to the reasonable geographic distance limitation will be allowed for relatives of the employee who wish to make donations.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 13, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 13, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-xxxxxxxxx, xxxxxx child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation donation, or catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-short- term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, or the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. f. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, or intestine) to be transplanted into another person. g. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation donation, or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or donation, catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation donation, or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency agency/university who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury injury/illness or illness, for the catastrophic or severe injury or injury/illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 8, Section 5. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or illness/injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or catastrophic illness/injury of the employee, employee or a the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or illness/injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or illness/injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or injury/illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or illness/injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or illness/injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Effective January 1, 2004, the Commonwealth will implement and administer a Leave Donation Program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 14, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. e. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. f. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. g. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. h. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. i. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. j. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. Section 3. Donors a. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. b. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.50 or 8.0 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37.5 or 40.0 hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. c. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. d. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 14, Section 6. Section 4. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 37 or 38 of this Agreement.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees officers may donate annual leave to a designated permanent officer/employee in the officer’s/employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the officer’s/employee’s family member dies and the officer/employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 17, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent officers/employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child child, or parent of the officer/employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation donation, or catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the officer/employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, and severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, lung or intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, or the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, officer/employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, sick (for officer’s/employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, or catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an officer’s/employee’s organ donation donation, or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or donation, catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the officer/employee is eligible must be used. h. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the officer/employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or the catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an officer’s/employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation donation, or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. An officer/employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the officer/employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the officer/employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the officer’s/employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. 8.2 Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Effective January 1, 2004, the Commonwealth will implement and administer a Leave Donation Program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 14, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. e. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. f. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. g. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. h. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. i. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. j. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child xxxxxx-child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation donation, or catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, injuries or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-short- term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, or the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, or catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. f. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, or intestine) to be transplanted into another person. g. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation donation, or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or donation, catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation donation, or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. An employee is not eligible to receive donations donation of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of the annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 6, Section 6. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20 workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-20 workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. Section 3. Donors a. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. b. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.5 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37.5 hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. c. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. d. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 6, Section 6. Section 4. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 17 of this Agreement. Section 5. For the purpose of this Article, domestic partner shall be defined as a same sex domestic partner who meets the eligibility criteria established by the Commonwealth. Section 6. Notwithstanding the requirements in Section 1 and 3 of this Article that annual and personal leave donations be from a permanent employee in the employee’s agency, in the event that an employee does not receive sufficient donations from employees within the employee’s own agency, the employee needing donations will be permitted to seek donations from permanent employees in other agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction within a reasonable geographic distance through the requesting employee’s designated local Human Resource contact. An exception to the reasonable geographic distance limitation will be allowed for relatives of the employee who wish to make donations.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child xxxxxx-child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, injuries or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations donation of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of the annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child xxxxxx-child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, injuries or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations donation of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of the annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Effective January 1, 2004, the Commonwealth will implement and administer a Leave Donation Program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-step- child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. e. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. f. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. g. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. h. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. i. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. j. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 11, Section 6. Section 2. Recipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child child, or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-short- term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. e. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. f. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. g. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. h. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. i. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. j. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Effective July 1, 2008, the State System implemented and administers a leave donation program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency university or a permanent employee in the Office of the Chancellor who has used all accrued and anticipated paid leave for the current leave calendar year. Permanent employees of the Office of the Chancellor may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee at a university or in the Office of the Chancellor who has used all accrued and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or consistent with policy for absences related to an organ donation by the recipientuse of additional sick family leave. Section 2. The leave also may be usedRecipients a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-childstepchild, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 twenty (20) workdays in the current leave calendar year. The twenty (20-) workday absence absences may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required twenty (20-) workday accumulation period. g. e. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received. (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five (5) days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. f. Up to 12 twelve (12) weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. g. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family family-care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. h. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. i. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.six

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. A. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic injury or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations of Article 18, Section F. a. B. Recipients 1. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. 2. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child, child or of a domestic partner, parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or 3. A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, 4. A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. 5. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. 6. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) a. For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) b. For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. 7. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. 8. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. 9. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. 10. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. 11. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. C. Donors 1. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. 2. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.5 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37 ½ hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. 3. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. 4. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 18, Section F. D. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 7 of this Agreement. E. Notwithstanding the requirement in Sections A and C of this Article that annual and personal leave donations be from a permanent employee in the employee’s agency, in the event that an employee does not receive sufficient donations from employees within the employee’s own agency, the employee needing the donations will be permitted to seek donations from permanent employees in other agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction within a reasonable geographic distance through the requesting employee’s designated local Human Resource contact. An exception to the reasonable geographic distance limitation will be allowed for relatives of the employee who wish to make donations. F. For the purpose of this Article, domestic partner shall be defined as a same sex domestic partner who meets the eligibility criteria established by the Commonwealth.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Effective January 1, 2004, the Commonwealth will implement and administer a Leave Donation Program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Recommendation 8, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-non- life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. e. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received. (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. f. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. g. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. h. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. i. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. j. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. A. Permanent employees may donate annual leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, the catastrophic injury or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations of Article 18, Section F. a. B. Recipients 1. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. 2. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-step- child, xxxxxx child, child or of a domestic partner, parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. 3. An organ donation donation, or catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-work- related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. 4. An organ donation, and severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. 5. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, or intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. 6. The absence due to an organ donation, or the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, or catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. 7. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1a) For an employee’s organ donation donation, or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2b) For the organ donation or donation, catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. 8. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to organ donation, or the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. 9. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. 10. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation donation, or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. 11. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. 12. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. C. Donors 1. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. 2. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.5 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37 ½ hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. 3. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. 4. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 18, Section F. D. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 7 of this Agreement. E. Notwithstanding the requirement in Sections A and C of this Article that annual and personal leave donations be from a permanent employee in the employee’s agency, in the event that an employee does not receive sufficient donations from employees within the employee’s own agency, the employee needing the donations will be permitted to seek donations from permanent employees in other agencies under the Governor’s jurisdiction within a reasonable geographic distance through the requesting employee’s designated local Human Resource contact. An exception to the reasonable geographic distance limitation will be allowed for relatives of the employee who wish to make donations. F. For the purpose of this Article, domestic partner shall be defined as a same sex domestic partner who meets the eligibility criteria established by the Commonwealth.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 13, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-stepchild, xxxxxx child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 13, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-xxxxxxxxx, xxxxxx child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year.

Leave Donation Program. Section A. Effective January 1, 2004, the Commonwealth will implement and administer a Leave Donation Program. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations of Article 18, Section F. a. B. Recipients 1. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. 2. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partnercriteria. c. An organ donation or 3. A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. 4. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-workday accumulation period. g. 5. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) a. For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) b. For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. 6. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. 7. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, reduced by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. 8. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. 9. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. 10. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following fo llowing leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. C. Donors 1. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. 2. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.5 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37 ½ hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. 3. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. 4. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave ava ilable, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 18, Section F. D. The provisions of this Article are not grievable under Article 7 of this Agreement.

Leave Donation Program. Section 1. Permanent employees may donate annual and personal leave to a designated permanent employee in the employee’s agency who has used all accrued paid leave and anticipated annual paid leave for the current leave calendar year. The leave is to be used for the recipient’s own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, illness or for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, or for absences related to an organ donation by the recipient. The leave also may be usedused as bereavement leave if the employee’s family member dies and the employee has no accrued or anticipated sick leave available, subject to the limitations in Article 14, Section 6. a. Recipients must be permanent employees in bargaining units that have agreed to participate in this program. b. Family member is defined as a husband, wife, domestic partner, child, step-child, xxxxxx child or parent of the employee or any other person qualifying as a dependent under IRS eligibility criteria or the child of the employee’s domestic partner. Effective with the beginning of the 2021 leave calendar year, leave donations may not be used for the catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a domestic partner of an employee or the child of an employee’s domestic partner. c. An organ donation or A catastrophic illness or injury that poses a direct threat to life or to the vital function of major bodily systems or organs, and would cause the employee to take leave without pay or terminate employment, must be documented on a Family and Medical Leave Act Serious Health Condition Certification form. Donated leave may not be used for work-related injuries or illnesses, minor illnesses, injuries, or impairments, sporadic, short-term recurrences of chronic, non-life threatening conditions, short-term absences due to contagious diseases, or short-term recurring medical or therapeutic treatments, except for conditions such as those listed above. d. An organ donation, A severe illness or injury must also be documented on a Medical Condition Certification to Receive Leave Donations Form. e. Organ donation is defined as a living donor giving an organ (kidney) or part of an organ (liver, lung, intestine) to be transplanted into another person. f. The absence due to an organ donation, the catastrophic or severe illness or injury of the employee, employee or a catastrophic or severe illness or injury of a family member must be for more than 20 workdays in the current leave calendar year. The 20-20- workday absence may be accumulated on an intermittent basis if properly documented as related to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. Annual, personal, sick (for employee’s own serious health condition), sick family (for the serious health condition of a family member), holiday, compensatory, or unpaid leave may be used during the accumulation period. A separate accumulation period must be met for each organ donation, catastrophic or severe illness or injury and for each leave calendar year in which donated leave is used. Donated leave may not be applied to the required 20-20- workday accumulation period. g. f. All accrued leave must be used as follows before any donation may be received.: (1) For an employee’s organ donation or own catastrophic or severe injury or illness, all accrued annual, sick, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual and sick leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. (2) For the organ donation or catastrophic or severe injury or illness of a family member, all accrued annual, personal, holiday, and compensatory leave and all anticipated annual leave for the current leave calendar year must be used. All five days of sick family leave and any additional sick family leave for which the employee is eligible must be used. h. g. Up to 12 weeks of donated leave per leave calendar year may be received for all conditions of the employee and family members cumulatively, but donations may not be received in more than two consecutive leave calendar years. Donated leave is added to the recipient’s sick leave balance on a biweekly basis. Recipients do not repay the donor for donated leave. Leave usage is monitored closely to ensure that donated leave is used only for absences related to the organ donation or catastrophic or severe illness or injury. i. h. The recipient’s entitlement to leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act will be reduced, where applicable, by donated leave that is used. Entitlements to sick leave without pay (for an employee’s own illness) or family care leave without pay (for a family member’s illness) will also be reduced. j. i. Donated leave may be used on an intermittent basis. However, each absence may be required to be medically documented as due to the organ donation or the same catastrophic or severe illness or injury. k. j. An employee is not eligible to receive donations of leave if, during the previous six months, the employee has been placed on a written leave restriction, or has received a written reprimand or suspension related to attendance. l. k. Donated leave that remains unused once the employee is released by the physician for full-time work, when the family member’s condition no longer requires the employee’s absence, or at the end of the leave calendar year, must be returned to the donors in inverse order of donation. However, if at the end of the year, the absence is expected to continue beyond the greater of 20 workdays or the amount of annual and sick leave that could be earned and used in the following leave calendar year, donated leave may be carried into the next year. Section 3. Donors a. A donor may voluntarily donate annual and personal leave to an employee within the donor’s agency who meets the requirements of the Leave Donation Program. Donations may be made to multiple employees, as long as the minimum donation is made to each employee. b. Donations must be made in increments of one day (7.5 or 8 hours), but not more than five days can be donated to any one employee in the same leave calendar year. The donor’s annual leave balance after donation cannot be less than the equivalent of five workdays of leave (37.5 or 40.0 hours). Anticipated personal leave may not be donated. c. The donation is effected by the completion and submission of a Request to Donate Leave to the agency Human Resource Office. Leave is deducted from the donor’s annual and/or personal leave balance at the time of donation and transferred to the recipient in order by the date and time the Request to Donate Leave form is received. d. Unused donations are returned to the donor if: the recipient or family member recovers, dies, or separates before the donor’s leave is used; or if the recipient does not use the leave by the end of the leave calendar year, and is expected to either return to work within 20 workdays or to have sufficient anticipated leave available in the new year to cover the absence. In accordance with Section 1 above, an employee whose family member dies and who does not have accrued or anticipated sick leave available, may use donated leave as bereavement leave, subject to the limitations in Article 14, Section 6.