Common use of Medical and Parental Leave Pool Clause in Contracts

Medical and Parental Leave Pool. 1. A faculty member may donate a portion of his/her accumulated medical and parental leave to a faculty medical and parental leave pool. Medical and parental leave accumulated in this pool will be available for use by faculty that have exhausted their own personal medical and parental leave due to situations described in (A) above. 2. Faculty members are eligible to receive medical and parental leave from the faculty medical and parental leave pool when they have a.) either donated at least eight hours of medical leave to the faculty medical and parental leave pool during the current year or when their earned medical leave has yet to reach a total of eight hours, and b.) when they have exhausted their own personal medical and parental leave. 3. If more than one faculty member is requesting medical and parental leave from the faculty medical and parental leave pool at a given time, such medical and parental leave shall be apportioned on an equitable basis to requesting faculty until the faculty pool is exhausted or until the requesting faculty no longer qualify for medical and parental leave. 4. If a faculty member exhausts his/her medical and parental leave and the faculty medical and parental leave pool becomes exhausted of donated medical and parental leave, he/she may request that the President seek from the Kansas Board of Regents a leave without pay for that faculty member. 5. The donation of medical and parental leave to the faculty medical and parental leave pool shall be voluntary and is to be considered an irrevocable action. 6. Faculty wishing to donate medical and parental leave to the faculty medical and parental leave pool must inform the PSU Human Resource Services Office in writing of their desire to do so. The notice must state the date upon which the request is made, whether the donation is one-time or continuous year-to- year, and the total number of medical and parental leave hours being donated. The request must be signed, or electronically authorized, by the donating faculty member. 7. Donated medical and parental leave must be allocated to the general faculty medical and parental leave pool and not to a specific college, department, or individual faculty member. 8. A faculty member may donate up to 80 hours of medical and parental leave per year to the faculty medical and parental leave pool. 9. Requests for medical and parental leave from the pool will be reviewed by the Shared Leave Review Committee. This Committee will consist of the PSU/KNEA President, Director of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and the Director of Human Resource Services.

Medical and Parental Leave Pool. 1. A faculty member may donate a portion of his/her accumulated medical and parental leave to a faculty medical and parental leave pool. Medical and parental leave accumulated in this pool will be available for use by faculty that have exhausted their own personal medical and parental leave due to situations described in (A) above. 2. Faculty members are eligible to receive medical and parental leave from the faculty medical and parental leave pool when they have a.) either donated at least eight hours of medical leave to the faculty medical and parental leave pool during the current year or when their earned medical leave has yet to reach a total of eight hours, and b.) when they have exhausted their own personal medical and parental leave. 3. If more than one faculty member is requesting medical and parental leave from the faculty medical and parental leave pool at a given time, such medical and parental leave shall be apportioned on an equitable basis to requesting faculty until the faculty pool is exhausted or until the requesting faculty no longer qualify for medical and parental leave. 4. If a faculty member exhausts his/her medical and parental leave and the faculty medical and parental leave pool becomes exhausted of donated medical and parental leave, he/she may request that the President seek from the Kansas Board of Regents a leave without pay for that faculty member. 5. The donation of medical and parental leave to the faculty medical and parental leave pool shall be voluntary and is to be considered an irrevocable action. 6. Faculty wishing to donate medical and parental leave to the faculty medical and parental leave pool must inform the PSU Human Resource Services Office in writing of their desire to do so. The notice must state the date upon which the request is made, whether the donation is one-time or continuous year-to- to-year, and the total number of medical and parental leave hours being donated. The request must be signed, or electronically authorized, by the donating faculty member. 7. Donated medical and parental leave must be allocated to the general faculty medical and parental leave pool and not to a specific college, department, or individual faculty member. 8. A faculty member may donate up to 80 hours of medical and parental leave per year to the faculty medical and parental leave pool. 9. Requests for medical and parental leave from the pool will be reviewed by the Shared Leave Review Committee. This Committee will consist of the PSU/KNEA President, Director of Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action and the Director of Human Resource Services.