Sharing of Sick Leave. Sick leave may be shared by employees in accordance with the procedures of County’s Human Resources Department. Employees with 5 years of service may donate their sick time if requested, in accordance with the Human Resources Policies and Procedures.
Sharing of Sick Leave. Sick Leave may be shared by employees in accordance with County policy. The Sick Leave Sharing Form is an Appendix to this Agreement.
Sharing of Sick Leave. An employee of the District (“authorizing employee”) may authorize any other employee of the District (“recipient”) to use sick leave that has accrued to the authorizing employee, subject to the following guidelines and stipulations:
(1) A completed "Certification of Health Care Provider" form shall accompany any sick leave transfer request to document that such a qualifying illness has occurred.
(2) Transferred sick leave will be available for use upon approval of a properly completed request for transfer of leave (along with a properly completed “Certification of Health Care Provider” form) and depletion of all the recipient’s leave, including annual leave, if applicable.
(3) If the recipient is a member of a sick leave bank, he/she must use donated sick leave days before drawing days from the bank.
(4) Requests for transfer of leave may be submitted only for the current payroll cycle applicable to the recipient. Credit of transferred sick leave will be processed upon receipt in the Payroll Office of all required forms in complete and proper form. Requests shall not be processed retroactively. The Superintendent may intervene on behalf of employees with extenuating circumstances.
(5) The authorizing employee may authorize a minimum of one (1) day up to any number of days as long as the authorizing employee retains ten (10) sick leave days after donation pursuant to this article.
(6) The number of sick leave days donated to an employee within a single fiscal year shall be limited to the number of days remaining in that employee's standard working calendar. The same employee may receive additional donated days in subsequent fiscal years by filing additional leave transfer requests.
(7) If there is more than one authorizing employee for a recipient, the donated sick leave days shall be used by the recipient in the order that the documentation authorizing the donation is received from the authorizing employee. If received on the same day, the documentation shall be considered received from the employee with the most years of service with the School Board first, and any other authorizing documentation received in the order of seniority of the authorizing employee.
(8) Leave donated but not used will revert to the authorizing employee. However, the Board shall not be responsible to make retroactive adjustments to retired employees who, prior to retirement, donated sick leave days that could have been used for terminal pay purposes.
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Sharing of Sick Leave. In the event of a catastrophic illness or injury of a member of the bargaining unit who has exhausted his or her sick leave, then, on request of the Union, the parties shall meet to discuss whether there shall be an arrangement for donation and sharing of sick Ieave and what those arrangements would be.
