Common use of Sick Leave Sharing Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave Sharing. After exhausting all sick leave, Emergency/Personal Business, and Vacation days, the support employee may request participation in the Sick Leave Sharing. The sick leave sharing shall permit district employees to donate sick leave to a fellow district employee who is pregnant or recovering from childbirth or who is suffering from or has a relative or household member suffering from an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition which has caused or is likely to cause the employee to take leave without pay or to terminate employment. A Support Employee can only use the "Sick Leave Sharing" after one (1) full year of service to the school district. The maximum number of days any employee can draw from the sharing is one hundred (100) days annually. The maximum number of days an employee may donate is two (2) days per sharing. The Support Employee who is requesting an account be established must: 1. Send a written request to the Superintendent explaining the reasons that an account needs to be established. 2. Complete a request form for donated sick leave. 3. Provide medical documentation. The Superintendent will: 1. Sign and approve or disapprove all requests. 2. Consider each request separately 3. Consider all catastrophic illness/accident requests 4. Upon approval of the request, will notify the Clerk of the Board, who will then establish a sick leave sharing account and notify district employees that an account has been established. Donations for sick leave sharing, pursuant to the request for donated sick leave, shall be made within thirty (30) calendar days of the date of the notice of request. Any requests by an employee for the establishment of more than one sick leave sharing account during a contract year, shall be subject to review and approval by the Superintendent or designee. Request by an employee for the establishment of a sick leave sharing account(s) in a subsequent contract year shall be subject to review and approval by the Superintendent or designee.

Sick Leave Sharing. After exhausting The United Employers Association (UEA) and the United Staff Union (USU) wish to facilitate the ability of the UEA bargaining unit(s) employees to share sick leave in emergency or extreme circumstances. 1. There shall be created a Sick Leave Review Committee (SLRC) comprised of two (2) members appointed by the USU and two (2) Managers appointed by the WEAC Executive Director and one (1) UEA member UniServ President appointed by the President of the UEA. The SLRC shall review all requests for inter-employee transfer of sick leaveleave on a case-by-case basis. The SLRC will have final authority to authorize the transfer of sick leave from one employee to another. The SLRC will, Emergency/Personal Businessin general, use the Guidelines contained herein in reaching its decision. 2. The intent of these Guidelines is to provide employees with a bridge to LTD in cases where the employee has an insufficient number of days of leave to reach the LTD threshold or has exhausted all other forms of leave and Vacation daysis in need of sick leave for a short period of time to recover from a serious illness. In general, the support number of days used by an individual employee will not exceed the number of days required to carry the employee to the point where Long-Term Disability insurance goes into effect. The use of donated sick leave shall be for a serious illness. 3. Requests to utilize employee sharing of sick leave can be made to the SLRC as follows: a. An individual employee may request participation in the Sick Leave Sharing. The to utilize shared sick leave sharing shall permit district employees leave. b. An employee, or group of employees, may request to donate sick leave to a fellow district another employee who is pregnant or recovering from childbirth or who is suffering from or has a relative or household member suffering from an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition which has caused or is likely to cause the employee to take leave without pay or to terminate employment. A Support Employee can only use the "Sick Leave Sharing" after one (1) full year of service in need. c. All requests shall be made in writing and shall be made to the school district. The maximum number of days any employee can draw from the sharing is one hundred (100) days annually. The maximum number of days an employee may donate is two (2) days per sharing. The Support Employee who is requesting an account be established must: 1. Send a written request to the Superintendent explaining the reasons that an account needs to be establishedSLRC. 24. Complete a request form for donated Only UEA bargaining unit members may utilize sick leave sharing. 5. There shall be no inter-bargaining unit sharing of sick leave. 36. Provide medical documentation. The Superintendent will: 1. Sign and approve or disapprove all requests. 2. Consider each request separately 3. Consider all catastrophic illness/accident requests 4. Upon approval There may be inter-employer sharing of the request, will notify the Clerk of the Board, who will then establish a sick leave sharing account and notify district employees that an account has been established. Donations for sick leave sharing, pursuant to the request for donated sick leave, provided that the employers of all employees involved (donor and donee) have agreed, in writing in advance, to participate in this sharing plan. 7. In general, an employee should have utilized all of his/her sick leave, vacation leave, and personal leave before employee sharing would be allowed. 8. The general limit for an employee receiving donated sick leave would be a lifetime maximum of seventy-five (75) days. 9. All transfers must be from the bargaining unit representing the receiving employee and shall be made within thirty (30) calendar days of the date of the notice of requestin full day increments only. 10. Any requests contribution made by an employee for the establishment of more than one sick leave sharing account during a contract year, to another employee shall be subject to review irrevocable and approval by the Superintendent or designee. Request by an employee for the establishment of a sick leave sharing account(s) in a subsequent contract year shall be subject taken from the donating employee’s accumulated sick leave. 11. Should there be any tax consequences to review either the donating employee or the donee employee they will be the sole responsibility of the employee and approval by not the Superintendent or designeeemployer.

Sick Leave Sharing. After exhausting all A. The employee or designee will initiate the sick-leave sharing process. The employee or designee will bring to the Human Resources Office written documentation from a licensed physician or health practitioner of “the severe or extraordinary nature and expected duration of the condition. The employee or designee will determine from the business office when sick leave, Emergency/Personal Business, and Vacation days, the support leave will be depleted. B. Any eligible certificated employee may request participation in the Sick Leave Sharing. The sick leave sharing shall permit district employees to donate excess sick leave to a fellow district employee who is pregnant or recovering from childbirth or another staff member of Sunnyside School District who is suffering from or has a relative or household member suffering from an extraordinary or a severe illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition which has caused or condition. Shared leave must be approved by a committee comprised of one (1) person from the District and one (1) person from the Association and comply with RCW 28A.400.300 (2)c and WAC 000-000-000 Must maintain a balance of at least twenty-two (22) days and may not transfer more than six (6) leave days during a twelve (12) month period. Employees shall put in writing the number of days they wish to donate. Shared leave shall be donated one (1) day at a time per donating employee. Leave will not be transferred until a need exists. Contributions of leave shall be on a voluntary basis and names of the donors shall remain confidential. Example: Employee A needs ten (10) days leave donated Employee B donates three (3) days Employee C donates two (2) days Employees E, F, G, H, I, J, K, and L each donate one (1) day. The District shall take one (1) day from Employee B, one (1) day from employee C, and one (1) day each from Employees E-L totaling ten (10) days. Must not be eligible for worker’s compensation and must have exhausted annual and/or sick leave. All other leaves must be exhausted before an employee may receive shared leave. No employee may receive more than two hundred sixty-one (261) days of shared leave during total state employment. Such a program is likely intended to cause the employee extend leave benefits to a staff member who otherwise would have to take leave without pay or terminate his/her employment with the District. C. Donated leave shall be donated on a dollar basis (gross pay) rather than a day for day basis. (If an employee wishing to terminate employment. A Support Employee can only use the "Sick Leave Sharing" after one (1) full year of service to the school district. The maximum number of days any employee can draw from the sharing is donate leave earns one hundred dollars ($100) days annually. The maximum number of days an employee may donate is per day and the person needing the leave earns two hundred dollars ($200) a day, it will take two (2) days per sharing. The Support Employee who is requesting an account of donated leave to pay for one (1) day for the employee needing one (1) day of donated leave.) Benefit costs will be established must: 1. Send a written request added on to the Superintendent explaining the reasons that an account needs cost of salary to be establishedfind total cost of employee receiving benefits. 2. Complete a request form for donated sick leaveD. Donated leave costs shall not exceed $100, 000 per fiscal year. 3. Provide medical documentation. The Superintendent will: 1. Sign E. An employee receiving donated leave shall receive the same benefits and approve or disapprove all requestspay as if they had been working. 2. Consider each request separately 3. Consider all catastrophic illness/accident requests 4. Upon approval of the request, will notify the Clerk of the Board, who will then establish a sick leave sharing account and notify district employees that an account has been established. Donations for sick leave sharing, pursuant to the request for donated sick leave, shall be made within thirty (30) calendar days of the date of the notice of request. Any requests by an employee for the establishment of more than one sick leave sharing account during a contract year, shall be subject to review and approval by the Superintendent or designee. Request by an employee for the establishment of a sick leave sharing account(s) in a subsequent contract year shall be subject to review and approval by the Superintendent or designee.