Common use of Voluntary Leave Exchange for Catastrophic Illness Clause in Contracts

Voluntary Leave Exchange for Catastrophic Illness. 21.12.1 Recovery Time Transfer is that system whereby an employee grants time from earned compensatory or vacation leave to another employee. Such transfer of time shall be limited to situations where the recipient of the transfer is, by reason of illness or injury, threatened with the loss of earnings due to his/her exhaustion of employment benefits. Such time transfer request must be in writing, and subject to the approval of the City Manager/Director of Library Services/Executive Director of the Rent Board. Such approval shall not be unreasonably denied. Such transfer shall be credited to the recipient at the donor’s rate of pay. Recovery Transfer Time will not be used for industrial injuries or illnesses. The use or receipt of Recovery Transfer Time shall not preclude possible medical separation of the recipient employee. The City reserves the right to require medical verification by a qualified medical practitioner of the recipient employee’s medical condition. The City may transfer an employee receiving Recovery Transfer Time into another position in the same classification. 21.12.2 An employee may donate accrued but unused sick leave as Recovery Transfer Time subject to the following conditions: a. The employee donating sick leave must maintain a sick leave balance of at least 120 hours after the donation of leave for Recovery Transfer Time. An employee donating sick leave coincidently with terminating employment with the City shall be limited to a sick leave donation of no more than forty (40) hours regardless of the sick leave donation option(s) used. b. An employee may donate compensatory time off and/or vacation leave time; or c. An employee may donate up to forty (40) hours of sick leave per calendar year and be charged hour per hour for each hour of sick leave donated; or, d. After the first forty (40) hours of sick leave are donated, an employee may donate sick leave but the employee will be charged two hours of sick leave for each hour of sick leave donated for use as Recovery Transfer Time.

Voluntary Leave Exchange for Catastrophic Illness. ‌ 21.12.1 Recovery Time Transfer is that system whereby an employee grants time from earned compensatory or vacation leave to another employee. Such transfer of time shall be limited to situations where the recipient of the transfer is, by reason of illness or injury, threatened with the loss of earnings due to his/her exhaustion of employment benefits. Such time transfer request must be in writing, and subject to the approval of the City Manager/Director of Library Services/Executive Director of the Rent Board. Such approval shall not be unreasonably denied. Such transfer shall be credited to the recipient at the donor’s rate of pay. Recovery Transfer Time will not be used for industrial injuries or illnesses. The use or receipt of Recovery Transfer Time shall not preclude possible medical separation of the recipient employee. The City reserves the right to require medical verification by a qualified medical practitioner of the recipient employee’s medical condition. The City may transfer an employee receiving Recovery Transfer Time into another position in the same classification. 21.12.2 An employee may donate accrued but unused sick leave as Recovery Transfer Time subject to the following conditions: a. The employee donating sick leave must maintain a sick leave balance of at least 120 hours after the donation of leave for Recovery Transfer Time. An employee donating sick leave coincidently with terminating employment with the City shall be limited to a sick leave donation of no more than forty (40) hours regardless of the sick leave donation option(s) used. b. An employee may donate compensatory time off and/or vacation leave time; or c. An employee may donate up to forty (40) hours of sick leave per calendar year and be charged hour per hour for each hour of sick leave donated; or, d. After the first forty (40) hours of sick leave are donated, an employee may donate sick leave but the employee will be charged two hours of sick leave for each hour of sick leave donated for use as Recovery Transfer Time.