Hardship Leave. The Agency will allow employees to make irrevocable donations of accumulated vacation leave to a co-worker who has exhausted accumulated leave while recuperating from an extended illness or injury or attending an immediate family member suffering from illness or injury. Hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
Hardship Leave. Section 1. As used in this Article:
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. Agencies will allow employees to make donations of accumulated compensatory time or vacation leave, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph (d), to a coworker in that Agency or different Agency. To donate to a specific employee in a different Agency, the employee (donor) must submit a written request to his/her appointing authority/designee. The appointing authority or designee from both the donor’s and recipient’s agencies may authorize the transfer of donated leave between agencies, subject to restrictions on the use of dedicated funding sources and/or other legitimate business reasons. Authorization for transfer of donated leave shall not be unreasonably denied. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
Hardship Leave. Applicants for hardship leave shall apply in writing to the Human Resources Office, accompanied by the treating physician's written FMLA statement certifying that the prolonged serious health condition of the employee, or a prolonged serious health condition in the employee's immediate family, will continue after the employee is projected to exhaust all accumulated paid leave. Hardship leave is not intended to cover intermittent FMLA leave nor a period of time that precedes the date of the hardship leave request. Upon determination that the written request satisfies the hardship leave requirements, the County shall approve no more than two (2) separate and distinct leaves, totaling at least one full calendar week in length each, and not more than 480 hours total during the term of this agreement. That amount shall be pro-rated for part-time employees. Approval shall be subject to availability of donations from County employees to cover all hardship leave costs. The Human Resources Office, shall initiate and collect donation(s) on a form the County provides that includes the forecasted length of time for the hardship leave and a donation closing date. The donation closing date will be three (3) weeks after the date of request. Hardship leave applicants are not to solicit employees for donations and employee may ask the donations be kept confidential. Employees may donate accumulated paid leave to an employee who qualifies for hardship leave. The donated paid leave shall be donated in increments of eight (8) hours, and such donated leave will be credited on an hour for hour basis to the paid leave account of the employee to whom it is donated as needed. Employees who receive such donated leave shall only be credited with such amounts as required to continue compensation during the period of hardship leave. Excess contributions of paid leave shall be returned to the employees who donated paid leave in the proportion of the contribution by the donating employees and the use by the hard-shipped employee.
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leaves and compensatory time for use by eligible recipients as sick leave. The Agency will allow employees to make donations of accumulated vacation leave and compensatory time, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in paragraph d below, to a co-worker in that Agency. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions:
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing regular status employees represented by SEIU Local 503 at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leave or compensatory time for use by another regular status eligible SEIU Local 503 represented university employees of the same University as sick leave. Hardship Leave is intended to support represented employees with donated leave when an employee has exhausted all forms of accumulated leave and either the employee or the employee’s qualifying family member(s) experience temporary serious medical condition(s). Qualifying family members are defined under Section 2. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
Hardship Leave. A unit employee eligible for sick leave may receive hardship leave time for his/her own illness up to a maximum of thirty
Hardship Leave. Section 1. This Article shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees to donate accrued vacation leave or compensatory time for use by eligible employees as sick leave. The Agency will allow Agency employees to make donations of accrued vacation leave or compensatory time, not to exceed the hours necessary to cover for the qualifying absence as provided in this Article, to a co-worker in the Agency.
Hardship Leave. IPSA Holders with agreements of six months or longer based in duty stations designated as hardship duty stations D and E, are eligible for a paid hardship leave of two working days per month to recover from working in a designated hardship duty station and to allow IPSA Holders to stock up on basic goods needed for everyday life which are not necessarily available at the designated duty station. Once an IPSA Holder under an International IPSA has accrued six days of hardship leave, no additional hardship leave days can be accrued unless the accrued days are utilized. All hardship leave must be taken within the period of the IPSA and subject to a maximum of six consecutive working days at a time. If the IPSA is extended for an additional period, the IPSA Holder may carry over accrued leave to the subsequent agreement period up to a maximum of six days as of the cut-off date of 1 April of any given year. Unused hardship leave is not commutable to cash. For Regular IPSAs where the starting or ending months are of less than one full calendar month, hardship leave shall be pro-rated to the nearest half day. When an IPSA of an initial duration of less than six months is subsequently extended to reach or exceed six months, provisions for hardship leave will apply from the effective date of the IPSA extension. Leave is not accumulated retroactively.
Hardship Leave. These provisions shall apply for the purpose of allowing employees within the bargaining unit at each university to irrevocably donate accrued vacation leave or compensatory time for use by eligible university bargaining unit employees as sick leave. If a hardship donation recipient dies or otherwise fails to exhaust donated leave for the purpose for which it was donated, the unused leave will be pooled for use by future recipients. For purposes of this Agreement, hardship leave donations will be administered under the following stipulations and the terms of this Agreement shall be strictly enforced with no exceptions.
