(a) In the event of a catastrophic illness or injury to a full-time employee of the City, excluding Police Department personnel, or said employee’s immediate family member (herein defined as current spouse or an employee’s child to include stepchild) said employee is eligible to receive donated leave. In order to be eligible to receive donated leave, the employee must have been absent for a period of at least thirty (30) consecutive calendar days and have exhausted all paid sick leave, vacation leave, compensatory time, or other available paid leave, and the employee’s absence must be the result of a catastrophic injury or illness of the employee or a member of the employee’s immediate family.
(b) The determination as to whether or not an injury of illness is “catastrophic” within the meaning of this section shall be based on medical documentation in the custody of the Human Resources Manager who shall make such designation after receipt of authorization from the employee.
(c) The decision of individual employees whether or not to donate leave time to another employee per this section is to be free and voluntary and no employee shall pressure or coerce any other employee directly or indirectly to donate leave.
(Ord. V-03. Passed 11-17-03.)
(d) Employees may donate leave, vacation, personal leave or compensatory time to another employee. No employee shall donate more than forty (40) hours of leave to another employee in any one calendar year and donated leave must be in minimum of eight (8) hours. The donation of sick leave is subject to a maximum of sixteen (16) hours in a calendar year per donor. An employee donating sick leave must have a balance of two hundred forty (240) hours of sick leave after making the donation. No employee shall be eligible to receive more than three hundred sixty (360) hours of donated leave during the course of the employee’s service with the City of Orrville.
(Ord. J-13. Passed 4-29-13.)
(e) An employee proposing to donate leave time (hereinafter “Donor”) must have written authorization in the form of an agreement with the City in advance of donated leave to be used by another employee (hereinafter “Donee”). Said agreement shall include both the identity of the Donee and a statement that the Donor is forever waiving his or her right and claim to such leave. Upon receipt of the fully executed agreement by the City, such leave shall be credited to the leave balance of the Donee with the donated time. The Donee may not use the leave to cover any absence prior to the City’s receipt of the fully executed agreement. Donated leave shall be credited to the Donee in the order it is received, to the extent practical.
(f) Approved donated leave shall be credited at the rate equal to the current hourly pay rate of the Donor or the Donee, whichever is less.
(g) Nothing in this Ordinance shall be interpreted or applied in such a manner as to conflict or interfere with any other collective bargaining agreement that is binding upon the City.
(Ord. V-03. Passed 11-17-03.)
(Ord. V-03. Passed 11-17-03.)