(A) Any employee may donate sick leave to another employee who is in need of additional leave for a personal, debilitating illness or accident which substantially delays his or her ability to resume duty, so that the employee will continue receiving compensation.
(B) Such donation requires the following circumstances:
(1) The sick employee has a satisfactory work record, has exhausted his or her sick leave, and all accumulated vacation and is on approved sick leave;
(2) The sick employee does not appear to have abused sick leave benefits prior to the current illness;
(3) Time may be donated in minimum increments of eight hours by any employee eligible to accrue and use sick leave up to a maximum donation of 40 hours per fiscal year. The maximum amount of donations an employee may receive in any one fiscal year is 800 hours;
(4) If the receiving employee returns to work or leaves employment prior to using all of the donated sick leave, the amounts remaining will be returned to the employees that donated time on a prorated basis;
(5) Donations will be credited to the receiving employee on an hour for hour basis, regardless of differences in the rates of pay between the donating and receiving employees; and
(6) All donations must be pre-approved by the Village Council, Board of Public Affairs, or Village Personnel Committee. Employees will not be penalized for making donations if they are otherwise eligible for the sick leave award in any given year.
(Ord. 1447, passed 10-20-2009; Ord. 1473, passed 12-7-2010; Ord. passed 1-1-2019)