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• have a minimum vacation balance of at least ten days after making
the donation, based on the donor’s work schedule. Vacation credits

which would otherwise be forfeited may not be donated.
• donor identity is kept strictly confidential.

Eligibility Criteria - Recipients
In order to receive donated leave credits, an employee of this unit must:

• be subject to the Attendance Rules or otherwise eligible to earn leave

credits;
• be absent due to a non-occupational personal illness or disability for

which medical documentation satisfactory to management is
submitted as required;

• have exhausted all leave credits;

• be expected to continue to be absent for at least two bi-weekly
payroll periods following exhaustion of leave credits or sick leave at

half-pay;
• must not have had any disciplinary actions or unsatisfactory

performance evaluations within the employee’s last three years of
State employment

Donation to and from Employees in Other Units

Employees of this Unit may participate in the voluntary donation or
receipt of accrued vacation credits with employees of other bargaining
units or those designated M/C subject to the following conditions:

Vacation credits may only be donated, received, or credited between

employees who are deemed eligible to participate in an authorized leave
donation program, provided that there are simultaneously in effect a Leave

Donation Exchange Memorandum of Agreement between the Governor’s
Office of Employee Relations and the employee organizations representing

both the proposed recipient and the proposed donor, or applicable
attendance rules for managerial or confidential employees, that authorize

such donations.
The donations are governed by the provisions of the program applicable

to the donor; receipt, crediting and use of donations are governed by the
provisions of the program applicable to the recipient.

Restrictions on Donations
Only vacation credits which would not otherwise be forfeited may be

donated. Credits must be donated in full-day units (7.5 or 8 hours). There

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