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1 <br /> M <br /> ORANGECOUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 6, 1996 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item #_V= F <br /> SUBJECT: Personnel Ordinance Revision- Shared Leave <br /> DEPARTMENT: Personnel PUBLIC HEARING: _Yes.X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Draft New Personnel Ordinance Elaine Holmes, Extension 2550 <br /> Article IV, Section 22, Shared Leave <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough-732-8181 <br /> Durham-688-7331 <br /> Mebane- 227-2031 <br /> Chapel Hill -967-9251/9684501 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider adding a new section to the Orange County,Personnel <br /> Ordinance providing for a Shared Leave policy for permanent County <br /> employees. <br /> BACKGROUND: The Personnel Department has regularly received requests from County <br /> employees who wish to donate hours of leave to another County <br /> employee who has exhausted all earned leave due to a serious health <br /> condition. Department Heads and members of the Employee Relations <br /> Consortium also have requested that the County consider implementing a <br /> Shared Leave policy. <br /> The purpose of a Shared Leave policy is to allow an employee with a <br /> serious medical condition to receive Vacation Leave hours from a co- <br /> worker who chooses to transfer a specified number of his or her leave <br /> hours to the employee in need. Several area local governments as well as <br /> the State of North Carolina currently have a Shared Leave policy. <br /> The proposed policy is the result of extensive discussion by the Employee <br /> Relations Consortium and review with department heads. Highlights of <br /> the proposed policy include the following: <br /> ► An employee who has exhausted all earned Sick and Vacation <br /> Leave and is unable to work due to an accident,chronic illness or <br />