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26 <br />Orange County Personnel Ordinance Issue Date: August 5, 2011 <br />22.2.3 An employee requesting leave through the Shared Leave program must first <br />exhaust all earned, unused Sick, Vacation and Personal Leave. <br />22.2.4 An employee may receive a maximum of 80 hours of donated leave each <br />calendar year through the Shared Leave program. Shared Leave may not <br />be used to extend an employee's time in leave status beyond one year from <br />the last date worked. <br />22.3 Process <br />22.3.1 An employee who wishes to request leave through the Shared Leave <br />program provides to the Human Resources Department a letter <br />requesting participation in the Shared Leave program and a physician's <br />statement documenting the need for leave. PefsannelThe Human <br />Resources Department reviews Shared Leave requests for eligibility. <br />22.3.2 Once a Shared Leave request is approved, the Pefselifieffluman Resources <br />Department communicates to all County employees a description of the <br />employee's request for Shared Leave, releasing only the information <br />authorized in writing by the employee. Pefsemieffluman Resources may <br />elect to release the description first to employees in the requesting <br />employee's department before communicating the request to all County <br />employees. <br />22.3.3 Any employee's donation of Vacation Leave or Personal Leave to a <br />participant in the Shared Leave program is voluntary. Direct solicitation <br />of employees for Shared Leave donations is not permitted. <br />22.3.4 An employee who wishes to donate Vacation Leave or Personal Leave to <br />an employee requesting Shared Leave completes a "Shared Leave <br />Donation" form and submits this to the Human Resources <br />Department within the time period specified for request. (Sick Leave may <br />not be donated.) <br />22.3.5 Donations of leave must be a minimum of four hours. <br />22.3.6 Donated leave hours up to a total of 80 hours are transferred to the <br />employee receiving the Shared Leave. Once leave is donated and <br />transferred to the employee receiving the leave, it may not be returned to <br />the donating employee. <br />22.3.7 During the period an employee is using Shared Leave, the employee <br />continues to be in a leave earning capacity, be entitled to holidays, receive <br />any salary increase for which otherwise eligible, and be eligible to receive <br />benefits offered under the County's group insurance policies. <br />Article IV - Page 25 <br />