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Orange County <br />Board of Commissioners <br />Action Agenda Item Abstract <br />Meeting Date: December 7, 1999 <br />1 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />Subject: Personnel Ordinance Revision -Shared Leave <br />Department: Personnel <br />Attachment(s): <br />Draft Revision Orange County <br />Personnel Ordinance -Article IV, <br />Shared Leave <br />Public Hearing: Yes No X <br />Budget Amendment <br />Needed: Yes No X <br />Information Contact: <br />Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director <br />Extension 2550 <br />Telephone Number: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />.Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane <br />227-2031. <br />Purpose: To consider updating the County's Shared Leave policy effective January 1, <br />2000 to take account of the addition of Personal Leave Days and of feedback from the <br />County's Employee Relations Consortium. <br />Background: The. attached draft Personnel Ordinance revision takes account of the <br />addition of Personal Leave Days and feedback from the County's Employee Relations <br />Consortium. <br />Personal Leave Days <br />Effective July 1, 1999 the Board adopted a policy providing for Personal Leave Days for <br />County employees. In that policy the Board provided that an employee who wishes to <br />donate Personal Leave Days to an employee. requesting Shared Leave may do so under <br />the Shared Leave policy. The attached draft Personnel Ordinance revision updates the <br />Shared Leave policy to take account of the addition of Personal Leave Days. <br />Employee Relations Consortium Feedback <br />During the past year, the County's Employee Relations Consortium has reviewed and <br />discussed the Shared Leave policy to consider any needed changes following the first <br />years of implementation of this program. As a result of this review and discussion, the <br />Employee Relations Consortium has recommended that the use of the policy be extended <br />to cover the instance of an employee who needs time off from work to care for a member of <br />the employee's immediate family (spouse, parent, or child) who has a serious health <br />condition. The attached draft Personnel Ordinance revision makes this change in Item 22.2 <br />"Eligibility." <br />