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4 <br />22.2.3 An employee requesting leave through the Shared Leave program must <br />first exhaust all earned, unused Sick, a~ 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 Shazed 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 Personnel Department a letter requesting <br />participation in the Shared Leave program and a .physician's statement <br />.documenting the need for leave. Personnel reviews l~uests-fey Shared <br />Leave requests for eligibility. <br />.22.3.2 Once a Shared Leave request is approved, the Personnel Department <br />communicates to all County employees a description of the employee's <br />request for Shazed Leave, releasing only the information authorized in <br />writing by the employee. eke Personnel l~~ec~ may elect to release the <br />description first to employees in the requesting employee's department <br />before communicating the request to all County employees. <br />22.3.3 Any employee's donation of Vacation Leave or Personal Leave to a <br />participant. in the Shazed Leave program is voluntary. Direct solicitation <br />of employees for Shazed 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 Personnel Department within the <br />time period specified for request. (Sick Leave may not be donated.) <br />22.3.5 Donations of leave must be a minimum of four hours. <br />22.3.6 Donated ~a~s~ie~-bleave hours up to a total of 80 hours are transferred es <br />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 />