A Borough employee shall be eligible to receive
donated sick or vacation leave from a fellow employee if the employee:
A. Has completed at least one year of continuous service
with the Borough;
B. Has exhausted all accrued sick, vacation and administrative
leave, all sick leave injury benefits, if any, and all compensatory
time off;
C. Has not, in the two-year period immediately preceding
the employee's need for donated leave, been disciplined for chronic
or excessive absenteeism, chronic or excessive lateness or abuse of
leave; and
D. Has:
(1) Suffered from a catastrophic health condition or injury;
(2) Is needed to provide care to a member of the employee's
immediate family who is suffering from a catastrophic health condition
or injury; or
(3) Requires absence from work due to the donation of
an organ (which shall include, for example, the donation of bone marrow).
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH CONDITION OR INJURY
A.
Either:
(1)
A life-threatening condition or combination
of conditions; or
(2)
A period of disability required by his or her
mental or physical health or the health of the employee's fetus which
requires the care of a physician who provides a medical verification
of the need for the employee's absence from work for 60 or more work
days.
B.
With respect to an employee's immediate family
member, either:
(1)
A life threatening condition or combination
of conditions; or
(2)
A period of disability required by his or her
mental or physical health which requires the care of a physician who
provides a medical verification of the need for the family's member's
care by the employee for 60 or more work days.
Borough employees shall be prohibited from threatening
or coercing or attempting to threaten or coerce other employees for
the purpose of interfering with rights involving donating, receiving
or using donated leave time. Such prohibited acts shall include, but
not be limited to, promising to confer or conferring a benefit such
as an appointment or promotion or making a threat to engage in, or
engaging in, an act of retaliation against an employee.