Employees donating leave time to another employee

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Someone from RI posted the following but it didn't appear on the forum. I apologize for the inconvenience!

I am looking for a policy or some advise to allow employees to donate some of their vacation/sick hours to another employee who is out due to an unplanned illness. My concerns are is their any employer liability. We would send out an e-mail or memo to any employee who falls into this criteria, but is there any other liability I am not thinking of. One question, is does the employer need to get permission first from the ill employee? Thank you in advance for any assistance.

Leslie

I can share ours with your if I get an email address

scraft

Thanks,

You can reach me at [email]scraft@purvis.com[/email]

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Thanks to Leslie for supplying a sample policy on donating leave time! Leslie has also agreed to post the sample policy on HRhero.com for everyone's benefit.

Here's a link:
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/policies/policyindex.shtml[/url]

Do you have an employment policy you'd like to contribute? Go to the link above for instructions.

Christy Reeder
Website Managing Editor

Douglas Neu RI

In reviewing the posted policy, I agree that it's not a good idea to have sick leave allowed to be donated, as doing so would open the door to the expectation that sick leave is a monetary benefit that can be traded. If sick leave is a monetary benefit, then employees may start wondering why they are not paid for accrued sick leave upon separation.

Thanks for posting the policy, Leslie.

Douglas B. Neu
Editor, Rhode Island Employment Law Letter
Powers, Kinder & Keeney, Inc.
Providence, RI
[email]dneu@pkklaw.com[/email]
(401)454-2000

Jolene

I added a copy of our policy to the web site as well, hope it is useful. I would agree to not allowing sick leave for donations. However, we (employer - higher education) do allow our faculty members to donate a max on 1 sick day per year because they do not accure vacation.