Here is Butler County's leave donation provision about which you inquired (l) Pursuant to Section 124.391 of the Revised Code, the Board of County Commissioners has authorized Butler County appointing authorities to adopt programs allowing the voluntary donation of vacation leave to employees who have exhausted all sick leave and other paid leave as a result of a life-threatening injury or illness of an employee or a member of the employee=s immediate family. The Board of County Commissioners has adopted this program effective September 1, 1999, for its employees, and employees of other appointing authorities may participate in this program thereafter if approved by that appointing authority and the Board of County Commissioners. All such programs are subject to the following provisions: (1) Before an employee is eligible to receive donated vacation leave, the employee must have been absent for a period equal to at least thirty consecutive calendar days and have exhausted all paid sick leave, vacation leave, compensatory time off, or other available, paid leave. (2) The employee=s absence must result from a life-threatening injury to the employee or a member of the employee=s immediate family, as determined by the appointing authority or a designee. The appointing authority=s determination as to whether or not an injury or illness is Alife-threatening@ within the meaning of this policy is in the employer=s sole discretion and is final, and this determination is not subject to appeal under the complaint procedure or any other grievance procedure. (3) The decision of individual employees whether or not to donate vacation leave to another employee must be free and voluntary, and no official, supervisor, or employee shall pressure or coerce any employee, directly or indirectly, to donate leave to another employee. Any violation of this subsection shall be considered grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including discharge. (4) Employees may only donate vacation leave to employees who are employed by the same appointing authority. No employee shall donate more than forty (40) hours of vacation leave to other employees in any one calendar year. No employee shall be eligible to receive more than four hundred eighty (480) hours of donated vacation leave during the course of that employee=s service with Butler County. (5) The employee donating the vacation leave must provide written notice of the donation to the appointing authority at least seven (7) calendar days in advance of its use by the transferee employee, and such notice shall include both the identity of the employee to whom the leave is donated and a statement that the employee donating the leave is forever waiving his or her claim to such vacation leave. Upon receipt of the notice, the appointing authority shall credit the vacation leave balance of the transferee employee with the donated time. The employee receiving the donation may not use the leave to cover any absence prior to seven (7) days after the receipt of this notice. (6) This policy only applies to non-bargaining unit employees, unless the program has been incorporated into the applicable collective bargaining agreement. (7) For employees of offices and agencies under the jurisdiction of the Board of County Commissioners, donation of vacation leave is permitted between employees only within the following departments or groups of departments: (i) The Administrator and Clerk of the Board and employees under their immediate supervision, the Finance Director, the Mail Room, the Personnel Department, the Safety Director, the Records Center, the Department of Development, and the Maintenance Department. (ii) The Department of Environmental Services. (iii) The Child Support Enforcement Agency (CSEA). (iv) The Department of Job and Family Services. (v) The Dog Warden=s Office. (vi) The Butler County Care Facility. (vii) The Area Courts. Gary Sheets Asst. Admin./HR Director/ Board Counsel Butler County Commissioners 315 High Street, Suite 630 Hamilton, Ohio 45011 (P) 513-785-5336 (F) 513-785-5339

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"Betty Schroeder" <betty.schroeder@putnamcountyohio.gov> 05/08/2014 2:39 PM >>>

We are interested in looking at an employee leave donation policy….If any county has one we would be interested in reviewing and perhaps updating our current policy. Thank you, Betty Schroeder, clerk Putnam County Commissioners 245 E. Main Street, Suite 101 Ottawa, Ohio 45875

Washington County is attached. Darla On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Betty Schroeder < betty.schroeder@putnamcountyohio.gov> wrote:

We are interested in looking at an employee leave donation policy….If any county has one we would be interested in reviewing and perhaps updating our current policy.

Thank you, Betty Schroeder, clerk

Putnam County Commissioners

245 E. Main Street, Suite 101

Ottawa, Ohio 45875

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