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The document outlines the Sick Leave Pool Program established by the Health Science Center to provide additional sick leave for employees facing catastrophic illnesses or injuries. It details eligibility criteria, definitions of key terms, procedures for contributing and withdrawing sick leave hours, and provisions regarding the use of sick leave pool hours in conjunction with FMLA and workers' compensation. The program aims to support employees who exhaust their paid sick leave due to severe medical conditions.

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How does a sick leave pool work?

The purpose of the Sick Leave Pool is to establish an equitable way of allowing employees to share their accumulated sick leave with others in need of additional sick leave until the employee is eligible for the Colleges short-term and long-term disability programs.

What is the most common sick leave policy?

The most common is that employees earn a specific amount of time for every hour, week, or month on the job. For these employees, their sick time is generally calculated per pay period. One common calculation is a half-day earned for every month of paid work. This usually amounts to 6 or 7 paid sick days per year.

What is the paid time off pool?

PTO, which stands for paid time off, is a benefit some employers offer that lets employees take time off work while still getting paid. It combines different types of leave, like vacation, sick, and personal leave, into a single pool of time.

What is the sick leave pool in Texas?

A sick leave pool is established to allow eligible state employees to use time contributed to the sick leave pool if the employee has exhausted the employees sick leave because of a catastrophic illness or injury or a previous donation of time to the pool.

What is the sick leave pool policy?

The purpose of a sick leave pool is to allow general government state employees, within an agency, to pool sick leave to be used by participating employees who have a personal illness, accident, or injury. Participation in a sick leave pool must, at all times, be voluntary on the part of the employee.

Does UT have paid sick leave?

Eligibility. You accrue paid sick time off if you are appointed to work at least 20 hours per week for at least 4.5 months. Students who are in positions where student status is a requirement do not earn sick time off. For more information, please see the universitys Handbook of Operating Procedures.

What is the catastrophic sick leave pool?

The Sick Leve Pool program provides a source of additional paid leave to an employee when a catastrophic illness or injury causes an employee to exhaust all earned leave time and go into a non- pay status.

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