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2. AMEND EMPLOYEE LEAVE PLAN, SECTION V. VACATION TIME, H.7 DONATION OF VACATION TIME Approve changes to the Employee Leave Plan, Section V. Vacation Time, H.7 (Page LP-9), effective July 6, 2011, as follows: FROM: "An employee who is receiving Workers' Compensation, Short Term Disability, or Long Term Disability benefits shall not be eligible to receive donated leave." TO: "An employee who is receiving Short Term Disability, or Long Term Disability benefits shall not be eligible to receive donated leave." This change (amendment to C-31-11-017-6-00) is necessary to allow employees to receive donated leave to supplement their Workers' Compensation benefits. (C-31-11-017-6-01)

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31. ADDENDUM TO EMPLOYEE LEAVE PLAN Approve an addendum to the Maricopa County Employee Leave Plan. The changes outlined below are based on market practices and are intended to assist Human Services with the recruitment and retention of employees within its Education Division. These changes will be incorporated into the Employee Leave Plan at a later date. ADDENDUM: Full-time contract employees in the Educator Assistant, Educator, Educator Bachelor’s, and Educator Coordinator Market Range Titles (MRTs) in the Education Division of the Human Services Department may be offered the following leave and benefit options: • Up to 80 hours of vacation time. • The following additional paid breaks: o 1 paid day for the day after Thanksgiving; o 10 paid days for winter break which may or may not include the County’s Christmas Day and New Year’s Day holidays; o 5 paid days for spring break. • The County’s standard health benefits, including employer-paid premiums, during the summer months when these employees aren’t in a paid status as long as the employees meet the same eligibility requirements of regular employees and pay the applicable employee premiums for the unpaid time period. The applicable employee premiums can be paid in a lump sum at the beginning of the summer or the employee can continue to pay them directly to the County every 2 weeks by personal check. Employees whose applicable premiums aren’t paid while in an unpaid status will not be eligible for County benefits during that time period. In order for employees to be eligible for the additional paid breaks identified above, they must be in a paid status for their entire scheduled day before and their entire scheduled day after the applicable paid break. An employee who is on an unpaid leave of absence of any duration on his/her scheduled work days prior to or after a paid break shall not receive paid break time. (C-31-11-017-6-02)

Vote — approved

and Clint Hickman	yes
and Steve Chucri	yes

1.CHANGES TO EMPLOYEE LEAVE POLICY (HR2415)Approve changes which include: altered language to reflect changes in the County’s Family and Medical Leave Act Policy (HR2413) that refers to measuring FMLA leave “rolling forward”; updated language relating to Head Start employees that is consistent with language in new Head Start contracts; deleted language relating to Head Start employees receiving paid time off on the day after Thanksgiving since this is already covered by the Holiday Pay provision

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1. CHANGES TO EMPLOYEE LEAVE POLICY (HR2415) Approve changes which include: altered language to reflect changes in the County’s Family and Medical Leave Act Policy (HR2413) that refers to measuring FMLA leave “rolling forward”; updated language relating to Head Start employees that is consistent with language in new Head Start contracts; deleted language relating to Head Start employees receiving paid time off on the day after Thanksgiving since this is already covered by the Holiday Pay provision; changed the language relating to waiting periods for receiving Short Term Disability benefits. (C-31-11-017-6-04)

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A-3. AMENDMENT TO POLICY HR2415, EMPLOYEE LEAVE POLICY Approve amendment to policy HR2415, Employee Leave Policy. Section H of the policy was revised so that employees are no longer required to be eligible for Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave before accepting donated leave. Furthermore clarification was made so that it's clear that contract employees can receive donated leave. (C-31-11-017-6-05)