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• the employee or family member for an extended period of time, and the taking extended time off work creates a financial hardship because all sick leave, vacation leave, compensatory time and other forms of paid time off has been depleted. A "catastrophic illness" may include, but is not limited to, heart attack, stroke, organ transplant, cancer, life threatening illness or condition, etc., and shall be determined by a physician's diagnosis and information regarding its expected duration. A death in the immediate family shall also be considered a catastrophic event and be subject to this policy. "Immediate family" is defined as the employee's spouse, domestic partner, parent, or the employee's minor children. This policy is to establish the procedure through which eligible fellow city employees may voluntarily donate a portion of their accrued to r/sick lea mpeps to a t ; balance to be used by another employee who has exhausted all forms of paid leave due to the experience of a catastrophic illness or injury. PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY: All exempt and non - exempt, bargaining unit and non -union employees, which are benefit - eligible permanent employees may participate in the Leave Donation Program as a leave donor or recipient. Requests to receive leave through the Leave Donation Program will be accepted only for individuals who are experiencing a catastrophic illness or injury, and who are within one pay period of depleting all accrued paid leave, and are expected to be absent from work for more than five (5) scheduled working days after exhausting all paid leave. Employees receiving Worker's Compensation benefits from a City related injury or illness, are not eligible to receive donations. Employees shall not be eligible to participate in the Leave Donation Program while on probationary status. To be eligible to donate leave time to another employee, the donating employee shall maintain a minimum leave balance as set forth in this policy. 2