Pamina, At Cornell, all leave is covered in our general "Time Away From Work" policy. So we don't have a catastrophic leave policy, per se. Accrual of time off is in one of two categories, either "vacation" or "health and personal." Catastrophic leave would routinely be taken from the latter of these two.
We separate the concept of "catastrophic leave" only in regards to a "time donation policy," whose policy statement I have pasted below. The full policy is available at https://www.dfa.cornell.edu/tools-library/policies/catastrophic-leave-donation. "Cornell University provides catastrophic leave donation to assist eligible staff members who have experienced a catastrophic, health-related event and have exhausted all accruals, with the exception of up to five days of vacation, which he/she may elect to save. When they have determined that the eligibility requirements for Catastrophic Leave Donation have been met, colleges and units have the flexibility to administer leave donation cases using their established procedures." I hope this helps. Joshua Joshua Adams, Director University Policy Office and DFA Communications Cornell University 341 Pine Tree Road Ithaca, NY 14850 p: 607.255.8279 f: 607.254.1555 w: www.policy.cornell.edu<http://www.policy.cornell.edu/> ? Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pamina Deutsch Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 6:05 PM To: ACUPA-L <[email protected]> Subject: [acupa-l] Catastrophic Leave Policies Hi, We are revising our catastrophic leave policy<https://policy.unm.edu/university-policies/3000/3430.html>. Under the current policy, catastrophic leave is not granted for periods of less than three consecutive days, due to the difficulty of tracking such leave and the burden to the Payroll Department. However, we can see the benefit of providing such leave for employees who, for example, need to take off a few days for receiving and recovering from chemo therapy treatments. We would be interested in knowing if other colleges and universities have catastrophic leave policies that allow for intermittent leave or leave for periods of less than three days. Thanks, Pamina ___________________________________________ [cid:[email protected]] Pamina M. Deutsch University Policy and Administrative Planning Director UNM Policy Office, 114B Scholes Hall MSC05 3357 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Tel. 505.277-2069 Web. http://policy.unm.edu<http://policy.unm.edu/> Replying to Messages: Replying (using Reply) to an ACUPA-L e-mail will distribute your message to the ENTIRE list of members. To send a message privately, reply directly to the individual who sent the message (their e-mail address appears in the "From" line of their original e-mail). To Unsubscribe: Go to http://www.acupa.org/MembershipForm_Discontinue.html and complete the form. We will remove you from the list within 24 hours, during normal business hours. Questions about the ACUPA e-list? Contact Jamie Parris at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?subject=ACUPA%20e-list%20assistance> or 607-255-6837.
