3.4 CEOs may establish appeal procedures for sick leave pool allocation decisions for their System component. An employee requesting sick leave pool hours due to a catastrophic illness or injury is not eligible for pool hours until the employee or family member has been under a licensed practitioner's care and the employee has been absent from work for a minimum of 160-hours. If an eligible employee suffers a catastrophic illness or injury as defined in Section 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, the employee may request hours from the sick leave pool under the following circumstances. Once the requirement is satisfied, the employee may receive hours from the pool. Once the eligible employee has satisfied the 160-hour requirement and all vacation, compensatory time and sick leave is exhausted, the employee may receive hours from the pool.
State law prohibits the retroactive granting of sick leave or sick leave pool hours.
4.4 All System restrictions on permissible uses of sick leave apply to the use of sick leave pool hours. In no case may sick leave pool hours be used in conjunction with a Workers' Compensation claim. To contribute sick leave time to the pool, an employee must submit a form to the employee's System component Pool Administrator in accordance with prescribed procedures. Sick leave pool forms may be obtained from the component human resources office. An employee may not donate sick leave time for use by a specific individual.