New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 4 - DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL SERVICE › Chapter II - Attendance Rules for Employees in New York State Departments and Institutions › Article 2 - Attendance for Managerial/confidential Employees in New York State Departments and Institutions › Part 28 - Absence with Pay › Subpart 28-2 - Absence with Pay for Illness/Disability for Certain Managerial/Confidential Employees › Section 28-2.2 - Extended sick leave

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) This
					 subdivision shall apply to persons appointed prior to January 1, 1986 provided
					 they elected to participate in the State's Income Protection Plan, and to
					 persons appointed on or after January 1, 1986 with no creditable State service
					 prior to such date who were either required to participate in the State's
					 Income Protection Plan or were ineligible to participate in the State's Income
					 Protection Plan. The appointing authority may, in its discretion, upon written
					 request from an employee certified by an examining physician as benefiting from
					 the use of a service animal in performing major life activities, or who is
					 registered with the New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually
					 Handicapped as legally blind, or certified by an examining physician or
					 licensed optometrist as legally blind, as manifested by visual acuity of 20/200
					 or less in the better eye with best correction or a visual field of 20 degrees
					 or less, or who has a hearing impairment manifested by a speech discrimination
					 score of 40 percent or less in the better ear with appropriate correction as
					 certified by an examining physician or by a licensed audiologist or
					 otorhinolaryngologist, advance up to 26 days of sick leave to such employee who
					 is absent for the purpose of obtaining a guide dog or service animal and
					 required training related thereto, and who has exhausted accumulated leave
					 credits, provided the cumulative total sick leave credits charged and/or
					 advanced for this purpose does not exceed 26 days in any one calendar year.
					 Such advanced sick leave credits shall be repaid, as soon as practicable after
					 the employee's return to duty, from subsequent accumulations of time credits.
					 The outstanding unrepaid sick leave credits advanced to an employee under the
					 provisions of this subdivision shall not at any time exceed a total of 26
					 days.
(b) This section shall apply
					 only to employees appointed on or after January 1, 1986 and ineligible to
					 participate in the Income Protection Plan pursuant to the provisions of Part 78
					 of this Title (President's Regulations). The appointing authority may, in its
					 discretion, advance sick leave credits for an absence due to personal illness,
					 provided such employee has exhausted accumulated sick leave, vacation and
					 overtime credits. Such advanced sick leave credits shall be repaid, as soon as
					 practicable after the employee's return to duty, from subsequent accumulations
					 of time credits. The outstanding unrepaid sick leave credits advanced to any
					 employee under the provisions of this subdivision shall not at any time exceed
					 a total of four days.
(c) Upon
					 termination of an employee advanced sick leave pursuant to this Part, any such
					 advanced sick leave not offset by subsequent accumulations of sick leave,
					 vacation, personal leave, overtime, or other leave credits shall be deducted
					 from salary or wages due the employee.