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United States — Tennessee
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This section lets certain state officers and employees earn and use sick leave, sets conditions for maternity or paternity leave, and gives the commissioner of human resources and appointing authorities specific control and oversight powers.
United States — Tennessee
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The section credits certain state service toward leave calculations, allows some sick leave to transfer when a Tennessee teacher moves into state service, and lets a person waive that conversion by notice.
United States — Tennessee
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Eligible returning full-time state employees must be credited immediately with prior sick leave.
United States — Tennessee
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Certain Tennessee state employees and local school board teachers who leave in good standing and return as full-time state employees within six months get their prior sick leave credited immediately.
United States — Tennessee
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Adoptive parents get 12 weeks of special leave, and employees can use sick leave and annual leave for part or all of that period within certain limits.
United States — Tennessee
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Some employees must be paid for unused leave when they leave service, and gross misconduct can bar benefits.
United States — Tennessee
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An employee may name a beneficiary for certain leave payments, and the employee’s estate must be paid unused accrued sick leave after death.
United States — Tennessee
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Some state leave rules do not apply to specified school staff and university employees. Certain university boards must prepare leave policies, get them approved, and file them with the comptroller.
United States — Tennessee
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Certain state employees who volunteer as certified American Red Cross disaster service volunteers may be granted up to 15 paid work days of leave each year.
United States — Tennessee
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Employees of certain Tennessee Supreme Court-created boards, commissions, or agencies may accrue leave starting July 1, 2002, subject to state-employee leave rules.
United States — Tennessee
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This section defines terms used in the part, including employee organization, member or participant, sick leave, sick leave bank, trustees, and state employee.
United States — Tennessee
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A sick leave bank must be set up for Tennessee state employees, with one exception for earlier authorized banks, and at least 100 state employees must petition the commissioner.
United States — Tennessee
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If a sick leave bank is authorized, a board of trustees must be created within 30 days and staffed as specified.
United States — Tennessee
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The trustees must provide rules for the sick leave bank, and the board of trustees must adopt them.
United States — Tennessee
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Some state employees and school employees may join the sick leave bank if they meet the service and leave-balance conditions; the human resources commissioner must notify employees, participation is elected in August, September, or October, and members may withdraw by written notice on June 30.
United States — Tennessee
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Trustees must set sick-leave deduction and assessment amounts for the bank; participating state employees must donate at least 3 days initially, and donations cannot be refunded or transferred.
United States — Tennessee
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The sick leave bank trustees set the bank’s rules and appeal process, while the human resources division decides initial requests within 10 business days after needed documents are received.
United States — Tennessee
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A member loses the right to sick leave bank benefits if they resign, are terminated, cancel participation, refuse required trustee assessments, take approved leave (except personal illness or disability leave), or retire.
United States — Tennessee
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If a sick leave bank is dissolved, the days on deposit must be returned to participating members and credited to their personal sick leave, in proportion to what each contributed, rounded to the nearest half day.
United States — Tennessee
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Costs from a participating employee’s sick leave donation to the sick leave bank must be deducted from the employing department or agency’s budget.