Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:443 – A. Any full-time employee of an employing agency may request voluntarily, in writing, that a specified number of hours of his accrued annual, sick, or compensatory leave or any combi
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:443
- Employing agency: means the agency of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government in which the leave recipient is employed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:441
- Leave recipient: means a full-time employee of an employing agency who has a need to receive annual, sick, or compensatory leave from the pool leave account of his employing agency and who meets one of the following qualifying circumstances:
(a) The employee experiences a catastrophic illness or serious injury that prevents the employee from performing his duties for a period of more than ten consecutive days that the employee is scheduled to work, and the employee does not have sufficient annual, sick, or compensatory leave credited to the employee personally to cover the entire period of illness or injury. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:441
A. Any full-time employee of an employing agency may request voluntarily, in writing, that a specified number of hours of his accrued annual, sick, or compensatory leave or any combination thereof be transferred from his annual, sick, or compensatory leave account to a pool account the agency establishes to distribute leave pursuant to the provisions of this Part.
B. No employee with less than fifteen days in his personal sick leave account may transfer any leave to the pool account. Any employee with more than fifteen days in his sick leave account may transfer sick leave to the pool account provided he retains a minimum of fifteen days in his own sick leave account.
C. Annual, sick, or compensatory leave transferred under this Part may be substituted retroactively for periods of leave without pay or used to liquidate an indebtedness for advanced annual, sick, or compensatory leave granted.
D. A leave recipient may use annual, sick, or compensatory leave from the pool account in the same manner as if the recipient had accrued the leave in the manner provided by law, rule, regulation, or policy.
E. Participating employees shall not be eligible to use transferred leave from the pool account until all personally accrued annual, sick, and compensatory leave has been used.
F. Transferred annual, sick, or compensatory leave from the pool account remaining to the credit of a leave recipient when his employment terminates shall not be transferred to another employee, included in a lump-sum payment for accrued leave, or included in the total service for retirement computation.
Acts 1992, No. 1008, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1993; Acts 2012, No. 590, §1, eff. June 7, 2012; Acts 2022, No. 649, §1.