Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 42 > Chapter 8 > Part V - State Employee Leave Transfer Program

• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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