§ 115D-25.3. Voluntary shared leave.
§ 115D‑25.3. Voluntary shared leave.
The State Board of Community Colleges, in cooperation with the StateBoard of Education and the State Personnel Commission, shall adopt rules andpolicies to allow any employee at a community college to share leave voluntarilywith an immediate family member who is an employee of a community college,public school, or State agency; and with a coworker's immediate family memberwho is an employee of a community college, public school, or State agency. Forthe purposes of this section, the term "immediate family member"means a spouse, parent, child, brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild. Theterm includes the step, half, and in‑law relationships. The term"coworker" means that the employee donating the leave is employed bythe same agency, department, institution, university, local schooladministrative unit, or community college as the employee whose immediatefamily member is receiving the leave. (2003‑9, s.3; 2003‑284, s. 30.14A(c).)