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Professional Staff Association sick leave enrollment to begin March 1
By Kim Goodin : March 1st, 2010Open enrollment for the Professional Staff Association’s Sick Leave Bank will take place from Monday, March 1, through Wednesday, March 31.
The bank is a voluntary program open to Professional Staff Association (PSA) members on Health Science and Main campuses. According to Deborah Sobczak, chair of the Sick Leave Bank Committee, this is the first year eligible employees from Health Science Campus may participate.
Eligible employees are defined in PSA bylaws as “all non-bargaining unit employees on all campuses whether salary or hourly, classified or unclassified, full or part time, excluding those with faculty rank.”
The bank collects one-time, voluntary donations of sick time from PSA personnel to assist those who may be stricken with catastrophic injury or illness.
“It’s a way to help our colleagues bridge a gap of time that can take place between the exhaustion of their benefits from sick, personal and vacation days and when they qualify for long-term, permanent disability benefits,” Sobczak explained. “The bank is used only for Sick Leave Bank members with personal catastrophic illness or injury.”
She said full-time PSA members may donate 16 hours and part-time members may donate eight hours of personal sick time to the bank, which is administered by Human Resources. Participants donate the time only once, no matter how long they continue their employment at UT.
Since 1998, Sobczak said 10 employees have benefited from the program.
“For those 10 people, the bank may have been a lifesaver,” Sobczak said.
To enroll, click here and click on the “PSA Sick Bank enrollment” text. Return completed form to PSA Sick Leave Bank, care of Sobczak, MS 608, by March 31.
Additional details, including a link to the sick leave policy, are available on the PSA Web page here.
