Effective August 23, 2021, NC State has extended the COVID-19 voluntary shared leave program. Hours that employees have donated to NC State’s COVID-19 Voluntary Shared Leave Bank will be used for future request in 2021. The program allows leave-earning NC State employees to donate leave time to other leave-earning employees who have exhausted their accrued leave (both current and future).
Shared leave is only available to request for the following reasons:
- Donations to, and receipt of leave from, this leave bank are available only from and to employees within the institution; exchanges with employees at other institutions/agencies are not permitted.
- The leave bank program is available for absences only if the recipient employee cannot report to work on-site or telework because the employee:
- must provide child care because a school or child care facility remains closed, or the school has required or has allowed remote learning for the family, due to COVID-19;
- must provide elder care because an elder care facility is closed due to COVID-19;
- has been in close contact with a COVID-19 positive person in the last 14 days;
- received instructions to isolate or quarantine by a health department or health care providers;
- has COVID-19 symptoms and seeking medical diagnosis or has been diagnosed with COVID-19;
- Employees must have exhausted all COVID-19 paid administrative leave, accrued personal leave, and paid time off prior to participating in the leave bank program, and newly accrued leave must be used prior to any additional shared leave.