Get Catastrophic Leave Donation Policy

A catastrophic illness or injury is defined as an illness or injury that is serious and expected to incapacitate the employee or a member of the employee's family or household, and which creates a financial hardship because the employee has exhausted all eligible leave credits.

Catastrophic Leave permits salary and benefit continuation for employees who have exhausted all paid leave because of their own serious injury or illness, the need to care for a seriously injured or ill family member, or they reside in a county where the Governor has declared a state of emergency because of a natural ...

The Catastrophe Loss Index (CLI), is an index used in the insurance industry to quantify the magnitude of insurance claims expected from major disasters. They are created by third-party firms that research natural disasters and work to provide estimates of the amount of losses from each catastrophe.

Overview. The Catastrophic Leave Program allows the continuation of salary and benefits for an eligible employee who has a catastrophic need and has exhausted all paid leave.

The Catastrophic Leave program allows employees who have exhausted their leave credits and must miss work due to a prolonged illness or injury (including that of an eligible family member), or due to a natural disaster, to request catastrophic leave.

Rather, the donated leave is taxable to the employee who receives the leave. Also, the donor employees may not claim a tax deduction or charitable contribution for any of the leave that they donate under one of these programs.

§ 42933. (a) Only vacation and sick leave credits may be donated in increments of one hour or more. For catastrophic illness or injury, employees may donate a maximum of forty (40) hours of accrued leave credits per fiscal calendar year in increments of one hour or more.