Sick Leave Pool

The University of Texas at Tyler (UT Tyler) has established a sick leave pool to provide a source of additional paid sick leave for employees who have exhausted available sick, vacation, and compensatory time as a result of a catastrophic illness or injury. Sick leave pool benefits are made available through voluntary donations of sick leave hours from current and retiring employees.

Eligibility

Employees may qualify for pool hours if:

• the employee or family member has been under a licensed practitioner's care and the illness/injury has resulted in the employee's being absent from work for a minimum of 80 hours (hours missed do not need to be consecutive for pool purposes);
• eligible sick, vacation, and/or compensatory time has been exhausted; and
• all other applicable UT Tyler policies and procedures are followed, including HOP 6.29 Sick Leave Pool and 6.28 Sick Leave.

*To withdrawal hours from the Sick Leave Pool, please contact us at 903.566.7234 or email us at hr.leaves@uttyler.edu. 

Pool Donations

Employees may donate to the pool during employment or at the time of separation. Donations made during employment must be in one-day increments; a separating or retiring employee may designate any number of unused accruals for donation to the pool.

Human Resources thanks those employees who choose to donate available sick leave hours to the pool. Such generosity enables other employees to receive this benefit where unfortunate circumstances have caused them to exhaust their available paid leave.

Sick Leave Pool Form

Sick Leave Pool Donations – The donation form is used by employees to donate unused sick leave hours to the sick leave pool. All donations to the pool are voluntary; employees may choose to donate hours during his/her employment or may choose to donate at the time of termination or retirement. This form should be used as part of the exit process.

Resources

• UT Tyler HOP 6.29 Sick Leave Pool
• Donating Sick Leave to Another Employee