Examples of companies offering sick leave donation programs?
Just as a followup for anybody who might still be reading this thread — our Board voted last month to adopt the policy that I drafted. The examples in this thread were very helpful in making it clear that the practice is wider than just educational and non-profits. Thanks to all for their responses; I hope we never have to use the policy but it’s there if we do.
I work for Accenture, a huge global consulting firm, and my company allows “eligible employees to donate and/or receive donations of accrued paid time off for critical personal situations and family medical emergencies.” You can find out more about our general PTO structure here, but unfortunately it doesn’t mention the donation option. I do have an intranet site that tells me a good deal more about the internal process for donations, but I’m not going to copy paste that info here. Email me (in profile) if you’d like to get more details on the process. I know they used this as a selling point when recruiting me so I don’t exactly consider it proprietary info that I can’t give you a little insight on. Its really a great idea – I had a lot of extra PTO I wasn’t going to get to use last year and was able to give some to an analyst in
Whole Foods Market does this. In a way… They don’t give vacation/sick days per se, but instead give “benefit hours” which accumulate at a rate dictated by how long you have been working there. I don’t know the mechanism exactly (I don’t work there, but know someone who does), but they can absolutely donate their hours to other employees.
