To provide a method for employees to donate their vacation leave to other employees in order to provide additional paid leave for eligible employees who have experienced a catastrophic medical condition, illness, injury or impairment and have no remaining paid leave available to them.

Snohomish County has established a shared vacation leave program enabling employees to transfer vacation leave to provide additional paid leave for an eligible employee. This program will cover catastrophic medical conditions, illnesses, injuries or impairments of the employee or the employee’s immediate family member (as defined below) after the employee has exhausted all other available leave. (Added by Amended Ord. 17-105, Dec. 20, 2017, Eff date Jan. 15, 2018).