(a) An employer may provide an annual reoccurring lump-sum of sick leave instead of yearly accrual by assigning the minimum number of annual sick time hours required under AS 23.10.066 to an employee and making those hours available without regard to an accrual rate
(1) as soon as the employee becomes eligible to use sick time; and
(2) on the first day of each subsequent year the employee is employed by the employer.
(b) An employer who front-loads sick leave under this section is not required to carry over sick leave to the following year. An employer may prorate the amount of annual sick leave assigned to an employee employed less than a year.
(c) If an employer front-loads sick time, the employer shall assign to a full-time employee the minimum amount of annual sick leave authorized under AS 23.10.066 and to a regular part-time employee not less than the calculated amount of sick leave that the employee would accrue in a year based on the employee's normally scheduled hours. An employer may assign to an irregular part-time employee an amount of sick time based on the employee's average past hours worked.
(d) Nothing in this section authorizes an employer to assign to an employee less than the amount of sick leave the employee would accrue under AS 23.10.066. An employer shall increase the assigned sick leave of a part-time employee who would be entitled to accrue more sick leave than the employer assigns to them, based on the number of hours the employee actually works in a year.