Prior to creating a sick leave pool, an agency that decides to participate in the sick leave pool program must appoint an administrator for each sick leave pool and develop a written policy which at a minimum addresses:

1. (1) Eligibility requirements for employees who wish to participate;
2. (2) Enrollment process including when open enrollment will occur;
3. (3) Amount of sick leave an employee must initially contribute to become a participant;
4. (4) Amount of sick leave a participating employee must contribute when a pool becomes depleted;
5. (5) When a pool will be considered to be "depleted";
6. (6) What happens when a participating employee does not have enough leave to contribute to the pool;
7. (7) The process and criteria that will be used when a sick leave pool participant needs to withdraw sick leave from the pool;
8. (8) What happens when there is not enough leave in a pool to cover pool participants' requests to withdraw leave;
9. (9) The manner in which alleged abuse of the sick leave pool will be investigated and what actions will be taken if it has been determined that abuse has occurred;
10. (10) The manner in which employees can request an internal review of a finding of wrongdoing under subsection (9) of this section;
11. (11) Transferring of sick leave credits when a pool participant moves from one pool to another pool; and
12. (12) What happens to leave credits that are in a pool if the pool is disbanded.

[Statutory Authority: Chapter 41.06 RCW. WSR 07-11-095, § 357-31-575, filed 5/16/07, effective 7/1/07.]