Good afternoon York Colleagues
Eligibility Criteria for the Program:
The Catastrophic Sick Leave Bank (CSLB) enables eligible employees with five (5) or more years of full-time continuous CUNY service to donate annual leave and/or sick leave to the CSLB Program, provided that the employee maintains a sick leave balance of at least twenty–four (24) days. Moreover, eligible employees with fewer than five (5) years of service are entitled to donate annual leave each Program Year.
Benefits for those who donate:
Donating time to the Catastrophic Sick Leave Bank each Program Year allows an eligible employee to receive up to 90 days from the Bank in any Program Year should the employee be on unpaid status due to a catastrophic illness (as defined in policy). An employee must be in a full-time title employed on an annual salary basis and have at least two (2) years of continuous full-time service with the University to be eligible to receive leave from the CSLB. Those employed in substitute titles with no underlying regular annual appointment are not eligible to receive donated leave.
Open Enrollment Period:
There will be an open enrollment period for employees to elect to participate by donating time to the Bank or changing their election to the Catastrophic Sick Leave Bank. The open enrollment period will run from November 1, 2024, through November 30, 2024. Days donated to the CSLB must be deducted from the employee’s time and leave record immediately following the enrollment period. As a reminder, those who enrolled last year should continue to have their days deducted in November unless the employee elects to withdraw from the Program or is no longer eligible to participate.
As the last week of November is also the Thanksgiving holiday and a short work week, we encourage all employees to make changes, submit forms and make inquiries about all open enrollment activities by Friday, November 22.
For more information about CSLB and for the application/change forms, please visit the CUNY website here.
Thank you,
Office of Human Resources
York College/CUNY