Ohio Code 124.139 – Organ donor leave
(A) A full-time state employee shall receive up to two hundred forty hours of leave with pay during each calendar year to use during those hours when the employee is absent from work because of the employee’s donation of any portion of an adult liver or because of the employee’s donation of an adult kidney.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 124.139
- Appointing authority: means the officer, commission, board, or body having the power of appointment to, or removal from, positions in any office, department, commission, board, or institution. See Ohio Code 124.01
- Employee: means any person holding a position subject to appointment, removal, promotion, or reduction by an appointing officer. See Ohio Code 124.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) A full-time state employee shall receive up to fifty-six hours of leave with pay during each calendar year to use during those hours when the employee is absent from work because of the employee’s donation of adult bone marrow.
(C) An appointing authority shall compensate a full-time state employee who uses leave granted under division (A) or (B) of this section at the employee’s regular rate of pay for those regular work hours during which the employee is absent from work.
(D)(1) The director of administrative services, under section 124.04 of the Revised Code, shall provide information about this section to full-time employees who are paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management.
(2) The appointing authority of full-time employees who are not paid directly by warrant of the director of budget and management shall periodically provide information about this section to those employees.