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Employee
Leave and Organ Donation Program
Making
The Gift-of-Life A Reality |
Click
here for the AST Employee Leave & Organ Donation Status
Report
of Institutions with Paid Leave Policies for Live Donors.
Reimbursement of Travel and Subsistence Expenses toward Living Organ Donation
The
AST has launched this exciting program that we anticipate
may have a significant impact upon the number of live organ
donations. This program removes the financial disincentives
connected with organ donation - providing organ donors with
the ability to conduct this unselfish act, without incurring
any financial hardship.
We
need your help to make giving the gift of life a reality.
On
September 27, 1999, the Federal Government changed its "employee
leave" laws to provide its workforce with more adequate
time to recuperate from the organ donation process. In addition,
many state governments also have acted to amend their leave
policies for employees seeking to serve as organ donors.
We
are calling upon AST members and others to help us by presenting
the human resources professional in your institution with
this program proposal. Our goal is to enlist every member
institution in the program, thereby providing extended leave
for donation to the thousands of people employed by those
institutions.
There
are a number of tools below for your use when meeting with
your human resources professional and obtaining their participation
in the program.
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