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Committee hears support for paid leave for living organ and bone marrow donors; staff to estimate costs
Summary
Speakers, including UCHealth and the vice mayor, backed Proposal 1 from a city HR report that would provide up to 240 hours for organ donation and 56 hours for bone marrow donation; the committee asked staff to estimate the fiscal impact and filed the report.
Scotty Johnson, chair of the Public Safety and Governance Committee, and Vice Mayor Jan Michelle Kearney discussed a city human-resources report on paid leave for employees who are living organ or bone marrow donors.
Corey King, executive director of transplant at UCHealth, told the committee, “Proposal 1, outlined in this report, offers the most robust benefit providing up to 240 hours of paid leave [for] organ donation and 56 hours of bone marrow donation.” King said the level of leave “aligns with federal and state standards” and praised the…
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