{"id":2101,"date":"2011-10-13T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2011-10-13T08:19:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:19:52","slug":"would-you-donate-your-sick-days-to-a-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/13\/would-you-donate-your-sick-days-to-a-colleague\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Donate Your Sick Days to a Colleague?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2102\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Rep. Gayle Harrell, R-Stuart, has introduced a bill allowing teachers to donate sick leave to colleagues.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/RepGayleHarrell.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2102\" title=\"RepGayleHarrell\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/RepGayleHarrell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">The Florida House of Representatives<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Gayle Harrell, R-Stuart, has introduced a bill allowing teachers to donate sick leave to colleagues.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If a cancer-stricken colleague has burned all of his or her sick leave, would you want to donate yours to help them out?<\/p>\n<p>A Florida lawmakers has introduced a bill allowing just that.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Republican Rep. Gayle Harrell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2011\/oct\/12\/state-rep-harrells-proposal-would-let-school-to\/?partner=RSS\">told TCPalm.com<\/a> that the bill was inspired by Karen Gangi, a Martin County elementary teacher who used all her time off helping her husband recover from a brain injury in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the law only allows teachers who are related and work in the same district to directly donate leave time. Teachers can donate time to &#8220;leave banks&#8221; but can&#8217;t specify which teachers get to use the time.<\/p>\n<p>Harrell&#8217;s bill would not require districts to set up the leave program.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the idea? Do you know colleagues who could benefit? Should lawmakers approve the bill?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a cancer-stricken colleague has burned all of his or her sick leave, would you want to donate yours to help them out? A Florida lawmakers has introduced a bill allowing just that. Stuart Republican Rep. Gayle Harrell told TCPalm.com that the bill was inspired by Karen Gangi, a Martin County elementary teacher who used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1084,1028],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}