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4.6 Employee Assistance Program

  1. The State recognizes that life circumstances may adversely affect job performance. As a means of supporting employees, the State may offer voluntary, confidential referral services such as alcohol use and misuse, drug use and misuse, marital and family issues, emotional, personal, and stress concerns, financial, legal or other problems. 
  2. Each department head or designee shall designate an Employee Assistance Program Coordinator who shall arrange for programs to implement this section. The employee voluntarily participating in services may do so through the use of approved accrued sick leave, compensating time off credits and vacation leave credits for such a purpose. Leaves of absence without pay may be granted by the department head or designee if all sick leave, vacation and compensating time off have been exhausted and the employee is not eligible to use Industrial Disability Leave or Non-Industrial Disability Insurance.
  3. Medical records concerning an employee’s treatment for alcoholism, drug or stress-related problems shall remain confidential and shall remain separate from other personnel materials.