In 2019 David Green, a high school football coach in Huntsville, Alabama, learned that his baby daughter had cancer. His colleagues donated more than 100 of their own sick days so that he could be with her during chemotherapy. One teacher, who had cancer herself, gave two. “If I had more to give, I would give him more.”
The federal government has a formal version. Under its Voluntary Leave Transfer Program, employees give annual leave to another employee with a personal or family medical emergency who has used up their own.