How Mentoring Helps
Studies provide data reflecting the powerful impact of a caring adult, in addition to one's parents, on a young person's life. Research shows that youth involved in mentoring activities were significantly more likely to develop attitudes and habits that help ensure success.
Mentoring leave is paid leave time, which may only be used by an employee to mentor. This leave does not count as time worked for purposes of overtime. Mentoring leave may not be used for travel to and from the mentoring location.
An employee must use an equal number of hours of his/her personal time (annual leave, vacation, personal leave, personal holiday, or CTO during the workday, and/or personal time during non-working hours) prior to requesting mentoring leave. For example, if an employee requested two hours of mentor leave, he/she must have used two verified hours of his/her personal time prior to receiving approval for the mentoring leave. Mentoring leave does not have to be requested in the same week or month as the personal time used. It does, however, have to be requested and used before the end of the calendar year.