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Civil Service Law allows all employees to take up to four hours of paid leave annually for screening for prostate cancer. Prostate cancer screening includes physical exams and blood work for the detection of prostate cancer. Reasonable travel time is included in the four-hour cap.

All employees are similarly entitled to take up to four hours of paid leave annually for breast cancer screening. Breast cancer screening includes mammograms and physical exams for the detection of breast cancer.

Employees who undergo screenings outside their regular work schedules do so on their own time. Official medical documentation verifying the screening may be required. These leaves are not cumulative and expire on the last day of the calendar year. Please direct questions about these paid leaves to the Payroll Office at 878-4124 or toEmmanuel J. Hillery, associate director of human resource management, 878-4822.