Common use of Release for Compelling Personal Circumstances Clause in Contracts

Release for Compelling Personal Circumstances. 1. The Member has the primary responsibility for demonstrating that compelling personal circumstances prevent them from completing the term of service. The Member should submit a written request for release from service for compelling personal circumstances, along with any required documentation on or before the exit date. In the event that it takes extra time to obtain the medical documentation, WSC will accept that documentation up to 25 calendar days from the exit date. After the 25th calendar day, the request will be denied and the Member will be released from service for cause – unsatisfactory performance, without an Education Award. 2. The WSC is responsible for determining whether a Member’s personal circumstances are sufficiently compelling to justify grant of an education award. The Member understands that, as a result of a release from service for compelling personal circumstances, they may only receive a portion of the education award for the actual time served. In order to be eligible for a portion of the education award, the Member must have served a minimum of 15% of the term of service. 3. Compelling personal circumstances include those that are beyond the Member’s control, such as, but not limited to: • Member’s disability or serious illness; • disability, serious illness, or death of a Member’s family member if it makes completing the term unreasonably difficult or impossible; • conditions attributable to the program or otherwise unforeseeable and beyond the Member’s control, such as a natural disaster, a strike, relocation of a spouse, or the nonrenewal or premature closing of a project or program, that make completing a term unreasonably difficult or impossible; • military service obligations. 4. Compelling personal circumstances do not include the following. Release from service for these reasons will be considered release from service for cause: • to enroll in school; • to obtain employment; • dissatisfaction with the program; • to enroll into another national service program prior to completing this obligated term of service. 5. If a Member is released prior to completing 15% of the service term, then it will not be counted as one of the allowable service terms. Any Member who believes they have been wrongfully released from the program has a right to file a grievance. Refer to the grievance procedures outlined in Section XV.

Release for Compelling Personal Circumstances. 1. The Member has the primary responsibility for demonstrating that compelling personal circumstances prevent them from completing the term of service. The Member should submit a written request for release from service for compelling personal circumstances, along with any required documentation on or before the exit date. In the event that it takes extra time to obtain the medical documentation, WSC will accept that documentation up to 25 calendar days from the exit date. After the 25th calendar day, the request will be denied and the Member will be released from service for cause – unsatisfactory performance, without an Education Award. 2. The WSC is responsible for determining whether a Member’s personal circumstances are sufficiently compelling to justify grant of an education award. The Member understands that, as a result of a release from service for compelling personal circumstances, they may only receive a portion of the education award for the actual time served. In order to be eligible for a portion of the education award, the Member must have served a minimum of 15% of the term of service. 3. Compelling personal circumstances include those that are beyond the Member’s control, such as, but not limited to: • Member’s disability or serious illness; • disability, serious illness, or death of a Member’s family member Member if it makes completing the term unreasonably difficult or impossible; • conditions attributable to the program or otherwise unforeseeable and beyond the Member’s control, such as a natural disaster, a strike, relocation of a spouse, or the nonrenewal or premature closing of a project or program, that make completing a term unreasonably difficult or impossible; • military service obligations. 4. Compelling personal circumstances do not include the following. Release from service for these reasons will be considered release from service for cause: • to enroll in school; • to obtain employment; • dissatisfaction with the program; • to enroll into another national service program prior to completing this obligated term of service. 5. If a Member is released prior to completing 15 percent (15% %) of the service term, then it will not be counted as one of the allowable service terms. Any Member who believes they have been wrongfully released from the program has a right to file a grievance. Refer to the grievance procedures outlined in Section XV.

Release for Compelling Personal Circumstances. 1. The Member has the primary responsibility for demonstrating that compelling personal circumstances prevent them from completing the term of service. The Member should submit a written request for release from service for compelling personal circumstances, along with any required documentation on or before the exit date. In the event that it takes extra time to obtain the medical documentation, WSC will accept that documentation up to 25 calendar days from the exit date. After the 25th calendar day, the request will be denied and the Member will be released from service for cause – unsatisfactory performance, without an Education Award. 2. The WSC is responsible for determining whether a Member’s personal circumstances are sufficiently compelling to justify grant of an education award. The Member understands that, as a result of a release from service for compelling personal circumstances, they may only receive a portion of the education award for the actual time served. In order to be eligible for a portion of the education award, the Member must have served a minimum of 15% of the term of service. 3. Compelling personal circumstances include those that are beyond the Member’s control, such as, but not limited to: •  Member’s disability or serious illness; •  disability, serious illness, or death of a Member’s family member Member if it makes completing the term unreasonably difficult or impossible; •  conditions attributable to the program or otherwise unforeseeable and beyond the Member’s control, such as a natural disaster, a strike, relocation of a spouse, or the nonrenewal or premature closing of a project or program, that make completing a term unreasonably difficult or impossible; •  military service obligations. 4. Compelling personal circumstances do not include the following. Release from service for these reasons will be considered release from service for cause: •  to enroll in school; •  to obtain employment; •  dissatisfaction with the program; •  to enroll into another national service program prior to completing this obligated term of service. 5. If a Member is released prior to completing 15 percent (15% %) of the service term, then it will not be counted as one of the allowable service terms. Any Member who believes they have been wrongfully released from the program has a right to file a grievance. Refer to the grievance procedures outlined in Section XV.