(A) All regular full time employees of the village shall be granted sick leave with pay at the rate of four and six-tenths hours for each completed 80 hours of service.
(B) Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limits.
(C) Sick leave may be granted only for absence from duty because of personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees, and to illness, injury off the job or death in the employee’s immediate family. “Immediate family” shall be construed as being husband, wife, father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law or mother-in-law. A maximum of three days sick leave will be allowed for death of the employee’s husband, wife, father, mother, sister, brother, son or daughter and a maximum of one day sick leave will be allowed for death of the employee’s grandfather, grandmother, father-in-law or mother-in-law. An employee claiming sick leave may be required to furnish competent written evidence that he or she was absent as authorized above.
(D) No sick leave benefits of any kind shall be granted after termination of employment.
(E) Employees using earned sick leave shall be considered as working, for the purpose of accumulating additional sick leave.
(F) An employee with ten or more years of service with the village at the time of retirement may elect to be paid in cash for one-fourth of the value of his or her accrued, but unused, sick leave credit. The payment shall be based on the employee’s rate of pay at the time of retirement. Payment for sick leave on this basis shall be considered to eliminate all sick leave credit accrued by the employee at that time. The payment shall be made only once to any employee. The maximum payment which may be made under this section shall be one-fourth of 120 days.
(Ord. 82-5, passed 1-4-1982)