All employees of the City who suffer the loss of an immediate family member shall be granted three days bereavement leave beginning with the City business day or the beginning of the shift on which an employee is working. The intent of this section is to allow employees to be with their families during a time of loss, and in the event of death occurring on a non-working day, there shall be no credit because of that fact. In other words, if an employee works from Monday through Friday and death occurs on Saturday, the sole day which will be included in the intent of this section is Monday. There shall be no charge against accumulated sick time. The director having management responsibility with reference to the employee is hereby given the authority to allow one extra day bereavement leave without charge.
The definition of "immediate family," as used in this section, is as follows: an employee's spouse, parents, children, grandparents, siblings, grandchildren, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law or a legal guardian or other person who stands in the place of a parent.
(Ord. 27-85. Passed 6-10-85.)