161.04 SICK LEAVE.
   Unless otherwise provided by a labor agreement:
   (a)   Each full-time City employee shall earn 3.1 hours of sick leave for each completed bi-weekly pay period. Sick leave earnings are pro-rated for any period in which the employee is in no-pay status. Sick leave is accumulative without limit. The sick leave policy as defined in the personnel handbook shall govern the use of sick leave.
   (b)   After an employee has used forty hours of sick leave in a calendar year, the first eight hours of sick leave for each subsequent occurrence will be unpaid, unless the employee is hospitalized and submits verification.
   (c)   Whenever an employee signs up for overtime, and then calls off or goes home sick, the time not worked will be deducted from his/her sick leave balance.
   (d)   An employee with ten or more years of service with the City who retires from the City under one of the Ohio retirement systems, shall be paid for twenty-five percent (25%) of the value of his accrued, but unused sick leave, up to a maximum payment of 240 hours. Payment shall be based upon the employee’s rate of pay at the time of retirement. As of the effective date of this section, conversion of sick leave to vacation leave shall be eliminated.
   (e)   Sick leave which abuts vacation leave must be verified by a physicians’ statement, or it will be unpaid and the employee subject to discipline.
      (Ord. 10(96-97). Passed 5-28-96.)