(A) Regular full-time non-bargaining employees shall be entitled to 24 hours funeral/bereavement pay per payroll year if time off is required to arrange for or attend to estate matters of a member of the employee’s immediate family. IMMEDIATE FAMILY as used herein is limited to husbands, wives, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews, mothers-in-law, fathers-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in- law, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandparents-in-law, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, and persons acting, or who have acted, in loco parentis to the employee. The term CHILDREN, as used in this section, shall include foster children residing in the employee’s household at the time of the death, natural children, adopted children, and step-children.
(B) The employees shall be given an additional 24 hours funeral/bereavement leave per payroll year for the above purposes if the employee’s spouse, child, brother, sister, mother, or father passes away and an additional 24 hours for each additional death of a family member.
(C) In the event that additional time is needed, the employee, upon giving notice and receiving approval from the department head or his or her designee, shall be allowed to take additional time off chargeable to another form of accrued but unused leave in accordance with the utilization requirements of that form of leave.
(D) Funeral/bereavement leave may only be used for the purpose intended, and the minimum time of request and approval shall not be less than one-tenth of an hour.
(E) Funeral/bereavement pay shall be counted as hours worked for purpose of calculating entitlement to overtime pay.
(1980 Code, § 33.25) (Ord. 3381, passed 11-17-1975; Am. Ord. 4076, passed 4-20-1981; Am. Ord. 4229, passed 7-19-1982; Am. Ord. 5237, passed 12-17-1990; Am. Ord. 6095, passed 1-6-1997)