(a) All full-time employees of the Village shall be entitled for each completed eighty hours of service to sick leave of four and six-tenths hours with pay. Employees may use sick leave, upon written approval of the Mayor, or under such other rules and regulations as he shall promulgate, for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees, and for illness, injury or death in the employee’s immediate family. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limit. Provisional employees or those who render part-time, seasonal, intermittent, per diem or hourly service shall be entitled to sick leave for the time actually worked, at the same rate that is granted to full-time employees.
(b) The Mayor may require an employee to furnish a satisfactory written, signed statement to justify the use of sick leave. If medical attention is required, a certificate stating the nature of the illness from a licensed physician shall be required to justify the use of sick leave. Falsification of either a written, signed statement or a physician’s certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action including dismissal.
(c) All full-time employees of the Village may elect, at the time of retirement from active, full-time service with the Village and with ten or more years of continuous service with the Village, the State or other political subdivisions of the State, or any combination thereof, to be paid in cash for one-half the value of his/her accrued but unused sick leave credit. The payment shall be based on the employee’s rate of pay at the time of retirement and eliminates all sick leave credit accrued but unused by the employee at the time payment is made. An employee may receive one or more payments under this section, but the aggregate value of accrued but unused sick leave credit that is paid shall not exceed, for all payments, the value of seven hundred twenty (720) hours of accrued but unused sick leave.
(d) This section only applies at the retirement of full-time Village employees and shall not be deemed applicable to any removal or involuntary resignation. As used in this section, “retirement” means disability or service retirement under any state or municipal retirement system in this state.
(e) Bereavement Leave. In addition to the above sick leave, all full-time employees shall be entitled to up to three continuous days, or twenty-four hours, of bereavement leave upon the death of a member of the immediate family. For purposes of this provision of this subsection, "immediate family" shall be defined as the full-time employees' spouse, child, father, mother, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother, sister, grandparents and grandparents-in-law.
The bereavement leave set forth herein is available irrespective of the availability of accumulated sick leave, and shall not be used or considered in calculating available sick leave, sick leave credit or any payments upon retirement as set forth in subsection (c) above.
(Ord. 3891. Passed 11-16-16.)
(Ord. 3891. Passed 11-16-16.)