(a) Each full-time and permanent part-time employee of the City, 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 the approval of the responsible administrative officer of the employing unit for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease, which could be communicated to other employees, and to illness or injury in the employee's immediate family. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limit. When sick leave is used it shall be deducted from the employee's credit on the basis of one hour for every hour of absence from previously scheduled work. The appointing authority of each employing unit shall 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. This section shall be uniformly administered as to all employees, except provisional appointees as set forth in subsection (d) hereof. No sick leave may be granted upon or after retirement or termination of employment.
(b) The City shall not grant cash payment for any unused sick leave credit upon or after an employee's termination of employment with the City, except as stated for retirement in Section 153.021.
(Ord. 5970-1981. Passed 6-2-81.)
(c) The previously accumulated sick leave of an employee who has been separated from public service shall be placed to his credit upon his reemployment in the public service provided that such reemployment takes place within ten years from the date on which the employee was last terminated from public service. An employee who transfers from one public agency to another shall be credited with the unused balance of his accumulated sick leave upon the maximum of the sick leave accumulation permitted in the public agency to which the employee transfers. Any employee of the City who had accumulated sick leave during previous public service, and who would have been entitled to credit for such previously accumulated sick leave under the provisions of this section, but who was denied such credit due to prior versions of this section, shall be hereby entitled to credit for such sick leave accumulated during previous public service to the extent permitted by Ohio R.C. 124.38, upon certification of the amount of such sick leave by the former employer.
(Ord. 6608-1984. Passed 12-4-84.)
(d) All provisional appointees, or those who render temporary, part-time, seasonal, intermittent or per diem service, shall be excluded from the benefits of this section.
(e) For the purposes of this section "immediate family" shall be the following:
Spouse
Mother
Father
Child
Brother
Sister
Mother-in-law
Father-in-law
(Ord. 5970-1981. Passed 6-2-81.)