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§ 35.10 RECOGNITION OF BARGAINING UNITS.
   (A)   Full-time city employees, excluding supervisory, confidential, administrative, and professional employees, for the purpose of recognition, will be placed into four categories:
      (1)   Fire Department employees;
      (2)   Police Department employees;
      (3)   Non-appointed service department employees including water, sewer, street, and cemetery employees and other eligible non-appointed service employees;
      (4)   Other non-appointed employee classification not included in above, such as office personnel.
   (B)   Council will recognize an organization to represent any category of employees as established in division (A), upon a showing satisfactory to Council that the organization represents at least 51% of the employees in the category for which the organization is requesting recognition.
(Ord. 55-80, passed 7-14-80)
   (C)   The organization requesting recognition, must in addition to the requirements of division (B), supply Council with the name of the organization requesting recognition, the national, regional, and local officers of the organization and the category of employees which the organization is requesting recognition to represent. The organization must supply information as to the method it used in its determination that it met the requirements of division (B). This procedure can be initiated by directing a letter to the Mayor and the President of Council, setting forth the information as set forth in this section.
(`63 Code, § 157.10) (Ord. 76-80, passed 8-25-80)
§ 35.11 RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT.
   (A)   Any city employee shall not be required to reside within the corporate limits of the city but may reside anywhere within the county.
(Res. R61-74, passed 11-4-74; Am. Ord. 49-99, passed 6-28-99)
   (B)   For the purpose of this section, EMPLOYEE shall mean all persons working for the city who do not exercise, as such employee, any one of the following elements:
      (1)   The incumbent must exercise independent public duties, apart of the sovereignty of the state.
      (2)   Such exercise by the incumbent must be by virtue of his election or appointment to the office.
      (3)   In the exercise of the duties so imposed, he cannot be subject to the discretion and control of a superior officer.
   (C)   Any person who holds a position lacking one or more of the above elements is an employee and the provisions of R.C. § 733.68 do not apply.
(`63 Code, § 157.11) (Res. R20-73, passed 7-2-73)
§ 35.12 EMPLOYEE'S BIRTHDAY AS DAY OFF.
   (A)   It is established that each full-time employee of the city shall receive his birthday as a day off.
   (B)   If the employee's birthday falls on a regularly scheduled day off, or a holiday, he shall receive the next regularly scheduled work day off.
(`63 Code, § 157.12) (Ord. 48-76, passed 6-25-76)
§ 35.13 BEREAVEMENT PAY.
   Bereavement pay is established for city employees in the event of a death in their immediate family.
   (A)   In the event of such death, an employee shall be eligible for paid absence not to exceed three consecutive days provided that one of these days is used to attend funeral or memorial service.
   (B)   Bereavement pay applies only to scheduled work days lost. Bereavement pay will not be paid when employee is on vacation, military leave, or sick leave.
   (C)   The employee will be compensated at his base rate of pay, per day, for each of the days absent.
   (D)   For purpose of this section, IMMEDIATE FAMILY shall mean spouse, son, daughter, parent, parent of current spouse, brother, sister, grandparent, grandparent of current spouse, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchild, stepmother, stepfather, stepchild, stepbrother, half brother, stepsister, half sister, or any children of current spouse.
(`63 Code, § 157.13) (Ord. 67-77, passed 10-17-77)
§ 35.14 REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES.
   (A)   Council finds and determines certain expenditures justifiable as related to the hiring of new professional and technical (licensed) employees, these being expenses incurred by qualified applicants incidental to their being interviewed by city officials, and moving expenses of individuals accepting employment with the city provided the applicant's residence is located at a distance of 100 miles or more from the city.
   (B)   The Mayor and Auditor are authorized to make payment to individuals as described above, according to the following schedule of allowable expenses:
      (1)   For interviews. For those job applicants invited to interview with the city, interview- related expenses (travel, overnight lodgings, and tolls) are reimbursable upon:
         (a)   Authorization of expenses by the Mayor, and
         (b)   Presentation of receipts substantiating expenditures.
      (2)   For new hires. Payment costs related to moving of newly hired employees, their family, and household furnishings are reimbursable to $500. This figure does not include interview expenses. A new hire may collect up to $500 on a receipt reimbursable basis. This section applies to any professional or technical employee hired on or after June 1, 1978.
   (C)   The Mayor is authorized to develop necessary procedures and forms as required for payment of moving and interview expenses.
(`63 Code, § 157.14) (Ord. 45-78, passed 7-18-78)
§ 35.15 COMPENSATORY TIME POLICY.
   (A)   There is established a compensatory time policy for the city, to be effective retroactive to July 1, 1963.
   (B)   Compensatory time can be accumulated after authorization by the department supervisor. The department supervisor will provide the City Auditor with a biweekly report of compensatory time accumulated, to be submitted on form designated by City Auditor.
   (C)   No more than 20 hours compensatory time may be carried at any one time. The employee must use his compensatory time within the next three months, or lose the time accrued previously to the date of accrual.
   (D)   When an employee elects to take compensatory time off for overtime worked, such compensatory time shall be granted by his immediate supervisor, on a time and a half basis, at a time mutually convenient to the employee and the immediate supervisor, for a maximum of 20 hours compensatory time.
   (E)   When compensatory time is used by a city employee, another individual will not be called in (not paid overtime or compensatory time to cover the loss of time from city business.)
   (F)   The proper city official shall designate those individuals who shall be entitled to compensatory time off for hours worked in excess of the normal work week. Compensatory time shall be limited to hourly personnel. No salaried city employee shall receive compensatory time, except the City Clerk.
   (G)   Compensatory time cannot be awarded prior to it being earned.
   (H)   When compensatory time is used by an employee, it will be documented and authorized by the immediate supervisor and the Safety Service Director or the Mayor. In the case of the Clerk of Council, the president of council will be the authorizing individual.
   (I)   Compensatory time which has been accumulated prior to the effective date of this section shall in no way be affected or connected with the provisions of this section.
   (J)   The following are the authorized reasons for the awarding of compensatory time:
      (1)   City duties required beyond the normal work schedule day, such as unpaid authorized overtime.
      (2) Duties related to city employment that are necessary to and for the betterment of the function of the city.
      (3) The required attendance to meetings by your immediate supervisor.
   (K)   Listed in this section are not authorized reasons for compensatory time:
      (1)   Working on your birthday.
      (2)   Working on holidays.
      (3)   Work that should have been done during normal working hours.
   (L)   Reasons listed in division (J) and (K) are not all inclusive and will be modified from time to time as the situation dictates per approval of Council.
(Ord. 41-81, passed 7-27-81; Am. Ord. 2-84, passed 1-9-84)
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