(a) Every permanent full-time employee of the Municipality shall be entitled to receive a credit of one and one-fourth days per month for sickness, which sick leave credit can be cumulative to 180 days. An employee who enters the service of the Municipality on or before the sixteenth of the month or who leaves after working through the fifteenth of any month shall earn sick leave that month.
(Ord. 1986-65. Passed 12-22-86.)
(b) An employee shall file a written request on forms provided by the Municipality for use of sick leave. Each request shall be approved by the department head and Mayor. Subject to such approval, employees may use sick leave provided for herein for absences due to illness, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees and to illness or death in the employee’s immediate family. Charges against accumulated sick leave shall be based upon the nearest one-fourth day for time lost. A certificate from a physician may be required by the Mayor or department head for any absence extending beyond three days. The Mayor may require that the employee submit to an examination by a physician selected by the Village at the Village’s expense for any absence.
(Ord. 1987-53. Passed 12-14-87.)
(c) When circumstances require, and with approval of the Mayor and department head, sick leave may be used in advance of accrual, provided that any employee separated from the service who has been granted sick leave that is accrued at that time may be required to reimburse the Municipality for all salary and wages paid in connection with such unaccrued leave.
(Ord. 1986-65. Passed 12-22-86.)
(Ord. 1986-65. Passed 12-22-86.)
(d) The sick leave credit provided for herein shall be effective only during such time as the employee remains in the employment of the Municipality. Employees with a minimum of ten years of active service with the Municipality, may elect, at the time of retirement from active service with the Municipality, to be paid in cash for one-fourth the value of their 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 the payment is made. The unused sick leave credit that is paid to each employee shall not exceed the value of 30 days of accrued but unused sick leave. “Retirement” as used in this section, means disability or service retirement under any state or municipal retirement system in this State.
(Ord. 1996-87. Passed 12-9-96.)