(a) Break in Employment. Termination, retirement, or resignation of an employee from the City. A break in employment does not occur due to absence from the workplace while on a paid or unpaid leave, including but not limited to: vacation, personal days, sick or family medical leave, or worker’s compensation leave, or if the employment is terminated followed by immediate re-employment by the City without loss of payroll time.
(b) City. The City of Clarksburg and its boards, commissions and departments.
(c) Direct Line of Supervision. An elected officer or employee who is in a position to affect the terms and conditions of another individual’s employment. Such effect may include, but is not limited to, making decisions about work assignments, compensation, grievances, advancement, or performance evaluation. Decisions and action taken by the City Manager, the Mayor or City Council regarding the passage of annual salary ordinances, annual budgets, and personnel policies are excluded from this definition.
(d) Elected Official. The Mayor and members of the Clarksburg Council.
(e) Employed. An individual who works for or is appointed to any department or board of the City on a full-time, part-time, temporary, intermittent, seasonal, hourly, or contractual basis.
(f) Member of the Police Department. The Police Chief and any police officer appointed to the Clarksburg City Police Department.
(g) Member of the Fire Department. The Fire Chief and any fire department employee appointed to the Clarksburg City Fire Department.
(h) Relative. For the purposes of this Article, the term includes any of the following:
(1) Spouse;
(2) Parent or step-parent;
(3) Child or step-child (includes an adopted child);
(4) Sister, brother, step-sister, step-brother (includes sister or brother by half-blood);
(5) Niece or nephew;
(6) Aunt or uncle;
(7) Daughter-in-law or son-in-law; and
(8) Sister-in-law or brother-in-law.
(Ord. 19-10. Passed 9-5-19.)