(a) Each full-time employee (except employees covered by collective bargaining agreements), in all departments, shall be entitled to sick leave at their regular rate of pay, accumulated at the rate of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for each completed eighty (80) hours of service. For the purpose of this section, service shall be defined to include all regular hours worked, all overtime, all vacation time and sick leave for which payment is received by the employee.
(b) A return to duty slip must be presented to the Safety-Service Director for any use of sick leave exceeding three (3) consecutive days. Falsification of sick leave shall be grounds for dismissal.
(c) Sick leave may be used for incapacitating illness of the employee, contagious diseases, medical or dental appointments (not to exceed (4) hours unless excused by written permission of a physician or dentist indicating that treatment rendered required employee to take off a longer period) or a serious illness or injury in the immediate family where the employee’s presence is necessary and is so stated by the attending physician.
(d) Full-time employees may also use sick leave for a reasonable period of time not to exceed three (3) days due to a death in the employee’s immediate family. The immediate family shall be defined as their spouse, children, parents, blood grandparents, brother or sister, son-in- law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law or father-in-law. In order to use this provision, employee must attend services and provide newspaper proof for verification of death.
(e) Upon retirement, resignation or termination not caused by the employee, each employee with ten (10) years or more of service shall receive, in cash, one half (½) of his or her accumulated sick pay, not to exceed thirty-six (36) week’s pay.
(Ord. 2595. Passed 1-19-04.)