(a) For the purpose of calculating sick time earned, all full-time members of the Fire Department, excluding the Fire Chief and Assistant Fire Chief, shall earn .0690 hours of sick time for each hour worked, including overtime hours.
(Adopting Ordinance)
(b) The following other full-time employees shall earn .0575 hours of sick time for each hour worked, including overtime hours:
(1) All full-time members of the Police Department, including the Police Chief and Deputy Police Chief;
(2) All full-time Police Clerk/Dispatchers and part-time Clerk/Dispatchers hired prior to May 11, 2005;
(3) The Administrative Assistant to the Chief and Police Services;
(4) The Fire Chief and Assistant Fire Chief;
(5) Fire cadets on a forty-hour week;
(6) The Administrative Assistant to the Mayor;
(7) The Chief Fiscal Officer;
(8) The Administrative Accounting Assistant;
(9) The Service Director;
(10) The Assistant Service Director, and skilled mechanic/skilled maintenance workers in the Service Department;
(11) Full-time laborers; and
(12) Administrative Assistant to Village Hall.
(Ord. 1998-16. Passed 1-14-98; Ord. 1998-140. Passed 11-9-98; Ord. 2018-71. Passed 8-8-18; Ord. 2018-99. Passed 11-14-18.)
(c) Employees may use sick leave, upon approval of the responsible department head, for absences due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury and exposure to a contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees, and to illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family. Absences due to death in the employee's immediate family, as defined in Section 254.11, which are compensated for as provided in Section 254.11, shall not be deducted from an employee's accumulated sick leave, but absences due to death in an employee's immediate family in excess of those allowed by the department head pursuant to Section 254.11 shall be deducted from an employee's accumulated sick leave.
(d) Unused sick leave shall accumulate from year to year. However, the maximum cumulative sick leave credit for any employee shall be 375 days (eight hours to be considered a day). When sick leave is used, it shall be deducted from the employee's credit on the basis of one hour for every one hour of absence from previously scheduled work. Council may increase sick leave credits of an employee for good cause shown by the adoption of an appropriate resolution.
(e) The previously accumulated sick leave of an employee who has been separated from his or her employment by the Village may be placed to his or her credit upon his or her re-employment by the Village, provided that such re-employment takes place within ten years of the date on which the employee was last terminated from service in the Village. An employee who transfers from another public agency to the Village shall be credited with the unused balance of his or her accumulated sick leave.
(f) The department head shall require an employee to furnish a satisfactory affidavit 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 the affidavit or the physician's certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action, including dismissal. No sick leave may be granted to an employee after termination of employment, except as otherwise provided upon retirement under Section 254.09. For the purpose of computing the amount of sick leave used, employees shall be debited with the actual number of hours of absence from work.
(g) This section does not interfere with existing unused sick leave credit in any agency of government where attendance records are maintained and credit has been given to employees for unused sick leave.
(Ord. 2005-79. Passed 5-11-05; Ord. 2009-146. Passed 10-14-09; Ord. 2010-30. Passed 3-10-10; Ord. 2010-71. Passed 7-14-10; Ord. 2010-59. Passed 6-9-10; Ord. 2013-18. Passed 2-13-13; Ord. 2014-24. Passed 2-12-14; Ord. 2014-40. Passed 3-12-14; Ord. 2014-50. Passed 4-9-14; Ord. 2017-83. Passed 12-13-17.)