(a) An employee who is disabled as a result of the performance of duties within the scope of his or her employment as a Service Department employee of the Village or a member of the Public Employees Retirement System receiving sick leave credit pursuant to Section 254.07(b), if such disability prevents him or her from performing his or her duties, shall be paid his or her regular compensation during the continuance of such service-related disability, but for a period not to exceed 183 calendar days from the date that such service-related disability was incurred. During such disability leave, compensation shall be paid in accordance with this section, whether or not the employee has accumulated sick leave. In the event accumulated sick leave is available, however, and a service-related disability within the meaning of this section is incurred, the first six says of said service-related disability shall be charged to said employee's accumulated sick leave credit, or if less than six days accumulated sick leave credit is available, the existing sick leave credit then available shall be charged, and any remaining service- related disability leave shall be charged to disability leave. In no event will an employee receive more than his or her regular compensation while on disability leave.
(b) Any employee who obtains a paid leave under this section shall file for Workers' Compensation and sign a waiver, assigning to the Village those sums of money (temporary total disability benefits) he or she would ordinarily receive as weekly compensation as determined by law for those number of weeks he or she receives benefits under this section.
(c) A certificate of the attending physician or surgeon, certifying to the service- related disability and the cause thereof, shall be filed with the employee's department head before the last day of each month in which such disability occurred or continues, or more often, if requested to do so by the employee's department head, and any employee receiving disability leave must, as a condition thereof, submit to a physical or physicals by a physician or surgeon chosen by the Village at any time.
(Ord. 2002-135. Passed 10-9-02; Ord. 2012-25. Passed 4-2-12; Ord. 2017-83. Passed 12-13-17.)