(A) Sick leave with pay is not a right which an employee may demand, but a privilege granted for the benefit of an employee when sick.
(B) Sick leave may be granted to an employee absent from work for any of the following reasons: sickness, bodily injury, required physical or dental examinations or treatment, or exposure to a contagious disease, when continuing work might jeopardize the health of others.
(C) Sick leave may be used when an employee must care for a member of his or her immediate family who is ill. Sick leave may also be used for death in the employee’s immediate family, but may not exceed three days for any one occurrence. Additional leave time required for such occurrence may be charged to compensatory leave or annual leave. Sick leave may also be used to supplement Worker’s Compensation Disability Leave.
(D) “Immediate family” shall be defined as spouse, mother, father, guardian, children, sister, brother, grandparents, grandchildren, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece plus the various combinations of half, step, in law, and adopted relationships that can be derived from those named.
(E) Notification of the desire to take sick leave should be submitted to the employee’s supervisor prior to the leave or notification shall be made immediately at the beginning of the scheduled workday.
(Ord. passed 5-17-94; Am. Ord. passed 1-13-99; Am. Ord. passed 1-17-02; Am. Ord. passed 8-29-09)