163.02 SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE.
(a) Ninety-six hours of sick leave shall be granted to each full-time employee on January 1, of each year. There will be a maximum accumulation of 960 hours of sick leave for full-time employees and a full-time employee may only transfer a maximum of 960 hours of sick leave from another public agency. Seasonal and other temporary employees and part-time employees shall not be permitted to transfer sick leave from another public agency. Accumulated sick leave in excess of 960 hours, shall be paid by the City to full-time employees on a one-for-one basis prior to February 1, of any year. Sick leave may be used upon approval of the appropriate administrative officer of the City for any of the causes set forth below:
(1) Absence due to personal illness.
(2) Absence due to personal injury.
(3) Exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees.
(4) Serious illness or injury or death in the employee's immediate family: husband, wife, father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter, in-laws and foster parents.
(5) Pregnancy.
(b) Each year an employee with an unused sick leave hours balance as of December 31 may convert up to forty (40) hours of that balance to vacation leave hours on a one for one (1:1) basis. An employee opting for such a conversion shall make written application to the Finance Department during the month of December; such applications must be received in the Finance Department no later than December 31.
(c) (1) As used in this section, retirement means disability or service retirement from the City under any State or Municipal retirement system applicable to the City from which the employee will begin drawing benefits immediately.
(2) Payment for accumulated unused sick leave of full-time employees of the City who retire shall be made as follows:
A. A full-time employee who retires from the City with ten or more full years of service with the State and political subdivisions of the State, or any combination thereof, shall be paid in cash for one-fourth the value of his/her accrued but unused sick leave credit. Payments under this section shall not exceed the value of 240 hours of accrued but unused sick leave.
B. A full-time employee who retires from the City with ten or more full years of service with the City shall be paid in cash for the value of his/her accrued but unused sick leave.
(3) Payments to retiring full-time employees under this section shall be based upon the employee's rate of pay at the time of retirement and eliminates all sick leave credit accrued but unused by the employee at the time payment is made. Upon the death of an employee entitled to a payment under this section, such payment shall be made to the surviving spouse or the heirs of the employee. Upon the death of a full-time employee of the City who was employed by the City at the time of death, the surviving spouse or heir of the employee shall be paid for the value of the accrued but unused sick leave of the employee at the time of death, whether or not the employee would otherwise have been entitled to payment under this section.
(4) All part-time employees of the City employed as of March 29, 1995, and who are employed on a regular basis are to have sick leave with pay benefits to be computed as follows: Each completed eighty hours of service shall entitle the part-time employee to three and sixty-eight one hundredths hours of sick leave with pay or a proportion thereof. Part-time employees hired after March 29, 1995, shall not be entitled to sick leave with pay benefits. Seasonal and other employees not employed on a regular basis shall not be entitled to sick leave with pay except that those employed on March 29, 1995, shall be permitted to retain and use any accrued sick leave balance existing with the City on that date.
(d) All part-time employees of the City employed as of the effective date of this section and who are employed on a regular basis are to have sick leave with pay benefits to be computed as follows: Each completed eighty hours of service shall entitle the part-time employee to three and sixty-eight one hundredths hours of sick leave with pay or a proportion thereof. Part-time employees hired after the effective date of this section shall not be entitled to sick leave with pay benefits. Seasonal and other employees not employed on a regular basis shall not be entitled to sick leave with pay except that those employed on the effective date of this section shall be permitted to retain and use any accrued sick leave balance existing with the City on that date.
(e) (1) A full-time employee will be granted funeral leave totaling twenty-four scheduled working hours without using sick leave, for such time as may be reasonably needed for the purpose of attending the funeral of a member of his/her immediate family. The employee will be paid his/her normal straight time hourly rate for any such funeral leave.
(2) To be eligible for payment, a full-time employee must produce some evidence of such death in the form of public notice or its equivalent. "Immediate family" means husband, wife, child, mother, father, brother, sister, stepchild, stepmother, stepfather, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, great-grandmother, great-grandfather, mother or father of wife or husband, foster parents, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandmother or grandfather of wife or husband, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, or legal guardian.
(Ord. 99-05. Passed 5-9-05.)