(a) Each full-time employee whose salary or wage is paid in whole or in part by the City shall be entitled, for each completed month of service, to sick leave of one and one- quarter (1.25) work days with pay. Full-time employees are entitled to accumulate an unlimited amount of sick leave. Employees with accumulated sick leave may use such sick leave, upon approval of the responsible department head, for absence due to illness, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees or for illness of a spouse or dependent child. A full-time salaried employee who transfers from one City department to another shall be credited with the unused balance of their accumulated sick leave. The responsible department head may require an employee taking sick leave to furnish a satisfactory affidavit that their absence was caused by illness due to any causes mentioned in this section. For absences in excess of three (3) consecutive days, the responsible department head shall notify human resources and human resources will follow up with the employee. This section shall be uniformly administered to full-time and part-time employees.
(b) Effective January 1, 2009, a full-time employee who retires from service with the City may request and shall be paid an amount equal to one day's compensation, at their then current salary, for every three (3) day's sick leave accumulated while employed by the City of Huron as of the date of retirement, but not to exceed an amount equal to their salary or wage for four hundred eighty (480) hours. This benefit shall only be available to full-time employees who qualify for, and actually take retirement through, their respective public retirement system. No payment for accumulated sick leave shall be available for, and shall not be paid to, full-time employees who resign or are terminated from their employment with the City. No payment for transferred sick leave will be paid at retirement or separation.
(c) A full-time employee who has a minimum of 1,000 hours accumulated sick leave by the end of December of the preceding year may request, in writing, by the last working day of January of any calendar year on a sick leave conversion form provided by the Finance Department and shall be granted the right to convert one-hundred twenty (120) hours sick leave to forty (40) hours personal time. An Employee shall not convert in excess of sixty-four (64) hours personal time on any calendar year.(40 hours of converted sick time and twenty-four (24) regular personal hours). Transferred sick time will not be included in the sick leave conversion to personal time.
(d) Each full-time employee shall be allowed to transfer accumulate unused sick leave accrued while in the employment of another Ohio political subdivision, but the transferred time ("transferred sick") cannot be computed towards payouts, personal time conversion, carryovers or donated time. Transferred sick time cannot be used until all regular accrued sick leave is exhausted. This transferred sick leave will never be paid out at retirement or separation and cannot be used to donate leave.
(Ord. 2023-23. Passed 8-22-23.)