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(A) Any employee of the City who is injured while working within the scope of his employment, and who is temporarily totally disabled by such injury, shall receive his usual and normal salary and compensation during such period, provided such employee turns over to the Auditor all temporary total disability payments received by him from the Bureau of Worker's Compensation. Injury leave provided herein shall not exceed twelve months from the date of injury, and shall terminate sooner in the event Worker's Compensation payments for temporary total disability are sooner terminated. An employee who exhausts his total injury leave shall be eligible for an additional three months leave, providing his physician certifies in writing that he will be able to return to work within this additional time period and return at 100 percent (100%) capability to perform his required job duties,
(B) The employee shall be eligible to apply for and qualify for Worker's Compensation for the above temporary disability benefits. Sick leave used during the period of application shall be reinstated upon approval of Worker's Compensation payments.
(Ord. 79-83. Passed 5-23-83.)
(A) The legal holidays observed by the City shall be as follows: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, one-half day Christmas Eve, one-half day New Year's Eve and the employee's birthday.
(B) When any holiday enumerated in subsection (A) hereof falls on Sunday, the following day shall be a holiday for City employees. In such instances, the one-half day holidays before Christmas and New Year's Days shall be taken on the Fridays preceding Christmas and New Year's Day.
(C) When any holiday enumerated in subsection (A) hereof falls on Saturday, the preceding day shall be a holiday for City employees.
(D) In those years in which Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on Saturdays, the one-half day New Year's Eve, as set forth in subsection (A) hereof, shall not be a holiday, but instead the entire day on the Thursday immediately preceding Christmas Day shall be a legal holiday.
(E) When an employee is required to work on a holiday established by this section, he shall be paid at one and one-half times his regular rate of pay for that day and shall also receive an additional work lay off with pay, such day to be determined by his department head.
(F) An employee's birthday holiday may be used as a personal leave day on a different date, with the approval of the department head, provided that the employee gives notice of his intention to utilize the leave day privilege ten working days in advance of his birthday.
(G) It is the intent of this section to excuse from working, whenever possible, employees who are scheduled to work on days observed as holidays, as specified herein.
(Ord. 200-76. Passed 12-13-76.)
(H) Holidays for members and employees of the Police Department, Fire Department personnel under the platoon system, irregular shift employees in the Public Works Department and personnel of the Water and Sewage Treatment Plants shall be governed by Section 244.05. Holidays for employees of the Municipal Court, and employees in other departments or offices assigned to work with the Municipal Court, shall be governed by statute, or rule of Court.
(Ord. 7-77. Passed 1-3-77.)
(A) Members of the Police Department, Certain Members of the Utilities and Public Works Department.
(1) Each employee of the Police Department, each employee of the Sewage and Water Treatment Plants of the City and employees in the Department of Public Works assigned to irregular shifts shall be granted one day holiday leave or part thereof in lieu of working on each of the following legal holidays or part thereof: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, President's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, the Friday following Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and the employee's birthday. Such employees shall be granted one-half day holiday leave or part thereof in lieu of working on each of the following half-day legal holidays or part thereof: one-half day Christmas Eve and one-half day New Year's Eve. The department heads shall have authority to designate the day or part thereof which may be taken by their employees in lieu of holidays. Such days may be granted separately or consecutively, regardless of whether the specific holiday has passed in a particular year.
(2) An employee shall be compensated at one and one-half his hourly rate of pay in the following instances:
(a) If an employee is required to work on Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and/or Christmas Day, or part thereof; or
(b) If an employee is unable to take his holiday leaves other than Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day during any calendar year because of the personnel requirements of the department to which he is assigned, payment for which shall be made on the first payday after the end of the calendar year.
(3) An employee's birthday holiday may be used as a personal leave day on a different date, with the approval of the department head, provided the employee gives notice of his intention to utilize the leave day privilege ten working days in advance of his birthday.
(4) For purposes of this section, an employee's first four days of holiday leave in any calendar year shall be in lieu of the days set forth in subsection (a)(2)A. hereof.
(B) Members of the Fire Department.
(1) All members of the Fire Department working twenty-four hour tours of duty shall be entitled to eight tours of duty off with pay in lieu of the holidays celebrated by other City employees. Members of the Fire Department normally assigned a forty hour work week shall celebrate holidays in accordance with the provisions of this section covering other similarly situated City employees. Members of the Fire Department required to work on Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and/or Christmas Day shall be paid time and one-half their normal rate of pay.
(2) Members of the Fire Department receiving eight tours of duty off with pay in lieu of set holidays, shall be able to utilize up to three of such tours as priority personal days. Such priority personal days may be taken upon the request of the employee, providing that the request is made at least forty-eight hours in advance of the beginning of the tour to be taken off and that no more than two other employees are taking the same tour off by exercising their right to a priority personal day.
(3) The remaining five tours shall be taken as holiday tours off with the Chief of the Fire Department assigning the days to be taken if the member of the Fire Department fails to utilize such time. All holiday time shall be approved in advance by the Chief of the Fire Department.
(4) In the event a member of the Fire Department is unable to take his holiday time off during the calendar year in which it is earned due to the City's refusal to let the member take the time off throughout the year, such member shall be paid for such unused compensatory time at his regular hourly rate of pay in the first pay period in January.
(Ord. 138-83. Passed 7-25-83.)
(A) Compensation.
(1) Each City officer and employee who is a member of the Ohio National Guard, the Ohio State Guard, the Ohio Naval Militia or any other reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States shall be entitled to leaves of absence from employment duties for the time such person is in military service, on field training, or on active duty, for periods not exceeding thirty days in any calendar year.
(2) Any City officer or employee on military leave of absence shall be entitled to receive pay in accordance with any applicable collective bargaining agreement, state or federal law.
(3) An officer or employee returning from extended military leave, which shall be defined herein as being greater than 30 calendar days, will receive applicable pay step time credit for the period the person was on extended military leave. The City’s share of pension contribution for an officer or employee on extended military leave will be made in accordance with USERRA and relevant state law.
(4) An officer or employee returning from extended military leave who has not been promoted because of being on active military service will receive promotion upon return in accordance with USERRA, the City Charter, a relevant collective bargaining agreement, and City ordinance. Classified civil service employees must appear on an eligibility list at the time of promotion opportunity to be eligible for promotion upon return. Being on an eligibility list does not guarantee promotion, the person returning from extended military leave will only be eligible for promotion if the sole reason the person was not promoted was due to the absence for active military service.
(B) Group Health Care Benefits. For officers or employees on extended military leave, health care benefits will terminate on the last day of the month in which the officer or employee last receives pay from the City of Lima. As defined by Federal Law, while on extended military leave, an officer or employee and their family members will have access to health care without cost through the military’s health care delivery system. However, officers or employees eligible for extended military leave will also have options available for a 24 month period for providing health care benefit coverage for their qualified dependents during the period of extended military leave as follows:
(1) Continue their health coverage at 102 percent of the full premium rate in accordance with Federal Law.
(2) Continue their health coverage at the normal full-time employee contribution rate payable by the first of the month that the coverage will be provided. Coverage will be as defined in the City’s health plan document.
(3) Discontinue health care benefit coverage and receive mileage reimbursement for travel to out-of-county Tri-Care Prime providers for health care services that are covered under the City’s health plan. The rate of reimbursement will be the standard mileage rate as determined by the Auditor’s office. The Human Resource Department will be responsible for verifying that a trip qualifies for reimbursement. Requests for reimbursement must include proof of a visit to an out-of-county Tri-Care Prime provider and must be submitted within 60 days of the visit.
(Ord. 194-06. Passed 8-7-06.)
(A) Each employee shall be entitled to a funeral leave of not to exceed three work days, in the event of the death of such employee's father, mother, spouse, child, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, spouse's mother, spouse's father or a person standing in place of the employee's parents. Such funeral leave shall be utilized within seven days of the funeral.
(B) For purposes of this section, three work days shall be considered as one twenty-four hour day for Fire Department employees on the platoon system, as provided in Section 234.06. Notwithstanding subsection (A) hereof, an employee on the platoon system shall also be entitled to funeral leave for the balance of any work day on which death occurs.
(C) Upon the request of an employee, a department head shall permit the employee to attend the funeral of a fellow City employee, provided that overtime is not caused thereby and the operation of the department is not impaired.
(Ord. 41-80. Passed 3-31-80.)
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