(a) Any employee who is absent from work by reason of the illness or injury of a member of the employee’s immediate family or, effective January 1, 2023, designated person and who has accrued sick leave at full pay shall, upon approval of the appointing authority or the agent thereof designated to determine such matter, be allowed leave of absence with full pay for not to exceed in the aggregate fifteen (15) working days (120 hours) in any one calendar year, provided such employee shall furnish a satisfactory doctor’s certificate or other suitable and satisfactory proof showing the nature and extent of the injury or illness to justify the absence. “Immediate family” shall include the father, father-in-law, mother, mother-in- law, brother, sister, spouse, child, foster child, grandparent, grandchild, step-parent, step-child of any employee of the City, the domestic partner of an employee, a household member (any person residing in the immediate household of the employee at the time of the illness or injury), and the following relatives of an employee’s domestic partner: child, grandchild, mother, and father. Any non-represented employee who claims a domestic partner for purposes of the provisions of this subsection shall complete a confidential affidavit to be filed in the Employee Benefits Office, Personnel Department, which shall be signed by the City employee and the domestic partner, declaring the existence of a domestic partnership with a named domestic partner. No affidavit is required to secure family illness benefits arising from the illness or injury of a household member. “Designated person”, in accordance with California Labor Code Section 245.5(c)(8), effective January 1, 2023, “means a person identified by the employee at the time the employee requests paid sick days.” Employees are limited to only one designated person per 12-month period. By extending to an employee the specific benefits defined in this subsection, the City does not intend to confer or to imply any other unspecified benefits to such employee, or to the employee’s domestic partner, or to the employee’s household members, or to any other person.
(b) Any non-represented employee shall be allowed leave of absence with full pay for up to an aggregate of fifteen (15) working days (120 hours) in any one calendar year for the provisions of Subsection (a) hereinabove, or for the purpose of adopting a child.
(c) The aggregate number of days of absence for which pay may be allowed under this section shall be included in the number of days for which sick leave with full pay is allowed under Section 4.126 of this Code. Effective January 1, 2020, non-represented employees shall be permitted to use 75% sick leave hours for family illness after exhausting all their available 100% sick leave hours.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 89,100.
Amended by: Ord. No. 123,623; Ord. No. 137,896; Ord. No. 140,780, Eff. 7-31-70; Ord. No. 155,667, Eff. 7-31-81, Oper. 7-1-81; In Entirety, Ord. No. 165,312, Eff. 1-6-90, Oper. 12-4-89; Ord. No. 168,238, Eff. 10-17-92, Oper. 9-16-92: In Entirety, Ord. No. 170,101, Eff. 11-17-94, Oper. 7-1-94; Subsec. (a), first sentence, Ord. No. 170,864, Eff. 1-22-96, Oper. 1-22-96; Subsec. (a), Ord. No. 171,780, Eff. 11-17-97, Oper. 11-23-97; Subsec. (b), Ord. No. 185,365, Eff. 12-27-17; In Entirety, Ord. No. 186,346, Eff. 11-3-19; Subsec. (a), Ord. No. 187,932, Eff. 7-7-23.