(A) Every full-time employee, with at least 60 days of continuous full-time service with the town, shall be granted sick leave with full pay at the rate of one day per calendar month of active continuous service. Paid sick leave shall not be granted in advance and, therefore, must be accumulated prior to approval of a request for leave. Employees, except sworn members of the Police Department, who suffer a job-related illness or injury shall experience no loss of accumulated paid sick leave during their injury or illness. No employee will be able to accumulate more than 45 days of paid sick leave. Paid sick leave shall be used only for the purpose of:
(1) Illness or injury of employee;
(2) Avoiding jeopardizing the health of other town employees or the public;
(3) Illness or injury within the immediate family needing the assistance of the employee (as certified by a physician); and
(4) Approved extension of paid bereavement leave (See § 37.068).
(B) In order to qualify for paid sick leave, the employee must comply with the following conditions:
(1) Notify immediate supervisor of his or her absence prior to the start of his or her work shift, unless he or she is physically unable to do so;
(2) The employee shall keep his or her immediate supervisor informed of his or her illness or injury and anticipated day of return, unless he or she is physically unable to do so;
(3) A doctor's certification of any illness or injury may be required by the employee's immediate supervisor, and specifically, where an employee, in the view of his or her immediate supervisor, abuses the paid sick leave benefit discussed within this section, the employee's immediate supervisor may require a doctor's certificate after each paid sick leave absence, but in any event after a paid sick leave of three days or more, the employee shall provide a doctor's certification to his or her immediate supervisor verifying the illness or injury; and
(4) The employee shall provide a doctor's release to his or her immediate supervisor prior to returning to work after an illness or injury of three days or more.
(C) If an employee goes 12 months without using a sick day, he or she shall be granted two additional personal days on his or her anniversary date for the following year. After completing 20 consecutive years of continuous full-time service with the town, an employee may elect to take any accumulated paid sick leave, as paid leave immediately prior to the employee's retirement or the termination of his or her employment with the town.
(D) Members of the Police Department are not covered by the provisions of this section, but rather are covered by the provisions in the Police Manual, relating to paid sick leave.
('80 Code, § 2.02.030 C.) (Am. Ord. 1993-7, passed 2-8-93; Am. Ord. 1999-21, passed 12-29-99; Am. Ord. 2018-31, passed 12- -18)