(a) Each employee whose salary or wage is paid in whole or in part by the Village, shall be entitled for each completed eighty hours of service to sick leave of four and six-tenths (4 6/10's) hours with pay. Employees may use sick leave, upon approval of the responsible administrative officer of the Village for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees, and to illness, injury or death in the employee's immediate family.
(b) Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limit. When sick leave is used, it shall be deducted from the employee's credit on the basis of one hour for every one hour of absence from previously yearly scheduled work. If medical attention is required a certificate stating the nature of the illness from a licensed physician shall be required to justify the use of sick leave. Falsification of either a written, signed statement or a physician's certificate, shall be grounds for disciplinary action, including dismissal. The amount of the sick leave the employee is entitled to, shall be computed by the Clerk-Treasurer.
(Ord. 2630. Passed 5-13-92.)
(c) The Clerk-Treasurer of the Village of Lowellville hereby establishes the following payment plan for unused sick leave upon an employee’s retirement.
(1) An employee of the Village of Lowellville with ten or more years of service with the Village of Lowellville may elect at the time of his retirement from active service from the Village of Lowellville to be paid in cash for the value of his accrued but unused sick leave credit. The payment shall be made at the employee’s rate of pay at the time of retirement and thereby eliminates all sick leave credit accrued but unused by the employee at the time payment is made up to fifty percent (50%).
(2) In the alternative, an employee with ten years or more of service with the Village of Lowellville may elect to convert his yearly sick leave of sixty hours maximum of fifty percent (50%) accumulated sick leave for that year. However, the employee will lose the remaining hours accumulated in this situation. (Ord. 2985. Passed 12-16-98.)