Employees of the City, except elected officials and department heads shall be granted up to three days of their regular scheduled work days for paid funeral leave, not chargeable to sick leave, in the event of a death in the immediate family. For purposes of this section “immediate family” shall be defined as follows: spouse, child, parent, mother-in-law, father- in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, brother or sister, aunt or uncle of the employee, and nephew or niece of the employee and/or spouse.
The funeral leave granted herein shall consist of three consecutive work days. In the event of a death of a spouse, a parent or dependent child, the current three consecutive days funeral leave shall not expire on the day of the actual funeral, however, in all other instances where funeral leave is granted, it shall terminate on the actual day of the funeral. If the employee begins his funeral leave during the first four hours of his work day, that work day shall be counted as the first consecutive day of funeral leave.
(Ord. 84-71. Passed 8-7-84.)