(A) Family and Medical Leave Act.
(1) Pursuant to law, eligible employees of the city are entitled, under certain circumstances, to up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period. The city hereby adopts a Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.
(2) Relationship of FMLA to other leaves of absence. FMLA leave shall run concurrent with leave granted pursuant to a work related injury o a work related illness under the Illinois Workmen’s Compensation Act.
(3) Exhaustion of FMLA leave. Upon exhaustion of available FMLA leave and the failure of the affected employee to return to work, the employee (and any covered dependents) shall be dropped from the city’s health insurance coverage; unless such employee elects to continue such coverage and timely pays the full premium for such coverage.
(B) Family Bereavement Leave Act.
(1) Employees who are eligible for leave under FMLA shall be entitled to ten workdays of unpaid bereavement leave to:
(a) Attend the funeral or alternative to a funeral of a covered family member;
(b) Make arrangements necessitated by the death of a covered family member;
(c) Grieve the death of a covered family member; or
(d) Be absent from work due to:
1. A miscarriage;
2. An unsuccessful round of intrauterine insemination or of an assisted reproductive technology procedure;
3. A failed adoption match or an adoption that is not finalized because it is contested by another party;
4. A failed surrogacy agreement;
5. A diagnosis that negatively impacts pregnancy or fertility; or
6. A stillbirth.
(2) For purposes of this division (B), a COVERED FAMILY MEMBER means an employee’s child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent. Further, for purposes of this division, a CHILD means an employee's son or daughter who is a biological, adopted, or foster child, a stepchild, a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis. For purpose of this division, any term not specifically defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section 5 of the Family Bereavement Leave Act, as amended (ILCS Ch. 820, Act 154, § 5).
(3) This leave must be completed within 60 days after the date on which the employee receives notice of the death of the covered family member or the date on which an event listed under division (B)(1)(d) above occurs. In the event of the death of more than one covered family member in a 12-month period, an eligible employee is entitled to up to six weeks of unpaid bereavement leave during the 12-month period. The city will not discriminate or retaliate against employees who take this leave.
(4) Leave under this division (B) shall be unpaid unless otherwise approved by a supervisor and/or appropriate management. Employees may use their accrued vacation days in lieu of taking otherwise unpaid leave under this division. Nothing in this divison will be interpreted as increasing the total amount of time off available to an employee under FMLA or any other policy.
(Ord. 96-7, passed 2-26-1996; Am. Ord. 2002-14, passed 6-10-2002; Am. Ord. 2011-31, passed 11-28-2011; Am. Ord. 2022-20, passed 8-22-2022)