(a) Each full-time employee of the Municipality shall be entitled to ten hours of sick leave with pay, for each completed month of service.
(1) For employees paid on a salary basis, each full calendar month of service shall be deemed to be a completed month of service.
(2) For employees paid on an hourly basis, each calendar month of service in which the employee received regular pay for not less than 160 hours, shall be deemed a completed month of service.
(3) In computing an employee’s “completed months of service” pursuant to Section 147.02(a)(2), no time for which the employee is off work and receiving sick leave shall be included.
(4) Subject to the approval of the Village Administrator, sick leave with pay may be granted for the following reasons:
A. Sickness of the employee;
B. Injury to the employee
C. Emergency medical, dental or optical treatment of the employee.
(b) In the discretion of the Village Administrator, Employees who have been employed by the Village for more than twelve months and who have accrued sick leave available may be permitted to use accrued sick leave with pay for sickness or emergency medical treatment of a member of the employee's immediate family, subject to the following:
(1) The immediate family member must reside in the employee's household.
(2) The maximum accrued sick leave which may be used under Section 147.02(b) is forty hours per year, subject to the following:
(i) In special cases, where the Village Administrator believes that more than 40 hours is necessary and warranted, the Village Administrator shall submit such recommendation to the Mayor; and
(ii) The Mayor, in his/her discretion, may allow the use of additional accrued sick leave with pay, up to an additional forty hours.
(iii) Any use of accrued sick leave with pay beyond 80 hours shall require the approval of Council.
(3) The Village Administrator shall require either a statement signed by the employee or an attending physician's certificate before paying an employee under this section.
(4) In the event that the Village Administrator believes an employee is abusing this provision, the Village Administrator, in his/her discretion and after giving the employee written warning, may refuse to grant the employee leave with pay for sickness or treatment of the employee's immediate family member. In such circumstance, the employee shall be entitled to take leave without pay if such leave qualifies under the Family Medical Leave Act.
(5) Falsification of either a written signed statement or a physician's certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action, including dismissal.
(Ord. 16-122. Passed 6-9-16.)
(c) Provisional appointees or those who render part-time, seasonal, intermittent, per diem or hourly service shall not be entitled to sick leave. (Ord. 02-126. Passed 9-5-02.)
(d) Unused sick leave shall be cumulative up to a maximum accrual of 960 hours.
(e) Upon retirement in accordance with the schedules of the Public Employees Retirement and Police and Fireman’s Disability and Pension Funds, each employee with ten or more years of service with the Municipality and who is eligible to retire from the Village as of January 1, 2013, shall receive payment based upon the employee’s rate of pay at retirement for one-half of the employee’s accrued but unused sick leave at retirement, up to a maximum accrual of 960 hours.
(f) In accordance with the schedules of the Public Employees Retirement and Police and Fireman’s Disability and Pension Funds, each employee with ten or more years of service with the Municipality upon retirement and who was not eligible to retire on January 1, 2013, shall receive payment based upon the employee’s rate of pay at retirement for twenty-five percent (25%) of the employee’s accrued but unused sick leave at retirement, up to a maximum payment for 240 hours. (Ord. 13-104. Passed 4-4-13.)