(A) Sick leave for Police Department.
(1) Accrual. Effective September 1, 2005, full-time sworn employees shall accrue sick leave hours at the rate of seven hours per month, starting the last day of the first full month of employment. Earned sick leave time shall be accumulated from year to year, not to exceed 960 hours total. Part-time employees shall not accrue sick leave.
(2) Doctor’s statement required. When an employee is returning to work from a sick leave of three consecutive days or more, the employee shall have a statement from his or her physician releasing them to return to work.
(3) Illness longer than accrued time. In case of illness or accident where an employee is off for more than his or her accrued sick time, and he or she has used all available other time off (vacation, compensation time, etc.), it shall be the employee’s responsibility to apply to the Local Pension Board for disability leave. When disability leave is applied for, it shall be done in accordance with the state law governing policy pensions. If disability leave is not applied for or not granted, the employee’s salary shall be discontinued until he or she can return to work.
(a) Police officers seriously injured in the line of duty status shall be paid for 60 work days from the time of injury at normal rate of pay, with no penalty to sick time, vacation time, comp time, or holiday pay. To qualify for serious body injury pay in an on-duty status, the Chief of Police and/or designee must submit complete reports to the Board of Works for approval. After the 60- day period, must revert back to division (A)(3). Any PERF Disability payments received during the 60-work-day period, while being paid by the city, shall be returned to the city.
(b) Any extensive illness or injury that is not job-related, where a police officer that was employed after January 1, 1993, is unable to perform his or her duties for a period longer than 120 consecutive days, shall be referred to the Police Pension Board and the Board of Public Works and Safety for a final disposition. The city will assume its share of the cost for the police officer insurance premiums for a period of three months while such police officer is on sick leave. After such period of time, the city shall not be liable for the insurance premiums unless extended by the appropriate board. Such leave of absence shall not affect the police officer’s employment seniority status. Such police officer shall receive his or her regular rate of pay until otherwise determined by the Pension Board and/or the Board of Public Works and Safety.
(4) Use of sick leave. Sick leave shall only be used for bona fide illness. During the regular working hours of the employee, he or she shall remain at home, or at some other location approved by his or her supervisor. Visits to a physician, a pharmacy or some other type of care facility are approved during these hours. If a physician orders some other type of rest or recuperation, the employee must notify his or her supervisor. The Chief of Police and/or designee may approve this time if an emergency exists in his or her immediate family (mother, father, mother-in-law, father-in-law, wife, husband, children, step-children).
(5) (a) If an employee left his or her employment with the city prior to January 1, 2007, after serving at least 365 days of full-time employment, is then rehired within one year of separation from employment, and then completes an additional 365 days of full-time employment, he or she will receive prior service credit for years worked as a full-time employee, and shall be credited with the balance of his or her prior sick leave hours.
(b) Full-time employees hired prior to January 1, 2018, are entitled to payment of their unused sick time hours not to exceed a set maximum amount of hours. The set maximum amount of hours is established per employee. The maximum amount of sick time hours is determined and set at the highest balance of sick time hours the employee has accrued during the 2018 calendar year. Employees will be provided a letter of acknowledgment stating their set maximum amount of sick time hours. Once acknowledged and signed by the employee, the letter will remain in the employee’s personnel file.
(c) The amount of hours accrued at the time of termination, not to exceed the set maximum amount of sick time hours per individual, will then be paid based on their years of full-time service with the city. If an employee leaves his or her employment with the city on or after January 1, 2007, after serving at least 365 days of full-time employment, is then rehired within one year of separation from employment, and then completes an additional 365 days of full-time employment, he or she will receive prior service credit for years worked as a full-time employee. However, the rehired employee will not receive sick time hours left unpaid to him or her at the time of his or her termination date. The rehired employee will start their re-employment with the city with a zero sick time balance.
(d) Payment of accrued sick time is as follows:
Years of Full-time Service | Percentage of Sick Time Payout |
5 Years | 30% |
10 Years | 50% |
15 Years | 75% |
20 Years | 100%
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(e) Payment will be calculated at the employee’s current base rate, plus longevity rate, plus education incentive pay rate, and may be included in the employee’s last regular earnings paycheck, if possible, or in a separate check. Full-time employees hired or rehired on or after January 1, 2018, are not entitled to payment of their unused sick time hours.
(B) Sick leave for Fire Department. The city’s policies for sick leave and sick accrual are set out in the current, effective Meet and Confer agreement between the City of Noblesville and the members of the Noblesville Fire Department.
(Ord. 11-3-93, passed 3-22-93; Am. Ord. 57-12-95, passed 12-12-95; Am. Ord. 49-11-01, passed 11- 27-01; Am. Ord. 47-10-02, passed 10-29-02; Am. Ord. 51-11-02, passed 11-26-02; Am. Ord. 57-08-05, passed 8-23-05; Am. Ord. 87-10-06, passed 10-24-06; Am. Ord. 12-2-07, passed 2-16-07; Am. Ord. 70-12-07, passed 12-16-07; Am. Ord. 58-11-08, passed 11-25-08; Am. Ord. 57-12-09, passed 12-15- 09; Am. Ord. 9-2-11, passed 2-8-11; Am. Ord. 08-01-14, passed 2-11-14; Am. Ord. 11-02-15, passed 2-10-15; Am. Ord. 42-10-17, passed 10-24-17; Am. Ord. 25-06-19, passed 6-11-19)