(a) All full-time employees of the Municipality shall be entitled to bereavement pay for time off of up to three regular working days when death occurs in their immediate family. On his or her request, an employee will be excused after making written application therefor to his or her immediate supervisor. He or she shall be paid for time off only during the period commencing with the date of death and ending with the second calendar day after the day of the funeral, provided that he or she attends the funeral. Under no circumstances shall an employee be paid bereavement pay for more than three days for time off for each bereavement.
(b) The employee shall receive bereavement pay for each day that he or she is absent from his or her forty-four work shift week, up to a maximum of three full working days on which the employee is absent during the period established in subsection (a) hereof.
(c) An employee who returns to work on or after the day of the funeral will not be eligible for bereavement pay for any subsequent absence in connection with that bereavement.
(d) Payment shall be made at the employee’s straight time hourly rate.
(e) For the purposes of this section, “immediate family” means an employee’s spouse, parent, child, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister or brother.
(Ord. 1975-79. Passed 8-27-75.)