(a) All full-time, regular employees of the Village shall be entitled for each completed eighty (80) hours of service to sick leave of two and three-tenths (2 3/10) hours with pay. No temporary, seasonal or part-time employees shall be entitled to sick leave under this provision.
(b) Such employees may use sick leave, upon approval of the Mayor, for absences due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease that could be communicated to other employees, and illness, injury or death in the employee’s immediate family. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limit. When sick leave is used, it shall be deducted from the employee’s credit on the basis of one (1) hour for every one (1) hour of absence from previously scheduled work.
(c) The previously accumulated sick leave of an employee who has been separated from the public service shall be placed to the employee’s credit upon the employee’s re-employment in the public service, provided that the re-employment takes place within ten (10) years of the date on which the employee was late terminated from public service. This ten (10) year period shall be tolled for any period during which the employee holds elective public office, whether by election or by appointment.
(d) An employee who transfers from one public agency to another shall be credited with the unused balance of the employee’s accumulated sick leave up to the maximum of the sick leave accumulation permitted in the public agency to which the employee transfers.
(e) The Mayor or Council, whichever constitutes the appointing authority of the employee, shall require an employee to furnish a satisfactory written, signed statement to justify the use of sick leave. If medical attention is required, a certificate stating the nature of the illness from a licensed physician shall be required to justify the use of sick leave. Falsification of either a written, signed statement or a physician’s certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action, including dismissal.
(f) This section does not interfere with existing unused sick leave credit in any agency of government where attendance records are maintained and credit has been given employees for unused sick leave.
(g) Any employee at the time of retirement from active service with the Village, and with ten (10) or more years of full-time service with the Village, state, political subdivision or any combination thereof, to be paid in cash for one-fourth (1/4) of the value of the employee’s accrued but unused sick leave credit. The payment shall be based on the employee’s rate of pay at the time of retirement and eliminates all sick leave credit accrued but unused by the employee at the time the payment is made. An employee may receive one or more payments under this division, but the aggregate value of accrued but unused sick leave credit that is paid shall not exceed, for all payments, the value of thirty days of accrued but unused sick leave.
(h) Any employee who becomes sick or is injured and unable to report to work shall cause notice to be given to the Village, through the employee’s department head, not later than one (1) hour before the starting time of his or her regular starting time on the first day of his or her absence and each day thereafter, if not hospitalized, or sick leave shall not be allowed. Should the injury or illness prevent the employee from making such notification, then it shall be the responsibility of his designee to comply with this requirement.
(i) The Fiscal Officer shall be informed by the Mayor, in writing, of all sick leave granted. (Ord. 21-04. Passed 7-1-21.)