(a) Each employee shall be entitled, for each completed eighty hours of service, to sick leave of 4.6 hours with pay. However, such sick leave shall not be accumulated on overtime hours, but only on regular hours of service. Employees may use sick leave, upon approval of the responsible administrative officer in the employee's department, for absence due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which would be communicated to other employees, and illness or injury 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 hour for every one hour of absence from previously scheduled work. However, when sick leave is used for injury or exposure to contagious disease received on duty from a patient who has received emergency medical treatment, which occurs while the employee is on duty, it shall not be deducted from the employee's credit. The previously accumulated sick leave of an employee who has been separated from public service may be placed to his or her credit upon his or her re-employment in public service, provided that such re-employment takes place within ten years of the date on which the employee was last terminated from public service. An employee who transfers to the City from a different public agency shall be credited with the unused balance of his or her accumulated sick leave up to a maximum of 500 hours. Each department supervisor is authorized to establish and publish regulations concerning sick leave and shall require the employee to furnish a satisfactory written, signed statement to justify the use of sick leave, provided that the same is not in conflict with Civil Service Commission regulations. If medical attention is required, a certificate stating the nature of the illness shall be required from the attending physician justifying 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.
As used in this section,"contagious disease" means a disease recorded in the medical records of the transported patient and which is infectious in nature, but does not include common ailments such as influenza, the common cold, etc.
(b) Any employee whose employment is terminated, for any reason whatsoever, after five or more years of public service with the City, may elect, at the time of termination, to be paid in cash for one-fourth of unused sick leave credit. Such payment shall be calculated by multiplying one-fourth of unused sick leave credit hours by the total of the previous two years of salary of the employee and then dividing the resulting product by 4.160 if the employee is a member of the Police Department, the Dispatcher Division, the Service Department or the Building Department. However, such payment for an employee of the Fire Department shall be calculated based on 5,824. Such payment shall eliminate all unused sick leave credit accrued by the employee at that time. Any employee who is terminated, for any reason whatsoever, after ten or more years of public service with the City, may elect, at the time of termination, to be paid in cash for forty percent of unused sick leave credit. The calculation of such sick leave credit shall be computed as previously provided. Such unused sick leave shall be payable to the surviving spouse in the event the employee’s death.
(Ord. 106-87. Passed 10-27-87.)