Disability sick leave shall be as follows:
(a) Any regular employee who is injured or disabled while in the performance of his duties, under such circumstances as would cause such injury or disability to be compensable under the Workers' Compensation Laws of the State shall be carried on the regular payroll of the City for the period of disability which is the direct result of such injury or disability, providing the extent of the injury or disability prevents such person from following his usual duties and provided further that such period shall in no case exceed sixty calendar days.
(b) Should such disability exceed sixty calendar days, the Mayor, on application therefor and proof of continued disability, may extend the period during which such person is carried on the regular payroll. The length of such extended period or periods shall not exceed one year.
(c) Injury pay extension requests, accompanied by a statement of the attending physician setting forth the nature of the illness or injury and the need for additional time, must be presented to the Mayor no later than one week after expiration of the original sixty day disability period. If the above requirements are not fulfilled, the request for injury pay extension may not be considered.
(d) In the event the Bureau of Workers' Compensation denies any claim as not being sustained in the course of and arising out of employment or related to an old injury, disability pay charged to injury days will be charged to sick days.
(e) Holidays which occur during approved injury disability periods shall be considered as ordinary calendar days. Holidays which occur during injury days which are subsequently disallowed shall in no event be charged against the employee's sick day accumulation.
(f) If an employee returns to work prior to expiration of the original sixty calendar day period and then is disabled at a later date due to the same injury, he may use the unused portion of the sixty calendar day period and thereafter follow the procedure outlined in these rules.
(g) The employee shall refund to the Treasury of the City amounts received as temporary total disability benefits under the Ohio Workers' Compensation Law.
(h) The Safety Director is hereby directed and authorized to prepare forms to be used by employees when applying for disability sick leave, such forms to include, among other things, an assignment by the employee of any temporary total disability benefits paid under Ohio Workers' Compensation Law.
(Ord. 64-1977. Passed 4-25-77.)