(A) For voluntary or involuntary active military duty, employees must have military orders, in most cases printed and distributed prior to the active duty date but in some cases printed and/or distributed after the individual has progressed two or three days into the active duty period.
(B) Employees must provide copies of their orders to the Mayor, Fiscal Officer, and BPA, if appropriate, at least two weeks in advance of the leave date or as soon as they need for leave is known, whichever is earlier. If deployed prior to orders being issued, employees must submit a letter (on military unit letterhead) signed by the military commander as a temporary document until orders are received.
(C) Employees must include “appropriate and reasonable travel time” to and from the military duty station in the total leave requested (not to exceed 180 days - i.e., if an employee is ordered to active military duty (or volunteers) for a period of 45 days at a location of less than 100 miles, the employee should request military leave for 47 days).
(D) The village cannot deny military leave for failure to properly notify the appointing authority. However, employees on military leave without written or verbal notification to their supervisor or department head may receive disciplinary action.
(E) No single leave of absence or combination of uniformed service leaves of absence may exceed five years or a single, longer period required to complete an initial period of obligated service, unless otherwise permitted in 38 U.S.C. § 4312(c).
(Ord. 1447, passed 10-20-2009; Ord. 1473, passed 12-7-2010; Ord. passed 1-1-2019)