[Amended 6-25-2001 by Ord. No. 21-2001]
A. Full-time employees shall be allowed 12 sick leave days per year, which shall be accumulated at the rate of one day per working month. However, no sick leave shall be accumulated unless an employee works at least half the days during the pay period when an employee is on sick leave.
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B. Employees shall accrue unused sick leave from year to year with a maximum accumulation of 45 days. However, employees who have previously accumulated an amount of sick leave in excess of 45 days shall retain their current accumulated total. Any employee who has accumulated sick leave in excess of the forty-five-day maximum shall be red-lined at his/ her level of accumulation. No employee who has accumulated an excess of 45 days of sick leave shall be allowed to accumulate any other sick leave until and unless such person goes below the forty-five day maximum. Said person shall only be able to accumulate sick leave once they have initially gone below the forty-five-day limit.
C. At the end of each calendar year, an employee shall become entitled to compensatory time off or pay at his regular daily rate of base pay in an amount equal to one day for each calendar quarter in which the employee used none of his allowable sick leave during the year just ended. The employee shall have the option to choose either time off with pay or just pay.
D. Upon separation from the City of Reading, all sick leave is forfeited. Remaining balances cannot be transferred to another employee.
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(1) An employee with five years' seniority who has accumulated a minimum of 30 sick leave days or more who then experiences an illness of 16 working days or more will be eligible to accrue sick leave at the rate of 2 1/2 days per month for the total number of months it would take them to reach a thirty-day accumulation. The total number of months during which the employee may accumulate at the rate of 2 1/2 days per month rate shall be as set forth in the schedule below. During the number of months that the employee would be entitled to accumulate at the two-and-one-half-day rate, any absences shall be subtracted from the days being accumulated. At the end of the period of months during which the employee is entitled to accumulate at the rate of 2 1/2 days per month, the employee would then revert back to the one day a month.
Schedule
Number of Months Eligible to Accumulate 2 1/2
Balance of Sick Days Remaining | 2 Days Per Month |
29 | 1 |
28 | 1 |
27 | 1 |
26 | 2 |
25 | 2 |
24 | 2 |
23 | 3 |
22 | 3 |
21 | 4 |
20 | 4 |
19 | 4 |
18 | 5 |
17 | 5 |
16 | 5 |
15 | 6 |
14 | 6 |
13 | 7 |
12 | 7 |
11 | 8 |
10 | 8 |
9 | 8
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12. Editor's Note: Original Subsection B, regarding accumulation of sick days, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed during codification (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Part 2).
13. Editor's Note: Amended during codification (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Part 2).
Schedule
Balance of Sick Days Remaining | Number of Months Eligible to Accumulate 2 1/ 2 Days Per Month |
Balance of Sick Days Remaining | Number of Months Eligible to Accumulate 2 1/ 2 Days Per Month |
8 | 9 |
7 | 9 |
6 | 10 |
5 | 10 |
4 | 10 |
3 | 11 |
2 | 11 |
1 | 12 |
0 | 12
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