(a) Each full-time employee of this municipality shall be entitled to sick leave of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for each completed eighty (80) hours of regular straight time service.
Overtime hours worked by any employee shall not be included in the calculation of sick leave credit.
(b) Each full-time employee may use sick leave, upon approval of the responsible administrative officer, for absence due to illness, injury and exposure to contagious diseases which could be communicated to other employees. In the event of serious illness or death in the immediate family, sick leave may be used as emergency paid leave in the manner set forth in Section 159.06. Immediate family is defined as and limited to: Parents, Spouse, Children, Brothers, Sisters, Grandparents, Mother-in-Law and Father-in-Law.
(c) Employees may also be eligible for Family Medical Leave pursuant to the Richmond Heights Family and Medical Leave Policy, as adopted by the Mayor from time to time, and 29 U.S.C. §2601, et seq. (the “FMLA”). Eligible employees may be entitled to Family Medical Leave because of the birth of a son or daughter and in order to care for such son or daughter; because of the placement of a son or daughter with the employee for adoption or foster care; in order to care for the employee’s spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent, if such spouse, son, daughter or parent has a serious health condition; and/or because of a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the functions of the employee’s position.
(d) 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.
(e) Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limit. The previously accumulated sick leave of an employee who has been separately from the public service of this municipality may be placed to his credit upon the employee’s re-employment by the City.
(f) Each full-time employee covered by this section upon retirement from the City will receive payment for one-third (1/3) of the employee’s accrued unused sick leave, but not to exceed nine hundred sixty (960) hours. The payment authorized hereby shall be at the annual salary rate of the employee at the time of retirement divided by 2,080 hours for all full time City employees covered by this Ordinance. An employee may have the option of taking this payment as a lump sum or to replace regular hours up to the maximum hours allowed for the lump sum payment.
(g) The Mayor or the responsible administrative officer may require the employee to furnish a satisfactory affidavit that the employee’s absence was caused by illness due to any of the causes mentioned in this section.
(h) Any full-time employee that has not used any sick leave during a calendar quarter (January 1st through March 31st; April 1st through June 30th; July 1st through September 30th; October 1st through December 31st) shall be given the equivalent of one day (8 hours) pay for that quarter.
(Ord. 24-2023. Passed 2-14-23.)