135.04 SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE.
(a) Sick Leave Entitlement and Use. Each full-time permanent employee, for whom sick leave is not otherwise especially provided for, shall be entitled for each completed eighty (80) hours of service to sick leave of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours with pay. Employees may use sick leave, upon approval of the responsible administrative officer of the City, for absence due to personal illness, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees, and to illness, injury, or death in the employee's immediate family. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative up to 180 work days.
(b) Sick Leave Conversion.
(1) Each full-time permanent employee, other than an employee who is a member of a collective bargaining unit with which the City has a collective bargaining agreement, who has accumulated in excess of ninety (90) days sick leave as of November 1 of any year, may receive payment for the excess sick leave accumulated since November 1 of the previous year at the ratio of one (1) day of pay for each three (3) sick leave days so accumulated, such payment to be made in the month of December of that year. Each such permanent employee may accumulate sick leave up to 180 days, and may elect to convert unused sick leave in excess of ninety (90) days at the rate of one (1) day for each three (3) days so accumulated and accumulate the other two days up to 180 days.
(2) Each full-time permanent employee other than an employee who is a member of a collective bargaining unit with which the City has a collective bargaining agreement, who shall have at least ten (10) years of service with the City shall upon his/her termination of employment for other than disciplinary reasons, receive payment based upon the employee's rate of pay upon termination of employment, for one-half of the employee's accrued but unused sick leave.
(c) Funeral Leave. Each full-time permanent employee other than an employee who is a member of a collective bargaining unit with which the City has a collective bargaining agreement shall be granted three (3) days funeral leave to attend a funeral of a member of the immediate family. If the funeral is held 350 miles or more from the City, then an additional two (2) days maximum sick leave may be taken. For purposes of this section, "immediate family" means parents, grandparents, mother-in-law, father-in-law, spouse, child and brother or sister.
(Ord. 99-110. Enacted 7-12-99.)