New employees will not be considered eligible for sick leave benefits until satisfactorily completing a two-month probationary period.
An employee may elect, in writing, at the time of retirement from active service with the City or upon termination of employment, and with ten or more years of service at the time of such retirement or termination of employment with the City, to be paid in cash, one-third the value of his or her accrued but unused sick leave credit. The payment shall be based upon the employee's rate of pay at the time of retirement or termination of employment and eliminates all sick leave credits accrued but unused at the time payment is made.
An employee may receive one or more payments under this section, but the aggregate value of accrued but unused sick leave credit that is paid shall not exceed, for all payments, the value as hereinafter set forth:
(a) For employees who work on a forty-hour work week, 320 hours;
(Ord. 26-89. Passed 9-11-89.)
(b) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Subsection (b) was repealed as part of the 1999 updating and revision of these Codified Ordinances.)
(c) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Subsection (c) was repealed as part of the 1999 updating and revision of these Codified Ordinances.)
(d) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Subsection (d) was repealed as part of the 1999 updating and revision of these Codified Ordinances.)
(e) For employees who work on a fifty-two hour work week, 416 hours.
In case of death of the employee, the surviving spouse, upon written request, may be paid in cash one-third the aggregate value of the employee's accrued but unused sick leave credits as herein provided without requiring Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration. If Letters Testamentary or Letters of Administration are thereafter issued upon the estate of the deceased employee, the surviving spouse shall account to and be liable for the amount received to the executor or administrator of the estate.
(Ord. 26-89. Passed 9-11-89; Ord. 16-24. Passed 3-25-24.)