(a) Each permanent non-unionized full-time employee and part-time employee averaging twenty-three hours or more, of the City shall be entitled to four and six tenths hours of sick leave accrual for each eighty hours worked per pay period. When an employee works less than eighty hours per pay period, the sick leave accrual is pro-rated.
(b) Temporary and seasonal employees are not entitled to sick leave.
(c) Employees may use sick leave upon approval of their departmental supervisor due to personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to a contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees, and for absence from work due to illness or injury in the employee’s immediate family, spouse, child, mother, mother-in-law, father, father-in-law, grandparents, brother, sister, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle or legal guardian.
(d) Unused sick leave shall be cumulative without limit.
(e) When sick leave is used it shall be deducted from the accumulated leave on a hour for hour basis.
(f) The departmental supervisor may require an employee to furnish a satisfactory, written, signed statement to justify the use of sick leave. If medical attention is required, or the employee is absent from work due to illness or injury for five consecutive scheduled work days, a certificate stating the nature of the illness from a licensed physician may be required to justify the use of sick leave. Falsification of either a written, signed statement or a physician’s certificate shall be grounds for disciplinary action including dismissal.
(g) Full-time employees shall be credited as of January 1, 1974, with unused sick leave for full-time employment in the service of the Municipality prior to January 1, 1974, as follows:
Years of Past Employment | Days of Sick Leave Credit |
Less than 1 | 0 |
1 | 10 |
2 | 20 |
3 | 30 |
4 | 40 |
5 | 50 |
6 | 60 |
7 | 70 |
8 | 80 |
9 | 90 |
10 | 100 |
(Ord. 2002-48. Passed 11-4-02.)