Regular employees of the City hired on or before June 30, 1993 shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula July 1, 1993: One and one-quarter (1 1/4) days shall be credited for each month of service, not to exceed fifteen (15) days per calendar year. Such days shall continue to accumulate at such rate without any maximum limitation. An employee granted a leave of absence for thirty (30) calendar days or more shall not accumulate sick pay during the period the employee is on such leave.
Those employees hired on or before June 30, 1993 shall have the option of maintaining their current sick leave accrual and severance pay plan as set forth in Part A or in the sick leave conversion plan as set forth in Part B below. This election shall occur during the first six (6) months of this agreement.
Employees hired on or after July 1, 1993, shall be covered exclusively by the sick leave plan in Part B.
(A) Employees who elect to maintain their current sick leave accrual and severance pay plan shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula 7/1/93: one and one- quarter (1 1/4) days shall be credited for each month of service, not to exceed fifteen (15) days per calendar year. Such days shall continue to accumulate at such rate without any maximum limitation. Provided the conditions of Section 2117.125, Termination and Severance Pay, have been met, unused sick leave accumulated to the time of termination shall be paid at the rate of one-half (1/2) for all such accumulated sick time up to two hundred (200) days and full pay for accumulated sick time in excess of two hundred (200) days.
An employee who dies as the direct result of injuries sustained in the course of employment with the City shall receive payment for the full accumulation of sick pay at the time of death.
(B) (1) Employees hired on or before June 30, 1993, who elect the sick leave conversion plan set forth herein will bank accumulated sick leave through June 30, 1993. This banked sick leave accumulation will be used as the need for sick pay arises or may be converted to cash under the terms set forth in Part (B)(3). Provided the conditions of Section 2117.125, Termination and Severance Pay, have been met, unused sick leave from that banked effective June 30, 1993, will be paid as follows at the employee's regular rate as of June 30, 1993: one-half for all banked sick time up to two hundred (200) days and full pay for accumulated sick time in excess of two hundred (200) days.
(2) On and after June 30, 1993, employees covered by this plan shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula: seven (7) hours per month, not to exceed eighty-four (84) hours per calendar year, until two hundred ninety-four (294) hours have been accumulated, then ten (10) hours per month not to exceed one hundred and twenty (120) hours per year, thereafter; provided however, that if the employee's accumulation drops below two hundred ninety-four (294) hours or fifty percent (50%) of their total potential accumulation, whichever is greater, inclusive of sick pay used and converted, then the accrual will revert to seven (7) hours per month until the applicable threshold is regained unless it is the use of FMLA approved time, or of “documented absences” as defined in Section 2117.101(b), “Reporting - Proof of Illness”, which causes the employee's accumulation to drop below this level. Such hours shall continue to accumulate at such rate without any maximum limitation.
(3) Sick leave hours not used by the end of the year can either be turned in for payment of a percentage of salary as indicated below or carried over until retirement or separation.
The maximum number of sick hours allowed for year-end payment will be forty (40). Employees using twenty (20) hours or fewer of sick leave in the preceding calendar year shall be entitled to a conversion to pay at fifty percent (50%). Employees using more than twenty (20) but forty (40) or fewer hours shall be entitled to a conversion at thirty three percent (33%). Employees with fewer than two hundred ninety-four (294) hours of accrued sick time or who have used more than forty (40) hours in the preceding calendar year, shall not be eligible for this conversion privilege. The employee's accrued sick leave shall be reduced by the number of hours converted to cash.
(4) Provided the conditions of Section 2117.125, Termination and Severance Pay, have been met, unused sick leave accrued after June 30, 1993, will be paid as follows at the employee's regular rate at the time of termination: thirty-three percent (33%) of salary for the first four hundred eighty (480) hours and fifty percent (50%) of salary for the next four hundred eighty (480) hours for a maximum of nine hundred sixty (960) hours.
(5) An employee who dies as the direct result of injuries sustained in the course of employment with the City shall receive payment of the full accumulation of sick pay at the time of death.