(a) A regular full time employee shall be granted three (3) days of funeral pay to arrange and/or attend the funeral of a member of the employee's immediate family. For the purpose of this section an employee's immediate family shall include father, mother, brother, sister, spouse, child, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, stepmother, stepfather, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild and any other relative residing in the household of the employee.
(b) In the event of the death of the employee's father, mother, brother, sister, spouse or child, the employee, upon giving notice, shall have the right to take up to an additional three (3) days of sick pay. Such additional time shall be charged to the employee's accumulated sick days but the sick time usage under this section shall have no effect on Bonus Days Section 2117.105, the forty-eight (48) hour “Reporting Proof of Illness” provision under Section 2117.101, and the two hundred ninety-four (294) hour/ten (10) hour accumulation threshold under Section 2117.99, “Accumulation and Payment of Sick Days”. At the employee's option, the employee may choose to use vacation and/or compensatory time to cover the additional three (3) days.
In the event the third day of such period of mourning falls on Saturday, Sunday or a recognized holiday, then the employee shall be allowed the first scheduled work day thereafter. Should a death or burial in the immediate family occur in a city located more than one hundred and fifty (150) miles from Toledo, an additional two (2) days for travel shall be granted and paid.
(c) An employee may take one (1) or two (2) days to attend the funeral and reserve a day to attend to legal matters made necessary by the death, but such time provided herein shall be taken within one (1) week after the date of burial. This benefit shall also be extended when the relative is a veteran being returned for burial.
(d) One (1) day of funeral pay shall be granted to attend the funeral of an employee's foster mother, foster father, aunt, uncle, first cousin, niece, nephew, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, if such funeral occurs on a regular work day and if such employee was scheduled to work that day.
(e) Where a special filial relationship exists between the employee and any relative for whom the employee would normally be granted the above one (1) day of funeral pay, three (3) days of funeral pay will be granted upon furnishing of an affidavit to the Department of Human Resources setting forth the facts as to the special relationship.
(f) Relationships within this policy which came into existence solely on account of marriage of an employee shall be considered dissolved on the same day said marriage is dissolved by law or death.
The relationships of aunt, uncle, first cousin, niece or nephew shall not be considered to come into existence on account of the marriage of an employee.
The wife or husband of an employee's spouse's sibling shall not be considered to be a sister-in-law or brother-in-law of the employee.
(g) An employee shall be granted funeral pay only after the employee furnishes evidence of the death of a person with whom the employee had a qualifying relationship.