(a) Each full time employee who is regularly scheduled to work forty (40) hours each week is entitled for each completed eighty (80) hours of service to sick leave of four and six- tenths (4 6/10) hours with pay. Employees may use sick leave 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 without limit. No sick leave benefit is available for employees who are regularly scheduled less than forty (40) hours each week.
(b) In the event such employee requests more than three (3) consecutive days of sick leave, the department head may require the employee to furnish an affidavit as to the cause of his absence or certification by a duly licensed physician that such absence is due to illness or injury.
(c) When an employee has used thirty consecutive days of sick leave, or in any other case the Mayor deems proper, the Mayor may require the employee to submit to an examination by one or more duly licensed physicians selected by the Mayor, and the Mayor shall not authorize further sick leave unless that physician certifies that such employee is not able to carry his duties due to illness or injury.
(d) In all cases where an employee desires to use sick leave, notice shall be given to the department head prior to 10:00 a.m. on the first day of absence where possible.
(e) In any case where an employee for the Village has been absent from duty for thirty (30) or more consecutive work days due to injury or illness, such employee shall not return to work unless he is deemed physically able to resume his duties by a duly licensed physician.
In such instances, the Mayor may designate two (2) duly licensed physicians and the employee shall select one of them. The physician shall then examine the employee and the employee may resume his employment when that physician certifies he is able to do so.
(Ord. 2013-12. Passed 4-23-12.)