163.05 SICK LEAVE.

   Each full-time employee of the City, including full-time hourly rated employees and excepting members of the Fire Department, scheduled on a fifty-one hour work week, shall be entitled to earn and accrue sick leave at the rate of ten hours each calendar month not to exceed one hundred twenty hours any calendar year from January 1 through December 31.

   Members of the Fire Department scheduled on a fifty-one hour work week shall be entitled to earn and accrue sick leave at the rate of fourteen hours each calendar month not to exceed one hundred sixty-eight and twenty-two hundredths hours any calendar year from January 1 through December 31.

   Allowance for sick leave, on the basis of weekly and biweekly pay periods shall be 0.0577 hour for each hour recorded on the time sheet excluding sick and overtime hours, for City employees excepting members of the Fire Department scheduled on a fifty-one hour work week.

   The head of each department shall be permitted to advance sick leave beyond the earned amount, when, in his judgment, it is equitable to do so and when the employee has no available vacation leave, sick leave accumulated, or other paid leave. All said leave must be exhausted prior to the advancement of sick leave. The employee must have filed for and been approved for extended leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) guidelines. The amount of leave being requested shall not exceed the amount of leave necessary to complete the lesser of the allotted time remaining under FMLA or one hundred twenty (120) hours.

   An employee who has received an advance of sick leave who subsequently terminates employment with the City shall have the amount of such advanced sick leave deducted from any payment due such employee from the City at the rate of pay in effect when the employee used the sick leave. Any arrearage remaining shall be a debt to the City, collectible in the manner provided by law.

   Sick leave may not be earned or accrued by any employee while the employee is on sick leave or injured-on-duty leave. (Ord. 10-193. Passed 6-16-10.)