163.05.3 SICK LEAVE/ATTENDANCE ABUSE POLICY.

   (a)   Employees shall maintain a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) hours of accrued sick leave. There is an eighteen (18)-month grace period from the date of hiring to accrue to 120 hours. Any employee without such accumulation is required to submit a signed medical practitioners statement in order to receive sick leave payment.

(Ord. 01-400. Passed 12-19-01.)

   (b)   Any employee suspected of abusing sick leave and/or showing a pattern of abuse shall be subject to counseling by his/her department head. A pattern of abuse consists of absence while on sick leave as evidenced by a frequency or pattern contiguous or related to holidays, weekends, vacation and/or consistent regular usage, or a method of usage of available sick leave. Further abuse/patterned use will result in disciplinary action.

(Ord. 99-224. Passed 6-2-99.)

   (c)   This policy shall also apply to the Youngstown Municipal Court and the Youngstown Clerk of Courts.

(Ord. 99-259. Passed 6-9-99.)