§ 16-30. Sick/personal leave.

(a)

Regular full-time employees shall accrue sick/personal leave based on actual hours worked beginning on the first day of employment. Note that new full-time employees accrue sick/personal leave from their first date of employment but are not eligible for sick/personal leave until they have completed their new hire probationary period of ninety (90) days.

(b)

Each regular full-time employee shall accrue sick/personal leave based on actual hours worked at the rate of one (1) workday per month, with a maximum accumulation of one thousand forty (1,040) hours (based on two thousand eighty (2,080) annual hours) of sick/personal days. Police officers and firefighters maximum accumulation is one thousand one hundred eleven and one-half (1,111.5) hours and one thousand four hundred fifty-six (1,456.0) hours respectively.

(c)

The employee shall report his or her illness prior to their scheduled work time if possible, and if not, within the first thirty (30) minutes after the time he or she is scheduled to have reported to work. Every effort shall be made to report an illness prior to his or her scheduled work time.

(d)

Sick leave shall be allowed to an eligible employee in the case of actual sickness or disability of the employee or for medical, dental or eye examinations or treatments for which arrangements cannot be made outside of working hours. All time lost through sickness shall be deducted from the employee's accrued total of sick leave at the time the absence occurs.

(e)

Employees may use personal leave for emergencies such as a sudden illness in a family member or a personal crisis. When an employee intends to use personal leave time for purposes other than an emergency, the supervisor must grant permission for the leave at least twenty-four (24) hours in advance. Employees are eligible for three (3) days of personal leave per calendar year. Personal leave is charged to the employee's accrued total of sick leave at the time the absence occurs. Personal leave is to be considered on the basis of a calendar year, and cannot be carried over from year to year. Any part of personal leave not used during the calendar year remains as unused accrued sick time.

(f)

Sick/personal leave pay will be paid only if approved by the department head after review of a written request for approval submitted by the employee upon his or her first day returning to work. The department head and/or the city manager may disapprove a request and that decision shall be final.

(g)

As an incentive to accumulate sick/personal leave, reimbursement for unused sick/personal leave will be paid each year to those eligible employees' employed on January 15 according to the following schedule:

Sick/personal leave accumulated as of 12/31	No sick/personal leave used	1 day of sick/personal leave used
24 days	1 days' pay	½ days' pay
48 days	2 days' pay	1 days' pay
72 days	3 days' pay	2 days' pay
90 days	5 days' pay	3 days' pay

 

(h)

There is no vested right to sick/personal leave.

(Ord. No. 34-01, § 1, 9-6-01; Ord. No. 39-04, § 1, 6-3-04)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 34-01, adopted Sept. 6, 2001, repealed former section 16-30, sick leave, and enacted a new section 16-30, sick/personal leave, as set out herein. Former said section pertained to similar subject matter and derived from Code 1976, § 2-2011(b), (c), and Ord. No. 32-00, adopted July, 20, 2000.