Sick Leave Benefits Sick leave is an indemnity benefit and not an acquired right. A Nurse who is absent from a scheduled shift on approved sick leave shall only be entitled to sick leave pay if the Nurse is not otherwise receiving pay for that day, and providing the Nurse has sufficient sick leave credits.
Sick Leave 21.01 Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: 1) illness or injury to the employee; 2) exposure by the employee to a contagious disease communicable to other employees; and/or 3) serious injury, illness or death in the employee's immediate family. 21.02 All full-time employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hours worked, excluding overtime, and may accumulate such sick leave hours to an unlimited amount. 21.03 An employee who is to be absent on sick leave shall notify the supervisor of such absence and the reason therefor at least one-half (1/2) hour before the start of his work shift each day he is to be absent, when possible. 21.04 Sick leave may be used in segments of not less than one (1) hour. 21.05 The Department Head may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, (e.g., obituary notice from a newspaper) or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by the Department Head and paid by the Employer. In the event, an employee absent for more than three (3) consecutive days must supply a physician's report to be eligible for paid sick leave. Such requirement shall not be imposed in an arbitrary or capricious manner. 21.06 If the employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury or death upon request, or in the event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the report of medical examination, the Department Head finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness, injury or death sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave may be considered an unauthorized leave and shall be without pay. 21.07 Any abuse of sick leave or the patterned use of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for discipline as may be determined by the Department Head. 21.08 The Department Head may require an employee who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined, by a physician designated and paid by the Employer, to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his normal duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. 21.09 When the use of sick leave is due to serious illness or injury in the immediate family, "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employee's spouse and children unless the employee has no spouse in which case the employee's parents shall be included in the immediate family. When the use of sick leave is due to death in the immediate family, "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employees parents, spouse, child, brother, sister, grandparents, parents-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, aunts and uncles. 21.10 An employee who transfers from this Department to another Department of the Employer, shall be allowed to transfer his accumulated sick leave to the new Department, providing that his amount or accumulated sick leave shall not exceed the accumulation limit in effect in his new Department. 21.11 Each employee who has accumulated in excess of nine hundred (900) hours sick leave and has not used all the sick leave hours accumulated since December 31" of the previous year may receive payment for the unused sick leave accumulated during that year to the ratio of one (1) hour of pay for each three (3) sick leave hours (one-third of sick leave accrual for that year) and one (1) hour for each three (3) sick leave hours (one-third of sick leave accrual for that year) will be added to the employee's total accumulated sick leave. The eligible employee who has met the threshold amount of sick leave accumulation may, at his option, elect not to take the cash option but may continue to accumulate two-third (2/3) of his accrued sick leave for that calendar year. One-third of the annual unused sick leave shall be forfeited to the City each year upon accrual of the threshold amount The option to cash out one-third time or to accumulate two-thirds (2/3) must be made immediately after December 31st . Employees who opt for the cash conversion of sick leave will be paid in the first pay period in February at the prior year's rate of pay. Upon retirement of a full-time employee who has not less than ten (10) years of continuous service with the Employer and is eligible to receive payments from a state pension plan, the employee shall be entitled to receive a cash payment equal to his rate of pay at the time of retirement multiplied by one-half (1/2) the total number of accumulated and unused sick leave hours, earned by the employee as certified by the Finance Director, providing that such resulting number of hours to be paid shall not exceed six hundred fifty (650) sick leave hours. 21.12 An employee shall be granted time off with pay without deduction from any sick leave for the purposes of attending the funeral of a member of the employee's immediate family. The employee shall be entitled to a maximum of three (3) days off for each death in the immediate family. For the purposes of this article, "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employee's spouse, children, parents, brothers, sisters, parents-in-law or person in loco parentis. 21.13 Funeral leave may be extended upon approval, with the use of holidays, vacation days, sick days or compensatory days. 21.14 When an employee is unable to work due to a serious illness or injury and has used all available accumulated leave, the City may permit any other bargaining unit member(s), who has (have) a minimum of 400 hours of sick leave, at that employee's discretion, to transfer their accumulated sick leave up to eighty (80) hours and/or bonus sick leave from their own account to that of the employee without any accumulated leave. Such transfers shall not count as sick leave usage of the employee donating the leave for purposes of this Agreement.
Sick Leave Benefit Plan The Sick Leave Benefit Plan will provide sick leave days and short term disability days for reasons of personal illness, personal injury, including personal medical appointments and personal dental appointments.
Sick Leave Payout No cash payment for unused sick leave will be paid to any employee leaving the service of the Employer.