Sick Hours. Article 5 .............................5.3 10 Strike and Lockout ...................... Article 23 35 Tardy............................................ Article 5 .............................5.5 11 Temporary Employees................. Article 1 .............................1.3, 1.4 2 Union Recognition........................ Article 3 5 Union Shop .................................. Article 25 40 Vacation ...................................... Article 8 14
Sick Hours. Employees hired before January 1, 2009, with one (1) or more years of service with the Company are entitled to a maximum of forty-eight (48) hours if the employee works an eight (8) hour shift or fifty (50) hours if the employee works a ten (10) hour shift. Employees hired after January 1, 2009, are entitled to sick hours in accordance with the following schedule: Service Time Number of Sick Hours For 8 Hour Employees Number of Sick Hours For 10 Hour Employees Less than 1 year 0 0 More than 1 year; less than 3 16 20 More than 3 years; less than 5 32 30 More than 5 years 48 50 Sick hours become available each January 1. An employee may use sick time in half-day increments of either four (4) or five (5) hours depending on the employees shift of either eight (8) or ten (10) hours. Employees may either sell back or bank any unused sick hours earned in a calendar year at the end of such calendar year. Unused sick hours will be paid at the employee's rate of pay and work shift (i.e., eight-hour or ten-hour) as of the last day such employee worked in that calendar year. Employees are not entitled to pay for any unused sick hours earned in a calendar year at termination or resignation. Unused sick hours may accumulate from one year to the next up to a maximum of two- hundred (200) hours. Employees are entitled to pay for any accumulated, banked sick days upon sickness, termination, or resignation.
Sick Hours. Section 1. Non-sworn, non-exempt police personnel and aviation personnel employed by the City prior to January 1, 2002, who chose to continue under the “old sick time program,” shall earn four (4) sick hours every two (2) weeks. Accumulated sick hours shall be credited at the end of each pay period. Sick hours are to be used for actual illness or injury or the prescribed treatment or therapy of said illness or injury, which prevents the employee from reporting to work. Sick hours may also be used for the employee to attend to the illness, injury or prescribed treatment or therapy of an employee’s spouse, parent or child. Sick hours may be used in increments of one (1) hour. An employee using more than twenty-four (24) consecutive sick hours, or the use of any sick hours the day before or the day after a holiday, may be required to present a physician’s statement or other proof of illness upon the employee’s return to work, in order to receive pay for the claimed sick hours and/or holiday pay. Employees covered by this section who have accumulated more than four hundred eighty (480) hours of sick time, with the approval of the department head, may use hours in excess of 480 for personal business. Accumulated sick hours up to a maximum of six hundred and forty (640) hours shall be paid to the employee upon separation from employment for any reason except discharge for cause, when the employee resigns or retires at age 62 or older with five (5) continuous years of employment, or at any age with fifteen (15) years of continuous service with the City.
Sick Hours. Eligible paid sick hours shall be calculated to a maximum of seven hours per day.
