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149.11 SICK LEAVE. <br /> (a) (1) Effective .lanuarY 1, 2002, a full-time, permanent hourly employee <br /> or annual salaried employee shall accrue 4.6 hours of sick 'leave for <br /> every 80 hours actually worked. <br /> (2) Probationary emPloyees shall receive no sick leave during the first <br /> ninety (90) days of their probationary period but will receive credit <br /> upon expiration of the first 'ninety (90) days of their probationary <br /> · period for all time spent as a probationary employee. <br /> (3) Sick leave may be utilized on account of illness or injury <br /> incapacitating, the employee from work and for visits to a physician <br /> or dentist w~thout loss of regular time pay, vacation, seniority or <br /> other rights or privileges. In addition, sick leave may be utilized to <br /> care for a spouse, parent or child on account of the spouse, <br /> parent's or child's illness. <br /> <br /> (b) In the event an employee becomes or continues to be incapacitated from <br />work by reason of illness or injury after his accrued sick leave is used up, the Mayor <br />may grant furb~er sick leave up to a total of ninety calendar days, in add t on to the sick <br />leave accrued as hereinabove provided. <br /> <br />(c) The Mayor and Division heads are hereby empowered to take such steps <br />as may be reasonably necessary to prevent improper taking of sick leave. Such steps <br />may include but are not limited to: <br />(1) · Requiring from the employee his affidavit that the absence was or <br />is necessaryfor reasons of health; <br />(2) Requ~nng' ' that the. employee,~ furnish a certificate from a qualified <br />physician stabng that ~orking will be or would have been <br />definitely injurious to the employee's health, e~ that it was or is <br />physically impossible for the employee to perform the duties of his <br />job, or that a spouse, parent or child was in need of the care that <br />Was provided by the employee; and <br /> (3) Requiring that the employee, at reasonable intervals, submit to <br /> examination by the Commissioner of Health, or by a physician <br /> designated by him. <br /> <br /> (d) ]:n the event that an employee is determined to have taken sick leave <br />without due cause, such leave shall be cancelled forthwith and the employee ordered to <br />return to work. In addition to any other penalty permitted by law for improper taking of <br />sick leave, an employee may be aeprived of wages for the period of his improper <br />absence or compelled to repay any wages he may have received therefor, and may be <br />penalized by forfeiture of any part or all of his accrued sick leave. From any disciplinary <br />action which may be taken hereunder the employee shall have the same rights to <br />appeal oi' to obtain review that pertain in event of disciplinary lay off or discharge. <br /> <br /> 149.111 STCK LEAVE ACCUIqULAT]:ON AND CONVERSION. <br /> (a) Effective 3anuary 1, 2002, all fulI-Ume, permanent, hourly employees and <br />annual salaried employees not covered by a collective ba__rgaining agreement may <br />accumulate 120 days of unused sick leave and they shall *be allowed to convert twenty- <br />five percent (25%) of such sick leave into a lump sumca. sh payment up to a maximum <br />of thirty days of pay upon retirement, resignation or death. <br /> <br /> (b) The lump sum sick leave conversion payment provided for herein shall be <br />made within twenty-one days after retirement, resignation or death. <br /> <br /> (c) All full-time, permanent employees and annual salaried employees not <br />covered by a collective bargaining agreement, who have accumulated more than 120 <br />days of sick leave may convert on a three-to-one basis all days accumulated over 120 <br />days into a lump sum cash payment at the end of each calendar year. <br /> <br /> 149.112 PERFECT ATTENDANCE BONUS. <br /> Effective 3anuary 1, 2002, all full-time, permanent employees and annual <br />salaried employees not covered by a collective bargaining agreement with the City, who <br />complete any calendar quarter with perfect attendance, shall be entitled to a bonus <br />payment equivalent to the greater of eight (8) hours of pay at their current rate of pay <br />or $100.00. However, no bonus paid shall be more than $200.00. For purposes of this <br />section, an employee shall be considered to have perfect attendance if said employee <br />has no time absent whatsoeve? in the calendar quarter attributed to an unpaid absence <br />(except approved FMLA Leave) or the use of paid sick leave during the quarter. For the <br />purposes of this section, Calendar Quarters are defined as follows: <br /> <br />17 <br /> <br /> <br />