ORDINANCE 95-78
<br />H. Sick Leave
<br />1. All permanent full-time employees shall be entitled for each complete eighty (80) hours of service to sick
<br />leave of four and six-tenths (4-6/10) hours with pay, except in the Fire Department where they shall earn
<br />fifteen (15) sick leave tours (1 tour = 24 hours) per year. Employees may use sick leave with the approval of
<br />their department heads for absence due to illness, injury, exposure to contagious disease and illness in the
<br />immediate family. The head of each department shall require their respective employees to famish a written
<br />signed certificate to justify the use of any sick leave taken. At the discretion of the department head, or
<br />anytime an absence due to illness exceeds three (3) days, or three (3) tours in the case of fire fighters, a
<br />statement certifying the nature of the illness from a licensed physician shall be required to justify the use of
<br />sick leave. Falsification of either a written statement or a physician's certificate shall be grounds for
<br />disciplinary action including dismissal. No sick leave may be granted upon or after retirement or termination
<br />of employment.
<br />2. Any permanent full-dme employee who, at the end or their fast calendar year of service to Mayfield Village,
<br />has an accumulation of forty five (45) days, or tours in the case of fire fighters, unused sick leave and who,
<br />during the same calendar year, has not used any of the sick days earned during that year shall be compensated
<br />at the end of the calendar year the equivalent of five (5) days, or five (5) tours in the case of fire fighters, pay
<br />without having any days deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. Sick leave accumulation lawfully
<br />transferred from prior public employees shall be included for purposes of this section. if under the foregoing
<br />circumstances, the employee has used one (1) earned sick day, or tour, during the calendar year, then said
<br />employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for four (4) days, or tours, pay without having any of
<br />said days deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the
<br />employee has used two (2) earned sick days, or tours, during the calendar year, then said employee shall be
<br />compensated at the end of the year for three (3) days, or tours, pay without having any of said days deducted
<br />from accumulated but unused sick leave. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used three
<br />(3) earned sick days, or tours, during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of
<br />the year for two (2) days, or tours, pay without having any of said days deducted from accumulated but unused
<br />sick leave. If, under the foregoing circ~mcrances, the employee has used four (4) earned sick days, our tours,
<br />during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for one (1) day, or
<br />tour, pay without having any of said days deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave.
<br />3 Upon retirement, all full-time employees shall be entitled to receive credit and payment for accumulated but
<br />unused sick leave not to exceed two hundred forty (240) hours, provided that they have been employed by the
<br />Village for ten (10) years or more. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have retired
<br />when such employee takes action that is inconsistent with any reasonable intent to continue employment with
<br />the Municipality.
<br />4. (a) If a full-time employee is scheduled to work on a holiday enumerated in Section G, and cannot work due to
<br />illness, that day shall be considered a holiday day off and shall not be counted or compensated as a sick day.
<br />(b) "Hours of service" as used in this section, includes overtime, vacations, holidays, sick leave and all other
<br />approved and paid leaves of absent from service. "Hours of service" does not include the additional
<br />compensation time allowed an employee who works a holiday or has their normal day off on a holiday.
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