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ORDINANCE NO. 2003-35-PAGE 8 <br />death in the family sufficient to justify the employee's absence, such leave may be considered an <br />unauthorized absence and shall be without pay. . <br />(e) Any abuse or patterned use of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for <br />disciplinary action including but not limited to reprimand, suspension and/or discharge. <br />(f) The department head may require an employee who has been absent due to a <br />personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of return to work, to be examined by a <br />physician designated and paid for by the employer, to establish that such employee is not <br />disabled from the performance of his duties and that his or her return to work will not jeopardize <br />the health and safety of other employees. <br />(g) When the use of sick leave is due to illness or injury in the immediate family, <br />"immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employee's spouse and children. <br />(h) Upon the retirement of an employee from the Village all full-time employees shall be <br />entitled to receive credit and payment for accumulated but unused sick leave not to exceed nine <br />hundred sixty (960) hours, provided that they have been employed by the Village for ten (10) <br />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 <br />employment with the Municipality. <br />(i) Any permanent full-time employee who, at the end of his or her first calendar year of <br />service to Mayfield Village, has an accumulation of forty five (45) days and has not used any of <br />the sick days earned during that year shall be cornpensated at the end of the calendar year the <br />equivalent of five (5) days pay without having any days deducted from accumulated but unused <br />siclc leave. Sick leave accumulation lawfully transferred from prior public employees shall be <br />included for purposes of this section. If under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has <br />used one (1) earned sick day during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated <br />at the end of the year for four (4) days, pay without having any of said days deducted fi•om <br />accumulated but unused sick leave. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has <br />used two (2) earned sick days during the calendar year, then said employee shall be <br />compensated at the end of the year for three (3) days pay without having any of said days <br />deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the <br />employee has used three (3) earned siclc days during the calendar year, then said employee shall <br />be compensated at the end of the year for two (2) days pay without having any of said days <br />deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the <br />employee has used four (4) earned sick days during the calendar year, then said employee shall <br />be compensated at the end of the year for one (1) day pay without having any of said days <br />deducted from accumulated but unused sick leave. <br />(j) If a full-time employee is scheduled to work on a holiday enumerated in Section <br />153.14 and cannot work due to illness, that day shall be considered a holiday day off and shall <br />not be counted or compensated as a sick day. <br />(k) An employee who transfers from one department of the Village to any other <br />department of the Village shall be allowed to transfer his accumulated sick leave to the new <br />department.