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ORDINANCE NO. 2024-21 Page 8 work will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. g) When the use of sick leave is due to illness or injury in the immediate family, "immediate family" shall be defined to only include the employee's spouse, children, dependents who reside with the employee, parents, parents -in-law and individuals for whom the employee serves as the legal guardian. h) Upon retirement, death and/or voluntary termination from service, all full-time employees hired before January 1, 2011 shall be entitled to receive credit and payment for accumulated but unused sick leave not to exceed nine hundred sixty (960) hours, provided that they have been employed by the Municipality for ten (10) years or more. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have retired when such employee takes action that is inconsistent with any reasonable intent to continue employment with the Municipality. i) Upon retirement, death and/or voluntary termination from service, all full-time employees hired on or after January 1, 2011, who have been employed by the Municipality for ten (10) years or more, shall be entitled to receive credit and payment for three-quarters (3/4) of their accumulated but unused sick leave not to exceed four hundred eighty (480) hours; all employees who have been employed by the Municipality for twenty (20) years or more, shall be entitled to receive credit and payment for three-quarters (3/4) of their accumulated but unused sick leave not to exceed nine hundred sixty (960) hours; and all employees who have been employed by the Municipality for twenty-five (25) years or more, shall be entitled to receive credit and payment for all of their accumulated but unused sick leave not to exceed nine hundred sixty (960) hours. For purposes of this Section, an employee shall be considered to have retired when such employee takes actions that are inconsistent with any reasonable intent to continue employment with the Municipality. j) Any permanent full-time employee who has a sick leave accumulation of forty-five (45) days, has worked for the Municipality for at least twelve (12) months, and has not used any sick days earned during the current year shall be compensated at the end of the calendar year the equivalent of five (5) days' pay. Sick leave accumulation lawfully transferred from prior public employees shall be included for purposes of this section. If under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used one (1) earned sick day during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for four (4) days' pay. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used two (2) earned sick days during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for three (3) days' pay. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used three (3) earned sick days during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for two (2) days' pay. If, under the foregoing circumstances, the employee has used four (4) earned sick days during the calendar year, then said employee shall be compensated at the end of the year for one (1) day's pay. All sick days paid under this section shall be at the option of the employee, shall be deducted from the employee's accumulated but unused sick leave, and shall be paid at the end of the calendar year. k) If a full-time employee is scheduled to work on a holiday enumerated in Section 153.14 and cannot work due to illness, that day shall be considered a holiday day off and shall not be counted or compensated as a sick day.