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(b) lury Duty and Witness I'ay. An employee called for jury duty shall he granted a leave of absence for the period of jury service and shad be compensated at full pay, for absences necessarily caused by the Jury duty. An employee who is required to be absent from scheduled work to serve as a witness called by the City or by a party in litigation with the City shall be paid for time lost from scheduled straight time work. Witness pay shall not be paid for purposes other than those stated herein. (c) Funeral Leave. ( I) A full-time employee shall be granted a tlareefive-day leave of absence with pay, in the event of the death ofan immediate family memher. (2) A firl l -time employee shall be granted a five-day leave of absence with pay, in the event (4 the death ofan immediate family member who resides outside the State. (3) For the purpose ofthis section, "immediate family" includes parent, parents of spouse, spouse and children of the employee, brothers and sisters of the employee, brother and sister of spouse, grandparents, grandparents of spouse, grandchildren, spouse ofchildren, step-parents of the employee, step- parents of spouse, step -children as well as other relatives living with the employee if the employee is acting as parent or guardian. In the event of a death of any other retmiwe person not listed an employee shall use his accumulated sick leave or ►nav use sick leave to extend funeral leave time subject to the approval of the department's Director. (d) Parental Leave. All employees shall be entitled to parental leave upon the birth or adoption ofa child. Parental leave in all respects, including, but not limited to, availability, time permitted, procedural requirements, notices, pay and return to wort:, shall be governed exclusively by the Family and Medical Leave Act, 29 U.S.C. Sec. 2601 et seq. (e) Probationary Period. All new employees shall be considered to be on probation for a period of 180 days. The department head shall undertake three job performance evaluations of all new employees during the probationary, period. The First such evaluation shall be completed within the first sixty days of employment. The second evaluation shall be completed between the sixtieth day and 120th day of employment. rI'he third shall be completed by the 179th day of employment. If it is determined by the third evaluation that the employee has not pro17ressed sufficiently or the work being performed is not satisfactory, such employee shad not be retained. The department head is hereby directed to counsel the employee through the probationary period and extend the necessary direction and training necessary to assist the employee through the job assignment process. A copy of all such aforementioned evaluations shall be provided to the department head's appropriate director and the Director of Human Resources. (f) Payment of Accumulated Sick Leave Credit. An employee shall be paid for unused, accumulated sick leave at the time of disability, retirement or death. For purposes of this paragraph, the terms "disability" and "retirement" shall mean, respectively. "disability or service retirement under any state retirement system in this State." Pavment shall be based upon the basic hourly rate of pay at the time of disability, retirement or death plus longevity and the amount shall be one-half of the unused sick leave with a maximum payment of 700 hours in 1993, 800 hours in 1994, 900 hours in 1995, and 1,000 hours beginning January 1, 2002 and thereafter, except in the event that such sick leave balance was not entirely earned while employed by the City but rather was transferred, in whole or part, pursuant to Section 161.0 (a)(I) C. Employees who have transferred sick leave credit shall be paid, as to such transfer balance, in accordance with State law maximum pursuant to R.C. 124.39(13) and, for unused sick time accumulated during employment with the City, additional payment shall be made in accordance herewith but in no event shall any employee, by combination of paymcnts, exceed the maximum amount permitted herein.