[Adopted 9-5-1990[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided as follows: City Hall hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Breaks shall be 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the afternoon, with a one-hour lunch. Travel reimbursement shall be $0.25 per mile; a mileage log in required Form No. RTL 90 shall include the time, odometer reading, destination, employee signature, department head signature and car license number. City vehicles shall not be used for personal use. The calendar year will be used to compute leave time. The employee's employment date anniversary will be used for all benefits based on years of service. Part-time employee will receive pension benefits only. Part-time employment is 20 hours or less per week. All employees are required to file a time sheet (form: Rensselaer City Employee Time Sheet), to be signed by the employee and the department head. No overtime will be paid to salaried employees; compensatory time will be given for the time spent over salaried hours.
A. 
Employees, after completion of one year of service, shall be entitled to two weeks vacation; employees with five years of continuous service shall be entitled to three weeks of vacation; and employees with 10 years of continuous service shall receive four weeks of vacation. Employees with 20 years or over shall receive five weeks of vacation in one calendar year.
Completion
(years)
Weeks
1
2
5
3
10
4
20 or more
5
B. 
Vacations shall be taken in the calendar year during which the employee becomes entitled thereto, and no part of such vacation shall be carried over from one calendar year to another unless the pressure of work in a particular department makes it impossible for the department head to grant vacation such year; in such case, the vacation period for that year, or any unused portion thereof, may be added to the vacation to which the employee is entitled during the following year. An employee may appeal the department head's denial of carry-over to the Mayor.
C. 
Unused vacation may be paid for at separation, with a limit of 20 days of carry-over.
[Amended 8-2-1995 by L.L. No. 4-1995]
A. 
Absence from duty by an employee of the City of Rensselaer by reason of sickness or disability shall be paid for as provided in this section and not otherwise. Absence from duty for such reasons, if duly granted by the department head, shall be considered and known as "sick leave."
B. 
The following regulations shall govern such absence from duty:
(1) 
An employee of the City of Rensselaer shall be granted sick leave with pay of one working day a month or 12 working days a year.
(2) 
The 12 working days a year to be allowed an employee for sick leave with pay may be accumulated.
(3) 
Upon becoming sick or disabled, an employee, by virtue of employment or service after the effective date of this regulation, may, during sickness or disability, be granted sick leave with pay to the extent of the unused sick leave time which was accumulated.
(4) 
Allowable and allowed sick leave time shall be considered for all purposes as continuous service, but in the event of resignation or discharge of an employee, accumulated and unused sick leave is canceled.
(5) 
Anyone who uses all sick time due to an extended illness will be covered by New York State disability insurance and may be eligible to participate in any sick leave donation program as adopted by the City.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Art. II, Sick Leave Donation Program, of this chapter.
(6) 
The Mayor may require a physician's certificate for any absence of more than five days. Where the illness or disability is of long duration, a physician's certificate may be required for each 10 days of continuous absence. In any case, the Mayor may require an examination by a physician or other acceptable evidence that the illness is bona fide.
(7) 
It shall be the duty and responsibility of each and every employee to contact the department head on the initial day of each illness.
A. 
Employees with one year or more of service shall be entitled to four working days a year with pay for personal leave. Said personal leave, if not used during the year, shall not be cumulative.
B. 
Allowable and allowed personal leave time shall be considered for all purposes as continuous service, but in the event of resignation or discharge of any employee, his unused personal leave time shall be canceled and not paid for.
C. 
It shall be the duty and responsibility of each and every employee to contact his/her department head as far in advance as possible.
A. 
All employees covered by this article shall be entitled to longevity payment after completion of the following years:
Years of Service
Amount
1
$200
5
$350
15
$500
B. 
This payment shall be made the first pay period in December in a lump sum.
All City employees covered by this article shall be entitled to receive time off for each of the following holidays:
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
Presidents' Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Veterans Day
Election Day
Thanksgiving Day
Friday after Thanksgiving
Christmas
Such other days when it is deemed that City Hall shall be closed
An employee shall be granted five consecutive days upon the death of a spouse or child and three consecutive calendar days' bereavement leave due to a death in the immediate family, during which period such employee shall sustain no loss of pay. For the purposes hereof, "immediate family" shall include natural, foster, steps parents, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, father-in-law, mother-in-law or any relative residing in such employee's household. Such leave shall not be cumulative.
A regular full-time employee shall be granted a leave of absence when required to report for jury duty, provided that he/she shows evidence of such proposed jury duty. Employees shall be paid the difference between any jury duty compensation they receive and their regular wages for each day of jury duty. If an employee served on jury duty for 1/2 day, he/she is required to return to work for the remainder of the day, with a receipt from court to certify the time of duty.
A pregnant employee, upon written request, shall be granted a leave of absence without pay for a period of six months or until four months after the birth, whichever is greater. She may use any accumulated sick or personal time due her in conjunction with her six months' leave.
[Added 8-15-2007]
The City of Rensselaer is desirous of banning the use of alcohol in all City-owned buildings because of safety and liability concerns. Effective immediately, alcohol shall be banned from all City buildings in the City of Rensselaer.