This section applies only to full-time employees of the Township:
1) whose positions of employment are reduced to part-time status by
the Township for reasons of economy; and 2) who, at the time of said
reduction to part-time status, have accumulated unused sick time on
record with the Township; and 3) who continue in employment with the
Township in part-time status without a break in service. Township
employees not meeting these three criteria are not eligible for the
benefits set forth in this section.
Eligible full-time civilian employee reclassified to part-time employment as defined in Subsection A, above, shall be permitted to utilize his/her earned and accrued sick leave for a duration of three or more days if he/she experiences one of the following events: a long-term illness, a non-work-related injury, surgical procedures, or convalescence resulting from a serious sickness or disease.
Within five business days of returning to work, the employee shall
submit a physician's certificate setting forth in full the reason
or reasons why the employee needed to take three or more days of sick
leave time. A doctor's note simply stating that the employee can return
to work shall not be acceptable. Failure to produce the required physician's
certification within the time frame set forth herein shall result
in any use of earned and accrued sick time being forfeited by the
employee.
In accordance with the Township's procedures governing the recordation
of vacation and sick leave, the reclassified employee shall complete
the prescribed Daily Sick and Vacation Leave Report form and submit
it along with the physician's certificate to the Department of Administration
immediately upon return to work.
Eligible full-time civilian employees reclassified to part-time employment as defined in Subsection A, above, shall accrue no additional sick time while they continue to serve in part-time status, and shall otherwise be subject to the prohibition against the provision of paid sick leave to part-time employees, except as set forth herein.