Whenever any officer or employee is compelled to be absent from
duty on account of injuries or illness arising out of and in the course
of his or her employment, such officer or employee, upon the approval
of the city manager, may receive his or her salary or wages during
a period not to exceed seven days.
(Prior code § 4-59)
For each month or major fraction thereof during which an officer or employee compensated on a monthly basis is in the service of the city subsequent to May 1, 1949, he or she shall be allowed a leave of absence with full pay for one working day, to be taken only when such officer or employee is unable to work on account of illness or injury, other than injuries arising out of and in the course of his or her employment, or to be used as provided in Section 3.20.110; provided, however, that no such leave of absence shall be credited for time during which such officer or employee is absent from duty without pay. Service prior to any resignation, retirement or removal from the service of the city shall not thereafter be considered for any purpose except in the case of an employee reinstated after a resignation due to pregnancy or upon being reemployed from a layoff list established on or after July 1, 1978, and except as provided in Section 3.20.110.
(Prior code § 4-60)
Full-time salaried employees reinstated subsequent to resignation
shall have reinstated to their credit any accumulated sick time hours
lost because of such resignation.
(Prior code § 4-60.1; Ord. 5037 § 2, 1993)
The council may grant, upon employment, to the assistant city manager, assistant to the city manager, the research and budget officer, the director of purchases, the chief examiner or the head of any division and their chief assistants, an initial advance increment of available sick leave of thirty working days. No further sick leave shall accrue to an employee granted this leave until such employee has earned an equivalent amount of sick leave as provided in Section 3.20.020.
(Prior code § 4-60.5)
The council may grant, upon employment, to the city manager an initial increment of available sick leave of seventy-five working days. No further sick leave shall accrue to such officer until such officer has earned an equivalent amount of sick leave as provided in Section 3.20.020.
(Prior code § 4-60.6)
All sick leave to which officers and employees are entitled by reason of their service prior to May 1, 1949, shall be converted to leave with full pay by calculating one full day for each two "fifty-percent-period days" and three full days for each four "seventy-five-percent-period" days, and the resulting credits shall be administered in the same manner as leaves credited under Section 3.20.050.
(Prior code § 4-61)
Compensation provided to be paid during absence on account of
illness or injury shall be paid only when the officer or employee
absent shall furnish evidence of such illness or injury satisfactory
to the director of finance and administrative services.
(Prior code § 4-62)
Any officer or employee who is unable to work on account of
illness or injury shall be deemed to have applied for and have been
granted a leave of absence on account of illness or injury for such
period of time as shall be necessary for him or her to recover, not
to exceed the number of days of accumulated sick leave to which he
or she is entitled or sixty calendar days, whichever is the longer
period of time. Such officer or employee shall not be permitted to
return to duty until he or she shall have submitted to an examination
by the city physician or a physician approved by the city manager
and shall have been found by the city manager to be sufficiently recovered
from such illness or injury; provided, that if such absence is for
a period of not exceeding three days and unless otherwise directed
by the city manager, a return to duty without such examination, approval
and finding may be permitted by the head of the division in which
such employee is employed, or in the case of an officer, by the city
manager.
(Prior code § 4-63)
Additional leaves of absence without pay on account of illness
or injury may be granted in the same manner and for such period of
time as is provided in the case of other leaves of absence without
pay.
(Prior code § 4-64)
Whenever any officer or employee has experienced a death, or
critical illness where death appears to be imminent in the immediate
family, defined as the spouse, the employee's or employee's spouse's
mother or father, brother or sister, child or stepchild, grandparents,
or any relative of the employee or employee's spouse residing in the
same household or who has resided with the employee in the same household
for three or more years, such officer or employee may be absent with
full pay not to exceed a total of three working days; provided the
officer or employee furnishes evidence, such as a death certificate
or obituary, of the facts justifying such absence satisfactory to
the division head and director of finance and administrative services,
and provided that such leave of absence shall not apply to officers
or employees on sick leave at the time of the incident under the provisions
of this chapter.
(Prior code § 4-65)
In addition to the provisions set out in Section 3.20.020, an officer or employee may apply accumulated unused sick leave as follows:
A.
Temporary
Disability. If entitled to receive temporary disability indemnity
under Division 4 of the California Labor Code, such officer or employee
may elect to take as much of his or her accumulated sick leave, or
his or her accumulated vacation after his or her accumulated sick
leave becomes exhausted, as when added to his or her disability indemnity
will result in a payment to him or her equal to his or her full salary.
B.
Family
Illness Leave. Where his or her presence with his or her family is
needed because of serious illness in his or her family, such officer
or employee may upon request be granted in each year up to a maximum
of three days' family illness leave and such time taken shall be charged
against his or her accumulated sick leave; provided further, that
he or she furnish his or her division head reasonable evidence of
the illness.
C.
Retirement.
Upon his or her retirement and at his or her request the city shall
pay premiums for basic health insurance coverage, as provided for
city employees, for the retiree and qualified dependents at the rate
of one month's premium, not to exceed sixty-six dollars and seventy
cents per month, except for the police public safety retiree which
shall not exceed sixty-one dollars and seventy cents per month, for
each day of accumulated sick leave in excess of one hundred days;
or in the alternative, the employee, prior to the effective date of
his or her retirement from the public employees' retirement system,
may request that he or she receive payment of fifty percent of the
premium value of the proposed insurance coverage computed as of the
effective date of his or her retirement.
(Prior code § 4-66)
If an officer or employee, except public safety employees of the police and fire divisions, is entitled to receive temporary disability indemnity under Division 4 of the California Labor Code, and if such officer or employee has exhausted all benefits receivable under Sections 3.20.010 and 3.20.110A, such officer or employee shall receive, for a period not to exceed six months from and after the date when such benefits provided under such sections are thus exhausted, additional compensation, if any, such as will, when added to the disability indemnity required by such state law, result in a payment to such officer or employee equal to two-thirds of gross salary for such period.
(Prior code § 4-66.5)
When an officer or employee uses sick leave credit to augment
disability indemnity because of an injury compensable under the State
Labor Code and the city is reimbursed by a third person for its damages
by reason of such use, there shall be credited to the officer's or
employee's sick leave account, sick leave equivalent to the amount
so used or proportionately, if reimbursement is only in part. If the
city does not collect from the third person the full amount of the
compensation paid and other damages to which it is entitled and if
the amount collected is not itemized so that there may be ascertained
the amount collected in reimbursement for the sick leave used, the
sick leave to be credited shall be in the same ratio to the sick leave
used as the total amount collected bears to the total amount of the
city's damages.
(Prior code § 4-67)
