Agenda - Council Work Session - 06/08/2021

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receiving immediate authorization from a supervisor. Said employee will be compensated as per section 8.10. * All Public Works Maintenance employees hired after January 1, 2014 are required to participate in the on call policy. ARTICLE 9 SICK LEAVE 9.1 Every probationary and regular EMPLOYEE is entitled to accrue sick leave with pay at a rate of eight (8) hours for each calendar month of full-time service or major fraction thereof. The EMPLOYER may compute sick leave on an hourly basis equivalent to 96 hours per 2080 hours of compensated time, exclusive of overtime. 9.2 Sick leave may be accrued. to a maximum of 960 hours at a rate established in Section 9.1. Unused sick leave in excess of 960 hours at the end of a calendar year (January 1st) maybe converted to vacation at a rate of one hour vacation for each two hours of sick leave in excess of 960 hours. 9.3 Sick leave may be authorized, when the EMPLOYEE is unable to pertorm work duties due to illness, disability, the necessity for medical, dental, or chiropractic care, childbirth, or exposure to contagious disease where such exposure may endanger the health of others with whom the EMPLOYEE would come in contact in the course of perfomaing work duties. Sick leave may also be authoiized, when the EMPLOYEE'S presence is necessary, for actual illness, injury, legal quarantine, or medical treatment for serious illness in the EMPLOYEE'S iinmediate family. Immediate family, for the purposes of this ARTICLE, shail be defined as spouse, patent, step-parent, children, step -children, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren or a like member of EMPLOYEE'S spouse's family, 9.4 Employees are allowed funeral leave up to 24 hours (three 8-hour days or two 12- hour days ) twice annually per occurrence (a maximum of 48 hours annually) for a death in the immediate family as defined under Article 9.3. That time is not chargeable against any accrue4 vacation, sick or compensatory time. 1-lours must betaken within five (5) calendar days from start to finish per oeCulTeflce. Additional funeral leave may be taken (with prior approval from a supervisor) and is deductible from sick leave (up to t1ree (3) consecutive days), vacation or compensatory time as the EMPLOYEE may choose andhave available. 9.5 EMPLOYEES are able to use accrued leave or compensatory time (with prior approval from a supervisor) for family members not considered immediate family members under ARTICLE 9.3. To be eligible for sick leave with pay, an EMPLOYEE shall: report as soon as possible to the EMPLOYEE'S departmeiit head the need for sick leave and whether the sick leave is for the EMPLOYEE, BMPLOYEB'S child, as defined in section 181.940, subdivision 4, adult child, spouse, sibling, parent, grandparent or stepparent; (1)