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Home My WebLink About2007-9-7332381 ORDINANCE NO. 2007-09-7332 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 33, SICK LEAVE OF CHAPTER 78, PERSONNEL OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY SECTION 1. That Section 33, Sick Leave of Chapter 78, Personnel of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Paducah, Kentucky, is hereby amended to read as follows: (a) Generally. (1) Entitlement. Each employee of the city regularly employed on a full- time basis shall be entitled to sick leave with pay. The accrual of sick leave shall be at the rate of one and one-half working days for each month of service for all employees except Police Sergeants, Investigators and Officers and Fire Captains, Lieutenants, and Firefighters who shall accrue such leave at the rate of one and one-third days per month. A month in which ^ ^moi an employee is paid for 4-5 12 days or more, a a daily hJ �. employee a 1 is f r'^ 12 d more -, or a member of a platoon in the Fire Department is paid for five 24-hour periods or more, shall be considered a month of service. A day for which an employee receives workmen's compensation benefits from the city insurance carrier shall be considered a day for which the employee is paid under this section. Any employee granted a leave of absence for any other purpose shall not continue to accrue sick leave at the rate prescribed in this section during the absence. (2) Retirement time purchase. When an employee retires the city will purchase one day of retirement credit for each sick day accumulated up to a maximum of one year's retirement credit (242 days). An employee must have a minimum of 50 days accrued sick time at the time of retirement to receive this benefit. (3) Payment alternative. Employees may elect the following benefit in lieu of the retirement time purchase described in subsection (a)(2): a. Upon retirement, employees electing the payment alternative who have over 50 days of sick leave accumulated shall be paid an amount equivalent to one day's regular pay for all sick days accumulated over 50 days up to a maximum of 70 days pay. b. Current employees who desire to select this payment alternative in lieu of the retirement time purchase benefit in subsection (a)(2) must state their desire in writing to the City Personnel Director before 4:30 p.m. June 30, 2000. Employees hired after the effective date of this article who desire to select this payment alternative in lieu of the retirement time purchase benefit in subsection (a)(2) must state their desire in writing to the City Personnel Director within 90 days of their date of employment. 382 c. Employees who select this payment alternative may accrue a maximum of 150 days of sick leave. All other employees may accrue a maximum of 242 days of sick leave. d. Police Sergeants, Investigators and Officers and Fire Captains, Lieutenants, and Firefighters who elect this payment alternative in lieu of the retirement time purchase described in paragraph (a)(2) and who have 150 days of sick leave accumulated shall be paid an amount equivalent to one day's regular pay for one-third of all sick days accumulated over 150 days. Payment for these sick days shall be no later than the last day of January of the following year. (4) Death benefit. If an employee dies, the surviving spouse or designated beneficiary shall be entitled to the same unused sick leave benefits option as elected by the employee, either the retirement time purchase benefit described in subsection (a)(2) or the payment alternative described in subsection (a)(3). (b) Use. An employee eligible for sick leave with pay shall be granted leave for the following reasons only: (1) Personal illness or physical incapacity resulting from causes beyond the employee's control. (2) The illness of a member of the employee's household, the employee's parents, or children, whether or not said parents or children are a member of the employee's household, that requires the employee's personal care and attendance. (3) Enforced quarantine of the employee in accordance with community health regulations. (4) The death of a member of the employee's immediate family; provided, however, the employee will be excused from work for a period of three days only beginning with the day of death and ending with the day after the funeral, and the employee may be paid for the three days by taking credit for accumulated sick leave, but any additional time taken during the period shall be deducted from accrued vacation, or as may be authorized for advanced vacation. "Family" in this instance shall include the spouse and all lineal and lateral relations of the employee or spouse, any dependent of the employee or any guardian or blood relative which had the primary responsibility of raising the employee or spouse during childhood, or any son-in-law or daughter-in-law. (c) Notification of department head. An employee on sick leave shall inform his department head of the fact and the reason therefor as soon as possible, and failure to do so within the first day of absence may, at the y / discretion of the City Manager, be cause for denial of sick leave with pay for the period of absence. (d) Physician's statement for leave in excess of three consecutive days. Sick leave with pay in excess of three consecutive working days for any reason shall be granted only after presentation of a written statement by 383 a licensed physician certifying that the employee was unable to perform the duties of his position. Such statements shall accompany payrolls submitted to the City Treasurer. (e) Physician's statement in special cases. In special cases, with individual employees, where the department head feels it is necessary to avoid abuse of the sick leave provisions, the department head may, with the approval of the City Manager, require that employee to submit a written statement by a licensed physician for any absence. The employee will be notified in advance that he will be required to submit such a statement when he is absent on sick leave. (f) Advancement of leave. In unusual circumstances, and with the approval of the department head and the City Manager, sick leave may be taken in advance of accrual up to a maximum of 30 working days (15 24-hour shifts for Fire Department platoon members); provided, that any employee separated from city employment who has been granted sick leave that is unaccrued at the time of such separation shall reimburse the city for all salary paid in connection with such unaccrued leave and, if possible, for this purpose a deduction shall bemade from the employee's final payroll check. (g) Special provisions for Fire Department. Members of a platoon in the Paducah Fire Department working shifts of 24 hours on duty and 48 hours off duty shall be charged with two days' sick leave for each 24- hour shift. One day of sick leave will be charged for any excused period of illness up to 12 hours. Compensation for sick leave shall be computed at the member's rate of pay times the hours absent during the pay period, and full credit shall be given for regular and overtime pay as if the member had actually worked his scheduled shift of 24 hours on duty and 48 hours off duty as required by KRS 95.500. SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be read on two separate days and will become effective upon summary publication pursuant to KRS Chapter 424. ATTEST: Tammara S. Brock, City Clerk Introduced by the Board of Commissioners, September 11, 2007 Adopted by the Board of Commissioners, September 25, 2007 Recorded by Tammara S. Brock, City Clerk, September 25, 2007 Published by The Paducah Sun, October 3, 2007 \winword\ord\pers\78-33a sick leave 9-07