CITY OF LODI

                            ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY AND PROCEDURE MANUAL

 

 

 

 

 

SUBJECT:                                           :           SICK LEAVE - Policy

 

DATE ISSUED:                                   :           May 1, 1995

 

SECTION:                                           :           S

 

 

 

SECTION 1:                                        PURPOSE

 

                                                            The purpose of sick leave is to provide paid time off for employees who cannot perform their job duties because of personal illness, injury, confinement for medical treatment, or to care for a member of an employee's immediate family.  Sick leave with pay is intended to insure adequate compensation due to illnesses or injuries that physically incapacitate's an employee's ability to perform on the job.

 

 

SECTION 2:                                        FAMILY SICK LEAVE

 

                                                            Family Sick Leave is authorization to use up to three (3) consecutive days per event of accumulated sick leave to care for a member of an employee's immediate family subject to the terms and conditions of the appropriate memorandum of understanding.   Exceptions may be made in very unusual cases, and then only after the employee has submitted a written request to the Department Head and City Manager.

 

 

SECTION 3:                                        ELIGIBILITY

 

                                                            Sick leave is available only to full-time regular and probationary employees.  Employees working on a part-time, temporary, provisional, or seasonal basis, are not eligible to receive sick leave benefits.

 

SECTION 4:                                        ACCUMULATION RATE

 

                                                            The rate at which sick leave is earned varies according to the appropriate memorandum of understanding or management pay plan.  Sick leave may be accumulated with no maximum amount.

 

                                                            An employee will earn sick leave credit for each pay period the employee is in a pay status. 

 

 

SECTION 5:                                        HOLIDAYS DURING SICK LEAVE ABSENCES

 

                                                            When a holiday or day observed in lieu of a holiday occurs on a day on which an employee is taking sick leave with pay, such employee shall not be charged as using sick leave for that day.  The employee's compensation for that day shall be a holiday and he/she shall not be charged for sick leave.

 

 

SECTION 6:                                        EXPIRATION OF SICK LEAVE

 

                                                            Employees are not permitted to take sick leave with pay in excess of their accumulated balance.  If sick leave credits are exhausted, then other leave balances may be charged for the absence with supervisory approval.

 

                                                            The inability to return to work after an employee's sick leave has been exhausted shall be considered an urgent and substantial reason for the granting of a leave of absence in accordance with the City's policy on Leave of Absence.

 

 

SECTION 7:                                       

                                                            CERTIFICATE FOR ABSENCE

 

                                                            A Department Head may request a physician's certificate for absences at any time for reasonable cause.

 

 

 

 

 

SECTION 8:                                        REQUEST FOR SICK LEAVE

 

                                                            Any employee requesting sick leave shall notify his/her supervisor or Department Head before his/her work shift begins or immediately when taken ill during work hours unless otherwise specified by the Department Head.  It is the responsibility of the employee to keep his/her supervisor informed on a daily basis if absence is for more than one day.  Sick leave may be taken in quarter hour increments.

 

                                                            No employee who is on sick leave shall engage in work or other activities at any time which would be detrimental to the employee's ability to return to work and to perform the duties assigned.