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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 415-13C RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Rochester that the City adopt a personnel policy regarding Sick Leave. A copy of the policy is attached. PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS DAY OF, T , 2013. PRESIDENT Or SAID COMMON COUNCIL ATTEST: 4#�A` Papur4 Cl APPROVED THIS dOM DAY OF , 2013. • MAYOR OF SAID CITY (Seal of the City of Rochester, Minnesota) Rest MAdopt.PersPolicy.SickLeave2 • CITY OF ROCHESTER ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY • SICK LEAVE A. Sick Leave 1. It shall be the policy of the City to provide sick leave time for employees in order to provide income protection during periods of absenteeism due to injury or illness. 2. Sick leave is a valuable privilege intended to prevent the loss of regular income during the time of personal illness or accident, or serious family crisis as defined in this section. It should be viewed as a form of insurance, not as an earned benefit which has been wasted, if not taken. Each employee and his/her department head shall be held accountable for the reasonable, prudent, and bona fide use of sick leave privileges. B. Eligibility 1. All full time employees scheduled to work forty (40) hours or more per week are eligible to earn sick leave. 2. Employees scheduled to work less than forty (40) hours per week or classified as temporary or seasonal employees shall not be eligible to earn sick leave. C. Accrual Rate • 1. Eligible employees shall accrue sick leave at the rate of eight (8) hours per month, beginning with their date of hire. There shall be no maximum accumulation limit. 2. Sick leave shall continue to accrue during periods of absence in which the employee is in a paid status. Leaves without pay totaling more than eight (8) hours within a specific pay period will result in a prorated sick benefit accrual. D. Use of Sick Leave 1. Sick leave will be granted upon approval of the department head, appointing authority or person designated to act in their absence for the following reasons: a. For absence due to personal illness or injury which prohibits an employee from performing his/her regular duties. b. For absences due to an illness of or injury to the employee's child' for such reasonable periods as the employee's attendance with the child may be necessary. c. For personal or child' medical and dental appointments. d. Up to a combined total of 160 hours of accrued sick leave per calendar year, to care for a spouse, an adult child, brothers, sisters, parent, grandparent, or stepparent. The list of eligible relatives does not include in-law relatives (i.e. 'For purposes of this policy, "child" is defined as an employee's stepchild, biological, adopted or foster child who is under 18 or who is under 20 if still attending secondary school. CITY OF ROCHESTER ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY brother in-law) unless otherwise listed. The 160 hour limit does not apply to personal sick leave use or use to care for the employee's child as provided above. e. Employees are obligated to disclose use of sick leave (relative to section d above) to their supervisor to demonstrate compliance. f. Up to a maximum of three (3) days for serious illness of spouse's parents. g. For absence due to a compensable injury arising out of and in the course of City employment (employees may request that their sick leave be used to make up the difference between their regular pay and Worker's Compensation). 2. Employees incapacitated and unable to work shall notify their immediate supervisor at or before the scheduled reporting time, giving reason for absence and expected length of absence. Failure to make diligent effort to give such notification may result in payroll deduction for such time taken. 3. Sick leave will be charged as it is actually used, but in no case will the charge be less than fifteen (15) minutes. 4. An employee who has been unable to work for a period of time, three (3) or more days, because of personal illness or accident, or to care for eligible relatives, may be required to provide written evidence authorizing the leave. 5. Sick leave taken immediately preceding termination of employment or retirement of an employee must be substantiated by written medical report. 6. An employee who has been unable to work for a period of time, three (3) or more days, because of personal illness or accident, may be required, before being permitted to return to work, to provide medical evidence that he/she is again able to perform all significant duties of their job in a competent manner and without hazard to themselves or others. E. Holidays During Sick Leave Should a holiday occur during an employee's absence due to illness or an accident, the time off shall be charged as a holiday. F. Advance Sick Lea Sick leave shall not be granted in advance of being earned. If an employee does not have sufficient sick leave earned to cover a period of absence, either earned compensatory or vacation time may be used; otherwise, the sick leave will be without pay. G. Transfers Employees who are transferred from one department to another shall have their earned sick leave credits transferred with them. • CITY OF ROCHESTER ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY H. Terminations Unused sick leave is forfeited upon any termination from City employment prior to ten (10) years of service and the employee is not vested in a pension or does not go on a pension to which the City of Rochester has contributed. I. Penalty Claiming sick leave when physically able to perform normal duties except as provided elsewhere in this section, may be cause for disciplinary action, including cancellation of sick leave benefits, suspension, demotion or termination of employment. J. Exclusions No sick leave will be allowed for an illness or injury occurring as the result of employment outside of the City. Employment shall be considered as work performed for which remuneration was received or realized. Revised/Adopted 8/19/13 • 0 • RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED by the Common Council of the City of Rochester that the City approve of and execute an agreement with 2"d Street Parking, LLC, regarding the possible re -dedication of the east -west alley east of 13t" Avenue S.W., between First Street and Second Street S.W. The Mayor and City Clerk are authorized to execute the contract on behalf of the City. PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA, THIS 1 q h DAY OF , 2013. PRESIDENTY 8AID COMMON COUNCIL ATTEST: _Atcvy-'amaw-�k WVTI CI LER • APPROVED THIS c?Ok DAY OF , 2013. (Seal of the City of Rochester, Minnesota) Res10\ExecuteAgr\242 is MAYOR OF SAID CITY