2017 Employee Manual RevisionCITY OF BLAIR
Personnel Manual
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Revised September, 2017
(f) An Employee requesting FMLA leave shall substitute accrued sick leave (as
allowed in (g) and (h)), accrued vacation leave and accrued comp leave prior to
any unpaid leave allowed under FMLA.
(g) An employee shall be eligible to use accrued sick leave for the first 3 days of any
illness, injury, or paternity leave and may be granted the use of additional days of
accrued sick leave upon request to the City Administrator. Any request for the
use of additional sick leave shall require a statement from the employee's Doctor
of the medical necessity, but shall not be guaranteed. The City Administrator may
waive the above requirement of a Doctor's statement based on observable illness
and/or injury.
(h) Pregnancy and any subsequent maternity leave shall be treated as any other illness
and/or injury covered by FMLA, except that the employee may only substitute
accrued sick leave for the first six weeks, and only for six weeks. Any request for
the use of additional sick leave shall require a statement from the employee's
Doctor of the medical necessity, but shall not be guaranteed.
(i) The initial minimum period of sick leave shall be one-half (1/z) hour; anything
over 1/ hour may be taken in 15 -minute increments.
(j) Holidays occurring during periods of sick leave shall not be charged against such
leave.
(k) An employee shall only be compensated for unused sick leave as follows: (1)
Upon death or retirement an employee shall be paid for 55% of the unused
accumulated sick leave not to exceed the accumulation as allowed in 8.4(a); (2)
Upon resignation in good standing and specifically excluding resignations
prompted by any action of the employee which may result in disciplinary action,
an employee who has current continuous employment with the City for not less
than ten (10) years shall be paid a percentage of unused accumulated sick leave
not to exceed 928 hours based on the number of years of service as follows:
10 years
5%
16 years
30%
11 years
5%
17 years
35%
12 years
10%
18 years
40%
13 years
15%
19 years
45%
14 years
20%
20 years
50%
15 years
25%
25 years
55%
(3) No payment for unused accumulated sick leave shall be paid to an employee
in the event of termination for cause or resignation prompted by an action of the
employee that could result in disciplinary action.
(1) Sick leave shall not be transferable between employees.
City of Blair Employee Manual Chapter 8, page 4