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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0767 - Sick Leave and Annual Leave (Repealed by Ord 1094) 915 §2(C) 1094 916 §3 CITY OF TUKWILA WASHINGTON ORDINANCE NO 767 AMENDED BY 915 916 REPEALED BY 1094 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NO 763 AND AMENDING SECTIONS 2.52.040 AND 2.52.050 OF THE TUKWILA MUNICIPAL CODE AND SECTIONS 2 AND 3 OF ORDINANCE NO 448 AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO 634. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That Ordinance No. 763 be and the same is hereby repealed. Section 2. That Section 2.52.040 of the Tukwila Municipal Code and Section 2 of Ordinance No. 448, as amended by Ordinance No. 634, be amended to read as follows: Section 2. Vacation. (a) New employees of the City shall work for a pro- bationary period of six months, at which time, after review of the employee's work record by his supervisor, the employee shall be given permanent status or be released from employment. (b) An employee will not be entitled to annual leave until he receives permanent status. (c) Annual leave shall accrue at the rate of five full days on the 7th month of continuous employment and after permanent status has been granted, and an additional five days' annual leave shall accrue after twelve months' continuous employment. Thereafter annual leave shall accrue at the rate of ten days per year for the first five years of continuous service. After five years the employee shall be granted one day per year additional annual leave to a maximum of twenty days per year. All accrued annual leave shall be expended between anniversary dates. Annual leave accrued from a previous anniversary date or from date of permanent employ- ment to a succeeding anniversary date shall be utilized in the following year and if not so used shall be forfeited. Upon resignation from City employment an employee shall be paid cash at the normal rate of pay for his or her unused annual leave, provided permanent status has been attained. For each full month of employment the employee shall be allowed 1/12 of the annual leave to which he would be entitled if his employment were not terminating. If an employee is prevented by injury or illness from working a full month, he will nevertheless be entitled to annual leave payment for that month, provided he has accrued sick leave sufficient to cover the remaining days of the month. (d) Whenever any officer or employee does not take a vacation to which he or she is entitled in any one calendar year as above specified by reason of the urgent need of his continuous services or because of seasonal demand thereof, such officer or employee, with approval of the head of his or her department, may be allowed such vacation during the succeeding calendar year, but in no event shall any vacation not taken during the year when due be accumulated beyond the next succeeding calendar year. All vacations shall be taken at such time as shall be approved by the head of the department which a person entitled thereto serves, or in the case of an officer by the Mayor. (e) Annual leave must be expended in increments of not less than one full day. Section 2. That Section 2.52.050 of the Tukwila Munici- pal Code, and Section 3 of Ordinance No. 448, as amended by Ordinance No. 634, be amended to read as follows: Section 3. Sick leave. (a) Every full time city employee or officer hereafter employed by the City, who has been in continuous service of the City for at least six months of employment shall be entitled to and receive five days of sick leave, with pay, and after twelve months of continuous service shall receive an additional five days' sick leave with pay. Thereafter, sick leave shall accrue at the rate of ten days per year to a maximum accumulated sick leave of ninety days. All of the foregoing shall be subject to the following conditions and provisions: (b) Any full time employee who is on sick leave as above specified for a period of five days or longer shall, prior to being entitled to any compensation therefor, furnish without delay a report from a qualified doctor which shall contain a diagnosis of the sickness, whenever possible. "Quali- fied doctor" shall be a duly licensed doctor of medicine. (c) In the event an employee or officer terminates employment, or such employment is terminated for any reason whatsoever, with the City, prior to using his or her accumu- lated sick leave time, he or she shall not be entitled to pay for any unused sick leave. (d) In any case in which an employee shall be entit- led to benefits or payments under the Workmen's Compensation Act or similar legislation of the State of Washington, or any other governmental unit, the City of Tukwila shall pay on the differ- ence between the benefits and payments received under such act by such employee and the regular rate of compensation he or she would have received from the City of Tukwila if able to work. The foregoing payment or contribution by the City shall be limited to the period of time that such employee had accumulated sick leave credits as hereinabove specified. Furthermore, the sick leave benefits herein specified shall not be applicable to any employee who is covered by any relief and pension act or similar legislation providing for sickness and /or disability payments, or the State of Washington or any Union Contract grant- ing substantially equal or greater benefits than herein provided. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL and approved by the Mayor this ai day of 4 OPE6 1973. to Form: City Attorney Published: ///Cf% /r2e, /imeS 3/4/A Mayor C y Cl