HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0763 - Benefits for City Employee (Repealed by Ord 767)ORDINANCE NO 763
REPEALED BY 767
ORDINANCE 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 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) During the probationary period, an employee shall
not accrue annual leave. A probationary 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 seventh month of continuous employment and
after permanent status has been granted, and thereafter shall
accrue at the rate of ten days per year for the first five
years of continuous employment. 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
employment 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
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cash at the normal rate of pay for his or her accrued annual
leave, provided permanent status has been attained.
(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 service 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 suc-
ceeding 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
Municipal 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 here-
after employed by the City who has been in continuous service
of the City for at least six months of continuous employment
shall be entitled to and receive five days of sick leave, with
pay, and thereafter shall receive sick leave 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.
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Approved as to Form:
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"Qualified 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 en-
titled to benefits or payments under the Workmen's Compensa-
tion Act or similar legislation of the State of Washington,
or any other governmental unit, the City of Tukwila shall pay
only the difference between the benefits and payments received
under such act by such employee and the regular rate of com-
pensation he or she would have received from the City of
Tukwila, if able to work. The foregoing payment or contribu-
tion by the City shall be limited to the period of time that
such employee had accumulated sick leave credits as herein
above 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 granting substantially
equal or greater benefits than herein provided.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL and approved by the Mayor
this d0 4- h day of February, 1973.
City Attorney
Attest:
Published: /A/Q,a //Y3ee 71
Mayor
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City Clerk