* 10 hours each month or 120 hours a year, cumulative to a maximum of 1080
hours for 40-hour-a-week employees.
Sick Leave Policies:
Employees must have the appropriate time accrued before use of sick time is approved.
At no time shall an employee be paid sick time if it has not yet been accrued. During an
unpaid leave of absence, an employee does not accrue any sick time.
Use of Sick Leave:
l. Sick leave shall not be considered as a privilege which an employee may
use at his discretion. It shall be allowed only in the case of necessity and
actual sickness or disability of the employee. the employee’s spouse or
domestic partner, children, and parents, but only when employee's
presence is required to actively care for the ill person, or to take physical
and dental examinations or other sickness prevention measures.
2. Essential and non-essential! employees shall not make physical and dental
examinations during their tour of duty if possible. If these types of
examinations cannot be made during off-duty times, essential personnel
must make arrangements with their Bureau Commander or designee to
assure that coverage is available during their absence from duty. If no
coverage is available, the physical and dental examination will be
rescheduled when the employee is off duty or when coverage is available.
3. All absences from work or absences during their tour of duty due to
illness, disability, physical/dental examinations or other sickness
prevention measures shall be deducted from the non-exempt employee's
accumulated sick leave by actual hours missed. If the employee is exempt
(salaried), he shall not have this time deducted from sick leave; however.
the time may be required to be documented and allocated to FMLA if the
absence is a qualifying FMLA event. This includes the right to require
the employee to submit a physician's statement verifying the need for the
use of the sick leave, irrespective of the number of sick hours taken. The
Commission reserves the right to verify all claims for paid sick leave.
Notification of Sick Leave:
Non-essential employees are to make arrangements to notify their immediate supervisor
or the Desk Sergeant at headquarters daily and in a timely manner prior to scheduled duty
