R2022-173 Resolution Authorizing Collective Bargaining Agreement for Pay and Benefits - AFSCME Council 31 and Local 268 General Service Employees

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ARTICLE 14 SICK LEAVE Section 1. Full time employees in the classified service shall accrue one duty day with pay sick leave for each month of continuous service uninterrupted by resignation or discharge up to a maximum accumulation of 240 days. Section 2. Accumulated sick leave days may be used for illness, injury, or off-the-job incurred disability. Accumulated sick leave may also be used for the illness, injury, or disability of an employee's spouse, parent or dependent child. One day of accumulated sick leave credit with pay shall be deducted from each employee's sick leave accumulation for each duty day not served due to illness. Section 3. (a) After sixty-four (64) hours of sick leave have been used by an employee in the fiscal year, for which no medical documentation herein defined, is provided, no sick leave credit may be used by that employee for the first eight (8) hours of the next or any succeeding sick leave day, or any part thereof, for which no medical documentation, herein defined, is pro- vided. An office or hospital visit to, or pursuant to the orders of a physician or dentist or licensed medical practitioner shall not be considered as part of the sixty-four (64) sick leave hours, as herein described. (b) "Medical documentation," for the purposes of this Agreement, shall mean a written statement signed by a person licensed to practice medicine(or their designee)that the employee was physically unable to perform his or her duties on the date for which sick leave credit is sought. (c) An employee shall be awarded one additional personal day on the first day of each fiscal year if no sick time was used in the preceding fiscal year. If the employee carries a balance of 240 sick days throughout the entire fiscal year,the employee shall be awarded a second addi- tional personal day on the first day of the following fiscal year. Personal days must be used in the fiscal year in which they are awarded, or they will be forfeited. Section 4.An employee who becomes ill, injured or disabled off-the-job shall cause notice thereof to be given to his supervisor not later than the commencement of his/her next scheduled duty day. In the absence of evidence of extenuating circumstances, an employee whose super- visor is not so notified within two duty days from the day on which the employee was first sched- uled to report shall be considered to have resigned from the classified service. Section 5. A physician's statement may be required before sick leave pay is paid if a pattern of chronic abuse of sick leave by the employee is evident. However, in all cases where four consecutive duty days are missed by an employee due to illness, injury or disability, a physi- cian's statement will be required before sick leave pay is paid. Such statements shall set forth reasons for the employee's inability to perform his duties and shall become a part of the employ- ee's personnel record. Physician's statements will be used in determining from time to time whether or not an employee is able to continue the performance of his duties. Section 6. Upon retirement from the classified service, an employee shall be allowed to use accumulated sick days for credit in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. Section 7. If an employee is on sick leave and it is determined by a physician that the employee will be unable to return to work within an amount of time equivalent to his remaining 21