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RESOLUTION NO. gOR-_5~.--
A RESOLUTION OF THE C TY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ANAHEIM AMENDING PERSONNEL RULE 17, SICK LEAVE
AS SET FORTH IN RESOLUTION NO. 88R-166
WHEREAS, on April 26, 1988, the City Council adopted
Resolution No. 88R-166 adopting Personnel Rules covering manage-
ment, confidential and non-represented part-time employees; and
WHEREAS, the Human Resources Director has recommended in a
staff report dated January 30, lgg0, that Personnel Rule 17, Sick
Leave be amended by deleting reference to fifty-six (56) hour
employees; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim does find
that amending Reso]ution No. 88R-166 is in the best interests of
the City of Anaheim.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Counci] of the
City of Anaheim that Resolution No. 88R-166 be amended by revising
Personnel Rule 17, Sick Leave to read as follows:
"Section 17.0 Full-time confidentia] and management employees in
the classified service shall accrue annual Sick Leave with pay in
accordance with the following provisions:
17.01 Regular, full-time employees with an average regular
work week of forty (40) hours shall accrue paid sick
leave at the rate of three (3) hours for each complete
biweekly pay period.;
17.02 Paid sick leave shall continue to accrue in accordance
with the above provisions during any period of leave
with pay, except that Public Safety employees who
remain on Industrial Accident Leave in accordance with
Personnel Rule 18, Industrial Accident Leave, after
exhausting State mandated 4850 benefits shall
accumulate no sick ]eave.
17.03 An employee requesting slck leave for an absence from
work as a result of any injury or dlsease which comes
under the State of California Worker's Compensation
Insurance and Safety Act after eligibility for
Industrial Accident Leave has ended shall receive
maximum compensattonl from the City in an amount equal
to the difference between temporary disability payments
mandated by the State of California Worker's
Compensation Insurance and Safety Act and his reguqar
basic rate of pay.
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Section 17.1 Each employee shall have one-half (1/2) hour deducted
from his accrued sick leave time for each one-half (1/2) hour of
sick leave taken. An emp]oyee with a regular work day of eight (8)
hours shall have eight (8) hours deducted from his accrued sick
leave time for each regularly scheduled working day that he is on
paid sick leave.
17.11 An employee may, at&his option, elect to use vacation
time to bridge the period after sick leave is exhausted
~__~ and prior to STD commencing.
Section 17.2 Sick Leave that I$ accrued, but not taken, shall be
accumulated.
17.21 Regular, full-time confidential or management employees
with an average regular work week of forty (40) hours
shall be paid at their regular hourly rate of pay for
all hours accumulated beyond one hundred seventy-five
(175) in each calendar year. Payment shall be made in
January of each year, or upon the employee's termina-
tion of employment for any reason. A maximum of one
hundred seventy-five (175) hours shall carry over from
year to year.
Section 17.3 A confidential or management employee who has
completed six (6) months as a regular full-time employee and is
continuously and totally disabled for more than one (1) calendar
month, shall receive a short term disability benefit of net sixty
percent (60%) of his/her base rate of pay, after withholding taxes,
and less deductible benefits. Such disability benefit shall con-
tinue during total disability up to a maximum of six months from
date of disability. Upon completion of thirty (30) and/or ninety
(gO) days of absence while receiving short term disability bene-
fits, an employee shall be required to undergo a physical examin-
ation by the treating physician~or medical practitioner and shall
submit a report of such examination explaining the nature and
extent of the disabling illness:or injury and the proghosts and
date of expected return to work. Short term disability benefits
shall continue beyond sixty (60) and/or one hundred and twenty
(120) days of absence only uponisubmission of the report of
physical examination by the treating physician or medical
practitioner.
17.31 Deductible benefits include salary or other compensa-
tion paid by any employer; Worker's Compensation Act or
similar law including benefits for partial or total
-- disability, whether permanent or temporary if benefits
being received are for the current disabling condition;
a pension plan toward which the City contributed.
17.32 Benefits are not payable unless the employee is
regularly seen and treated by a licensed physician or
medical practitioner who certifies to the continuing
disability.
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Section 17.4 In the event that any paid holiday occurs durfng a
period when any confidential or management employee is on pald sick
leave, the holiday shall not be charged against the employee's
accrued sick leave. The only sick leave hours that shall be
charged against any employee's accrued sick leave shall be those
hours that the employee is regularly scheduled to work.
Section 17.5 An employee eliglble for paid sick leave shall be
granted such leave for the following reasons:
17.51 Illness of the employee or physical incapacity of the
employee due to illness or injury.
17.52 Enforced quarantine of the employee in accordance wlth
community health regulations.
17.53 Medical and dental appointments during work hours. Use
of sick leave for scheduled medical and dental appoint-
ments shall require prior approval of the employee's
supervisor and will be granted in accordance with the
best interests of the City of Anaheim and the emplo-
yee's department or division.
17.54 Temporary dfsabllitles caused by pregnancy and child-
birth.
17.55 Up to forty-eight (48) hours of sick leave per calendar
year shall be granted for illness of the employee's
immediate family.
Section 17.6 A confidential or management employee who cannot
perform his assigned duties due to illness or physical incapacity
shall inform his immediate supervisor of the fact and the reason
therefore as soon as possible. Failure to do so within a reason-
able time may be cause of denial of sick leave with pay.
Section 17.7 In the event that an employee is absent on sick leave
in excess of twenty-four (24) consecutive working hours, the
employee*s Executive Manager or Administrative Manager may require
that the employee submit to him a written statement by a physician
licensed by the State of California certifying that the employee's
condition prevented him from performing the duties of his posi-
tion. Failure on the part of the employee to comply with such a
requirement may be considered cause for disciplinary action.
Section 17.8 In the event that an employee becomes ill during
working hours and is placed on paid sick leave prior to the close
of the work day, such sick leave shall be calculated to the nearest
one-half (1/2) hour.
Section 17.g Effective December 19, 1980, accrued Sick Leave hours
shall be entered in a new Sick Leave plan.
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17.91 Regular full-time confidential and management employees
with an average regular work week of forty (40) hours
who were employees as of that date shall have up to one
hundred seventy-five (175) hours transferred to the
usable Sick Leave account. The remainder (over 175
hours) shall be credited as follows: seventy-five
percent (75~) to be reported as service credit at
retlrement; twenty-five percent (25~) converted to cash
value at the employee's current (December lg, 1980)
regular hourly rate of pay and paid with interest at
retirement, layoff or to his/her beneficiary, as desig-
nated by Public Employee's Retirement System records if
the employee dies while employed. Employees who retire
during calendar year 1984 or thereafter shall receive
service credit for all hours up to one hundred seventy-
five (175).
17.92 Regular full-time management employees with an average
regular work week of fifty-six (56) hours shall have up
to two hundred forty-five (245) hours credited to a
usable Sick Leave account. The remainder (over 245
hours) shall be credited as follows: seventy-five
percent (75~) to be used as service credit at retire-
ment; twenty-five percent (25%) converted to cash value
at the employee's current (December 19, 1980) regular
hourly rate of pay and paid with interest at retire-
ment, layoff or to his/her beneficiary, as designated
by Public Emp]oyee's Retirement System records, if the
employee dies while employed. Employees who retire in
calendar year 1984 or thereafter shall receive service
credit for all hours up to two hundred forty-five
(245).
17.93 An employee in a classification designated as confi-
dential or management who has more than five (5) years
of continuous City service and is age 50 or older may
elect once each calendar year to receive all or a
portion of his/her Employee Sick Leave Trust Fund
account. When requested, such payments may be diverted
to the employee's Deferred Compensation account, or
paid in cash by separate check subject to standardized
withholding taxes. Nhen partial payment is requested,
the amount shall not be less than 25% of the balance,
and a maximum of four (4) such partial payments shall
be allowed with the fourth payment paying the entlre
remaining balance in the account.
Section 17.10 If two or more periods of total disability occur
during a specific six-month elimination period for the insured LTD
plan, all such periods shall be considered as one period of
continuous total disability under the following conditions:
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17.101 All periods of total disability must be due to the same
cause or causes; and
17.102 All recurring periods of total disability that qualify
as one period of continuous total disability for the
insured LTD plan, shall qualify as one period of
~ ~ continuous total disability for the ANAHEIM Disability
Plan and shall not require a new one month waiting
~ period before ANAHEIM Disability Benefits will be paid;
and
17.103 Commencement of the benefit period for the insured LTD
plan shall automatically terminate benefits from the
ANAHEIM Disability Plan.
Section 17.11 The City Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk and City
Treasurer shall also be subject to the provisions of this RULE.
Section 17.12 This rule does not apply to management employees
with an average regular work week of fifty-six (56) hours (with the
exception of Section 17.92), with the adoption of Rule 32, Paid
Leave Program."
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the effective date of said
amendment to Resolution No. 88R,186 is February 16, 1990.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that except to the extent
amended, Resolution No. 88R-166 shall remain in full force and
effect.
THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this/3.r_~......day of February, 1990.
.................
ATTEST :_
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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CLERK
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution No. 90R-50 was introduced and adopted at a regular
meeting provided by law, of the City Council of the City of Anaheim held on
the 13th day of February, 1990, by the .following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Daly, Ehrle, Kaywood, Pickler, Hunter
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
AND I FURTHER certify that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said
Resolution No. 90R-50 on the 14th day of February, 1990.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
City of Anaheim this 14th day of February, 1990.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is the original of Resolution No. 90R-50, duly passed and
adopted by the Anaheim City Council on February 13, 1990..
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
Exhibit 90R-50 1
RULE 1 7. SICK LEAVE
Section 17.0 Full-time confidential and management employees in
the classified service shall accrue annual Sick Leave wlth pay
in accordance with the following provisions:
17.01 Regular, full-time employees with an average
regular work week of forty (40) hours shall accrue
pafd sick leave at the rate of three (3) hours for
each complete biweekly pay period.
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17.03 Paid ~ick leave shall continue to accrue
accordance with th~ abov~ provi~ion~ during any
period of ] cave with pay, except that Publ
Safe~y employees who remain on %ndus~r~a] Accident
Leave In accordance ~ith Personnel Rule 18
Industrial Acctden~ Leave, after exhausting
mandated 4850 beneflts shall accumulate no Sick
Leave. :
~?.0~ An employee requemt~ng $~ck leave ~or an absence
~rom ~ork as a result o~ anF ~nJu.~ or
~h~ch comes under the S~a~e o~ California
Compensatfon Insurance and Safety Act after
eligibility for Industrial Accident Leave has
ended shall receive maximum compensation from the
City tn an amount equal to the difference between
temporary dtsability payments mandated by the
State of Ca31fornta Worker's Compensation
Insurance and Safety Act and his regular basic
rate of pay.
Section 1?.1 Each employee sha~3 have one-baSf (1/2) hour
deducted from his accrued sick 3cave time for each one-half
(1/2) hour of sick ~eave taken. An employee wtth a reguSar work
of eight (8) hours sha~3 have eight (8) hours deducted from
accrued sick 3cave time for each regu~arSy scheduSed working
that he is on paid sick qeave.
17.11 An employee may, at his option, elect to use
vacation time to bridge the period after Sick
Leave ls exhausted and prior to STD commencing.
Exhibit 90R-50 2
Section 17.2 Sick Leave that is accrued, but not taken, shall
be accumulated.
17.21 Regular, full-time confidential or management
employees with an average regular work week of
forty (40 hours shall be paid at their regular
hourly rate of pay for all hours accumulated
beyond one hundred seventy-five (175) in each
calendar year. Payment shall be made in January
of each year, or upon the employee's termination
of employment for any reason. A maximum of one
hundred seventy-five (175) hours shall carry over
from year to year.
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Section 17.3 A confidential or management employee who has
completed six (6) months as a regular full-time employee and is
continuously and totally disabled for more than one (1) calendar
month, shall receive a short term disability benefit of net
sixty percent (60%) of his/her base rate of pay, after
withholding taxes, and less deductible benefits. Such
disability benefit shall continue during total disability up to
a maximum of six months from date of disability. Upon
completion of thirty (30) and/or ninety (90) days of absence
while receiving short term disability benefits, an employee
shal] be required to undergo a physical examination by the
treating physician or medical practitioner and shall submit a
report of such examination explaining the nature and extent of
the disabling illness or injury and the prognosfs and date of
expected return to work. Short term disability benefits shall
continue beyond sixty (60) and/or one hundred and twenty (120)
days of absence only upon submission of the report of physical
examination by the treating phys~cian or medical practitioner.
Exhibit 9~50 3
17.31 Deductible benefits include salary or other
compensation paid by any employer; Horker's
Compensation Act or similar law including benefits
for partial or total disability, whether permanent
or temporary if benefits being received are for
the current disabling condition; a pension plan
toward which the City contributed.
17.32 Total disability: means an employee's complete
inability to engage In his/her regular occupation.
17.35 Benefits are not payable unless the employee is
regularly seen and treated by a licensed physician
or medical practitioner who certifies to the
continuing disability.
Section 17.4 In the event that any paid holiday occurs during a
period when any confidential or management employee is on paid
sick leave, the holiday shall not be charged against the
employee's accrued sick leave. The only sick leave hours that
shall be charged against any employee's accrued sick leave shall
be those hours that the employee is regularly scheduled to work.
Section 17.5 An employee eligible for paid sick leave shall be
granted such leave for the following reasons:
17.51 Illness of the employee or phystcal incapacity of
the employee due to illness or injury.
17.52 Enforced quarantine of the employee in accordance
wfth community health regulations.
17.53 Medical and dental appointments during work
hours. Use of sick leave for scheduled medical
and dental appointments shall require prior
approval of the employee's supervisor and will be
granted in accordance with the best interests of
the City of Anahefm and the employee's department
or division.
17.54 Temporary disabilities caused by pregnancy and
childbirth.
17.55 Up to forty-eight (48) hours of sick leave per
calendar year shall be granted for illness of the
employee's immediate family.
Section 17.6 A confidential or management employee who cannot
perform his assigned duties due to illness or physical
incapacity shall inform his immediate supervisor of the fact and
the reason therefore as soon as possible. Failure to do so
within a reasonable time may be cause of denial of sick leave
with pay. ~
Exhibit 90R-50 4
Section 17.7 In the event that an employee is absent on sick
leave in excess of twenty-four (24) consecutive working hours,
the employee's Executive Manager or Administrative Manager may
require that the employee submit to him a written statement by a
physician licensed by the State of California certifying that
the employee's condition prevented him from performing the
duties of his position. Failure on the part of the employee to
comply with such a requirement may be considered cause for
disciplinary action.
Section 17.8 In the event that an employee becomes ill during
working hours and is placed on paid sick leave prior to the
close of the work day, such paid sick leave shall be calculated
to the nearest one-half (1/2) hour.
Section 17.g Effective December 19, 1980, accrued Sick Leave
hours shall be entered in a new Sick Leave plan.
17.91 Regular full-time confidential and management
employees with an average regular work week of
forty (40) hours who were employees as of that
date shall have up to one hundred seventy-five
(175) hours transferred to the usable Sick Leave
account. The remainder (over 175 hours) shall be
credited as follows: seventy-five percent (754)
to be reported as service credit at retirement;
twenty-five percent (254) converted to cash value
at the employee's current (December 19, 1980)
regular hourly rate of pay and paid with interest
at retirement, layoff or to his/her beneficiary,
as designated by Public Employee's Retirement
System records if the employee dies while
employed. Employees who retire during calendar
year 1984 or thereafter shall receive service
credit for all hours up to one hundred
seventy-five (175).
17.92 Regular full-time management employees wlth an
average regular work week of fifty-six (56) hours
shall have up to two hundred forty-five (245)
hours credited to a usable Sick Leave account.
The remainder (over 245 hours) shall be credited
as follows: seventy-five percent (?54) to be used
as servfce credlt at retirement; twenty-five
percent (254) converted to cash value at the
employee's current (December 19, 1980) regular
hourly rate of pay and paid with interest at
retirement, layoff or to his/her beneficiary, as
designated by Public Emptoyee's Retirement System
records, if the employee dies while employed.
Employees who retire in calendar year 1984 or
thereafter shall recefve service credlt for all
hours up to two hundred forty-five (245).
Exhibit 90R-50 5
17.93 An employee in a: classification designated as
confidential or management who has more than five
(5) years of continuous City service and is age 50
or older may elect once each calendar year to
receive all or a portion of his/her Employee Sick
Leave Trust Fund account. Nhen requested, such
payments may be diverted to the employee's
Deferred Compensation account, or paid in cash by
separate check subject to standardized withholding
taxes. When partial payment is requested, the
amount shall not be ]ess than 25% of the balance,
and a maximum of four (4) such partial payments
shall be allowed with the fourth payment paying
the entire remaining balance in the account.
Section 17.10 If two or more periods of total disability occur
during a specific six-month elimination period for the insured
LTD plan, all such periods shall be considered as one period of
continuous total disability under the following conditions:
1?.101 All per~ods of total disability must be due to the
same cause or causes; and
17.102 All recurring periods of total disability that
qualify as one period of continuous total
disability for the insured LTD plan, shall qualify
as one period of continuous total disability for
the ANAHEIM Disability Plan and shall not require
a new one month waiting period before ANAHEIM
Disability Benefits will be paid; and
17.103 Commencement of the benefit period for the insured
LTD plan shall automatically terminate benefits
from the ANAHEIM Disability Plan.
Section 17.11 The City Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk and
City Treasurer shall also be subject to the provisions of this
RULE.
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Revised 04/14/88
Adopted effective April 29, 1988 - Resolution No. 88R-166