29 Effective December 31, 2022, employees who converted carryover hours to “Banked Hours” on December 31, 2018, their hours will remain in the same “Banked Hours” account, however, employees cannot add any leave time to these previously "Banked Hours”. Prior Banked Hours will be in addition to the current Vacation Leave accrual for each eligible employee. Since December 31, 2018, employees have not been permitted to bank any unused leave hours. The City maintains this policy that employees are not permitted to bank any unused leave hours and employees must either use said hours or forfeit those hours as provided in this Policy Manual. Employees with existing Banked Hours, may use Banked Hours on the same basis and subject to the same policies as Vacation Leave. When Banked Hours are used by an employee, the hours used shall be deducted from the individual employee's Banked Hours account balance until such time as the account balance reaches zero. Once each calendar year, employees who have Banked Hours in their account may choose to "sell" up to eighty (80) hours back to the City. Banked Hours that the employee chooses to sell back to the City will be paid for at 75% percent (75%) of the employee's current regular hourly rate of pay. Employees who want to sell Banked Hours will submit a written request on a form provided by the City to the Department Director. Hours that are sold under this provision will be deducted from the employee's Banked Hours balance on a one-for-one basis. In cases in which an employee incurs expenses associated with a serious health condition or experiences an unexpected financial hardship, the employee may submit a written request to the Human Resources Manager to sell Banked Hours back to the City at Seventy-five Percent (75%) of the requesting employee’s current regular rate of pay. Approval or denial of the written request will be at the discretion of both the Human Resource Manager. At the time of termination of employment with the City, any hours remaining in an employee's Banked Hours account will be paid to the employee at 75% percent (75%) of the employee's thencurrent regular rate of pay. Section 4. Paid Sick Leave The City provides a Sick Leave benefit so that employees may have time-off with pay for healthcare provider visits and to recover from illness or injury, or to provide care for an ill or injured family member. The annual sick leave benefit is large enough to cover the short-term disability insurance waiting period of 14 days. Paid Sick leave is available to all employees. On January 1st of each year, Regular Full-Time employees and shall be granted the following Paid Sick Leave days. • Employees who are scheduled to work 2080 hours the previous year will be granted 80 hours on January 1st of each year • Employees who are scheduled to work 2184 hours the previous year will be granted 84 hours on January 1st of each year • Employees who are scheduled to work 2757 hours the previous year will be granted 100 hours on January 1st of each year On January 1st of each year, Regular Part-time Employees will earn 1 hour of paid Sick Leave for every 30 hour work week the employee worked the previous year, up to 48 hours of paid Sick Leave per year. There will be no carry-over of sick leave from year to the next and any unused Sick Leave will be forfeited by all employees on December 31 of each year. Paid Sick Leave is not paid out upon termination of employment. GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR USE OF SICK LEAVE
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