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ORDINANCE NO. Z/ U`l
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 4: BENEFITS, SUBTITLE: SICK
LEAVE OF THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK OF THE CITY OF WEST
MEMPHIS,ARKANSAS,AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS,the City Council of the City of West Memphis desires to amend the
Employee Handbook of the City of West Memphis, Arkansas, for the purpose of modifying the
section regarding Sick Leave:
NOW, THEREFORE,BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. Section 4: Benefits, Subtitle: Sick Leave, of the Employee Handbook of
the City of West Memphis is amended to read as follows:
SICK LEAVE
CWM provides paid sick leave benefits to full-time employees for personal illness or
incapacity resulting from injury, family illness, emergency medical appointments or
' employee personal necessity.
If illness prevents an employee from reporting to work, the employee must notify his/her
Supervisor at the beginning of the work day. Additionally, when an extended length of
absence due to illness is required, the employee's immediate supervisor must be kept
advised as to the expected length of the absence.
Full time employees who have completed ninety (90) days of continuous service with
CWM are eligible to receive sick leave.
• Sick leave will be accumulated at a rate of 13.33 hours per month for any
employee hired before 1/6/2008.
• Any employee hired on or after 1/6/2008, shall be entitled to sick leave at
the rate of eight (8) hours per month.
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Sick leave will be posted to the employee's accounton his or her monthly anniversary
date.
Any full-time employee who does not use more than 7.75 hours of sick leave for a period
of four(4) months, and has completed one year of service will receive a bonus equal to
eight (8) hours of pay.
CWM, in its sole discretion, may request medical authorization from an employee's
physician prior to the employee's return to work from sick leave. A physician's
statement may be required if an employee is absent due to personal illness.
Sick leave may be granted to the employee for the following reasons:
• Illness preventing normal work.
• Medical treatment or convalescence recommended by an attending physician.
• Medical, dental or optical examinations.
• Exposure to contagious disease.
Sick leave may be granted to employees due to illness of a member of the immediate
family. For the purpose of this policy, "immediate family"member is defined as a
spouse, child,parent, brother, sister, grandparent, grandchild, stepfamily member, in-law
or legally adopted relationships of this group.
Sick leave will be charged against the employee for only those hours he is scheduled to
work.
The minimum length of time chargeable to sick leave will be one quarter (1/4) of an hour.
Sick leave will accumulate to a maximum of sixty (60) days.
Firefighters—shall be subject to the general provisions of CWM of West Memphis
regarding sick leave except as specifically provided in this section.
• Firefighters scheduled to be on duty for twelve (12)hours or more in a
twenty-four (24) hour period shall accumulate sick leave at a rate of ten (10)
working days per year which shall be posted to the firefighter's account on the
firefighter's anniversary date.
• For firefighters scheduled to be on duty for twelve (12) hours or more in a
twenty-four (24) hour period a"working day" shall mean that period of time a
firefighter is on duty within a twenty-four (24)period.
• Firefighters scheduled to be on duty for twelve (12) hours or more in a
twenty-four (24) hour period may accumulate sick leave to a maximum of sixty
(60) working days (1,440 hours).
• Payment for unused sick leave in the case of a firefighter scheduled to be on duty
for twelve (12) hours or more in a twenty-four(24) hour period, upon retirement
or death, shall not exceed 720 hours at the firefighter's regular rate of pay at the
time of separation.
• No firefighter shall have any previously earned sick leave reduced in value
because of this change.
Whenever an employee is separated from CWM service for reasons of retirement (at least
20 years of service) or death, unused sick leave will be paid the employee at his/her
regular rate of pay at the time of separation.
Accumulated sick leave of a deceased employee will be paid to the employee's estate or
to an individual authorized to receive such payments. Payment will be computed at the
employee's regular rate of pay on his/her last day worked.
Sick leave may not be used as vacation.
Any person returning to employment with CWM after a previous period of employment
with CWM shall not be credited with any sick leave accrued during any previous period
of employment.
SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed to the extent of any such conflict.
SECTION 3. The effect of this ordinance shall be retroactive to January 1, 2021.
PASSED AND APPROVED this✓ day ui_ �� , 20 .
tMCO M. Mc LENDON, MAYOR
ATTEST:
MES PULL A , CITY CLERK
SPONSORED :
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