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Home My Public Portal AboutResolution 93-32621 1 1 RESOLUTION NO. 93 -3262 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY AMENDING THE PERSONNEL RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1993 -94. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Rule 12, Working Conditions," Sections 1 and 2 of the Temple City Rules and Regulations are hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 1 "Hours of Work:" The regular hours of work for those classifications covered by these rules shall be as follows: • A normal work week shall consist of 40 hours. SEC. 2 "Work Periods:" The basic work period for those classifications covered by these Rules shall be established as Friday through Friday, except for certain employees in the Park Maintenance Worker classification, whose work period is established as Wednesday through Wednesday. The City reserves the right to assign a different work period when it is deemed to be beneficial to the City." SECTION 2. Rules 13, "Attendance & Leaves," Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Temple City Rules and Regulations are hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2 "Vacation:" A. Each full time employee eligible for benefits shall be entitled to annual vacation leave with pay and shall earn vacation days as follows: Year of Service Vacation Accrual 1 through 5 6 years 7 years 8 years and over 80 hours per year 96 hours per year 112 hours per year 120 hours per year B. Vacation time shall begin to accumulate as of the first day of employment and may be taken once an initial nine (9) hours has been accumulated. Vacation leave shall be taken at the convenience of the City. C. Unused vacation time may be accumulated to a maximum of 240 hours per employee at any one time. The City Manager may approve a higher accrual on an individual basis due to staffing requirements imposed by the City. D. In the case of discharge or death of a full time employee, said employee or his/her estate shall be paid the monetary value of the earned vacation as provided in this section. SEC. 3 "Holidays:" A. With the exceptions provided herein, holidays for employees covered under these rules shall be as follows: • New Year's Day • Washington's Birthday • Memorial Day • Fourth of July • Labor Day • Thanksgiving Day • The Friday after Thanksgiving Day • Christmas Day • As well as three (3) floating holidays, two (2) of which shall be determined by the City Council in July of each fiscal year. Unless otherwise determined by the City, the actual dates for each of the foregoing holidays shall be the dates adopted by the State of California for its employees. B. If any of the foregoing holidays falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the preceding Friday or following Monday respectively shall be a holiday. C. If any of the foregoing holidays fall on a Friday when the City is closed, the holiday shall be recognized on a Friday when the City is open, as determined by the City Council. For certain employees in the Park Maintenance Worker classification, holidays which fall on a Wednesday when the employee(s) is off shall be recognized on a Wednesday when the employee is working as determined by the City. Manager or designee. D. For purposes of this section, a holiday shall be considered nine (9) hours if it falls on a Monday through Thursday, and eight (8) hours if it falls on a Friday. For certain employees in the Park Maintenance Worker classification, a holiday shall be considered nine (9) hours if it falls on a Friday through Monday, and eight (8) hours if it falls on a Wednesday. SEC. 4 "Sick Leave:" Sick leave with pay shall not be considered as a privilege which an employee may use at his/her discretion, but shall be allowed for any full-time employee who is incapacitated from the performance of his or her duties by non - service connected illness or injury, by pregnancy, or by public health requirements. A. Each full time employee shall earn sick leave at the following rate: eight (8) hours per month (96 hours per year). Of the 96 hours, up to 40 may be used for the illness of family members. "Family members" are defined in Section 5, "Bereavement Leave." B. Sick leave shall begin to accumulate as of the first day of employment and may be taken once an initial nine (9) hours has been accumulated. Unused sick leave may be accumulated without limit and additional sick leave beyond that earned may be authorized by the City Council in unusual circumstances. 1 1 1 1 1 C. The employee may be required to file a physician's, dentist's or psychiatrist's statement, or a personal affidavit with the Personnel Office stating the nature of the illness causing the absence, or may be required to submit to an independent medical or psychiatric evaluation, at the City's expense, before sick leave pay will be granted. In all cases, absences of sick leave for five (5) or more days shall require a doctor's release. D. Holidays occurring during sick leave shall not be counted as a day of sick leave. E. Full time employees who have accrued at least 13 months of sick leave (104 hours) may convert 8 hours of sick leave to vacation time on an hour to hour basis, subject to the provisions of Administrative Policy 4.02. No more than one eight hour day of sick leave time may be converted each fiscal year. F. Notwithstanding any other resolution, order, rule, regulation, guideline, or policy to the contrary, upon separation from service with the City, for any reason, including but not limited to death, resignation, termination, retirement, or retirement for disability, no employee shall be entitled to compensation in any manner whatsoever for any unused sick leave accumulations. G. Abuse of sick leave may be grounds for discipline. Abuse will be determined on a case -by- case basis. Although, pursuant to Paragraph C above, an employee may be required to file a physician's or dentist's statement, or a personal affidavit with the Personnel Office stating the nature of the illness caused by absences before sick leave pay will be granted, if it is determined that sick leave was abused; i.e., used in an unreasonable way, the employee may be subject to discipline. Sick leave abuse may include, but is not limited to, an unusual amount of Monday and Friday absences, and use of sick leave for non - illness reasons." SECTION 3. Rule 13, "Attendance and Leaves," of the Temple City Personnel Rules and Regulations is hereby amended to reflect the addition of Section 12, reading as follows: "For the month of January, 1994 only, employees may elect to cash out up to one week (40 hours) of accumulated vacation leave to supplement a temporary loss of 40 hours pay due to the implementation of an alternate work week. An employee may elect to convert up to one week (40 hours) of sick leave to supplement vacation leave for this purpose only, after accumulated vacation leave becomes exhausted, provided the employee does not deplete accumulated sick leave to less than 96 hours. As the employee earns vacation leave, an amount of accrued vacation leave equal to the converted sick leave will be converted back to sick leave. If an employee does not have a total of 40 hours combined accumulated vacation leave and accumulated sick leave (above 96 hours), the employee may elect to make up the balance with an advance accrual of vacation leave, not to exceed 40 hours, provided the employee accrues an amount equal to the advance prior to termination of employment. If the employee separates from City service prior to accrual of an amount equal to the advance, such amount shall be deducted from the employee's pay. There shall be no advance of sick leave for this purpose." SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution. APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 17TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1993. ATTEST: I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution, Resolution No. 93 -3262, was adopted by the City Council of the City of Temple City at a regular meeting held on the 17th day of August, 1993 by the following vote: AYES: Councilmember - Breazeal, McGowan, Budds, Maiming NOES: Councilmember -None ABSENT: Councilmember- Wilson 1 1