[Adopted 9-5-1990[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided as follows: City
Hall hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Breaks
shall be 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the afternoon,
with a one-hour lunch. Travel reimbursement shall be $0.25 per mile;
a mileage log in required Form No. RTL 90 shall include the time,
odometer reading, destination, employee signature, department head
signature and car license number. City vehicles shall not be used
for personal use. The calendar year will be used to compute leave
time. The employee's employment date anniversary will be used for
all benefits based on years of service. Part-time employee will receive
pension benefits only. Part-time employment is 20 hours or less per
week. All employees are required to file a time sheet (form: Rensselaer
City Employee Time Sheet), to be signed by the employee and the department
head. No overtime will be paid to salaried employees; compensatory
time will be given for the time spent over salaried hours.
A.
Employees, after completion of one year of service, shall be entitled
to two weeks vacation; employees with five years of continuous service
shall be entitled to three weeks of vacation; and employees with 10
years of continuous service shall receive four weeks of vacation.
Employees with 20 years or over shall receive five weeks of vacation
in one calendar year.
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Completion
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Weeks
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1
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2
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5
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3
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10
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4
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20 or more
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5
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B.
Vacations shall be taken in the calendar year during which the employee
becomes entitled thereto, and no part of such vacation shall be carried
over from one calendar year to another unless the pressure of work
in a particular department makes it impossible for the department
head to grant vacation such year; in such case, the vacation period
for that year, or any unused portion thereof, may be added to the
vacation to which the employee is entitled during the following year.
An employee may appeal the department head's denial of carry-over
to the Mayor.
C.
Unused vacation may be paid for at separation, with a limit of 20
days of carry-over.
[Amended 8-2-1995 by L.L. No. 4-1995]
A.
Absence from duty by an employee of the City of Rensselaer by reason
of sickness or disability shall be paid for as provided in this section
and not otherwise. Absence from duty for such reasons, if duly granted
by the department head, shall be considered and known as "sick leave."
B.
The following regulations shall govern such absence from duty:
(1)
An employee of the City of Rensselaer shall be granted sick leave
with pay of one working day a month or 12 working days a year.
(2)
The 12 working days a year to be allowed an employee for sick leave
with pay may be accumulated.
(3)
Upon becoming sick or disabled, an employee, by virtue of employment
or service after the effective date of this regulation, may, during
sickness or disability, be granted sick leave with pay to the extent
of the unused sick leave time which was accumulated.
(4)
Allowable and allowed sick leave time shall be considered for all
purposes as continuous service, but in the event of resignation or
discharge of an employee, accumulated and unused sick leave is canceled.
(6)
The Mayor may require a physician's certificate for any absence of
more than five days. Where the illness or disability is of long duration,
a physician's certificate may be required for each 10 days of continuous
absence. In any case, the Mayor may require an examination by a physician
or other acceptable evidence that the illness is bona fide.
(7)
It shall be the duty and responsibility of each and every employee
to contact the department head on the initial day of each illness.
A.
Employees with one year or more of service shall be entitled to four
working days a year with pay for personal leave. Said personal leave,
if not used during the year, shall not be cumulative.
B.
Allowable and allowed personal leave time shall be considered for
all purposes as continuous service, but in the event of resignation
or discharge of any employee, his unused personal leave time shall
be canceled and not paid for.
C.
It shall be the duty and responsibility of each and every employee
to contact his/her department head as far in advance as possible.
All City employees covered by this article shall be entitled
to receive time off for each of the following holidays:
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New Year's Day
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
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Presidents' Day
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Memorial Day
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Independence Day
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Labor Day
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Columbus Day
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Veterans Day
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Election Day
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Thanksgiving Day
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Friday after Thanksgiving
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Christmas
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Such other days when it is deemed that City Hall shall be closed
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An employee shall be granted five consecutive days upon the
death of a spouse or child and three consecutive calendar days' bereavement
leave due to a death in the immediate family, during which period
such employee shall sustain no loss of pay. For the purposes hereof,
"immediate family" shall include natural, foster, steps parents, grandchildren,
brothers, sisters, father-in-law, mother-in-law or any relative residing
in such employee's household. Such leave shall not be cumulative.
A regular full-time employee shall be granted a leave of absence
when required to report for jury duty, provided that he/she shows
evidence of such proposed jury duty. Employees shall be paid the difference
between any jury duty compensation they receive and their regular
wages for each day of jury duty. If an employee served on jury duty
for 1/2 day, he/she is required to return to work for the remainder
of the day, with a receipt from court to certify the time of duty.
A pregnant employee, upon written request, shall be granted
a leave of absence without pay for a period of six months or until
four months after the birth, whichever is greater. She may use any
accumulated sick or personal time due her in conjunction with her
six months' leave.
This article shall take effect retroactively to January 1, 1990.
[Added 8-15-2007]
The City of Rensselaer is desirous of banning the use of alcohol
in all City-owned buildings because of safety and liability concerns.
Effective immediately, alcohol shall be banned from all City buildings
in the City of Rensselaer.
