A. The City will, as a matter of general policy, authorize up to three (3) months of unpaid leave for any unit member who is the parent of newly born, legally adopted child, or any unit member who needs to care for an ill family mem ber. Family members include spouse, children (natural, adopted, foster or stepchildren) brother, sister, parents, and grandparents. Approval and use of this leave shall be subject to existing Personnel Rules. The employees’ immediate family member does not have to live in the employees’ household to be covered by this section.
B. Employee may use up to (10) hours of accumulated sick leave in at least one-hour increments each calendar year for the home care or medical treatment for an immediate family member residing in the employee’s household. When there is an extreme illness or injury situation where a life or death question exists involving an immediate family member, an employee may use up to five (5) days of accumulated sick leave. (This should not be construed as bereavement leave (under Personnel Rule 15g.)
In addition, employees may have dependent care situations where the above leave is insufficient to cover their absence. Therefore, employees will be allowed to use unscheduled accumulated vacation or compensatory time for the care of an immediate family member up to a maximum of five (5) incidents not to exceed a total of forty (40) hours each calendar year.
For all of the above mentioned leaves, (sick leave, vacation, and compensatory leave) the employee will not have these leaves be considered a negative factor, when evaluating the job performance of an employee involved in a leave-management program , up to a maximum total of seven (7) incidents per calendar year. An incident is defined as an absence from work regardless of the length of time.
Immediate family is defined as the following persons: spouse, child, step-child, brother or sister of the em ployee or the parent of the employee or spouse, a relative who, because of family circumstances, has been a parent substitute to the employee may be considered as a substitute for mother or father in this definition.
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