2009/07/29 Council Agenda Packet

_ r / 4 ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE establishing a shared leave program for transferring vacation leave between employees and repealing Ordinance No. 1889-92. WHEREAS, the City provides vacation leave to its employees as a vested right, subject to payment upon termination; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds it appropriate and in the public interest to permit employees to share vacation leave in carefully defined circumstances, and to transfer such leave to and for the benefit of employees who, without such transfers, would be forced to terminate employment or go without pay in order to meet the needs of severe illness; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds it necessary to update the ordinance authorizing shared leave for City employees to ensure consistency and compliance with state law and City policies. NOW, THEREFORE,THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1: Shared Leave A. Intent. The purpose of shared leave is to permit City employees, at no additional cost to any City fund other than the administrative costs of administering the program, to come to the aid of a fellow City employee who is suffering from or has a spouse, state-registered domestic partner, or child (under the age of eighteen (18) who resides with the employee) who is suffering from an extraordinary or severe illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition which has caused or is likely to cause the employee to take leave without pay or to terminate his or her employment. B. An employee may request and be approved to receive shared leave under this ordinance if he or she meets the following eligibility criteria: 1. The employee, or the employee`sspouse, state registered domestic partner, or child (under eighteen (18) who resides with the employee) suffers from an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition which is of an extraordinary or severe nature and which caused, or is likely to cause, the 16