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MEMO TO: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: CLERK-ADMINISTRATO DATE: JANUARY 20, 1989 60 SUBJECT: EMPLOYEE LEAVE POLICY As you may recall, the current leave policy for employees of the City of Mounds View is as follows, Sick Leave - earned at the rate of 1 day per month to a maximum 120 days. 501 of unused sick leave is given to employees as severance pay aft<_r 10 years of service. Vacation - Vacation time is earned at the following rates: 1-5 Years 10 days After 5-10 years 15 days After 11 years 16 days After 12 years 17 days After 13 years 18 days After 14 years 19 days _ After 15 vears 20 days (^ Employees are allowed to carry over from one year to the next without Council approval 10 days plus the amcunt accrued during the previous year. Over the past years there has been infrequent discrssion among the Management Team and the members of City staff about the possibility of changing this system to discourage the taking of sick leave when an employee isn't really sick, to allow employees greater flexibility in the use of the leave time they are given, and to give an incentive for not abusing the program. These discussions have nev-r gotten beyond the stage of just talking about it because no one has had any specific information regarding practices of other cities c, organizations nor a detailed proposal for our ccnsideration. In a recent conversation with Bill Hunt, Assistant to the Fridley City Manager, I learned that Fridley implemented a change in their leave policy in 1982 which was agreed to by all of their unions, including Teamsters 320, which represents our Police and I.U.O.E. Local 49, which represents our Public Works employees. Essentially, what they did was to go from a leave program like the one we have in place at this time to a program where each employee receives an annual leave allowance that they can use for vacations or when they are ill, both sick and injury on duty.