City of Milwaukee - File #: 191473

• File #: 191473
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/17/2019
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 3/24/2020
• Effective date: 4/11/2020
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to employee wages, benefits, and regulations.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: EMPLOYEE BENEFITS, WAGES AND BENEFITS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/10/2020	2	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
4/2/2020	2	MAYOR	SIGNED
3/24/2020	2	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	14:0
3/18/2020	1	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Ald. Stamper moved substitution of the file with Proposed Substitute A. (Prevailed 4-0)	Pass	4:0
3/18/2020	2	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE; Minutes note: Also appearing: Mark Yatchak, Health Dept.	Pass	4:0
3/13/2020	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
12/17/2019	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
191473
Version
SUBSTITUTE 2
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to employee wages, benefits, and regulations.
Sections
350-37-0 am
350-37-1-a am
350-37-13 am
350-237-3-b-7 am
350-237-3-b-8 cr
350-237-3-c-1 rp
Analysis
This ordinance allows an employee to use sick leave to care for the employee’s immediate family member, as defined by the federal family and medical leave act. This ordinance further grants city laborers eligibility, upon appointment, to sick leave with pay and to taking earned vacation time. This ordinance also corrects an out-of-date reference to the city service commission.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 350-37-0 of the code is amended to read:

350-37. Sick and Disability Leave. Sick leave shall cover necessary absence from duty of an employee because of the employee’s personal illness or pregnancy-related disability, bodily injury or exclusion from employment because of exposure to contagious disease by the employee>>, or for the care of an employee’s immediate family member. For the purpose of this section only, “immediate family member” has the meaning given in the federal family and medical leave act<<. In addition, an employee may request the substitution of sick leave for family leave under the state family and medical leave act, s. 103.10, Wis. Stats. Employees may not use sick leave for furlough days. Employees may accrue time earned for sick leave purposes while serving mandatory furlough time.

Part 2. Section 350-37-1-a of the code is amended to read:

1. TIME GRANTED.

a. Unless stated otherwise in a certified collective bargaining agreement while it is in force and in effect, an eligible employee of the city who serves on a full-time basis may accrue 12 working days’ sick and disability leave with pay during any year. [[City seasonal laborers shall be eligible to accrue sick and disability leave credit for a...