Illinois Administrative Code › Title 26 - ELECTIONS › Part 212 - PERSONNEL › Section 212.274 - Sick Leave

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Accrual:
			 Full-time employees shall earn sick leave at the rate of one day for each
			 calendar month's service. Temporary employees do not earn sick leave. No
			 employee shall accrue sick leave while remaining on the payroll to collect
			 accrued vacation prior to the effective date of termination.
b) Use: Sick leave may be used in quarter
			 hour up to full day increments for illness, disability or injury of the
			 employee, appointments with doctors, dentists or other professional medical
			 practitioners, and in the event of serious illness, disability, injury or death
			 of an immediate family member of the employee. Documentation to substantiate
			 that leave days were used for the purposes stated may be required by the
			 Director if reasonable grounds to suspect abuse exist. In the event an employee
			 does not use any sick leave in any calendar year, the employee shall be awarded
			 one additional personal day on January 1 of the next calendar year after one
			 year of service. A calendar year for the purposes of this provision is the
			 period beginning January 1 and ending December 31 of each year. The additional
			 personal leave shall be used in accordance with Section
			 212.282.
c) Accumulation: Employees shall be allowed
			 to carry over any unused sick leave allowed under subsection (a), from year to
			 year of continuous service.
d)
			 Payment in lieu of Sick Leave:
1) Upon
			 termination of employment for any reason, or upon indeterminate layoff, an
			 employee or the employee's estate is entitled to be paid for unused sick leave
			 that accrued on or after January 1, 1984 and prior to January 1, 1998, provided
			 the employee is not employed in another position in State service within four
			 calendar days after the termination.
2) Use of Sick Leave
A) For purposes of this subsection (d), sick
			 leave is deemed to be used by an employee within the following priority order:
i) Sick leave earned through December 31,
			 1983.
ii) Sick leave earned on or
			 after January 1, 1998.
iii) Sick
			 leave earned on or after January 1, 1984 and prior to January 1,
			 1998.
B) The first
			 earned sick leave shall be the first utilized within each category.
3) In order to determine the
			 amount of sick leave to be paid upon termination of employment, the Office
			 shall:
A) compute the number of sick leave
			 days granted to the employee between January 1, 1984 and December 31,
			 1997;
B) compute the employee's
			 sick leave balance for that time period at time of termination; and
C) cause lump sum payment to be made for one
			 half of the amount of sick leave in subsection (d)(3)(A) or (B), whichever is
			 the lesser amount, multiplied by the employee's current daily salary
			 rate.
4) An employee who
			 is reemployed, reinstated or recalled from indeterminate layoff and who
			 received lump sum payment in lieu of unused sick days shall have these days
			 restored provided the employee repays at his or her last rate of pay upon
			 return to active employment the gross amount paid by the State for the number
			 of days to be so restored to the employee's sick leave account.
5) The payment provided by this subsection
			 (d) shall not be allowed if the purpose of the separation from employment and
			 any subsequent reemployment is for the purpose of obtaining payment.
6) The accrued leave shall be certified in
			 writing to the employee by the Office. This certification may be held by the
			 employee or forwarded to the Retirement System.