Ohio Administrative Code › Title 123:1 - Division of Human Resources › Chapter 123:1-32 - Sick and Personal Leave › Section 123:1-32-01 - Availability and charge of sick leave, vacation leave, and personal leave and compensation for sick leave of employees paid by warrant of the director of budget and management

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Availability of sick leave, vacation
			 leave, and personal leave. Sick leave, vacation leave, and personal leave is
			 not available for use until it appears on the employee's earnings statement and
			 the compensation described in the earnings statement is available to the
			 employee.
(B) Charge of sick leave,
			 vacation leave, and personal leave. Sick leave and vacation leave used by an
			 employee whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the director of
			 budget and management shall be charged in minimum units of one-tenth of one
			 hour. Personal leave used by an employee whose salary or wage is paid directly
			 by warrant of the director of budget and management shall be charged as set
			 forth in paragraph (D) of rule
			 123:1-32-07
			 of the Administrative Code. Employees shall be charged sick leave, vacation
			 leave, and personal leave only for the days and hours for which they would have
			 otherwise been regularly scheduled to work. Sick leave, vacation leave, and
			 personal leave shall not exceed the amount of time the employee would have been
			 regularly scheduled to work in any pay period.
(C) Compensation for charged sick leave. Sick
			 leave for an employee whose salary or wage is paid directly by warrant of the
			 director of budget and management which is credited during or subsequent to the
			 paycheck which includes December 1, 1981 shall be exhausted before use of sick
			 leave accumulated prior to the paycheck which includes December 1, 1981 or sick
			 leave transferred from an entity not paid by warrant of the director of budget
			 and management pursuant to division (F) of section
			 124.382
			 of the Revised Code is allowed. Compensation for sick leave used during each
			 twelvemonth period beginning with the first paycheck the employee receives in
			 December shall be at the following established rates:
(1) The initial forty hours of sick leave
			 shall be paid at a rate equal to the employee's base rate of pay.
(2) The next forty hours of sick leave shall
			 be paid at a rate equal to seventy per cent of the employee's base rate of pay,
			 except as provided in paragraphs (C)(2)(a) or
			 (C)(2)(b) of this rule.
(a) Overnight
			 hospital stay or outpatient surgery.
(i) If
			 the hours or portions thereof are associated with an overnight hospital stay by
			 the employee, the employee's spouse or a child residing with the employee or
			 are used before or after the aforementioned hospital stay and are contiguous to
			 the hospital stay, the sick leave hours shall be paid at a rate equal to the
			 employee's base rate of pay.
(ii)
			 If the hours or portions thereof are associated with an outpatient surgery by
			 the employee, the employee's spouse or a child residing with the employee or
			 are used before or after the outpatient surgery and are contiguous to the
			 outpatient surgery, the sick leave hours shall be paid at the rate equal to the
			 employee's base rate of pay.
(b) Sick leave requested at least thirty
			 calendar days in advance for prescheduled medical appointments for the
			 employee, the employee's spouse or a child residing with the employee may be
			 supplemented at the employee's request to one hundred per cent of pay with
			 available sick leave balances provided that a doctor's statement is submitted
			 on the first day the employee returns to work following the absence.
(3) Sick leave used in
			 excess of eighty hours shall be paid at a rate equal to the employee's base
			 rate of pay.
(4) Sick leave used to
			 supplement an approved disability leave, workers' compensation, or
			 adoption/childbirth leave benefit period shall be paid at a rate equal to the
			 employee's base rate of pay.