Regular, full-time employees earn 64 hours (eight, 8-hour days) of paid sick leave per year. Employees may accumulate up to 40 days (320 hours) sick leave over the course of their employment with the Town. Employees may not donate a portion of their accumulated sick leave
to other Town of Sebago employees. Regular part-time employees and temporary employees do not earn paid sick leave.
Sick leave may be granted for any of the following reasons:
The employee’s personal illness or injury of an incapacitating nature sufficient to justify absence
from work.
Personal medical or dental appointments for the employee that cannot be scheduled during times
other than working hours.
An employee is required to contact his/her supervisor or his/her designee prior to the start of the employee’s regularly scheduled workday, but no later than two hours after the start of the regularly scheduled workday unless specific department policy requires otherwise. In the case of an emergency situation, i.e., hospitalization, the employee will make every effort to notify the
supervisor or designee as soon as possible. Failure to report within this time frame will result in disallowance of sick pay for that day.
An employee is required to call the supervisor or his/her designee each day of the absence unless previous arrangements have been made between the employee and the supervisor. In the event that an employee fails to call the supervisor or designee the day of the absence, and the day of the absence falls before a holiday, the employee will not receive holiday pay for that holiday period.
The Town Manager may after 3 days, as a condition precedent to continuance of sick pay, require a certificate of a qualified physician certifying the condition of the employee to be such as to justify the continued absence from employment.
Probationary employees shall not be entitled to paid sick leave until they have completed 180 days (6 months) employment. At the completion of 180 days employment by probationary employees, cumulative sick leave days shall be computed from the original date of employment.
After any extended sick leave it may be required by the department head that the absent employee obtain a physician’s statement, at his/her own cost, that he/she is physically capable to return to normal duty. It shall be the responsibility of the department head to insure that this requirement is appropriately followed before the employee is allowed to return to his/her regular duties.
Accumulated sick leave shall be paid to the employee at the time of employment separation as follows:
0 to 5 years of service - none
5 to 10 years of service - 25%
10 or more years of service - 50%
In the event of an employee’s death, the Town will pay accrued sick leave benefits, as listed above, to the employee’s most immediate family member.
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