HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 2021-31RESOLUTION NO. 2021-31
A RESOLUTION OF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL RATIFYING THE
CITY MANAGER'S DECISION TO GRANT ADDITIONAL COVID-19
SPECIFIC LEAVE FOR EMPLOYEES WHO ARE EXPERIENCING
MULTIPLE MANDATED QUARANTINE PERIODS OR EXTENDED
ABSENCES DUE TO COVID-19 RELATED ILLNESS
WHEREAS, on April 15, 2020, Council ratified the City Manager's decision to grant a
two-week COVID-19 specific leave bank to all employees (Resolution No. 2020-76), similar to
what was required under the Families First Corona Virus Response Act (HR 6201), that
provided emergency paid sick leave benefits for eligible employees and expanded the Family
Medical Leave Act; and
WHEREAS, the law expired on December 31, 2020; however, the Coronavirus
Pandemic continues in 2021 and more employees are being impacted by the virus; and
WHEREAS, many City employees have experienced multiple quarantine periods or
have extended illnesses that have exhausted the two-week leave provided to them in April
2020; and
WHEREAS, in order to avoid the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace, it is essential for
employees to continue to follow guidance from the Center for Disease Control, California
Department of Public Health and San Joaquin County Department of Public Health Services
and quarantine when they have been exposed to COVID-19 or if they are symptomatic; and
WHEREAS, providing additional paid leave for COVID-19 related absences will ensure
employees continue to follow mandated safety practices and will not suffer financial
consequences for doing so; and
WHEREAS, it is anticipated that additional leave will not exceed eighty (80) hours for
impacted employees; however, on occasion it may exceed that amount; and
WHEREAS, to date there have been six (6) employees who have received additional
paid leave because they have been required to quarantine beyond the original eighty (80) hour
leave bank and there are approximately ten (10) employees who exhausted their COVID-19
bank and used their personal leave accruals to stay in a paid status; and
WHEREAS, no additional hours will be granted to employees who are not required to
quarantine due to COVID-19 beyond the previously granted COVID-19 specific leave bank; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has granted additional paid leave to employees who have
exhausted their COVID-19 leave and are required to be off work for additional quarantine
periods or for COVID-19 illness, up to eighty (80) hours or an amount that covers the
employee's absence due to confirmed COVID-19 exposure or illness.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby ratify
the City Manager's decision to grant additional paid leave to employees who have exhausted
their COVID-19 leave and are required to be off work for additional quarantine periods or for
COVID-19 illness and to exchange personal leave used with additional COVID-19 leave for the
ten employees that used their personal leave after exhausting their COVID-19 leave.
Dated: February 3, 2021
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I hereby certify that Resolution No. 2021-31 was passed and adopted by the Lodi City
Council in a regular meeting held February 3, 2021 by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — Chandler, Hothi, Khan, Kuehne, and
Mayor Nakanishi
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS — None
J NNIF CUSMIR
City Clerk
2021-31