Agmt14 Servie Employees International Union SEIU MOU 2014-2017

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20.1.3 Sick leave may be accrued to a maximum of Nine Hundred and Sixty(960) hours. Accrual of sick leave shall cease when the maximum accrual level has been reached. 20.1.4 In the event a worker has accrued the maximum sick leave of Nine Hundred and Sixty(960) hours, and the worker becomes so severely ill that he/she exhausts his/her sick leave, the Personnel Officer may, upon written recommendation of the worker's Department Head, authorize additional sick leave to include any sick leave in excess of the Nine Hundred and Sixty(960) hours maximum which may have been lost due to the maximum limitation; provided, however, that sick leave did not accrue for a period of six (6)months or longer. 20.1.5 A worker may elect to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave credits for any calendar year (based on the preceding 26 pay periods) by requesting payment of unused sick leave in writing to the Director of Finance on or before December 1 of that year. Payment shall be made at twenty- five percent (25%) of the value of the unused sick leave, or fifty percent (50%) of the value of the unused sick leave when no more than ten (10) hours of sick leave have been used (12.5 hours for Dispatchers) for the preceding (26) pay periods at the salary for the year in which the payment is being made. Payment shall be made after December 31. There shall be no payment in lieu of accumulated sick leave benefits for years prior to such calendar year. Use of Personal Business Leave in accordance with Section 20.9 is excluded from the definition of sick leave for the purposes of this section. 20.1.6 Accumulated sick leave credits shall be reduced by the value of the sick leave compensated as provided in the above paragraph and the remaining balance shall be accumulated to a maximum of Nine Hundred and Sixty (960) hours. In the event a worker requests payment pursuant to this Article,the City shall perform the necessary computation steps in the following order: (1) Compute the number of unused sick leave hours for that calendar year; and (2) Compute a dollar amount equal to twenty-five percent (25%) or fifty percent (50%) of the value of the unused sick rate of pay for the calendar year during which the sick leave was earned; and (3) Pay the dollar amount computed in step 2 to the worker by the first pay period in February immediately following the calendar year during which the sick leave was earned; and (4) Add the remaining seventy-five percent (75%) or fifty percent (50%) of the unused sick leave computed in step 1 to the worker's accumulated sick leave credits; and (5) Drop any accumulated sick leave credits in excess of nine hundred and sixty (960) hours. 20.1.7 If a worker terminates for reasons other than death, retirement or discharge, compensation in lieu of unused sick leave shall be paid in accordance with the terms provided for a worker who may elect to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave credits, prorated to the date of termination of service. Workers who retire from City employment with benefits from PERS or who die while in the employ of the City shall be eligible to receive fifty percent (50%) of accrued unused sick leave. In the event of the death of a worker, such payments shall be made to the designated beneficiary filed 31