Agmt14 Chief Officers Association MOU 2013-2016

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leave bank at a rate of one and four-tenths (1.4) hours for every one hour of sick leave taken. Battalion Chiefs assigned to a fifty-six (56) hour schedule and promoted to Deputy Chief on a forty(40) hour schedule shall convert accrued sick leave to the forty(40) hour rate(i.e., divide the 56 hour accrued sick leave by a denominator of 1.4). Pursuant to Section 16.9, a qualifying employee may also request family and medical leave if he or she is unable to perform his or her job because of a serious health condition, or needs to care for a child, following birth or placement, or needs to care for a spouse, domestic partner, child or parent who is seriously ill. Leave shall be in accordance with the City's Family Medical Leave Act Policy. 16.1.2 Sick leave shall be defined as the non-job related absence from work due to illness, bodily injury, exposure to contagious disease, and caring of family members whose illness requires the employee's care. For the purpose of this article, immediate family means spouse, domestic partner(as defined and recognized under state law), child,stepchild or parent. 16.1.3 Unused sick leave may be accumulated to maximum sick leave credits of one-thousand two- hundred (1200) hours. For Battalion Chiefs who work a fifty-six(56) hour work week unused sick leave may be accumulated to a maximum sick leave credit of two-thousand four-hundred (2400) hours. If the Deputy Chiefs converted sick leave upon promotion from Battalion Chief assigned to a fifty-six(56) hour schedule exceeds 1200 hours, the city will cash out sick leave in excess of 1200 hours at a fifty percent(50%) rate. 16.1.4 In the event an employee has accumulated the maximum sick leave credits of one-thousand two- hundred (1200) hours (2400 hours for Battalion Chiefs) and the employee becomes so severely ill that he or she exhausts his or her sick leave, the Personnel Officer may, upon the written recommendation from the employee's Fire Chief, authorize additional sick leave to include any sick leave in excess of the one-thousand two-hundred (1200) hours (2400 hours for Battalion Chiefs who work a fifty-six(56) hour work week) maximum which may have been lost due to the maximum limitation; provided, however,that sick leave credits were not accumulated for a period of six(6) months or longer. This provision will also apply to Battalion Chiefs in cases where sick leave balances were decreased due to reassignment from a fifty-six(56) hour to a forty(40) hour work week. 16.1.5 An employee 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 (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 (24 hours for Shift Battalion Chiefs) 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 shall be excluded from the definition of sick leave for the purposes of this section. 16.1.6 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 one-thousand two-hundred (1200) hours (2400 hours for Battalion Chiefs who work a fifty-six (56) hour work week). 18