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ARTICLE 17 HOURS OF WORK The regular workweek shall be forty (40) hours per week. The regular workweek for Battalion Chief on a shift schedule shall be fifty-six (56) hours per week. ARTICLE 18 LEA VE PROVISIONS 18.1 Sick Leave 18.1.1 Sick leave with pay shall be granted to all regular employees except as hereinafter provided, at the rate of one (1) working day for each full calendar month of service. Upon satisfactory completion of six (6) months of the probationary period, an employee shall be credited with six (6) days sick leave and shall accumulate sick leave thereafter at the rate of one (1) day for each calendar month of service. Battalion Chiefs who work a fifty-six (56) hour work week shall accrue sick leave at the rate of twenty-four (24) hours per month. Battalion Chiefs who work a forty (40) hour work week shall accrue sick leave at the rate of eight (8) hours a month. At retirement, Battalion Chiefs assigned to a forty (40) hour work week will have their accrued sick leave balance converted to a balance based on the fifty-six (56) hour rate and the retirement sick leave buyout will be paid using the fifty-six (56) hour rate of pay. Pursuant to Section 18.9, an employee may also request family and medical leave ifhe/she is unable to perfonn his/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, child or parent who is seriously ill. 18.1.2 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 required the employee's care. 18.1.3 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 credits of two-thousand four-hundred (2400) hours. 18.1.4 In the event an employee has accumulated the maximum sick leave credits of one-thousand two-hundred (1200) hours (2400 hours for Battalion Chiefs who work a fifty-six (56) hour work week) and the employee becomes so severely ill that he exhausts his/her sick leave, the Personnel Officer may, upon the written 20 .. " .." - .- - ,........_...d..' ~._...,...