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<br /> SECTION 18 - LEAVES <br />18.1 Sick Leave <br /> 18.1.1 Sick Leave Accrual <br /> Regular and probationary employees who work a fifty-six (56) hour <br /> workweek shall accrue sick leave at the rate of twenty-four (24) <br /> hours per month to a maximum of one thousand nine hundred <br /> twenty (1,920) hours. In the event the present duty schedule is <br /> changed by increasing or decreasing the number of hours worked in <br /> the work cycle, the rate of accrual and the maximum accrual of sick <br /> leave credit will be increased or decreased in direct proportion to <br /> such change. Regular and probationary employees who work a <br /> forty (40) hour workweek shall accrue sick leave at the rate of eight <br /> (8) hours per month to a maximum of nine hundred sixty (960) <br /> hours. Sick leave shall accrue during an absence which is a result <br /> of occupational disability resulting from service with the City. <br /> In the event an employee of the Fire Department regularly assigned <br /> to a twenty-four (24) hour duty shift is temporarily assigned by the <br /> Fire Chief with the approval ofthe City Manager to a forty (40) <br /> hour workweek, sick leave for such employee shall continue to be <br /> credited at the fifty-six (56) hour rate. Such appointment and <br /> accrual credit shall not exceed ninety (90) calendar days, except by <br /> mutual agreement between the Union and the City. <br /> 18.1.2 Sick Leave Usage <br /> Employees, other than probationary employees during their first six <br /> (6) months of service with the City, shall be entitled to be paid for <br /> sick leave used, to a maximum of the hours accrued, for absence <br /> due to non-occupational disability only during the time such <br /> disability, illness, or other sickness or injury continues. In the event <br /> a probationary employee is ill, the Fire Chief at his discretion may <br /> recommend to the Human Resources Director in writing that a <br /> probationary employee be paid for sick leave accrued and used. <br /> With such a recommendation, the Human Resources Director may <br /> authorize payment of accrued sick leave to a probationary <br /> employee. <br /> At the City's request, the employee must file with the City, after an <br /> absence of three (3) consecutive working days or two (2) <br /> consecutive duty shifts, as the case may be, a statement by a person <br /> licensed to practice medicine or dentistry that the employee was <br /> 29 <br />