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Work on a Holiday - An employee who is required to work on any of the <br /> holidays listed above shall receive instead a paid day off on the <br /> workday either preceeding or following the holiday as determined by the <br /> department head. <br /> Holiday During Vacation - In the event any of the holidays above occur <br /> while an employee is on vacation or sick leave, the holiday shall not <br /> be charged as vacation or sick leave. <br /> Sick Leave - Sick leave with pay shall be granted to all regular <br /> employees except as hereinafter provided, at the rate of one (1) <br /> working day for each full calendar month of service. Upon satisfactory <br /> completion of six (6) months of service, an employee shall be credited <br /> with six (6) days sick leave and shall accumulate sick leave thereafter <br /> at the rate of one (1) day for each calendar month of service. <br /> Sick leave shall be defined as the non-job related absence from work <br /> due to illness, bodily injury, exposure to contagious disease, and <br /> caring of family members whose illness required the employee's care. <br /> Unused sick leave may be accumulated to maximum sick leave credits of <br /> one hundred twenty (120) working days (960 hours) . <br /> In the event an employee has accumulated the maximum sick leave credits <br /> of one hundred twenty (120) days and the employee becomes so severely <br /> ill that he exhausts his/her sick leave, the Personnel Officer may, <br /> upon the written recommendation from the employee' s department head, <br /> authorize additional sick leave to include any sick leave in excess of <br /> the one hundred twenty (120) days maximum which may have been lost due <br /> to the maximum limitation; provided, however, that sick leave credits <br /> were not accumulated for a period of six (6) months or longer. An <br /> employee may elect to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave <br /> credits for any calendar year by requesting payment of unused sick <br /> leave in writing to the Director of Finance on or before December 1 of <br /> that year. Payment shall be made at twenty-five (25%) of the value of <br /> the unused sick leave for that calendar year at the salary for the year <br /> the payment is being made and shall be made after December 31. There <br /> shall be no payment in lieu of accumulated sick leave benefits for <br /> years prior to such calendar year. <br /> Accumulated sick leave credits shall be reduced by the value of the <br /> sick leave compensated as provided in the above paragraph and the <br /> remaining balance shall be accumulated to a maximum of one hundred <br /> twenty (120) working days (960 hours) . <br /> If an employee terminates his/her employment, for reasons other than <br /> death, retirement or discharge, compensation in lieu of unused sick <br /> leave shall be paid in accordance with the terms provided for an <br /> employee who may elect to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave <br /> credits, prorated to the date of termination of service. Employees who <br /> retire from City employment with benefits from PERS or who die while in <br /> the employ of the City shall be eligible to receive twenty-five percent <br /> (25%) of accrued unused sick leave. In the event of the death of an <br /> employee, such payments shall be made to the designated beneficiary <br /> 7 <br /> • <br />