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<br />18.1.2 <br /> <br />6.10 <br />Page 38 <br /> <br />sick leave credit will be increased or decreased in direct proportion <br />to such change. Regular and probationary employees who work a <br />forty (40) hour workweek shall accrue sick leave at the rate of <br />eight (8) hours per month to a maximum of nine hundred sixty <br />(960) hours. Sick leave shall accrue during an absence which is a <br />result of occupational disability resulting from service with the City. <br /> <br />In the event an employee of the Fire Department regularly <br />assigned to a twenty-four (24) hour duty shift is temporarily <br />assigned by the Rre Chief with the approval of the City Manager to <br />a forty (40) hour workweek, sick leave for such employee shall <br />continue to be credited at the fifty-six (56) hour rate. Such <br />appointment and accrual credit shall not exceed ninety (90) <br />calendar days, except by mutual agreement between the Union <br />and the City. <br /> <br />Sick Leave Usage <br /> <br />Employees shall be eligible for sick leave benefits from the <br />commencement of their employment with the City, to a maximum <br />of the hours accrued, for absence due to non-occupational <br />disability only during the time such disability, illness, or other <br />sickness or injury continues. Sick leave during the first six (6) <br />months of employment may only be used with the approval of the <br />Fire Chief or his or her designee. Sick leave shall not be credited <br />to any employee whose employment is terminated prior to six (6) <br />months of employment. <br /> <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 <br />person licensed to practice medicine or dentistry that the employee <br />was under said doctor's care while absent. When an employee <br />returns to work after any absence chargeable to sick leave, or as a <br />result of an industrial absence or illness, the City may require a <br />statement from the attending doctor that the employee is in fit <br />physical condition to perform all the duties of his/her position. In <br />addition, the employee may be reqUired to undergo a medical <br />examination at the City's expense to be performed by a doctor <br />designated by the City, before the employee is permitted to return <br />to work. <br /> <br />Sick leave shall be defined as the non-job related absence from <br />work due to illness, bodily injury, exposure to contagious diseaser <br />and caring of family members whose illness requires the worker's <br />care. <br /> <br />31 <br />