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~;ECT~ON 18 - LEAVES <br /> <br />18.1 Sick Leave <br /> <br /> 18.1.1 Sick Leave Accrual <br /> <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 <br /> in the work cycle, the rate of accrual and the maximum accrual of <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 Fire 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 /> 18.1.2 Sick Leave Usage <br /> <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. Tn the <br /> event a probationary employee is ill, the Rre Chief at his discretion <br /> may 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 /> <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 /> <br /> 29 <br /> <br /> <br />