Agmt99 Redwood City Police Officers Association (POA) MOU 1999-2002

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8.2 4/10 and 3/12'/: Schedules 8.2.1 All unit members shall be placed on either a four (4) day, ten (10) hours per day weekly schedule, or a three (3) day, twelve and one-half (12%2) hours per day weekly schedule. 8.2.2 In the event of an emergency or periods of significant staffing shortages, the City reserves the right to place unit members on a five (5) day, eight (8) hours per day weekly schedule, in which event the association shall be notified as far in advance as reasonably possible under the circumstances. 8.2.3 Except as provided in Section 8.2.2, in the event the City proposes to change the 4/10 schedule to anything other than four (4) ten (10) hour days the association shall be notified at least ten (10) days in advance of the proposed change and given an opportunity to meet and confer regarding the impact of such proposed change prior to implementation. 8.2.4 Except as provided in Section 8.2.2, in the event the Police Officers Association or the City proposes to discontinue the 3/12'/2 schedule and return to the 4/10 schedule as outlined in Section 8.2.1, a three (3) month notice will be given and the schedule change would take place at the next regular shift change in February or August. SECTION 9. LEAVES 9.1 Sick Leave 9.1.1 Regular full-time and probationary employees shall accrue sick leave at the rate of eight (8) hours per month, provided they have worked one hundred sixty (160) hours that month, to a maximum of one -thousand two - hundred (1200) hours. Sick leave usage shall not be considered as a privilege which an employee may use at his or her discretion, but shall be allowed only in case of necessity of actual sickness or disability. Charge for sick leave used shall be on the basis of one (1) hour for each hour used; provided however, that sick leave shall be charged for only those hours when the employee was absent from work. Sick leave may not be used before it is earned. 9.1.2 Employees, upon completion of their initial six (6) months of employment, shall be eligible for sick leave benefits, to a maximum of the hours accrued, for absence due to non -occupational disability only during the time such disability, illness, or other sickness or injury continues. At the City's request, an employee who has been absent more than three (3) days must file with the City a statement by a person licensed to practice medicine or dentistry that the employee was under said doctor's care while absent. When an employee returns to work after any absence 14