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��76_7.2Sick leave shall be defined as the non-job related absence from work due to illness, bodily <br /> injury, exposure to contagious disease, and caring of family members whose illness required the <br /> employee's care. For the ouroose of this article. immediate familv means soouse, domestic <br /> partner (as defined and recoqnized under state lawl, child, steochild or oarent. <br /> �516_1.3Unused sick leave may be accumulated to maximum sick leave credits of one-thousand two- <br /> hundred (1200) hours. For Battalion Chiefs who work a fifty-six (56) hour work week unused sick <br /> leave may be accumulated to a maximum sick leave credit of two-thousand four-hundred (2400) <br /> hours <br /> a8.7�476_1.41n the event an employee has accumulated the maximum sick leave credits of one-thousand <br /> two-hundred (1200) hours (2400 hours for Battalion Chiefs who work a fifty-six (56) hour work <br /> week) and the employee becomes so severely ill that he exhausts hislfier sick leave, the Humah <br /> Resources Director may, upon the written recommendation from the employee's depaArneat <br /> headFire Chief, authorize additional sick leave to include any sick leave in excess of the one- <br /> thousand hvo-hundred (1200) hours (2400 hours for Barialion Chiefs who work a fifty-six (56) <br /> hour work week) maximum which may have been lost due to the manimum limitation; provided, <br /> however, that sick leave credits were not accumulated for a period of six (6) months or longer. <br /> This provision will also apply to Battalion Chiefs in cases where sick leave balances were <br /> decreased due to reassignment from a fifty-six (56) hour to a forty (40) hour work week. <br /> �516_1.5An employee may elect to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave credits for any calendar <br /> year (based on the preceding 26 pay periods) by requesting payment of unused sick leave in <br /> writing to the Director of Finance on or before December 1 of that year. Payment shall be made <br /> at twenty-five (25°/a) of the value of the unused sick leave, or fifty percent (50%) of the value of <br /> the unused sick leave when no more than ten (10) hours of sick leave have been used (24 hours <br /> for Shift Battalion Chiefs) for the preceding (26) pay periods at the salary for the year in which the <br /> payment is being made. Payment shall be made after December 31. There shall be no payment <br /> in lieu of accumulated sick leave benefits for years prior to such calendar year. Use of Personal <br /> Business Leave shall be excluded from the definition of sick leave for the purposes of this <br /> section. <br /> 48,�516_1.6Accumulated sick leave credits shall be reduced by the value of the sick leave compensated as <br /> provided in the above paragraph and the remaining balance shall be accumulated to a maximum <br /> of one-thousand two-hundred (1200) hours (2400 hours for Battalion Chiefs who work a frfty-six <br /> (56) hour work week). . <br /> ��16_1.71f an employee terminates his/her employment, for reasons other than death, retirement or <br /> discharge, compensation in lieu of unused sick leave shall be paid in accordance with the terms <br /> provided for an employee who may elect to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave credits, <br /> prorated to the date of termination of service. Employees who have ten (10) years of service and <br /> who retire from City employment with benefits from PERS or who die while in the employ of the <br /> City shall be eligible to receive fifty percent (50%) of accrued unused sick leave. In the event of <br /> the death of an employee, such payments shall be made to the designated beneficiary filed with <br /> the Director of Finance, or, in the event no designated beneficiary has been chosen, the <br /> beneficiary listed in the employee's insurance policy will receive the payment of such unused sick <br /> leave as provided under the provisions for an employee who elects to receive compensation in <br /> lieu of sick leave credits. Employees discharged shall not be eligible for payment of unused sick <br /> leave. <br /> 21 <br />