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37 <br />ARTICLE XI <br /> <br />11.0 OTHER LEAVES OF ABSENCE <br /> <br />11.1 Sick Leave. <br /> <br />A. Definition. Except as otherwise provided below, sick leave shall be deemed to <br />mean absence from duty of an employee because of illness or injury that prevents <br />the employee from performing the duties of their position and shall be deemed to <br />include time in quarantine resulting from non-duty related exposure to a contagious <br />disease. <br /> <br />B. Accrual. Each employee shall earn eight (8) hours of sick leave for each full <br />calendar month of service in which they is employed by the City with full pay. <br />However, any absence on sick leave for a period of time greater than fifteen (15) <br />consecutive calendar days in any one (1) calendar month shall not be considered to <br />be service entitling an employee to earn sick leave as aforesaid. Employees on leave <br />of absence for service-connected illness or injury who are covered by the provisions <br />of Labor Code Section 4850, shall continue to accumulate eight (8) hours of sick <br />leave for each full calendar month of service for which they are employed by the <br />City with full pay during said absence for service-connected illness or injury. <br /> <br />C. Authorized Only When Necessary. Use of sick leave by City employees shall be <br />authorized as follows: <br /> <br />1. Sick leave is not a right which an employee may use at their discretion, but <br />shall be allowed only in cases of necessity and actual sickness or disability, <br />or as authorized in Subsection J below. <br /> <br />2. For miscellaneous-member employees covered by this MOU, when such an <br />employee's absence is caused by an industrial illness or injury, for which <br />benefits are required to be provided under the State Workers' Compensation <br />Insurance and Safety Act, the City shall pay 100% of salary for the first <br />three (3) days of such absence and sick leave shall not be debited. <br /> <br />D. Limit. The maximum total accumulation of sick leave shall be 1600 hours. Sick <br />leave usage of less than a full day shall be charged in minimum increments of one- <br />half (l/2) hour. <br /> <br />For employees who are hired or appointed into the bargaining unit following <br />Council approval of this MOU: <br /> <br />(1) Maximum accumulation of 352 sick leave hours; and <br />(2) Any annual accrual over the 352 hours (up to 96 hours) would be cashed <br />out into an employee’s RHS during the first pay period in January of each <br />year. <br />(3) An employee with more than 352 hours of accrued sick leave, entering into <br />a classification represented by POA shall be reduced to 352 hours (unpaid).