SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, LOCAL 1939, AFL-CIO, CLC 4 (2004-2008)

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Commencing with Council approval of this Agreement, the City may authorize employees to use sick leave, vacation, or compensatory time for approved workers' compensation medical appointments as specified herein. The City may authorize use of such leave for City approved medical appointments whenever such appointments cannot be secured outside the employee's regular workday, and salary continuation or workers' compensation benefits are not available. D. Limit. The maximum total accwnulation of sick leave with pay shalI be two hundred (200), eight (8) hour working days. Sick leave usage ofless than a fulI day shalI be charged inminimwn increments of one-half( 112) hour, with fractional usage rounded upward to the next higher multiple of one-half (112). E. Extended. The City Manager may grant leave up to six (6) months without pay to an employee who has exhausted alI of his or her accrued sick leave if the City physician or a licensed physician designated by the City Manager indicates that the employee wilI be sufficiently recovered to return to his or her employment within a six (6) month period. Prior to the expiration ofthe additional time, the employee may return to his or her position provided that the employee has a certificate from one of the above mentioned physicians stating thatthe employee is able to perform alI the duties of his or her position without qualification. In addition to the above, the City Manager may grant a further extension not to exceed a total of one (I) year without pay. F. Extension bv Use of Accrued Compensatorv Time Off and/or Vacation. After an employee's sick leave has been exhausted, he or she may be granted pennission to use, first, any unused compensatory time off benefits, then, any unused vacation leave benefits he or she may have accrued. G. Notice. The employee taking sick leave shalI notify his or her immediate supervisor either prior to or within four (4) hours after the time he or she is scheduled to report for duty, or as otherwise established by departmental regulations. When the absence is more than three (3) consecutive working days, the employee must present to his or her Department Head a physician's certificate stating the cause of ilIness and that, in the physician's opinion, the employee could not report to work because of such ilIness or injury and that the employee is sufficiently recovered to safely return to work. Such certificate shalI be transmitted to the Executive Director of Personnel Services with the report of the employee's return to work. A physician's certificate or other satisfactory written evidence of actual ilIness or injury may be required after an absence of any duration less than three (3) days. H. Denial. No employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay while absent from duty because of sickness or injury purposely self-inflicted or caused by willful 43