SANTA ANA POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION (7)

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one calendar month shall not be considered to be service entitling an employee to earn sick leave as aforesaid. Subject to the other provisions in this Article, sick leave shall accrue to the credit of each employee to the extent that it is not used. Not- withstanding the foregoing, employees on leave of absence for service-connected illness or injury who are covered by the pro- vision of Labor Code Section 4850, shall continue to accumulate one day of sick leave for each full calendar month of service for which he or she is employed by the City with full pay during said absence for service-connected illness or injury. C. Authorized Only When Necessary. Use of sick leave by City employees shall be authorized as follows: (1) Sick leave is not a right which an employee many use at his or her discretion, but shall be allowed only in cases of necessity and actual sickness or disability, or as authorized in subsection "J" below. (2) With respect to "miscellaneous-member" employee' s covered by this Agreement , when such an employee's absence is caused by an industrial illness or injury, for which benefits are required to be provided under the State Workers' Compensation Insurance and Safety Act , paid sick leave shall be allowed to such employee beginning with the first full calendar day such employee is absent from duty for such reason, and shall continue until the first day when the employee is paid Workers' Compensation benefits by the City for such illness or injury and if the total temporary dis- ability continues the length of time required to pay him compensa- tion for the first three (3 ) full days of disability, three (3 ) days of sick leave deducted shall be recredited. If the employee has no accumulated sick leave at the commencement of such indus- trial illness or injury, sick leave shall be advanced for the foregoing purpose, and deduction equal to the amount thereof shall be made from any sick leave subsequently accrued by the employee until the total amount so advanced has been recovered. If the employment of any such employee who has had sick leave so advanced should be terminated prior to recovery of the amount of sick leave so advanced, the unrecovered cost thereof shall be deducted from such employee's final paycheck, to the extent possible. D. Limit. The maximum total accumulation of sick leave with pay shall be two hundred ( 200 ) working days. Sick leave usage of less than a full day shall be charged in minimum increments of one (1) hour, with fractional usage rounded upward to the next higher multiple of one (1) . E. Extended. The City Manager may grant leave up to six ( 6) months without pay to an employee who has exhausted all of his accrued sick leave if the City physician or a licensed physician designated by the City Manager indicates that the em- ployee will be sufficiently recovered to return to his employment within a six (6 ) months' period. Prior to the expiration of the -23-