Common use of SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE Clause in Contracts

SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE. Section 10.1. Every seniority employee covered by this Agreement who works a fifty-six (56) hour work week schedule shall accrue twelve (12) hours of sick leave allowance for each completed calendar month of service. When a fifty-six (56) hour employee actually uses a day of sick leave, he/she shall have twenty-four (24) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Every seniority employee who works a forty (40) hour work schedule shall accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave allowance for each completed calendar month of service. When a forty (40) hour employee actually uses a day of sick leave, he/she shall have eight (8) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Such sick leave allowance may only be used by an employee when incapacitated to perform his/her duties due to sickness or injury, or when quarantined, or in the event of a serious illness or death in the employee's immediate family. All foreseeable leaves for such purposes shall require specific prior approval of the Director of Police and Fire Services. In the event of sick leave for any purpose, the Director of Police and Fire Services may require a certificate of a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to the circumstances involved. The immediate family, for these purposes, shall be regarded to include the parents, current spouse, children, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandchildren and current parents-in-law. A. The rate of accrual and usage of sick leave allowance as described above shall be initially computed by this method retroactively to the date each current employee in the unit was hired as a sworn officer in the Xxxxxxx Fire Department. B. In order to accumulate sick leave for any given month, an employee must actually work one hundred twenty (120) hours or be on Worker's Compensation, vacation or holiday. C. Effective July 1, 1991, the City hereby agrees to pay retirees after that date an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of salary for unused sick leave at the time of retirement with a maximum of seven hundred twenty (720) hours accumulation. D. It is understood and agreed that sick leave will not be abused. An employee who makes a false claim for paid sick leave shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary action depending on the circumstances involved. E. Employees are required to provide medical certification of illness or injury supporting the employees’ inability to work in all of the following circumstances. (Appropriate certification to use sick leave as funeral leave may also be required in these circumstances.) The department may require employees to use a department-issued form to ensure the medical professional provides all appropriate information (duration of sick leave, nature of injury/illness, date of treatment, etc.). 1. For 56-hour workweek personnel, appropriate documentation will be required to substantiate all absences of more than two (2) consecutive 24-hour shifts. 2. For 40-hour workweek personnel, appropriate medical documentation will be required to substantiate all absences of more than three (3) consecutive work shifts. 3. An employee experiencing more than four (4) separate incidents of illness/injury in the previous 12-month period will furnish appropriate documentation before returning to work, regardless of the number of days absent. (Use of sick leave to attend funerals of immediate family members will not be counted as an incident for this purpose.) 4. In unusual circumstances in which it is not possible to obtain appropriate medical certification before the employee’s scheduled workday, the employee may request and the Director of Police and Fire Services may approve modification of these requirements. F. Employees who are incapacitated to perform their duties are expected to remain at home and be available to report to the Employer’s physician for evaluation. Exceptions to this requirement include employees who are hospitalized, are otherwise receiving medical care, or were out of town when they became ill or injured. If not at home, the employee will provide the Employer with a telephone number through which he can be reached.

SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE. Section 10.1(a) On each July 1st, all members of the bargaining unit shall be credited with eight (8) sick days, accumulative to a maximum of forty-five (45) days. Every seniority employee covered by this Agreement who works a fiftyEmployees hired on or after any July 1st shall be credited with pro-six rata sick days, one (561) hour work week schedule shall accrue twelve (12) hours of sick leave allowance day for each completed calendar month twenty-five (25) scheduled working days up to the next July 1st. (b) Sick leave shall be granted to an employee when he/she is incapacitated from the performance of servicehis/her duties by sickness, non-duty related disability, or injury. When a fifty-six Sick leave shall also be granted for time required for medical, dental, or optical examinations or treatment where the employee has given the Employer three (563) hour days notice of the date of such examination, or less than three (3) days notice where the delay in notification or is solely attributable to the doctor's scheduling requirements. Whenever an employee actually uses a day of sick leaveanticipates disability which will require extended absence from work, he/she shall have twenty-four (24) hours deducted furnish the Employer with a statement from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Every seniority employee who works a forty (40) hour attending physician stating the approximate date on which disability is anticipated and any restrictions on the nature of work schedule shall accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave allowance for each completed calendar month of service. When a forty (40) hour employee actually uses a day of sick leave, that he/she may perform and/or the length of time that he/she may continue to work prior to the anticipated onset of disability. The employee shall have eight (8) hours deducted from be permitted to work until such time as his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Such physician indicates that he/she should be granted sick leave allowance for disability reasons. The employee may only be used by an employee when incapacitated return to perform his/her duties due to sickness or injury, or when quarantined, or work upon notification in the event of a serious illness or death in writing from the employee's immediate familyphysician. All foreseeable leaves The Employer may utilize a second opinion to more specifically define any physical limitations, restrictions, or accommodations necessary for such purposes shall require specific prior approval continuation of the Director of Police and Fire Servicesor return to work. The Employer may also secure a second opinion to verify a bargaining unit member’s eligibility to take leave under this Agreement. (c) In the event of sick leave for any purposeemergency or sickness, the Director following procedure shall be followed in contacting proper authorities concerning any reason for absenteeism that will reflect on a bargaining unit member’s working area responsibility. During school days, call the Associate Superintendent for Operations Office, Charlotte Public Schools, 541-5100 or 541-5114, and make every reasonable attempt to speak with the Associate Superintendent or the attendant taking calls for his/her office. Employees shall make every effort to call five (5) hours before scheduled work time. (d) The Employer shall provide an attendance incentive as follows: For each six (6) months with perfect attendance, based upon the Contract year, the employee shall receive a cash bonus of Police and Fire Services may require two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). Perfect attendance shall be defined as no absence other than personal days, funeral days, or approved vacation. (e) A leave of absence for a certificate maximum of a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to four (4) days per working year shall be granted with pay for an illness in the circumstances involved. The immediate family, for these purposes, chargeable against the employee's sick leave allowance. Immediate family shall be regarded to include the parents, current defined as: spouse, childrenmother or father, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandchildren and current parentsmother-in-law, father-in- law, child, grandchild, sister, and brother. A. The (f) At the conclusion of a fiscal year (i.e. June 30) a bargaining unit member may make a written election to be paid for unused accumulated sick leave days that were accrued during that fiscal year. Payment will be made at the rate of accrual and usage 75% of the employee’s regular wages for accumulated sick leave allowance as described above days in excess of forty-five (45) and at 50% of the employee’s regular wages for accumulated sick leave days up to and including forty-five (45). Payment shall be initially computed by this method retroactively to based on the date each current employee in employee’s regularly scheduled hours. When redeemed, the paid days shall be subtracted from the bargaining unit was hired as a sworn officer in the Xxxxxxx Fire Department. B. In order to accumulate member’s sick leave for any given month, an employee must actually work one hundred twenty accumulation. No more than ten (12010) hours or be on Worker's Compensation, vacation or holiday. C. Effective July 1, 1991, the City hereby agrees to pay retirees after that date an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of salary for unused sick leave days from the fiscal year may be redeemed at the time of retirement with a maximum of seven hundred twenty (720) hours accumulationone time. D. It is understood and agreed that sick leave will not be abused. An employee who makes a false claim for paid sick leave shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary action depending on the circumstances involved. E. Employees are required to provide medical certification of illness or injury supporting the employees’ inability to work in all of the following circumstances. (Appropriate certification to use sick leave as funeral leave may also be required in these circumstances.) The department may require employees to use a department-issued form to ensure the medical professional provides all appropriate information (duration of sick leave, nature of injury/illness, date of treatment, etc.). 1. For 56-hour workweek personnel, appropriate documentation will be required to substantiate all absences of more than two (2) consecutive 24-hour shifts. 2. For 40-hour workweek personnel, appropriate medical documentation will be required to substantiate all absences of more than three (3) consecutive work shifts. 3. An employee experiencing more than four (4) separate incidents of illness/injury in the previous 12-month period will furnish appropriate documentation before returning to work, regardless of the number of days absent. (Use of sick leave to attend funerals of immediate family members will not be counted as an incident for this purpose.) 4. In unusual circumstances in which it is not possible to obtain appropriate medical certification before the employee’s scheduled workday, the employee may request and the Director of Police and Fire Services may approve modification of these requirements. F. Employees who are incapacitated to perform their duties are expected to remain at home and be available to report to the Employer’s physician for evaluation. Exceptions to this requirement include employees who are hospitalized, are otherwise receiving medical care, or were out of town when they became ill or injured. If not at home, the employee will provide the Employer with a telephone number through which he can be reached.

SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE. Section 10.1. Every seniority Effective June 1, 1978 eEvery employee covered by this Agreement who works a fifty-six has been employed by his Employer shall be permitted to accumulate five (565) hour work week schedule shall accrue twelve (12) hours of days sick leave allowance per year accumulated at the rate of 1.7 days for each completed calendar month four (4) months of service. When This paid leave can be used for a fifty-six (56) hour employee actually uses a day of sick bona fide illness, accident or funeral leave, or to care for an immediate family member as defined below. This five (5) days per year shall be accumulated to a maximum of thirty (30) days. Every employee shall earn sick leave for each month in which he/she works the 75 hours per month needed to qualify for Health & Welfare benefits. Paid vacations, paid holidays, and paid sick leave are considered as hours worked for computing eligibility for paid sick and funeral leave each month. Earned paid leave benefits shall be paid in the following manner: First (1st) full workday’s absence, no pay except where the employee is hospitalized on such first (1st) day; succeeding workday’s absence, full pay until earned sick leave benefits are exhausted. The waiting period herein provided before full pay commences shall apply to each employee and not each illness or accident. Employees working for one (1) Employer will only have one (1) waiting period. Employees working for multiple Employers shall have twenty-four one (241) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Every seniority employee who works a forty (40) hour work schedule shall accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave allowance day wait for the first illness or accident for each completed calendar month of serviceEmployer. When If the employee desires to utilize any earned leave for funeral leave it shall be for a forty (40) hour employee actually uses a day of sick leave, he/she shall have eight (8) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Such sick leave allowance may only be used by an employee when incapacitated to perform his/her duties due to sickness or injury, or when quarantined, or in the event of a serious illness or death in the employee's immediately family and immediate family. All foreseeable leaves for such purposes shall require specific prior approval of the Director of Police and Fire Services. In the event of sick leave for any purpose, the Director of Police and Fire Services may require a certificate of a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to the circumstances involved. The immediate family, for these purposes, family shall be regarded to include the parentsdefined as: Spouse, current spouseDomestic Partner, childrenSon, brothersDaughter, sistersFather, grandparentsMother, grandchildren Brother, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, Granddaughter, Xxxxxxxxxxx and current parents-in-law. A. The rate of accrual and usage of sick leave allowance as described above shall be initially computed by this method retroactively to the date each current employee in the unit was hired as a sworn officer in the Xxxxxxx Fire Department. B. In order to accumulate sick leave for any given monthGrandmother. Upon resignation, an employee must actually work one hundred twenty (120) hours voluntary quit, retirement, discharge, or be on Worker's Compensationlayoff, vacation or holiday. C. Effective July 1, 1991, the City hereby agrees to pay retirees after that date an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of salary for all unused sick leave at the time of retirement with a maximum of seven hundred twenty (720) hours accumulation. D. It is understood and agreed that sick leave will not be abused. An employee who makes a false claim for paid sick leave shall be subject paid to appropriate disciplinary action depending on the circumstances involved. E. Employees are required affected employee at his hourly rate of pay. The Union and the Employer hereby expressly waive the provisions of Chapter 12W to provide medical certification the Administrative Code of illness or injury supporting the employees’ inability San Francisco relating to work in all of the following circumstances. (Appropriate certification to use sick leave as funeral leave may also be required in these circumstances.) The department may require employees to use a department-issued form to ensure the medical professional provides all appropriate information (duration of paid sick leave, nature of injury/illness, date of treatment, etc.). 1. For 56-hour workweek personnel, appropriate documentation will be required Those provisions shall have no application to substantiate all absences of more than two (2) consecutive 24-hour shifts. 2. For 40-hour workweek personnel, appropriate medical documentation will be required to substantiate all absences of more than three (3) consecutive work shifts. 3. An employee experiencing more than four (4) separate incidents of illness/injury in the previous 12-month period will furnish appropriate documentation before returning to work, regardless of employees covered by the number of days absent. (Use of sick leave to attend funerals of immediate family members will not be counted as an incident for this purpose.) 4. In unusual circumstances in which it is not possible to obtain appropriate medical certification before Agreement between the employee’s scheduled workday, the employee may request Employer and the Director Union during the term of Police and Fire Services may approve modification of these requirementsthis Agreement. F. Employees who are incapacitated to perform their duties are expected to remain at home and be available to report to the Employer’s physician for evaluation. Exceptions to this requirement include employees who are hospitalized, are otherwise receiving medical care, or were out of town when they became ill or injured. If not at home, the employee will provide the Employer with a telephone number through which he can be reached.

SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE. Section 10.11. Every seniority Ten (10) days of leave with pay, to be used for sickness or death, injury, or serious illness in immediate family or personal business as specified below will be granted to each employee covered by July 1st of each year of this Agreement who works a fifty-six Agreement. It is to be considered as granted on the basis of one (561) hour work week schedule shall accrue twelve (12) hours of sick leave allowance day for each completed calendar month of service during the year. In the event the employee does not serve the entire year, his leave days will be one (1) day for each full month of service. When a fifty-six (56) hour employee actually uses a day This leave may accumulate from year to year to an unlimited maximum number of sick leavedays. Section 2. Sickness, he/she as used in this article shall have twenty-four (24) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Every seniority employee who works a forty (40) hour work schedule shall accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave allowance for each completed calendar month of service. When a forty (40) hour employee actually uses a day of sick leavebe construed as to include personal physical illness, he/she shall have eight (8) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Such sick leave allowance may only be used by an employee when incapacitated to perform his/her duties due to sickness or emotional stress, disabling personal injury, or when quarantinedexposure to a contagious disease, or in the event of a serious illness or death in the employee's immediate family. All foreseeable leaves An employee may not use more than five sick leave days per year (July 1 through June 30) for such purposes shall require specific prior approval serious illness in the employee’s family. Use of additional accumulated paid sick leave days may be approved by the Chief Financial and Personnel Officer upon written request in connection with long-term serious illness. Employees may be required to provide a doctor’s verification of personal or family illness where abuse is indicated. a. Each year two (2) of the Director of Police and Fire Services. In the event of sick leave days shall be granted for any purpose, personal business days to take care of urgent business that cannot be otherwise transacted outside work hours and which requires the Director presence of Police and Fire Services may require a certificate of a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to the circumstances involvedemployee. The immediate familyemployee shall notify the supervisor, for these purposesin writing, shall at least one (1) day in advance, except in case of emergency. The personal business day is not to be regarded to include used the parents, current spouse, children, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandchildren and current parents-in-law. A. The rate of accrual and usage of sick leave allowance as described above shall be initially computed by this method retroactively to the date each current employee in the unit was hired as day immediately preceding or immediately following a sworn officer in the Xxxxxxx Fire Department. B. In order to accumulate sick leave for any given month, an employee must actually work one hundred twenty (120) hours or be on Worker's Compensation, vacation or holiday. C. Effective July 1, 1991, the City hereby agrees to pay retirees after that date except in case of an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of salary for unused sick leave at the time of retirement with a maximum of seven hundred twenty (720) hours accumulation. D. It is understood and agreed that sick leave will not be abusedemergency. An employee who makes shall have accumulated a false claim balance of thirty (30) sick days need not specify a reason for the personal business day, but verifies by making application for personal business leave that said leave is for proper use. Additional personal business days may be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent, if accumulated sick leave is available. If abuse is indicated, the employee may be required to provide verification of proper use of the personal business day. b. Any employee drawing benefits under Worker's Compensation may elect to be reimbursed the difference between that compensation which he is receiving and his regular salary to the extent of the monetary value of the accumulated paid leave days. Employees who are absent with a compensable work related injury for seven (7) days or less will be paid sick leave which is not deducted from their accumulated sick leave. c. Records of sick leave accumulated and taken shall be subject available to appropriate disciplinary action depending on the circumstances involvedemployee or the Union upon written request. E. Employees are required to provide medical certification of illness or injury supporting Section 4. If at the employees’ inability to work in all close of the following circumstances. (Appropriate certification to use sick leave as funeral leave may also be required in these circumstances.) The department may require employees to use a department-issued form to ensure the medical professional provides all appropriate information (duration of sick leave, nature of injury/illness, date of treatment, etc.). 1. For 56-hour workweek personnel, appropriate documentation will be required to substantiate all absences of preceding school year an employee shall not have used more than two (2) consecutive 24-hour shifts. 2sick days (including personal business days) and shall have accumulated thirty (30) sick leave days, then, in the following year the employee shall be entitled to one (1) "earned day" to be taken at the employee's discretion upon previous notification of at least one (1) school day to the building principal and Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds. For 40-hour workweek personnel, appropriate medical documentation will The principal of each building shall not be required obligated to substantiate all absences of grant more than three (3) consecutive work shiftssuch applications on any given day of such earned days. Earned days shall be allowed to accumulate up to a maximum of five (5) days at the rate of one (1) day per year. 3Section 5. An employee experiencing more than four (4) separate incidents of illness/injury in Maintenance personnel, the previous 12-month period will furnish appropriate documentation before returning mechanic and building engineers are required to workreport for work on snow days. These individuals may take compensatory days for the first two snow days at a time mutually agreeable with the Buildings and Grounds Supervisor. Assistant building engineers, regardless of the number of days absent. (Use of sick leave to attend funerals of immediate family members mechanics helper and custodians will not be counted as an incident for this purpose.) 4. In unusual circumstances in which it is not possible to obtain appropriate medical certification before the employee’s scheduled workday, the employee may request and the Director of Police and Fire Services may approve modification of these requirements. F. Employees who are incapacitated to perform their duties are expected to remain at home and be available need to report to for the Employer’s physician for evaluation. Exceptions to this requirement include employees who are hospitalized, are otherwise receiving medical care, or were out of town when they became ill or injured. If not at home, the employee first two snow days and will provide the Employer with a telephone number through which he can be reachedcompensated.

SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE. Section 10.1. Every seniority employee covered by this Agreement who works a fifty-six (56) hour work week schedule shall accrue twelve (12) hours of sick leave allowance for each completed calendar month of service. When a fifty-six (56) hour employee actually uses a day of sick leave, he/she shall have twenty-four (24) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Every seniority employee who works a forty (40) hour work schedule shall accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave allowance for each completed calendar month of service. When a forty (40) hour employee actually uses a day of sick leave, he/she shall have eight (8) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Such sick leave allowance may only be used by an employee when incapacitated to perform his/her duties due to sickness or injury, or when quarantined, or in the event of a serious illness or death in the employee's immediate family. All foreseeable leaves for such purposes shall require specific prior approval of the Director of Police and Fire Services. In the event of sick leave for any purpose, the Director of Police and Fire Services may require a certificate of a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to the circumstances involved. The immediate family, for these purposes, shall be regarded to include the parents, current spouse, children, brothers, sisters, grandparents, grandchildren and current parents-in-law. A. The rate of accrual and usage of sick leave allowance as described above shall be initially computed by this method retroactively to the date each current employee in the unit was hired as a sworn officer in the Xxxxxxx Fire Department. B. In order to accumulate sick leave for any given month, an employee must actually work one hundred twenty (120) hours or be on Worker's Compensation, vacation or holidayorholiday. C. Effective July 1, 1991, the City hereby agrees to pay retirees after that date an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of salary for unused sick leave at the time of retirement with a maximum of seven hundred twenty (720) hours accumulation. D. It is understood and agreed that sick leave will not be abused. An employee who makes a false claim for paid sick leave shall be subject to appropriate disciplinary action depending on the circumstances involved. E. Employees are required to provide medical certification of illness or injury supporting the employees’ inability to work in all of the following circumstances. (Appropriate certification to use sick leave as funeral leave may also be required in these circumstances.) The department may require employees to use a department-issued form to ensure the medical professional provides all appropriate information (duration of sick leave, nature of injury/illness, date of treatment, etc.). 1. For 56-hour workweek personnel, appropriate documentation will be required to substantiate all absences of more than two (2) consecutive 24-hour shifts. 2. For 40-hour workweek personnel, appropriate medical documentation will be required to requiredto substantiate all absences of more than three (3) consecutive work shifts. 3. An employee experiencing more than four (4) separate incidents of illness/injury in the inthe previous 12-month period will furnish appropriate documentation before returning to work, regardless of the number of days absent. (Use of sick leave to attend funerals of immediate family members will not be counted as an incident for this purpose.) 4. In unusual circumstances in which it is not possible to obtain appropriate medical certification before the employee’s scheduled workday, the employee may request and the Director of Police and Fire Services may approve modification of these requirementstheserequirements. F. Employees who are incapacitated to perform their duties are expected to remain at home and be available to report to the Employer’s physician for evaluation. Exceptions to this requirement include employees who are hospitalized, are otherwise receiving medical care, or were out of town when they became ill or injured. If not at home, the employee will provide the Employer with a telephone number through which he can be reached.

SICK LEAVE AND FUNERAL LEAVE. Section 10.1. Every seniority Effective June 1, 1978 eEvery employee covered by this Agreement who works a fifty-six has been employed by his Employer shall be permitted to accumulate five (565) hour work week schedule shall accrue twelve (12) hours of days sick leave allowance per year accumulated at the rate of 1.7 days for each completed calendar month four (4) months of service. When This paid leave can be used for a fifty-six (56) hour employee actually uses a day of sick bona fide illness, accident or funeral leave, or to care for an immediate family member as defined below. This five (5) days per year shall be accumulated to a maximum of thirty (30) days. Every employee shall earn sick leave for each month in which he/she works the 75 hours per month needed to qualify for Health & Welfare benefits. Paid vacations, paid holidays, and paid sick leave are considered as hours worked for computing eligibility for paid sick and funeral leave each month. Earned paid leave benefits shall be paid in the following manner: First (1st) full workday’s absence, no pay except where the employee is hospitalized on such first (1st) day; succeeding workday’s absence, full pay until earned sick leave benefits are exhausted. The waiting period herein provided before full pay commences shall apply to each employee and not each illness or accident. Employees working for one (1) Employer will only have one (1) waiting period. Employees working for multiple Employers shall have twenty-four one (241) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Every seniority employee who works a forty (40) hour work schedule shall accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave allowance day wait for the first illness or accident for each completed calendar month of serviceEmployer. When If the employee desires to utilize any earned leave for funeral leave it shall be for a forty (40) hour employee actually uses a day of sick leave, he/she shall have eight (8) hours deducted from his/her accumulated unused sick leave. Such sick leave allowance may only be used by an employee when incapacitated to perform his/her duties due to sickness or injury, or when quarantined, or in the event of a serious illness or death in the employee's immediately family and immediate family. All foreseeable leaves for such purposes shall require specific prior approval of the Director of Police and Fire Services. In the event of sick leave for any purpose, the Director of Police and Fire Services may require a certificate of a medical doctor or other competent professional individual giving information as to the circumstances involved. The immediate family, for these purposes, family shall be regarded to include the parentsdefined as: Spouse, current spouseDomestic Partner, childrenSon, brothersDaughter, sistersFather, grandparentsMother, grandchildren Brother, Sister, Grandson, Granddaughter, Grandfather and current parents-in-law. A. The rate of accrual and usage of sick leave allowance as described above shall be initially computed by this method retroactively to the date each current employee in the unit was hired as a sworn officer in the Xxxxxxx Fire Department. B. In order to accumulate sick leave for any given monthGrandmother. Upon resignation, an employee must actually work one hundred twenty (120) hours voluntary quit, retirement, discharge, or be on Worker's Compensationlayoff, vacation or holiday. C. Effective July 1, 1991, the City hereby agrees to pay retirees after that date an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of salary for all unused sick leave at the time of retirement with a maximum of seven hundred twenty (720) hours accumulation. D. It is understood and agreed that sick leave will not be abused. An employee who makes a false claim for paid sick leave shall be subject paid to appropriate disciplinary action depending on the circumstances involved. E. Employees are required affected employee at his hourly rate of pay. The Union and the Employer hereby expressly waive the provisions of Chapter 12W to provide medical certification the Administrative Code of illness or injury supporting the employees’ inability San Francisco relating to work in all of the following circumstances. (Appropriate certification to use sick leave as funeral leave may also be required in these circumstances.) The department may require employees to use a department-issued form to ensure the medical professional provides all appropriate information (duration of paid sick leave, nature of injury/illness, date of treatment, etc.). 1. For 56-hour workweek personnel, appropriate documentation will be required Those provisions shall have no application to substantiate all absences of more than two (2) consecutive 24-hour shifts. 2. For 40-hour workweek personnel, appropriate medical documentation will be required to substantiate all absences of more than three (3) consecutive work shifts. 3. An employee experiencing more than four (4) separate incidents of illness/injury in the previous 12-month period will furnish appropriate documentation before returning to work, regardless of employees covered by the number of days absent. (Use of sick leave to attend funerals of immediate family members will not be counted as an incident for this purpose.) 4. In unusual circumstances in which it is not possible to obtain appropriate medical certification before Agreement between the employee’s scheduled workday, the employee may request Employer and the Director Union during the term of Police and Fire Services may approve modification of these requirementsthis Agreement. F. Employees who are incapacitated to perform their duties are expected to remain at home and be available to report to the Employer’s physician for evaluation. Exceptions to this requirement include employees who are hospitalized, are otherwise receiving medical care, or were out of town when they became ill or injured. If not at home, the employee will provide the Employer with a telephone number through which he can be reached.