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SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 17.8 An employee may use sick leave for safety leave for assistance to themselves or their relatives as described in paragraph 17.7. For the purpose of this paragraph, “safety leave” is leave for the purpose of providing or receiving assistance because of sexual assault, domestic abuse or stalking, as those terms have meaning in Minnesota Statutes 181.9413. Such use of sick leave is subject to the limitations included in paragraph 17.7. 17.9 Pregnant employees of Xxxxxx County shall be eligible for the use of paid and unpaid sick leave in the same manner as any other disabled or ill Xxxxxx County employee. Such sick leave eligibility shall begin upon certification by the employee's attending physician that due to pregnancy, the employee is disabled in terms of their ability to perform the duties of their position. Such employee shall then be eligible to receive sick leave benefits in the same manner as is provided for any other ill or disabled County employee during the remaining period of pregnancy until such time as the employee is certified able to return to work by their attending physician. 17.10 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 17.11 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. When there are fewer than three months between periods of leave of absence under this section, for the same illness or accident, the periods of absence will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there . 17.12 Permanent and probationary employees who are fewer than three (3) months between periods injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall upon written request to the Director of Human Resources accompanied by a physician's certificate acceptable to the Director of Human Resources be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to one-hundred-thirty (30130) calendar days for employees receiving which Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any ' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.not to

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head, department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. 9.8 An employee that has satisfied the elimination period for either short term or long term disability may, at the employee’s option, retain a sick leave bank of up to eighty (80) hours when the employee begins an unpaid medical leave, provided the employee has a bank of paid sick leave hours remaining after satisfying the elimination period. (1) An employee with a paid sick leave bank of eighty (80) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. (2) If the employee elects to retain a sick leave bank, the employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. (3) If the employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s sick leave bank will be lost to the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with Article 9.6. 9.9 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the be accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to a to: (1) Their former position in their department if the absence is for sixty (60) calendar days or less, or (2) A position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.10 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness the employee with least amount of seniority in the department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or at reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement. 9.11 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the end written approval of the term of the leave. The Employer may require Employer. 9.12 An employee must present a report statement from an appropriate medical authority their physician attesting to the employee’s their fitness to return to work before allowing at the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods request of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ CompensationEmployer. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any 9.13 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be charged to sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have and the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave charge to vacation or pay at reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the option illness and the period of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31disability.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not 9.11 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to exceed forty (40) hours their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 9.12 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be utilized by employees for charged to sick leave and the birth or adoption charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptiondisability. 15.9 9.13 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and eighty percent (80%) of the employee's employees' normal daily salarywage. If an employee has no earned their recovery is not complete by the end of the period described in paragraph (1) of Article 9.13, employees shall use their own accumulated sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation leave to pay make up the difference between any Workers’ Compensation payment made and eighty percent (80%) of the employee’s normal daily wage. In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salarysolely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are paid" under the provisions of this section. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive a combined wage and Workers' Compensation benefits payment exceeding 80% of the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such the recovery period period, and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave leave, shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick 9.14 Sick leave is exhausted, shall may be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two used in quarter-hour (21/4) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationincrements. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 9.6 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a an unpaid leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence , will retain promotion rights and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a will earn vacation schedule seniority for leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leaveunder this paragraph. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave absence will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate authority when requested by the department head, department head designee, or the Human Resources Department. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any 9.7 An employee that has satisfied the elimination period for either short term or long term disability may, at the employee’s option, retain a sick leave bank of up to eighty (80) hours when the employee begins an unpaid medical leave, provided the employee has a bank of paid sick leave hours in remaining after satisfying the elimination period. (1) An employee with a three paid sick leave bank of eighty (80) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. (2) If the employee elects to retain a sick leave bank, the employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. (3) month period shall have If the option of converting four (4) hours of employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s sick leave bank will be lost to vacation the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with 9.6. 9.8 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or pay disability shall be accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to: (1) Their former position in their department if the absence is for sixty (60) calendar days or less, or (2) A position in their department in the classification held at the option time the leave started, if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.9 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness, the employee with the least amount of seniority in the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.9b -

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 9.14 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one-hundred-thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and eighty percent (80%) of the employee's normal daily salarywage. If an employee has no earned their recovery is not complete by the end of the period described in paragraph (1) of Article 9.14 employees shall use their own accumulated sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation leave to pay make up the difference between any Workers’ Compensation payment made and eighty percent (80%) of the employee’s normal daily wage. In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salarysolely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are paid" under the provisions of this section. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive a combined wage and Workers' Compensation benefits payment exceeding 80% of the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such the recovery period periods and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick 9.15 Sick leave is exhausted, shall may be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two used in quarter-hour (21/4) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationincrements. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick 9.10 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the written approval of the Employer. 9.11 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to exceed forty (40) hours their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 9.12 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be utilized by employees for charged to sick leave and the birth or adoption charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptiondisability. 15.9 9.13 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and eighty percent (80%) of the employee's ’s normal daily salarywage. If an employee has no earned their recovery is not complete by the end of the period described in paragraph (1) of Article 9.13, employees shall use their own accumulated sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation leave to pay make up the difference between any Workers’ Compensation payment made and eighty percent (80%) of the employee’s normal daily wage. In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salarysolely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are paid" under the provisions of this section. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive a combined wage and Workers' Compensation benefits payment exceeding 80% of the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such the recovery period periods and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick 9.14 Sick leave is exhausted, shall may be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two used in quarter-hour (21/4) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationincrements. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any 9.7 An employee that has satisfied the elimination period for either short term or long term disability may, at the employee’s option, retain a sick leave bank of up to eighty (80) hours when the employee begins an unpaid medical leave, provided the employee has a bank of paid sick leave hours in remaining after satisfying the elimination period. (1) An employee with a three paid sick leave bank of eighty (80) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. (2) If the employee elects to retain a sick leave bank, the employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. (3) month period shall have If the option of converting four (4) hours of employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s sick leave bank will be lost to vacation the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with 9.6. 9.8 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or pay disability shall be accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to: (1) Their former position in their department if the absence is for sixty (60) calendar days or less, or (2) A position in their department in the classification held at the option time the leave started, if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.9 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness, the employee with the least amount of seniority in the department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement. 9.10 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the written approval of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31Employer.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may Existence and extent of illness or disability must be utilized verified by employees a written statement from an appropriate authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. 9.7 An employee that has satisfied the elimination period for the birth either short term or adoption of long term disability may, at the employee’s child option, retain a sick leave bank of up to eighty (80) hours when the employee begins an unpaid medical leave, provided the employee has a bank of paid sick leave hours remaining after satisfying the elimination period. 1. An employee with a paid sick leave bank of eighty (80) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. 2. If the employee elects to retain a child regularly residing sick leave bank, the employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. 3. If the employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s immediate householdsick leave bank will be lost to the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. The In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of the birth or adoptionabsence, in accordance with 9.3.4. 15.9 9.8 Permanent and or probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County County, and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers’ Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' ’ Compensation payments and eighty percent (80%) of the employee's ’s normal daily salarywage. If an employee has no earned their recovery is not complete by the end of the period described in paragraph (1) of Article 9.8, employees shall use their own accumulated sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation leave to pay make up the difference between any Workers' ’ Compensation payment made and their eighty percent (80%) of the employee’s normal daily salarywage. In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers’ Compensation solely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as “a day for which Workers’ Compensation benefits are paid” under the provisions of this section. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive a combined wage and Workers' ’ Compensation benefits payment exceeding 80% of the employee's ’s normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such the recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.period,

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick 1. An employee with a paid sick leave not to exceed forty bank of eighty (4080) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may be utilized by employees for elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. 2. If the birth or adoption of employee elects to retain a sick leave bank, the employee’s child or a child regularly residing employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. 3. If the employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s immediate householdsick leave bank will be lost to the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. The In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave must prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with Article 9.6. 9.8 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall be consecutive and taken within six accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to: (61) months Their former position in their department if the absence is for sixty (60) calendar days or less, or (2) a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.9 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness, the employee with the least amount of seniority in the department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement. 9.10 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the written approval of the birth or adoptionEmployer. 15.9 9.11 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 9.12 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be charged to sick leave and the charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of disability. 9.13 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two eighty percent (280%) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.employees'

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not 9.11 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to exceed forty (40) hours their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 9.12 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be utilized by employees for charged to sick leave and the birth or adoption charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptiondisability. 15.9 9.13 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and eighty percent (80%) of the employee's employees' normal daily salarywage. If an employee has no earned their recovery is not complete by the end of the period described in paragraph (1) of Article 9.13, employees shall use their own accumulated sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation leave to pay make up the difference between any Workers’ Compensation payment made and eighty percent (80%) of the employee’s normal daily wage. In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salarysolely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are paid" under the provisions of this section. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive a combined wage and Workers' Compensation benefits payment exceeding 80% of the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such the recovery period periods and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick 9.14 Sick leave is exhausted, shall may be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two used in quarter-hour (21/4) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationincrements. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick (1) An employee with a paid sick leave not to exceed forty bank of eighty (4080) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may be utilized by employees for elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. (2) If the birth or adoption of employee elects to retain a sick leave bank, the employee’s child or a child regularly residing employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. (3) If the employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s immediate householdsick leave bank will be lost to the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. The In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave must prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with Article 9.6. 9.8 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall be consecutive and taken within six accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to: (61) months Their former position in their department if the absence is for sixty (60) calendar days or less, or (2) A position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.9 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness, the employee with the least amount of seniority in the department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement. 9.10 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the written approval of the birth or adoptionEmployer. 15.9 9.11 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 9.12 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be charged to sick leave and the charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of disability. 9.13 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits not exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.the

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave Where an employee is absent on account of illness and cumulative sick pay credit has been exhausted, shall not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees receive sick pay credit for the birth or adoption month in which was so absent. An employee shall not be entitled to sick pay in advance of any credit may earn in the current month; such credit becomes available only on and after the first day of the following month. Whenever in any month an employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months days of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated illness exceed cumulative sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or credit at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion excess days of accumulated normal sick leave illness shall not be charged against credit becoming available in the future, but shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because regarded as days of illness or accident whose paid sick leave without pay. When an employee is exhausted, shall be granted a given leave of absence without pay under and or is laid off on account of lack of work and returns to the service of the employer upon expiration of such leave of absence, etc., shall not receive credit for a the period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return of such absence, but shall retain cumulative credit, if any, existing at the same seniority time of such leave. The number of days or parts of days for which an employee received “sick pay” shall be deducted from cumulative sick pay credit. Any or all of the unused portion of sick pay credit shall be accumulated to the benefit of the employee from year to year. The unused portion of the yearly accumulation shall be computed at the end of each year and brought forward in days and parts of days. It is understood that sick leave pay is not applicable where leave of absence is granted under Article An employee shall not receive sick pay when eligible to receive compensation under the salary scheduleWorkplace Safety and Insurance Act, due to injury sustained while on the payroll of someone other than the Corporation. Existence Where an employee who injured in circumstances in which might be entitled to compensation under the Workplace Safety and extent Insurance Act, elects instead to claim against the third person, shall, as a condition of illness receiving sick pay benefits as hereinbefore provided, undertake in writing to reimburse the Corporation out of the proceeds of any settlement or disability must judgment upon such claim the amount of money equivalent to the value of such sick pay benefits, and upon having made such reimbursement, accumulated sick pay credits shall be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Departmentrestored accordingly. An employee who is granted injured on duty where no action for such injuries would lie against a third person, and who is unable to work as a result of such injury, shall, while off work, be advanced by the Corporation to the extent of available sick leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right credits an amount equal to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end an estimate of the term of anticipated daily benefit to which the leave. The Employer employee may require be entitled, until such time as a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to ruling has been made by the Board upon the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing claim. If the Board rules against the claim, the accumulated sick leave credits of the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will shall be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationaccordingly. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick schedule seniority for leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall under this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leaveparagraph. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave absence will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate authority when requested by the department head, department head designee, or the Human Resources Department. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any 9.7 An employee that has satisfied the elimination period for either short term or long term disability may, at the employee’s option, retain a sick leave bank of up to eighty (80) hours when the employee begins an unpaid medical leave, provided the employee has a bank of paid sick leave hours in remaining after satisfying the elimination period. (1) An employee with a three paid sick leave bank of eighty (80) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. (2) If the employee elects to retain a sick leave bank, the employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. (3) month period shall have If the option of converting four (4) hours of employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s sick leave bank will be lost to vacation the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with 9.6. 9.8 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or pay disability shall be accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to: (1) Their former position if the absence is for sixty (60) calendar days or less, or (2) A position in the classification held at the option time the leave started, if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.9 If all positions in the classification have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness the employee with the least amount of seniority in the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick 1) An employee with a paid sick leave not to exceed forty bank of eighty (4080) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may be utilized by employees for elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. 2) If the birth or adoption of employee elects to retain a sick leave bank, the employee’s child or a child regularly residing employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. 3) If the employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s immediate householdsick leave bank will be lost to the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. The In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave must prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with Article 9.6. 9.8 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall be consecutive and taken within six accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to: 1) Their former position in their department if the absence is for sixty (660) months calendar days or less, or 2) A position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.9 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness, the employee with the least amount of seniority in the department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement. 9.10 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the written approval of the birth or adoptionEmployer. 15.9 9.11 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 9.12 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be charged to sick leave and the charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of disability. 9.13 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits not exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.the

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 9.6 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a an unpaid leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence , will retain promotion rights and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a will earn vacation schedule seniority for leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leaveunder this paragraph. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave absence will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ ' Compensation. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate authority when requested by the department head, their designee or the Human Resources Department. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any 9.7 An employee that has satisfied the elimination period for either short term or long term disability may, at the employee’s option, retain a sick leave bank of up to eighty (80) hours when the employee begins an unpaid medical leave, provided the employee has a bank of paid sick leave hours in remaining after satisfying the elimination period. 1. An employee with a three paid sick leave bank of eighty (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (480) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. 2. If the employee elects to vacation retain a sick leave bank, the employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. 3. If the employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s sick leave bank will be lost to the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with Article 9.6. 9.8 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or pay disability shall be accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to: (1) their former position in their department if the absence is for sixty (60) calendar days or less, or (2) A position in their department in the classification held at the option time the leave started, if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.9 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness, the employee with the least amount of seniority in the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not An employee must present a physician's statement attesting to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized their fitness to return to work if requested by employees for the birth appointing officer or adoption the Director of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate householdHuman Resources. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated upon written request to the Director of Human Resources accompanied by a physician's certificate acceptable to the Director of Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one-hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave theretofore accumulated by them. Said sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If eighty percent (80%) of an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such , except as described in the next paragraph. 8.11 An employee unable to resume working with clients, residents, or inmates of Xxxxxx County, who in the duties ordinary course of their position within employment while acting in a reasonable and prudent manner and in compliance with the established rules and procedures of the employer, incurs a disabling injury stemming from the aggressive and or at the end intentional and overt act or consequences of such recovery period and on the exhaustion act of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness a client, resident or accident whose paid sick leave is exhaustedinmate, shall be granted a leave of absence receive compensation in an amount equal to the difference between the employee’s base pay rate and benefits paid under worker’s compensation, if any, for a period not to exceed two one-hundred thirty (2130) yearscalendar days. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified If recovery is not complete by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term period described in paragraph (1) or (2) above, employees may use their own accumulated sick leave to make up the difference between any workers’ compensation payment made and 80% of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness normal daily wage. In the event an employee absence due to return to a work before allowing related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation solely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are paid" under the employee to return from unpaid provisions of this rule. To determine the number of days' sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods , vacation or overtime, to be charged against such employee's accumulated credits under the provisions of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accidentsection, the periods of leave will total additional amount paid shall be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of divided by the employee. The three 's normal daily wage and shall be computed to the nearest one-quarter (31/4) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31day.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick for leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall under this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leaveparagraph. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave absence will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate authority when requested by the department head, department head designee, or the Human Resources Department. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any 9.7 An employee that has satisfied the elimination period for either short term or long term disability may, at the employee’s option, retain a sick leave bank of up to eighty (80) hours when the employee begins an unpaid medical leave, provided the employee has a bank of paid sick leave hours in remaining after satisfying the elimination period. (1) An employee with a three paid sick leave bank of eighty (80) hours or less after satisfying the elimination period for either short or long term disability may elect to retain either all or none of their remaining sick leave bank. (2) If the employee elects to retain a sick leave bank, the employee may not use any time from that bank until the employee returns from unpaid medical leave. (3) month period shall have If the option of converting four (4) hours of employee does not return from unpaid medical leave, the time retained in the employee’s sick leave bank will be lost to vacation the employee, such that the employee will receive no compensation for the retained sick leave. In any other circumstances except those described above, employees will continue to be required to use all paid sick leave prior to going on an unpaid medical leave of absence, in accordance with Article 9.6. 9.8 An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or pay disability shall be accorded an unqualified right to be reinstated to: (1) Their former position in their department if the absence is for sixty (60) calendar days or less, or (2) A position in their department in the classification held at the option time the leave started, if the absence is longer than sixty (60) calendar days, except in either case when all positions in such class have been abolished. 9.9 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness, the employee with the least amount of seniority in the department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement. 9.10 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the written approval of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31Employer.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 acceptable justification shall be cause for immediate dismissal in accordance with the provisions of the merit system ordinance. Evidence of illness or medical disability must be provided by a medical report for all sick leave of more than three consecutive days. For sick leave of three consecutive days or less, the Department Head or City Manager may require a medical report prior to approval of said sick leave. In any case, the City may require examination by a physician selected by the City prior to granting paid sick leave or prior to the employee's return to work. E) Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees allowed in cases of sickness or injury occurring during the vacation period. Evidence of such incapacity from the first day must, however, be provided to the satisfaction of the Department Head or the City Manager. F) Sick leave shall not be charged against the employee's current or "special reserve bank" in amounts of less than one (1) hour for any absence. G) One (1) day sick leave may be allowed in the event of serious illness of the husband or wife of the employee, or serious illness of a child of the employee, when necessary, to arrange for additional help at home or transportation to a hospital or a doctor. Prolonged illness of a family member shall not be a cause for the birth use of sick leave, unless previously approved by the Department Head and City Manager. H) It is agreed between the Union and the City, that sick leave can be used for the purpose mentioned above and that falsely reporting sick leave so that an employee can work at another job shall be cause for an automatic ten (10) day suspension on first offense, and immediate dismissal for second offense, without recourse to the grievance procedure outlined herein. I) Upon retirement with a City pension, one-half (1/2) of the employee's accumulated sick time will be paid to that employee. In the event of death of an employee, one-half (1/2) of the earned sick time will be paid to that employee's beneficiary subject to (K) below. J) Effective July 1, 2013, only employees with a minimum of fifteen (15) years of service, or adoption full pension (defined as fifty-five (55) years of age with minimum fifteen (15) years of service or sixty (60) years of age with minimum ten (10) years of service), or employees who have been laid off in accordance with Article XIVB, shall be eligible for payout of one-half (½) of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to at separation. In the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If event of death of an employee has no earned sick leaveafter 15 years of service or full pension as defined above, or exhausts their one-half (1/2) of the accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable paid to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the that employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationbeneficiary. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick 17.8 An employee may use sick leave not for safety leave for assistance to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees themselves or their relatives as described in paragraph 17.7. For the purpose of this paragraph, “safety leave” is leave for the birth purpose of providing or adoption receiving assistance because of sexual assault, domestic abuse or stalking, as those terms have meaning in Minnesota Statutes 181.9413. Such use of sick leave is subject to the employee’s child or a child regularly residing limitations included in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptionparagraph 17.7. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 17.9 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a an unpaid leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of absence will be added together to determine the length of leave that my not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there . 17.10 Permanent and probationary employees who are fewer than three (3) months between periods injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties, shall upon written request to the Director of Human Resources, accompanied by a physician's certificate acceptable to the Director, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to one-hundred and thirty (30130) calendar days for employees receiving which Workers’ Compensation' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave theretofore accumulated by them. Said sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and an employee's normal daily wage. 15.11 Full-time employees who do 17.11 In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not utilize any sick leave hours in qualify for Workers' Compensation solely because of a three (3) month period statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall have be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are paid" under the option provisions of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31this rule.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick An employee who is absent from work for more than three consecutive working days shall provide immediate supervisor with a certificate from personal physician within seven days from the commencement of sickness or upon return to work, whichever occurs first, reporting the duration or probable duration of the sickness with the first and most recent dates of attendance upon the employee, and the expected date of return to work. Should the employee be unable to return to work on the date designated a similar certificate shall be supplied prior to the expected date of return indicated on the most recent certificate. An employee making frequent use of sick leave not credits through short term absences may, at the discretion of the Department Head, be given notice in writing, with a copy to exceed forty (40) hours the Recording Secretary of the Union, that in future may be utilized by employees required to produce a physician's statement to substantiate any period of absence. Any employee who has been absent from work in excess of thirty (30) working days due to medical reasons, may, prior to returning to work, be required to provide the Corporation with a medical certificate certifying that is capable of performing duties. Where an employee is absent on account of illness and cumulative sick pay credit has been exhausted, shall not receive sick pay credit for the birth or adoption month in which was so absent. An employee shall not be entitled to sick pay in advance of any credit may earn in the current month; such credit becomes available only on and after the first day of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing following month. Whenever in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in any month an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned days of illness exceed cumulative sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or credit at the end of such recovery period and on month, the exhaustion excess days of accumulated normal sick leave illness shall not be charged against credit becoming available in the future, but shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because regarded as days of illness or accident whose paid sick leave without pay. When an employee is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a given leave of absence without pay under Articles and or is laid off on account of lack of work and returns to the service of the employer upon expiration of such leave of absence, etc., shall not receive credit for illness or disability the period of such absence, but shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held retain cumulative credit, if any, existing at the time of such leave. The number of days or parts of days for which an employee received "sick pay" shall be deducted from cumulative sick pay credit. Any or all of the leave started, prior unused portion of sick pay credit shall be accumulated to or the benefit of the employee from year to year. The unused portion of the yearly accumulation shall be computed at the end of the term each year and brought forward in days and parts of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationdays. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick 9.10 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the written approval of the Employer. 9.11 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to exceed forty (40) hours their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 9.12 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be utilized by employees for charged to sick leave and the birth or adoption charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptiondisability. 15.9 9.13 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and eighty percent (80%) of the employee's employees' normal daily salarywage. If an employee has no earned their recovery is not complete by the end of the period described in paragraph (1) of Article 9.13, employees shall use their own accumulated sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation leave to pay make up the difference between any Workers’ Compensation payment made and eighty percent (80%) of the employee’s normal daily wage. In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salarysolely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are paid" under the provisions of this section. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive a combined wage and Workers' Compensation benefits payment exceeding 80% of the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their his or her position within or at the end of such the recovery period period, and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave leave, shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick 9.14 Sick leave is exhausted, shall may be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two used in quarter-hour (21/4) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationincrements. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated against normal sick leave theretofore accumulated by them. Said sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 17.9 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of absence will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there . 17.10 In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation solely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are fewer than three (3) months between periods paid" under the provisions of leave of absence under this rule. 17.11 In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers’ Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. 17.12 Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery periods and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the same illness or accident, the periods sick leave without pay provisions of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ CompensationArticle. 15.11 17.13 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - 1st to March 31; 31st, April 1 - 1st to June 30; 30th, July 1 – 1st to September 30; 30th, and October 1 – 1st to December 3131st. 17.14 Pregnant employees of Xxxxxx County shall be eligible for the use of paid and unpaid sick leave in the same manner as any other disabled or ill Xxxxxx County employee. Such sick leave eligibility shall begin upon certification by the employee's attending physician that due to pregnancy, the employee is disabled in terms of their ability to perform the duties of their position. Such employee shall then be eligible to receive sick leave benefits in the same manner as is provided for any other ill or disabled County employee during the remaining period of

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick 17.8 An employee may use sick leave not for safety leave for assistance to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees themselves or their relatives as described in paragraph 17.7. For the purpose of this paragraph, “safety leave” is leave for the birth purpose of providing or adoption receiving assistance because of sexual assault, domestic abuse or stalking, as those terms have meaning in Minnesota Statutes 181.9413. Such use of sick leave is subject to the employee’s child or a child regularly residing limitations included in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptionparagraph 17.7. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 17.9 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a an unpaid leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of absence will be added together to determine the length of leave that my not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. 17.10 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties, shall upon written request to the Director of Human Resources, accompanied by a physician's certificate acceptable to the Director, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one-hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave theretofore accumulated by them. When there Said sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and an employee's normal daily wage. 17.11 In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation solely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are fewer than three (3) months between periods paid" under the provisions of leave of absence under this rule. 17.12 In no event shall this section for the same illness be construed or accident, the periods of leave will be added together operate to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months permit an employee to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving receive wage and Workers’ CompensationCompensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any 17.13 Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery periods and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.be eligible for the

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 E) Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees allowed in cases of sickness or injury occurring during the vacation period. Evidence of such incapacity from the first day must, however, be provided to the satisfaction of the Department Head or the City Manager. F) Xxxx leave shall not be charged against the employee's current or "special reserve bank" in amounts of less than one (1) hour for any absence. G) One (1) day sick leave may be allowed in the event of serious illness of the husband or wife of the employee, or serious illness of a child of the employee, when necessary, to arrange for additional help at home or transportation to a hospital or a doctor. Prolonged illness of a family member shall not be a cause for the birth use of sick leave, unless previously approved by the Department Head and City Manager. H) It is agreed between the Union and the City, that sick leave can be used for the purpose mentioned above and that falsely reporting sick leave so that an employee can work at another job shall be cause for an automatic ten (10) day suspension on first offense, and immediate dismissal for second offense, without recourse to the grievance procedure outlined herein. I) Upon retirement with a City pension, one-half (1/2) of the employee's accumulated sick time will be paid to that employee. In the event of death of an employee, one-half (1/2) of the earned sick time will be paid to that employee's beneficiary subject to (K) below. Effective July 1, 2013, only employees with a minimum of fifteen (15) years of service, or adoption full pension (defined as fifty-five (55) years of age with minimum fifteen (15) years of service or sixty (60) years of age with minimum ten (10) years of service), or employees who have been laid off in accordance with Article XIVB, shall be eligible for payout of one-half (½) of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to at separation. In the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If event of death of an employee has no earned sick leaveafter 15 years of service or full pension as defined above, or exhausts their one-half (1/2) of the accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for paid to that employee’s beneficiary. Sick leave may not be granted in anticipation of future service. Recognized holidays falling within a period of sick leave shall not be counted as sick days. SECTION 3. The employee shall continue to receive the maximum of twelve (12) earned sick days per year. All sick days accumulated during the contract year in excess of forty-eight (48) days shall be "bought back" by the City at fifty percent (50%) of the employee's wage rate during the year the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave time is exhausted, earned. Payments shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence made between July 15th, and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designeeJuly 30th, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at following the end of the term of the leaveeach fiscal year. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three fifty percent (350%) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two buy-back rate is fifty percent (250%) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee's daily gross wage, excluding all differentials, premiums, and longevity adjustment in effect on the last day of the fiscal year. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31above stated "buy back" of sick time shall be separate and distinct from the employee's short term and long term health and accident wage insurance policies, and further, the number of accumulated sick days shall in no way affect the insurance policies.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated It is understood that sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a not applicable where leave of absence for is granted under Article An employee shall not receive sick pay when eligible to receive compensation under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, due to injury sustained while on the payroll of someone other than the Corporation. Where an employee who is injured in circumstances in which might be entitled to compensation under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, elects instead to claim against the third person, shall, as a period not condition of receiving sick pay benefits as hereinbefore provided, undertake in writing to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at reimburse the same seniority in Corporation out of the salary schedule. Existence proceeds of any settlement or judgement upon such claim the amount of money equivalent to the value of such sick pay benefits, and extent of illness or disability must upon having made such reimbursement, accumulated sick pay credits shall be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Departmentrestored accordingly. An employee who is granted injured on duty where no action for such injuries would lie against a third person, and who is unable to work as a result of such injury, shall, while off work, be advanced by the Corporation to the extent of available sick leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right credits an amount equal to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end an estimate of the term anticipated daily benefit to which the employee may be entitled, until such time as a ruling has been made by the Board upon the employee's claim. If the Board rules against the claim, the accumulated sick leave credits of the leaveemployee shall be reduced accordingly. A full-time employee who is absent by reason of incapacity caused by an accident occurring while on duty and who is granted temporary total disability benefits the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board may elect to receive the difference between the amount of such award and the employee's basic daily wage, to the extent of accumulated sick leave credits. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting dollar cost of the difference shall be converted to sick credit days. The calculation shall use standard rounding and sick credits debited to the nearest of a day. The difference between the award and the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing 's basic daily wage shall be calculated so that the employee to return from unpaid sick leavenet (take-home) pay matches but does not exceed the employee's normal net (take-home) pay. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave Such payment will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, authorized and continue except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.where:

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick 8.7 If all positions in the classification in the department have been filled, in order to accommodate a person who returns to work after illness, the employee with least amount of seniority in the department in the classification shall vacate their position subject to any eligibility for transfer or reduction that they may have acquired under this Agreement. 8.8 Employees on sick leave with or without pay may not engage in other employment without the written approval of the Employer. 8.9 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to exceed forty (40) hours their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 8.10 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be utilized by employees for charged to sick leave and the birth or adoption charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptiondisability. 15.9 8.11 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred-and-thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and eighty percent (80%) of the employee's normal daily salarywage. If an employee has no earned their recovery is not complete by the end of the period described in paragraph (1) of Article 8.11, employees shall use their own accumulated sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation leave to pay make up the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments made and their eighty percent (80%) of the employee’s normal daily salarywage. In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers’ Compensation solely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as “a day for which Workers’ Compensation benefits are paid” under the provisions of this section. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive a combined wage and Workers' Compensation benefits payment exceeding eighty percent (80%) of the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their his or her position within or at the end of such the recovery period periods and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave leave, shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two . 7/1/17-6/30/19 #8 (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.Public Defender)

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If an employee has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick leave not 9.11 An employee must present a statement from their physician attesting to exceed forty (40) hours their fitness to return to work at the request of the Employer. 9.12 Should illness occur while an employee is on vacation the period of illness may be utilized by employees for charged to sick leave and the birth or adoption charge to vacation reduced accordingly. An employee requesting such a change may be required to submit a written statement from a physician attesting to the illness and the period of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptiondisability. 15.9 9.13 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties duties, on or after January 1, 2000, shall use their accumulated upon approval by Human Resources, be granted sick leave for each work day up to a maximum of one hundred and thirty (130) days for which Workers' Compensation payments are made for said injury or illness, said sick leave not to be charged against normal sick leave they have accumulated. This additional sick leave shall be granted in an amount equal to and not exceeding the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and eighty percent (80%) of the employee's ’s normal daily salarywage. If an employee has no earned their recovery is not complete by the end of the period described in paragraph (1) of Article 9.13, employees shall use their own accumulated sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation leave to pay make up the difference between any Workers’ Compensation payment made and eighty percent (80%) of the employee’s normal daily wage. In the event an employee absence due to a work related injury does not qualify for Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salarysolely because of a statutory waiting period, each day of said absence shall be considered as "a day for which Workers' Compensation benefits are paid" under the provisions of this section. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive a combined wage and Workers' Compensation benefits payment exceeding 80% of the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their his or her position within or at the end of such the recovery period periods and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick 9.14 Sick leave is exhausted, shall may be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two used in quarter-hour (21/4) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationincrements. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 all sick leave of more than three consecutive days. For sick leave of three consecutive days or less, the Department Head or City Manager may require a medical report prior to approval of said sick leave. In any case, the City may require examination by a physician selected by the City prior to granting paid sick leave or prior to the employee's return to work. E) Sick leave not to exceed forty (40) hours may be utilized by employees allowed in cases of sickness or injury occurring during the vacation period. Evidence of such incapacity from the first day must, however, be provided to the satisfaction of the Department Head or the City Manager. F) Sick leave shall not be charged against the employee's current or "special reserve bank" in amounts of less than one (1) hour for any absence. G) One (1) day sick leave may be allowed in the event of serious illness of the husband or wife of the employee, or serious illness of a child of the employee, when necessary, to arrange for additional help at home or transportation to a hospital or a doctor. Prolonged illness of a family member shall not be a cause for the birth use of sick leave, unless previously approved by the Department Head and City Manager. H) It is agreed between the Union and the City, that sick leave can be used for the purpose mentioned above and that falsely reporting sick leave so that an employee can work at another job shall be cause for an automatic ten (10) day suspension on first offense, and immediate dismissal for second offense, without recourse to the grievance procedure outlined herein. I) Upon retirement with a City pension, one-half (1/2) of the employee's accumulated sick time will be paid to that employee. In the event of death of an employee, one-half (1/2) of the earned sick time will be paid to that employee's beneficiary subject to (K) below. J) Effective July 1, 2013, only employees with a minimum of fifteen (15) years of service, or adoption full pension (defined as fifty-five (55) years of age with minimum fifteen (15) years of service or sixty (60) years of age with minimum ten (10) years of service), or employees who have been laid off in accordance with Article XIVB, shall be eligible for payout of one-half (½) of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoption. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees who are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to at separation. In the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If event of death of an employee has no earned sick leaveafter 15 years of service or full pension as defined above, or exhausts their one-half (1/2) of the accrued sick leave, they may use earned vacation to pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or at the end of such recovery period and on the exhaustion of accumulated normal sick leave shall be eligible for paid to that employee’s beneficiary. K) Sick leave may not be granted in anticipation of future service. Recognized holidays falling within a period of sick leave shall not be counted as sick days. SECTION 3. The employee shall continue to receive the maximum of twelve (12) earned sick days per year. All sick days accumulated during the contract year in excess of forty-eight (48) days shall be "bought back" by the City at fifty percent (50%) of the employee's wage rate during the year the sick leave without pay provisions of this contract. 15.10 An employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave time is exhausted, earned. Payments shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence made between July 15th, and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designeeJuly 30th, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a leave of absence without pay for illness or disability shall have the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at following the end of the term of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of leave of absence under this section for the same illness or accident, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensationeach fiscal year. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.

SICK LEAVE (Continued. 15.8 Sick (c) An employee absent through their own illness shall notify their supervisor of their inability to perform their duties due to sickness prior to the start of shift or as soon as possible. No employee will lose entitlement for sick pay nor be subject to disciplinary action for failure to comply with the above where there are legitimate and reasonable circumstances which delay notification. (d) An employee who is absent from work for more than three (3) consecutive working days shall provide their immediate supervisor with a certificate from a physician within seven (7) days from the commencement of their sickness or upon return to work, whichever occurs first, reporting the duration or probable duration of the sickness with the first and most recent dates of attendance upon the employee, and the expected date of return to work. Should the employee be unable to return to work on the date designated a similar certificate shall be supplied prior to the expected date of return indicated on the most recent certificate. (e) An employee making frequent use of their sick leave not credits through short term absences may, at the discretion of the Manager, be given notice in writing, with a copy to exceed forty (40) hours the Recording Secretary of the Union, that in future they may be utilized by employees for the birth or adoption required to produce a physician’s statement to substantiate any period of the employee’s child or a child regularly residing in the employee’s immediate household. The leave must be consecutive and taken within six (6) months of the birth or adoptionabsence. 15.9 Permanent and probationary employees (f) Any employee who has been absent from work in excess of thirty (30) consecutive working days due to medical reasons, may, prior to returning to work, be required to provide the Corporation with a medical certificate certifying that they are injured while performing work within the scope of their employment for Xxxxxx County and by reason thereof are rendered incapable capable of performing their duties shall use their accumulated sick leave in an amount equal to the difference between any Workers' Compensation payments and the employee's normal daily salary. If duties. (g) Where an employee is absent on account of illness or non-occupational injury and their cumulative sick pay credit has no earned sick leave, or exhausts their accrued sick leavebeen exhausted, they shall not receive sick pay credit for the month in which he/she was so absent. (h) An employee shall not be entitled to sick pay in advance of any credit they may use earned vacation to earn in the current month; such credit becomes available only on and after the first day of the following month. (i) Whenever in any month an employee’s days of illness or non-occupational injury exceed their cumulative sick pay the difference between Workers' Compensation and their normal daily salary. In no event shall this section be construed or operate to permit an employee to receive wage and Workers' Compensation benefits exceeding the employee's normal daily wage. Any such employee unable to resume the duties of their position within or credit at the end of such recovery period and on month, the exhaustion excess days of accumulated normal sick leave illness shall not be charged against credit becoming available in the future, but shall be eligible for the sick leave regarded as days of illness without pay provisions of this contractpay. 15.10 An (j) When an employee unable to work because of illness or accident whose paid sick leave is exhausted, shall be granted a leave of absence for a period not to exceed two (2) years. Employees will return at the same seniority in the salary schedule. Existence and extent of illness or disability must be verified by a written statement from an appropriate medical authority when requested by the department head or designee, or the Human Resources Department. An employee who is granted a given leave of absence without pay for illness under Articles 8.01, 8.03 and 8.04, or disability shall have is laid off on account of lack of work and returns to the right to be reinstated to a position in their department in the classification held at the time the leave started, prior to or at the end service of the term Corporation upon expiration of the leave. The Employer may require a report from an appropriate medical authority attesting to the employee’s fitness to return to work before allowing the employee to return from unpaid sick leave. When there are fewer than three (3) months between periods of such leave of absence under this section absence, etc., they shall not receive credit for the same illness or accidentperiod of such absence, the periods of leave will be added together to determine the length of leave that may not exceed two (2) years, except that this restriction will be reduced from three (3) months to thirty (30) calendar days for employees receiving Workers’ Compensation. 15.11 Full-time employees who do not utilize any sick leave hours in a three (3) month period but shall have the option of converting four (4) hours of sick leave to vacation or pay at the option of the employee. The three (3) month periods are January 1 - March 31; April 1 - June 30; July 1 – September 30; October 1 – December 31.retain