Common use of Sick Leave Clause in Contracts

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Any sick leave applied for in this section that qualifies for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Article of July 1, 1986, all accumulated this Agreement shall be used in conjunction with the rules of that Article of this Agreement. a. All bargaining unit employees shall be eligible for sick leave as provided in this Article. b. All full time employees working forty (40) hours per week shall be entitled to 32 hours of sick leave on the last day of the first month of each school year and will earn eight (8) hours sick leave for each additional completed month of continuous, uninterrupted service. This leave shall be credited at the end of that month and shall not be used prior to the time that it is earned and credited. No employee shall be entitled to earn more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. All employees was frozen working less then forty (40) hours per week will earn sick leave prorated in relation to the hours they regularly work. c. Sick leave cannot be utilized before it is earned and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will credited to the employee. d. Sick leave earned shall be maintained credited to the employee on the last day of the pay period, or, in the bank case of separation on the last day the employee is on the payroll. e. There shall be no limit on the number of hours of unused sick leave an employee may accrue. f. Sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because the employee is unable to perform his/her duty on account of personal sickness, accident disability, or extended personal illness, or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative or member of his/her own household. Personal illness shall include disability caused or contributed by a pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery. g. Any employee who finds it necessary to be absent from his/her duties because of illness, as defined in this Article, shall notify his/her immediate supervisor before the beginning of the work day on which he/she must be absent except for emergency reasons recognized by the Superintendent as valid. The employee shall, before claiming and receiving compensation for the time absent from his/her duties while absent because of such leave, make and file within five (5) working days following his/her return from such absence with the Superintendent a leave form which shall set forth the day or days absent, that such absence was necessary, and that he/she believes he/she is entitled or not entitled to receive pay for such absence in accordance with the provisions of this Article. The Superintendent may require a certificate of illness from a licensed physician at any time he/she feels it necessary prior to authorizing compensation for sick leave. Provided further that sick leave shall not be approved in less than one fourth (0.25) hour increments. h. The only condition under which an employee can be paid for unused sick leave is upon retirement, participation in DROP, or death and after six (6) months satisfactory, continuous and creditable service, and the employee has not been otherwise disqualified under the provision of this Article. In such case, the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same employee's current hourly rate of pay as provided below. However, such terminal sick leave pay shall not exceed an amount as follows: A member of the non-instructional staff will be paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment terminal pay for accumulated sick leaveleave at retirement, participation in DROP, or to his/her beneficiary if service is terminated by death. Payment will be in the position vacated by month following effective retirement date unless "5.(a)" is selected or “5.(b)” is applicable. Investment plan participants will be eligible for terminal sick leave pay only if the employee participant meets the normal retirement age or years of service as defined in paragraph b.(1)(a) below. No payment for sick leave will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made to investment plan participants under the early retirement criteria for pension plan participants as listed in extraordinary situations paragraph b.(2)(a) below except by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilityspecific School Board action for retirement incentives for all employees.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next 1. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject person entitled to the following conditions: (a) Sick terminal pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible have been under contract to render services for the employee to perform regular duties period immediately preceding retirement or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will death and shall not be granted before they under suspension from duty except for reasons pertaining to health, or have been earnedany charges pending which could result in dismissal from employment. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Sick leave days should be entered in the AESOP system by the Employee no later than twenty-four (24) hours from the use of July 1, 1986, all accumulated the sick day. Each Employee shall be granted 12 (twelve) sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in days. An Employee employed after the beginning of a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in school year or terminated before the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) end of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary his/her contract period shall be granted a sick leave bank adjusted according to the above rules. a. All sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall be credited to him/her. Any sick leave days not used by the end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for the following year, up to a maximum of 150 days. b. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days by an Employee shall be: i. Personal illness, injury, quarantine or medical appointments; ii. Serious illness in the immediate family, i.e., husband, wife, child, father or mother that requires the presence of the Employee. c. The Employee shall notify the administrator of his/her impending absence stating the period of leave and where he/she can be contacted during the day. Each Employee shall give such notification prior to his/her scheduled on-the-job starting time. d. The Employee may be required by the Superintendent to give a written, signed statement from the Employee’s physician or from the Employee indicating the reason for such absence when reporting to work on the first working day following his/her absence. Additionally, the Employee may be asked to complete paperwork to assist the Agency in determining if the use of sick time qualifies as a serious health condition under the Family Medical Leave Act. Failure to comply with six (6) this provision can result in the withholding of pay for such leave days. e. Accumulated sick leave time shall terminate upon termination of employment. f. Upon notification to the Agency of retirement by the end of February, up to 50 sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick accumulated beyond 100 days shall be forfeited. Utilization reimbursed at a rate of sick leave benefits is subject to $75 per day upon the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerEmployee’s retirement. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As a. Ten (10) days of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave shall be granted each school year with unlimited accumulation. b. Bargaining unit members employed for less than a full school year shall receive a pro-rata portion of days. c. Each absence taken by a bargaining unit member must be reported, and if necessary, changed, according to the Board approved process which shall be clearly communicated to all employees was frozen prior to the start of each school year and placed in shall be posted on the District’s website. d. The Employer may, for good cause, request a bank. Employees with banked statement from the bargaining unit member's physician regarding the need for the use of sick time may utilize leave. e. The Board reserves the right to require a physical or mental examination at the Board's expense and by a doctor of its choice should it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained seem in the bank and best interest of the employee District. f. The Board reserves the right to require a written medical statement after the eighth (8th) consecutive workday of absence. Further, such a statement shall be paid for one-half (1/2) mandatory in all cases of those unused days at absence covered by Worker Compensation regardless of the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which length of absence. g. A written statement from an employee terminates and receives payment for attending physician also shall be mandatory following any period of hospitalization. h. From accumulated sick leave, five (5) days per period of illness of a parent, spouse, child, or person for whom the position vacated by bargaining unit member is principally responsible shall be granted. The intent of this provision is to provide the employee time to make arrangements for the care of the sick members of his/her family. The Board reserves the right to require a statement from the doctor in attendance. In emergencies, additional leave days, as available, will remain vacant until be granted on approval of the bargaining unit member's supervisor. i. When a bargaining unit member has exhausted his/her accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period leave, he/she shall be credited with six (6) sick days placed on January 1 a health and hardship leave as provided in section B.2 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilitythis Article.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2a) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated accumulate sick leave benefits during credits at the first year rate of eligibility.four (4) Such days cannot be carried over from one year hours for each full calendar month of employment up to a maximum of two hundred eight (208) hours. Credits shall accumulate only on full-time employment following the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent completion of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick thirteen (13) consecutive weeks full- time in this manneremployment eligibility period. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earnedThe Employer may require the employee to provide a doctor’s certificate verifying any absence due to disability. (c) Sick pay The Employer shall apply any accumulated sick leave to absence due to sickness not covered by insured Weekly Indemnity benefits will be paid only if the employee (or someone on similar benefits) and shall supplement Weekly Indemnity benefits (or similar benefits) with unused sick leave credits in an amount equal to but not to exceed the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsnormal earnings. (d) The Court Employees, if found abusing this privilege, shall be disciplined by the Employer. In such cases, the Employer may require a physician’s certificate showing that discontinue or reduce the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that benefit of the employees. However, such illness or injury was disabling cases shall be subject to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timegrievance procedure. (e) In the event If an employee receives sick pay benefits and it retires on pension, is subsequently established that the employee was not ill permanently laid off or is totally disabled due to occupational accident, injury or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued illness as recognized by the employeeWorkers’ Compensation Board, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationthey shall be paid unused accumulated sick leave credits. (f) The amount An employee who returns to work after absence due to illness or injury must be returned to his or her job without loss of sick pay benefits used by seniority when capable of performing his or her duties. Upon recuperation from an accident or illness, an employee will give the Employer as much notice as possible of his or her intention to return to work. The Employer will give the Union ninety (90) days notice of its intention to terminate an employee for absence due to illness or injury. A copy of the notice will be equal mailed to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedemployee’s last known address. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or moreThe Employer agrees to comply with Provincial Legislation which applies to the accommodation of disabled employees. HoweverThe Union and the Employer agree to review together, on an individual basis, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number cases of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been employees who become disabled and are unable to perform their regular job duties. (h) An employee’s sick leave credits will be shown on sick leavetheir pay stub.

Sick Leave. As (a) Full-time employees will continue to receive full pay while off work on sick leave up to a limit of July 1, 1986, all accumulated twenty (20) working days in a twelve (12) month period extending back from the current sick day. Employees may use from one hour to seven hours sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 purpose of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannermedical appointment. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earnedThe Employer may request a medical report for any sick leave longer than three (3) days duration. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if An Employee other than a probationary Employee who is unable to perform his/her regular assigned duties with the employee Company because of disabling sickness or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of injury shall receive a long-term period leave of absence due for up to six (6) months as required. While the Employee is on such illness or injuryauthorized leave of absence, continuous service will continue to accumulate for up to six (6 ) months. A leave of absence for more than six (6) months must be approved by the employee company but shall not be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsunreasonably denied. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due Upon return to actual non-occupational work of an Employee who has been on an authorized leave of absence because of illness or injury injury, he/she will return to his/her former position if the position is still available and that such illness or injury was disabling if he/she is capable of performing the work with accommodation up to undue hardship. If he/she cannot be given their original position, he/she will be offered other available work which he/she is capable of performing, if any is available, with accommodation up to undue hardship, at an hourly rate not less than 80% of the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timeEmployee's previous hourly rate. (e) In the event an employee receives Sick Leave for Part-time Employees Part-time employees will continue to receive full pay while off work on sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or leave on a day they were supposed to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action work up to and including terminationa limit of: Number of hours worked in the previous calendar year 1820 Employees may use from one hour to seven hours sick leave for the purpose of each medical appointment. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Section 29.1 Sick leave shall be granted to regular and part-time Employees in accordance with the following provisions. Sick leave is provided as a benefit to the Employee. Employees have no vested right to Sick leave except as set forth below. Section 29.2 Sick leave for Employees is used in the following situations: A. When Employees are (1) incapacitated by their own sickness or non-job- related injury; or (2) absent for medical, dental, optical appointments or treatment; or for pregnancy related reasons (3) exposed to a contagious disease when the attendance at duty, in the opinion of July the City Physician, jeopardizes the health of others. Sick leave is not available for job-related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City or another employer entity. B. For necessary care and attendance of a member of the Employee's immediate family who (1) is incapacitated by illness or injury or (2) for their medical treatment or appointments. For the purpose of this Section, 1986"Immediate Family" shall be defined as a parent of the Employee, all accumulated spouse, child, or "step" or “adoptive” situations within these relationships or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the Employee when the Employee was a child. A child is defined as under eighteen (18) years of age, or eighteen (18) years or older if the child is incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability. This also includes individuals for whom the Employee is the current legal guardian. Section 29.3 Sick leave used shall not exceed the total amount accrued to the Employee at the time of his/her absence. Leave without pay may be granted for sickness extending beyond the amount of accrued sick leave. After each thirty (30) days during such leave without pay, the Employee shall present to his/her department head a doctor's statement of his/her continued inability to perform his/her normal duties. Section 29.4 Sick leave shall be accrued on the first day of the month following completion of thirty (30) days of continuous service. Sick leave may not be expended until after completion of one full calendar month of employment. Section 29.5 Sick leave shall be accrued at a rate of eight (8) hours for each full calendar month of service for full time Employees. Sick leave shall be prorated for part- time Employees in accordance with Section 303.42 of the Human Resources Policy and Procedure Manual. An Employee may accrue a maximum of twelve hundred (1200) hours of sick leave. During any leave which is in excess of one-hundred sixty (160) hours, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained accrued during the entire period of the leave. The adjustment shall be prorated to the nearest week. Full time Employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. Such absence (except as provided for in the bank and the employee Military Leave Policy) shall not be paid used in computing time in grade for one-half (1/2) Satisfactory Performance Increases or for completion of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which probationary period. Section 29.6 Unless an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveEmployee is approved to flex their time, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization amount of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits used by an Employee shall be paid only the amount of time the Employee was absent during his/her scheduled work day. Work and/or crew assignment shall be a factor in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting such a decision. Holidays and other days not scheduled for work are excluded in a disability which makes it impossible for computing sick leave expenditures. Any sick leave accruals lost due to inaction by the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits Employee will not be granted before they have been earnedreinstated. Section 29.7 Employees may convert accrued sick leave in excess of nine hundred sixty (c960) Sick hours to vacation leave, provided the total accrued vacation leave may not exceed the maximum allowed under “Vacation Leave" provisions. Conversion shall be at a ratio of one (1) hour of vacation for one (1) hour of sick leave. Section 29.8 An Employee transferring from one department to another shall have his/her total accrued sick leave transferred to the new department. The accrued sick leave shall be recorded on the Personnel Action form. Section 29.9 Upon retirement as defined in the Human Resources Policy and Procedures, death, or disability, Employees with at least nine hundred sixty (960) hours accrued sick leave shall receive payment for accrued sick leave at a rate of one (1) hour of pay benefits will for every three (3) hours of sick leave up to a maximum of three hundred twenty (320) hours of pay. Employees who lack the necessary sick leave accrual bank to qualify for the sick leave retirement buyout (960 hours), shall provide evidence of and receive credit for major illness or non-job-related injury leave periods of at least forty (40) consecutive work hours to reach qualification levels. In such cases, approved sick leave periods extending at least forty (40) hours shall be paid added back to the accrual bank for calculation purposes only. Any buyout would then occur only on the current actual, available sick leave balance. Section 29.10 An Employee who is separated, or resigns in lieu of discipline (regardless of eligibility for retirement benefits) for theft of City property or resources (including theft of time), embezzlement, fraud, falsification, deliberate destruction to City property, or inappropriate use of City property or P-card is ineligible for payment of accrued sick leave. Xxxx leave payout at the end of employment may be withheld if the employee Employee owes any type of repayment to the City, including for overpayment of wages. Section 29.11 A regular or someone on part-time Employee who leaves the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later classified service to enlist in active military service other than a reserve unit and who applies for re-employment within fifteen (15) minutes days after having been rejected or ninety (90) days after an honorable discharge shall have the former unused sick leave credits reinstated. A regular or part-time Employee who is laid off and returns to City employment within one (1) year from the date of layoff shall have the former unused accrued sick leave reinstated (see provisions for military leave). Section 29.12 Sick leave shall not be used during periods of suspension. An Employee who is absent from duty for reasons which entitle him/her to sick leave shall notify his/her supervisor two (2) hours prior to the beginning of the work shift if physically able to do so. Section 29.13 When an absence charged to sick leave is forty (40) consecutive work hours or more, upon returning to work the Employee shall present to the City Physician a statement from his/her doctor describing the illness. The Employee will only return to work if given a medical release from the City Physician. The department head or designee may require a doctor’s statement for shorter absences if there has been an established pattern of abuse such as using sick leave on work days immediately preceding or immediately after a regularly scheduled starting day off or reason to suspect abuse before allowing the absence to be charged to sick leave. The department head or designee may request at any time on each day that a doctor’s statement or medical opinion from the employee City Physician regarding the Employee’s physical ability to perform the duties of the job. An Employee should be notified at the earliest possible time if management requires such a statement upon return to work. Without a doctor’s statement, the Employee will be charged leave without pay for the absence. Section 29.14 A supervisor may request an investigation the alleged illness of an Employee absent from workon sick leave. In the event False or fraudulent use of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee sick leave by an Employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial disciplinary action which may include dismissal. Any Employee who shall receive payment for work performed for any other employer other than the City of Tulsa while on approved sick pay benefitsleave shall be subject to immediate dismissal. This provision shall also apply to Employees who are self-employed and perform work in their private occupation while on approved sick leave. Sick leave is not available for job- related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City, another employer entity, or self-employed. (d) The Court may require Section 29.15 Employees who apply for promotional opportunity must meet the established guidelines on absenteeism as a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due factor in determining promotional qualifications prior to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timebeing certified. Section 29.16 After three (e3) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefitsmonths of service, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave vacation may be used for sick leave when accrued sick leave has been exhausted. The granting of such vacation time shall be at the discretion of the appropriate supervisor who may, prior to an approval determination, request medical verification of the absence when a question exists regarding the nature of the specific absence or when the Employee’s overall attendance record has been less than satisfactory. Upon receipt of the appropriate medical verification, the Employee shall be granted the use of available vacation leave for the absence. Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) documentation shall serve as appropriate medical verification for using available vacation leave for a sick absence. Section 29.17 During any leave which is in excess of one-quarter hour increments hundred sixty (160) hours, including extended leave periods with breaks of twenty (20) hours or moreless of actual work, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave will be accrued during the entire period of the leave. HoweverProrated accruals will be based on the percentage of hours worked during the month(s) of extended absence. Full time employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. It is not the intention of the City to allow the accrual of paid leave benefits to be reinstated for employees who are not expected to remain at work consistently. Further, the total hours such absence shall not be used in a day shall not exceed the number computing time for completion of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveprobationary period.

Sick Leave. As of July (1, 1986, all accumulated ) A worker who is unable through sickness or accident to attend his duties shall notify the employer not later than 10.00am on the day he first absents himself from duty. (2) A worker shall be entitled to paid sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for respect of any period of absence on account of illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee Sick leave entitlements shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days accumulate on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions:basis and be calculated pro rata for each completed month of service:- (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerFor service after 1 January 1948 six days per annum. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earnedFor service after 1 January 1975 nine days per annum. (c) Sick pay For service after 1 January 1979 ten days per annum. Provided that in calculating the amount due to a worker through sickness, there shall be deducted therefrom any sum or sums previously paid to him hereunder. (3) The term "sickness" shall not include any case where the worker is entitled to compensation under the Workers' Compensation Act. (4) No worker shall be entitled to the benefits will of this clause unless he produces proof of his sickness satisfactory to his employer. This proof shall be paid only in the form of a Medical Certificate if the employee absence is for three days or someone on more, provided that a Medical Certificate may be required for any absence after a worker has claimed in the employee’s behalf notifies aggregate four days absence in any one year. (5) Except as aforesaid, a worker shall not be entitled to payment for time lost through sickness or accident. (6) Notwithstanding the Superintendent foregoing provisions of this clause a worker, or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In in the event of a longthe worker's death his next-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryof-kin, the employee shall be required entitled to report only upon receive payments at the appropriate rate for any sick leave accumulated under the provisions of subclause (2) hereof, if he ceases to be employed by the Company. (a) except in the event of the worker's death at least two years consecutive service have been completed. (b) in calculating a weekly worker's entitlement for payment under the provisions of this subclause a maximum of eight days per annum shall accumulate and any part of the first eight days' leave taken in any one year shall be deducted from the amount of leave which may have accumulated under the provisions of subclause (2) hereof. (c) each worker has an option to take up eight days of unused sick leave paid on an annual basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of , provided further that the remaining sick pay benefitsleave credit totals 160 hours. (d) The Court may require for service prior to 1 September 1985 the calculation for payment under this subclause shall be a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement maximum of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timesix days per annum. (e7) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not Where a worker on annual or long service leave becomes ill or disabled or has otherwise misused meets with an accident and forwards within 48 hours a Doctor's Certificate satisfactory to the sick pay benefitsemployer for a period of not less than four working days, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick employer will add the lost days previously accrued due to such genuine sickness or accident to the worker's leave or make this time available to him at some other mutually convenient time, such option to be accrued by at the employee, and may subject discretion of the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationemployer. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. Each regular full-time or regular part-time employee shall accrue sick leave at the rate of July 1.0463 hours for each hour in a regular pay status excluding overtime, 1986call- back and standby duty. B. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year, all with no accrual limit. X. Xxxx leave usage may not exceed the employee's accrued sick leave balance reported at the end of the prior pay period. D. The APCO may require evidence in the form of a physician's certificate, or otherwise, of the adequacy of the reason for any employee's absence during the time for which sick leave was requested. Under no circumstances is sick leave to be used in lieu of, in addition to, or as vacation. A physician's certificate may also be required in order to determine correctness of payroll records. E. When a member of an SBCAPCDEA represented employee’s immediate family is ill or injured and requires his/her presence and attendance, an employee may be allowed by the APCO to use his/her accumulated sick leave to attend such family member. F. Up to a maximum of five days (40 hours) of his/her accumulated sick leave may be allowed by the APCO to an employee for employees was frozen absence from duty because of any and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained each death in the bank employee’s immediate family. G. For the purposes of Section 13E and 13F above, "immediate family" is defined as husband, wife, domestic partner, parent, brother, sister, child, xxxxxxxxx, grandparent, grandchild, and mother-in-law or father-in-law of the employee. H. An employee may, when necessary and at the discretion of the APCO, be granted up to two hours leave with pay to make voluntary non-remunerated blood donations to non-profit blood banks in the county. Time off in excess of two hours and up to an additional two hours may be used for this purpose, but such additional time off shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for charged to accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible Leave for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent purpose of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day donating blood shall not exceed five times in any one calendar year. I. No payment shall be made to any employee for unused sick leave accumulated to his/her credit at the number time of regularly scheduled his/her termination from APCD service. J. Employees who retire from the APCD shall have their accumulated sick leave credit of up to 2,088 hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveadded to their term of service for purposes of calculating retirement benefits.

Sick Leave. As (1) An employee other than a casual employee as defined who is absent from his/her work on account of July 1personal illness or on account of injury by accident, 1986other than that covered by workers' compensation, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) entitled to leave of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveabsence, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits without deduction of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is pay, subject to the following conditionsconditions and limitations: (a) Sick pay benefits He/she shall be paid only in cases of actual nonwithin twenty-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent four hours of the employee is ill commencement of such absence inform the employer of his/her inability to attend for duty, and, as far as practicable, state the nature of the injury or injured. Documentation illness and the estimated duration of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerthe absence. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earnedHe/she shall prove to the satisfaction of his/her employer (or in the event of dispute a Board of Reference) that he/she was unable on account of such illness or injury to attend for duty on the day or days for which sick leave is claimed. (c) Sick pay benefits will An employee during his/her first year of employment shall be entitled to sick leave entitlement at the rate of one day at the beginning of each of the first ten calendar months of this first year of employment. Provided that an employee who has completed one year of continuous employment shall be credited with a further 80 hours' sick leave entitlement at the beginning of his/her second and each subsequent year, which, subject to subclause (5) shall commence on the anniversary of engagement. (2) In the case of an employee who claims to be allowed paid sick leave in accordance with this clause for an absence of one day only such employee if in the year he/she has already been allowed paid sick leave on more than one occasion for one day only, shall not be entitled to payment for the day claimed unless he/she produces to the employer a certificate of a duly qualified medical practitioner that in his/her, the medical practitioner's, opinion, the employee or someone was unable to attend for duty on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event account of a long-term period of absence due to such personal illness or injury, . Provided that an employer may agree to accept from the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established statutory declaration, stating that the employee was not ill unable to attend for duty on account of personal illness or disabled or has otherwise misused injury in lieu of a medical certificate. Nothing in this subclause shall limit the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number employer's right under paragraph (b) of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationsubclause (1) of this clause. (f3) The amount Sick leave with an employer shall accumulate from year to year so that any balance of sick pay benefits used by the period specified in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subclause (1) of this clause which in any year has not been allowed to an employee will be equal and subject to the number conditions herein prescribed shall be allowed by that employer in a subsequent year, without diminution of regularly scheduled hours such the sick leave prescribed in respect of that year. Provided that sick leave which accumulates pursuant to this subclause shall be available to the employee would otherwise have worked on for a period of ten years but for no longer from the day(s) such benefits are usedend of the year in which it accrues. (g4) Sick Any sick leave for which any employee may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day become eligible under this award by reason of service with one employer shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours be cumulative upon sick leave for which the employee would otherwise have worked had he not may become eligible by reason of subsequent service with another employer. (5) If an employee is terminated by his/her employer and re-engaged by the same employer within a period of six months then the employee's unclaimed balance of sick leave shall continue from the date of re- engagement. In such case the employee's next year of service will commence after a total of 12 months has been on sick leaveserved with that employer excluding the period of interruption in service from the date of commencement of the previous period of employment or the anniversary of the commencement of the previous period of employment, as the case may be.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick Section 31.1 Sick leave shall be granted to regular and part-time Employees in accordance with the following provisions. Sick leave is provided as a benefit to the Employee. Employees have no vested right to Sick leave except as set forth below: Section 31.2 Sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. City Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained is used in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditionssituations: A. When Employees are (a1) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual incapacitated by their own sickness or non-occupational job-related injury, or (2) absent for medical, dental or optical appointments or treatment; or for pregnancy related reasons;(3) exposed to a contagious disease when the attendance at duty, in the opinion of the City Physician, jeopardizes the health of others. Sick leave is not available for job-related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City or another employer entity. B. For necessary care and attendance of a member of the Employee's immediate family who is (1) incapacitated by illness or injury resulting in or (2) for their medical treatment or appointments. For the purpose of this Section, "Immediate Family" shall be defined as a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee Employee, spouse, child, or "step" or “adoptive” situation within these relationships or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the Employee when the Employee was a child. A child is ill defined as under eighteen (18) years of age, or injured. Documentation eighteen (18) years or older if the child is incapable of self-care because of a physician visit mental or physical disability. This also includes individuals for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerwhom the Employee is the current legal guardian. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Section 31.3 Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number total amount accrued to the Employee at the time of regularly scheduled his/her absence. Leave without pay may be granted for sickness extending beyond the amount of accrued sick leave. After each thirty (30) days during such leave without pay, the Employee shall present to his/her department head a doctor's statement of his/her continued inability to perform his/her normal duties (see “Leave Without Pay”). Sick leave pay shall be inclusive of shift differential. Section 31.4 Sick leave shall be accrued on the first day of the month following completion of thirty (30) days of continuous service. Sick Leave may not be expended until after completion of one (1) full calendar month of employment. Section 31.5 Sick leave shall be accrued at a rate of eight (8) hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on for each full calendar month of service. An Employee may accrue a maximum of twelve hundred (1200) hours of sick leave. Section 31.6 Unless an Employee is approved to flex their time, the amount of sick leave used by an Employee shall be the amount of time the Employee was absent during his/her scheduled work day. Work and/or crew assignment shall be a factor in such a decision. Holidays and other days not scheduled for work are excluded in computing sick leave expenditures. Section 31.7 Employees may convert accrued sick leave in excess of nine hundred sixty (960) hours to vacation leave, provided the total accrued vacation leave may not exceed the maximum allowed under "Vacation Leave" provisions. Conversion shall be at a ratio of one (1) hour of vacation for one (1) hour of sick leave. Any sick leave accruals lost due to inaction by the Employee will not be reinstated. Section 31.8 An Employee transferring from one department to another shall have his/her total accrued sick leave transferred to the new department. The accrued sick leave shall be recorded on the Personnel Action form. Section 31.9 Upon retirement (age 55 or older or Rule of 80) or death, Employees with at least nine hundred sixty (960) hours accrued sick leave shall receive payment for accrued sick leave at a rate of one (1) hour of pay for every three (3) hours of sick leave up to a maximum of three hundred twenty (320) hours of pay. Employees who lack the necessary sick leave accrual bank to qualify for the sick leave retirement buyout (960 hours), shall provide evidence of and receive credit for major illness or non-job-related injury leave periods of at least forty (40) consecutive work hours to reach qualification levels. In such cases, approved sick leave periods extending at least forty (40) hours shall be added back to the accrual bank for calculation purposes only. Any buyout would then occur only on the current actual, available sick leave balance. Section 31.10 An Employee who is separated, or resigns in lieu of discipline (regardless of eligibility for retirement benefits) for embezzlement of City funds, fraud, falsification, theft of City property or resources (including theft of time), or deliberate destruction of City property or inappropriate use of City property or P-card is ineligible for payment of accrued sick leave. Sick leave payout at the end of employment may be withheld if the employee owes any type of repayment to the City, including for overpayment of wages. Section 31.11 A regular or part-time Employee who leaves the classified service to enlist in active military service other than a reserve unit and who applies for re-employment within fifteen

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period Members shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization two hours of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases for each week of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredservice. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used when a member is quarantined or physically unable to work because of sickness or an off-duty injury. Sickness or injury caused by outside employment which results in oneinability to work cannot be charged to sick leave unless the outside employment is an extension of police service. A. The member of the immediate family is the husband, wife, parent, registered domestic partner, parent-quarter hour increments in-law, child, sister or morebrother, grandchild, or grandparent of member or member of the immediate household of the person seeking to use sick leave. SWP-F shall not exceed two (2) days per occurrence, however additional time may be granted by the immediate supervisor provided the employee submits written verification by the treating physician; and B. It is necessary because of official quarantine or to care for and make arrangements for the sick person, or C. In the case of hospitalization, the following shall apply: Three days shall be granted to all sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department in cases of serious operations, injury, or illness in order to hospitalize a member of the family, be available on the day of any operation or serious test, or to assist in the discharge of the patient from the hospital. D. Childbirth - A member shall be granted one day of sick leave on the day a spouse is taken to the hospital for the purpose of giving birth, one day on the day the spouse gives birth and one day on the day the child is brought home. Child under the age of twelve (12), the Member may take up to twenty-four (24) hours of leave time when the child is brought home, provided that such days are on a workday or immediately before or after a workday for the Member. This leave time will be charged to SWP, vacation, or holiday comp. time at the discretion of the member and is limited to twenty-four (24) hours per adoption. The Employee must notify their supervisor at least two (2) weeks in advance of the arrival of the adopted child. However, the total hours used emergency situations will not automatically result in a day denial. The duration of this leave shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours be determined on an individual basis by the employee would otherwise have worked had he and her physician. The employee must notify her supervisor approximately two weeks before her expected date of departure. Employees experiencing unexpected emergencies will not been be penalized for failure to give proper notification. All sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department who are off sick or injured, whether service connected, or not, shall be carried on an "unrestricted" basis. No member will be considered on restricted status unless so ordered by the City/Police Physician. The question of whether a member on sick leaveleave shall be restricted to his or her home shall be left to the discretion of the City/Police Physician. The extent of the restriction shall be determined by the City/Police Physician. The City/Police Physician shall consult with the employee's personal or attending physician in making his determination of whether or not to grant or continue the "unrestricted" basis. No City employee shall in any way attempt to directly or indirectly influence the decision of the City/Police Physician.

Sick Leave. As of July 1The City shall accrue, 1986, all accumulated pay and carryover sick leave in accordance with COPAR Chapter 4 (IV) as of the date of this agreement for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) duration of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilityits terms.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits Authorization - When an Employee calls in sick leave, he/she shall be paid only in cases required to notify communications dispatcher for each day of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannersuch absence. (b) Limitations – Sick pay benefits will not leave may be granted before they have been earnedused for the incapacitating illness of an Employee, the Employee’s spouse or the Employee’s minor child residing in the Employee’s household. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report leave may be cause for denial taken in periods of sick pay benefitsone half (1/2) hour or more. (d) The Court When an Employee uses sick leave in excess of three or more consecutive days, upon return to work, he/she must, if requested by a supervisor, submit a certificate from the treating physician or licensed practitioner, which describes the dates of treatment, and a release to return to work outlining any applicable work restrictions. Failure to provide the documentation required by the City may require result in a physiciandenial of paid leave. If sick leave abuse is suspected, the Employee may be notified that a doctor’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement will be required for future absences of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timeless than three days. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used for medical/dental/optical appointments; to the extent such appointments cannot be scheduled during non-working hours. (f) Sick leave may be carried over from one Fiscal year to the next with no maximum carry over limitation. (g) Except as otherwise provided in one-quarter hour increments or more. Howeverthis Section, Employees who leave employment other than retirement from active service in the total hours used in a day Unit shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on be paid for accumulated sick leave. (h) When an Employee retires from active service in the Unit, unused sick leave may be credited towards retirement/pension service in accordance with regulations established by the Maryland State Retirement System, Law Enforcement Officers Pension System (LEOPS). (i) Employees shall not abuse sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick . Sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee credit shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days earned at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employmentof one (1) day per calendar month of service. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, The current practices concerning the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization earning of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits credits shall be paid only continued. Sick leave shall be earned from the employee's date of employment. Sick leave credit shall be earned for any month in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredhas been in pay status for ten 2. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used for illness, necessary medical or dental care, or other disability of the employee or a member of the employee's immediate family which requires the attention or presence of the employee. Immediate family as used in one-quarter hour increments this Article shall mean the spouse or more. Howeversignificant other, the total hours used parents of the spouse or significant other, the children of the spouse or significant other, the parents, stepparents, guardian, children, stepchildren, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, wards, grandparents and grandchildren of the employee. For the purposes of this Article, “significant other” 3. Notifications of absence under the provisions of this Article shall be given as soon as possible on the first day of absence or as soon thereafter as circumstances permit. 4. Upon application of an employee, a leave of absence without pay may be granted by an appointing authority for a period of disability because of sickness or injury. If the appointing authority denies the requested leave, it shall state its reason in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours writing. The appointing authority may, from time to time, require that the employee would otherwise submit a certificate from the attending physician or a designated physician. If a certificate from a physician other than the attending physician is required, the State shall pay the difference between the cost of obtaining such certificate and the amount covered by insurance. 5. An employee who is transferred to the jurisdiction of another appointing authority or who accepts employment under the jurisdiction of a new appointing authority without interruption of service to the State shall retain his/her accumulated unused sick leave credits. 6. A former State employee who is reappointed within four (4) years of his/her separation may have worked had he not been on his/her previously accumulated and unused balance of sick leaveleave revived and placed to his/her credit upon approval of the new appointing authority. 7. Any employee returning from layoff, including seasonal employees covered by this Agreement, shall have the unused sick leave accrued as of the time of layoff restored upon his/her reinstatement. 8. A seasonal employee who accepts another seasonal position during his or her off season may use sick leave accrued in either position, regardless of which position the employee is serving in at the time of the use.

Sick Leave. As The District will allow sick leave according to the following policy: twelve (12) days annual sick leave will be granted which will accumulate per the Revised Code of July Washington and converted per Washington Administrative Code. Sick leave will be granted for the following purposes: (a) doctor and dental appointments only when such appointments cannot be scheduled after working hours or on Saturdays; (b) personal illness or injury; (c) illness in the immediate family; or (d) maternity. (Immediate family will be defined as parents, spouse, children, siblings, and other persons residing in the household.) Absence on any one (1) day for four (4) hours but fewer than eight (8) hours shall be charged as one (1) full day of sick leave; absences on any day for fewer than four (4) hours shall be charged in a one-half (½) day increment. For the day before Thanksgiving, 1986winter vacation, and the last day of the school year, any absences will be charged as a half day. When a teacher is absent for one (1) or two (2) hours and is replaced by another staff member paid at the hourly rate, the absent teacher should:  be charged only for the time he/she is absent rather than on a half day basis providing the District did not need to pay for a half-day substitute  Submit leave request through AESOP Illnesses and injuries requiring three (3) days or more off the job will be subject to a doctor's verification in writing at the discretion of the Superintendent. Notice of illness requiring time off the job shall be reported to the building principal or his/her designee no later than 6 a.m. of the day to be missed. A predetermined online website and/or telephone number shall be provided to all teachers. If the person who is ill cannot return for the ensuing day, then an attempt shall be made to notify the applicable building principal no later than 3 p.m. of the preceding day. An absence due to injury incurred on the job shall be with full pay. Full pay shall mean that portion of the employee's regular monthly pay that, together with the industrial insurance payment, equals that employee's regular monthly salary. At the end of each year, the District will provide each teacher with an accounting of his/her accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked all transactions concerning his/her sick leave days within that time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in period to the bank and the employee shall be paid for nearest one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilityday.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As On January 1 of July 1each year, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Fulleach full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period employee shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each yeardays. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability disability, which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child child, spouse, or parent of the employee is ill or injuredinjured and the employee takes them to a physician. Documentation of a physician visit for a child child, spouse, or parent may shall be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s 's behalf notifies the Superintendent Health Officer or her designee not later than fifteen (15) 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court Employer may require a physician’s 's certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s 's certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court Employer may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he she not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a) Each teacher employed on a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Fullfull-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period basis shall be credited with six four (64) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject on the first employment day of each contract year and one (1) day of sick leave for each month thereafter, to be credited at the end of the month and which shall not be used prior to the following conditions:time it is credited to the teacher. b) The number of sick leave days earned during any one (a1) Sick pay benefits year shall be paid only in cases equal to one (1) day for each contracted month of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredemployment completed. Documentation of a physician visit Teachers contracted for a child or parent may period of 30-89 days shall receive one (1) day of sick leave for each contracted month of employment completed. Such leave shall be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been credited as earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will Any teacher who has accrued sick leave outside the district but in the State of Florida shall be paid only if credited on a day-for-day basis with all accrued leave. Said leave shall be credited in the employee or someone on same manner as sick leave earned within the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15district. d) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will Xxxx leave shall be absent cumulative from workyear to year. In the event There shall be no limit placed upon number of days a long-term period teacher may accrue. x) Xxxx leave accumulated by a teacher prior to an approved leave of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required credited to report only the teacher upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsreturn. (df) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement On each pay date, each teacher shall receive on his/her payroll voucher an accumulated balance of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal his/her total number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationleave hours. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used either for personal illness or emergencies as defined below: 1) Personal illness of the teacher. 2) Death or illness in the immediate family. Immediate family shall mean husband, wife, child, father, mother, brother, sister, or other close relative or member of his/her household. 3) Extended illnesses and/or disability related to pregnancy if leave request is accompanied by a physician's statement of disability. h) Sick leave will normally be deducted in one-quarter hour increments or morehalf (1/2) day units. HoweverWhen absence occurs during planning/conference days, the total hours used sick leave may be deducted in one (1) hour units. On other days when a teacher arranges for absence under subsection (g) above and instructional time is not affected, leave for such absence may be for a one (1) hour unit. If the sick leave is deducted in a one-half (1/2) day shall not exceed unit, the number teacher is entitled to three and three quarter (3-3/4) hours of regularly scheduled hours leave provided sufficient time remains in the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveworkday.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick Each full-time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee bargaining unit member shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year entitled to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after days sick leave with pay each year under contract, which shall be credited at the scheduled starting rate of one and one-fourth (1 ¼) days per month. All part-time on each day that bargaining unit members shall earn sick leave for the time granted full-time bargaining members. Unused sick leave shall be accumulated to a maximum of three hundred five (305) days or the number of days granted to certified personnel in the I.E. A. Master Agreement, whichever is higher. All days shall be in correlation to the employee’s work day. 2. A new employee with accumulated sick leave from another public agency shall have placed to his/her credit, upon written application and proof of such to the Treasurer, all sick leave accumulated with a previous public employer, not to exceed two hundred and sixty days (260) days. 3. A bargaining unit member who has not yet accumulated or who has exhausted his/her accumulation of necessary sick leave, shall be advanced up to a maximum of five (5) days sick leave, with the advanced days to be removed from such employee’s later accumulated number of sick days. If the bargaining unit member leaves the district before accumulating sufficient sick leave to cover the advanced sick leave day(s), such day(s) will be absent deducted from workthe bargaining unit member’s last pay. 4. Sick leave days may be used to cover absences for personal illness, pregnancy, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to others and for absences due to medical appointments illness, injury or death in the bargaining unit member’s immediate family. 5. For purposes of this Article, the immediate family of a bargaining unit member is defined to mean: father, mother, spouse, brother, sister, son, daughter, step- children, grandparents, grandchildren, or an individual residing in the home of said bargaining unit member, or other family members with the immediate supervisor’s recommendation and the approval of the Superintendent. 6. On the day of his/her absence, a bargaining unit member shall give notice to the office of his/her immediate supervisor if he/she must use sick leave in accordance with this leave procedure. 7. All bargaining unit members who have advanced knowledge that they will need to use their accumulated sick leave on an extended basis, shall give the Administration as much advance notice as possible. In the event case unforeseen illness or disability, it is recognized that advance notice may not always be possible. 8. Any bargaining unit member using sick leave must furnish his/her immediate supervisor with a written signed statement within three (3) days after the bargaining unit member returns to work, on forms prescribed by the Board of Education, to justify the use of such leave. If medical attention is required, the bargaining unit member’s statement shall list the name and address of the attending physician and the dates consulted. 9. Any bargaining unit member who utilizes more than five sick days consecutively, must have a long-term period doctors note before returning to work. 10. After fifteen consecutive sick days are used (15 is the number that EMIS requires to be reported as a long term) sick leave will cease to be accumulated until the employee returns to work. 11. When an employee returns from an absence of absence more than 5 consecutive days, the Board has the right to order the employee undergo a medical examination if the employer has a “reasonable belief” that the employee’s ability to perform essential job functions will be impaired by a medical condition or that he or she will pose a direct threat due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work dutiesmedical condition. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee examination will be equal to at the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedBoard’s expense. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July (1) All employees other than casual employees who are entitled to be absent from work due to personal illness or injury by accident, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) entitled to leave of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveabsence without deduction of pay, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions:conditions and limitations. (2) Employees eligible for sick leave shall be paid sick pay at the rate equal to a minimum days pay for each days leave. (3) Sick leave shall be accrued pro rata from commencement of permanent employment to a maximum of 10 days per year. If the full period of sick leave as prescribed above is not taken, such portion that is not taken shall, provided the employee remains in the service of the employer, be cumulative from month to month up to a maximum of 160 hours. (a) Sick pay benefits he or she shall not be entitled to be paid only leave of absence for any period in cases respect of actual non-occupational illness which he or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for she is entitled to workers' compensation under the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerrelevant State legislation. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted the employee shall within twenty four (24) hours of the commencement of such absence inform the Employer of his or her inability to attend for duty and as far as is practicable state the nature of the injury or illness and the estimated duration of the absence. If on the expiration of this or any subsequent notified duration of absence the employee is unable to attend for duty, he or she shall notify the Employer forthwith and as far as is practicable state the estimated duration of the further absence. And call the works by 12.00pm the day before they have been earnedresuming work. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon produce a weekly basis. Failure medical certificate or other proof of illness or injury satisfactory to report may the Employer for any period of absence of 2 days or more to be cause entitled to payment for denial of sick pay benefitssuch absence. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing Where the employment of an employee who has become entitled to Sick Leave provided by this Agreement is terminated and the employee has not taken any part of that leave, the time off was Employer shall be deemed to have given the leave to the worker from the date of the termination of the employment and shall forthwith pay to the worker, in addition to all other amounts due to actual non-occupational illness him or injury and her, his or her ordinary pay for the period of that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timeremaining Sick Leave. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Section 29.1 Sick leave shall be granted to regular and part-time Employees in accordance with the following provisions. Sick leave is provided as a benefit to the Employee. Employees have no vested right to Sick leave except as set forth below. Section 29.2 Sick leave for Employees is used in the following situations: A. When Employees are (1) incapacitated by their own sickness or non-job- related injury; or (2) absent for medical, dental, optical appointments or treatment; or for pregnancy related reasons (3) exposed to a contagious disease when the attendance at duty, in the opinion of July the City Physician, jeopardizes the health of others. Sick leave is not available for job-related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City or another employer entity. B. For necessary care and attendance of a member of the Employee's immediate family who (1) is incapacitated by illness or injury or (2) for their medical treatment or appointments. For the purpose of this Section, 1986"Immediate Family" shall be defined as a parent of the Employee, all accumulated spouse, child, or "step" or “adoptive” situations within these relationships or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the Employee when the Employee was a child. A child is defined as under eighteen (18) years of age, or eighteen (18) years or older if the child is incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability. This also includes individuals for whom the Employee is the current legal guardian. Section 29.3 Sick leave used shall not exceed the total amount accrued to the Employee at the time of his/her absence. Leave without pay may be granted for sickness extending beyond the amount of accrued sick leave. After each thirty (30) days during such leave without pay, the Employee shall present to his/her department head a doctor's statement of his/her continued inability to perform his/her normal duties. Section 29.4 Sick leave shall be accrued on the first day of the month following completion of thirty (30) days of continuous service. Sick leave may not be expended until after completion of one full calendar month of employment. Section 29.5 Sick leave shall be accrued at a rate of eight (8) hours for each full calendar month of service for full time Employees. Sick leave shall be prorated for part- time Employees in accordance with Section 303.42 of the Human Resources Policy and Procedure Manual. An Employee may accrue a maximum of twelve hundred (1200) hours of sick leave. During any leave which is in excess of one-hundred sixty (160) hours, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained accrued during the entire period of the leave. The adjustment shall be prorated to the nearest week. Full time Employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. Such absence (except as provided for in the bank and the employee Military Leave Policy) shall not be paid used in computing time in grade for one-half (1/2) Satisfactory Performance Increases or for completion of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which probationary period. Section 29.6 Unless an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveEmployee is approved to flex their time, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization amount of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits used by an Employee shall be paid only the amount of time the Employee was absent during his/her scheduled work day. Work and/or crew assignment shall be a factor in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting such a decision. Holidays and other days not scheduled for work are excluded in a disability which makes it impossible for computing sick leave expenditures. Any sick leave accruals lost due to inaction by the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits Employee will not be granted before they have been earnedreinstated. Section 29.7 Employees may convert accrued sick leave in excess of nine hundred sixty (c960) hours to vacation leave, provided the total accrued vacation leave may not exceed the maximum allowed under “Vacation Leave" provisions. Conversion shall be at a ratio of one (1) hour of vacation for one (1) hour of sick leave. Section 29.8 An Employee transferring from one department to another shall have his/her total accrued sick leave transferred to the new department. The accrued sick leave shall be recorded on the Personnel Action form. Section 29.9 Upon retirement as defined in the Human Resources Policy and Procedures, death, or disability, Employees with at least nine hundred sixty (960) hours accrued sick leave shall receive payment for accrued sick leave at a rate of one (1) hour of pay for every three (3) hours of sick leave up to a maximum of three hundred twenty (320) hours of pay. Employees who lack the necessary sick leave accrual bank to qualify for the sick leave retirement buyout (960 hours), shall provide evidence of and receive credit for major illness or non-job-related injury leave periods of at least forty (40) consecutive work hours to reach qualification levels. In such cases, approved sick leave periods extending at least forty (40) hours shall be added back to the accrual bank for calculation purposes only. Any buyout would then occur only on the current actual, available sick leave balance. Section 29.10 An Employee who is separated, or resigns in lieu of discipline (regardless of eligibility for retirement benefits) for theft of City property or resources (including theft of time), embezzlement, fraud, falsification, deliberate destruction to City property, or inappropriate use of City property or P-card is ineligible for payment of accrued sick leave. Sick pay benefits will leave payout at the end of employment may be paid only withheld if the employee Employee owes any type of repayment to the City, including for overpayment of wages. Section 29.11 A regular or someone on part-time Employee who leaves the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later classified service to enlist in active military service other than a reserve unit and who applies for re-employment within fifteen (15) minutes days after having been rejected or ninety (90) days after an honorable discharge shall have the former unused sick leave credits reinstated. A regular or part-time Employee who is laid off and returns to City employment within one (1) year from the date of layoff shall have the former unused accrued sick leave reinstated (see provisions for military leave). Section 29.12 Sick leave shall not be used during periods of suspension. An Employee who is absent from duty for reasons which entitle him/her to sick leave shall notify his/her supervisor two (2) hours prior to the beginning of the work shift if physically able to do so. Section 29.13 When an absence charged to sick leave is forty (40) consecutive work hours or more, upon returning to work the Employee shall present to the City Physician a statement from his/her doctor describing the illness. The Employee will only return to work if given a medical release from the City Physician. The department head or designee may require a doctor’s statement for shorter absences if there has been an established pattern of abuse such as using sick leave on work days immediately preceding or immediately after a regularly scheduled starting day off or reason to suspect abuse before allowing the absence to be charged to sick leave. The department head or designee may request at any time on each day that a doctor’s statement or medical opinion from the employee City Physician regarding the Employee’s physical ability to perform the duties of the job. An Employee should be notified at the earliest possible time if management requires such a statement upon return to work. Without a doctor’s statement, the Employee will be charged leave without pay for the absence. Section 29.14 A supervisor may request an investigation the alleged illness of an Employee absent from workon sick leave. In the event False or fraudulent use of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee sick leave by an Employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial disciplinary action which may include dismissal. Any Employee who shall receive payment for work performed for any other employer other than the City of Tulsa while on approved sick pay benefitsleave shall be subject to immediate dismissal. This provision shall also apply to Employees who are self-employed and perform work in their private occupation while on approved sick leave. Sick leave is not available for job- related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City, another employer entity, or self-employed. (d) The Court may require Section 29.15 Employees who apply for promotional opportunity must meet the established guidelines on absenteeism as a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due factor in determining promotional qualifications prior to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timebeing certified. Section 29.16 After three (e3) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefitsmonths of service, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave vacation may be used for sick leave when accrued sick leave has been exhausted. The granting of such vacation time shall be at the discretion of the appropriate supervisor who may, prior to an approval determination, request medical verification of the absence when a question exists regarding the nature of the specific absence or when the Employee’s overall attendance record has been less than satisfactory. Upon receipt of the appropriate medical verification, the Employee shall be granted the use of available vacation leave for the absence. Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) documentation shall serve as appropriate medical verification for using available vacation leave for a sick absence. Section 29.17 During any leave which is in excess of one-quarter hour increments hundred sixty (160) hours, including extended leave periods with breaks of twenty (20) hours or moreless of actual work, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave will be accrued during the entire period of the leave. HoweverProrated accruals will be based on the percentage of hours worked during the month(s) of extended absence. Full time employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. It is not the intention of the City to allow the accrual of paid leave benefits to be reinstated for employees who are not expected to remain at work consistently. Further, the total hours such absence shall not be used in a day shall not exceed the number computing time for completion of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveprobationary period.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick . Sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee credit shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days earned at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employmentof one (1) day per calendar month of service. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, The current practices concerning the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization earning of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits credits shall be paid only continued. Sick leave shall be earned from the employee's date of employment. Sick leave credit shall be earned for any month in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredhas been in pay status for ten 2. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used for illness, necessary medical or dental care, or other disability of the employee or a member of the employee's immediate family which requires the attention or presence of the employee. Immediate family as used in one-quarter hour increments this Article shall mean the spouse or more. Howeversignificant other, the total hours used parents of the spouse or significant other, the children of the spouse or significant other, the parents, stepparents, guardian, children, stepchildren, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, wards, grandparents and grandchildren of the employee. For the purposes of this Article, “significant other” 3. Notifications of absence under the provisions of this Article shall be given as soon as possible on the first day of absence or as soon thereafter as circumstances permit. 4. Upon application of an employee, a leave of absence without pay may be granted by an appointing authority for a period of disability because of sickness or injury. If the appointing authority denies the requested leave, it shall state its reason in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours writing. The appointing authority may, from time to time, require that the employee would otherwise submit a certificate from the attending physician or a designated physician. If a certificate from a physician other than the attending physician is required, the State shall pay the difference between the cost of obtaining such certificate and the amount covered by insurance. 5. An employee who is transferred to the jurisdiction of another appointing authority or who accepts employment under the jurisdiction of a new appointing authority without interruption of service to the State shall retain their accumulated unused sick leave credits. 6. A former State employee who is reappointed within four (4) years of their separation may have worked had he not been on their previously accumulated and unused balance of sick leaveleave revived and placed to the employee’s credit upon approval of the new appointingauthority. 7. Any employee returning from layoff, including seasonal employees covered by this Agreement, shall have the unused sick leave accrued as of the time of layoff restored upon the employee’s reinstatement. 8. A seasonal employee who accepts another seasonal position during their off season may use sick leave accrued in either position, regardless of which position the employee is serving in at the time of the use.

Sick Leave. As SECTION 1 The Employer agrees all Lodge member shall accrue eight (8) hours of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in per month, beginning the first day of employment, but is not available to be used within the first six (6) months of employment. Sick leave need not be used within a bankspecific duration, but may be accumulated up to a maximum of eight hundred (800) hours at the end of the fiscal year. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days Sick leave will not be maintained in the bank and utilized unless the employee has accumulated said leave. Sick leave with pay shall be paid granted for the following reasons: (A) Personal illness or physical incapacity resulting from causes beyond the employee's control. (B) Enforced quarantine of the employee in accordance with health regulations. Or; (C) Anyone who falls under the City of Harrah's "Family Medical Leave Act" definition of immediate family member becomes, or is currently, ill or injured, and requires the employee's attention. SECTION 2 Employees absent from work because of illness must notify the Chief of Police, or designee, prior to the start of the actual work period; giving a minimum of two (2) hours advanced notice except in cases of extreme emergencies. SECTION 3 Any employee who has accrued a total of two hundred (200) hours, or more, of sick leave may donate up to, but not to exceed, one-half (1/2) of those unused days at his/her total amount accrued to any employee who has sustained a prolonged injury or illness. Such donations can only be made after the same rate paid that recipient has exhausted their own vacation, holiday, and/or sick leave and compensatory time. Final approval must be granted in writing by the City Manager. No employee when he terminates his employmentshall be allowed to donate as much leave as to reduce their own accrued sick leave below one hundred (100) hours. (A) An Employee who continues to be physically unable to perform his/her normal duties for a period of three (3) consecutive working days, or more, shall be required to provide a physician's written statement to the Chief of Police, or designee, and every subsequent thirty (30) day period of such absence, which confirms the employee's continued inability to perform his/her normal duties. In those instances in which Additionally, an employee terminates and receives payment may be placed on "proof status," requiring an employee to bring medical certification for accumulated any future sick leaveleave occurrence when: (1) The employee has frequent sick leave usage, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated defined as nine (9) sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period leave occurrences without a physician's written statement within a twelve (12) month period. (B) Proof status" shall be credited with for a six (6) sick days on January 1 of each yearmonth period. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated Any sick leave benefits during occurrence while on "proof status" without a physician's written statement will automatically extend the first year period by an additional three (3) months and the Officer may be subject to disciplinary action for sick leave abuse. The City shall advise the employee, and designated FOP representative if applicable, of eligibilitybeing place on such status, or any extension thereof.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to SECTION 5 For the next. Any unused sick days purposes of this Agreement, a "physician's written statement" shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject defined as any printed, or written, notice to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability employer, which makes it impossible for directly states the employee to perform regular duties cannot, or if a child or parent should not, engage in work related activities, the basic nature of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that illness and/or injury, and when the employee will be absent deemed by the physician to have sufficiently recovered from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due his illness in order to such illness be able to return to his/her normal duties without limitations or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsrestrictions. (d) SECTION 6 The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that Lodge agrees the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at City shall no longer pay employees for any timeunused sick leave upon retirement. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period ‌ Members shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization two hours of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick for each week of active service. In case of absence without pay benefits shall during a bi-weekly pay period, 4 hours SWP will be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or earned if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredin a pay status, but not IWP, more than 40 hours. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits Two hours SWP will be paid only earned if the employee or someone on is in a pay status for 1 to 40 hours inclusive in the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from workpay period. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick Xxxx leave may be used when a member is quarantined or physically unable to work because of sickness or an off- duty injury. Sickness or injury caused by outside employment which results in oneinability to work cannot be charged to sick leave unless the outside employment is an extension of police service. A. The member of the immediate family is the husband, wife, parent, registered domestic partner, parent-quarter hour increments in-law, child, sister or morebrother, grandchild, or grandparent of member or member of the immediate household of the person seeking to use sick leave. SWP-F shall not exceed two (2) days per occurrence, however additional time may be granted by the immediate supervisor provided the employee submits written verification by the treating physician; and B. It is necessary because of official quarantine or to care for and make arrangements for the sick person, or C. In the case of hospitalization, the following shall apply: Three days shall be granted to all sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department in cases of serious operations, injury, or illness in order to hospitalize a member of the family, be available on the day of any operation or serious test, or to assist in the discharge of the patient from the hospital. D. Childbirth - A member shall be granted one day of sick leave on the day a spouse is taken to the hospital for the purpose of giving birth, one day on the day the spouse gives birth and one day on the day the child is brought home. Child under the age of twelve (12), the Member may take up to twenty-four (24) hours of leave time when the child is brought home, provided that such days are on a workday or immediately before or after a workday for the Member. This leave time will be charged to SWP, vacation, or holiday comp. time at the discretion of the member and is limited to twenty-four (24) hours per adoption. The Employee must notify their supervisor at least two (2) weeks in advance of the arrival of the adopted child. However, emergency situations will not automatically result in denial. Members covered under this Agreement shall be eligible for Parental Leave under the total City’s Parental Leave Policy 4.7 (Revised 1/1/16). If the City’s Parental Leave Policy is terminated at any time, the parties will revert back to the language above. If the City’s Parental Leave Policy is amended at any time, the union may elect to retain the amended policy or revert back to the language above. Under no circumstances will a member receive the Parental Leave benefit and the twenty-four (24) hours used in a day off under SWP-A above. The duration of this leave shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours be determined on an individual basis by the employee would otherwise have worked had he and her physician. The employee must notify her supervisor approximately two weeks before her expected date of departure. Employees experiencing unexpected emergencies will not been be penalized for failure to give proper notification. All sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department who are off sick or injured, whether service connected, or not, shall be carried on an "unrestricted" basis. No member will be considered on restricted status unless so ordered by the City/Police Physician. The question of whether a member on sick leaveleave shall be restricted to his or her home shall be left to the discretion of the City/Police Physician. The extent of the restriction shall be determined by the City/Police Physician. The City/Police Physician shall consult with the employee's personal or attending physician in making his determination of whether or not to grant or continue the "unrestricted" basis. No City employee shall in any way attempt to directly or indirectly influence the decision of the City/Police Physician.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2a) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated accumulate sick leave benefits during credits at the first year rate of eligibility.four (4) Such days cannot be carried over from one year hours for each full calendar month of employment up to a maximum of two hundred eight (208) hours. Credits shall accumulate only on full-time employment following the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent completion of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick thirteen (13) consecutive weeks full-time in this manneremployment eligibility period. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earnedThe Employer may require the employee to provide a doctor’s certificate verifying any absence due to disability. (c) Sick pay The Employer shall apply any accumulated sick leave to absence due to sickness not covered by insured Weekly Indemnity benefits will be paid only if the employee (or someone on similar benefits) and shall supplement Weekly Indemnity benefits (or similar benefits) with unused sick leave credits in an amount equal to but not to exceed the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsnormal earnings. (d) The Court Employees, if found abusing this privilege, shall be disciplined by the Employer. In such cases, the Employer may require a physician’s certificate showing that discontinue or reduce the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that benefit of the employees. However, such illness or injury was disabling cases shall be subject to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timegrievance procedure. (e) In the event If an employee receives sick pay benefits and it retires on pension, is subsequently established that the employee was not ill permanently laid off or is totally disabled due to occupational accident, injury or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued illness as recognized by the employeeWorkers’ Compensation Board, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationthey shall be paid unused accumulated sick leave credits. (f) The amount An employee who returns to work after absence due to illness or injury must be returned to his or her job without loss of sick pay benefits used by seniority when capable of performing his or her duties. Upon recuperation from an accident or illness, an employee will give the Employer as much notice as possible of his or her intention to return to work. The Employer will give the Union ninety (90) days notice of its intention to terminate an employee for absence due to illness or injury. A copy of the notice will be equal mailed to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedemployee’s last known address. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or moreThe Employer agrees to comply with Provincial Legislation which applies to the accommodation of disabled employees. HoweverThe Union and the Employer agree to review together, on an individual basis, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number cases of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been employees who become disabled and are unable to perform their regular job duties. (h) An employee’s sick leave credits will be shown on sick leavetheir pay stub.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick 18.1 Each full-time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated entitled to sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to with pay in accordance with the following conditionsprovisions: (a) 18.1.1 Sick pay benefits leave shall be paid only accrue in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked, excluding overtime, multiplied by a factor of 0.04616. Only paid leave for holidays, vacation, compensatory time off or other paid leave shall be considered as time worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedfor purposes of this section. (g) Sick 18.1.2 Accrued sick leave may be used in oneutilized if the employee is required to be absent from work on account of non job related illness or injury; routine medical or dental appointments, or for the care related to the illness or injury of the employee’s child, mother, father, spouse or domestic partner registered with the Department of Human Resources. In addition, accrued sick leave may be utilized by an eligible female employee due to illness, injury, or disability related to pregnancy or child-quarter hour increments birth. 18.1.3 Up to forty-eight (48) hours of accrued sick leave per calendar year may be utilized if the employee is required to be absent for the care related to the illness or moreinjury of the employee’s grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, step-father, step-mother, or step-child. HoweverThe provisions of this section related to the use of sick leave for the care related to the illness or injury of the employee’s family members as defined above shall expire at the end of the term of this Agreement. In the negotiations for a successor Agreement, the total hours used in a day parties shall review and evaluate the appropriateness of this benefit. 18.1.4 Except as otherwise provided by resolution of the City Council, paid sick leave shall not exceed the number be allowed for any absence from work occasioned by intoxication, chronic alcoholism or use of regularly scheduled hours the narcotics not prescribed by a licensed physician. 18.1.5 No employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on shall be entitled to or be granted sick leave, either with or without pay, unless he, or someone on his or her behalf, notifies the employee’s immediate superior, Department Director, Director of Human Resources or designee, of the employee’s intent to take such sick leave, and of the reasons therefore, prior to or within one (1) hour after the commencement of the sick leave provided, however, that the City Manager or designee may waive the requirement of such notice upon presentation of a reasonable excuse of such employee. 18.1.6 Any time an employee is required to report to work and is unable to report due to illness or injury, an employee may be required to furnish medical verification or other substantiation for any such absence. 18.1.7 A full-time employee of the City shall be entitled to sick leave without any pay if required to be absent from work on account of any non-job related illness, injury or disability, including absences of female employees related to pregnancy or childbirth, in all situations where such employee is not entitled to sick leave with pay. No single period of sick leave without pay shall exceed twelve (12) consecutive months, or eighteen (18) cumulative months in any period of twenty-four (24) consecutive months. Any employee who is unable to return to work at the expiration of either of these periods of time shall be separated from City service. 18.2 For employees hired on or before September 29, 2012, a sick leave payout shall be given to each full-time employee at the time of retirement or death under one of the following conditions:

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated A. Each full-time regular employee shall accrue sick leave at the rate of sixteen (16) hours per month of continuous employment. Times on layoff, suspension or leave without pay shall not be counted in determining a full month of service. Sick leave shall not be paid for off duty hours and shall be taken in increments of no less than one (1) hour. B. All employees was frozen and placed in a bankshall retain all sick leave days accumulated prior to the effective date of this agreement. Employees with banked Maximum accumulation shall be 1400 hours. C. Unless the privilege is abused, sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days leave will be maintained granted in case of: 1. Illness or injury of the employee causing absence from work, except that an employee will not be required to use sick leave in the bank case of occupational illnesses or injuries except as outlined in Worker's Compensation article. 2. Acute need on the part of the employee for medical or dental care; 3. Medical or dental care for the employee which cannot be deferred until, or obtained after, working hours or a day off. 4. Illness of a member of the employee's immediate family defined as spouse or minor children living in the same household, subject to the limitations of paragraph "D" below. D. Sick leave is not intended to provide for practical nursing care of the immediate family. However, an employee may use up to eight (8) days of sick leave per contract year for serious illness of a member of the employee's immediate family. Immediate family shall include the employee's spouse and/or minor children living in the same household, and family members listed in Article 8, Section A, who is solely dependent upon the employee for health care needs. The employee may also use personal days, vacation and unpaid leave of absence for health care needs for members of the immediate family. E. When absence due to sickness or injury is necessitated, the employee shall notify the working supervisor in their division as soon as possible to the beginning of his/her scheduled reporting time. The notification of the immediate supervisor will be paid waived if the illness or injury is such that the employee is unable to contact the supervisor of their division. The notification of illness or injury may be made orally in the first instance, but must be subsequently confirmed in writing as soon thereafter as is convenientlypossible, stating the nature of the illness or injury and the name of the attending physician if applicable. The employee's supervisors shall be responsible for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at obtaining all data necessary and for determining whether or not the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated is abusing or has abused the sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization Abuse of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible grounds for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerdisciplinary action. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence F. For absences due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court Sheriff may require satisfactory proof of illness or injury, which may include a physician’s certificate showing that 's statement. The physician's statement shall contain a diagnosis of the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that injury, whether the employee could not perform is capable of performing either regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employeelight duty, and may subject an indication of the length of time it will be necessary for the employee to be absent from duty, should a complete absence be necessary. G. Abuse of sick leave is detrimental to the welfare of the Department and other employees. Abuse of sick leave shall be considered basis for unfavorable promotional ratings as well as disciplinary action up to and including terminationagainst the employee. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by H. When an employee will requests vacation for a definite period and the request is granted, any period of illness during the period of such leave shall be equal charged to vacation as originally requested. The only exception to this policy is in Section K of this article. If the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on illness extends beyond the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick period originally granted, sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or moreused, subject to approval by the Sheriff to cover the additional absence. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been Employees on sick leaveleave may use all accrued vacation, personal days, and paid leave after all sick leave accumulation has been exhausted. Thereafter, they will be considered to be on an unpaid medical leave of absence. I. Sick leave shall accrue but not be granted during the first month of service.

Sick Leave. As 17.1.1 Full time employees are entitled to ten (10) days sick leave each school year commencing on the first day of July 1, 1986, all accumulated employment. Employees hired part way into the school year are entitled to the proportionate number of sick leave days. Those hired from the 1st of the month through the 15th of the month are granted one sick leave day (proportionate to their FTE). Those hired after the 15th of the month are not granted sick leave for that month. 17.1.2 Full time child development unit members (Children's Center) are entitled to twelve (12) days sick leave each school year commencing on the first day of employment. 17.1.3 In case of absence due to illness or accident, employees was frozen and placed should notify the district substitute system as soon as possible. If you submit an absence after 6:00 am on the day of your absence, you will also need to notify your site. 17.1.4 Employees shall make every effort to notify the district two (2) months in advance, or as early as possible, of known long-term absences such as those required by childbirth or surgery, to allow the district to obtain a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated qualified substitute. 17.1.5 Upon returning from sick leave, the unit member shall be entitled to the same position vacated if the return is within the same school year as the commencement. Otherwise, the unit member shall be entitled to the same position if available. The position shall be considered available if it is still in existence and if it is filled by a substitute or a temporary employee whose term of hire expires at the time of the unit member's return. 17.1.6 A sick leave day once reported, may not be reinstated as a working day. 17.1.7 No payment for sick leave shall be made until submission by the employee will remain vacant until on the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations form specified by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed District and signed by the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 employee and the site principal. 17.1.8 Verification of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year reason for absence due to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for accident may be required by the employee District prior to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of payment. 17.1.9 Satisfactory evidence that the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent fit to return to duty may be required of any employee who has been absent from duty for more than five (5) consecutive working days. 17.1.10 If the District has reason to believe that an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if is unfit for duty, the District may require that an employee undergo a physical or mental examination by a doctor selected by the employee or someone on and the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to cost for such illness or injury, the employee examination shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued borne by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationDistrict. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. (A) Sick leave will be granted for absence from duty because of actual personal illness, non- compensable bodily injury or disease not connected with City employment. As of July November 1, 19862003, all sick leave may also be used for a maximum of five (5) days per fiscal year for personal reasons. These five (5) days will be treated as sick leave and will not fall under the provisions of personal leave (See Section 6.02). Sick leave may also be granted for a maximum of five (5) days in any one (1) year for illness in the household (i.e., family sick leave). (B) Upon retirement only, a Department Head shall receive payment for fifty (50) percent of his/her accrued sick leave but such payment shall not exceed a total of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars. Fire Chief Xxxxxx Xxxxxx will be the last Fire Chief grandfathered in under the IAFF sick leave payout provision in effect on October 31, 2003. Retirement, as it applies here, will be understood as eligibility and application for a pension in the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of the State of Rhode Island or in the East Providence Police and Fire Pension System for the Police Chief, Deputy Police Chief and Fire Chief. (C) Whenever an employee dies while in the employ of the City, the City shall pay to the deceased employee's beneficiary, as designated under the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of the State or to the widow, husband or heirs-at-law as hereinafter set forth, a sum of money computed on the basis of his/her weekly earnings for accumulated sick leave and vacation leave which had accrued to such deceased employee at the time of his/her death. In the event that such deceased employee has failed to designate a beneficiary for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee such payment, then such sum of money shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits surviving widow or husband; and if there is subject no surviving widow or husband, then to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay surviving children in equal shares provided that if such deceased employee has not designated a beneficiary and leaves no widow, husband nor child, then such accrued benefits shall be paid only in cases to his/her next of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerkin. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period ‌ Members shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization two hours of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick for each week of active service. In case of absence without pay benefits shall during a bi-weekly pay period, 4 hours SWP will be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or earned if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredin a pay status, but not IWP, more than 40 hours. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits Two hours SWP will be paid only earned if the employee or someone on is in a pay status for 1 to 40 hours inclusive in the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from workpay period. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used when a member is quarantined or physically unable to work because of sickness or an off- duty injury. Sickness or injury caused by outside employment which results in oneinability to work cannot be charged to sick leave unless the outside employment is an extension of police service. A. The member of the immediate family is the husband, wife, parent, registered domestic partner, parent-quarter hour increments in-law, child, sister or morebrother, grandchild, or grandparent of member or member of the immediate household of the person seeking to use sick leave. SWP-F shall not exceed two (2) days per occurrence, however additional time may be granted by the immediate supervisor provided the employee submits written verification by the treating physician; and B. It is necessary because of official quarantine or to care for and make arrangements for the sick person, or C. In the case of hospitalization, the following shall apply: Three days shall be granted to all sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department in cases of serious operations, injury, or illness in order to hospitalize a member of the family, be available on the day of any operation or serious test, or to assist in the discharge of the patient from the hospital. D. Childbirth - A member shall be granted one day of sick leave on the day a spouse is taken to the hospital for the purpose of giving birth, one day on the day the spouse gives birth and one day on the day the child is brought home. Child under the age of twelve (12), the Member may take up to twenty-four (24) hours of leave time when the child is brought home, provided that such days are on a workday or immediately before or after a workday for the Member. This leave time will be charged to SWP, vacation, or holiday comp. time at the discretion of the member and is limited to twenty-four (24) hours per adoption. The Employee must notify their supervisor at least two (2) weeks in advance of the arrival of the adopted child. However, emergency situations will not automatically result in denial. Members covered under this Agreement shall be eligible for Parental Leave under the total City’s Parental Leave Policy 4.7 (Revised 1/1/16). If the City’s Parental Leave Policy is terminated at any time, the parties will revert back to the language above. If the City’s Parental Leave Policy is amended at any time, the union may elect to retain the amended policy or revert back to the language above. Under no circumstances will a member receive the Parental Leave benefit and the twenty-four (24) hours used in a day off under SWP-A above. The duration of this leave shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours be determined on an individual basis by the employee would otherwise have worked had he and her physician. The employee must notify her supervisor approximately two weeks before her expected date of departure. Employees experiencing unexpected emergencies will not been be penalized for failure to give proper notification. All sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department who are off sick or injured, whether service connected, or not, shall be carried on an "unrestricted" basis. No member will be considered on restricted status unless so ordered by the City/Police Physician. The question of whether a member on sick leaveleave shall be restricted to his or her home shall be left to the discretion of the City/Police Physician. The extent of the restriction shall be determined by the City/Police Physician. The City/Police Physician shall consult with the employee's personal or attending physician in making his determination of whether or not to grant or continue the "unrestricted" basis. No City employee shall in any way attempt to directly or indirectly influence the decision of the City/Police Physician.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days A. Teachers will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year entitled to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on days sick leave for each day that the employee year of employment. Accumulation of sick leave shall be 180 days. Xxxx leave will be absent from workused only on account of a teacher’s own personal health, but five (5) days may be used in the case of illness of an immediate family member (parent, child, spouse, grandparent, grandchild, aunt/uncle, brother/sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law.) In addition, a teacher may apply up to fifteen (15) sick days per year for leave to a period of qualified approved leave under MPLA and/or FMLA that would otherwise be unpaid. In the event parental leave qualified and approved under MPLA or FMLA requires taking of additional leave due to conditions of adoption, a longteacher may apply up to an additional twenty-term five (25) sick days to the period of absence such leave required to meet such conditions. Illness or medical incapacity due to such pregnancy or childbirth shall be considered eligible for sick leave to the same extent and under the same conditions as any other illness or injurymedical incapacity. However, the an employee shall be presumed eligible for sick leave in the first eight weeks immediately following the date on which such employee gives birth. To be eligible for sick leave benefits, an employee must report his/her illness or disability as soon as possible prior to his/her scheduled reporting time on the first day of absence. Upon the use of five (5) consecutive sick days, or an unusual pattern of sick day use, a teacher may be required to report only upon produce sufficient medical documentation supporting the use of such leave. The employer may require an employee to submit to a weekly basismedical examination by a physician at employer expense to determine the medical incapacity of the employee. Failure to report may be cause for denial Unauthorized use of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and leave may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationdiscipline. B. The sick leave bank previously established shall be continued. The bank shall be maintained at a minimum of one (f1) day per professional staff member and at a maximum of two (2) days per professional staff member. The amount initial grant of sick pay benefits used leave by the sick leave bank committee to an eligible employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed thirty (30) days. Upon completion of the number thirty (30) day period, the period of regularly scheduled hours entitlement may be extended by the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.leave bank committee upon demonstration of need by the applicant. The sick leave bank shall be administered by a committee consisting of four (4) members. Two

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period Members shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization two hours of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases for each week of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredservice. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick Xxxx leave may be used when a member is quarantined or physically unable to work because of sickness or an off-duty injury. Sickness or injury caused by outside employment which results in oneinability to work cannot be charged to sick leave unless the outside employment is an extension of police service. A. The member of the immediate family is the husband, wife, parent, registered domestic partner, parent-quarter hour increments in-law, child, sister or morebrother, grandchild, or grandparent of member or member of the immediate household of the person seeking to use sick leave. SWP-F shall not exceed two (2) days per occurrence, however additional time may be granted by the immediate supervisor provided the employee submits written verification by the treating physician; and B. It is necessary because of official quarantine or to care for and make arrangements for the sick person, or C. In the case of hospitalization, the following shall apply: Three days shall be granted to all sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department in cases of serious operations, injury, or illness in order to hospitalize a member of the family, be available on the day of any operation or serious test, or to assist in the discharge of the patient from the hospital. D. Childbirth - A member shall be granted one day of sick leave on the day a spouse is taken to the hospital for the purpose of giving birth, one day on the day the spouse gives birth and one day on the day the child is brought home. Child under the age of twelve (12), the Member may take up to twenty-four (24) hours of leave time when the child is brought home, provided that such days are on a workday or immediately before or after a workday for the Member. This leave time will be charged to SWP, vacation, or holiday comp. time at the discretion of the member and is limited to twenty-four (24) hours per adoption. The Employee must notify their supervisor at least two (2) weeks in advance of the arrival of the adopted child. However, the total hours used emergency situations will not automatically result in a day denial. The duration of this leave shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours be determined on an individual basis by the employee would otherwise have worked had he and her physician. The employee must notify her supervisor approximately two weeks before her expected date of departure. Employees experiencing unexpected emergencies will not been be penalized for failure to give proper notification. All sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department who are off sick or injured, whether service connected, or not, shall be carried on an "unrestricted" basis. No member will be considered on restricted status unless so ordered by the City/Police Physician. The question of whether a member on sick leaveleave shall be restricted to his or her home shall be left to the discretion of the City/Police Physician. The extent of the restriction shall be determined by the City/Police Physician. The City/Police Physician shall consult with the employee's personal or attending physician in making his determination of whether or not to grant or continue the "unrestricted" basis. No City employee shall in any way attempt to directly or indirectly influence the decision of the City/Police Physician.

Sick Leave. As Employees covered by this Agreement shall earn sick leave by accumulating the equivalent of July one (1) day for each full month of continuous service or a total of 96 hours per year. Employees may accumulate sick leave up to a total equivalent of 240 sick days. Sick leave is an insurance-type benefit not to be used as additional days off, 1986that should be used by the employee only when needed. An employee may charge time for the following reasons: • Personal illness or injury • Illness or death of a member of the immediate family, all accumulated necessitating the absence of the employee from his/her work. (Members of the immediate family shall include wife, husband, children, mother, father, sister, brother, mother-in-law or father-in- law). • Funeral of a close friend or relative. Such leave shall be limited to travel time and necessary attendance at the funeral. If an employee recovers sufficiently from an illness or injury to return to duty, while on sick leave, the employee will contact the employee’s supervisor and return to duty as soon as possible. When absences chargeable to sick leave are in excess of two (2) consecutive days, or when repetitive absences occur, or when there is a pattern of sick leave absences, the Chief of Police may require that such absences be supported by the presentation of a written statement from a licensed practicing physician certifying the officer’s inability to work while absent. For the purposes of this section, a pattern of sick leave absences shall include multiple instances in a calendar year where sick leave is taken: (1) in conjunction with another day off (e.g. scheduled days off, vacation days, compensatory time, holidays); (2) on weekends or holidays; (3) on the same day of the week; or (4) on a day which was previously requested by the employee as a day off but not granted. In such instances of repetitive absences or when there is a pattern of sick leave absences, the Chief of Police shall notify the employee and the Union that the Chief of Police is considering placing the employee on the sick leave abuse program if repetitive absences or a pattern of sick leave absences by the employee continue. The employee and the Union shall have the opportunity to meet with the Chief of Police to discuss the employee's sick leave absences prior to the employee being placed upon the sick leave abuse program. In the event repetitive absences or a pattern of sick leave absences continue after the aforesaid notification from the Chief of Police, the Chief of Police shall notify the employee and the Union that the employee has been placed on the sick leave abuse program. For employees who have been placed on the sick leave abuse program, the City may also require the employee to undergo a physical examination(s) with a licensed practicing physician with a written report(s) on such physical examination(s) to be provided to the City. Such written report(s) shall identify whether the employee is incapable of working on the day in question due to personal illness or injury. At the City’s direction, such physical examination(s) shall occur on the same day(s) of a sick leave absence. In the event the physician determines that the employee is incapable of working on the day in question due to personal illness or injury of the employee the sick leave absence shall be paid sick leave for employees was frozen and placed such date. In the event the physician determines that the employee is capable of working on the day in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained question or in the bank event the employee fails to report for the required physical examination the sick leave absence shall be unpaid. At the employee's request, the City shall make available a physician for such a physical examination(s) required by the City at a time and location in the City of Elgin selected by the City. In the case of absences by employees on the sick leave abuse program due to care of a covered immediate family member, the employee shall obtain and provide a written statement from a licensed practicing physician certifying the need for the employee to care for the covered family member during the employee's absence. An employee on the sick leave abuse program shall in all instances (including, but not limited to, any grievance proceedings) have the burden of proof to establish that the use of sick leave was for an authorized reason. The required burden of proof shall be to a reasonable degree of medical certainty. Medical records of the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) presumed admissible in grievance proceedings relating to such matters. For purposes of those unused days at clarification the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during abuse program shall not apply to workers' compensation injuries. An employee on the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization leave abuse program who thereafter establishes regular attendance without repetitive absences or a pattern of sick leave benefits is subject abuse for a period of two (2) calendar years may submit a request to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall Chief of Police to be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent removed from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, leave abuse program and in such event the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours Chief shall remove such employee would otherwise have worked on from the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.abuse program.‌

Sick Leave. As 17.1.1 Full time employees are entitled to ten (10) days sick leave each school year commencing on the first day of July 1, 1986, all accumulated employment. Employees hired part way into the school year are entitled to the proportionate number of sick leave days. Those hired from the 1st of the month through the 15th of the month are granted one sick leave day (proportionate to their FTE). Those hired after the 15th of the month are not granted sick leave for that month. 17.1.2 Full time child development unit members (Children's Center) are entitled to twelve (12) days sick leave each school year commencing on the first day of employment. 17.1.3 In case of absence due to illness or accident, employees was frozen and placed should notify the district substitute system as soon as possible. If you submit an absence after 6:00 am on the day of your absence, you will also need to notify your site. 17.1.4 Employees shall make every effort to notify the district two (2) months in advance, or as early as possible, of known long-term absences such as those required by childbirth or surgery, to allow the district to obtain a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated qualified substitute. 17.1.5 Upon returning from sick leave, the unit member shall be entitled to the same position vacated if the return is within the same school year as the commencement. Otherwise, the unit member shall be entitled to the same position if available. The position shall be considered available if it is still in existence and if it is filled by a substitute or a temporary employee whose term of hire expires at the time of the unit member's return. 17.1.6 A sick leave day once reported, may not be reinstated as a working day. 17.1.7 No payment for sick leave shall be made until submission by the employee will remain vacant until on the form specified by the District and signed by the employee and the site principal. 17.1.8 Verification of the reason for absence due to illness or accident may be required by the District prior to payment. 17.1.9 Satisfactory evidence that the employee is fit to return to duty may be required of any employee who has been absent from duty for more than five (5) consecutive working days. 17.1.10 If the District has reason to believe that an employee is unfit for duty, the District may require that an employee undergo a physical or mental examination by a doctor selected by the employee and the cost for such examination shall be borne by the District. 17.1.11 The District shall provide each employee with a written statement of accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by leave totals, including the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to advanced for the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits ensuing school year. Such statement shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not issued no later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick November pay benefitswarrant. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. A full-time employee shall accumulate sick leave with pay credits at the rate of July one day for each full payroll month of employment for a total of twelve (12) days per year. An employee on any leave with pay or industrial accident leave shall accumulate sick leave credits. B. A regular part-time employee shall accumulate sick leave credits in the same proportion that his/her part-time service bears to full-time service. C. Sick leave shall be granted at the discretion of the Chancellor and shall not be unreasonably denied to an employee only under the following circumstances: 1. When an employee cannot perform his/her duties because he/ she is incapacitated by personal illness or injury; 2. When the spouse, 1986domestic partner, all child, parent, or sibling of either a bargaining unit member or his/her spouse or domestic partner, or the bargaining unit member’s grandparent or grandchild, or a relative living in the immediate household of a bargaining unit member spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, sibling grandchild, or grandparent of either an employee or his/her spouse or domestic partner, or a relative living in the immediate household of an employee is ill, the employee may utilize sick leave credits to care for such person; 3. When through exposure to contagious disease, the presence of the employee at his/her work location would jeopardize the health of others and to keep appointments with health care professionals. In such instances, the normal requirement of advance notice will be at least five (5) working days. 4. When an employee cannot perform his/her duties because he/she is incapacitated by personal illness or injury; D. A full-time employee shall not accrue sick leave credits for any month in which he/she was on leave without pay or absence without pay for a total of more than one (1) day. E. During the first ten (10) workdays of maternity or adoptive leave the employee shall receive his/her regular weekly salary. When eligible full time or part time employees and his/her eligible spouse are both employees of the University, they shall jointly be entitled to a combined total of not more than ten (10) days paid under the provisions of this Article. In addition, up to ten (10) days of accumulated sick leave may be used for employees was frozen pre- adoption and placed pre-xxxxxx care or xxxxxx care related activities including placement of a xxxxxx child in an employee’s home or appearance in court regarding a bankxxxxxx child. F. Where the Employer has reason to believe that sick leave is being abused; the Employer may require satisfactory medical evidence from the employee. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it This request shall be reduced to writing and shall cite specific reasons for illnessthe request. Unused sick days will When medical evidence is requested, such request shall be maintained in made as promptly as possible. To the bank and extent practicable, the employee shall receive prior notice that the Employer believes he/she is abusing sick leave and that he/she may be paid required to produce medical evidence for one-half future use of sick leave. 1. Satisfactory medical evidence shall consist of a signed statement by a licensed Physician, Physician’s Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Chiropractor, or Dentist that he/she has personally examined the employee and shall contain the general nature of the illness or injury, a statement that the employee was unable to perform his/her duties due to the specific illness or injury on the days in question; and the prognosis for employee’s return to work. In cases where the employee is absent due to a family or household illness or injury, satisfactory medical evidence shall consist of a signed statement by medical personnel mentioned above indicating that the person in question has been determined to be seriously ill and needing care on the days in question. 2. A medical statement provided pursuant to this Article shall be on the letterhead of the attending physician or medical provider as mentioned above, and shall list an address and telephone number. Failure to produce such evidence within seven (1/27) days of those unused days its request may result at the same rate paid discretion of the Appointing Authority, in denial of sick leave for the period of absence. 3. If an employee's physician identifies an illness or injury as being confidential and the Employer challenges that determination, the issue shall be submitted to the Medical Director of the University Health Service. The employee's physician shall submit to the Medical Director a description of the illness or injury, which the Medical Director shall review and determine if it is appropriately confidential. The Medical Director will notify the supervisor and employee when he terminates his employmentonly of the determination of whether the claim of confidentiality is appropriate and destroy the medical note. In those instances The determination of the Medical Director shall not be subject to grievance and arbitration under this Agreement. 4. Any inappropriate use of sick leave may be recorded as unauthorized leave without pay and may result in which discipline. G. The Chancellor may require that an employee terminates be examined by a physician of the employee's choosing and receives payment at the employee's expense, following absence by reason of illness or injury for accumulated sick leave, more than ten (10) consecutive working days. The sole purpose of such examination shall be to determine the position vacated employee's fitness to return to his/her regularly assigned duties. An employee absent by reason of illness or injury for more than ten (10) consecutive working days shall provide the Chancellor with reasonable notice of his/her intent to return. H. The Chancellor may require that an employee will remain vacant until be examined by a physician or other health care provider of the accumulated sick time benefits Employer’s choosing and at the Employer's expense to determine the fitness of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by to return to work from industrial accident leave or other health related leaves, to review the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 nature and extent of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year any claims of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year incapacity to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization perform job related tasks and to verify requests for use of sick leave benefits when the Employer has reasonable grounds to believe such use is subject not acceptable. I. Any employee having no sick leave credits, who is absent due to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits illness, shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on placed, unless otherwise notified by the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent , on personal leave; if no personal leave credits, then on vacation leave. If no sick leave credits or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryother accumulated leave credits are available, the employee shall be required placed on an unpaid leave of absence. J. An employee who is reinstated or re-employed after an absence of less than three (3) years shall be credited with his/her sick leave credits at the termination of his/her prior employment. An employee who is reinstated or re-employed after a period of three (3) years or more shall receive prior sick leave credits, if approved by the Chancellor, where such absence was caused by: 1. Illness of said employee; 2. Dismissal through no fault or delinquency attributable solely to said employee; or 3. Injury while in the employment of the Employer in the line of duty and for which said employee would be entitled to receive Workers' Compensation benefits. A person whose employment by the Commonwealth is uninterrupted shall retain all accrued sick leave credits. Sick leave earned in towns, cities, counties, districts, the federal government, etc. shall not be transferred to state service. K. A regular part-time employee shall not accrue sick leave credits for any payroll month in which he/she was on leave without pay or absence without pay in the same proportion that his/her service bears to one (1) day of service of a full-time employee. L. Notification of absences under this Article must be given to the designated representative of the Chancellor at least one hour prior to the beginning of the scheduled tour of duty. If such notification is not made, such absence may, at the discretion of the Chancellor be applied to absence without pay. In circumstances beyond the control of the employee such notification shall be made as early as possible on the day of absence. Within ninety (90) days after execution of this Agreement, and upon any change in the method of reporting during the term of the Agreement, the Institutional Personnel Officer shall notify each employee of the method by which such employee shall report only upon a weekly basissuch absence. M. No employee shall be entitled to sick leave under the provisions of this Article in excess of the accumulated sick leave credits due such employee, excluding any extended Sick Leave provisions. N. Employees whose service with the Employer is terminated shall not be entitled to any compensation in lieu of accumulated sick leave credits. Failure to report may Employees who retire shall be cause for denial paid twenty (20) percent of the value of their unused accrued sick pay leave at the time of their retirement. It is understood that any such payment will not change the employee's pension benefits. (d) The Court may require O. Sick leave credits earned by an employee following a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due return to actual non-occupational illness duty after a leave without pay or injury and that absence without pay shall not be applied to such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement period of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In P. An employee who, while in the event an employee performance of his/her duty, receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number bodily injuries resulting from acts of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employeeviolence, and may subject who, as a result of such injury, would be entitled to benefits under Chapter 152 of the employee General Laws, shall, if entitled under Chapter 30, Section 58 of the General Laws, be paid the difference between the weekly cash benefits to disciplinary action up to which he/she would be entitled under said Chapter 152 and including termination. (f) The amount of his/her regular salary without such absence being charged against available sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours leave credits, even if such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave absence may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leavefor less than six (6) calendar days.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated a) On appointment a new Employee shall be entitled to ten (10) working days paid sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year twelve months of eligibilityemployment, and an additional ten (10) working days for each subsequent twelve- mo n t h period on their anniversary date of employment. b) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to In accordance with the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent Xxxxxxxx Xxx 0000, an Employee may be required to produce a medical certificate issued by a medical practitioner as proof of sickness or injury in the following circumstances: i. If the sickness or injury is for a period of 3 or more consecutive calendar days, whether or not the days would otherwise be working days for you; or ii. If the sickness or injury is for a period of less than 3 consecutive calendar days and the Employer informs you as early as possible that the proof is required and meets reasonableexpenses in obtaining the proof. c) An Employee is required to let the Employer know as soon as possible if they are unable to attend work due to sickness or injury. Failure to do this may result in the absence being treated as unpaid leave. d) The Employee can accumulate their sick leave entitlement up to a maximum of 100 days. e) Sick leave entitlement is available for an employee Employee to care for a person who wishes to use sick time in this manneris dependent upon the Employee’s care. (bf) Sick pay benefits will not At the Employer’s discretion an Employee may be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits anticipated sick leave. Any leave taken in advance and still remaining outside the entitlement will be paid only if to the employee or someone Employer. The Employer may deduct monies due from the final pay. g) Where an Employee is suffering from a minor illness which could have a detrimental effect on the employee’s behalf notifies patients or other staff in the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryEmployers care, the employee shall be required Employer may at their discretion, either; i. Place the Employee on suitable alternative duties, or ii. Direct the Employee to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on take sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Sick leave shall be earned at the rate of July 13.7 hours per completed two-week pay period of ser­vice. Service shall begin on the date of State employment and time on layoff, 1986suspension or leave without pay, all accumulated except as otherwise provided by law or this Agreement, shall not be counted in determining the completion of a full two-week pay period. The maximum amount of sick leave which employees may accumulate shall be one hundred twenty (120) days. However, the amount of unused sick leave accruals which can be credited toward State ser­vice for retirement purposes shall continue as presently provided for by statute. When maximum limitation has been accumulated, days that would normally thereafter be earned shall lapse but shall be recorded by the appointing authority. Any employ­ee who has such lapsed sick leave to his/her credit may apply to the Director of Human Resources to have the sick leave restored in the event of an extended illness. The Director of Human Resources shall grant such request unless just cause is shown to deny the request. Part-time employees was frozen employed normal­ly the year-round and placed in established on a bankregular hourly work schedule shall be allowed sick leave credits pro­rated on the amount of time worked. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it their allowance of sick leave on the basis of application ap­proved by their respective appointing authorities and reported to the Director of Human Resources, for illness. Unused sick days will absences necessitated by inability to perform the duties of their positions by reason of illness or injury, by necessity for acute medical or dental care, by exposure to contagious disease under circumstances in which the health of the employees with whom associated or members of the public necessarily dealt with would be maintained endangered by atten­dance on duty, or by illness in the bank and immediate fam­ily of the employee for such periods as the atten­dance of the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at necessary. Immedi­ate family as used in this article shall mean the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveemployee’s spouse, or significant other, the position vacated by parents of the employee will spouse or significant other, and the par­ents, stepparents, guardian, children, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, grand­parents, grandchildren, stepchildren or wards of the employee. For the purpose of this Article, “significant other” means that a relationship exists between two people, neither of whom is married, that is intended to remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee indefinitely and where there is joint responsibility for each other’s common welfare, there are significant shared financial obligations, and they must be living together in a shared primary residence. This relationship must have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with existed for at least six (6) continuous months before benefits under this Article may be provided. Employees are encouraged to consult with their agency-department Personnel Officer to determine if they are eligible for benefits available under the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Either the appointing authority or the Director of Human Resources may require such medical examination or certificate as he/she deems necessary before approving the utilization of sick days on January 1 of each yearleave. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated All sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone expire on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent date of separation from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryState service, the and no employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause reimbursed for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that leave outstanding at the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timetermination of his/her State employment. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the 18.1 Each employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated entitled to sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to with pay in accordance with the following conditionsprovisions: (a) 18.1.1 Sick pay benefits leave shall be paid only accrue in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked, excluding overtime, multiplied by a factor of 0.04616. Only paid leave for holidays, vacation, compensatory time off, personal leave, or other paid leave shall be considered as time worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedfor purposes of this section. 18.1.2 Accrued sick leave may be utilized if the employee is required to be absent from work on account of non-job related illness or injury; routine medical or dental appointments; or for the care related to the illness of the employee’s child, mother, father, spouse, or domestic partner registered with the Department of Human Resources. Up to a total of 48 hours of accrued sick leave per calendar year may be utilized if the employee is required to be absent for the care related to the illness or injury of the employee’s grandparent, grandchild, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, stepfather, stepmother or stepchild. The provisions of this section related to the use of sick leave for the care related to the illness or injury of the employee’s family members as defined above shall expire at the end of the term of this Agreement. In the negotiations for a successor Agreement, the parties shall review and evaluate the appropriateness of this benefit. 18.1.2.1 Accrued sick leave may also be utilized for job-related illness or injury in accordance with the provisions of Article 19 Disability Leave or if the employee is medically required to be absent from work between the date an examining physician determines the employee's condition to be "permanent and stationary" and the date the employee is so notified. Such accrued sick leave may not be utilized if the employee is otherwise entitled to temporary disability leave compensation for the above referenced period of time. Accrued sick leave not to exceed three (g3) Sick working days may be granted at the discretion of the Department Director or his/her designated representative, following the notification referred to above. Telephone notice or a notice mailed to the employee's last known address of record shall be determined notice to the employee. 18.1.2.2 Accrued sick leave not to exceed three (3) working days may be granted in circumstances where an alleged job-related illness or injury is involved, but the employee fails to provide medical verification of such job-related illness or injury. 18.1.2.3 Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, an employee who, pursuant to the provisions of Article 19 of this Agreement, has been receiving temporary disability leave compensation and who has received the maximum allowable amount of such compensation pursuant to Article 19, and who is entitled to Workers' Compensation temporary disability benefits, and has exhausted all other available leave shall be permitted to utilize accrued sick leave subject to the following restrictions: sick leave shall be utilized in fifteen minute increments, but in no event shall an employee receive an amount, including any Workers' Compensation temporary disability compensation, in excess of such employee's regular base pay. 18.1.2.4 Accrued sick leave also may be used in one-quarter hour increments accordance with Article 26, Time Donation Programs. 18.1.3 Except as otherwise provided by resolution of the City Council, paid sick leave shall not be allowed for any absence from work occasioned by intoxication, chronic alcoholism or moreuse of narcotics not prescribed by a licensed physician. HoweverIf approved by the City, the total hours used an employee who is enrolled and participating in a day substance abuse treatment program may use sick leave for absences resulting from participation in such a program. The City may require appropriate verification. 18.1.4 No employee shall not exceed be entitled to or be granted sick leave, either with or without pay, unless he or she, or someone on his or her behalf, notifies his or her immediate supervisor or Department Director, or designee of his or her intent to take sick leave, and of the number reasons prior to the commencement of regularly scheduled hours the sick leave. If the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on fails to notify their immediate supervisor, Department Director, or designee at least one half-hour prior to the commencement of the sick leave, it can result in disciplinary action unless the failure is due to extenuating circumstances extenuating beyond the control of the employee. The City Manager, or designee, however may waive the requirement of such notice upon presentation of a reasonable excuse by such employee. Departments may require an earlier call-in (prior to the start of the shift) where work crew situation or other Departmental needs require. Departments that require early call-in will have a phone recorder or a person assigned to accept calls with 24-hour coverage. 18.1.5 Any time an employee is required to report to work and is unable to report due to illness or injury, an employee may be required to furnish medical verification or other substantiation for any such absence. 18.1.6 A full-time employee of the City shall be entitled to sick leave without any pay if required to be absent from work on account of any non-job related illness, injury or disability, including absences of female employees related to pregnancy or childbirth in all situations where such employee is not entitled to sick leave with pay. Any full-time employee who is unable to return to work after being absent on paid and/or unpaid sick leave for eighteen (18) consecutive or cumulative months in any period of twenty-four (24) consecutive months shall be considered to have voluntarily resigned. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall an employee be entitled to a leave of absence without pay for a period in excess of twelve (12) cumulative months or for twelve (12) consecutive months in any period of twenty-four (24) consecutive months. Any employee who is unable to return to work at the expiration of either of these periods of time shall be considered to have voluntarily separated from City service. The City shall give the employee reasonable notice of its intent to apply this rule prior to processing a termination. Such resignation shall be considered a resignation in good standing and the

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated a) Unit members shall be allowed sick leave with pay. Medical documentation to substantiate the use of sick leave may be required by the Employer. b) Sick leave for employees was frozen unit members shall accrue at the rate of one (1) day per calendar month of consecutive service during the first five (5) years of service. Those unit members who have completed six (6) or more years of consecutive service shall accrue sick leave according to the following schedule: The accrual of sick leave shall begin the first day of employment, and placed unused sick leave may be accumulated up to and including one hundred eighty (180) days [one thousand four hundred forty (1,440) hours]. Unit members with appointments less than 1.0 FTE shall accrue sick leave at a proportional pro-rated amount. At no time will a unit member be allowed to accrue sick leave hours in excess of the one thousand four hundred forty (1,440) hours [or one hundred eighty (180) days] accumulation limit. c) Sick pay is available with the realization that a bankunit member may become ill or injured to the extent of being unable to work. Sick leave may be taken for absences made necessary by reason of illness, injury, or disability, including temporary illnesses covered by or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth, and recovery there from, by exposure to dangerous disease which may endanger the unit member or public health, medical appointments, or by illness in the immediate family making it necessary that the unit member be absent from his or her duties. The term "immediate family" as used in this section shall be defined to include the spouse, children (adopted, xxxxxx, step, biological, or legal xxxx), grandchildren, siblings, parents, grandparents, or parents of the spouse. It is not intended as any earned time off with pay, and shall not be granted as such. Unit members shall be compensated for unused sick leave upon separation of employment as provided in subsection (f). d) The President may advance sick leave to unit members in an amount not to exceed a total of forty (40) hours. Sick leave earned thereafter will be applied toward the negative sick leave account balance until the amount advanced is fully reimbursed. Upon separation from employment, unit members who have been advanced sick leave shall reimburse the Employer for all advanced and unreimbursed sick leave. The Employer is authorized to deduct such amount from the final pay. e) Should a unit member become ill or disabled and require hospitalization while on vacation, vacation leave shall be changed to sick leave, effective the date of hospitalization, upon request to the immediate supervisor. Documentation regarding the hospitalization may be requested. f) A unit member who is transferred within the State College System will have his or her accrued sick leave transferred to the receiving College. Unit members transferring as an employee from Nebraska State Government or the University of Nebraska System may be eligible to have sick leave hours transferred to the receiving College at the discretion of receiving College. Employees with banked transferring to Nebraska State Government or the University of Nebraska System may be eligible to have sick time may utilize it leave hours transferred to the new employer at the discretion of the new employer. g) Each unit member who is eligible for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained retirement in the bank and the employee shall State College System will, upon separation of employment by reason of retirement, be paid for entitled to a one-half time payment of one-fourth (1/21/4) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for their accumulated sick leave, with the position vacated by rate of payment based upon their regular pay at the employee will remain vacant until time of retirement. Upon the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent death of the employee is ill unit member, his or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits her beneficiary will be paid only if one-fourth (1/4) of his or her accumulated, unused sick leave, with the employee or someone on rate of payment based upon the employeeunit member’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick regular pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that at the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timedeath. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As ‌ A) Xxxx Leave is the authorized absence of July 1an employee with pay because of personal illness, 1986pregnancy, all accumulated complications due to pregnancy or birth, adoption, injury, exposure to contagious disease and visits to or treatment by medical providers that cannot be scheduled outside of the employee’s normal working hours. Xxxx leave may also be used because of illness, injury, or death in the employee’s immediate family. B) Each full-time bargaining unit member earns sick leave for employees was frozen at the rate of five (5) hours per semi- monthly pay period. Sick leave is cumulative without limit. Sick and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained other leave balances are available electronically in the bank and employee self-service portal. C) Sick Leave may be used during any period of time in which the employee shall be paid is under contract to perform services for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employmentUniversity. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated When using sick leave, the position vacated bargaining unit member will promptly notify their unit supervisor, and whenever possible, advise of the estimated duration of absence. All bargaining unit members shall report all uses of sick leave via web leave reporting in the self-service reporting portal. D) If a bargaining unit member has been absent for five (5) or more consecutive work days for the above-mentioned reason(s), they shall provide written verification to support the use of sick leave to be approved. Xxxx leave is also authorized for an illness in the bargaining unit member’s immediate family when the bargaining unit member's presence is reasonably necessary for the health and welfare of the affected family member. A physician’s certification of the family member's illness shall be required if the bargaining unit member is absent for more than three (3) consecutive days. Such certification shall be submitted to Human Resources Benefits. E) A continuous period of sick leave commences with the first day of absence and includes all subsequent days until the employee returns to work. Saturdays and Sundays (if the employee is not scheduled to perform services), and official holidays established and/or observed by the University shall not be counted. During any seven (7) day period, the maximum number of days of sick leave charged against any employee will remain vacant until shall be five (5). F) All unused sick leave accumulated prior to the accumulated sick time benefits effective date of this Agreement shall be available for use by the employee. G) If an employee is afflicted or known to be exposed to a contagious disease, and the presence of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made would jeopardize other employees as determined in extraordinary situations writing by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period a physician, that employee shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated take sick leave benefits during the first year and other pertinent leave. The University and YSU-APAS will abide by CDC or comparable State agency requirements for sending employees home because of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the nextcontagious disease exposure. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an An employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits contracts a contagious disease will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on charged sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated Each Employee shall be granted 12 (twelve) sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in days. An Employee employed after the beginning of a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in school year or terminated before the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) end of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary his/her contract period shall be granted a sick leave bank adjusted according to the above rules. a. All sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall be credited to him/her. Any sick leave days not used by the end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for the following year, up to a maximum of 130 days. b. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days by an Employee shall be: i. Personal illness, injury, quarantine or medical appointments; ii. Serious illness in the immediate family, i.e., husband, wife, child, father or mother that requires the presence of the Employee. c. The Employee shall notify the administrator of his/her impending absence stating the period of leave and where he/she can be contacted during the day. Each Employee shall give such notification prior to his/her scheduled on-the-job starting time. d. The Employee may be required by the Superintendent to give a written, signed statement from the Employee’s physician or from the Employee indicating the reason for such absence when reporting to work on the first working day following his/her absence. Additionally, the Employee may be asked to complete paperwork to assist the Agency in determining if the use of sick time qualifies as a serious health condition under the Family Medical Leave Act. Failure to comply with six (6) this provision can result in the withholding of pay for such leave days. e. Accumulated sick leave time shall terminate upon termination of employment. f. Up to 30 sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick accumulated beyond 100 days shall be forfeited. Utilization reimbursed at a rate of sick leave benefits is subject to $75 per day upon the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerEmployee’s retirement. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Sick leave may be accumulated at the rate of July 1seventeen (17) days per year, 1986, all but not to exceed a maximum of two hundred (200) days. It is understood that accumulated sick leave days are not to be considered as days of service for employees was frozen and placed in the purpose of computation of retirement eligibility or compensation except as provided by Article 7, Section 1. After a bank. Employees with banked sick full- time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for uses up accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period he/she shall be credited with six entitled to an additional sixty (660) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits at half-pay, which is subject not cumulative. If any full-time employee finds it necessary to remain at home because of sickness, he/she or some responsible member of his/her immediate family shall so notify the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases Chief of actual non-occupational illness Police or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for his designee of such impending absence and the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent expected duration of the employee is ill or injuredsuch sickness. Documentation The Chief of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee Police shall be required to report only upon maintain a weekly basisrecord of all absences and shall have the responsibility of determining whether or not such lost time shall be paid for. Failure to report may be cause for denial Any full-time employee injured or incurring an illness while in the employ of the Village, and on compensated sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual leave under this provision, shall not engage in non-occupational illness Village employment, contracted work or injury and that self employment during such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the period of benefit. Any full-time employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action use up to and including termination. four (f4) The amount sick leave days per year as family sickness leave pursuant hereto. A full-time dispatcher must provide a certificate from a duly licensed physician before the dispatcher returns to work for absences of three (3) consecutive days or more, or for any days lost because of illness once the dispatcher has utilized a cumulative total of eight (8) sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to days, exclusive of family sick time, in the number of regularly Village’s fiscal year. Any full-time dispatcher may not utilize a sick or personal day on any day immediately preceding or following scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) holiday or vacation day without a certificate from a duly licensed physician. Sick leave may be used taken in one-quarter two (2) hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveincrements.

Sick Leave. As A. Sick Leave shall be earned at the factored hourly equivalent of July 1, 1986, all accumulated one hundred four (104) hours per year. Accumulation of sick leave credit shall not exceed two thousand eighty (2080) hours at any one time. No refund of vacation shall be allowed due to illness incurred while on vacation leave. B. An employee eligible for sick leave with pay may use such sick leave for employees was frozen absence due to sickness, family illness, personal and placed family medical appointments, disability, non-work related injury, exposure to contagious disease or bereavement leave as outlined in a bankthis article and for no other purpose. Employees with banked An employee who uses sick time leave for any other purpose may utilize it for be subject to discipline. C. For purposes of “family illness. Unused sick days will ” and “family medical appointments” in Section 1, Paragraph B of this Article, “family” is defined to be maintained spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent, as well as any other family member residing in the bank and same household. This includes family members by blood, marriage, adoption, xxxxxx, or legal guardianship. D. At the employee's discretion, the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) may supplement their Worker's Compensation payment to bring the total sum of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates Worker's Compensation payment and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilityto a figure equivalent to a full pay check.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an E. An employee who wishes is absent because of sickness or family illness shall first attempt to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only inform their immediate supervisor, if the employee on duty, or someone any supervisor on duty at the employee’s behalf notifies usual work location of the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after fact and the scheduled starting reason therefore as soon as possible; failure to do so within a reasonable time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) for the period of absence. The Court Department Head may require a physiciandoctor’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational or other evidence of illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that before approving sick leave with pay. This requirement may not last more than 6 months, unless the employee could does not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timemeet the above requirements. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick F. Xxxx leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, denied when the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the County has facts showing that an employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on is abusing sick leave. G. Once an employee has exhausted Sick Leave the County shall automatically deduct as necessary from any available paid leaves. H. Disability retirement shall not be effective until accumulated sick leave has been used. Upon retirement or death the employee shall receive forty-five percent (45%) of accumulated sick leave into the employee’s existing PEHP account. The payment will be at the regular hourly rate of the employee at the time of retirement or death. If the employee does not have an existing PEHP account, the payment shall be made in cash. I. The County agrees to pay an employee who voluntarily separates from employment after fifteen (15) consecutive years of service with Lancaster County forty-five percent (45%) of their sick leave balance which is greater than 1000 hours. The hours will be based on their current eight (8) hours of pay. This pay out shall be distributed as one hundred percent (100%) cash. J. Any employee who is laid off, and is later recalled within one (1) year, shall have available upon their return such unused sick leave accrual as the employee may have earned up to the time of their departure. K. The Union and County agree to comply with the rules and regulations of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and the County's policy governing the application of the Act.

Sick Leave. As a) Sick leave with pay for regular employees assigned to the normal forty (40) hour work week shall accrue at the rate of July 1, 1986, all accumulated eight (8) hours of sick leave for employees was frozen and placed each full calendar month of service. b) Xxxx leave shall not accrue during any period of leave of absence in excess of fifteen (15) calendar days with the exception of authorized temporary military leave of an employee who has been in the service of the County for a bankperiod of not less than one year, who shall also accrue sick leave for authorized temporary military leave beyond fifteen (15) calendar days. c) No employee shall be entitled to receive sick leave with pay until he/she has been continuously employed for a period of 90 days. Employees with banked sick time An employee may utilize it his/her allowance of sick leave when unable to perform his/her work duties by reason of illness or injury, including maternity, necessity for illnessmedical or dental care, exposure to contagious disease under circumstances by which the health of the employees with whom associated, or member of the public necessarily dealt with, would be endangered by the attendance of the employee. Unused An employee may utilize up to ten (10) days of sick days will be maintained leave because of childbirth by a spouse or because of serious illness or death in the bank immediate family requiring the presence of the employee. “Immediate family” is defined as mother, father, spouse, sister or brother of both husband and wife, children, grandchildren, grandparents of both husband and wife, or other relative residing in the employee’s immediate household. d) Upon retirement or termination with satisfactory performance after five (5) years of service, each regular employee shall be paid for onetwenty-half five percent (1/225%) of those the value of all unused, accrued sick leave. The value of such unused days sick leave shall be determined by multiplying the total hours accumulated at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated time of termination by the employee will remain vacant until hourly wage rate of the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year range and step to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill assigned. e) A certificate from a regularly licensed practicing physician may, at the discretion of the Department Head or injured. Documentation supervisor, be required if absence from duty by reason of a physician visit for a child sickness extends beyond the period of four (4) working days, or parent such lesser period of time as may be required for by the appointing authority if such appointing authority has reason to believe that an employee who wishes is not adhering to use the aforestated restrictions on sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not leave usage. The certificate shall be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if filed with the employee or someone on County Auditor with copies to the employee’s behalf notifies department and the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsPersonnel Department. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July A. The Borough will implement an Unlimited Sick Leave Policy, effective January 1, 19862017, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen Members of PBA Local 192 hired after August 1, 1992. Those Members hired on or before August 1, 1992, however, specifically Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, shall not be maintained in effected by the bank provisions of the Unlimited Sick Leave Policy and instead shall continue to receive Sick Leave benefits as per the provisions contained within Article X of the preceding agreement between Local 192 and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveBorough, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on dated January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner1, 2016 through December 31, 2016. B. In order to qualify for regular pay under the provisions of this Agreement on account of illness in excess of two (b2) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if or more consecutive days the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event Chief of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court Police may require that a physician’s certificate showing verifying proof of illness be produced in order for that the time off was due officer to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling return to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work dutiesduty. The requirement Chief of Police may also require that a physician’s certificate verifying proof of illness be produced in instances of frequent or habitual absence from duty or when there is reasonable cause for requiring such certificate. After the use of four (4) unexcused sick days in any given calendar year the Chief of Police may request in writing that a physician’s certificate verifying proof of illness be submitted prior to the officer’s return to duty. C. No member may be imposed at off longer than 12 consecutive months or 18 months in the aggregate during any time. (e) In 36 month period from the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that date the employee was is unable to work due to disability from illness and/or injury or related illness and/or sickness. Included in the 12-month period of time for disability due to illness and/or injury is any combination of paid and/or unpaid leaves of absence, including leave for the employee’s own serious health condition as defined under the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In other words, paid sick leave is to run concurrently with FMLA leave if the FMLA is applicable to such injury and/or sickness. Sick Leave may not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused be used for the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number illness of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by any individual other than the employee, except for qualifying reasons under the provisions of FMLA. D. Subject to operational considerations, and physical and/or medical limitations and capabilities of the Member, the Chief of Police may subject identify temporary modified-duty assignments for Members who have a non-permanent injury or medical condition resulting in temporary work limitations or restrictions. E. Employees on paid sick leave must remain in the employee immediate vicinity of their primary home during the period of such a leave unless prior written permission to disciplinary action travel is obtained from the Chief of Police. Reasonable verification may be made by either a visit to the member’s home or by telephone call. Exceptions are limited to doctor’s office and pharmacy visits, in which case the member may be required to produce a doctor’s note or a pharmacy receipt, and for religious services. F. A new Member shall not be granted paid sick leave during the initial three (3) months of employment unless such a request is accompanied by a physician’s certificate. G. Thirty-six (36) PTO hours shall be granted in a calendar year to any Member who has a record of taking zero hours of Sick Time during the preceding calendar year. Members who use between 1 and 12 hours of Sick Time will earn 24 hours of PTO. Members who use 13 or more hours of Sick Time will not earn any additional PTO hours. H. As of December 31, 2016 the accumulation of all sick leave for all Members hired after August 1, 1992 will terminate. Sick Time hours already accumulated will be converted to a separate Converted Sick Time/Paid Time Off (PTO) Bank according to the following formula; a 1 (one) for 1 (one) ratio for up to the first 100 hours of converted Sick Time, and including termination. a 2 (ftwo) The amount for 3 (three) ratio for any other hours remaining. An accounting of sick pay benefits used those hours for each member is attached hereto as Appendix A. This bank of Converted Sick Time/Paid Time Off (PTO) hours, which shall be maintained by an employee will be equal to the number Chief of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave Police, may be used in one-quarter hour increments for scheduled time off insofar as the requested time off does not create an anticipated need for overtime. Converted Sick Time PTO hours may not be “sold” back to the Borough. Any Converted Sick Time PTO hours not used prior to separation or more. However, retirement from employment with the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveBorough will be forfeited.

Sick Leave. As 14.1 Permanent, probationary, and provisional employees of July the Employer covered by this Agreement shall be entitled to four (4) days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year, and shall thereafter earn one (1, 1986, all accumulated ) day of sick leave for employees was frozen and placed each month of employment in which the employee works or is paid a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained minimum of five (5) workdays in the bank month which shall be credited to the employee at the end of that month, and which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee. However, each employee shall be paid for one-half entitled to earn no more than one (1/21) day of those unused days at sick leave times the same rate paid that number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee when he terminates his employmentor her employment and has accrued, but not earned, the four (4) sick leave days available to him or her, the Employer will withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. In those instances in which Such leave shall be taken only when necessary because of sickness as herein prescribed. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year. Vacation leave and leave while on the active payroll due to an on-the-job injury shall be construed as time worked. There shall be no limit on the number of sick leave days an employee terminates covered by this Agreement shall be permitted to accumulate. 14.2 Sick leave will be granted during a genuine illness of an employee covered by this Agreement or the serious illness of a member of his/her immediate family. Immediate family means the school employee's spouse, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, nieces, nephews, son- in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandparents, grandparents of employee's spouse, or grandchildren. It also includes other close relatives who reside with the school employee. 14.3 All employees covered by this Agreement shall be required to furnish to the Employer such information as may be requested for the proper administration of this section. For an absence of more than five (5) consecutive work or paid days to be charged to sick leave, a certificate from a medical doctor will be required prior to the issuing of the employee's next payroll warrant. When the employee returns to work, the doctor's certificate shall contain information as to whether or not the employee can perform any and receives all duties normally assigned to his/her classification. 14.4 Any employees covered by this Agreement with three (3) or more years of service with DCPS shall have the option to receive payment for accumulated sick leave, leave earned for that year that is unused at the position vacated by end of the employee will remain vacant until school year based on the accumulated sick time benefits daily rate of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee multiplied by fifty percent (50%). Days for which such payment is ill received shall be deducted from the accumulated leave balance. However, at no time shall the accumulated leave balance be less than ten (10) days. 14.5 All employees covered by this Agreement, where required by the Employer, will notify their supervisor or injuredhis/her designee, reasonably in advance of their scheduled reporting time on the first day of their intended absence due to illness. Documentation Such notification will also include anticipated length of a physician visit for a child or parent may absence if known. Extenuating circumstances to the above shall be required for given due consideration. 14.6 In accordance with Employer policies, an employee may authorize his or her spouse, child, parent, or sibling who wishes is also an employee of the Xxxxx County Public Schools to use sick time leave that has accrued to the authorizing employee, provided that the recipient may not use the donated sick leave until all of his or her sick leave has been depleted, excluding sick leave from a sick leave pool, if the recipient participates in a sick leave pool. Donated sick leave under this mannerparagraph shall have no terminal pay value. (b) 14.7 Sick pay benefits will leave shall be charged in increments of not be granted before they have been earnedless than one-half hour. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the 14.8 Should an employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will covered by this Agreement be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to illness and fail to comply with the rules and regulations covering sick leave, such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitscharged with an unauthorized absence. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. During the first year of July employment only, full-time employees shall be entitled to and accrue one (1) sick day per month during the remainder of their first calendar year of employment, 1986after initial employment. Thereafter, all accumulated sick leave shall accrue on the basis of fifteen (15) days per year, per employee, and shall accumulate from year to year. B. Part-time permanent employees shall be entitled to sick leave as established by the Borough n a pro-rated basis. One (1) day and one (1) hour for each 160 hours of work. C. If any employee is absent for reasons that entitle him to sick leave, his supervisor shall be notified by the start of the actual work day or shift. D. Failure to so notify his supervisor may cause denial of the use of sick leave and may constitute cause for disciplinary action. E. Absence without notify for five (5) consecutive days shall constitute a resignation not in good standing. F. An employee, who is on sick leave for employees was frozen and placed five(5) or more consecutive working days, shall be required to submit to the Borough, acceptable medical evidence substantiating the illness. 1. Any employee who has been absent on sick leave for periods totaling fifteen (15) days in a bankone calendar year consisting of periods of less than five (5) days, shall be required to submit acceptable medical evidence for any additional sick leave in that year . 2. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained illnesses of a chronic or recurring nature, requiring recurring absences of one (1) day or less in the bank and the employee which case only one (1) certificate shall be paid necessary for one-half (1/2) a period of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannermonths. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. G. In the event case of a long-term period leave of absence due to such illness exposure to contagious disease, a certificate from the Department of Health shall be required. H. The Borough may require an employee who has been absent because of personal illness, as a condition of his/her return to duty, to be examined, at the expense of the Borough, by a physician designated by the Governing Body. Such examination shall establish whether the employee is capable of performing his/her normal duties and that his/her return will not jeopardize the health or injurysafety of other employees. I. Management may request a medical verification of absences occurring before or after a holiday or vacation day. J. Sick leave will be at a minimum of 1 hour increments unless there is a specific emergency that requires immediate attention. K. Upon the retirement of an employee, the employee Borough shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work dutiesfor all his/her accumulated sick leave that has been earned while in the Borough's employment up to a maximum payment of Twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00). The requirement Borough shall have the option of purchasing an annuity contract which shall provide the retiring employee with the option of receiving either a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timelump sum of two (2) or three (3) year pay out . (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Xxxx leave will be granted during a genuine illness of July an employee covered by this Agreement or the serious illness of a member of his/her immediate family. Immediate family means the school employee's spouse, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, nieces, nephews, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother, half-sister, grandparents, grandparents of employee's spouse, or grandchildren. It also includes other close relatives who reside with the school employee. The following provisions shall govern sick leave: 1, 1986, all accumulated . An employee employed on a full-time basis shall be entitled to four days of sick leave as of the first day of employment of each contract year and shall thereafter earn one day of sick leave for employees was frozen each month of employment, in which the employee works or is paid a minimum of five (5) workdays in the month, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of that month and placed which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; However, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his or her employment and has accrued but not earned the 4 sick leave days available to him or her, the school board will withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because of sickness as herein prescribed. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year; provided that there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. 2. In accordance with Xxxxx County School Board policies, a teacher may authorize his or her spouse, child, parent, or sibling who is also an employee of the Xxxxx County Public Schools to use sick leave that has accrued to the authorizing teacher, provided that the recipient may not use the donated sick leave until all of his or her sick leave has been depleted, excluding sick leave from a sick leave pool, if the recipient participates in a banksick leave pool. Employees with banked Donated sick time leave under this paragraph shall have no terminal pay value as provided in Article XIII section G 2 (Terminal Pay (sick leave). 3. As used in this section, one day of sick leave for the purpose of accrual and use shall mean to be the equivalent in hours and may utilize it for illnessbe accrued over two pay periods in a month. Unused sick Any portion of leave days accumulated may be taken and charged in increments of not less than thirty (30) minutes; provided, that leave may be taken only in one-half (½) day increments if any portion of the requested leave will be maintained in during student contact. 4. In the bank and event that an employee uses more than five consecutive work or paid days of leave allowance, the employee shall provide the Payroll Office, 0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, with a doctor's statement attesting to the illness with the anticipated date or return as soon after the sixth day as possible but, in any case, prior to receiving the paycheck for the pay period in which the sixth day occurred or any subsequent paychecks. Should the employee be unable to submit the doctor's statement as required above, he shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated any sick leave benefits during to which he is entitled when the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year doctor's statement is submitted to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization Payroll Office. a. Principals are encouraged to monitor the use of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting ensure that all teachers act in a disability which makes it impossible manner consistent with the requirements of their positions. Excessive absences by any teacher places tremendous stress on the teachers who are present to render professional services for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredabsent teacher. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent Disciplinary measures may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannertaken when abuses are identified. (b) Sick pay benefits will not b. When they must be granted before they have been earnedabsent, teachers are expected to provide adequate and appropriate notice. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Sick leave shall be earned at the rate of July 13.7 hours per completed two-week pay period of service. Service shall begin on the date of State employment and time on layoff, 1986suspension or leave without pay, all accumulated except as otherwise provided by law or this Agreement, shall not be counted in determining the completion of a full two- week pay period. The maximum amount of sick leave which employees may accumulate shall be one hundred twenty (120) days. However, the amount of unused sick leave accruals which can be credited toward State service for retirement purposes shall continue as presently provided for by statute. When maximum limitation has been accumulated, days that would normally thereafter be earned shall lapse but shall be recorded by the appointing authority. Any employee who has such lapsed sick leave to his/her credit may apply to the Director of Human Resources to have the sick leave restored in the event of an extended illness. The Director of Human Resources shall grant such request unless just cause is shown to deny the request. Part-time employees was frozen employed normally the year-round and placed in established on a bankregular hourly work schedule shall be allowed sick leave credits prorated on the amount of time worked. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it their allowance of sick leave on the basis of application approved by their respective appointing authorities and reported to the Director of Human Resources, for illness. Unused sick days will absences necessitated by inability to perform the duties of their positions by reason of illness or injury, by necessity for acute medical or dental care, by exposure to contagious disease under circumstances in which the health of the employees with whom associated or members of the public necessarily dealt with would be maintained endangered by attendance on duty, or by illness in the bank and immediate family of the employee for such periods as the attendance of the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at necessary. Immediate family as used in this article shall mean the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveemployee’s spouse, or significant other, the position vacated by parents of the employee will spouse or significant other, and the parents, stepparents, guardian, children, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, grandparents, grandchildren, stepchildren or wards of the employee. For the purpose of this Article, “significant other” means that a relationship exists between two people, neither of whom is married, that is intended to remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee indefinitely and where there is joint responsibility for each other’s common welfare, there are significant shared financial obligations, and they must be living together in a shared primary residence. This relationship must have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with existed for at least six (6) continuous months before benefits under this Article may be provided. Employees are encouraged to consult with their agency-department Personnel Officer xx determine if they are eligible for benefits available under the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Either the appointing authority or the Director of Human Resources may require such medical examination or certificate as he/she deems necessary before approving the utilization of sick days on January 1 of each yearleave. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated All sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone expire on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent date of separation from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryState service, the and no employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause reimbursed for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that leave outstanding at the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timetermination of his/her State employment. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated Each full time or probationary employee shall accumulate sick leave at the rate of one (l) working day for employees was frozen each month of service. Such unused sick leave shall be allowed to accumulate without limitation. Routine doctor and placed in a bankdental exams, including eye exams and non-emergency surgery, shall be scheduled on off-duty time whenever practicable. Employees An employee may use sick leave with banked pay for absences necessitated by injury or illness to the employee. Sick leave may also be used for employee doctor or dental appointments that cannot be scheduled other than during the employee’s work day. At least three (3) work days notice shall be required to apply for the leave for doctor or dental appointments which are subject to the approval of the supervisor for scheduling. Up to five (5) days of an employee’s sick time leave accumulation may utilize it be used per year for illness, injury, doctor and dental appointments that cannot be scheduled other than during the employee’s work day for the employee’s spouse or dependent children. Unused At least three (3) work days notice shall be required to apply for leave for doctor and dental appointments which are subject to the approval of the supervisor for scheduling. Notwithstanding the above, an employee may use vacation, holiday or compensatory time for the injury or illness of spouse, child, or family member living within the residence. To qualify for sick days will be maintained in leave payment an employee must do the bank following: a. Report his/her absence prior to the start of each work day to department head or supervisor. b. Keep his/her supervisor informed of the conditions if the absence is more than three (3) working days. c. Upon request submit a doctor’s certificate for such absence. The certificate must state the nature of the illness or injury and whether the employee has been incapacitated for the period of his/her absence. d. The employee upon returning to duty must sign an application for sick leave form requesting the sick leave benefits. Such a signature shall be paid for one-half (1/2) acknowledgment of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited full compliance with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated all regulations related to sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time as set forth in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from workContract. In the event any employee has misused the provisions contained herein or has requested the use of sick leave when such leave is not authorized by the terms of this Contract, the employee's absence shall be without pay. The determination that an employee has abused the benefits contained in this paragraph shall not preclude the employee from using accumulated sick leave when authorized by the terms of this Contract in the future nor shall the accumulated sick leave credited to that employee be affected thereby. In addition to the employees' right to accumulate sick leave without limitation, unused accumulated sick leave up to 150 days shall be paid at fifty-nine percent (59%) of the employees' rate in effect at the time of said separation for those employees who retire at age 50 or older or for those employees who separate because of disability or death, Pursuant to ss.66.191. As another option, an employee, who has up to 150 sick days and is at least 50 years old, may choose to contribute one-third of his/her total accumulated sick leave payout amount placed in a long-term period 457 (currently R.C.) account for each of absence due to the next three years. In such illness or injurycase, the employee shall receive one-third of his/her total accumulated sick leave paid at fifty-nine percent (59%) of the employee’s rate in effect when the deposit is made. This option shall only be required available to report only upon a weekly basisthose employees who meet all rules, regulations and requirements of the 457 plan administrators. Failure to report may Once this option is exercised, it shall be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has irrevocable unless otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued directed by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationDirector or Administrative Services (or designee). (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As a. At the beginning of July 1each school year, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the each employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six an advance sick/emergency leave allowance equal to twelve (612)ten (10) sick days on January 1 days., to be used for absence caused by illness, injury, medical disability (including that caused by childbearing), poor health, child care to the extent required by law, or an emergency caused by family illness where no reasonable alternative is available to the employee, subject to the same conditions as other personal emergency leave. Should the employee leave the SPS prior to the end of each the contract year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated , or become a part-time employee, the employee’s sick leave benefits will be prorated to reflect actual time worked. b. For employees hired after the beginning of the school year, one (1) day of sick/emergency leave shall be deemed earned during the first year month of eligibilityemployment if work commences on or before the 15th day of the month.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization c. When an employee is quarantined by a Health Officer of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for Competent Jurisdiction, the employee to perform regular duties or if may utilize his/her sick leave; provided however, that the quarantine is a child or parent result of the fact that the employee is ill ill, the employee has a communicable disease, or injuredthe employee is unable to be inoculated because he/she is allergic to the respective vaccine. Documentation Employees who choose not to be inoculated, for whatever reason, may choose 1) leave without pay or, 2) to use their emergency or personal leave. d. Employees may accrue sick leave in accordance with State law. Employees may cash out sick leave in accordance with State law. e. Sick/Emergency Leave may, except under exceptional conditions described below, be used for absence caused by illness, injury, medical disability (including that caused by childbearing), poor health of the employee, child care to the extent required by law, or an emergency caused by family illness, where no reasonable alternative is available to the employee.subject to the same conditions as other personal emergency leave. An employee’s position will be held for theirhis/her return to work for as long as the employee is off work on sick/emergency leave plus a twenty-five (25) workday grace period after the exhaustion of their accrued sick/emergency leave. If the employee qualifies for Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) benefits, his/her position will be held for her/his return for the period of time covered by the FMLA or the end of the 25 day grace period, whichever is longer. Employees who are or will be out of their assignments on sick leave for ten (10) consecutive days must notify Human Resources at that time of the estimated length of the absence. If the need for leave will be ongoing,submit a written application for Leave for Health Condition shall be made with Human Resources. f. For the purposes of the FMLA, the twelve (12) weeks of eligibility period begins with the first day of paid or unpaid sick leave used for a purpose allowed under FMLA. SPS considers the submission of a physician visit for a child or parent leave application to be notice that the employee may be required for need FMLA benefits. SPS may require an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerprovide medical verification before the leave is approved. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if g. The supervisor may request a conference with the employee or someone on if he/she is concerned about the employee’s behalf notifies sick leave usage. If the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after employee’s absences continue, the scheduled starting time on each day supervisor may require that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause provide medical certification for denial of future sick pay benefitsleave absences. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. Each regular full-time or regular part-time employee shall accrue sick leave at the rate of July 1.0463 hours for each hour in a regular pay status excluding overtime, 1986call- back and standby duty. B. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year, all with no accrual limit. X. Xxxx leave usage may not exceed the employee's accrued sick leave balance reported at the end of the prior pay period. D. The Air Pollution Control Officer, or his/her designee, may require evidence in the form of a physician's certificate, or otherwise, of the adequacy of the reason for any employee's absence during the time for which sick leave was requested. Under no circumstances is sick leave to be used in lieu of, in addition to, or as vacation. A physician's certificate may also be required in order to determine correctness of payroll records. E. When a member of their immediate family is seriously ill or injured and requires their presence and attendance, employees may be allowed by their appointing authority to use their accumulated sick leave to attend to such family member. F. Up to a maximum of five days (40 hours) of their accumulated sick leave may be allowed by their appointing authority to employees for employees was frozen absences from duty because of any and placed each death in a bank. Employees their immediate family. G. For the purposes of Section E and F above, "immediate family" is defined as husband, wife, parent, brother, sister, child, xxxxxxxxx, grandparent, grandchild, and mother-in-law or father-in-law, domestic partner, or domestic partner’s child (as defined by AB 25 or 205) of the employee. X. Xx employee may, when necessary and at the discretion of the Air Pollution Control Officer, be granted up to two hours leave with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained pay to make voluntary non- remunerated blood donations to non-profit blood banks in the bank county. Time off in excess of two hours and the employee up to an additional two hours may be used for this purpose, but such additional time off shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for charged to accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible Leave for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent purpose of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day donating blood shall not exceed five times in any one calendar year. I. No payment shall be made to any employee for unused sick leave balances at the number time of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leavetheir termination from APCD service.

Sick Leave. As 1. An employee's absence from work by reason of July 1personal sickness or disability, 1986substantiated by a physician's certificate when required, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and/or absence due to family illness, shall be considered and placed in a bankknown as "Sick Leave." 2. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the No employee shall be paid entitled to any part of his/her wages while absent from work because of personal sickness, family illness, or disability, except as herein provided. (a) An employee shall be granted sick leave credit at the rate of one (1) day per calendar month for a total of twelve (12) work days per year and sick leave credit may be accumulated to a total of one-hundred-eighty-five (185) days. Xxxx leave shall be credited to the employee on the last work day of each calendar month beginning with the first full month of employment. During any month that an employee takes in excess of ten (10) days’ leave without pay, no leave credits shall be granted. (b) In addition to sick leave used for illness of the employee, sick leave may also be used for illness in the employee's immediate family, which requires the employee's personal care and attendance, not to exceed fifteen (15) days per year. For purposes of the Article, "immediate family" shall be defined as the employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent. 4. An employee absent on sick leave may elect to draw accrued sick leave credits in one-half (1/2) hour segments for part or all of those unused days his/her absence and shall be entitled to one (1) day's pay for each day of accumulated sick leave credit drawn. The day's pay shall be based upon the employee's hourly day rate, applicable to the employee at the same rate time of his/her sick leave absence. 5. Sick leave time shall be considered for all purposes as continuous service, but in the event of resignation by, or discharge of, an employee, his/her accumulated and unused sick leave time shall be canceled as of the termination of his/her employment, and not paid that for. 6. An employee when he terminates his employmentisolated or quarantined because of exposure to a communicable disease shall be considered absent because of sickness and shall be granted sick leave with pay during such isolation or quarantine to the extent of his/her accumulated and unused sick leave time. 7. The Department Head may require any employee to file with the Department Head a physician's certificate in any case where the employee is absent from work for more than one (1) day. Where the absence from work for illness or disability shall equal or exceed fourteen (14) days of continuous absence, the employee is required to file with the Department Head a physician's certificate every fourteen (14) days during the employee's absence. 8. In those instances any case where the employee has been absent from work for more than one (1) day due to sickness or disability, the Department Head may require the employee to have a medical examination by a physician of the County's choice, at County expense and/or the Department Head may require the employee to submit other reasonable medical records respecting the illness or disability. No more than one (1) such examination by a physician of the County's choice shall be required of the employee more than once every sixty (60) days, except, if in which the opinion of the Department Head, the employee has an apparent history of abuse of sick leave, then more frequent examinations, at County expense, may be required. If the Employer believes an employee terminates is utilizing sick leave for purposes other than those for which it was intended, then the Employer shall request a meeting with the CSEA Unit President or his or her designee and receives payment for accumulated the affected employee(s) to discuss the situation. Subsequent to such meeting, should the Employer continue to believe that there is a misuse of sick leave, the position vacated by Employer shall have the employee will remain vacant until right to take whatever action is available to him under the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerCivil Service Law. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work9. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the If an employee shall be required entitled to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure payment of Compensable Disability Benefits for sick leave time for which the County has paid the employee sick leave pay, the County shall be entitled to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that reimbursement from such illness or injury was disabling Compensable Disability Benefits to the extent that the County has granted sick leave pay to the employee could not perform regular work dutiesfor the same time. To the extent that the County is so reimbursed, the County shall restore sick leave credits to the employee. 10. It shall be the duty of the Department Head to make a written report to the County Personnel Officer, prior to the payment of each payroll, setting forth the names of employees and the date for which sick leave was approved during the period between the employee's last pay and the date of such report. 11. Upon retirement, an employee may elect to have the dollar value of the employee's unused accumulated sick leave used for the continuation of his/her health insurance coverage from the date of his/her retirement, for a period of time until said dollar value is exhausted. The requirement dollar value of a physician’s certificate may the employee's unused accumulated sick leave shall be imposed at the result of multiplying the hours of unused accumulated sick leave by the employee's regular hourly pay rate to which the employee was entitled in his/her last work week immediately preceding retirement. There shall not be included in the regular hourly day rate any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established amount that the employee was not ill may have earned during his/her last work week for overtime pay, holiday pay or disabled or has otherwise misused longevity bonus, but there shall be included any "evening" and/or "night shift" pay that the employee earned during his/her last work week. If such employee elects to continue said insurance coverage, he/she must deliver a written notice of such election to the Office of the Xxxxx County Treasurer within twenty (20) calendar days immediately following the effective date of the employee's retirement. 12. Upon retirement an employee may elect to apply unused accumulated sick pay benefitsleave as a credit toward additional retirement benefits under New York State Retirement and Social Security Law. Such election shall be made, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued in writing, by the employee, employee at the time of his/her application for retirement and may subject written notice of such election shall be given to the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationXxxxx County Treasurer. 13. A Sick Leave Bank shall be established and its operation shall be conducted by a five (f5) The amount member committee, two (2) members of sick pay benefits used which shall be appointed by an employee will the Chairman of the County Legislature and three (3) appointed by the CSEA Unit President. Employees who wish to participate in the Bank shall be equal allowed to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.contribute three

Sick Leave. As (a) An employee who is absent from work by reason of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee personal illness or personal injury shall be entitled to paid for one-half (1/2) leave of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is absence subject to the following conditionsconditions and limitations: (ai) Sick pay benefits The employee, where practicable, shall notify an absence to his/her supervisor before the start of the shift from which he/she will be absent and advise the nature of the injury or illness and estimated duration of absence. (ii) The employee shall be entitled in any year of service to sick leave of 10 days' ordinary working time, i.e. the equivalent to 76 hours' ordinary working time at the 38-hour rate. (iii) After an employee has taken a day's sick leave during a year, any further absence on sick leave in that year will only be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for where the employee provides a medical certificate or other proof satisfactory to perform regular duties or if the employer. (iv) An employee in his/her first year of service shall accrue one day's sick leave after each month's continuous service up to a child or parent maximum of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner10 days. (b) Sick pay benefits will leave shall accumulate from year to year so that any balance of the period specified in subclause (a) of this clause which has not been allowed by an employer to an employee as paid sick leave may be granted before they have been earnedclaimed, subject to the conditions prescribed by this clause, by an employee in a subsequent year of continued employment. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if Service with the employee Company or someone on its predecessor before the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event date of a long-term period coming into force of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee this Agreement shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause counted as service for denial the purpose of sick pay benefitsqualifying thereunder. (d) The Court All sick leave entitlements accumulated in excess of 15 days may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling be payable to the extent that employee on an annual basis upon request. Furthermore, the balance of accrued sick leave entitlements will be paid to the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timeon retirement or resignation after three years' service. (e) In the event All untaken accumulated sick leave credits are to be paid into an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established employee's estate upon death providing that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationat least three years' service. (f) The amount of Unused sick pay benefits used by an leave for which payment in lieu is made pursuant to subc1ause (d) hereof shall not be available to any employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedfor subsequent illness or personal injury. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day Employees shall not exceed the number be eligible for sick leave on rostered days off as such absences are outside their ordinary hours of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveduty.

Sick Leave. As All permanent employees shall receive ten (10) days credit per year. Sick leave not used in any year may be accumulated. No person shall be entitled to a leave of July 1, 1986, all absence with pay on account of sickness in excess of the accumulated sick leave when due. Sick leave shall be granted at the discretion of the Superintendent of Schools to persons only under the following conditions: A. When they are incapacitated for employees was frozen and placed in the performance of their duties by sickness or injury. B. When, through exposure to contagious disease, the presence of the person at his or her post of duty would jeopardize the health of the others. C. In case of serious illness of husband, wife, child, parent of either spouse or person subject to these rules or of a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained person living in the bank and immediate household of a person subject to these rules, he or she may be granted sick leave with pay not to exceed seven (7) working days within a school year. D. Absences on account of sickness in excess of that authorized under the employee rules thereof or for personal reasons not provided for under sick leave rules may at the discretion of the Superintendent of Schools be charged to vacation leave with the employee’s permission. E. Any accumulation of sick leave which present employees have at the effective date of this Agreement shall be paid retained. F. The granting of sick leave is solely at the discretion of the Superintendent of Schools or if he so delegates the Director of Finance and Operations. Notification of absences shall be given as early as possible on the first day of absence. If such notification is not made, such absence may, at the discretion of the Superintendent of Schools, be applied to absence without pay. For any period of absence on account of sickness, the Superintendent of Schools may require, for purpose of additional evidence only, a physician's certificate for the necessity of such absence. If such certificate is not filed within seven (7) calendar days after a request thereof, such absence may be applied, at the discretion of the Superintendent of Schools, to absence without pay. G. Persons whose service is terminated shall not be entitled to compensation in lieu of sick leave not taken. H. When a person, subject to these rules, is absent because of sickness, such absence shall be charged off against any sick leave credits he or she may have. All absence on account of sickness must be charged off in multiples of one-half (1/2) of those unused days or full hours, but in no case at less than the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick actual time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period off because of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee sickness. I. All employees shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefitsnotified annually, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employeein writing, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal as to the number of regularly scheduled hours sick leave days accrued. If such employee would otherwise have worked person has no sick leave credits, such absence shall be charged, at the discretion of the Superintendent of Schools, to leave without pay, to absence without pay or to vacation leave but shall be charged off on the day(s) such benefits are usedsame basis as above. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, J. Employees who move to positions with more hours shall receive the total hours used in a day shall not exceed benefits consistent with the number of regularly scheduled hours benefit schedule followed by the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leavepreviously holding the position.

Sick Leave. As a. Full time employees will be credited with one (1) work day of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave credited for each completed full calendar month of service. b. Sick Leave shall not be taken by an employee at his discretion, but shall only be available for use by full time employees was frozen with an illness or injury over which the employee has no reasonable control. During the probation period, employees will accumulate sick leave, and placed in can use sick leave only with the approval of the Police Chief. c. In order to receive compensation while on sick leave, the employee must notify his immediate supervisor or the duty officer at least one (1) hour prior to the time set for beginning his/her daily duties. In the event of an emergency the one (1) hour requirement may be excused, provided the employee provides written medical data to the nature of the emergency. d. The Village may require that employees provide specific and detailed medical data from the employee.s doctor, and/or a bankpersonal affidavit stating the cause of the absence whenever sick leave exceeds three (3) consecutive days. Falsification of such evidence will be cause for discipline. e. No sick leave may be taken until earned, however, the Village Manager may grant an exception to this requirement when he believes it is warranted by the circumstances. f. Employees with banked on leave of absence without pay shall not accumulate sick time leave or vacation while on such leave. g. The Village reserves the right to require an employee. to take an involuntary sick or health leave of absence if the employee suffers from a disability, mental or physical, as shown by medical evidence. h. Employees who have exhausted their sick leave credit and are still unable to return to work may be allowed to utilize it for illnessany unused vacation credits upon written request. i. Once earned thirty days (30) to a maximum of sixty days (60) shall be held on the books. Unused One-half (1/2) of any unused sick days over thirty (30) to sixty (60) days (employee.s request) will be maintained in the bank and paid to the employee shall at the end of each calendar year with the other one- half (1/2) erased from the books. An employee who retires under the Village Retirement System or resigns and gives two (2) weeks. notice, will be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated all earned sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period leave accumulated. j. Employee shall be credited with six allowed one (61) paid personal day per year. Employees shall give a minimum of twenty-four (24) hour advance notice on use of personal day to the Village Manager. k. Employees shall be allowed to use up to four (4) days of their twelve (12) sick days on January 1 of each yearper year as personal days if approved by their Department Head, and/or the Village Manager. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused Additional sick days shall may be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to taken as personal days upon the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent approval of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerVillage Manager. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Section A - Sick leave is paid leave granted to employees which may be used for personal illness or injury, dental, medical or optical treatment, or disability resulting from pregnancy, childbirth, or other health related condition which precludes them from performing the duties of July 1their normal position. Sick leave may also be used for an absence required by the serious illness of a member of an employee's immediate household or by the death of an employee's parent, 1986legal guardian, all accumulated grandparent, parent-in-law, spouse, child, sibling, or a relative living with the employee at the time of death. Section B - Employees shall be credited with 4.6 hours of sick leave every two weeks if they have received pay for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained all 80 hours in the bank two-week leave period. However, neither sick leave used to cover a job-related injury nor illness or disciplinary time off shall affect an employee's eligibility for sick leave credits. Section C - New employees shall be credited with sick leave at the end of the first two-week leave period of their employment. They may request sick leave as soon as it has been credited. Section D - In order to be eligible to use sick leave to cover an absence, an employee must promptly notify his or her supervisor or have someone else notify the supervisor of the reason for his/her absence. If the absence is due to personal illness or a serious health condition and lasts for three (3) or more consecutive workdays, the employee shall be paid must submit a medical certification to support the request for oneleave to Human Resources or his/her supervisor, before the employee may receive payment for the period of absence (per Md. Code Xxx., Pub. Util., §18-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid 117). If it appears that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated is abusing sick leave, the position vacated by supervisor may require the employee to submit written certification from a physician for fewer than three (3) days of sick leave usage. The supervisor will remain vacant until consider extenuating circumstances. Abuse shall be defined as (a) the employee is on sick leave for three (3) days or more and does not provide medical certification, (b) the employee uses sick leave for absences other than those authorized by Policy 5.6 Sick Leave, or (c) the employee has established a documented pattern of using excessive sick leave. The requirements for represented employees shall not exceed those of non- represented employees. In addition, should Md. Code Xxx., Pub. Util. §18-116 be changed to remove this requirement, the requirement will revert back to the original five (5) day requirement. Section E - Upon retirement, in accordance with the Retirement Plan unused accumulated sick leave may be applied to an employee's creditable service time benefits for retirement, at the rate of that one day of creditable time for one day of accumulated sick leave. Section F - An employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with absent on sick leave for six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees or more consecutive workdays, or who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year has been admitted to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness hospital or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit hospitalized for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness twenty- four (24) hours or injury, the employee more shall be required to report only upon a weekly basisauthorize and have completed and signed by his/her treating physician the WSSC Release to Return to Work/Physician’s Report form. Failure If there are no restrictions to report may return to work, the form must be cause provided to Human Resources at least four (4) hours, Monday through Friday, prior to the employee’s anticipated return date, to allow for denial adequate review, consultation and/or scheduling. Should any restrictions be noted or accommodations requested, the form must be provided to Human Resources at least forty-eight (48) hours, Monday through Friday, prior to the employee’s anticipated return date, to allow for adequate review, consultation, scheduling and/or coordination of sick pay benefitsany necessary accommodations. Employees who fail to provide the WSSC Release to Return to Work/Physician’s Report form and any other applicable required documentation shall not be permitted to resume work. If there are any restrictions noted or accommodations requested, employees must receive authorization from the Human Resources Office prior to being permitted to return to work. The requirements for represented employees shall not exceed those of non-represented employees. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the Section G - Employees who terminate for reasons other than retirement shall not receive any pay or time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the for unused sick leave. An employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at who uses any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal leave during the two-week period prior to the number employee's resignation or termination of regularly scheduled hours such employment shall not be paid for any portion of the leave, unless the employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedsupplies medical proof of his/her illness. (g) Section H - A new employee covered by this Agreement may participate in the Sick Leave Bank upon employment. An employee covered by this Agreement may donate sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the directly to another employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leavecovered by this Agreement.

Sick Leave. As A. Sick leave shall accrue to non-probationary members of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days bargaining unit at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment of one (1) day for accumulated sick leaveevery month of service, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited commencing with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilitymonth.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any B. Sick leave may accrue indefinitely, but unused sick days are not reimbursable upon termination or resignation. Accumulated sick leave does not apply to the taking or extending of a vacation. C. Sick leave shall be forfeitedused only for bona fide illness or disability to an eligible member of the unit. Utilization However, in the case of illness of a member of the employee’s immediate family residing in the same household, the employee may be absent and suffer no loss of pay for up to three (3) days in any one year. Such leave shall be charged to the employee’s annual allotment of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only days. An employee who calls in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in sick on a disability holiday on which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredscheduled to work shall produce a doctor’s certificate verifying the illness. D. Payment under this Article shall be made provided that the supervisor is notified of the absence at the earliest possible moment, but in no event after the start of the shift, except in extreme bona fide emergencies. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for If an employee who wishes is not able to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if contact the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injurySupervisor, the employee shall notify Security Headquarters as early as possible, but in no event after the start of the shift, except in extreme bona fide emergencies. All such notifications shall be recorded by Security. E. If requested, a certificate from the employee's doctor shall be required prior to payment to verify three (3) or more consecutive days of sick leave absence. In addition, no payment shall be made for absences of an employee on the day before or after a holiday, a long weekend, or an employee’s vacation period, unless a doctor’s certificate, if requested, is obtained verifying the physical inability of the employee to report only upon to work. Proof of illness, where required, must be presented to the Health Services Department on the day of receipt of the doctor’s certificate as a weekly basiscondition of payment. Failure This provision also shall apply to report absences due to illness of immediate family members residing in the same household. F. To ensure that the employee has sufficiently recovered to return to work, the College may be cause for denial of require a physical examination, at no cost to the employee, prior to return from sick pay benefitsleave. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e1) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established not absent under this Article during the employee’s anniversary year, that employee shall be granted one additional personal day to be used during the following anniversary year. Thereafter, if an employee is not absent due to sickness, the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number shall accrue one (1) personal day for every six (6) months of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationemployment. (f2) The amount It is understood that if an absence due to sickness does occur, the employee must again satisfy the requirements of Section G.(1) above, to qualify for additional personal days. H. Disciplinary action may be taken if a pattern of abuse of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedleave is apparent. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick Section 20.1 Sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: 1) of those unused days at illness or injury to the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated employee; 2) exposure by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made to a contagious disease communicable to other employees; or 3) serious illness, injury or death in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies immediate family. Section 20.2 All full-time employees shall earn sick leave at the Superintendent or designee not later than rate of 4.6 hours per pay period of active service up to a maximum of fifteen (15) minutes after days per year. Sick leave shall accumulate without limit from year to year. Section 20.3 An employee who is absent on sick leave shall notify his supervisor or designee of such absence and the scheduled starting time on reason therefore at least two (2) hours prior to the start of his work shift each day that the employee will he is to be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsprovided there are no extenuating circumstances. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Section 20.4 Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. Howeversegments of not less than one (1) hour. Section 20.5 Before an absence may be charged against accumulated sick leave, the Chief or his designee may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, or may require the employee to be examined by a physician designated by the Chief or his designee and paid by the City. Section 20.6 If the employee fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury or death upon request of the Chief or his designee, or in the event that such proof is submitted or upon the report of medical examination, the Chief or his designee finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness, injury or death sufficient to justify the employee’s absence, such leave may be considered an unauthorized leave and shall be without pay and the employee shall be subject to disciplinary action. Section 20.7 Any abuse of sick leave or the patterned use of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for discipline as may be determined by the Chief. Section 20.8 The Chief or his designee may require an employee who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined by a physician and paid for by the City, to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his normal duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other employees. Section 20.9 When the use of sick leave is due to illness, injury or death in the immediate family, “immediate family” shall be defined as the employee’s spouse, parent(s), stepparent(s), sisters, brothers, children, stepchildren, or one for whom the employee stands in loco parentis, grandparent(s), Section 20.10 An employee who transfers from this department to another department of the City shall be allowed to transfer his accumulated sick leave to the new department. Section 20.11 Employees shall not be permitted to retain and transfer accumulated sick leave from any public service employment outside the City of Oberlin. Section 20.12 Upon retirement, an employee shall be entitled to receive a cash payment equal to his daily rate of pay at the time of retirement, multiplied by the total hours used in a day number of accumulated but unused sick days earned by the employee and certified by the City Auditor, providing that such resultant number of days to be paid shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leavethirty (30) days at one hundred percent (100%) and up to an additional sixty (60) days paid at thirty-three and one-third percent (33 1/3%).

Sick Leave. As An employee, in continuous service with Bega Cheese, who is unable to attend for duty during his/her ordinary working hours by reason of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee personal illness or personal incapacity shall be entitled to be paid at their ordinary rate of pay for onethe time of such non-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is attendance subject to the following conditionsfollowing: (a) Sick He/she shall not be entitled to paid leave of absence for any period in respect of which he/she is entitled to workers' compensation, provided however, that Bega Cheese shall pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for such to an employee, if the employee so requests, and who has sick leave entitlement under this clause, the difference between the amount received as workers' compensation and full pay. If Bega Cheese pays such difference the employee's sick leave entitlement under this clause shall, for each week during which such difference is paid be reduced by that proportion of 38 hours which the difference paid, bears to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerfull pay. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earnedHe/she shall, as soon as is reasonably possible so as to allow Bega Cheese to make alternative arrangements and within 24 hours of the commencement of such absence, inform Xxxx Cheese of his/her inability to attend for duty and as far as possible state the nature of the illness or incapacity and the estimated duration of the same. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if He/she shall prove to the employee satisfaction of Bega Cheese that he/she is or someone was unable on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event account of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryincapacity, to attend for duty on the employee shall day or days for which sick leave payment is claimed, (doctor’s certificate or statutory declaration will be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsaccepted as satisfactory proof). (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that full-time employee with more than 12 months service shall be entitled, in respect of any year of continued employment to 10 days sick pay. An employee with less than 12 months service shall be entitled, in respect of the time off was due first year of continued employment to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling sick pay of 5 days. Any period of paid sick leave allowed by Bega Cheese to the extent that employee in any such year shall be deducted from the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement period of a physician’s certificate sick leave which may be imposed at allowed or carried forward in this Agreement in respect of any timesuch year. (e) In employees including casuals, who are genuinely ill or sick are not expected or required to attend for work. This should assist in their recovery and will protect against spread of illness and minimize the event threat to product contamination. (f) Employees engaged on other than eight hour shifts on a permanent basis shall be entitled to sick leave based on the usual length of their shift. For example those engaged on twelve hour shifts shall be entitled to 60 hours or 120 hours paid sick leave in their first and subsequent years of service respectively. (g) Where an employee receives is not engaged permanently on an other than eight hour shift, they shall still be entitled to claim sick leave based on the rostered hours they would have worked had they not been sick. In such cases the sick leave debit shall be made against their entitlements of 38 or 76 hours per annum. The rights to sick leave shall accumulate from year to year so long as the employment continues with Bega Cheese so that any sick leave which has not previously been allowed, up to a maximum of 61 days, may be claimed by the employee in a subsequent year of such continued employment. In certain circumstances Bega Cheese will pay benefits long serving employees for sick leave during sustained periods over and it is subsequently established above the maximum sick days allowed to be accrued (i.e. 456 hours). The actual amount Bega Cheese may pay will take into account the actual sick leave accrued by each particular long serving employee, net of actual sick leave taken, (from commencement of employment) which may be over and above 456 hours. Continuous service shall be deemed not to have been broken by: (h) any absence from work on leave granted by Bega Cheese; or (i) any absence from work by reason of personal illness, injury or other reasonable cause (proof whereof shall in each case be upon the employee). Employees who fail to notify their supervisor of their inability to attend work, shall be required to produce a medical certificate. Failure to produce a medical certificate will mean that the employee was shall not ill be entitled to payment for the period of absence. Employees who take sick leave on either Saturday, Sunday, where Saturday, Sunday work forms part of their ordinary hours of work public holidays or disabled RDO or has otherwise misused a day immediately preceding or succeeding a public holiday may be required to produce a medical certificate or Statutory Declaration for such period of absence. Failure to produce a medical certificate will mean that the employee shall not be entitled to payment for the period of absence Accrued sick pay benefitsleave entitlements shall be shown on employee payslips. However, it should be noted that any employee who exhibits unsatisfactory behaviour in relation to the use of sick leave will be counselled and given adequate time to demonstrate an improvement. If, at the end of this period, the Court may cancel an equal number employee shows no willingness to improve in the opinion of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employeemanagement, and may subject the employee to then disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave dismissal may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leavetaken.

Sick Leave. As Section 1: Sick leave is hereby defined to mean absence from post of July 1duty of an employee because of illness, 1986accident, all accumulated and exposure to contagious disease or attendance upon a member of the employee’s immediate family seriously ill requiring the care or attendance of such employee. Immediate family means father, mother, spouse, domestic partner, child, xxxxxx child, father in law, mother in law, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, sister or brother of the employee. It shall also include relatives of the employee residing in the employee’s household. Section 2: Each employee shall be entitled to sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bankcredits at the rate of one day per month from the date of employment to the end of the calendar year of hire. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in If separation from employment occurs before the bank end of said year, and the employee has used more sick leave than appropriate on a pro rata basis, he/she shall have an amount equal to his/her daily rate of pay deducted from his/her final pay, for each day of sick leave taken in excess of the number to which he/she was entitled. Each employee shall be paid credited with 15 days sick leave annually for each succeeding calendar year of full-time employment which is accumulative. Sick leave cannot be used as terminal leave when leaving the employ of the County. If upon termination after a year’s service an employee has used more sick leave than that to which he/she is entitled, he/she shall have deducted from his/her final pay an amount equal to his/her daily rate of pay for each day of sick leave taken in excess of the number of sick leave days to which he/she is entitled. Sick leave benefits shall be available to both temporary and permanent employees in accordance with law and existing practices. Notice of absence is required as follows: Each employee is required to notify his/her supervisor by one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted hour before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day of absence, giving the specific reason for the absence, provided, however that shift personnel are required to call in two (2) hours before start time. Should the employee be unable to reach the supervisor, then the Personnel Office should be notified. Failure to give notification as required will be absent from work. In the event result in loss of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basissick leave for that day and may constitute cause for disciplinary action. Failure to report may be cause absences from duty for denial of sick pay benefitsfive (5) consecutive business days shall constitute a resignation pursuant to Civil Service Rules and Regulations. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated . Employees will earn sick leave for employees was frozen and placed at the rate of 0.0575 per hour worked in a bankactive pay status. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee Active pay status shall be defined as hours worked, hours on vacation, hours on holiday leave, hours on paid sick leave and other hours of authorized, paid leave. Sick leave shall be cumulative without limit. 2. Pay for one-half (1/2) of those unused days any sick leave shall be at the same Employee's regular rate paid that employee when he terminates his employmentof pay. 3. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment Sick leave may be requested for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditionspurposes, provided that the Employee has called the Employee’s supervisor and left a message or text message before the Employee’s scheduled starting time for each day of the Employee's absence: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases Illness or injury of actual non-occupational the Employee; (b) Serious illness or injury resulting of immediate family members requiring the Employee's presence at home. Immediate family, for purposes of this Article, shall be defined as the spouse, child, step-child, parent, legal guardian, domestic partner or other relative or dependent who resides in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties Employee's home; (c) Medical, dental, or if a child or parent optical examinations that cannot be scheduled outside normal working hours; (d) Exposure of the employee Employee to a contagious disease if, by reason of such exposure, the Employee's presence at work would pose a substantial risk of contagion and serious illness to co- workers or clients; and (e) Pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, but only to the extent the Employee is ill or injured. Documentation rendered unable to work by reason of such condition; (f) Death of a physician visit for member of the Employee's family, pursuant to Section 9. 4. Upon the request of the Employer, an Employee must furnish satisfactory proof of the employee’s sickness, illness, or disability immediately upon return to work before a child or parent day of sick leave is paid. Such request shall not be made unless the Employer has cause to reasonably believe that the use of sick leave is not warranted. (a) Upon exhaustion of accrued sick leave, the Employee may be required for an employee who wishes permitted to use accrued vacation leave. If the Employee presents a physician's statement that the disability is not likely to exceed six (6) months, sick time in this mannerleave without pay or benefits up to a period of six (6) months may be granted when an Employee is sick or injured and is without any accumulated sick leave. (b) Sick pay benefits will If the Employee's physician cannot certify likely recovery within six (6) months, or if the Employee remains unable to return to work after the expiration of the six-month leave, the Employee shall be granted before they have been earnedplaced on disability separation. The Employee may request reinstatement to the employee’s prior classification or any lower classification in the same classification series within a period of two (2) years from the date the Employee was placed on disability separation or unpaid sick leave, whichever was earlier. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent An Employee requesting reinstatement from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall disability separation may be required to report only upon submit to an examination by an Employer selected occupational physician or a weekly basisphysician specializing in the Employee's area of alleged disability. Failure The examination must show that the Employee has recovered from the disability and is able to report may be cause for denial perform all of sick the material duties of the position to which reinstatement is sought. The Employer shall pay benefitsthe cost of the examination. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event there is no vacancy in the Employee's prior classification or a lower classification in the same classification series, the Employee may displace only an Employee with less seniority. If no Employee has less seniority, the Employee requesting reinstatement shall be laid off. Any employee receives displaced by an Employee returning from disability separation shall be subject to the layoff and recall provisions of Article 19, herein. 6. Sick leave shall be charged in minimum amounts of fifteen (15) minutes. An Employee requesting sick leave shall inform the employee’s supervisor of such request and the reason therefor. Failure to do so may result in denial of sick leave for the period of absence and/or disciplinary action. 7. The Employer may require the Employee to submit to a medical examination to verify the proper use of sick leave for long term medical leaves (those longer than two months). The Employer shall select the physician and pay benefits for the examination. 8. If an Employee transfers to the service of the Employer from another County department or from another Ohio public agency, the Employer shall credit the Employee, upon written request and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused verification, with the sick leave balance held by the Employee with the Ohio public agency. 9. An Employee shall be paid sick leave pay benefitsfor up to five (5) working days' absence in the event of the death of the Employee's spouse, child, step-child, domestic partner, parent, grandparent, brother or sister xxxxxxxxxx, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law or legal guardian (or other person who stands in the Court may cancel an equal number place of a parent). Death of a member of the employee’s extended family, as defined under Board Policy, will not exceed one (1) working day for purposes of sick days previously accrued leave usage and must coincide with the date of the death or to be accrued by date of the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick funeral; other benefit leave may be used as available and approved by the Supervisor. Days of sick leave-funeral leave taken must coincide with the day of death or the day of funeral. Satisfactory proof of domestic partner status shall be required. 10. In appropriate circumstances including those of unusual distances of travel or extreme weather conditions the Employer may, at its sole discretion, grant up to an additional two (2) days of unpaid leave for the Employee to travel to the funeral of a relative in the family as described in Section 9, above. 11. An Employee must complete and sign an Application for Usage of Sick Leave immediately upon return to work to qualify for use of sick leave. Signing one’s timesheet noting the use of sick time is sufficient. 12. An Employee who is absent from duty without leave or without notice to the employee’s supervisor of the reason for such absence will be subject to discipline pursuant to Article 9. 13. Upon retirement under STRS, PERS or permanent disability, regardless of years of service, an Employee will be entitled to payment of one-quarter hour increments or more. However, fourth of the total hours used in employee’s accrued but unused sick leave up to a day shall not exceed maximum of forty (40) days at the number Employee's rate of regularly scheduled hours pay at the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leavetime of retirement.

Sick Leave. As A. Sick leave utilization shall be for physical and mental disability absences which are medically necessary and caused by illness, injury, pregnancy or quarantine. Any use of sick leave credit for sick leave purposes shall be without loss of compensation. B. Each July 1, 1986a full-time, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half twelve (1/212) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period month unit member shall be credited with their annual sick leave entitlement of thirteen (13) days in advance of actual accrual for the purpose of sick leave utilization. A part-time unit member shall be credited with sick leave in the same ratio that his employment bears to full-time twelve (12) month employment. Any sick leave taken, but not yet earned prior to separation from the Office of Education, shall result in an adjustment to the unit member's final pay warrant. C. A unit member, upon initial employment, shall be eligible to take not more than six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during days, or the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization proportionate amount of sick leave benefits is subject to which they are entitled, until the first day of the calendar month following conditions:six (6) months of service. (a) Sick pay benefits D. The Superintendent reserves the right to require a unit member to provide a statement by a physician verifying the cause of absence. E. A unit member’s unused sick leave shall accumulate from year to year. The unit member’s sick leave entitlement shall be available in the Office of Education unit member leave system. F. Each unit member shall once a year be credited with a total of not less than 100 working days of paid sick leave, in addition to days to which they are entitled under Subsections B and C. Such days of paid sick leave, in addition to those required by Subsection B and C, shall be compensated at not less than 50 percent of the unit member’s regular salary. The paid sick leave authorized hereunder shall be exclusive of any other paid leave, holidays, vacation or compensating time to which the unit member may be entitled. Credit for such days of paid sick leave, in addition to those required by Subsections B and C, shall not accumulate from year to year. 1. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unit members during their initial probationary employment with the County Office shall be credited with a total of not less than 100 working days of paid sick leave, including the days to which they are entitled under Subsections B and C. Such days of paid sick leave in addition to those required by subsection B and C shall be compensated at not less than 50 percent of the unit member’s regular salary G. When a unit member retires under PERS, STRS, or CERS, he shall be paid only twenty-five percent (25%) of all unused sick leave, if he has been employed by the Office of Education for ten (10) years or more. In lieu thereof, he may convert unused sick leave to retirement credit in cases of actual non-occupational illness accordance with Government Code Section 20862.5, or injury resulting in its successor, if he is filing a disability which makes it impossible request for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent retirement. H. A unit member becoming aware of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit need for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness surgery, pregnancy or injuryother predictable or scheduled cause, shall submit a statement from his attending physician as far in advance of the initial disability date as possible. The physician's statement shall include the anticipated beginning date of disability, the employee cause of the disability and the anticipated date of return to active service. I. To the fullest extent possible during and absence and immediately upon return to active service, the unit member shall post all leave days to the Office of Education electronic leave system. J. The unit member shall provide, upon Office of Education request, additional and acceptable verification of the use of these leave provision information as permitted by law to verify a unit member’s eligibility for Family Medical and/or California Family Rights Leave Act. K. A unit member, who has experienced a disability absence requiring surgery, hospitalization or extended medical treatment, shall be required to report only upon submit, prior to return to active duty, a weekly basis. Failure medical statement indicating his ability to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsreturn to his position classification without restrictions or detriment to his physical and emotional well-being. (d) L. The Court may Office of Education retains the right to require a medical examination of a unit member by an Office of Education appointed physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement cost of a physician’s certificate may such examination shall be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued borne entirely by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationOffice of Education. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As (a) All employees, following completion of July 1their probationary period, 1986, all accumulated shall be entitled to receive sick leave for employees was frozen and placed with pay in a bank. Employees accordance with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained the provisions of this Article; (b) The employee shall report his inability to attend work to his immediate supervisor or in the bank case of the absence or unavailability of the immediate supervisor, to the alternate person designated from time to time by the Employer for such purpose; (c) Notification under provisions of Clause 18.04 (b) shall be given at least one hour before the scheduled time of the commencement or work; (d) An employee who fails to notify the Employer as provided in Clauses 18.04 (b) and 18.04 (c) shall be deemed to be absent without permission; (e) Pay for hours or days on sick leave shall be computed on the basis of the normal working hours for such employee for the day on which sick leave occurs, at the employee’s regular straight time hourly rate of pay; (f) If required by the Employer, acting reasonably, the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances produce and provide a medical certificate from a qualified physician in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year a form satisfactory to the next. Any unused sick days Employer, to support absences from work for medical reasons; (g) An employee shall be forfeited. Utilization not take other paid employment or work while in receipt of sick leave benefits from the Employer. Violation of this provision shall result in immediate termination of employment; (h) No employee shall be entitled to receipt of sick leave benefits as the result of injury arising out of or during the course of employment with another employer; (i) Entitlement to sick leave benefits shall terminate automatically upon termination of employment of the employee. Without restricting the generality of the foregoing, an employee who is subject under notice of termination shall receive sick leave benefits, if applicable, only until the expiration of the period of such notice or of the period of benefit, whichever first occurs; (j) Xxxx leave shall not be granted to an employee for any injury covered by the provision of Worker’s Compensation payments; (k) The total sick leave entitlement of any employee shall be computed on the basis of 0.83 days entitlement for each completed month of service to a maximum benefit of ten (10) days in any calendar year, in which three (3) days are considered personal days. Unused sick and personal days in any period may not be carried forward to a subsequent year; (l) Personal days can be used in the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits situations: ⮚ In the case of an illness of a member of the Employee’s immediate family and when no one other than the employee can provide for the needs of the ill person. Immediate family shall be paid only in cases defined as the parent, child or spouse of actual non-occupational illness the employee. ⮚ In the case of an emergency which requires the employee’s personal attention resulting from a situation which cannot reasonably be served by others or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for attended to by the employee to perform regular duties or if at a child or parent of time when the employee is ill or injurednot working. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. ⮚ For all other requirements with 48 hours notice (b) Sick pay benefits such requests will not be granted before they have been earnedas operational requirements permit). (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As SECTION 1 Sick leave shall be considered to be absence from work with pay for the following reasons: A. Illness or injury, except where directly connected to employment by an employer other than the City of July 1Middletown. B. When the employee is required to undergo medical, 1986optical, all accumulated sick or dental treatment. C. A special leave shall be granted for employees was frozen and placed in attendance upon members of the immediate family where serious illnesses, supported by a bank. Employees with banked sick doctor's certificate, requires the care of such employee, but said time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in subtracted from accrued sick leave. Immediate family is defined for the bank and the purpose of this Article to be father, mother, sister, brother, spouse, children, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, aunt, uncle, step-children, adopted children or any relative domiciled within an employee's household. SECTION 2 Each permanent, full-time employee shall be paid for credited with sick leave, with pay, at the rate of one and one-half fourth (1/21 1/4) working days for each complete calendar month of those unused days service until the end of the fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, each such employee shall accumulate sick leave, with pay at the same rate paid that employee of fifteen (15) days for each full fiscal year of service. SECTION 3 Holidays and regular days off shall not be counted in computing sick leave taken. SECTION 4 Unused days of sick leave with pay shall be accumulated from fiscal year to fiscal year and may be used for the purpose specified herein, if and when he terminates his employmentneeded. In those instances in which Sick leave shall be granted for absence from duty because of illness, non-compensable bodily injury or disease or exposure to contagious disease. SECTION 5 When an employee terminates and receives payment finds it necessary to be absent for any of the reasons specified herein, he/she shall cause the facts to be reported to his/her department head or Mayor's office one (1) hour before the hour to report for work, except where sufficiently extenuating circumstances exist. SECTION 6 The City may require sufficient proof for use of sick leave. The City will not normally require a doctor's certificate for absences of three (3) days or less, except in cases of suspected abuse. SECTION 7 In cases of extreme emergency involving employees who, through serious or protracted illness, have used all of their accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization extensions of sick leave benefits with pay and leaves of absence for sick leave purposes, may be granted to employees per the procedures outlined in the City of Middletown Code of Ordinances (20-30 through 20-33) (Section 74-3 subsections A. through D.). It is subject specifically understood by the Union that all extensions of sick leave with pay must be paid back to the following conditions:City either by a deduction from future accrued sick leave or vacation time according to a method determined by the City's Finance Department or monetarily if the employee ceases employment with the City. Such reimbursement must occur prior to the City releasing any payment for accrued benefits or pension contributions. SECTION 8 Sick leave earned in any month of service shall be available at any time during any subsequent month. SECTION 9 Sick leave will continue to accrue during the time employees are on authorized sick leave or vacation time. SECTION 10 No credit for sick leave shall be granted for time worked by an employee in excess of his/her normal work week. SECTION 11 Sick leave shall not accrue for any month the employee is on leave of absence without pay in aggregate or more than five (a5) Sick pay benefits working days. SECTION 12 An employee who retires or terminates his/her employment with the City shall be paid only in cases fifty percent (50%) of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for his/her accumulated sick leave, exempting, however, the employee amount to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredbe paid shall not exceed one hundred (100) days pay. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits Full payment will be paid only if made by the employee or someone on City for any accumulated sick leave at the employee’s behalf notifies time of death in accordance with the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee limitations contained herein. Payment will be absent from workmade to employee's spouse and children, in that order. In the event that a member of a long-term period of absence due the bargaining unit is terminated for just cause he/she will forfeit this benefit if it is decided by an Arbitrator, pursuant to such illness or injuryArticle XII Grievance Procedure, Section 2, that the just cause for which the employee was terminated was sufficient to deprive the employee of this benefit. SECTION 13 Sick time at the rate of one and one-quarter (1-1/4) days a month shall accrue to each employee when, he/she is on Worker's Compensation, but shall not continue to accrue after twelve (12) months. SECTION 14 Members of the Union shall have the option to be required to report only upon a weekly basispaid annually for thirty percent (30%) of the sick leave earned but not taken in the previous fiscal year. Failure to report may be cause for denial Said thirty percent (30%) of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event leave for which an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that compensation under this subsection will be removed from the employee was s sick leave account. lf the employee wishes to keep all of his/her accumulated sick leave from the previous fiscal year and not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused receive the sick pay benefitsmonetary option, the Court may cancel an equal number full one hundred percent (100%) of unused sick days previously accrued or leave shall be added to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination's sick leave account. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Sick leave constitutes absence for reasons of July 1illness, 1986or injury; medical, all accumulated optical, dental examinations or treatments; when serious or contagious disease affects a member of the employee’s family and requires that employee’s care and attendance or when, through exposure to contagious disease, a physician certifies that the employee’s presence at the place of duty jeopardizes the health of others. (Immediate family shall include parents, spouse, children, brother, sister, grandparents and grandchildren, persons occupying the position of parent of the employee, or any relative who is an actual member of the employee’s household.) When absence is required under the provisions of sick leave for employees was frozen and placed leave, that employee or another person in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in his stead shall notify his supervisor of the bank and the employee shall be paid for reason within one-half (1/2) hour prior to the commencement of those unused days the work day or as soon thereafter as is possible. Employees employed at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates Children’s Center or another person in his employmentstead shall notify the supervisor at least four (4) hours prior to the commencement of the work day, or as soon thereafter as is possible. Sickness during the workday or otherwise shall be reported to the immediate supervisor, who, in turn, shall notify the department head. In those instances the event that such employee or person is unable to notify the appropriate department head or his designee, such employee or other person shall notify the Monroe County Office of the Director of Human Resources. Sick leave shall be earned and posted at the rate of one (1) day per month of service, up to a maximum of 200 days. Sick leave that extends five (5) or more consecutive working days must be supported by a standard medical certificate completed by an attending physician. The form shall be submitted to the department head within seven days following the return to work. When sick leave is used for three or more consecutive days because of illness in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leavethe immediate family, the position vacated a certificate by the employee will remain vacant until attending physician covering the accumulated sick time benefits nature of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed illness and the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible need for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent be in attendance of the employee relative is ill required. The Director of Human Resources may verify the validity of any absence under these regulations. Should a doctor or injured. Documentation of a physician other qualified representative be assigned to visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not during an illness, such person shall be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on allowed into the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basishome. Failure to report may submit evidence of illness when required will cause the absence to be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the considered as time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to without pay. Any employee engaging in gainful outside employment while on sick leave from the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day County shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on be entitled to sick leaveleave payment.

Sick Leave. As SECTION 1: Sick leave shall be considered to be absent from duty with pay for the following reasons: Illness or Injury, except where directly traceable to employment by an employer other than the TOWN OF WALLINGFORD. When the employee is required to undergo medical, optical or dental treatment, and only when this cannot be accomplished on off-duty hours. When the serious illness of a member of the employee's immediate family requires his personal attendance, if supported by a medical certificate, but not to exceed three (3) days per calendar year. Immediate family, for the purposes of this section, is defined as the employee's mother, father, spouse, son and daughter. The employee shall provide the Town with a medical certificate acceptable to the Town within three (3) business days following his or her return to work. If this documentation is not provided within this timeframe, the time taken will be charged as absence without pay. SECTION 2: The Town shall offer a sick leave incentive payment to employees who do not take any sick leave in a calendar year under the following conditions. The purpose of this payment is to reward employees for working an entire year without utilizing any sick leave. If an employee uses sick leave for any reason, he shall be ineligible for this payment. If an employee is at the maximum permitted accumulation on January 1 and does not use any sick days in a calendar year (January through December), he shall receive in January of the next calendar year, an incentive payment of $600.00. If an employee who is not at the maximum permitted accumulation on January 1 does not use any sick days in a calendar year (January through December), he shall receive in January of the next calendar year, an incentive payment of $3 00.00. SECTION 3: Sick Leave Allowance shall be earned by each regular employee at the rate of one and one-half (1-1/2) working days for each full calendar month of service. Employees hired on or after July 1, 1986, all accumulated 2008 shall accrue sick leave at the rate of one and one-quarter (1.25) working days for employees was frozen and placed each full calendar month of service. SECTION 4: Sick Leave earned in a bankany month of service shall be available at any time during any subsequent month. SECTION 5: No Sick Leave with pay may be granted any member of the classified service with less than six (6) months' total service. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and After six (6) months' service, however, the employee shall be entitled to a reserve or accrual of nine (9) days Sick Leave Credit, with future accumulation in accordance with the above. For employees hired on or after July 1, 2008, this reserve or accrual shall be seven and one-half (7.5) days' sick leave credit with future accumulations in accordance with Section 3 above for such new hires. SECTION 6: All unused Sick Leave earned during continuous employment may be accumulated up to a maximum of one hundred and fifty (150) days. SECTION 7: Sick Leave shall continue to accumulate during Leaves of Absence with pay and during the time an employee is on authorized sick leave or vacation time. SECTION 8: No credit for Sick Leave shall be granted for time worked by an employee in excess of his normal work week. SECTION 9: No Sick Leave shall accrue during a Leave of Absence without pay. SECTION 10: A medical certificate is required for a period of absence consisting of more than two (2) consecutive working days and for frequent or habitual absence from Duty and when, in the judgment of the Chief of Police or Personnel Director, there is reasonable cause for requiring such certificate. The employee shall provide the Town with a medical certificate acceptable to the Town within three (3) business days following his or her return to work. If this documentation is not provided within this timeframe, the time taken will be charged as absence without pay. SECTION 11: The redemption of accumulated Sick Leave at retirement shall be made in the following manner: A. Any employee who retires under a bona fide TOWN pension Plan after the required number of years of service, or employees who retire due to a disability, shall be paid a lump sum of money that is equal to the number of sick days due such employee, not to exceed one hundred (100) days, times the prevailing day rate of pay received by the employee on the date of such Retirement. For employees hired on or after July 1, 2008, this payout shall be limited to a maximum of sixty-five (65) days of pay as calculated above. B. Upon the death of an employee, the amount of Sick Leave due such employee, not to exceed ninety (90) days, shall be payable to his designated beneficiary in the same manner as provided for in Section 11, Item (a) of this Agreement. C. Employees hired on or after July 1, 2016 who retire as a terminated vested participant shall not be eligible for a sick leave payout. SECTION 12: An employee is required to inform the duty officer that he is sick at least one (1) hour before the start of all shifts; otherwise, such employee shall be required to obtain a medical certificate. SECTION 13: In the event any employee exhausts his entire accumulated sick leave, the Town, acting through the Personnel Director, may grant extensions up to thirty (30) working days. Any extension granted shall be repaid to the Town with one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated annual sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and until it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationrepaid in full. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As b. The Employee or the Employee’s spouse/domestic partner is the natural parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, legal guardian, xxxxxx parent, or other person standing in place of July 1, 1986, all accumulated the parent to the child. c. The Employee’s child has a health condition requiring the Employee’s personal supervision during the hours of his/her absence from work. d. The Employee actually attends to the child’s care during the absence from work. 5. The care of an Employee’s adult family member whose health condition requires the Employee’s personal supervision during his/ her absence from work. 6. The Employee’s personal appointment with a licensed health care provider. 7. domestic violence leave that satisfies the conditions of RCW 49.76. An Employee who is absent from work as provided by RCW 49.76 may elect to use his or her sick leave and other paid time off, compensatory time, or unpaid leave time. B. Absences for employees was frozen and placed in a banksick leave must be reported at least 30 minutes before the Employee is scheduled to report. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days An absence reported less than 30 minutes before an Employee is scheduled to report will be maintained in the bank considered unexcused and will not be changed to an excused absence unless such Employee can submit verification from a licensed practitioner that s/he or his/her child received medical treatment and the employee shall Employee was unable to report the absence as required. Payment will be paid for one-half (1/2) made only when the Employee, child, or qualifying family member is sick. C. The ability to work regularly is a requirement of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his continued employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated see MOA page 180 D. Each Employee who uses paid sick leave, the position vacated or who takes other time off for a reason permitted by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated Paragraph A, must sign a sick leave benefits during certification form. The form confirms that the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to Employee’s absence is for a reason permitted by Paragraph A, and that the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization Employee understands use of sick leave benefits in a manner inconsistent with Paragraph A constitutes a falsification of a sick report, which is subject a major infraction per Article 4, Section 3. A certification will be turned in within five calendar days of the day the Employee returns to work. An Employee who refuses to sign or provide the certification shall receive an unexcused absence for each day or partial day of absence for which there is no signed certification. E. Except as follows, medical verifications will no longer be required for absences, and will be replaced by the self-certification program described above. METRO may require medical or, as appropriate, other independent verification whenever: 1. An Employee is absent for more than five consecutive workdays, or 2. An Employee has insufficient accrued sick leave to cover an absence for a reason permitted by Paragraph A and requests use of AC time, vacation or unpaid leave, or 3. An Employee has previously been placed on notice of suspected sick leave abuse (which is not grievable), and is thereafter further suspected of sick leave abuse after a reasonable investigation. The assessment of whether a reasonable suspicion exists will depend on all of the facts and circumstances known to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases Unit Supervisor responsible for making the decision. Evidence of actual non-occupational illness potential sick leave abuse may include but is not limited to circumstances where an Employee is absent repeatedly, or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties has absences that precede or if a child follow RdOs, or parent of the employee is ill or injuredthat follow some other pattern. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent Verification under this Paragraph may be required for an employee who wishes a period up to use sick time in this mannersix months. (b) Sick pay benefits F. An Employee who abuses sick leave may be subject to discipline. In addition to the discipline, such Employee may be required to provide medical verification of all sick leave use for a maximum period of one year from the most recent date of disciplinary action. METRO will not consider approved FMLA/KCFML leaves in assessing discipline. G. METRO may, at its discretion, visit or call an Employee at home to verify illness. H. When a medical verification is required, it shall be on a medical report acceptable to METRO, from a licensed practitioner, stating that the Employee was unable to perform his/her duties and the date of treatment/hospitalization or that the Employee was required to supervise a sick family member. I. For medical appointments, METRO may request that the licensed practitioner’s office confirm in writing that the Employee had an appointment. Further medical verification will not be granted before they have been earnedrequired for a scheduled medical appointment when the Employee has given at least two days notice to his/her immediate supervisor. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if J. METRO’s disability Services Coordinator/designee from Metro Disability Services and the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or Union President/designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day shall immediately review any allegations of arbitrary and/or unfair treatment that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due are brought to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling their attention relating to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement administration of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.Paragraph

Sick Leave. As Sick leave shall be earned at the rate of July 13.7 hours per completed two-week pay period of service. Service shall begin on the date of State employment and time on layoff, 1986suspension or leave without pay, all accumulated except as otherwise provided by law or this Agreement, shall not be counted in determining the completion of a full two- week pay period. The maximum amount of sick leave which employees may accumulate shall be one hundred twenty (120) days. However, the amount of unused sick leave accruals which can be credited toward State service for retirement purposes shall continue as presently provided for by statute. When maximum limitation has been accumulated, days that would normally thereafter be earned shall lapse but shall be recorded by the appointing authority. Any employee who has such lapsed sick leave to his/her credit may apply to the Director of Human Resources to have the sick leave restored in the event of an extended illness. The Director of Human Resources shall grant such request unless just cause is shown to deny the request. Part-time employees was frozen employed normally the year-round and placed in established on a bankregular hourly work schedule shall be allowed sick leave credits prorated on the amount of time worked. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it their allowance of sick leave on the basis of application approved by their respective appointing authorities and reported to the Director of Human Resources, for illness. Unused sick days will absences necessitated by inability to perform the duties of their positions by reason of illness or injury, by necessity for acute medical or dental care, by exposure to contagious disease under circumstances in which the health of the employees with whom associated or members of the public necessarily dealt with would be maintained endangered by attendance on duty, or by illness in the bank and immediate family of the employee for such periods as the attendance of the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at necessary. Immediate family as used in this article shall mean the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveemployee’s spouse, or significant other, the position vacated by parents of the employee will spouse or significant other, and the parents, stepparents, guardian, children, brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, stepsisters, grandparents, grandchildren, stepchildren or wards of the employee. For the purpose of this Article, “significant other” means that a relationship exists between two people, neither of whom is married, that is intended to remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee indefinitely and where there is joint responsibility for each other’s common welfare, there are significant shared financial obligations, and they must be living together in a shared primary residence. This relationship must have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with existed for at least six (6) continuous months before benefits under this Article may be provided. Employees are encouraged to consult with their agency-department Personnel Officer to determine if they are eligible for benefits available under the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Either the appointing authority or the Director of Human Resources may require such medical examination or certificate as he/she deems necessary before approving the utilization of sick days on January 1 of each yearleave. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated All sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone expire on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent date of separation from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryState service, the and no employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause reimbursed for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that leave outstanding at the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timetermination of his/her State employment. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Section 29.1 Sick leave shall be granted to regular and part-time Employees in accordance with the following provisions. Sick leave is provided as a benefit to the Employee. Employees have no vested right to Sick leave except as set forth below. Section 29.2 Sick leave for Employees is used in the following situations: A. When Employees are (1) incapacitated by their own sickness or non-job- related injury; or (2) absent for medical, dental, optical appointments or treatment; or for pregnancy related reasons (3) exposed to a contagious disease when the attendance at duty, in the opinion of July the City Physician, jeopardizes the health of others. Sick leave is not available for job-related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City or another employer entity. B. For necessary care and attendance of a member of the Employee's immediate family who (1) is incapacitated by illness or injury or (2) for their medical treatment or appointments. For the purpose of this Section, 1986"Immediate Family" shall be defined as a parent of the Employee, all accumulated spouse, child, or "step" or “adoptive” situations within these relationships or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to the Employee when the Employee was a child. A child is defined as under eighteen (18) years of age, or eighteen (18) years or older if the child is incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability. This also includes individuals for whom the Employee is the current legal guardian. Section 29.3 Sick leave used shall not exceed the total amount accrued to the Employee at the time of his/her absence. Leave without pay may be granted for sickness extending beyond the amount of accrued sick leave. After each thirty (30) days during such leave without pay, the Employee shall present to his/her department head a doctor's statement of his/her continued inability to perform his/her normal duties. Section 29.4 Sick leave shall be accrued on the first day of the month following completion of thirty (30) days of continuous service. Sick leave may not be expended until after completion of one full calendar month of employment. Section 29.5 Sick leave shall be accrued at a rate of eight (8) hours for each full calendar month of service for full time Employees. Sick leave shall be prorated for part- time Employees in accordance with Section 303.42 of the Human Resources Policy and Procedure Manual. An Employee may accrue a maximum of twelve hundred (1200) hours of sick leave. During any leave which is in excess of one-hundred sixty (160) hours, whether it is paid or unpaid, no vacation or sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained accrued during the entire period of the leave. The adjustment shall be prorated to the nearest week. Full time Employees must complete in excess of twenty (20) hours of actual work within a workweek to be eligible for accruals to recommence after an extended absence. Such absence (except as provided for in the bank and the employee Military Leave Policy) shall not be paid used in computing time in grade for one-half (1/2) Satisfactory Performance Increases or for completion of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which probationary period. Section 29.6 Unless an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveEmployee is approved to flex their time, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization amount of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits used by an Employee shall be paid only the amount of time the Employee was absent during his/her scheduled work day. Work and/or crew assignment shall be a factor in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting such a decision. Holidays and other days not scheduled for work are excluded in a disability which makes it impossible for computing sick leave expenditures. Any sick leave accruals lost due to inaction by the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits Employee will not be granted before they have been earnedreinstated. Section 29.7 Employees may convert accrued sick leave in excess of nine hundred sixty (c960) hours to vacation leave, provided the total accrued vacation leave may not exceed the maximum allowed under “Vacation Leave" provisions. Conversion shall be at a ratio of one (1) hour of vacation for one (1) hour of sick leave. Section 29.8 An Employee transferring from one department to another shall have his/her total accrued sick leave transferred to the new department. The accrued sick leave shall be recorded on the Personnel Action form. Section 29.9 Upon retirement as defined in the Human Resources Policy and Procedures, death, or disability, Employees with at least nine hundred sixty (960) hours accrued sick leave shall receive payment for accrued sick leave at a rate of one (1) hour of pay for every three (3) hours of sick leave up to a maximum of three hundred twenty (320) hours of pay. Employees who lack the necessary sick leave accrual bank to qualify for the sick leave retirement buyout (960 hours), shall provide evidence of and receive credit for major illness or non-job-related injury leave periods of at least forty (40) consecutive work hours to reach qualification levels. In such cases, approved sick leave periods extending at least forty (40) hours shall be added back to the accrual bank for calculation purposes only. Any buyout would then occur only on the current actual, available sick leave balance. Section 29.10 An Employee who is separated, or resigns in lieu of discipline (regardless of eligibility for retirement benefits) for theft of City property or resources (including theft of time), embezzlement, fraud, falsification, deliberate destruction to City property, or inappropriate use of City property or P-card is ineligible for payment of accrued sick leave. Sick pay benefits will leave payout at the end of employment may be paid only withheld if the employee Employee owes any type of repayment to the City, including for overpayment of wages. Section 29.11 A regular or someone on part-time Employee who leaves the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later classified service to enlist in active military service other than a reserve unit and who applies for re-employment within fifteen (15) minutes days after having been rejected or ninety (90) days after an honorable discharge shall have the former unused sick leave credits reinstated. A regular or part-time Employee who is laid off and returns to City employment within one (1) year from the date of layoff shall have the former unused accrued sick leave reinstated (see provisions for military leave). Section 29.12 Sick leave shall not be used during periods of suspension. An Employee who is absent from duty for reasons which entitle him/her to sick leave shall notify his/her supervisor two (2) hours prior to the beginning of the work shift if physically able to do so. Section 29.13 When an absence charged to sick leave is forty (40) consecutive work hours or more, upon returning to work the Employee shall present to the City Physician a statement from his/her doctor describing the illness. The Employee will only return to work if given a medical release from the City Physician. The department head or designee may require a doctor’s statement for shorter absences if there has been an established pattern of abuse such as using sick leave on work days immediately preceding or immediately after a regularly scheduled starting day off or reason to suspect abuse before allowing the absence to be charged to sick leave. The department head or designee may request at any time on each day that a doctor’s statement or medical opinion from the employee City Physician regarding the Employee’s physical ability to perform the duties of the job. An Employee should be notified at the earliest possible time if management requires such a statement upon return to work. Without a doctor’s statement, the Employee will be charged leave without pay for the absence. Section 29.14 A supervisor may request an investigation the alleged illness of an Employee absent from workon sick leave. In the event False or fraudulent use of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee sick leave by an Employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial disciplinary action which may include dismissal. Any Employee who shall receive payment for work performed for any other employer other than the City of Tulsa while on approved sick pay benefitsleave shall be subject to immediate dismissal. This provision shall also apply to Employees who are self-employed and perform work in their private occupation while on approved sick leave. Sick leave is not available for job- related injuries, whether incurred while working for the City, another employer entity, or self-employed. (d) The Court may require Section 29.15 Employees who apply for promotional opportunity must meet the established guidelines on absenteeism as a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due factor in determining promotional qualifications prior to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timebeing certified. Section 29.16 After three (e3) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefitsmonths of service, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave vacation may be used in one-quarter hour increments for sick leave when accrued sick leave has been exhausted. The granting of such vacation time shall be at the discretion of the appropriate supervisor who may, prior to an approval determination, request medical verification of the absence when a question exists regarding the nature of the specific absence or morewhen the Employee’s overall attendance record has been less than satisfactory. HoweverUpon receipt of the appropriate medical verification, the total hours used in Employee shall be granted the use of available vacation leave for the absence. Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) documentation shall serve as appropriate medical verification for using available vacation leave for a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveabsence.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period ‌ Members shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization two hours of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick for each week of active service. In case of absence without pay benefits shall during a bi-weekly pay period, 4 hours SWP will be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or earned if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injuredin a pay status, but not IWP, more than 40 hours. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits Two hours SWP will be paid only earned if the employee or someone on is in a pay status for 1 to 40 hours inclusive in the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from workpay period. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used when a member is quarantined or physically unable to work because of sickness or an off- duty injury. Sickness or injury caused by outside employment which results in oneinability to work cannot be charged to sick leave unless the outside employment is an extension of police service. A. The member of the immediate family is the husband, wife, parent, registered domestic partner, parent-quarter hour increments in-law, child, sister or morebrother, grandchild, or grandparent of member or member of the immediate household of the person seeking to use sick leave. SWP-F shall not exceed two (2) days per occurrence, however additional time may be granted by the immediate supervisor provided the employee submits written verification by the treating physician; and B. It is necessary because of official quarantine or to care for and make arrangements for the sick person, or C. In the case of hospitalization, the following shall apply: Three days shall be granted to all sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department in cases of serious operations, injury, or illness in order to hospitalize a member of the family, be available on the day of any operation or serious test, or to assist in the discharge of the patient from the hospital. D. Childbirth - A member shall be granted one day of sick leave on the day a spouse is taken to the hospital for the purpose of giving birth, one day on the day the spouse gives birth and one day on the day the child is broughthome. SWP-A (Adoption). In the event that a member adopts a Child under the age of twelve (12), the Member may take up to twenty-four (24) hours of leave time when the child is brought home, provided that such days are on a workday or immediately before or after a workday for the Member. This leave time will be charged to SWP, vacation, or holiday comp. time at the discretion of the member and is limited to twenty-four (24) hours per adoption. The Employee must notify their supervisor at least two (2) weeks in advance of the arrival of the adopted child. However, emergency situations will not automatically result in denial. Members covered under this Agreement shall be eligible for Parental Leave under the total City’s Parental Leave Policy 4.7 (Revised 1/1/16). If the City’s Parental Leave Policy is terminated at any time, the parties will revert back to the language above. If the City’s Parental Leave Policy is amended at any time, the union may elect to retain the amended policy or revert back to the language above. Under no circumstances will a member receive the Parental Leave benefit and the twenty-four (24) hours used in a day off under SWP-A above. The duration of this leave shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours be determined on an individual basis by the employee would otherwise have worked had he and her physician. The employee must notify her supervisor approximately two weeks before her expected date of departure. Employees experiencing unexpected emergencies will not been be penalized for failure to give proper notification. All sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department who are off sick or injured, whether service connected, or not, shall be carried on an "unrestricted" basis. No member will be considered on restricted status unless so ordered by the City/Police Physician. The question of whether a member on sick leaveleave shall be restricted to his or her home shall be left to the discretion of the City/Police Physician. The extent of the restriction shall be determined by the City/Police Physician. The City/Police Physician shall consult with the employee's personal or attending physician in making his determination of whether or not to grant or continue the "unrestricted" basis. No City employee shall in any way attempt to directly or indirectly influence the decision of the City/Police Physician.

Sick Leave. As Xxxx leave will be granted to any full-time employee who is unable to perform his/her duty in the school because of July illness or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative such as grandfather, grandmother, grandson, granddaughter, uncle, aunt, or anyone of like relationship by marriage or a member of his own household and consequently has to be absent from his work shall be granted leave of absence for sickness by the Employer. The following provisions shall govern sick leave: 1, 1986, all accumulated . An employee employed on a full-time basis shall be entitled to four days of sick leave as of the first day of employment of each contract year and shall thereafter earn one day of sick leave for employees was frozen each month of employment, in which the employee works or is paid a minimum of five (5) workdays in the month, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of that month and placed which shall not be used prior to the time it is earned and credited to the employee; However, each employee shall be entitled to earn no more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. If the employee terminates his or her employment and has accrued but not earned the 4 sick leave days available to him or her, the school board will withhold the average daily amount for the sick days utilized but unearned by the employee. Such sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because of sickness as herein prescribed. Such sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year; provided that there shall be no limit on the number of days of sick leave an employee may accrue. 2. In accordance with Xxxxx County School Board policies, a teacher may authorize his or her spouse, child, parent, or sibling who is also an employee of the Xxxxx County Public Schools to use sick leave that has accrued to the authorizing teacher, provided that the recipient may not use the donated sick leave until all of his or her sick leave has been depleted, excluding sick leave from a sick leave pool, if the recipient participates in a banksick leave pool. Employees with banked Donated sick time leave under this paragraph shall have no terminal pay value as provided in Article XIII section G 2 (Terminal Pay). 3. As used in this section, one day of sick leave for the purpose of accrual and use, shall mean to be the equivalent in hours and may utilize it for illnessbe accrued at the end of the month. Unused sick Any portion of leave days accumulated may be taken and charged in increments of not less than thirty (30) minutes; provided, that leave may be taken only in one-half (½) day increments if any portion of the requested leave will be maintained in during student contact. 4. In the bank and event that an employee uses more than five consecutive work or paid days of leave allowance, the employee shall provide the District through ESS online leave process, a doctor's statement attesting to the illness with the anticipated date of return as soon after the sixth day as possible but, in any case, prior to receiving the paycheck for the pay period in which the sixth day occurred or any subsequent paychecks. Should the employee be unable to submit the doctor's statement as required above, he shall be paid for one-half (1/2) any sick leave to which he is entitled when the doctor's statement is submitted to the Payroll Office. 5. Principals are encouraged to monitor the use of those unused sick leave to ensure that all teachers act in a manner consistent with the requirements of their positions. Excessive absences by any teacher places tremendous stress on the teachers who are present to render professional services for the absent teacher. Disciplinary measures may be taken when abuses are identified. When they must be absent, teachers are expected to provide adequate and appropriate notice. 6. Employees using accrued or extended sick leave for more than five consecutive work or paid days at of leave allowance, shall be responsible for providing the same rate paid principal with emergency plans that employee when he terminates his employmentwill allow a school official or substitute teacher to render professional services for the absent teacher. In those instances These emergency plans should be updated quarterly and kept on file with the principal in which an employee terminates the event a teacher needs to go out on extended leave unexpectedly. When a teacher has advanced notice of the need to use extended leave, more detailed and receives payment for accumulated time specific lesson plans and materials should be provided to the principal. For a planned extended FMLA absence, one week of lesson plans should be provided to the principal. Principals should not make work related contact with employees during the time accrued, extended sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made or paid leave is being used except in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilityemergency situations.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick Sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will should be maintained entered in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated AESOP system by the employee will remain vacant until no later than twenty-four (24) hours from the accumulated use of the sick time benefits day. Each Employee shall be granted 12 (twelve) sick leave days. An Employee employed after the beginning of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by a school year or terminated before the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary end of his/her contract period shall be granted a sick leave bank adjusted according to the above rules. a. All sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall be credited to him/her. Any sick leave days not used by the end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for the following year, up to a maximum of 130 days. b. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days by an Employee shall be: i. Personal illness, injury, quarantine or medical appointments; ii. Serious illness in the immediate family, i.e., husband, wife, child, father or mother that requires the presence of the Employee. c. The Employee shall notify the administrator of his/her impending absence stating the period of leave and where he/she can be contacted during the day. Each Employee shall give such notification prior to his/her scheduled on-the-job starting time. d. The Employee may be required by the Superintendent to give a written, signed statement from the Employee’s physician or from the Employee indicating the reason for such absence when reporting to work on the first working day following his/her absence. Additionally, the Employee may be asked to complete paperwork to assist the Agency in determining if the use of sick time qualifies as a serious health condition under the Family Medical Leave Act. Failure to comply with six (6) this provision can result in the withholding of pay for such leave days. e. Accumulated sick leave time shall terminate upon termination of employment. f. Up to 30 sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick accumulated beyond 100 days shall be forfeited. Utilization reimbursed at a rate of sick leave benefits is subject to $75 per day upon the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerEmployee’s retirement. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Any sick leave applied for in this section that qualifies for leave under the Family and Medical Leave Article of July 1, 1986, all accumulated this Agreement shall be used in conjunction with the rules of that Article of this Agreement. a. All bargaining unit employees shall be eligible for sick leave as provided in this Article. b. All full time employees working forty (40) hours per week shall be entitled to 32 hours of sick leave on the last day of the first month of each school year and will earn eight (8) hours sick leave for each additional completed month of continuous, uninterrupted service. This leave shall be credited at the end of that month and shall not be used prior to the time that it is earned and credited. No employee shall be entitled to earn more than one day of sick leave times the number of months of employment during the year of employment. All employees was frozen working less then forty (40) hours per week will earn sick leave prorated in relation to the hours they regularly work. c. Sick leave cannot be utilized before it is earned and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will credited to the employee. d. Sick leave earned shall be maintained credited to the employee on the last day of the pay period, or, in the bank case of separation on the last day the employee is on the payroll. e. There shall be no limit on the number of hours of unused sick leave an employee may accrue. f. Sick leave shall be taken only when necessary because the employee is unable to perform his/her duty on account of personal sickness, accident disability, or extended personal illness, or because of illness or death of father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, child, or other close relative or member of his/her own household. Personal illness shall include disability caused or contributed by a pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth and recovery. g. Any employee who finds it necessary to be absent from his/her duties because of illness, as defined in this Article, shall notify his/her immediate supervisor before the beginning of the work day on which he/she must be absent except for emergency reasons recognized by the Superintendent as valid. The employee shall, before claiming and receiving compensation for the time absent from his/her duties while absent because of such leave, make and file within five (5) working days following his/her return from such absence with the Superintendent a leave form which shall set forth the day or days absent, that such absence was necessary, and that he/she believes he/she is entitled or not entitled to receive pay for such absence in accordance with the provisions of this Article. The Superintendent may require a certificate of illness from a licensed physician at any time he/she feels it necessary prior to authorizing compensation for sick leave. Provided further that sick leave shall not be approved in less than one fourth ( 0.25) hour increments. h. The only condition under which an employee can be paid for unused sick leave is upon retirement, participation in DROP, or death and after six (6) months satisfactory, continuous and creditable service, and the employee has not been otherwise disqualified under the provision of this Article. In such case, the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same employee's current hourly rate of pay as provided below. However, such terminal sick leave pay shall not exceed an amount as follows: A member of the non-instructional staff will be paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment terminal pay for accumulated sick leaveleave at retirement, participation in DROP, or to his/her beneficiary if service is terminated by death. Payment will be in the position vacated by month following effective retirement date unless "5.(a)" is selected or “5.(b)” is applicable. Investment plan participants will be eligible for terminal sick leave pay only if the employee participant meets the normal retirement age or years of service as defined in paragraph b.(1)(a) below. No payment for sick leave will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made to investment plan participants under the early retirement criteria for pension plan participants as listed in extraordinary situations paragraph b.(2)(a) below except by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilityspecific School Board action for retirement incentives for all employees.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next 1. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject person entitled to the following conditions: (a) Sick terminal pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible have been under contract to render services for the employee to perform regular duties period immediately preceding retirement or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will death and shall not be granted before they under suspension from duty except for reasons pertaining to health, or have been earnedany charges pending which could result in dismissal from employment. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. Sick leave is herby defined to mean absence from post of July 1duty by an employee because of illness, 1986exposure to contagious disease, all accumulated or attendance upon a member of the immediate family who is seriously ill and requires the care or attendance of such employee. B. Any employee who shall be absent from work for three (3) or more consecutive working days due to illness, leave and attendance of a member of the employee’s immediate family, shall be required to submit acceptable medical evidence substantiating the illness. C. In case of sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in due to exposure to a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in contagious disease, a certificate from the bank and the employee family doctor shall be paid required. D. Sick leave shall accrue for onethe regular full-half (1/2) of those unused days time employees at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his of one (1) per month during the first fiscal year of employment and thereafter each December 31st commencing the following calendar year fifteen (15) working days in every calendar year of employment. In those instances in , which shall accumulate from year to year. E. If an employee terminates and receives payment is absent from work for accumulated reasons that entitle him to sick leave, the position vacated by Chief of Police or his representative shall be notified as early as possible, but no later than two (2) hours prior to the start of the scheduled work shift for which he/she is absent, except in the case of emergency. F. Annual Sell Back Effective in 2017 and 2018, an employee will remain vacant until the having seventy-five (75) or more accumulated sick time benefits days at the end of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period a calendar year shall be credited with six allowed to sell back up to five (65) days at the end of each calendar year as long as he/she maintains at least seventy-five (75) sick days on January 1 accumulation after such sell back. Such payment shall be computed at an employee’s daily straight time rate of pay including longevity. Notice of such intent shall be provided to the City no later than December 30 of each year and payment by the City shall be made no later than January 31 of the immediate succeeding year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 This provision shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year “sunset” as of eligibility.) Such days canDecember 31, 2018 and shall not be carried over from one year to forward into the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to successor agreement unless agreed upon by the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only parties in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit their negotiations for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannersuccessor agreement. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. Requests for and approval of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave shall be made as far in advance as practicable and shall be made directly to the employee's immediate supervisor or supervisor's designee(s) in the absence of the supervisor. B. When it is necessary to request emergency sick leave, i.e., the need is not known in advance, the request to the supervisor or designee is to be made by the employee by 9:30 a.m., the first day of absence. Unless prior approval is obtained for absences of several days duration, sick leave must be requested by 9:30 a.m. each succeeding morning the employee is absent. X. Xxxx leave requests shall be granted for purposes approved by law and government-wide regulations. D. All requests for sick leave are to be made in writing, using a Standard Form 71, Request for Leave. X. Xxxx leave must be used when unit employees was frozen go to the Health Unit for one hour or longer. F. A person shall be placed on sick leave restriction only if there is evidence of sick leave abuse and placed the restriction is justified in writing. The mere amount of leave used for illness does not constitute abuse. G. Where the Office has reasonable ground to believe that an employee has abused sick leave, a bankwritten warning may be issued informing the employee that if the described abuse continues, sick leave restriction may be imposed. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days If subsequently imposed, another written notice will be maintained provided explaining that, for a stated period, but not to exceed 6 months, request for approval of sick leave must be accompanied by a medical certificate. At the end of the stated period, the Office shall review the employee's situation and shall give the employee notice of recession or renewal of the restriction due to continued abuse. H. Requests for advanced sick leave will normally be granted in accordance with governing regulations when all of the bank following conditions are met: 1. the employee is eligible to earn sick leave; 2. the employee's request does not exceed 240 hours, or for temporary employees only the amount to be earned during the period of temporary employment if appropriate; 3. there is no reason to believe the employee will not return to work after having used the leave, and the employee shall be paid has sufficient funds in his or her retirement account or any other source of monies owed to the employee by the Government to reimburse the Employer for one-half (1/2) the advance, should the employee not return to work; 4. the employee has provided acceptable medical documentation of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment need for accumulated advanced sick leave, the position vacated by ; and 5. the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhaustedis not subject to leave restriction. I. 1. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period Employees shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year required to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization furnish a medical certificate to substantiate requests for approval of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditionsunless: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner.leave exceeds 5 consecutive work days; or (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone has been placed on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsleave restriction. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As 1. Each regular full-time, non-probationary employee shall be entitled to sick leave, without loss of July 1pay, 1986of ten (10) days in each Benefit Year, all accumulated accrued at the rate of 0.833 days per month. Xxxx leave may be taken only by reason of the employee’s personal illness or injury which renders him/her unable to work. The Employer shall comply with applicable state and local laws concerning paid sick leave, and in no event shall HRF provide paid sick leave for employees was frozen less than that set forth in Article XI, Sections 1 and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness2 of the Agreement. 2. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot may be carried over from one year to year, provided that the nextemployee does not at any time exceed a cap of twenty (20) unused sick days. 3. Any unused Unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall not be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness for upon termination or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any other time. (e) 4. The Employer shall endeavor to minimize the occasions when an employee is required to work during a sick day. In the event an employee receives is informed by a manager that he/she/they are required to perform work on a sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established day, he/she/they may decline the work if he/she/they are unable to perform the work due to sickness, provided that the employee was not ill informs the manager of such inability to perform the work as soon as possible. There shall be no discipline of or disabled retaliation against an employee unable to perform work due to sickness. The Employer shall offer flex time to an exempt employee corresponding to time spent working by the employee during a sick day that has been required by the Employer, provided there are 3.75 or has otherwise misused more hours of work required and such flex time off is scheduled with the sick pay benefits, Employer’s approval. Non-exempt employees required by the Court may cancel an equal number of Employer to work during sick days previously accrued or to shall be accrued compensated for such work at his/her/their straight time rate of pay unless such work is overtime work under this Agreement. Time spent by a non-exempt employee performing work while on a sick day hereunder will not count against the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination’s sick leave balance. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As 30.1 Effective with the commencement of July 1this Agreement, 1986, all accumulated sick leave an Employee who has been employed pursuant to this Agreement or any successor agreement for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee six (6) months or more after commencement of this Agreement shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days absence due to personal illness at the same Employee’s basic rate paid that employee when he terminates his employmentof pay. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated New hire Employees will accrue sick leave, leave credits during the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) months period; however, they may not use these credits until they have completed their six (6) months. Employees will be entitled to earn up to seven (7) days sick days leave per year. 30.2 Sick leave must be earned under this Agreement by employment on January this contract and will continue with any successor contract. Employees will accrue 1 hour of paid sick leave for every 30 compensable hours, up to 56 hours (7 days) in a year or at any point in time. 30.3 Sick leave pay to the extent it has been earned shall begin on the first (1st) day of illness or accident, and shall continue for each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated regular scheduled work day which said Employee misses because of said disability until the Employee’s accumulated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerhave been exhausted. (b) 30.4 Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay leave benefits will be paid only if with respect of a work day on which the employee Employee would have otherwise worked, and will not apply to any Employee’s scheduled day off, holidays, vacations or someone any other day on which the employeeEmployee would not have worked. 30.5 An Employee may use paid sick leave for an absence resulting from: (1) physical or mental illness, injury, or medical condition of the Employee (2) obtaining diagnosis, care or preventative care from a health crane provided by the Employee, (3) caring for the Employee’s behalf notifies child, parent, spouse, domestic partner, or any other individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with the Superintendent Employee is the equivalent of a family relationship who has any of the conditions or designee not later than fifteen need for diagnosis, care or preventative care described above, (154) minutes after domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, or to seek counseling, relocation, victim services, or to take related legal action or to assist an individual related to the scheduled starting time on each day that Employee for any of the employee above stated reasons. 30.6 Sick leave pay, to the extent it has been earned, will be absent from integrated with payments under any Federal or State Workers’ Compensation program or other disability program to which the Employer contributes so as not to permit the Employee to receive more than the equivalent of the forty (40) hours pay for any week in which the Employee is off work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall The Employer will not be required to report only upon pay employees for accrued, unused paid sick leave at the time of a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsjob separation (“cash-out”) unless they qualify under the Annual Bonus. 30.7 The Employer can request that Employees using paid sick leave provide certification from a health care provider (dor documentation from another source, if the leave is for purposes related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that of the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness Employees’ need for leave if they use three or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement more days of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timeleave consecutively. (e) In the event an employee receives 30.8 Any Employee found to have abused sick pay leave benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill by falsification or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to misrepresentation shall thereupon be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including action, which may include termination. (f) The amount of 30.9 Employees’ requests for sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used made orally or in one-quarter writing. A leave request must be made at least 7 calendar days in advance where the need for leave is foreseeable, and in other cases as soon as practicable. The Employer must communicate any denial of a request to use paid sick leave in writing, with the explanation for the denial – which cannot be based on whether the Employee has found a replacement work or on the Employer’s operational needs. 30.10 The Employer may only require certification for absences of three or more consecutive full days, and the Employee must have received notice of the requirement to provide certification or documentation before he returns to work. All requirements of certification will be in compliance with the FMLA and E.O. 13706. 30.11 Employees may use paid sick leave in one hour increments or more. Howeverunless it is physically impossible for the Employee to leave and return to the job during a shift. 30.12 When an Employee uses paid sick leave, he/she is entitled to the total hours same regular pay and benefits he would receive if he had not used in a day shall the leave with the exception that more paid sick leave time will not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been accrue while an Employee is on paid sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Sick leave benefits shall be available at the established rate of July 1pay for the classification occupied at the time sick leave is used. Sick leave benefits shall be earned and accrued by regular Employees as defined herein at the rate of four (4) hours of sick leave for each payroll period that the Employee has at least seventy-two (72) hours of straight time pay. If an Employee has forty (40) hours of straight time pay in a payroll period, 1986but less than seventy-two (72) hours, all the Employee shall earn and accrue two (2) hours of sick leave. However, no sick leave shall be earned or accrued if an Employee has been on sick leave or Worker's Compensation for the entire payroll period. Sick leave shall accrue on an unlimited basis from the date of employment and shall be credited to the Employee each payroll period. Employees who separate from City employment prior to accumulation of 182 service credits, who have received sick leave pay, shall have deducted from their final pay check or from their refund of retirement contributions, an amount equal to that previously received for sick leave. Charges against accumulated sick leave and pay allowances for employees was frozen time lost on account of sickness shall be made only for time lost for which the Employee normally would have received pay and placed during which he normally would have been required to work. Part time Employees who, at the time of employment are employed for a minimum of thirty (3 0) hours per week and part time Employees who are subsequently regularly scheduled to work thirty (30) or more hours per week, shall earn and be credited with sick leave on the basis of three (3) hours of sick leave for each sixty (60) hours or more of straight time pay in a bankpayroll period. Employees with banked Application for sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee leave shall be paid made to and approved by the appropriate department head or his authorized representative. When an Employee is absent from duty for a period of three (3) or more consecutive days, a certificate from a licensed physician, noting the cause of such absence or other proof of disability or illness may be required, and if required, shall be furnished before the leave request is granted for purposes of Employee compensation. In addition thereto, the Employee may be required by the department head or authorized representative to be examined by the City Physician to determine whether the Employee has recovered sufficiently from the condition causing such absence to return to work. Where practical, departmental rules may require that the Employee notify his department prior to his normal starting time of any disability or illness which will cause his absence. In all other cases where possible, the Employee shall notify his department of such disability or illness within one-half (1/2) hour after his starting time. Proof of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated illness or disability may be required by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated department head of any Employee who has taken sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with leave on six (6) sick days on January 1 of each or more occasions within the current fiscal year. (Employees Any Employee who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated has exhausted his available sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over shall have any additional lost time due to illness charged against and deducted from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from workearned annual leave. In the event of the Employee's death, unused accumulated sick leave time shall be paid to the Employee's living bene- ficiary on the same formula basis as retirees. Said payment shall be made to the spouse, children, father, mother, sister, or brother of the deceased Employee with preference being given to those persons in the order named unless the Employee, by a long-term period sworn statement filed with the Employer prior to death has established a different order, without requiring letters of absence due administration to such illness be issued upon the estate of the deceased Employee. Sick leave shall not be paid where other City paid benefits received by an Employee would result in cumulative payments in excess of his normal wage based on an eight (8) hour day or injuryforty (40) hour work week. Sick leave shall be taken in increments of at least one (1) hour or up to the balance accumulated if the accumulated balance is a fraction of an hour, provided, however, in areas where work crews are assigned at the start of shifts, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court appointing author- ity may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter four (4) hour increments incre- ments at the start of a shift. The City with just cause may require an Employee to be examined by the City's Clinic to determine if an Employee can continue or morereturn to work. However, Such examinations shall be without charge to the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveEmployee.

Sick Leave. As of July 1Any full-time permanent, 1986, all accumulated full-time temporary or full-time provisional employees shall be entitled to sick leave with pay. a. Sick leave may be utilized by employees when they are unable to perform their work by reason of personal illness, maternity, accident, or exposure to contagious disease. Xxxx leave may also be utilized for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it short periods for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and attendance by the employee upon a member of the immediate family who is seriously ill. Sick leave may be taken in hourly units. b. The minimum sick leave with pay shall accrue to any full-time permanent employee on the basis of one working day per month during the remainder of the first calendar year of employment after the initial appointment and fifteen (15) working days in every calendar year thereafter, said fifteen (15) days to be paid for onecredited effective January 1 of each succeeding year. c. The minimum sick leave with pay shall accrue to any full-half (1/2) of those unused days time temporary and full-time provisional employee at the same rate paid that of one working day per month as earned. d. Any amount of sick leave allowance not used in any calendar year shall accumulate to the employee's credit from year to year to be used if and when needed for such purpose. e. An employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which shall not be reimbursed for accrued sick leave at the time of termination of his/her employment excepting as provided under Article entitled, "Insurance and Retirement Benefits". f. If an employee terminates and receives payment is absent for accumulated reasons that entitle him/her to sick leave, the position vacated by employee's supervisor shall be notified promptly as of the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can employee's usual reporting time, except in those situations where notice must be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions:prior (a1) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may so notify his/her supervisor shall be cause for denial of the use of sick pay benefitsleave for that absence. (d2) The Court may require Absence without proper notice for five (5) consecutive days shall constitute a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could resignation not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timein good standing. (e1) In the event The employer may require proof of illness of an employee receives on sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefitsleave, the Court may cancel an equal number whenever such requirements appear reasonable. Abuse of sick days previously accrued or to leave shall be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to cause for disciplinary action up to and including terminationaction. (f2) The amount In case of sick pay benefits used by an employee will leave of absence due to exposure to contagious disease, a certificate from the Department of Health shall be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedrequired. (g3) Sick leave The Employer may require an employee who has been absent because of personal illness, as a condition of his return to duty, to be used in oneexamined by the County Medical Examiner or by a physician designated by the Medical Examiner. Such examination shall establish whether the employee is capable of performing his normal duties without limitations and that his return will not jeopardize the health of the other employees. h. Part-quarter hour increments time temporary, part-time provisional, seasonal, or more. However, the total hours used in a day hourly paid employees shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on be entitled to sick leave. i. Xxxx leave credits shall continue to accrue while an employee is on leave with pay. Credits shall not accrue while an employee is on any leave without pay except active military leave. j. Each year of the contract, if an employee does not utilize all of his/her allotted 15 days of sick leave time for the entire calendar year, that employee shall be entitled to a $300.00 bonus payment payable by March 1 of the following year. An employee utilizing five days or less of their allocated 15 days in a year shall receive a $200.00 bonus payment payable by March 1 of the following year. This bonus does not apply to part-time employees and an individual must have worked the entire year to be eligible. This sick leave reduction incentive applies for contract years 2016 through 2017.

Sick Leave. As Section 1. Sick leave shall be defined as an absence with pay necessitated by: 1) illness or injury to the Bargaining Unit Member; 2) exposure by the Bargaining Unit Member to a contagious disease communicable to other Bargaining Unit Members; and/or 3) illness, injury or death in the Bargaining Unit Member’s immediate family. Section 2. All Bargaining Unit Members shall earn sick leave at the rate of July four and six-tenths (4.6) hours for every eighty (80) hours paid not to exceed one hundred twenty Section 3. A Bargaining Unit Member who is to be absent on sick leave shall notify the Employer of such absence and the reason therefore at least one (1) hour before the start of his work shift each day he is to be absent. Section 4. Sick leave may be used in segments of not less than one-fourth (1/4) hour. Section 5. Before an absence may be charged against accumulated sick leave, the Employer may require such proof of illness, injury or death as may be satisfactory to him, or may require the Bargaining Unit Member to be examined by a physician designated by and paid for by the Employer. In any event, a forty (40) hour Bargaining Unit Member absent for more than three (3) consecutive workdays, or a fifty-three (53) hour Bargaining Unit Member absent for more than two (2) consecutive workdays must supply a physician’s report to be eligible for paid sick leave, unless waived by the Employer. Section 6. If the Bargaining Unit Member fails to submit adequate proof of illness, injury, or death, or in event that upon such proof as is submitted or upon the request of medical examination, the Employer, finds there is not satisfactory evidence of illness or death sufficient to justify the Bargaining Unit Member’s absence, such leave may, be considered an unauthorized leave and shall be without pay. Section 7. Any abuse or patterned use of sick leave shall be just and sufficient cause for disciplinary action. Section 8. The Employer may require a Bargaining Unit Member who has been absent due to personal illness or injury, prior to and as a condition of his return to duty, to be examined by a physician designated and paid by the Employer, to establish that he is not disabled from the performance of his duties and that his return to duty will not jeopardize the health and safety of other Bargaining Unit Members. Section 9. When the use of sick leave is due to illness, injury, or death in the immediate family, “immediate family” shall be defined to only include the Bargaining Unit Member’s spouse, child/step-child, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, parent, sibling/step-sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew, xxxxx, grandparent, grandchild, or any other person related by blood or marriage, and parent-in-law, and other persons residing in the employee’s household for a period of not less than one year. Section 10. Upon the retirement of a Bargaining Unit Member hired before August 1, 19862012, all accumulated sick leave who has not less than ten (10) years of continuous full-time employment with the Employer and who has qualified for employees was frozen and placed in retirement benefits from a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee State of Ohio Retirement System such Bargaining Unit Member shall be paid for entitled to receive a cash payment equal to his hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement multiplied by one-half (1/2) the total number of those accumulated but unused days sick hours earned by the Bargaining Unit Member, as certified by the Finance Department. Section 11. Upon the retirement of a Bargaining Unit Member hired on or after August 1, 2012 who has not less than ten (l0) years of continuous full-time employment with the Employer and who has qualified for retirement benefits from a State of Ohio Retirement System such Bargaining Unit Member shall be entitled to receive a cash payment equal to his hourly rate of pay at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for time of retirement multiplied by twenty-five percent of the total number of accumulated but unused sick leave, the position vacated hours earned by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations Bargaining Unit Member, as certified by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryFinance Department, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be a maximum payment equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(stwo- hundred forty (240) such benefits are usedhours. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As 1. Each full-time Bargaining Unit member shall be entitled, for each complete month of July service to the City, to be absent for one and one-fourth (1-1/4) weekdays or a total of ten (10) hours with pay for the reasons specified in Subsection Four (4) hereof. For the purpose of this Section, 1986a total of one hundred sixty (160) hours of work within any one (1) calendar month shall be considered as one (1) month of full-time employment. However, all in computing such total of one hundred sixty (160) hours in any calendar month, no deduction shall be made for the absence of a Bargaining Unit member due to illness of or injury to the Bargaining Unit member, which illness or injury shall be established by the evidence required by Subsection Four (4) hereof, or due to paid vacations or legal holidays. 2. Compensation to be allowed for such days of sick leave actually taken by a Bargaining Unit member shall be on the same basis to which the Bargaining Unit member would have been entitled as compensation for his usual service if it had been performed on such days. 3. Unused sick leave may be accumulated without limit. 4. When approved by the Mayor, a Bargaining Unit member may use sick leave as provided in Subsection One (1) above, for absence due to illness, injury, exposure to contagious disease which could be communicated to other employees and to illness or death in the employee's immediate family. Immediate family shall mean the employee's spouse, child, parent, brother, or sister. Nothing contained in this Section shall be construed to authorize sick leave with pay for any sickness or accident resulting from moral turpitude, intoxication, or use of narcotics. The Employer may require certification of medical attention when an employee is off for three (3) consecutive workdays or after four (4) undocumented occurrences in a rotating year. 5. Except as provided in Subsection Six (6) hereof, sick leave credit shall be effective only during such time as a Bargaining Unit member remains in the employ of the City and no Bargaining Unit member shall be entitled to any compensation in any form for any unused sick leave credit remaining upon the termination of his employment with the City. However, the previously accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and of a Bargaining Unit member whose employment with the City has been terminated may, with approval of the Mayor, be placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained to his credit in the bank event of his re-employment by the City within a period of three (3) years from the date of his last employment by the City. 6. Upon the retirement, death or injury resulting in total and permanent disability to perform the employee work for the City for which such Bargaining Unit member was employed, there shall be paid an amount representing any previously accumulated sick leave earned while in the employ of the City of Willowick at such Bargaining Unit member current rate of compensation as follows: A. Payment shall be for one-half a maximum of one hundred twenty (1/2120) days or a total of those nine hundred sixty (960) hours of accumulated, unused days sick leave upon retirement, to any Bargaining Unit member. B. In case of death, to the Bargaining Unit member's surviving spouse, if any, who was living with such Bargaining Unit member or dependent upon him for support at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates time of his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment death, or if there is no surviving spouse, to the dependent children, including adopted children, of such Bargaining Unit member or for accumulated sick leavetheir use to their legal guardian or guardians or to the person or persons who, the position vacated as determined by the Mayor, were dependent upon such Bargaining Unit member for support or for their use to their legal guardian or guardians or to the person or persons with whom they are living. The determination of the Mayor as to the person or persons entitled to receive any payment in accordance with this Subsection shall be final and neither the Mayor nor the City nor any other Bargaining Unit member shall be required to see to the proper expenditure of any such payments. C. In the case of injury resulting in total and permanent disability to perform the work for the City for which such Bargaining Unit member was employed, to the employee will remain vacant until or for his use to the accumulated sick time benefits guardian or conservator of his estate, if any, or to the person or persons having custody and care of such Bargaining Unit member, if any, provided that the determination of the Mayor as to the person or persons entitled to receive any payment in accordance with this Subsection shall be final and neither the Mayor nor the City nor any other Bargaining Unit member thereof shall be required to see to the proper expenditure of any such payment. 7. An employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations of any public agency or state or federally funded program who is hired by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period City of Willowick shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 the unused balance of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated his accumulated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the nextwith such public agency. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day Provided that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off no cash out provision was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury exercised and that such illness or injury was disabling balance is evidenced to the extent that satisfaction of the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement Mayor by an appropriate certificate or letter from the appropriate official of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timesuch public agency. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was 8. Sick leave transfer credited from any public agency or program shall not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal added to the number total sick leave earned as a City of regularly scheduled hours such Willowick employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick for purposes of any type of cash out. Transferred sick leave may only be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, as sick leave after exhausting sick leave accrued with the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number City of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveWillowick.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period Members shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 two hours of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits for each week of active service. In case of absence without pay during a bi-weekly pay period, 4 hours SWP will be earned if the first year employee is in a pay status, but not IWP, more than 40 hours. Two hours SWP will be earned if the employee is in a pay status for 1 to 40 hours inclusive in the pay period. Xxxx leave may be used when a member is quarantined or physically unable to work because of eligibility.) Such days sickness or an off- duty injury. Sickness or injury caused by outside employment which results in inability to work cannot be carried over from one year charged to sick leave unless the nextoutside employment is an extension of police service. A. The member of the immediate family is the husband, wife, parent, registered domestic partner, parent-in-law, child, sister or brother, grandchild, or grandparent of member or member of the immediate household of the person seeking to use sick leave. Any unused SWP-F shall not exceed two (2) days per occurrence, however additional time may be granted by the immediate supervisor provided the employee submits written verification by the treating physician; and B. It is necessary because of official quarantine or to care for and make arrangements for the sick person, or C. In the case of hospitalization, the following shall apply: Three days shall be forfeited. Utilization granted to all sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department in cases of serious operations, injury, or illness in order to hospitalize a member of the family, be available on the day of any operation or serious test, or to assist in the discharge of the patient from the hospital. D. Childbirth - A member shall be granted one day of sick leave benefits on the day a spouse is subject taken to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible hospital for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent purpose of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone giving birth, one day on the employee’s behalf notifies day the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen spouse gives birth and one day on the day the child is xxxxxxxxxxx. SWP-A (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from workAdoption). In the event that a member adopts a Child under the age of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injurytwelve (12), the employee Member may take up to twenty-four (24) hours of leave time when the child is brought home, provided that such days are on a workday or immediately before or after a workday for the Member. This leave time will be charged to SWP, vacation, or holiday comp. time at the discretion of the member and is limited to twenty-four (24) hours per adoption. The Employee must notify their supervisor at least two (2) weeks in advance of the arrival of the adopted child. However, emergency situations will not automatically result in denial. Members covered under this Agreement shall be required to report only upon a weekly basiseligible for Parental Leave under the City’s Parental Leave Policy 4.7 (Revised 1/1/16). Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physicianIf the City’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed Parental Leave Policy is terminated at any time. , the parties will revert back to the language above. If the City’s Parental Leave Policy is amended at any time, the union may elect to retain the amended policy or revert back to the language above. Under no circumstances will a member receive the Parental Leave benefit and the twenty-four (e24) In the event hours off under SWP-A above. The duration of this leave shall be determined on an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that individual basis by the employee was and her physician. The employee must notify her supervisor approximately two weeks before her expected date of departure. Employees experiencing unexpected emergencies will not ill be penalized for failure to give proper notification. All sworn members of the Cincinnati Police Department who are off sick or disabled injured, whether service connected, or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefitsnot, the Court may cancel shall be carried on an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to "unrestricted" basis. No member will be accrued considered on restricted status unless so ordered by the employee, and may subject the employee City/Police Physician. The question of whether a member on sick leave shall be restricted to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will his or her home shall be equal left to the number discretion of regularly scheduled hours such the City/Police Physician. The extent of the restriction shall be determined by the City/Police Physician. The City/Police Physician shall consult with the employee's personal or attending physician in making his determination of whether or not to grant or continue the "unrestricted" basis. No City employee would otherwise have worked on shall in any way attempt to directly or indirectly influence the day(s) such benefits are useddecision of the City/Police Physician. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated A. All employees shall earn sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days pay at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant of 1 day per month of employment until the accumulated sick time benefits December 31st of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the their first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than employment and fifteen (15) minutes after days for each year of employment thereafter effective January 1. Unused sick leave shall be cumulative from year to year. All full time permanent, full time temporary or full time provisional employees shall be entitled to sick leave with pay. B. Sick leave is hereby defined to mean absence by an employee by reason of personal illness, accident, serious illness within the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event immediate family, observance of a long-term period of absence due quarantine, exposure to such illness contagious disease, or injury, the employee maternity. C. Employees shall be required to report only upon furnish a weekly basis. Failure doctor's certificate to report may be cause substantiate a request for denial approval of sick pay benefitsleave when sick leave exceeds three (3) consecutive workdays. (d) D. The Court County may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up submit acceptable medical evidence or proof of illness whenever such a requirement appears reasonable to and including terminationthe County or its designee. E. In order to receive compensation while absent on sick leave, an employee shall report their absence to the Supervisor on Duty at least two (f2) The amount hours prior to the start of the scheduled shift. F. In case of sick pay benefits used by an employee will leave due to contagious disease or to care for a seriously ill member of the employee's immediate family, reasonable proof may be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedrequired. (g) G. An employee who has exhausted their accumulated sick leave may, with the County's approval, charge additional days of absence to vacation or personal days, or other compensatory time, if available. H. Sick leave may be used utilized in one-quarter hour increments or morehourly units. I. Full time employees having accumulated ten (10) days of sick leave for that year, will have the option to be paid five (5) days wages in lieu of carrying over five (5) days of sick leave. However, Any employee wishing to exercise the total hours used sick leave pay option must do so by December 1 of the year in a day which the requirements have been met. An employee shall make this request in writing directly to the Designated Chief Personnel Officer. Any request to exercise this option subsequent to December 1 of the year in which the requirements have been met shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the be considered. J. Absence without proper notice for five (5) consecutive workdays or more shall constitute a resignation while not in good standing. K. The Employer may require an employee would otherwise have worked had he not been absent on sick leave, as a condition of their return to duty, to be examined by the County physician or by a physician designated by the County. Such examination shall establish whether the employee is capable of performing their normal duties and that their return to work will not jeopardize the health and/or safety of other employees. L. Sick leave credits shall continue to accrue while the employee is on authorized leave with pay or authorized Injury Leave. Sick leave credit shall not accrue while the employee is on leave without pay except active military service. M. Effective January 1, 2013, if an employee does not utilize any of his/her allotted 120 hours of sick leave time for the entire calendar year, that employee shall be entitled to a $300.00 bonus payment payable by March 1 of the following year. An employee utilizing five days or less of their allocated 15 days in a year shall receive a $200.00 bonus payable by March 1 of the following year. This bonus does not apply to part- time employees and an individual must have worked the entire year to be eligible. This sick leave reduction incentive applies for contract year 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Fulla. A full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period employee shall be credited with six one (61) sick leave days for each month during which they are scheduled to work a majority of the days noted on January 1 the calendar of each yearoperations. b. All Sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall be credited to him/her. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated Any sick leave benefits days not used by the end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for the following year provided, however, it shall not result in exceeding the ninety (90) day maximum for sick leave accumulation. c. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days shall be: i. Personal illness, injury or quarantine. ii. Serious illness in the employee’s immediate family, i.e., husband, wife, child, father or mother. d. The Employee shall notify his/her Program Supervisor using the AESOP attendance system of his/her impending absence stating the nature of absence (illness) and where he/she may be contacted during the first year day. Each Employee shall give such notification at least two hours prior to his/her scheduled on-the-job starting time unless the circumstances of eligibility.) Such days the absence do not allow such notice. When the AESOP attendance system cannot be carried over from one year accessed a phone call to the next. Any unused sick days Program Supervisor shall be forfeited. Utilization made. e. The Employee may be required by the Superintendent to give a written, signed statement indicating the nature of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in for such absence when reporting to work on the first working day following his/her absence. The employee may also be required by the superintendent to give a disability which makes it impossible for written, signed statement from the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent employee's physician indicating the nature of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, injury when reporting to work in the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basisfirst working day following his/her absence of three (3) or more working days. Failure to report may be cause comply with such a request can result in the withholding of pay for denial of sick pay benefitssuch leave days. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the f. Accumulated sick leave time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement shall terminate upon severance of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timeemployment. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. An officer shall commence accruing sick leave credits from the date of July employment. B. An officer shall be entitled to all accrued unused sick leave credits appearing on official records after January 1, 19861971, all accumulated which shall hereinafter be referred to as "Current Sick Leave" credits. C. An officer shall accrue current sick leave credits at the rate of three point six nine two three (3.6923) hours bi-weekly, equaling ninety-six (96) hours per year. D. An officer shall be allowed to accrue current sick leave credits totaling five hundred seventy-six (576) hours. E. An officer may take sick leave, up to a maximum of all of the accrued sick leave credits, due to serious injury or acute illness. F. An officer may use sick leave to stay home with a sick child or to attend to any other member of the officer's immediate family, who is ill. If the officer's absence due to caring for employees was frozen and placed such family member exceeds 3 consecutive working days of continuous absence, or in any manner appears to be unreasonable, the officer's supervisor may require evidence of illness or physical condition to be provided regarding the member of the immediate family. G. An officer may use sick leave due to the death of a bankmember of the officer's immediate family. H. An officer who is on sick leave in excess of three (3) consecutive working days may be required to submit to, at the City's expense, a physical examination by physician chosen by the City, to determine if he/she is capable of performing his/her normal police duties. Employees The physician's report shall be binding on all parties as to the physical qualification of the employee, with banked respect to entitlement to sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank leave and the employee pay therefore. I. An officer, upon termination, shall not be paid for any unused sick leave credits. J. An officer, upon resignation, shall be paid two and one-half (2 1/2) percent of his/her hourly rate of pay for each full year of employment with the City for all unused sick leave credits. K. An officer, upon retirement, shall be paid at seventy-five (75) percent of his/her then current hourly rate of pay for all unused sick leave credits. L. An officer's estate, upon death, shall be paid at the officer's hourly rate of pay for all unused sick leave credits. M. An officer, annually shall be paid for oneall unused current sick leave credits in excess of five hundred seventy-half six (1/2576) hours, unless the officer has exercised the option available in Section 8.7 of those unused days this Contract. An officer's sick leave pay shall be computed at the same officer's then current hourly rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates of pay, and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual by separate check by the first non-occupational illness or injury resulting pay day Friday in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerDecember. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earnedN. An officer's bi-weekly paycheck stub shall reflect the officer's current sick leave balance. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. Unit members employed on a full-time basis shall earn ten (10) days of July 1sick leave per school year for use if absent from duty because of illness or injury. The unused portion of annual sick leave shall accumulate from year to year. A bargaining unit member who works part-time, 1986during summer school or intersession shall be entitled to earn and use a prorated amount of such sick leave. B. Should a unit member be transferred from a day less than maximum time to one of greater (or maximum) time, said employee’s accumulated sick leave days shall be reduced in direct proportion to the ratio of time previously worked per day to time presently worked per day. The converse of this rule applies to unit members whose day decreases. C. A unit member who has exhausted all accumulated sick leave due to absence from duty on account of illness or accident for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked more than his/her sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee leave entitlement shall be entitled to receive the difference between his/her regular salary and that actually paid for one-half or that which would have been paid to a substitute up to a period of five (1/25) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employmentschool months. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated The sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the including accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by leave and the Court. Fullfive-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period month period, shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated run consecutively. D. Unit members requesting sick leave benefits during may be required to submit a physician’s statement. E. A sick leave absence shall commence when the first year unit member or agent of eligibility.) Such days canthe unit member calls in to report the absence. A sick leave day once commenced may not be carried over reinstated without the approval of the site administrator. F. Should a unit member, in the opinion of an administrator, show evidence of deviation from one year normal physical or mental health, the administrator shall report this to the next. Any unused sick days Superintendent who shall be forfeited. Utilization recommend a course of action in accordance with state law. X. Xxxxxx of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible considered grounds for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerdisciplinary action. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if H. In accordance with state law, unit members receive credit for unused sick leave in the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event computation of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay their retirement benefits. (d) I. 1. The Court District shall establish a catastrophic illness/injury leave bank to which eligible unit members may require voluntarily donate earned sick leave. This donation shall be irrevocable and shall be accomplished by the unit member completing a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling written form entitled “Catastrophic leave Bank Donation Form.” A donation to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of bank shall be a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employeegeneral donation, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leavebe donated to a specific employee.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick ‌ 28.1: Sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) allowed only as provided in this Article. Absence from duty because of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated inability to perform duties due to illness shall be granted by the employee will remain vacant until City Manager, upon the accumulated sick time benefits recommendation of the department head, when in his or her opinion he or she feels that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits it is warranted, and subject to the following conditions: (a) A. A regular employee shall accrue sick leave at the regular rate of one day per month. Sick pay leave shall not accrue while an employee receives sick leave benefits or Worker’s Compensation payments. Sick leave shall not be considered a privilege that an employee may use at his or her discretion but shall be paid allowed only in cases of actual nonsickness or disability. B. A minimum time allowed an employee for sick leave shall be one-occupational half day. C. The amount of time to be allowed an employee for sick leave may, if not used during the year earned, may be accumulated until a total of one hundred (100) days is reached and may be kept to his or her credit for future sick leave with pay at the rate in effect at the time it is paid. When an employee has accumulated 100 days of sick leave, all earned but not used leave, thereafter accruing shall be paid for as of December 1st of each year at fifty (50%) percent the employee’s regular pay. D. A written authentication of illness or injury resulting necessitating absence from duty, made by a licensed physician, may be required by the City as a condition precedent to the payment of compensation for any period of absence from duty exceeding two (2) consecutive workdays. E. The Director of Public Safety may require a doctor’s certificate of illness as a condition precedent to allowing payment of sick leave whenever any officer shall be off duty on sick leave for two (2) days or less and such occurrences shall occur more than five (5) times in a disability which makes any calendar year. Such action shall be discretionary with the Director of Public Safety and this policy shall be exercised only when it impossible for reasonably appears to the Director of Public Safety that an unwarranted usage of sick time is occurring. 28.2: After all sick leave is used, if the employee so elects, annual leave may be used as sick leave and regular payment therefore to perform regular duties or if a child or parent the extent of the annual leave which the employee is ill or injuredentitled to. Documentation Whenever absence due to illness exceeds the amount of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for paid leave earned and authorized, the pay of an employee who wishes shall be discontinued until he returns to use sick time in this mannerwork, except as noted under Section 28.8. (b) 28.3: Sick pay benefits will not leave shall be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from workconsidered for all purposes as continuing service. In However, in the event of a long-term period discharge, the first one hundred (100) days of absence due to such illness or injuryunused sick leave shall be canceled and not paid. 28.4: To receive sick leave, the employee shall be required communicate with his department head or designee immediately prior to report only upon a weekly basisthe time set for beginning work. Failure to report do so may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsleave with pay. (d) The Court may require 28.5: Recognized holidays falling within a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could period of authorized sick leave shall not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timecounted as sick leave days. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) 28.6: Sick leave may be allowed in case of illness, or injury occurring during a vacation period. Evidence of such incapacity must be provided from the first day to the satisfaction of the department head and City Manager. 28.7: One hundred (100%) percent of accumulated sick leave will be paid to the widow or widower, or the estate of, should no beneficiary be listed, of an employee who dies while employed full time, or to an employee who resigns or retires. 28.8: Union members may transfer up to a maximum of ten (10) sick leave days each from their accumulated sick leave to an employee on injury leave to be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, conjunction with Worker’s Compensation Insurance with the total hours used in a day shall not exceed approval of the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveCity Manager.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave An employee employed full time for employees was frozen and placed in five (5) days a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in week by the bank and the employee District shall be paid granted one day per month worked leave of absence, with full pay, for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilityillness or injury.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay An employee employed less than five (5) days a week shall have sick leave benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in based upon a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent proration of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation number of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes days worked as it compares to use sick time five (5), based upon benefits earned in accordance with Article XIV, Section 4, of this mannerAgreement. (b) Sick pay An employee employed less than eight (8) hours a day shall have sick leave benefits will not be granted before they have been earnedbased upon a proration of the number of hours worked daily bears to eight (8), based upon benefits earned in accordance with Article XIV, Section 4 of this Agreement. (c) Sick Pay for any day of such absence shall be the same as the pay benefits will be paid only if which would have been received had the employee or someone on served during the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefitsin any absence. (d) The Court At the beginning of each fiscal year, the full amount of sick leave granted under this Agreement shall be credited to each employee. Credit for sick leave need not be accrued prior to taking such leave, and sick leave may require a physician’s certificate showing be taken at any time during the year. Upon termination of an employee, the District shall collect for sick leave that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that has been taken by the employee could but has not perform regular work duties. The requirement been earned by the rendering of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timeservice. (e) In Absence during pregnancy, for which the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established employee’s physician certifies that the employee was due to said pregnancy cannot ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefitsperform regularly assigned duties, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to shall be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationtreated as illness absence. (f) The If an employee does not take the full amount of leave allowed in any year under this sick pay benefits used by an employee will leave provision, the amount not taken shall be equal accumulated from year to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedyear. (g) Any sick leave benefits earned but unused at the date of retirement, shall be converted to retirement credit in accordance with Government Code Section 20862.5, or its successor. (h) Classified employees who have accumulated a balance of one hundred (100) hours may choose to donate sick leave to another member of the classified bargaining unit who qualifies for leave due to an unforeseen event affecting the employee’s health. In order to receive donated sick leave, the unit member must be a member of the local chapter. (i) The affected employee must accept the donated leave and also be in danger of exhausting all fully paid leaves of absence due to this condition. (ii) Classified employees who choose to donate sick leave may donate from his/her accrued sick leave. A classified employee shall donate no more than 5% of their earned sick leave. In no event may an employee donate hours that would result in his/her sick leave to drop below one hundred (100) hours. (iii) Sick leave may donations shall be used made in one-quarter hour increments or moreterms of hours and shall be utilized in terms of hours. (iv) Classified employees who would like to donate sick days to a specific employee will complete a Sick Leave Donation Form and return it to the Director of Business Services. However, the total hours used in The Director of Business Services will compile a day shall not exceed list indicating the number of regularly scheduled hours days that will be donated by whom and for whom. Every effort shall be made by classified donors to deliver the Donation Form to the District at least 5 working days prior to the recipient exhausting his/her sick days. (v) In order to be eligible to receive donated sick leave under the program, the receiving employee must: 1. Suffer from an illness or injury expected to incapacitate the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on for an extended period of time which creates a financial hardship for the employee because he/she has exhausted all available sick leaveleave entitlements. 2. Not be found eligible for benefits under Worker’s Compensation. (vi) Donated sick leave used by the recipient shall be used before differential pay is enacted. Donated sick leave shall run concurrently with Day Differential Pay. (vii) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to entitle an employee a leave of absence, with or without pay. Entitlement to leave shall be regulated by other applicable provisions of this agreement.

Sick Leave. As (1) An employee who is incapacitated for duty in consequence of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave illness or injury shall as soon as possible advise his/her supervisory employee in sufficient time to enable arrangements to be made for employees was frozen and placed in a bankthe performance of his/her duties. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the Any such employee who fails to do so shall be paid treated as absent without leave. (2) An employee so incapacitated for one-half (1/2) duty shall notify his/her supervisory employee in sufficient time of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in date on which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leavehe/she will resume duty, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can to enable any necessary arrangements to be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibilitymade.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits An application for leave of absence on the grounds of illness exceeding two consecutive working days shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for supported by the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation certificate of a physician visit for registered medical practitioner or, where the nature of illness consists of a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerdental condition and the period of absence does not exceed five consecutive working days by a certificate of a registered dentist. (b) Sick pay benefits will not The number of days' leave of absence which may be granted before they have been earnedwithout the production of the certificate required by paragraph (a) of this subclause shall not exceed, in the aggregate, five working days in any one calendar year. (4) Subject to the provisions of subclause (3) of this clause no leave of absence on the grounds of illness shall be granted with pay without the production of a medical certificate. An employee who finds that he/she is unable to resume duty on the expiration of the period shown on the first certificate shall thereupon furnish a further certificate and shall continue to do so upon the expiration of the period respectively covered by such certificates. (5) Where an employee is ill during the period of his/her annual leave for recreation and produces at the time or as soon as practicable thereafter medical evidence to the satisfaction of the employer that he/she is or was as a result of his/her illness confined to his/her place of residence or a hospital for a period of at least seven days, he/she may, with the approval of the employer, be granted at a time convenient to the employer additional leave equivalent to the period during which he/she was so confined. (6) Where an employee is ill during the period of his/her long service leave and produces at the time or as soon as practicable thereafter medical evidence to the satisfaction of the employer that he/she is or was confined to his/her place of residence or a hospital for a period of at least fourteen days, he/she may, with the approval of the employer, be granted at a time convenient to the employer additional leave equivalent to the period during which he/she was so confined. (7) The basis for determining the leave of absence on the grounds of illness that may be granted shall be ascertained by crediting the employee concerned with the following periods, but the leave shall be cumulative:- Leave On Leave On Full Pay Half Pay Working Days Working Days (a) On date of employment of the employee 5 2 (b) On completion by the employee of six months' service 5 3 (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if On completion by the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits.twelve months' service 10 5 (d) The Court may require a physicianOn completion of each additional twelve months' service (8) When an employee is duly absent on account of illness and the employee’s certificate showing entitlement to sick leave on full pay is exhausted, the employee may, with the approval of the employer, elect to convert any part of his/her entitlement to sick leave on half pay to sick leave on full pay, but so that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent his/her sick leave entitlement on half pay is reduced by two days for each day of sick leave on full pay that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timereceives by the conversion. (e9) In No leave of absence on account of illness shall be granted with pay, if the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that illness has been caused by the misconduct of the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number in any case of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationabsence from duty without sufficient cause. (f10) The amount An employee who is duly absent on leave without pay is not eligible for absence of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to leave on account of illness under this clause during the number currency of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are usedthat leave without pay. (g11) Sick Where, on or after the first day of August, 1972, an employee in the discharge of his/her duties suffers personal injuries by accident that are compensable in accordance with the provisions of the Employees' Compensation Act, 1912, and which necessitates the granting of leave of absence under this subclause:- (a) no charge shall be made against the employee’s sick leave credits in respect of so much of the period of leave as does not exceed twenty-six weeks and the employee shall receive full pay for any such part of the employee’s leave of absence; and (b) where the employee is unable to resume duty at the expiration of the period of twenty-six weeks, he/she shall be granted on full pay or half pay as the case requires, such further leave under this subclause as is required, but half the period only of such further leave shall be charged against his/her sick leave credits on full pay or half pay, as the case may be used be. (12) Where an employee resigns or is dismissed by his/her employer through no fault of his/her own and is engaged by another respondent to this Agreement within one working week of the expiration of any period for which payment in one-quarter hour increments lieu of annual leave or more. Howeverpublic holidays has been made, the total hours used in a day period of sick leave that has accrued to the employee's credit shall remain to such employee's credit and the provisions of subclause (7) of this clause shall continue to apply to such employee. (13) A pregnant employee shall not exceed be refused sick leave by reason only that the number of regularly scheduled hours "illness or injury" encountered by the employee would otherwise have worked had he is associated with the pregnancy. (14) The provisions of this clause shall not been on sick leaveapply to casual employees.

Sick Leave. As The provisions of Articles to inclusive will apply to all members of the Servicewho commencedtheir service prior to July 1These provisions shall not be subject to change in any way, 1986at any time, without the approval in writing of a clear two-thirds majority of the members eligible to participate in the provisions as herein established. Each member covered by this Agreement hired prior to July shall be granted twelve 2) hours leave on account of sickness for each and every month of active service with full pay at the member's current rate of pay. The hours of sick leave unless used. shall be accumulative with no maximum. Each member covered by this Agreement having accumulatedsick leave, who retires at normal retirement date, or after any extension thereof, or who is dismissed by reason of ill health, or resigns by reason of ill health, shall be granted a leavewith pay at the current rate of pay for the number of hours then standing to their credit, but paymentfor such leave shall not in any event exceed one-half of the member's yearly salary at the current rate of pay. After completing five (5) years of service, each member covered by this Agreement, upon resignation, shall be granted one-half pay at the current rate of pay for the year for the accumulated sick leavethen standing his or her credit, but the pay shall not exceed one-half of the member's current yearly salary in any case. Any member covered by this Agreement who is dismissed for cause shall forfeit all accumulated sick leave standing to their credit. A member who commenced Service prior to January reporting for employees was frozen duty and placed in a bank. Employees with banked later becoming sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) unable to complete regular tour of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leaveduty, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 the number of each yearhours worked, and shall required to access time hours for those hours not worked. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during Inthe event of the first year death of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits a member covered by this Agreement, there shall be paid only to the personal representativeof his or her estate, pay at the current rate of pay for the number of hours sick leave then standing to or her credit, Payment for such leave shall not in cases any event exceed one-half his or her yearly salary at the current rate of actual non-occupational pay. The current hourly rate of pay mentioned in provisions of this Article of this Agreement shall be computed by dividing the amount of the yearly salary in effect at the date of retirement, or resignation,by thousand and eighty (2080). Notwithstandingany of the provisionsof Article, any member who, on December had an accumulation of sick days in excess of days, pursuant to the terms of the Collective Agreement, shall retaincredit for such excess until used. A memberwho, on account of illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible is absent from work for the employee to perform regular duties five (5) or if a child more consecutive working days or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of or more accumulative working days in a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall calendar year may be required to submit and if required will submit, a completed physician or psychologist's report only upon to the Board or its designate by the end of the five (5) consecutive days or fifteen (15) accumulated working days referred to above. Such report will provide a weekly basis. Failure reason for the member's absence and a prognosis for return to work by the member's If the member's absence continues beyond five (5) consecutive working days or fifteen (15) accumulated working days in a calendar year, the member may be required by the Board or its designate to report to a physician or psychologist selected by the Boardfor a medical examination. The Board's physician or psychologist is authorized to provide the parties with a report stipulating a reasonfor the continued absence and a prognosis for return to work. If there is a disagreement the opinions of the member's and the Board's then the member may be cause for denial required to submit and if required will submit, to a medical examination by an independent medical physician, psychologist or specialist agreed to by the parties to this Agreement. Such independent practitioner may consult as necessary with any other The independent practitioner shall advise the parties in writing in report form as provided, regarding findings and prognosis and determination shall be binding on the parties. The Board shall have the right to require re-examination of the member by the independent practitioner at reasonable intervals while the member is off duty. There will be no further entitlement to sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that leave payments or accumulated sick leave payout under the time off was due Agreement in the following instances: Failureto submit an attending report without reasonable excuse; Without reasonable excuse, fail to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling report to the extent that Board's physician, psychologistor specialist as above on the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued data set by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.Board for examination:

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick a. A full- time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6ten ( 10 ) sick days on January 1 of each per year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 Sick leave days will be credited as follows: four ( 4 ) days in September and six ( 6) days in January. Days will be prorated for part- time staff, those on unpaid leaves of absence, or those terminating during the year. b. All Sick leave days previously accumulated by an Employee while employed by the Agency shall receive prorated be credited to him/ her. Any sick leave benefits days not used by the end of the school year shall be added to the sick leave days available for the following year provided, however, i t shall not result in exceeding the ninety (90 ) day maximum for sick leave accumulation. c. Criteria for utilization of sick leave days shall be: i. Personal i l lness, injury or quarantine. ii. Serious i l lness in the employee’s immediate family, i. e., husband, wife, child, father or mother. d. The Employee shall notify his/ her Program Supervisor using the AESOP attendance system of his/ her impending absence stating the nature of absence ( i l lness) and where he/ she may be contacted during the first year day. Each Employee shall give such notification at least two hours prior to his/ her scheduled on- the- job starting t ime unless the circumstances of eligibility.) Such days the absence do not allow such notice. When the AESOP attendance system cannot be carried over from one year accessed a phone call to the next. Any unused sick days Program Supervisor shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions:made. (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent e. The Employee may be required by the Superintendent to give a written, signed statement indicating the nature of the i l lness or injury for an employee who wishes such absence when reporting to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone work on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each f i rst working day that the following his/ her absence. The employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall may also be required by the superintendent to report only upon give a weekly basiswritten, signed statement f rom the employee' s physician indicating the nature of the i l lness or injury when reporting to work in the first working day following his/her absence of three ( 3 ) or more working days. Failure to report may be cause comply with such a request can result in the withholding of pay for denial of sick pay benefitssuch leave days. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement f. Accumulated sick leave t ime shall terminate upon severance of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timeemployment. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Section 3.1 Sick leave shall be considered to be absence from duty with pay for the following reasons: Illness or injury, except where such illness or injury arises out of or in the course of employment by an employer other than the City. a. When an employee is required to undergo medical, optical, or dental treatment and only when this cannot be accomplished on off-duty hours. If a reasonable length of time is used, it shall not be deducted from sick leave. b. When serious illness of a member of the employee's immediate family requires his/her personal attendance, and if supported by a Medical Certificate. Section 3.2 Sick leave shall accrue at the rate of one and one-quarter (1-1/4) working days for each completed month of continuous full-time service. a. Sick leave may accumulate to a maximum of one hundred fifty (150) working days for anyone employed on May 16, 2007 and one hundred thirty-five (135) working days for anyone hired after said date. Any employee having more than 150 days accumulated shall not continue to accrue additional days until his/her accumulation falls below 150 days and thereafter shall not exceed said 150 days. b. In the event of death of an employee, or his termination for any other reason than retirement, payment shall be made for the accrued sick leave of the employee at the time of death or such termination to a maximum of one hundred thirty-five 135) days if he/she was employed on May 16, 2007. Employees hired after July 1, 19862002 shall be eligible for such payment only if they have completed five (5) years of service. There shall be no payment for accrued sick leave for anyone hired after May 16, all 2007. Section 3.3 Sick leave shall be granted only to permanent full-time employees except that a permanent employee working less than full time shall be granted sick leave in proportion to the amount of time worked. Each employee shall be notified of the sum of his accumulated sick leave quarterly by the respective departmental timekeepers. Section 3.4 When an employee receives payment from the City under the provisions of this Article, he shall assign to the City upon request his right to recover the amount of such payment against any third party who may have been responsible for employees was frozen and placed in a banksuch illness or injury. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the Such employee shall be paid for onereimburse the City to the extent of such payments upon the settlement or judgment of any claim against any third party. Section 3.5 Sick leave shall continue to accumulate during leaves of absence with pay and during the time an employee is on authorized sick leave or vacation time. Section 3.6 Any full-half (1/2) time permanent employee on disability compensation as a result of those unused days at injury received while performing his assigned duties shall accrue sick leave the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Fullas other full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 permanent employees. Section 3.7 A Medical Certificate signed by a licensed physician or other practitioner whose method of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits healing is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent recognized by Connecticut State authorities may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term any period of absence due to such of more than four (4) consecutive working days or as supporting evidence when sick leave is requested for any period when an employee is on accrued vacation leave or when an employee's attendance record shows frequent or habitual absences because of claimed illness or injury. Section 3.8 The City may provide a physician or nurse to make any necessary examination or investigation of any alleged abuses of sick leave privileges. The cost of such examination or investigation shall be paid by the City. Section 3.9 No sick leave shall accrue during a leave of absence without pay or while an employee is under suspension. Section 3.10 An employee who has exhausted his accumulated sick leave may request in writing an advance of sick leave privileges. If substantiated by a Medical Certificate, the Department Head shall advance to such employee sick leave privileges not to exceed one (1) day for each completed year of City service. Such advanced sick leave days so granted shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that repayable by the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timefrom his further earned sick leave accumulation. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As A. Sick leave with pay will be granted for a bona fide personal illness, medical examination, medical treatment, legal quarantine, dental care, and for pre-natal examination. When an employee is eligible for Worker's Compensation payments from the City, he/she may supplement these pay­ ments with a prorated portion of July his/her sick leave, so that the combination of the two (2) will equal regular pay. When his/her sick leave account is exhausted, he/she will receive Worker's Compensation payments only. B. Sick leave also may be used in case of serious illness in the immediate family, requiring the employee's attendance and shall be 'tor the actual time required, but not to exceed three (3) workdays, except with approval from the Chief. C. No sick leave shall be granted to an employee during the first (1'� month of employment, 1986but leave shall accrue from the start of his/her employment. 2016-2018 CBA COR & LELS, all accumulated Local 194 D. Employees shall be granted eight (8) hours of sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illnesseach calendar month of employment or major fraction thereof. Unused sick leave shall accrue. There shall be no maximum accu­ mulation limit. E. Employees using earned sick leave shall be considered to be working for the purpose of accu­ mulating additional vacation leave or sick leave. Only days that an employee would normally have worked will be maintained charged against his/her sick leave account. F. An employee claiming sick leave may be required to file competent written evidence to the Chief or his/her representative that he/she has been absent as authorized. Sick leave taken immedi­ ately preceding termination or retirement of an employee must be substantiated by written med­ ical report. G. An employee who has been unable to work for a period of time because of illness or accident, may be required, before being permitted to return to work, to provide medical evidence, as the Chief or his/her representative determines is necessary, that he/she is again able to perform all significant duties of his/her job in a competent manner and without hazard to himself/herself or others. H. Sick leave is a benefit intended to prevent the bank and the loss of regular income during a time of personal illness or accident, or serious family crisis as defined in this Article. Each employee shall be paid held responsible for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates reasonable, prudent, and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization bona fide use of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions:benefits. (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use I. Claiming sick time leave when physically fit, except as provided in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryArticle, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial disciplinary action. The employee must notify his/her duty Lieutenant of sick pay benefitshis/her need for leave at the earliest possible moment and preferable before the start of his/her scheduled working hours. Failure to make diligent effort to give such notification may result in payroll deduction for such time taken. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that J. No sick leave will be allowed for illness, injury, or physical inability resulting from misconduct or excessive use of alcohol or narcotics, except in the time off was due to actual non-occupational case of an employee pursuing appropriate treatment for the illness of alcoholism or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work dutiesother forms of chemical dependency. The requirement No sick leave benefits of a physician’s certificate may any kind will be imposed at any timegranted after termination of employment except as provided in Article 13, UNUSED SICK LEAVE. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) K. Sick leave may not be used in one-quarter hour increments for injury or more. However, illness resulting from employment other than with the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveCity.

Sick Leave. As 25.1. Effective the first day of July 1the month following the date of hire, 1986, all accumulated an Employee shall be granted up to 120 working days of sick leave for employees was frozen with full pay (paid sick leave) during a calendar year, except that such minimum requirement of six (6) months shall not be applicable in connection with any illness or injury arising out of and placed in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and course of employment by the employee City. When an Employee is unable to or indisposed to report for duty for any of the reasons specified in Section 3 of this Article, he or she shall be immediately report such fact to his or her immediate supervisor. To qualify for paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated Employee must report off prior to or within the first thirty (30) minutes of his or her starting time, but must immediately report off when leaving his or her duties. 25.2. If an Employee's use of paid sick leave reasonably appears to be unjustified, the Appointing Authority may direct in writing to such Employee, for any subsequent absence by the employee will remain vacant until Employee claimed to be allowable as paid sick leave, to furnish written explanation by a physician to justify the accumulated subsequent absence on paid sick time benefits leave; failure to furnish written explanation shall preclude the Employee from being allowed such absence as paid sick leave, but the Employee may appeal such directive to the Manager of that employee have been exhaustedHuman Resources, Healthcare & Safety. 25.3. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by For the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed purposes of this Article, sick leave is defined to mean the new-hire probationary period absence of an Employee because of illness or injury, exposure to a contagious disease, or attendance upon a member of the immediate family; provided no Employee, unless officially assigned to special duty, shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated granted paid sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over for any injury or illness resulting from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits any gainful employment on any job which is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent provisions of the employee workers' compensation laws of any state, other than regular City employment. For the purposes of this section, immediate family is ill defined to include only any parent, child, brother, sister, spouse, grandparent, grandchild, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, or injured. Documentation xxxx of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employeeEmployee, and may subject any parent or grandparent of the employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationEmployee's spouse. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As Each Employee shall receive up to fifteen (15) paid days of July 1, 1986, all accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in personal sickness or a bankdisabling injury of the Employee or a member of the Employee’s immediate family. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in The Boards agree to permit the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half accumulation of ninety (1/290) of those unused days at of sick leave. For the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated purpose of use of sick leave, the position vacated by term “immediate family” shall mean spouse or civil union partner, child, stepchild or xxxx who lives with the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child Employee, xxxxxx child, parent, spouse, or parent of the employee is ill or injuredEmployee’s spouse. Documentation of a physician visit Sick leave for a child or parent any person other than those listed above may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if at the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies discretion of the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to designee; such illness or injury, the employee decision shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury final, and that such illness or injury was disabling not subject to the extent that grievance and arbitration provisions of the employee could not perform regular work dutiesparties’ Agreement. The requirement Upon request, each Employee shall be notified annually of a physicianthe Employee’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal available number of sick leave days. All leave days previously accrued or to shall be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) pro-rated for part-time staff. Sick leave may be used taken in onequarter-quarter hour day increments (i.e. ¼ day, ½ day) with the prior permission of the Superintendent or moredesignee. HoweverUnder no circumstances shall an Employee use a sick leave day in order to work at a job or position for which the Employee is in any way compensated. When three (3) consecutive sick leave days are used, or in any instance in which the Superintendent has reason to believe that the use of leave has not been for a bona-fide reason, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed Superintendent reserves the number right to require an Employee to provide medical certification of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on illness. The Superintendent may require an Employee to submit to an independent medical review to determine eligibility for continued use of sick leave, fitness for duty or fitness to return to work following a serious illness or injury. In that event the cost of the medical review will be paid by the District or Supervisory Union. An Employee who is or may be disabled shall apply for coverage under the LTD Plan. An Employee may not use more sick leave than is necessary to meet the elimination period of the LTD Plan. If an Employee is determined to be ineligible for LTD, the Employee may continue to use accrued sick leave while the disabling condition continues.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated A. Regular full-time Employees shall accrue sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in at the rate of 5.54 hours bi-weekly while employed. Regular part-time Employees shall accrue sick leave on a bankratio of the hours they work to a forty (40) hour week. Employees with banked No sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days leave will be maintained in the bank and the employee accrue while on leave without pay. X. Xxxx leave accrual shall be paid for one-half (1/2) capped at a maximum of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates 720 hours. C. When an Employee has exhausted his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates or her accrued sick and receives payment for accumulated sick annual leave, the position vacated Employee may apply for leave from the sick leave bank consistent with the Personnel Policies Handbook. X. Xxxxxxxxx are responsible to notify their immediate supervisor or the Utility Director as soon as possible prior to the beginning of the Employee’s shift if they are to be absent. If the notice is left by voice mail message, Employees are required to talk directly to a supervisor or Utility Director at some time during the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhaustedday while absent. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period If such notification is not given, such absence shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick charged to leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick without pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee Employee to disciplinary action up to and including terminationdischarge. In the event the Employee is unable to contact their supervisor or the Utility Director, it will be acceptable for someone from the Employee’s immediate family to contact the Employer about the Employee’s absence by talking directly to the Employee’s immediate supervisor or the Utility Director. (f) The amount X. Xxxx leave shall be paid at the Employee’s current rate of pay and may be used for the Employee’s illness or injury. Up to 120 hours of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used or for the illness or injury of the Employee’s immediate family members each calendar year. Up to 40 hours of sick leave may be used for a death in onethe Employee’s immediate family. “Immediate family” for purposes of this section includes the Employee’s spouse, children, parents, siblings, parents-quarter hour increments in law, grandparents, grandchildren, or moreany person acting in one of these capacities. F. The Employer may require a certificate from a medical provider confirming the absence was due to illness or injury for three days or more or to provide a fitness to return to duty for any absence. HoweverIf the Employer suspects abuse of sick leave, nothing in this paragraph prohibits the total hours used in Employer from requiring a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been medical certification for absences less than three days. G. When a holiday falls when an Employee is on sick leave, the Employee shall be paid for the holiday without a deduction from accrued sick leave. H. Employees shall be eligible for a sick leave benefit from date of hire. Xxxx leave will be granted to the Employee commencing on the first day of illness. I. A regular employee who leaves employment with the Employer for any reason other than discharge for cause will be paid $1.00 for every hour of sick leave accumulated as of their last day of employment.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated Employees covered by the agreement shall be provided paid sick leave as set forth below. These benefits shall not be considered as a right which, an employee may use as his discretion, but shall be allowed only where justified by necessity and actual personal sickness or disability. The accrual and usage of sick leave shall be governed by the following provisions: A. Sick leave shall be earned at the rate of eight (8) hours for employees was frozen and placed in a bankeach calendar month of service. B. Xxxx leave credits earned may be accumulated without limit. Employees with banked separating from the City service shall not be entitled to any payment of unused, accrued leave. C. Employees shall not accrue sick time may utilize it leave during their first three (3) months of employment under original appointments, but shall receive credits for illness. Unused sick days will that period when three (3) months of service have been attained. D. In order to be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated entitled to sick leave, an employee who, because of illness or injury, is unable to report for work shall so notify his immediate supervisor within one hour from the position vacated commencement of the shift. A department head may require an earlier notification where it is warranted due to operational needs. Failure to provide such notification without good reason may result in that day of absence being treated as a leave of absence without pay. The determination in this regard shall be made by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations department head, subject to final approval by the Courtappointing authority. Full-time seniority employees who have completed Where the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injuryinjury is not known at the outset, it shall be the responsibility of the employee to remain in contact with his immediate supervisor, on a daily basis if deemed necessary by the supervisor. Where the absence is, or is expected to be, for more than two work days, the employee shall may be required to report only upon file a weekly basisphysician's certificate or a personal affidavit with the Personnel Officer, stating the cause of absence. Failure to report At its discretion, the City may establish other methods of verification as it deems appropriate. These means shall require the prior approval of the appointing authority and may include, but not be limited to, home visitation and examination by a physician selected by the City. The payment of sick leave may be cause for denial suspended by the appointing authority where he/she has reasonable grounds to believe that absences on a given day or days are the result of sick pay benefitsa concerted action of the part of two or more employees which is related to a labor dispute with the City directly or one in which the City is involved as a third party. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational E. Where an illness or injury is job-related and that such covered by State Workers' Compensation, accrued sick leave and vacation credits shall be applied to make up the difference between State benefits and full, base salary. However, sick leave shall not be paid for any absence of a law enforcement employee resulting from illness or injury was disabling arising out of the course of employment by the City. F. An employee may use one-half of his/her annual accrual of sick leave to attend to the extent that diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition or preventative care for a child, spouse, registered domestic partner, parent (including biological, adoptive, xxxxxx parent, stepparent or legal guardian of an employee or the employee’s spouse or registered domestic partner, or a person who stood in loco parentis when the employee could not perform regular work dutieswas a minor child), grandparent, grandchild, or sibling. The requirement Personnel Officer may approve use of a physician’s certificate may leave for this purpose for other than the family members defined above. G. Accrued sick leave may, with department head approval, be imposed at any used for medical and dental appointments of the employee where it is unfeasible to schedule them on the employee's own time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously H. No accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments for an injury or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leaveillness arising from outside employment.

Sick Leave. As A. Each employee shall earn one (1) day of July sick leave per month, with accumulation to 120 days. After accumulation of 120 days, sick leave earned and unused shall accrue with accumulation to 30 extra days, in a special sick leave reserve, to be used by the employee for catastrophic illness upon request to the Director of Human Resources. Sick leave accumulated in the reserve shall be used only after 120 normal sick leave days have been used. Part-time employee's sick leave shall be on a pro-rate basis. X. Xxxx leave with pay shall be allowed whenever an employee's absence is found to have been due to illness which prevented his/her attendance at school and performance of duties on that day or days. Except as provided below, sick leave is for the individual employee only (or minor child covered by statute). An employee may utilize sick leave for illness or injury in the immediate family. For the purpose of this section, immediate family shall include spouse, children (not covered by statute) and parents of the employee. One-half the daily rate of pay shall be deducted from the wage of the employee and one-half day may be utilized from accrued sick leave for each day of sick leave utilized for the care of a member of the immediate family. C. An employee who finds it necessary to be absent from his/her job for a short period, to be no more than one (1) hour, 1986during the day may do so without salary deduction, all if satisfactory arrangements have been made beforehand with the employee's immediate supervisor and if there is not expense to the employer. This should not be used in instances where other paid leaves are intended. D. Employees entitled to the benefits of the Worker's Compensation Act as a result of an accidental injury, may choose the following option regarding the utilization of his/her accrued sick leave: "During the first three (3) days, of the total temporary disability, I elect to use my accumulated sick leave for employees was frozen that I have to my credit and placed after the expiration of said three (3) days, I elect to receive the weekly compensation rate as fixed by the Worker's Compensation Act, and in a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the employee shall be paid for one-half (1/2) addition thereto, so much of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for my accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible for the employee to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent as may be required for an employee who wishes necessary to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes equal my regular rate of pay, it being my intention to avail myself after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event finish of a long-term period three (3) days of absence due to such illness or injurybenefits provided in Minnesota Statues, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits1961, Section 179.021, Subdivision 5". (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As of July 1, 1986, all accumulated A. An employee shall earn sick leave at the rate of one (1) day per month for employees was frozen each year of continuous service through completion of the ninth (9th) year of service and placed in two (2) days per month for each year of service commencing with the beginning of the tenth (10th) year of service. Sick leave may be accumulated to a bank. Employees with banked sick maximum of one hundred and eighty (180) days. B. At the time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in of retirement under the bank and the provisions of this Agreement, an employee shall be paid at the rate of his/her last position with the Town for one-half fifty percent (1/250%) of those unused days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for his/her accumulated sick leave, provided that in no instance shall s/he be paid for more than ninety (90) days sick leave. For the position vacated purposes of this section, "retirement" shall be defined in accordance with the Retirement System of the Town. Employees hired on or after September 23, 1997 shall not be entitled to the benefits provided by this paragraph. Such employees shall not receive any payment for unused accumulated sick leave at retirement. C. An employee with accrued sick leave credit, except as otherwise provided in section E below, shall be allowed to utilize such sick leave for the following purposes: 1. An employee who has contracted or incurred and is suffering from any non-service connected sickness or disability, including that resulting from pregnancy, which renders him/her unable to perform the duties of his/her position, shall be eligible to receive paid sick leave to the extent s/he have accrued sick leave credit. It is the responsibility of the employee requesting sick leave to notify or cause notification to be made to his or her supervisor in advance of the start of the workday. Sick leave notification must be made for each workday that sick leave is requested except if waived by the supervisor, except in the case of an emergency. 2. An employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall eligible to receive prorated paid sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization of sick leave benefits when there is subject to the following conditions: (a) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational an illness or injury resulting in disability involving a disability member of his/her immediate family, which makes it impossible for requires the employee’s personal care and attendance, provided that requiring the employee to perform regular duties or if report to work would cause a child or parent serious hardship on the member of the employee immediate family suffering from the illness or disability or the member of the immediate family is ill a child. For purposes of this section, immediate family is defined as spouse, child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, grandparent, brother, sister, grandchild, parent-in-law, or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this manner. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if any other relation domiciled with the employee as a member of the employee's family or someone one who is listed as a dependent on the employee’s behalf notifies 's most recent income tax return. D. Accumulated sick leave will remain to the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen credit of an employee for a period of one (151) minutes year after leaving the scheduled starting time on each day that service of the employee Town, and will be absent from work. reinstated if s/he returns to service within that period of time. E. In the event that an employee is entitled to sick leave pursuant to section 11C of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injurythis Agreement, but does not have earned sick leave available, the employee may borrow from his/her accrued, unused vacation leave as of the time sick leave is taken. The vacation leave so used may subsequently be repaid by subsequent sick leave earned at the applicable rate. F. An employee taking sick leave shall be required inform his/her immediate superior, including the reason thereof, and failure to report only upon do so within a weekly basis. Failure to report may reasonable time will be cause for denial of sick leave with pay benefitsfor the period of absence. (d) The Court may G. If the Town has reasonable grounds to believe sick leave is being abused, the Town may, at its discretion, require an employee requesting sick leave, or leave without pay when sick leave is exhausted, to furnish a physician’s certificate showing statement from his/her attending physician certifying that the time off absence from work was necessary due to actual the employee contracting a non-occupational service connected illness or injury disability which renders him/her unable to perform the duties of his/her position. The Town shall have the right to verify the authenticity of the physician statement, have the physician provide an expected return to work date and that such illness have the physician specify any restrictions on the employee’s employment duties due a medical condition. An employee may be disciplined for sick leave abuse or injury was disabling for failure to adhere to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement requirements of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any timethis section. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (g) Sick leave may be used in one-quarter hour increments or more. However, the total hours used in a day shall not exceed the number of regularly scheduled hours the employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on sick leave.

Sick Leave. As a) Xxxx leave credits shall be earned and accumulated at the rate of July one (1, 1986, all accumulated ) day per calendar month of service. b) Xxxx leave credit shall be earned and may be used from the supervisory employee’s date of employment. c) Unused sick leave for employees was frozen and placed in shall accumulate to a bank. Employees with banked sick time may utilize it for illness. Unused sick days will be maintained in the bank and the maximum of one hundred twenty (120) days. d) A supervisory employee shall be paid for one-half deemed to have earned one (1/21) day sick leave per calendar month if a minimum of those unused ten (10) work days at the same rate paid that employee when he terminates his employment. In those instances in which an employee terminates and receives payment for accumulated sick leave, the position vacated by the employee will remain vacant until the accumulated sick time benefits of that employee shall have been exhausted. Exceptions can be made actually worked in extraordinary situations by the Court. Full-time seniority employees who have completed the new-hire probationary period that month. e) A supervisory employee shall be credited with six (6) sick days on January 1 of each year. (Employees who complete probation after January 1 shall receive prorated sick leave benefits during the first year of eligibility.) Such days cannot be carried over from one year entitled to the next. Any unused sick days shall be forfeited. Utilization use of sick leave benefits is subject credited to the following conditions:supervisory employee while absent from work because of sickness unless the supervisory employee shall have returned to regular employment and performed actual work after the absence for which sick leave credits were accumulated. (af) Sick pay benefits shall be paid only in cases of actual non-occupational illness or injury resulting in a disability which makes it impossible A supervisory employee absent under sick leave must report the fact to his supervisor as soon as possible, together with the reason for the employee absence. g) Xxxx leave will be exhausted at the rate of eight (8) hours each day unless a reduced earnings draw has been agreed upon, due to perform regular duties or if a child or parent of an extended illness, between the employee is ill or injured. Documentation of a physician visit for a child or parent may be required for an employee who wishes to use sick time in this mannerand his supervisor. (b) Sick pay benefits will not be granted before they have been earned. (c) Sick pay benefits will be paid only if the employee or someone on the employee’s behalf notifies the Superintendent or designee not later than fifteen (15) minutes after the scheduled starting time on each day that the employee will be absent from work. In the event of a long-term period of absence due to such illness or injury, the employee shall be required to report only upon a weekly basis. Failure to report may be cause for denial of sick pay benefits. (d) The Court may require a physician’s certificate showing that the time off was due to actual non-occupational illness or injury and that such illness or injury was disabling to the extent that the employee could not perform regular work duties. The requirement of a physician’s certificate may be imposed at any time. (e) In the event an employee receives sick pay benefits and it is subsequently established that the employee was not ill or disabled or has otherwise misused the sick pay benefits, the Court may cancel an equal number of sick days previously accrued or to be accrued by the employee, and may subject the employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination. (f) The amount of sick pay benefits used by an employee will be equal to the number of regularly scheduled hours such employee would otherwise have worked on the day(s) such benefits are used. (gh) Sick leave may be used for: i) Illness or other physical disability of the supervisor or for illness of a member of the supervisor’s immediate family or for necessary medical or dental care of the supervisor or his immediate family, defined in one-quarter hour increments this instance as spouse, significant other, child, xxxxxxxxx, xxxx, parent(s) or more. Howeverlegal guardian(s). ii) The illness or necessary medical or dental care of supervisors’ relatives if the supervisor is personally responsible for the care of the relative at the time of the illness or necessary medical or dental care. (1) Relatives shall mean: parents of the spouse, brothers/sisters, grandparents or grandchildren. (2) For purposes of this Article, “significant other” means: (a) That a relationship exists between two people, neither of whom is married, that is intended to remain indefinitely and where there is joint responsibility for each other’s common welfare, there are significant shared financial obligations, and there is a shared primary residence. (b) This relationship must have existed for at least two (2) continuous years before benefits under this Article may be provided. i) Xxxx leave earned beyond the total hours used maximum allowable accumulation may be restored in the discretion of the Authority in the event of a supervisory employee’s extended illness. j) The Authority shall credit, at retirement from service, accumulated sick leave not to exceed ninety (90) days in computing service time for retirement purposes. k) An employee retiring or separating from service with the Authority shall be paid for all accumulated sick leave beyond ninety (90) days to a maximum of thirty (30) days. l) Time during which a supervisory employee is excused from work because of holidays or other leave with pay shall be considered as time worked for the purpose of computing sick leave credit. m) Supervisory employees will be allowed to remain in a day shall not exceed not-on-payroll status for thirty (30) calendar days after their sick leave and/or vacation leave credits have been exhausted, with approval of the number Authority. n) The use of regularly scheduled hours the sick leave for purposes other than provided herein is improper. o) A supervisory employee would otherwise have worked had he not been on so abusing sick leave, including repeated absences before and after scheduled days off, may be subject to disciplinary action in accordance with Article 7, Discipline. p) A medical examination or doctor’s certificate may be required on account of use of sick leave for five (5) or more consecutive work days, to determine the employees’ ability to perform their duties.