SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION LOCAL 721 (SEIU) (2017-2018)

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ARTICLE X 10.0 OTHER LEAVES OF ABSENCE 10.1 Sick Leave. A. Definition. California's Healthy Workplaces/Healthy Families Act of 2014 (AB1522) also known as California's Paid Sick Leave Law, requires the City to provide paid sick leave to eligible employees upon oral or written request, within the parameters of the law, for the following purposes: • Diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition of, or preventative care for an employee or member; Specified purposes for an employee who sexual assault, or stalking. an employee's qualified family is a victim or domestic violence, B. Accrual. Each employee shall be entitled to, and shall earn an eight (8) hour working day of sick leave for each full calendar month of service in which he or she is employed by the City with full pay; provided, however, any absence on sick leave for a period of time greater than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days in any one (1) calendar month shall not be considered to be service entitling an employee to earn sick leave as aforesaid. C. Authorized Only When Necessary. Use of sick leave by City employees shall be authorized as follows: Sick leave is not a right which an employee may use at his or her discretion, but shall be allowed only in cases of necessity and actual sickness or disability, as authorized in Subsection A above and I below. 2, When an accepted industrial illness or injury has caused an employee's absence, for which benefits are required under the State Workers' Compensation Insurance and Safety Act, paid sick leave will be processed during the fust three (3) consecutive days of the statutory waiting period. If the employee, does not have sufficient accumulated sick leave at the commencement of such industrial illness or injury, they will be advanced. sick Ieave for this purpose. Subsequently, the City will deduct an equal amount previously advanced from any sick leave accrued by the employee until the total amount is recovered. If the employee terminates before recovery of all advanced sick leave, the City will deduct the unrecovered cost of sick leave from such terminated employee's final paycheck, to the extent possible. If the employee remains off work longer than fourteen (14) days due to the same workers' compensation related illness or injury, the employee will have the three (3) sick days used re -credited back to his or Ws