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Excess Usage. If sick leave is used in excess of that due and available to an <br />employee, such excess sick leave will, first, be deducted from any available vacation <br />leave benefit; finally, deducted from the next scheduled salary payment. <br />Personal Necessity Leave. Each employee shall be afforded the opportunity to use up <br />to 48 hours of sick leave per calendar year, on a non -cumulative basis, as personal <br />necessity leave. All of this personal necessity leave may be used to attend to an <br />illness of a child, parent, spouse, or registered domestic partner of the employee. As <br />used in this section, a child means a biological, foster, or adopted child, a stepchild, a <br />legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis; and a parent means a <br />biological, foster, adoptive parent, a stepparent, or a legal guardian of an employee or <br />the employee's spouse or registered domestic partner, or aperson who stood in loco <br />parentis when the employee was a minor child. This section also applies to the <br />employee's grandparent, grandchild, or sibling. <br />California's Healthy Workplaces/Healthy Families Act of 2014 (AB1522) also <br />known as California's Paid Sick Leave Law, required the City to provide paid sick <br />leave to eligible employees upon oral or written request, within the parameters of the <br />law, for the following purposes: <br />• Diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition of, or <br />preventative care for an employee or an employee's qualified family member; <br />• Specified purposes for an employee who is a victim or domestic violence, <br />sexual assault, or stalking. <br />Up to three (3) days of this personal necessity leave maybe used: (a) to attend to a <br />serious accident to members of the employee's immediate family; (b) childbirth; (c) <br />to cope with imminent danger to the employee's home or other valuable property; or <br />(d) when the existence of external circumstances beyond the employee's control <br />make it impractical for him or her to report for duty. For the purposes of this section <br />only, a "day" shall be defined as the number of hours of work that an employee is <br />required to work according to his or her specific workday schedule. <br />K. Payment for Unused Sick Leave. (effective upon adoption of this NIOU). <br />Payment criteria and limitations. <br />Upon non -disciplinary termination of employment after ten (10) years of cumulative <br />full-time service with the City, each qualified employee shall be entitled to the <br />following cash out provisions below: <br />a. After ten (10) years, but less than 15 years of service, the employee shall <br />be entitled to 50% of the amount ofunused sick leave benefits credited to <br />his or her Retirement Health Savings (RHS) account upon the effective <br />29 <br />55A-39 <br />