Item 26 - MOU between the City of Santa Ana and the Confidential Association of Santa Ana

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present to their Department Head a physician's certificate stating that, in the physician's opinion, the employee could not report to work because of such illness or injury and that the employee is sufficiently recovered to safely return to work. A physician's certificate or other satisfactory written evidence of actual illness or injury may be required after an absence of any duration less than three (3) days. H. Denial. No employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay while absent from duty because of sickness or injury purposely self-inflicted or caused by willful misconduct; or, sickness or disability sustained while engaged in employment other than employment by the City, for monetary gain or other compensation, or by reason of engaging in business or activity for monetary gain or other compensation. I. Excess Usage. If sick leave is used in excess of that due and available an employee, such excess sick leave will, first, be deducted from any available compensatory time off benefit; second, from any available vacation leave benefit; finally, deducted from the next scheduled salary payment. J. Necessity Leave. Each employee shall be afforded the opportunity to use up to forty-eight (48) hours of sick leave per calendar year, on a non -cumulative basis, as personal necessity leave. All of this personal necessity leave may be used to attend to an illness of a child, parent, or spouse of the employee. As used in this section, "child" means a biological, foster, or adopted child, a stepchild, a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis; "parent" means a biological, foster, adoptive parent, a stepparent, a person who stood in loco parentis when the employee was a minor child, or a legal guardian; and "immediate family" means any member of the employee's household related by blood or marriage, a parent, parent -in-law (including biological, adoptive, foster, stepparent, and legal guardian), spouse, registered domestic partner, child, brother, sister, grandparent, or grandchild of the employee, regardless of residence, or any other relative of the employee by blood or marriage, where it can be established by the employee that the employee's presence is required to handle emergency arrangements and/or other matters. Up to three (3) days of this personal necessity leave may be used: To attend to a serious accident to members of the employee's immediate family; 2. For childbirth; 3. To cope with imminent danger to the employee's family, home, or other valuable property; 4. When the existence of external circumstances beyond the employee's control make it impossible for them to report for duty; or CONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF SANTA ANA (CASA) MOU: JULY 1, 2022 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2025 Page 38