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2022-2025 MOU City of Santa Ana & SEIU Full-Time Employees Unit Page 50 <br />ARTICLE X <br />10.0 OTHER LEAVES OF ABSENCE <br />10.1 Sick Leave <br />A. Definition <br />The City provides paid sick leave to eligible employees upon verbal or written <br />request, within the parameters of the law, for the following purposes: <br />•Diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition, or preventative <br />care of, 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 />B. Accrual <br />Each employee shall be entitled to, and shall earn eight (8) hours of sick leave for <br />each full calendar month of service in which they is employed by the City with full <br />pay; provided, however, any absence on sick leave for a period of time greater than <br />fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days in any one (1) calendar month shall not be <br />considered to be service entitling an employee to earn sick leave as aforesaid. <br />C. Use of Sick Leave <br />1. Authorization for Use <br />Use of sick leave shall be authorized as follows: <br />a. Sick leave is not a right which an employee may use at their discretion, but <br />shall be allowed only in cases of necessity and actual sickness or disability, <br />as authorized in this article. <br />b. When an accepted industrial illness or injury has caused an employee’s <br />absence, for which benefits are required under the State Workers’ <br />Compensation Insurance and Safety Act, paid sick leave will be processed <br />during the first three (3) consecutive days of the statutory waiting period. If <br />the employee does not have sufficient accumulated sick leave at the <br />commencement of such industrial illness or injury, they will be advanced <br />sick leave for this purpose. Subsequently, the City will deduct an equal <br />amount previously advanced from any sick leave accrued by the employee <br />until the total amount is recovered. If the employee terminates before <br />recovery of all advanced sick leave, the City will deduct the unrecovered <br />cost of sick leave from such terminated employee’s final paycheck, to the