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ARTICLE XI <br />11.0 OTHER LEAVES OF ABSENCE <br />11.1 Sick Leave. <br />A. Definition. Except as otherwise provided below, sick leave shall be deemed to <br />mean absence from duty of an employee because of illness or injury that prevents <br />the employee from performing the duties of their position and shall be deemed to <br />include time in quarantine resulting from non -duty related exposure to a contagious <br />disease. <br />B. Accrual. Each employee shall earn eight (8) hours of sick leave for each full <br />calendar month of service in which they are employed by the City with full pay. <br />However, any absence on sick leave for a period of time greater than fifteen (15) <br />consecutive calendar days in any one (1) calendar month shall not be considered to <br />be service entitling an employee to earn sick leave as aforesaid. Employees on leave <br />of absence for service -connected illness or injury who are covered by the provisions <br />of Labor Code Section 4850, shall continue to accumulate eight (8) hours of sick <br />leave for each full calendar month of service for which they are employed by the <br />City with full pay during said absence for service -connected illness or injury. <br />C. Authorized Only When Necessary. Use of sick leave by City employees shall be <br />authorized as follows: <br />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 />or as authorized in Subsection J below. <br />2. For miscellaneous -member employees covered by this MOU, when such an <br />employee's absence is caused by an industrial illness or injury, for which <br />benefits are required to be provided under the State Workers' Compensation <br />Insurance and Safety Act, the City shall pay one hundred percent (100%) of <br />salary for the first three (3) days of such absence and sick leave shall not be <br />debited. <br />D. Limit. The maximum total accumulation of sick leave shall be one thousand six <br />hundred (1,600) hours. Sick leave usage of less than a full day shall be charged in <br />minimum increments of one-half (1/2) hour. <br />For employees who are newly hired from outside the City into classifications <br />represented by the Association following Council approval of this MOU: <br />1. Maximum accumulation of seven hundred (700) sick leave hours; and <br />2. Any annual accrual over the seven hundred (700) hours (up to ninety-six <br />(96) hours) would be cashed out into an employee's RHS during the first <br />pay period in January of each year. <br />.o <br />