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appointment that prevents the employee from performing the duties of his or her <br />position, and shall be deemed to include time in quarantine resulting from exposure <br />to a contagious disease. <br /> <br />Administration. Each employee shall be entitled to, and shall earn, 30 working hours <br />per year. Said sick leave shall be credited to the employee in two increments of 15 <br />hours each, on January 1 and July 1, respectively, each year. <br /> <br />Authorized Only When Necessary. Use of sick leave by City employees shall be <br />authorized as follows: <br /> <br />Sick leave is not a right which an employee may use at his or her discretion, <br />but shall be allowed only in cases of actual sickness and disability, or <br />necessity, as authorized in Subsection J below. <br /> <br />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 allowed such <br />employee during the first three (3) days of the statutory waiting period. If the <br />workers' compensation related illness or injury continues past the initial three <br />(3) consecutive days, the employee will have the three (3) used sick days <br />recredited to his or her account. Paid sick leave will continue until the fourth <br />(4th) day when the City pays the employee workers' compensation benefits for <br />such illness or injury. If the employee does not have sufficient accumulated <br />sick leave at the commencement of such industrial illness or injury, they will <br />be advanced sick leave for this purpose. Subsequently, the City will deduct <br />an equal amount previously advanced from any sick leave accrued by the <br />employee until the total amount is recovered. If the employee terminates <br />before recovery of all advanced sick leave, the City will deduct the <br />unrecovered cost of sick leave from such terminated employee's final <br />paycheck, to the extent possible. <br /> <br />Commencing with Council approval of this Agreement, the City may <br />authorize employees to use sick leave, vacation, or compensatory time for <br />approved workers' compensation medical appointments as specified herein. <br />The City may authorize use of such leave for City approved medical <br />appointments whenever such appointments cannot be secured outside the <br />employee's regular workday, and salary continuation or workers' <br />compensation benefits are not available. <br /> <br />Limit. Sick leave may be accumulated year to year to a maximum of 100 hours. <br />Sick leave usage of less than a full day shall be charged in minimum increments of <br />one-half (½) hour, with fractional usage rounded upward to the next higher multiple <br />of one-half (½). <br /> <br />25 <br /> <br /> <br />