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<br />12.1 <br /> <br />ARTICLE XII <br /> <br />12.0 LEAVES OF ABSENCE (OTHER) <br /> <br />Sick Leave. <br /> <br />A. Definition. Except as otherwise provided below, sick <br />leave shall be deemed to mean absence from duty of an <br />employee because of illness or injury that prevents <br />the employee from performing the duties of his or her <br />position, and shall be deemed to include time in <br />quarantine resulting from exposure to a contagious <br />disease. <br /> <br />All personnel in the classes of Firefighter, Fire Engineer <br />and Fire Captain hired on or after the effective date of <br />adoption of this Agreement, and all persons employed in <br />those classes as of that date who have less than seven <br />years of service with the City shall not be entitled to <br />use sick leave during periods of absence due to industrial <br />illness or injury or to extend any leave of absence due to <br />industrial illness or injury which leave is compensable <br />under Labor Code Section 4850; provided that when paid <br />employees working for the City as of the date of the <br />adoption of this Agreement having less than seven years of <br />continuous service with the City do eventually complete <br />more than seven years of continuous service with the City, <br />they shall then be able to use such leave during such <br />absences in the same manner and to the same extent as the <br />persons employed as Firefighters, Fire Engineers and Fire <br />Captains as of the date of adoption of this Agreement who <br />have already completed seven years of continuous service <br />with the City in one or more of those classes of <br />employment. <br /> <br />B. Accrual. Each employee shall be entitled to, and shall <br />earn, one working day of sick leave for each full <br />calendar month of service in which he or she is employed <br />by the City with full pay; provided, however, any <br />absence on sick leave for a period of time greater than <br />15 consecutive calendar days in anyone calendar month <br />shall not be considered to be service entitling an <br />employee to earn sick leave as aforesaid. Subj ect to <br />the other provisions in this Article, sick leave shall <br />accrue to the credit of each employee to the extent that <br />it is not used. Notwi thstanding the foregoing, an <br />employee on leave of absence for service-connected <br />illness or injury who is covered by the provisions of <br />Labor Code Section 4850 shall continue to accumulate one <br />day of sick leave for each full calendar month of <br /> <br />54 <br />