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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ <br />CONFIDENTIAL ASSOCIATION OF SANTA ANA (CASA) MOU: JULY 1, 2025 THROUGH JUNE 30, 2028 <br />Page 38 <br />13139922.1 SA370-001 <br />for a purpose not permitted by this MOU or the law, it will be considered abuse of <br />sick leave. If abuse of sick leave is suspected, a physician’s certificate or other <br />satisfactory written evidence may be requested. <br />H. Denial. No employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay while absent from <br />duty because of sickness or injury purposely self-inflicted or caused by willful <br />misconduct; or, sickness or disability sustained while engaged in employment other <br />than employment by the City, for monetary gain or other compensation, or by <br />reason of engaging in business or activity for monetary gain or other compensation. <br />I. Excess Usage. If sick leave is used in excess of that due and available an employee, <br />such excess sick leave will, first, be deducted from any available compensatory <br />time off benefit; second, from any available vacation leave benefit; finally, <br />deducted from the next scheduled salary payment. <br />J. Necessity Leave. Each employee shall be afforded the opportunity to use up to <br />forty-eight (48) hours of sick leave per calendar year, on a non-cumulative basis, <br />as personal necessity leave. All of this personal necessity leave may be used to <br />attend to an illness of a child, parent, or spouse of the employee. As used in this <br />section, “child” means a biological, foster, or adopted child, a stepchild, a legal <br />ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis; “parent” means a biological, <br />foster, adoptive parent, a stepparent, a person who stood in loco parentis when the <br />employee was a minor child, or a legal guardian; and “immediate family” means <br />any member of the employee’s household related by blood or marriage, a parent, <br />parent-in-law (including biological, adoptive, foster, stepparent, and legal <br />guardian), spouse, registered domestic partner, child, brother, sister, grandparent, <br />or grandchild of the employee, regardless of residence, or any other relative of the <br />employee by blood or marriage, where it can be established by the employee that <br />the employee’s presence is required to handle emergency arrangements and/or <br />other matters. <br />Up to five (5) days of this personal necessity leave may be used: <br />1. To attend to a serious accident to members of the employee’s immediate <br />family; <br />2. For childbirth; <br />3. To cope with imminent danger to the employee’s family, home, or other <br />valuable property; <br />4. When the existence of external circumstances beyond the employee’s <br />control make it impossible for them to report for duty; or <br />5. To attend to medical or dental appointments for members of the employee’s <br />household.