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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 NecessarX. Use of sick leave by City employees shall be <br /> authorized as follows: <br /> 1. 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 /> 42 <br />