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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 mean <br />absence from duty of an employee because of non-industrial illness or injury that <br />prevents the employee from performing the duties of his or her position and shall be <br />deemed to include time in quarantine resulting from non-duty related exposure to a <br />contagious disease. <br />B. Accrual. Each employee shall be entitled to, and shall earn, eight (8) hours of sick <br />leave for each full calendar month of service in which he or she is employed by the <br />City with full pay; provided, however, any absence on sick leave for a period of time <br />greater than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days in any one (1) calendar month <br />shall not be considered to be service entitling an employee to earn sick leave as <br />aforesaid. Subject to the other provisions in this Article, sick leave shall accrue to the <br />credit of each employee to the extent that it is not used. Notwithstanding the <br />foregoing, employees on leave of absence for service-connected illness or injury who <br />are covered by the provisions of Labor Code Section 4850, shall continue to <br />accumulate eight (8) hours of sick leave for each full calendar month of service for <br />which he or she is employed by the City with full pay during said absence for service- <br />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 his or her discretion, <br />but shall be allowed only in cases of necessity and actual sickness or <br />disability, or as authorized in Subsection J below. <br />2. With respect to "miscellaneous-member" employees covered by this <br />Agreement, when such an employee's absence is caused by an industrial <br />illness or injury, for which benefits are required to be provided under the <br />State Workers' Compensation Insurance and Safety Act, the City shall pay <br />100% of salary for the first three (3) days of such absence and sick leave shall <br />not be debited. <br />D. Limit. The maximum total accumulation of sick leave with pay shall be 1600 hours. <br />Sick leave usage of less than a full day shall be charged in minimum increments of <br />one-half (1/2) hour, with fractional usage rounded upward to the next higher multiple <br />of one-half (1 /2). <br />E. Extended. The City Manager may grant leave up to six months without pay to an <br />employee who has exhausted all of his or her accrued sick leave if the City physician <br />or a licensed physician designated by the City Manager indicates that the employee <br />42 <br />