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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 illness or injury that prevents the <br />employee from performing the duties of his or her position, and shall be deemed to <br />include time in quarantine resulting from exposure to a contagious disease. <br />B. Accrual. Each employee shall be entitled to, and shall mnr, eight (8) hours of sick <br />leave for each full calendar month of service in which he is employed by the City <br />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 <br />the credit of each employee to the extent that it is not used. Notwithstanding the <br />foregoing, an employee on leave of absence for service - connected illness or injury <br />who is 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. For purposes of computing sick leave accruals, an eight <br />(8) hour day shall be the basis for computation. <br />C. Authorized Only When Necessary. Sick leave is not a right which an employee may <br />use at his or her discretion, but shall be allowed only in cases of necessity and actual <br />sickness or disability, or as authorized in Subsection J below. <br />When an accepted industrial illness or injury has caused a non -sworn employee's <br />absence, for which benefits are required under the State Workers' Compensation <br />Insurance and Safety Act, paid sick leave will be allowed such employee during the <br />first three (3) days of the statutory waiting period. If the workers' compensation <br />related illness or injury continues past the initial three (3) consecutive days, the <br />employee will have the three (3) used sick days recredited to his or her account. Paid <br />sick leave will continue until the fourth (0) day when the City pays the employee <br />workers' compensation benefits for such illness or injury. If the employee does not <br />have sufficient accumulated sick leave at the commencement of such industrial <br />illness or injury, they will be advanced sick leave for this purpose. Subsequently, the <br />City will deduct an equal amount previously advanced from any sick leave accrued <br />by the employee until the total amount is recovered. If the employee terminates <br />before recovery of all advanced sick leave, the City will deduct the unrecovered cost <br />of sick leave from such terminated employee's final paycheck, to the extent possible. <br />26 <br />