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ARTICLE X <br />10.0 OTHER LEAVES OF ABSENCE <br />10.1 Sick Leave. When an accepted industrial illness or injury has caused an employee's <br />absence, for which benefits are required under the State Workers' Compensation <br />Insurance and Safety Act, paid sick leave at the prorated amount based on hours worked <br />will be allowed such employee during the first three (3) days of the statutory waiting <br />period. If the workers' compensation related illness or injury continues past the initial <br />three (3) consecutive days, the employee will have the three (3) used sick days recredited <br />to his or her account. Paid sick leave at the prorated amount will continue until the fourth <br />(0) day when the City pays the employee workers' compensation benefits for such <br />illness or injury. If the employee does not have sufficient accumulated sick leave at the <br />commencement of such industrial illness or injury, they will be advanced sick leave for <br />this purpose. Subsequently, the City will deduct an equal amount previously advanced <br />from any sick leave accrued by the employee until the total amount is recovered. If the <br />employee terminates before recovery of all advanced sick leave, the City will deduct the <br />unrecovered cost of sick leave from such terminated employee's final paycheck, to the <br />extent possible. <br />Commencing with Council approval of this Agreement, the City may authorize <br />employees to use sick leave, vacation, or compensatory time for approved workers' <br />compensation medical appointments as specified herein. The City may authorize use of <br />such leave for City approved medical appointments whenever such appointments cannot <br />be secured outside the employee's regular workday, and salary continuation or workers' <br />compensation benefits are not available. <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, injury, medical, or <br />dental appointment that prevents the employee from performing the duties of his <br />or her position, and shall be deemed to include time in quarantine resulting from <br />exposure to a contagious disease. <br />B. Administration. Part Time Civil Service employees shall earn six (6) hours per <br />month of sick leave, for a total maximum annual accrual of 72 hours per year. <br />C. Authorized Only When Necessary. 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 his or her <br />discretion, but shall be allowed only in cases of actual sickness and <br />disability, or necessity, as authorized in Subsection J below. <br />D. Limit. The total maximum accrual of sick leave with pay shall be 200 hours. <br />Sick leave usage of less than a full day shall be charged in minimum increments <br />of one -half (%) hour, with fractional usage rounded upward to the next higher <br />23 <br />