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ARTICLE X <br />10.0 OTHER LEAVES OF ABSENCE <br />10.1 S1Ck Leave. <br />A. Definition California's Healthy Workplaces /Healthy Families Act. of 2014 <br />(AB1522) also known as California's Paid Sick Leave Law, requires the City to <br />provide paid sick Ieave to eligible employees upon oral or written request, within <br />the parameters of the Iaw, for the following purposes: <br />s Diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition of, or <br />preventative care for an employee or an employee's qualified family <br />member; <br />a Specified purposes for an employee who is a. victim or domestic violence, <br />sexual assault, or stalking. <br />B. Accrual. Each employee shall be entitled to, and shall earn an eight (S) hour <br />working day of sick leave for each full calendar month of service in which he or <br />she is employed by the City with full pay; provided, however, any absence on sick <br />leave for a period of time greater than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days in <br />any one (1) calendar month shall not be considered to be service entitling an <br />employee to earn sick leave as aforesaid. <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 <br />discretion, but shall be allowed only in cases of necessity and actual <br />sickness or disability, as authorized in Subsection A above and 7 below. <br />2. When an accepted industrial illness or injury has caused an employee's <br />absenco, for which benefits are required under the State Workers' <br />Compensation Insuramco and Safety Act, paid sick leave will be processed <br />during the first three (3) consecutive days of the statutory waiting period, <br />If the employee does not have sufficient accumulated sick leave at the <br />commencement of such industrial illness or injury, they will be advanced <br />sick leave for this purpose. Subsequently, the City will deduct an equal <br />amount previously advanced from any sick leave accrued by the employee <br />until the total amount is recovered. If the employee terminates before <br />recovery of all advanced sick leave, the City will deduct the urrrcoovered <br />cost of sick leave from such terminated employee's final paycheck, to the <br />extent possible. If the employee remains off work longer than fourteen <br />(14) days due to the same workers' compensation related illness of injury, <br />the employee will have the three (3) sick days used re- credited back to his <br />M <br />25A -46 <br />