R2023-137 Resolution Authorizing Pay and Benefits I.A.F.F. Local 505, Fire Association

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shall be credited with three (3) hours of sick leave for every one (1) hour of such leave that said employee had accrued on the day of removal there from. Section 2. (a) Except as provided in subparagraph (b) hereof, accumulated sick leave days may be used for illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability. Twenty-four (24) hours of accumulated sick leave credit with pay shall be deducted from such employee's sick leave accumulation for each duty day not worked due to illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability. The employee may elect to use sick leave in twelve (12) hour increments, provided the leave commences only at either the beginning or the middle of the duty day. (b) One (1) hour of accumulated sick leave credit with pay shall be deducted from the sick leave accumulation of each Fire Inspector for each duty hour not worked due to illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability. Section 3. An employee who qualifies for the benefit described in Section 10 or 11 of this Article and who uses sick leave credit while absenting himself from the job due to illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability for one working day or any part thereof for which no physician's verifying statement is provided to the City shall be entitled to full pay for each of such days or parts thereof only for the first three days during the period of May 1 through the following April 30 that such employee so absents himself; beginning the fourth day that such employee so absents himself from the job, and on all such similar occasions until the end of such annual period, a physician's statement may be required for each absence and the employee shall be entitled to only one-half day of pay for the first day of such absence, or payment for only half of the time absent if less than one full day regardless of whether only one working day or part thereof ortwo or more consecutive scheduled working days discounting any intervening earned or scheduled days off are missed, and only one-half as much sick leave credit shall be deducted from such employees sick leave accumulation as would otherwise be deducted for such first day or part thereof. For the employee who does not qualify for the benefit described in Section 10 or 11 of this Article, a physician's statement may be required for any and every absence, and the provision of this Section 3 regarding pay and sick leave credit shall apply beginning the first time that such employee so absents himself from the job, and on all such similar occasions until the end of such annual period. In any case, an employee shall be entitled to full pay for all time absent from the job due to illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability if such employee provides the city with a physician's statement that such employee was injured, all or otherwise physically disabled on the date in question and if such employee has sufficient sick leave credit accumulated to cover such an absence and uses the same. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Section 3, a physician's statement may be required before sick leave pay is paid for any employee who uses sick leave credit while absenting himself from the job due to illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability on any official City holiday. Section 4. An employee who becomes ill, injured or disabled off-the-job shall so notify his/her immediate supervisor and shift supervisor by 06:15 of the duty day of absence. In the absence of evidence of extenuating circumstances, an employee whose supervisor is not so notified within two duty days from the day on which the employee 22