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The beginning rate of pay for all new hires shall be no greater than 10% higher than the <br /> entry rate for the appropriate pay range for their new position. <br /> ARTICLE XVII <br /> LEAVES OF ABSENCE <br /> Section 1. Sick Leave <br /> Bargaining unit members are entitled to sick leave as follows: <br /> (A) Sick leave is to be used only for appointments with doctors,dentists and other professional <br /> medical practitioners and in cases of illness or injury of an employee or the employee's <br /> child, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, <br /> grandparent,or stepparent or any relative domiciled in the employee's home. <br /> (B) Sick leave for full-time employees accrues at the rate of eight (8) hours per month to a <br /> maximum of two hundred forty (240) days, except that accrual of sick leave for regularly <br /> employed part-time employees shall be as stated in Section 8 of Article XXIII. Sick leave <br /> may be taken in increments of one-tenth of an hour. Sick leave does not accrue during <br /> leaves of absence. <br /> (C) The Employer may require medical evidence verifying the illness or injury if reasonable <br /> grounds exist to suspect abuse or if the leave exceeds three (3)consecutive days. However, <br /> in all cases where four consecutive duty days are missed by an employee due to illness, <br /> injury or disability, a physician's statement will be required before sick leave pay is paid. <br /> Such statements shall set forth reasons for the employee's inability to perform his duties <br /> and shall become a part of the employee's personnel record. Physician's statements will be <br /> used in determining from time to time whether or not an employee is able to continue the <br /> performance of his/her duties. <br /> (1) "Medical Documentation," for the purposes of this Agreement, shall mean a <br /> written statement signed by a person licensed to practice medicine (or their <br /> designee)that the employee was medically determined unable to perform his or her <br /> duties on the date for which sick leave credit is sought. <br /> (2) After forty (40) hours of sick leave being used by a full-time employee, or after <br /> twenty (20) hours of sick leave being used by a part-time employee, in any fiscal <br /> year, for which no Medical Documentation, is provided, no sick leave credit may <br /> be used by that employee for the first eight (8)hours (or the first four(4) hours in <br /> the case of a part-time employee) of the next or any succeeding sick leave day, or <br /> any part thereof, for which no Medical Documentation, is provided. An office or <br /> hospital visit to, or pursuant to the orders of a physician or dentist or licensed <br /> medical practitioner, or their designee, shall not be considered as part of the forty <br /> (40)sick leave hours, as herein described. <br /> Page 17 of 29 <br />