R2026-82 Resolution Authorizing the Approval of an Agreement with I.A.F.F. Local 505, from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2028

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hours of such leave that said employee had accrued on the day of assignment. Thereafter, a Fire Inspector shall accrue six and two-thirds (6.67) hours of sick leave for each month of continuous service uninterrupted by resignation or discharge, up to a maximum accumulation of 1 ,600 hours. Employees who have accumulated in excess of 1,600 hours of sick leave prior to this date shall be "grandfathered" as to the use of all excess accumulations. Upon removal from assignment as a Fire Inspector, any such employee 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 of the firefighter. One-half of an employee's annual sick leave hours accumulation may also be used for the illness, injury, medical appointment or personal care of an employee's spouse, parent (including stepparent) or dependent child (including stepchild), domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, or grandparent. Personal care shall include activities to ensure that a covered family member's basic medical, hygiene, nutritional, or safety needs are met or to provide transportation to medical appointments for a covered family member who cannot meet those needs themselves or to be physically present to provide emotional support for a covered family member who has a serious health condition and is receiving inpatient or home care. 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 his own illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability or for the illness, injury, transportation to medical appointments or to provide personal care to a covered family member as outline above. 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 of the employee or illness, injury, transportation to medical appointments or the need to provide personal care to a covered family member as outlined above 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 or two 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 22