2011-63 AUTHORIZING CONTRACT PAY AND BENEFITS - I.A.F.F. LOCAL 505, FIRE ASSOCIATION

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continuous service uninterrupted by resignation or discharge up to a maximum accumulation of 5,760 hours. (b) Upon assignment as a Fire Inspector, pursuant to Article 8, subparagraphs 9 (a) and (b), an employee shall be credited with one (1) hour of sick leave for each three (3) hours of such leave that said employee had accrued on the day of assignment. Thereafter, a Fire Inspector and employees assigned as Fire Inspectors shall accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave for each month of continued service uninterrupted by resignation or discharge, up to a maximum accumulation of 1,920 hours. 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. 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) Eight (8) hours of accumulated sick leave credit with pay shall be deducted from the sick leave accumulation of each Fire Inspector or employee assigned as a Fire Inspector for each duty day not worked due to illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability. Section 3. An employee 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 or two or more consecutive scheduled working days discounting any intervening earned or scheduled days off, 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 times during the fiscal year that such employee so absents himself; beginning the fourth time that such employee so absents himself from the job, and on all such similar occasions until the end of the fiscal year, the employee shall be entitled to only one-half days 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 part thereof; provided that, 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. Section 4. An employee who becomes ill, injured or disabled off-the-job shall cause notice there of to be given to his supervisor prior to the shift starting time. 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 was first scheduled to report shall be considered to have resigned from the classified service. Section 5. A physician's statement may be required before sick leave pay is paid. However, in all cases where four consecutive duty days are missed by an employee due to illness, injury or disability, a physician's statement will be required before sick leave is paid. Such statements shall set forth reasons for the employee's inability to perform his duties, the date of return to work (if available), and the date of the next visit (if applicable), and shall 18