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ARTICLE 12 <br /> SICK LEA VE <br /> Section 1. Full-time employees in the classified service hall accrue one duty day <br /> with paid sick leave for each month of continuous service uninte upted by resignation or <br /> discharge up to a maximum accumulation of 360 days. <br /> Section 2. Accumulated sick leave days may be used for il ness, injury or off-the-job <br /> incurred disability. One day of accumulated sick leave credit with p y shall be deducted from <br /> each employee's sick leave accumulation for each duty day not serv d due to illness, injury or <br /> off-the-job incurred disability. <br /> Section 3. No sick leave credit may be used by an emplo ee for the tirst four hours <br /> ot�the fifth or any succeeding sickness occurrence during any fiscal y ar. A sickness occurrence <br /> is hereby defined as any continuous absence by an employee from scheduled work periods, <br /> whether for one or more scheduled shifts, for stated reasons of ill ess, injury or off-the job <br /> incurred disability for which no physician's verifying statement is pro ided by said employee to <br /> the City. An employee who becomes ill on the job shall not be charged with a sickness <br /> occurrence if said employee works a minimum of two hours on th day of illness or if said <br /> employee's immediate supervisor verifies to the City that said employe was ill. <br /> Section 4. In the absence of evidence of extenuating circu stances an employee who <br /> becomes ill, injured or disabled off-the job shall cause notice th reof to be given to his <br /> supervisor not later than two hours before the beginning of his next cheduled duty day. In the <br /> absence of evidence of extenuating circumstances an employee w ose supervisor is not so <br /> notified within two duty days from the day on which the employee w s first scheduled to report <br /> shall be considered to have resigned from the classified service. <br /> Section 5. A physician's statement may be required befo e sick leave pay is paid. <br /> However, in all cases where four consecutive duty days are misse by an employee due to <br /> illness, injury or disability, a physician's statement shall be required be ore sick leave pay is paid. <br /> Such statements shall set forth reasons for the employee's inability to p rform his duties and shall <br /> became a part of the employee's personnel record. Physician's st tements will be used in <br /> determining from time to time whether or not an employee is able to c ntinue the performance of <br /> his duties. <br /> Section 6 (a). Upon retirement from the classitied service, a employee shall be paid <br /> titty percent (50%) of his/her daily pay rate per accumulated day of ick leave up to 100 days, <br /> and seventy five percent (75%) of his/her daily pay rate per accumula ed day of sick leave from <br /> 101 days up to 200 days. The payment shall be made to the vol ntary employee benefits <br /> association (VEBA) trust established by the union for this purpose. <br /> 19 <br />