2005-34 AUTHORIZING CONTRACT - FIRE SERVICE

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(c) Light duty assignments shall not involve make work, but shail consist of bona fide work assignments related to or in support of the City's fire suppression and fire prevention. A I light duty assignment shall not be used to displace employees from performing such work. !� Effective May 1, 2005, an employee who is on duty-injury leave will be required to perform said . j light duty assignment if so offered, as provided in subparagraph (a), and shall be assigned to his � normal shift (i.e. 24-hour shift employees to 24-hour shifts; Fire Inspector to 40-hour shift.) for a period of six months (180 days from the date of assignment to light duty) provided, that if the emptoyee is not released to perform regular duty after 6 months, the Fire Chief shall have the �I discretion to assign such employee to a 40 hour work week consisting of 8 hour work days, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. All decisions shall be made fairly and impartially. ARTICLE 13 SICK LEAVE Section 1. (a) Except as provided in subparagraph (b) hereof, full time employees in the classified fire fighting service shall accrue 24 hours of sick leave for each month of 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 16