2005-34 AUTHORIZING CONTRACT - FIRE SERVICE

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of this section. The day's leave granted employees under Sections 10 and 11 of this Article shall-not be accumulated and carried over into the following fiscal year, except with the approval of the City Manager, or if the employee was requested to delay the taking of the day's leave by the Fire Chief with the approval of the City Manager. Section 11. Any 24-hour shift employee who has not accumulated 2400 hours of sick leave or any 40 hour employee who has not accumulated 800 hours of sick leave as of each May 1 (including employees hired after May 1, 1987), shall be each entitled to one days' leave with pay to be used at any time during the City's fiscal year, if as of May 1 of each fiscal year such employee has accumulated 75 percent (75%) of the maximum possible accumulation of sick leave days that such employee could have earned since either May 1, 1987, or the employee's date of hire, whichever is later. Sick leave days deducted for payments made pursuant to Article 12 of this Agreement shall not be deducted from an employee's accumulated total for purposes of this section. At such time as 75 percent (75%) of an employee's maximum possible sick leave accumulation calculated as herein described is equivalent to either 2400 hours for a 53 hours employee or 800 hours for a 40 hour employee, then as of the next succeeding May 1st such employee may only qualify for a day's leave by meeting the standards set forth in Section 10 hereof. ARTICLE 14 LEAVES OF ABSENCE Section 1. Leave with pay of two duty days for 24-hour employees, or four consecutive calendar days plus one (1) travel day if out of state for 40-hour employees, shall be granted a � full-time employee in the classified fire fighting service in the event of a death in the immediate family. Immediate family includes only: (a) spouse, children, stepchildren and spouse of children; (b) parents, stepparents of the employee or the employee's spouse; (c) brothers, stepbrothers, sisters, and stepsisters of the employee and of the employee's spouse; and, (d) grandchildren, step grandchildren and grandparents, and step grandparents of the employee and of the employee's spouse. Section 2 (a). An emergency is hereby defined as a situation of a serious nature involving an occurrence or occurrences unknown to an employee at the beginning of his or her shift. If a serious or unexpected emergency occurs to the spouse or children or a member of the immediate family of an employee in the classified fire fighting service, such employee will be allowed to leave his duties while the emergency exists subject to department needs during periods of public safety concern such as, but not limited to, fires, explosions or natural disasters, but not including basic staffing requirements absent.such conditions. Arrangements to enable the employee to return to duty on the next duty day must be made if the emergency continues beyond the duty day on which it first occurred. (b). If an employee wishes to leave duty to attend the birth of his child, such an employee may, at his option and in addition to any rights conferred by subsection (A) hereof, use one (1) day of sick leave, or part thereof, for attendance at such birth. Section 3. A full-time classified employee in the fire fighting service who is a member of the reserve unit of the armed forces of the United States will be granted leave without pay for annual training sessions or schools provided that notice of absence from duty is given not less than 30 days before the first day of such absence. 18