78-28 PERSONNEL ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS

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(b) A full-time regular shift employee of the fire service shall receive one and four tenths (1. 4) work days with pay per month of continuous service credited to sick leave accumulation. 9-2 . The maximum accumulation of sick leave credit will be 135 working days. Sick leave credit may be used for illness, injury, or off the job incurred disability. One (1) day of sick leave credit with pay shall be deducted from an employee's sick leave accumulation record for each duty day not worked due to illness, injury or off the job incurred disability, except that a fire service employee who has a duty week of fifty six (56) hours shall have one and four tenths (1. 4) days of sick leave credit with pay deducted from said employee's sick leave accumulation for each duty day not worked due to illness, injury or off the job incurred disability. If a holiday occurs during a period when an employee is on authorized sick leave absence, the employee shall receive pay for the holiday and the holiday will not be deducted from the employee's sick leave accumulation record. 9-2-1. An employee in the fire service who uses sick leave credit while absenting himself from the job due to illness, in- jury 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 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 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, ill 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. (AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 81-40, May 11, 1981) (AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 86-03, January 21, 1986) 9-2-2 . No sick leave credit may be used by an employee in the police service or the general.service for the first four hours of the fourth or any succeeding sickness occurrence during any fis- cal year. A sickness occurrence is hereby defined as any con- tinuous absence by an employee from scheduled work periods, whether for one or more scheduled shifts, for stated reasons of