2016-101 I.A.F.F. Local 505 Fire Association Contract

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six months (180 days from the date of assignment to light duty) provided, that if the employee is not released to perform regular duty after 6 months, the Fire Chief shall have the 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. Effective July 3, 2014, full time employees in the classified fire fighting service shall accrue 20 hours of sick leave for each month of continuous service uninterrupted by resignation or discharge up to a maximum accumulation of 4,800 hours. Employees who have accumulated in excess of 4,800 hours of sick leave prior to this date shall be "grandfathered" as to the use of all excess accumulations. (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. Effective July 3, 2014, a Fire Inspector and employees assigned as Fire Inspectors shall accrue six and two-thirds (6.67) hours of sick leave for each month of continuous service uninterrupted by resignation or discharge, up to a maximum accumulation of 1,600 hours. Employees who have accumulated in excess of 1,600 hours of sick leave prior to this date shall be "grandfathered" as to the use of all excess accumulations. 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) One(1) hour 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 hour not worked due to illness, injury or off-the-job incurred disability. Section 3. An employee who qualifies for the benefit described in Section 10 or 11 of this Article and 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 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 days during the period of May 1 through the following April 30 that such employee so absents himself; beginning the fourth day that such employee so absents himself from the job, and on all such similar occasions until the end of such annual period, a physician's statement may be required for each absence and the employee shall be entitled to 18