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<br />8 <br />in addition to any partial shifts off of work on the initial day of injury, and after three (3) working days <br />initial waiting period per injury. The three (3) working day waiting period shall be charged to the regular <br />full time Employee’s sick leave account less worker’s compensation insurance payments. <br />ARTICLE 18. SICK LEAVE <br />18.1 Regular full time Employees shall accrue at the rate of twelve (12) days of sick leave per year, with <br />no maximum accrual limit. <br /> Leave balances will be checked on the last pay day in October of each year. <br />If Employee is at or over 960 accrued sick hours, they will begin accruing leave at the rate <br />of eight (8) days per year on the first pay day in November. <br />If Employee is under 960 accrued sick hours they will remain accruing at the rate of twelve <br />(12) days per year. <br />When balances are checked on the last pay day in October the following year, Employees <br />accruing at the eight (8) days per year rate shall have one-half (1/2) of the previous year’s <br />accrued hours paid into Employee’s Post Employment Health Care Savings Plan and the <br />remaining half will remain in Employee’s sick leave bank. ie: If you begin the year at the 8- <br />day accrual rate half of your year’s accrual will be paid into your PEHCSP at the end of the <br />year and the other half will remain in your bank. <br />If the balance is below 960 when checked the following year, Employee returns to the <br />twelve (12) days per year accrual rate. Employees are not eligible for HCSP payment when <br />accruing at the twelve (12) days per year rate and all unused accrued hours remain in their <br />bank. <br />If the balance is at or above 960 when checked, they move to or remain in the eight (8) day <br />per year accrual plan. <br />For the purpose of implementing this plan in 2021, the leave balances will be checked on the first <br />pay day following the signing of this contract and the terms above will apply going forward, not <br />retroactively to January 1, 2021. <br />18.2 A regular full time Employee shall notify the Employer before the start of the Scheduled Shift or <br />as soon as possible thereafter of his/her inability to report for duty. The Employer may require of <br />regular full time Employees proof of illness for any use of sick leave. In cases of extended illness, <br />regular full time Employees shall notify the Employer of their status in regards to his/her return to <br />duty weekly. <br /> Eligible Employees may use sick time for the following reasons: <br />a. Personal illness or injury or in order to attend medical appointments (i.e. doctors, dentists); <br />b. To care for sick family members; <br />c. To take family members to medical appointments (i.e., doctor, dentists); <br />d. Reasonable period of time not to exceed 160 hours per year for illness or injury to the <br />employee’s family member; and, <br />e. If the 160 hours identified in 18.2(d) above is exhausted, up to five (5) days in any calendar <br />month to care for seriously ill family members who may not live with the employee. For <br />purposes of this provision, “seriously ill” shall be determined at the sole discretion of the city <br />administrator. <br />For the purpose of this section, family member is defined as the employee’s stepchild, biological, <br />adopted or foster child, adult children, spouse, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, <br />grandchild, grandparent, and stepparent. Sick leave use for the employee’s adult children, spouse,