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determine whether the employee is actually sick or injured. If authorized by proper medical authority, the <br />City may call an employee who is injured on the job to perform temporary light duties, providing that work <br />is available and that the employee has the skill and ability to perform the work. Employees who are absent <br />due to a non -duty related sickness or injury may request a temporary light duty assignment. Providing that <br />a temporary light duty assignment is available, as determined by the Chief, and providing the employee <br />possesses the skill, ability and physical stamina to perform the duties required and provides written author- <br />ization to perform specific duties from his or her attending physician, the employee may be given consid- <br />eration for such an assignment. Any employee on light duty who is working forty (40) hours per week will <br />have any holiday time taken off equal to one-half (1/2) of an accrued twenty four (24) hour holiday. In the <br />event an employee is unable to return to assume full duties as a Paramedic for a period in excess of six (6) <br />months, the employee shall be required to submit to Human Resources a diagnosis and prognosis of the <br />employee's condition, stating whether the employee will or will not be able to resume the full duties of <br />Paramedic. <br />I3.05 Should it be determined by proper medical authority that an employee will not be able to return to <br />regular full duties as a Paramedic, the City has the right to require that employee to apply for disability <br />retirement. In the event of a difference of opinion as to the employee's mental or physical status, regarding <br />their ability to perform their regular duties, between the employee's physician and the City's physician, the <br />issue shall be submitted to a third physician specializing in occupational medicine, whose decision shall be <br />final and binding. Fees and expenses of the physician shall be borne equally by the parties. For purposes of <br />this section, an injury is defined as a traumatic damage to the body, of external origin, unexpected and <br />undesigned by the injured person. The aforementioned language is designed to comply with the Americans <br />with Disabilities Act. <br />13.06 An employee who reports absent from assigned duties due to sickness or injury shall not be permitted <br />to engage in any other outside employment during the period of their absence, nor may the employee return <br />to such outside employment until returning to assigned duties or receiving permission from the Assistant <br />Chief. The Chief of the Division of Fire shall take such steps as necessary to prevent the improper taking <br />of sick leave. <br />13.07 Sick Time <br />A. One (I) sick leave day, either earned, taken, used or converted, shall be considered to be a twenty four <br />(24) hour period, unless the employee is scheduled to work for a period of less than twenty four (24) hours. <br />In such cases, the sick time shall be equal to the scheduled hours and no employees shall be charged for <br />sick time on days which the employee is not scheduled for duty. <br />B. All employees shall cam sick time at the rate of 4.6 hours for every eighty (80) hours actually worked, <br />and may accumulate such sick leave to two thousand four hundred (2400) hours. <br />13.08 Duty Exemption <br />A. An employee who suffers a service connected injury or illness incurred during the course of or arising <br />out of employment with the City shall receive their regular earnings for a period not to exceed ten (10) <br />work shifts, subject to the approval of the Fire Chief. The employee will continue to accumulate time during <br />this period. <br />8 <br />