2022-67 - 2023-25 AFSCME Administrative CBA

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B. The parties expressly agree that the concept of jury duty pay is for the employee to be able to serve jury duty without the loss of compensation for such time, and not to provide a windfall for employees called to jury duty. Accordingly, jury duty pay will be calculated to ensure that the employee does not lose any straight -time compensation he/she would have earned absent jury service. 17.03 Military Leave An employee shall be granted a leave of absence for military duty in accordance with state and federal law. ARTICLE 18 SICK TIME PAY & PAID PARENTAUCHILDBIRTH LEAVE 18.01 All employees shall earn sick time pay at the rate of 4.6 hours for every eighty (80) hours paid and may accumulate such sick time to nine hundred and sixty (960) hours. Sick time pay may be utilized on account of illness or injury incapacitating the employee from working and requiring the employee's absence or to care for sick or injured, pregnant, or newborn members of the employee's immediate family. Immediate family for the purpose of this Article shall be defined as spouse, son, daughter, stepchild, mother, father or stepparent. If the marriage of people of same sex is no longer permitted by law the definition of spouse will include same -sex partners and the definition of stepchild will include the children of same -sex partners. 18.02 If the employee is absent from work for more than two (2) consecutive days, the employee must complete a Certificate of Illness or Injury form and have their physician complete the attending physician's statement or attach an acceptable statement from the physician to the certificate that indicates that the employee is able to return to regularly assigned duties. Sick absences will be counted even if interrupted by other days off, i.e. sick Friday, regular scheduled days off Saturday, Sunday, sick Monday and Tuesday will count as more than two (2) consecutive working days. 18.03 Any abuse or patterned use of sick time shall be just and sufficient cause for disciplinary action, and the City's Sick Abuse Policy shall apply. 18.04 In the event an employee becomes or continues to be incapacitated from work by illness or injury, after exhaustion of his acquired sick time, they may apply for donations of time according to the Sick Time Donation policy. 18.05Sick Time and Conversion A. Employees may accumulate one hundred and twenty (120) days of unused sick time and they shall be allowed to convert twenty five (25) percent of said sick time into a lump sum cash payment, up to a maximum of thirty (30) days ofpay, upon retirement, resignation or death. This lump sum sick time conversion payment will be made within thirty (30) days after retirement, resignation or death. Any employee, at the 15