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Agreement Between Mayfield Village, Ohio and the International Association Firefighters, Local 2619 ARTICLE 22 SICK LEAVE Section 22.1. Crediting of Sick Leave Fire Department employees, covered under this contract, shall earn fifteen (15) sick leave tours (1 tour = 24 hours) per year. However, Fire Department employees covered under this contract and hired or rehired after January 1, 2000, shall earn 3.23 hours for every 56 hours of service not to exceed one hundred sixty-eight (168) hours of sick leave annually. "Hours of service" as used in this section, includes overtime, vacations, holiday, sick leave and all other approved and paid leaves of absence from service. "Hours of service" does not include the additional compensation time allowed an employee who works a holiday or has their normal day off on a holiday. Section 22.2. Retention of Sick Leave. An employee who transfers from another public agency to Mayfield Village, who has prior service with a public agency in Ohio, shall retain credit for any sick leave earned so long as he is employed by Mayfield Village, except that deduction shall be made for any payment or credit given by the previous agency in lieu of taking sick leave. The previously accumulated sick leave of an employee who has been separated from the public service shall be placed on his credit upon his re-employment with Mayfield Village, provided that such re-employment takes place within ten (10) years of the date on which the employee was last terminated from public service. Section 22.3. Char~in~ of Sick Leave Sick leave shall be charged in minimum units of one (1) hour. An employee shall be charged for sick leave only for days upon which he would otherwise have been scheduled to work. Section 22.4. Uses of Sick Leave. Sick leave shall be granted to an employee upon approval of the Employer for the following reasons: Illness or injury to the employee; 2. Illness or injury of a member of the employee's immediate family where it is necessary for the employee to be absent from work; 3. Medical, dental, optical examination or treatment of the employee which cannot be scheduled during non-work hours; 4. If a member of ,the immediate family residing with the employee is infected with a contagious disease and, through exposure to a contagious disease, the presence of the employee at his job would jeopardize the health of others; and 5. Pregnancy and/or childbirth and other conditions related thereto. Page 18 of 35