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14.09 Employees may use up to fifteen. (15) work days per year of earned and accumulated sick leave if necessitated by illness in the employee's immediate family. However, if an employee uses more than seven (7) sick work days per calendar year for this purpose, the Employer may require that the employee provide a certificate from the immediate family' member's doctor(s), explaining the need and purpose of the employee's absence. For purposes of this subsection, "immediate family" shall be interpreted to be spouse, children, parents of the employee, regardless of the place of residence; and other relatives living within the household of the employee. 14.10 If an employee is absent on sick leave or other related reasons for more than three (3) consecutive work days and said absence qualifies under the FMLA, the City may apply those days against the twelve (12) week leave period. ARTICLE XV BEREAVEMENT LEAVE 15.01 All employees shall be granted bereavement leave according to the following schedule: 15.02 Upon the death of an immediate family member, five (5) days; and, 15.03 Upon the death of a family member three (3) days. 15.04 For the purposes of this article, immediate family member shall mean: Husband, wife, child, parent, brother or sister of employee and parents of spouse of the employee. Family member shall mean: Brother or sister of spouse, grandparents, grandparents of spouse, grandchild as well as any relative living in the employee's home. 15.05 Bereavement leave shall be exclusive of sick time or any other accumulated time. ARTICLE XVI GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE 16.01 The term grievance shall mean an allegation by a bargaining unit employee that there has been a breach, misinterpretation, or improper application of this agreement. 16.02 A grievance may be filed by any member of the bargaining unit. Where a group of bargaining unit members desire to file a grievance involving a situation affecting the group, a member shall be designated by such group to process the grievance. Such grievance shall be defined as a group grievance. The names of each member, on behalf of which the grievance is filed, shall be made available at the first hearing. Group grievances shall be presented in the first instance to the supervisor common to all employees in the group. The grievance procedure outlined in Section 16.05 shall be used throughout. 16.03 All grievances must be processed and answered at the proper step in the grievance progression to be considered at the next step. Any grievance that is not timely appealed to the next step of the procedure, will be deemed to have been settled on the basis of the Employers answer at the last completed step.