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testing positive for and/or the use of felonious drugs may be subject to disciplinary action up to <br /> termination at the Employer's discretion without any rehabilitation program. <br /> SECTION 6: An employee who participates in a rehabilitation or detoxification program shall <br /> be allowed to use sick leave, vacation leave, or personal days for the period of the rehabilitation. <br /> If no such leave credit is available; such employee may be placed on an unpaid medical leave of <br /> absence. <br /> SECTION 7: Upon completion of the program and retest that demonstrates that the employee is <br /> no longer illegally using a controlled substance, the employee shall be returned to their position. <br /> Such employee may be subject to periodic retesting at the Employer's discretion upon return to <br /> their position for a period of two (2) years from the date of their return. <br /> SECTION 8: Any employee in the above mentioned rehabilitation program will not lose any <br /> seniority should it be necessary that they be required to take an unpaid medical leave of absence. <br /> ARTICLE 27: <br /> SCHOOLING <br /> SECTION 1: Full-time employees in attendance at an Employer approved training school shall <br /> be compensated at the appropriate rate for travel time from the Employers premises to the <br /> location of the training school and all time spent in the class session unless total hours in the <br /> given week are over forty (40). The employee attending such approved training school out of the <br /> Employer, shall be reimbursed for lunch in an amount not to exceed $7.00 per day by the <br /> Employer, upon presentation of a receipt for such lunch. The employee attending such training <br /> school shall be paid mileage expense for the use of his personal vehicle in accordance with the <br /> IRS approved rate or he may be provided a vehicle owned by the Employer. <br /> SECTION 2: Whenever an employee requires training in dispatch, the designated training <br /> dispatcher will receive an additional three hundred dollars ($300.00)per year. A minimum of <br /> two (2) employees will be designated as training dispatchers. These designated training <br /> dispatchers shall only be compensated for any year for which they were actually designated <br /> training dispatchers and training is required. The aforementioned payment shall be made during <br /> the first pay period of January, each year of this Agreement for previous year service as a <br /> designated training dispatcher. <br /> ARTICLE 28: <br /> UNIFORM MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE <br /> SECTION 1: All employees shall receive an annual uniform maintenance allowance in the <br /> amount of nine hundred twenty-five dollars ($925.00) for contract year 2015. All employees <br /> shall receive an annual uniform maintenance allowance in the amount of six hundred seventy- <br /> 21 <br />