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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 six hundred seventy-five ($675.00) for contract years 2018, 2019 and 2020. This <br />amount shall be paid in the regular paycheck during the first pay period in December of each <br />year. <br />In addition, probationary employees shall receive an advance of one-half (1/2) of the first <br />year's uniform maintenance allowance upon appointment to the department, and one-half (1/2) <br />after completion of six (6) months of service. <br />21 <br />