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Section & Waee Schedule AdministratiormEateral Hire Credit. The parties acknowledge that generally, employees covered by the wage schedule contained herein progress through the schedule based on their years offull-time experience in the actual job classification referenced under that provision. (ie. Dispatcher, etc.) However, in order to allract and retain personnel the Employer shall be permitted to grant service credit on the wage schedule based on prior certifiable experience, special skills, and/or licensure qualifications, and place a new or recently appointed employee at an elevated step on the wage schedule. This accelerated step placement and/or advancement shall be made at the sole and exclusive discretion of the Employer and is not subject to the grievance procedure or any other avenue of appeal. Any employee placed or advanced to a step under this process shall continue to progress through the wage schedule based on his anniversary date as a full-fime employee within his applicable job classification, plus any service credit granted by the Employer. Such step credit shall not be relevant nor affect the calculation of seniority credit nor the obligation that an employee successfully complete a probationaryperiod as provided far elsewhere in this Agreement ARTICLE 33 32: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES SECTION 1. The parties hereto agree that the duties of the employees are such that said employees are exposed to disease as a result of their assigned duties. It is the intention of the parties to provide to said employees, salary continuation benefits when an employee contracts an illness as herein after specified. In the event that a full-time employee should become ill due to contact with AIDS, HIV, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, MRSA or Meningitis and such illness has so incapacitated the employee that he/she temporarily is unable to work, the Police Chief shall investigate and determine whether the illness is work related and of a temporary nature. The Police Chief shall then forward his finding to the Safety Director who shall determine the nature and extent of the illness and how contracted, including circumstances thereof. If after consideration of the totality of the facts the Safety Director determines that said disease was contracted during employment and is of a temporary nature requiring medical leave, the Safety Director shall authorize the full payment of the employees' regular salary for a period of ninety (90) days. If after ninety (90) days an illness still temporarily incapacitates the employee, the Safety Director shall recommend to Council whether to continue salary. Council shall forthwith review the matter and by a majority vote determine whether the employee shall continue to receive full salary during recuperation. Any employee who qualifies for benefits under this section shall be required to pay over to the Employer any amount received from the Bureau of Workers' Compensation as supplemental wages. This provision does not apply if the City is self-insured for workers' compensation. If at any time the Employer determines on the basis of medical evidence that the employee is permanently disabled and will no longer be able to cavy on his duties, then the Employer may 31 4882-1815-2807, v.5