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that earned during probation. Upon completion of five (5) years service, every employee shall thereafter accumulate sick leave at a rate of eight (8.0) hours per month. Effective May 1, 1990, employees may accumulate an unlimited number of sick leave hours; except, however, hours accumulated in excess of one thousand four hundred and forty (1440) may be used only to apply toward additional years of retirement service credit under the current PERS 'Credit for Unused Sick Leave ", Section 20862.8. An employee may be allowed a sick leave deficit of twenty -four (24) hours beyond that actually earned. Employees on leave of absence with pay in lieu of temporary disability payments pursuant to Section 4850 of the Labor Code shall accumulate sick leave during said leave of absence, in accordance with the provisions of this section. 12.2 jack Leave Accrual Rsaular Part -time Rmmlovsa Regular part -time employees including job share employees provided that they average between twenty (20) and twenty -nine (29) hours per week, shall accrue four (4) hours of sick leave per month to a maximum accrual of seven hundred and twenty (720) hours. Regular part -time employee including job share employees provided that they average between thirty (30) through thirty -nine (39) hours per week, shall accrue six (6) hours of sick leave per month to a maximum accrual of one - thousand and eighty (1,080.0) hours. 12.3 Oak Leave Una' Sick leave with pay shall be granted to all probationary, regular part -time including job share employees, and regular full time employees within the competitive service. Sick leave shall not be considered a right which an employee may use at hie discretion but shall be allowed only as follows: 1) In cases of necessity and actual personal sickness or disability of the employee; 2) For medical and dental appointments of the employee, at the discretion of the immediate supervisor; 3) For the care of or attendance upon the sickness or disability of members of his /her immediate family or for bereavement because of the death of a member of his /her immediate family. A maximum of forty (40) hours per year of sick leave may be used for this purpose. The immediate family shall consist of the spouse, children, parents, brothers, sisters, or other individual whose relationship to the employee is that of a dependent or near dependent. Effective March 1, 1986, an employee's grandparents shall be considered immediate family for purposes of bereavement leave. The Department Head shall grant such leave and determine the amount thereof; provided, however, that the Personnel Officer shall first, where necessary, pass upon sufficiency of relationship. - 15 -