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-21 - <br /> <br />Section 13. Sick Leave <br /> <br />13.1 Sick Leave Accrual <br /> <br /> All new full time employees shall accrue sick leave at the rate of eight (8.0) hours for <br />each month of service. <br /> <br /> Employees may accumulate an unlimited number of sick leave hours; except, however, <br />hours accumulated in excess of one thousand four hundred and forty (1440) may be used <br />only to apply toward additional years of retirement service credit under the current PERS <br />"Credit for Unused Sick Leave," Section 20862.8. An employee may be allowed a sick <br />leave deficit of twenty-four (24) hours beyond that actually earned. Employees on leave <br />of absence with pay in lieu of temporary disability payments pursuant to Section 4850 of <br />the Labor Code shall accumulate sick leave during said leave of absence, in accordance <br />with the provisions of this section. <br /> <br />Once an employee reaches a deficit of twenty-four (24) hours of sick leave, the employee <br />will not be permitted to use any additional sick leave until they have accumulated a <br />positive balance of sick leave. <br /> <br />13.2 Sick Leave Accrual Regular Part-time Employee <br /> <br /> Regular part-time employees including job share employees provided that they average <br />between twenty (20) and twenty-nine (29) hours per week, shall accrue four (4) hours of <br />sick leave per month to a maximum accrual of seven hundred and twenty (720) hours. <br /> <br /> Regular part-time employee including job share employees provided that they average <br />between thirty (30) through thirty-nine (39) hours per week, shall accrue six (6) hours of <br />sick leave per month to a maximum accrual of one thousand and eighty (1,080.0) hours. <br /> <br />13.3 Sick Leave Usage <br /> <br /> Sick leave with pay shall be granted to all probationary and regular part-time including <br />job share employees, and probationary and regular full time employees within the <br />competitive service. Sick leave shall not be considered a right which an employee may <br />use at their discretion but shall be allowed only as follows: <br /> <br />1) In cases of necessity and actual personal sickness or disability of the employee; <br /> <br />2) For medical and dental appointments of the employee, at the discretion of the <br />immediate supervisor; <br /> <br /> 3) For the care of or attendance upon the sickness, routine medical and dental <br />appointments or disability of members of the employee’s immediate family. A <br />maximum of eighty (80) hours per calendar year of family sick leave may be used for <br />this purpose. The immediate family shall consist of the spouse, domestic partner, <br />children, children of a domestic partner, parents, parents-in-law, brothers, sisters, <br />Page 188 of 373