N _ Bargaining Unit employees shall be granted a maximum of two (2)
shifts for personal leave per year, provided that on January 1 of each year the
employee has a balance of six hundred (600) or more hours of accrued sick leave.
Bargaining Unit employees shall be granted a maximum of one (1) shift for
personal leave per year, provided that on January 1 of each year the employee has
a balance of three hundred (300) or more hours of accrued sick leave. Personal
leave shall be deducted from the employee’s sick leave. Personal leave shall not
carry forward from year to year. Members wishing to use personal leave in this
section must notify the deputy chief or Division Supervisor by 7 a.m. on the day
the leave is to be used. This leave cannot be scheduled on days excluded under
Article 21 H.2.
O. Bargaining Unit employees shall be granted two (2) shifts for Training
Leave per year, provided that on January 1 of each year the employee has a balance
of six hundred (600) or more hours of accrued sick leave. Bargaining Unit
employees shall be granted one (1) shift for Training Leave per year, provided that
on January 1 of each year the employee has a balance of three hundred (300) or
more hours of accrued sick leave. Training Leave shall be deducted from the
employee’s sick leave. Training Leave shall not carry forward from year to year
and must be used to attend fire Service related training approved by the Chief or
designee. Members wishing to use training Leave in this section must notify the
Deputy Chief or division supervisor seven (7) days in advance of the requested
leave date. This leave cannot be scheduled on days excluded under Article 21 H.2.
Article 23 - BEREAVEMENT LEAVE
A. — Four (4) duty shifts (not to exceed forty-eight (48) hours) paid leave at
the employee's regular straight time rate will be granted for absence from
scheduled work necessitated by death in the immediate family. For purposes of this
section, immediate family shall mean employee's spouse, children, step-children,
brother, sister, and parents and step-parents of employee or spouse. By definition,
child includes the loss of the fetus, after the second trimester of the pregnancy.
B. Two (2) duty shifts (not to exceed twenty-four (24) hours) paid leave
at employee's regular straight time rate will be granted for absence from scheduled
work necessitated by death in the extended family. For purposes of this section,
extended family shall mean employee's grandparents, daughter-in-law, son- in-law,
brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepbrother, stepsisters, niece, nephew, spouses’
grandparents, and employee’s or employee’s spouse’s blood related uncle or aunt.
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