1. At no time in any division shall the division supervisor and the senior
assistant to the division supervisor take the same vacation period without the
permission of the Chief of the Department.
2. In the Mechanical, Traming Divisions, and Fire Alarm only one
employee shall be eligible for each vacation period.
3. In the Fire Marshall's Office, only two employees shall be eligible for
each vacation period.
4. In the Dispatchers Division only two (2) dispatchers in any vacation
period.
K. | Upon the retirement or death of an employee he/she shall be paid all
accumulated vacation leave including a pro-rata accrual on a monthly basis for
time worked past his/her anniversary date. The employee must work until at least
the 15" of the month in question to be included in the pro-rata calculation.
Article 22 - PAID SICK AND INJURY LEAVE
A. — Sick leave will be accrued at the rate of ten (10) hours per month up to
a maximum accrual of seven hundred twenty (720) hours allowed. Sick leave does
not accrue during disciplinary suspension. Sick leave taken shall be charged
against hours accumulated on the basis of the actual number of hours the employee
is absent during scheduled duty hours. Effective upon signing of this Agreement,
sick leave will no longer have a maximum accrual of seven hundred twenty (720)
hours. However, payment of sick leave upon retirement or death as described in
Article 22, I and J will never exceed seven hundred twenty (720) hours; any
remaining sick leave hours over that amount upon retirement or death will go into
the sick leave bank described in Article 22, K.
B. In the event of a prolonged absence because of illness in excess of
thirty (30) calendar days, sick leave accumulation will be allowed only for the first
thirty (30) days of such an absence. There will be no accumulation of sick leave
during absences covered by the Sick Bank.
C. Sick leave will be used only for the personal injury or illness of the
employees, not contracted in the line of duty, provided such sickness or mjury 1s
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