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Section 8. Sick Leave All regular and probationary employees who are scheduled to work at least 1,000 hours during the calendar year shall receive sick leave in accordance with this policy. Sick leave with pay is not a right which an employee may demand but a privilege granted by the Board of Commissioners for the benefit of an employee when sick and for other authorized purposes: (a) Sick leave shall be granted to an employee absent from work for any of the following reasons: sickness, bodily injury, required physical or dental examinations and treatment, or exposure to a contagious disease when continuing work might jeopardize the health of others. (b) Sick leave may be used for illness, injury, or a medical appointment of a member of an employee's immediate family. (c) Sick leave may also be used for death in the employee's immediate family, but may not exceed 40 hours (56 hours for EMS 24/48 personnel and 42 hours for law enforcement officers working a 12 hour shift schedule) for any one occurrence. Note for the purposes of (b) and (c). Immediate family shall be deemed to include spouse, mother, father, guardian, children, sister, brother, grandparents, grandchildren, plus the various combinations of half, step, in- law, and adoptive relationships that can be derived from those named. Foster children under the care of an employee shall be deemed immediate family for these purposes. The County Manager may authorize additional sick leave use for extenuating circumstances. Unless physically impossible, notification of the desire to take sick leave should be submitted to the employee's supervisor prior to the beginning of the scheduled workday. Sick leave requested in a workweek or work period cannot result in paid hours that exceed the scheduled hours for the week or period. The sick leave hours requested but not needed to complete a scheduled workweek or work period will remain in the employee's accrued sick leave balance. Section 9. Sick Leave -Manner of Accrual Anniversary date of employment shall be used for determining sick leave. For the purpose of calculating sick leave, the basic work week shall be 40 hours. Each regular and probationary employee scheduled to work at least 1,000 hours during the calendar year shall be credited sick leave at the rate of 3 hours, 41 minutes and 32 seconds for each completed bi-weekly pay period, or 95 hours, 59 minutes and 52 seconds for each completed year (52 weeks) of service. Emergency Medical Service 24/48 personnel shall be credited sick leave at the rate of 5 hours, 9 minutes and 13 seconds for each completed bi-weekly pay period, or 133 hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds for each completed year (52 weeks) of service. Law enforcement officers working a 12 hour shift schedule shall be credited sick leave at the rate of 3 hours, 52 minutes, and 36 seconds for each completed biweekly pay period, or 100 hours, 47 minutes, and 51 seconds for each completed year (52 weeks) of service. These employees shall be charged on an hour for hour basis for sick leave taken. Sick leave credited to regular and probationary employees scheduled to work at least 1,000 hours during the calendar year but fewer hours than the basic work week shall be determined in accordance with the formula set forth in Section 15 of this Article. 28 F-5 Attachment number 6 Page 247 of 362