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ARTICLE 11 SICK LEAVE 11.1 Full-time employees shall earn sick leave with pay at the rate of 8 hours per month. Sick leave shall be accrued on a semi-monthly basis. Sick leave shall accumulate to a maximum of nine hundred sixty (960) hours and may.be granted in increments of not less than one (1) hour. An eighty percent (.8) hour conversion will be used for ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) hour shifts. Example: A twelve (12) hour shift would reflect use of nine and six -tenths (9.6) hours, an eleven (11) hour shift would reflect use of eight and eight tenths' hours (8.8), and a ten (10) hour shift would reflect use of eight (8) hours. Sick leave use of eight (8) hours or less would remain hour for hour. The eighty percent (8) hour conversion only applies to full shifts. 11.2 Upon separation from employment, due to retirement, voluntary or involuntary termination for whatever reason, all full-time and regular part-time employees with five to nine (5-9) years of service to the City of Pequot Lakes shall receive monetary compensation in the amount of ten percent (10%) in cash of their unused sick leave, up to 960 hours. Employees with ten to fifteen (10- 15) years of service shall receive monetary compensation in the amount of twenty-five percent (25%) in cash of their unused sick leave up to 960 hours. Employees with sixteen (16) or more years of service shall receive monetary compensation in the amount of twenty-five percent (35%) in cash of their unused sick leave up to 960 hours. 11.3 An employee shall be granted sick leave with pay when the employee is unable to work due to illness, the necessity for medical, chiropractic or dental care, childbirth or pregnancy, sickness of a member of the employee's "immediate family" subject to the City's Personnel Policies. 11.4 In the event of serious illness in the immediate family of the employee, sick leave may be used to provide necessary care which requires the presence of the employee, and which cannot be obtained in another manner. For purposes of this Subsection, it shall be subject to the City's Personnel Policies. 11.5 The Employer may require the employee to submit a medical certificate, in a form satisfactory to the Employer, in the event of absence of three (3) days or more, or If the Employer reasonably suspects misuse or excessive use of sick leave. Abuse of sick leave may be cause for disciplinary action. 11.6 Employees shall notify their supervisor by telephone or other means at the earliest opportunity when they will be unable to report to work as scheduled because of illness. Such notice shall be given as soon as possible prior to the start of the shift which will be missed because of illness or injury. 11.7 In the event of an employee death or disability, severance pay otherwise payable under this Article shall be paid to the employee's beneficiary, as in connection with any insurance policy issued under the provisions of Article 15, such pay shall be computed at the employee's regular straight time hourly rate of pay at the time of the disability, or death. 10