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ARTICLE 15 GENERAL LEAVES 15.1 Employment Notification- Any employee leaving the municipal service in good standing and upon completion of the probationary period, after giving at least fourteen (14) working days advance notice to the Employer, shall be compensated. for vacation, compensatory time, personal leave, sick leave accrued and unused to the date of separation. Failure to comply with this procedure may be considered cause for denying the employee future employment by the City and the employee shall be deemed to have left in bad standing. 15.2 Absence Without Leave; Any employee absents from scheduled duty that is not reported to and authorized by the Employer shall be deemed an absence without leave. An employee absent without leave will be subject to disciplinary action. An employee absents without leave for two (2) consecutive days shall be deemed to have resigned employment. The Employer may grant approval for the leave subsequent to the unauthorized absence, if the Employer determines the circumstances surrounding the absence warrant such action. 15.3 Injury on Duty; The parties recognize that employees working in law enforcement and covered by this Agreement face a high potential for injury due to the nature of their employment. Such employee who, in the ordinary course of employment and while acting in a reasonable and prudent manner and in compliance with the established rules and procedures of the Employer, incurs a disabling injury while in performance of assigned duties involving enforcement investigation or assistance shall be compensated in an amount equal to the difference between the employee's regular rate of pay and benefits paid under worker's compensation, without deduction from the employees accrued sick leave. For employees receiving benefits under the Worker's Compensation Law, due to an injury sustained in the performance of duties unique to law enforcement the City shall pay one- third (1/3) of scheduled work hours and Worker's Compensation shall pay two-thirds (2/3) beginning on the first day of lost time. The employee will accrue health and welfare and all other accrued benefits on the same basis as he/she would accrue on active status unless otherwise limited as in the case of retirement benefit formulas. Effective on the thirty-first day, compensatory time off accumulated will be used to make up the difference between such benefits and the employee's normal net earnings for each pay period. After all accumulated compensatory time is used sick leave or vacation time may be used to make up the difference between such benefit and the employee's net earnings based on eighty hours (80) for each pay period. 15.4 All other leaves will be administered.in accordance with the City's Personnel Policies. ARTICLE 16 PROBATIONARY PERIODS 16.1 Probationary Period. All newly hired or rehired full-time employees shall serve a (12) month probationary period. Part-time employees shall serve a probationary period consisting of one thousand forty (1040) hours or one (1) year of employment with the employer, whichever occurs 15