What are the details concerning sick leave?
(Back to Top Questions) 15.1 Sick Leave – Sick leaves with pay shall be granted to employees covered by this Agreement. Sick leave with pay is hereby defined to mean a necessary absence from duty due to illness, injury or exposure to a contagious disease and may include absence due to illness or death in the immediate family of the employee or necessary attendance upon a member of the immediate family who is ill. 15.1.1 Employees shall accrue four (4) hours of sick leave for each bi-weekly period of service. 15.1.2 When the total accumulation shall amount to 875 hours (125 days) for an employee assigned to a thirty-five (35) hour schedule or a 1000 (125 days) for an employee assigned to a forty (40) hour work schedule, no further credit shall accrue until the total shall have been reduced to less than the maximum. When the service of an employee shall be terminated by retirement (mandatory, voluntary or involuntary), or death, such employee or their estate shall be entitled to receive
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