Common use of An employee who Clause in Contracts

An employee who. has been continuously employed by the City for five (5) years and who has exhausted his/her entire balance of sick leave, PTO leave and all other paid leaves, if any, and who has been absent from work for twenty (20) working days in any consecutive six (6) months (including time off from work on sick leave) due to an illness or injury which is not covered by industrial accident leave, Section 17, (the qualified employee) is eligible for the benefits of this section. An employee who is absent from work under the provisions of Section 17, Industrial Accident Leave, is not a qualified employee under this Section and is not eligible for the benefits of this Section. Upon the written request of the qualified employee to the City Manager or designee, the City Manager or designee shall issue to all employees a "call for donations" for sick leave. The "call for donations" shall specify the name of the requesting qualified employee. Employees may, within twenty (20) days of the issuance of the "call for donations," respond thereto and request in writing that the City transfer to the qualified employee up to, but no greater than, five (5) days of sick leave from the responding employee to the qualified employee. The dollar value of the sick leave of the responding employee shall be calculated and translated into the appropriate amount of sick leave for the qualified employee based on the qualified employee's rate of pay. A "call for donations" for a qualified employee shall be issued for that qualified employee, upon his or her written request, not more often than once every sixty (60) days. If the qualified employee ceases to be an employee of the City at anytime after the transfer of sick leave from responding employees, any sick leave credited to the qualified employee shall remain as an account on the City's records and shall be automatically credited by the City to the next qualified employee who requests that the City Manager issue a "call for donations. " If the qualified employee returns to work, then any sick leave credited to the qualified employee shall remain credited to the employee's sick leave account balance and shall not be returned to the responding employee(s) sick leave account.