Utilization of Sick Leave With Pay. Employees who have earned sick leave credits shall be eligible for sick leave for any period of absence from employment which is due to the employee's illness, bodily injury, disability resulting from pregnancy, necessity for medical or dental care, exposure to contagious disease, attendance upon members of the employee's or the employee’s spouse’s immediate family or the equivalent of each for domestic partner parent, wife, husband, children, brother, sister, grandmother, grandfather, grandchild, or another member of the immediate household) where employee's presence is required because of illness or death. The Agency has the duty to require that the employee make other arrangements, within a reasonable period of time, for the attendance upon children or other persons in the employee's care. Certification of an attending physician or practitioner may be required by the Agency to support the employee's claim for sick leave, if the employee is absent in excess of seven (7) days, or if the Agency has evidence that the employee is abusing sick leave privileges. The Agency may also require such certification from an employee to determine whether the employee should be allowed to return to work where the Agency has reason to believe that the employee's return to work would be a health hazard to either the employee or to others. The employee shall be entitled to use accrued vacation, other paid leave, and compensatory time, in any combination, or leave without pay for the period of maternity leave.
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