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Kittitas County -Local 792 January 1, 2016 -December 31, 2018 ARTICLE XIII-SICK LEAVE 13.1 An employee will accrue eight (8) hours of sick leave for each calendar month worked. Sick leave may be accumulated up to one thousand one hundred and twenty (1,120) hours . 13.1.1 At the date of signing, employees shall have their sick leave accumulation identified and recorded. Those employees whose accumulated balance of sick leave hours is greater than one thousand one hundred and twenty (1,120) hours will not accrue additional sick leave until such time as the balance falls below one thousand one hundred and twenty (1,120) hours. Use of sick leave to reduce this balance will be restricted to normally approved situations . 13.2 An employee abusing sick leave will be subject to discipline, up to and including termination . 13.3 Any employee who is eligible for State Industrial Compensation for time off because of an on - the-job injury shall use accumulated sick leave, then submit their worker's compensation timeloss payment to the Auditor's office to replenish, or "buy back" their sick leave. If the employee does not have any sick leave accrued, vacation will substitute before leave without pay will be granted. In the event of an overpayment, the employee shall return that amount of overpayment to the Employer. 13.4 Sick leave may be used in minimum increments of one quarter (1/4) hour for the following: A. Because of, and during illness or injury incapacitating the employee to perform his duties, or by having a scheduled appointment with a licensed person, pertaining to all matters of health, as governed by the State of Washington. B. By reason of exposure to contagious disease during such period as his attendance on duty would jeopardize the health of fellow workers or the public (upon request, a doctor's certificate shall be furnished by the employee documenting exposure to contagious disease). C. Because of illness in the immediate family, requiring the attendance of the employee. "Immediate family" shall include only persons(s) related by blood or marriage, guardianship or legal adoption to the extent of wife, husband, parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of the employee, and other relatives residing in the employee's household . 13.5 Sick leave is accumulative to a total of one thousand one hundred and twenty (1,120thours, after which time, if not taken, shall lapse month by month. That is, an employee at no time can have more than one thousand one hundred and twenty (1,120) hours of sick leave due . 13.6 As of January 1, 1988, employees previously hired shall have their sick leave accumulation identified and recorded. As to those employees hired prior to January 1, 1988, and who have at least thirty (30) hours of accumulated sick leave, upon retirement or layoff due to reduction in force or upon the death of the employee (payable to the estate) those employees shall receive in cash twenty-five percent (25%) of accumulated sick leave, not to exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the employee's accumulation as of January 1, 1988. Provided further, that as to those employees hired prior to January 1, 1988, whose accumulations are reduced below the recorded accumulation as of January 1, 1988, 12