Agmt 1995 Alameda County Fire District ACFD

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SECTION 8. LEAVES OF ABSENCE (Contd.) or any other person sharing the relationship of in loco parentis and also includes a brother -in -law, sister -in -law, mother -in -law, father -in -law, grandparents and grandparents -in -law. C. LEAVE FOR JURY DUTY. Leave of Absence with pay shall be granted to an employee while serving on jury duty and while going to and from jury duty, provided that the jury duty takes place during a shift when that employee is normally scheduled • to work. Any jury fee awarded. to such employee for jury duty served . during such leave shall be deposited with the Department. The employee shall complete the scheduled shift at the conclusion of the day's jury duty, except that if the employee must report for jury duty the next day, he/she shall not be required to complete the shift. D. MATERNITY LEAVE. Pregnant employees shall furnish the Department. Head, no later than the fourth month of pregnancy, a statement of the attending physician which indicates the estimated date of delivery. A pregnant employee is entitled to a maternity leave of up to four months, the dates of which are to be mutually agreed by the employee and Department Head, provided that the employee is required to take maternity leave two weeks prior to the estimated date of delivery, unless the employee's physician submits written approval, satisfactory to the Department Head, for the employee to work during such period. Such an employee may elect to take accrued vacation or compensating time off or sick leave during the period of maternity leave, except that in the case of an employee who is regularly scheduled to work less than the normal full -time work week for the classification, paid leave shall be granted only for those days, or fractions thereof, on which such an employee would have been rewlarly scheduled to work and would have worked but for the maternity leave. The employee shall be entitled to sick leave with pay accumulated pursuant to Section 11.C. of this Memorandum of Understanding. Reinstatement subsequent to maternity leave of absence shall be to the same classification from which leave was taken and the Department Head shall make its best effort to return such employee to the same geographical location, shift., and where there is a specialization within the classification, to the same specialization. Questions as to whether or not the Department Head has used its best effort herein, shall not be subject to the Grievance Procedure. • E. PATERNITY AND ADOPTIVE LEAVE. A prospective father or adoptive parent is entitled to paternity or adoptive leave of up to 14 consecutive calendar days,.the dates of which are to be mutually agreed by the employee and the Department Head. Such leave shall be scheduled within the period of 30 days prior to the estimated date of delivery /adoption and 30 days after the date of delivery/adoption. Such an employee may elect to take accrued vacation or compensating time off during the period of paternity /adoptive leave, except that in the case of an employee who is regularly scheduled to work less than the normal full -time work seek for the classification, paid leave shall be granted only for those days, or fractions thereof, on which such an employee would have worked but for paternity /adoptive leave. The use of sick leave during paternity /.adoptive leave shall not be permitted for fathers or adoptive parents unless they are otherwise eligible to use it as provided in Section 11. Reinstatement subsequent to paternity /adoptive leave of absence shall be to the same geographical location, shift. and there is specialization within a classification, to the sane specialization. Questions as to whether or not the Department Head has made its best effort herein, shall not be subject to the grievance procedure. 173 FIRE -