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response is required or the Public Works Superintendent or his/her designee directs that a lift station and well check is necessary. On call Pay: On call employees will receive one hour of over -time pay for each day of assigned on call duty Monday through Friday; two hours of over -time pay for each Saturday and Sunday; and four hours of over -time pay for each approved holiday Pay when responding: The employer agrees that, upon responding to a call, the employee will not forfeit their on call pay. Upon responding to a call for service, an on call employee will be paid as per Section 8.10 (Call-back Policy) receiving a minimum oftwo hours pay. On call employees who are called back to work on an approved holiday will be compensated as per Section 10.2 (Holidays) and will be paid four hour On call employees that respond to a call may require assistance in order to safely and effectively complete the necessary work. If so, the on call employee may call another regular Public Works employee to provide assistance, without receiving immediate authorization from a supervisor. Said employee will be compensated as per section 8.10. * All Public Works Maintenance employees hired after January 1, 2014 are required to participate in the on call policy. ARTICLE 9 SICK LEAVE 9.1 Every probationary and regular EMPLOYEE is entitled to accrue sick leave with pay at a rate of eight (8) hours for each calendar month of full-time service or major fraction thereof. The EMPLOYER may compute sick leave on an hourly basis equivalent to 96 hours per 2080 hours of compensated time, exclusive of overtime. 9.2 Sick leave may be accrued to a maximum of 960 hours at a rate established in Section 9.1. Unused sick leave in excess of 960 hours at the end of a calendar year (January lst) may be converted to vacation at a rate of one hour vacation for each two hours of sick leave in excess of 960 hours. 9.3 Sick leave may be authorized, when the EMPLOYEE is unable to perform work duties due to illness, disability, the necessity for medical, dental, or chiropractic care, childbirth, or exposure to contagious disease where such exposure may endanger the health of others with whom the EMPLOYEE would come in contact in the course of performing work duties. Sick leave may also be authorized, when the EMPLOYEE'S presence is necessary, for actual illness, injury, legal quarantine, or medical treatment for serious illness in the EMPLOYEE'S immediate family. Immediate family, for the purposes of this ARTICLE, shall be defined as spouse, parent, step-parent, children, step -children, brother, sister, grandparents, grandchildren or a like member of EMPLOYEE'S spouse's family. 13