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preceding such Saturday holiday, shall be granted holiday leave. The

amount of holiday leave granted shall be equivalent to the number of hours

the employee is regularly scheduled to work on that preceding Friday but
not to exceed one-fifth (1/5) the number of hours in the normal workweek

of full-time State employees.
§10.12 Absence-Extraordinary Circumstances

An employee who has reported for duty and, because of extraordinary
circumstances beyond his/her control, is directed to leave work, shall not

be required to charge such directed absence during such day against leave
credits. Any such release of employees does not create any right to

equivalent time off by employees not adversely affected by the
extraordinary circumstances.

§10.13 Leave for Bereavement or Family Illness
Employees shall be allowed to charge absences from work in the event

of death or illness in the employee’s immediate family* against accrued
sick leave credits up to a maximum of 25 days in any one calendar year.

Requests for leave for bereavement or family illness shall be subject to
approval of the appointing authority; such approval shall not be

unreasonably withheld.
§10.14 Tardiness-Volunteer Fire fighters and Ambulance Squad

Members
An appointing authority shall excuse a reasonable amount of tardiness

caused by direct emergency duties of duly authorized volunteer ambulance
squad members and volunteer fire fighters. In such cases, the appointing

authority may require the employees to submit satisfactory evidence that

the lateness was due to such emergency duty.
§10.15 Maternity and Child-Rearing Leave
(a) Maternity and child-rearing leave shall be as provided in the

Attendance Rules and the guidelines for administration of those rules,

dated January 28, 1982, which are contained in Appendix I. However,
where the child is required to remain in the hospital following birth, the

seven-month mandatory childcare leave shall, upon employee request,
commence when the child is released from the hospital. If a child is

*For Attendance Rules definition of “immediate family” see page 137 of

Appendix IV of the Agreement.

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