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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 49 of 217 d. for any activity related to the adoption of a child u pon proper notification and documentation, when requested. Leave for parents who voluntarily choose to be absent from work to bond with an adopted child is covered under Article 26 and Article 30 of this Agreement. Section 3. Employees may use sick lea ve for general family medical care and bereavement purposes as follows in order to: a. provide care for a family member who is incapacitated by a medical or mental condition or attends to a family member receiving medical, dental, or optical examination or t reatment; b. makes arrangements necessitated by the death of a family member or attends the funeral of a family member. Full - time employees may use up to one hundred four (104) hours of sick leave per year for these purposes. Part - time employees use a pro - r ated amount. Section 4. Whenever an employee's request for sick leave is disapproved, he/she shall be given a written reason, if requested. Section 5. Full - time employees may use a total of four hundred eighty (480) hours of sick leave each leave year to care for a family member with a serious health condition. However the total allowable amount of sick leave entitlement under Sections 3 and 5 may not exceed four hundred eighty (480) hours. Any sick leave taken under Article 26 to care for a family member is deducted from the four hundred eighty (480) hour entitlement under this Section. Section 6. Employees should request leave in advance for pre - arranged optical, medical, or dental appointments. However, if the absence is unplanned, the Agency must be n otified before or within the first hour of the time scheduled to report for duty, unless in the judgment of the Agency there are extenuating circumstances, which prevent the employee from doing so. In cases of extended absences, and when an employee provi des the Agency with a tentative return to work date, he/she shall only be required to notify the Agency on the first day of each occurrence of illness and shall not be required to call in on a daily basis, unless specifically required by the Agency. Secti on 7. In individual cases when employee counseling has not been effective and there remains sufficient cause to believe an employee may be abusing sick leave, the employee may be given advance written notice, indicating the reason(s) that he/she will be re quired for a period of time, not to exceed six (6) months, to furnish a medical certificate for each subsequent absence. When written notice is issued, the form in Appendix XX (Appendix 25 - 1 Sick Leave Restriction Template) will be used. An employee who ha s received written notice and is released from duty because of illness may be required to furnish a medical certificate for that day. When it has been determined by the Agency that the requirement is no longer necessary, the employee shall be notified and the previous notice(s) shall be removed from the records and all copies shall be returned to the employee. Section 8. Except as otherwise provided for in Section 7, an employee shall not be required to furnish a medical certificate to substantiate a reque st for sick leave of four (4) days or less. An

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