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is printed on your pay check. <br />Termination Vacation Pay <br />If you terminate your employment with the City of Eugene, you will be paid at your current rate of <br />pay for accrued but unused vacation, up to two times your annual accrual. If you leave before you <br />are eligible to use vacation, you will forfeit your vacation time. <br />Witness or Jury Duty <br />If you are called for jury duty or are subpoenaed as a witness under circumstances beyond your <br />control and where such duties are in the public interest, you will receive your full salary for the <br />period of required service. This does not apply when you are involved in personal civil or criminal <br />proceedings. All monies received as witness fee or as pay for jury duty, except for mileage <br />allowance, must be signed over to the City, unless such fees were earned on your days off or <br />during other authorized leave with pay. You are required to report to work when less than a normal <br />work day is required by jury or witness duties. If you work night or evening shifts, you will be <br />transferred to day shift during the time you are actually serving as a juror or witness. <br />Leave Without Pay (LWOP) <br />Should a circumstance arise requiring an absence from work, you may request a leave without pay <br />in advance. Reasons for LWOP include illness, family illness, educational opportunities, and <br />parental responsibilities arising from birth or adoption. Leave without pay is normally granted only <br />after you have exhausted all appropriate paid leave. <br />Request Procedures <br />Requests for such leaves must be in writing in advance and must establish reasonable justification <br />for the leave. Except for parental, family medical, or military leave, LWOP will be granted only if <br />your supervisor determines that your department will not be adversely affected by your absence. <br />The LWOP period may not exceed 12 months. <br />Effect on Benefits <br />Employees on LWOP will not accrue vacation or sick leave. If the leave without pay is for one full <br />calendar month or more, the City-paid health insurance will discontinue, unless the absence is <br />covered under the Family Medical Leave Act. Employees may elect to self-pay insurance. <br />City-paid life insurance coverage ceases at the end of the month you exhaust paid leave days, <br />unless you are unable to work due to disability. <br />Merit review dates, years of service, probation, and seniority are adjusted for the amount of time an <br />employee is on leave, except for military leave. Please refer to collective bargaining agreements. <br />Military Leave <br />If you have worked for the City for six (6) months, you are entitled to a military leave of absence with <br />pay not to exceed fifteen (15) calendar days in any one training year for annual active duty for <br />training as a member of the National Guard, National Guard Reserve, or any reserve component of <br />the U.S. Armed Forces, or of the U.S. Public Health Service. A training year is the period of time <br />during which the particular Unit of the National Guard or a reserve component holds 48 consecutive <br />assemblies for drill and instruction. Such leaves are granted without loss of other leaves, and <br />without impairment of other rights or benefits, providing you receive bona fide orders to report for <br />Page 23-February 2004 <br />