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Memorial Day Christmas Eve ½ Day Juneteenth Christmas Day Independence Day New Year's Eve½ Day Labor Day (b) Whenever any of the above holidays falls on a Saturday, the Friday immediately preceding shall be considered as the holiday. (c) When any of the above holidays falls on a Sunday, the Monday immediately following shall be considered as the holiday. (d) All employees shall be credited with the number of hours in their normal work shift for each of the above holidays, except as further provided herein, provided that no employees shall receive credit for more than fifteen (15) holidays per year for the duration of the contract. (e) To be eligible for holiday pay credit, an employee shall have worked his or her scheduled workday immediately preceding and immediately following any general paid holiday, or have an approved PTO day, approved Sick time or approved compensatory time for the work day immediately preceding and immediately following any general paid holiday. (I) On general paid holidays, only those employees shall be on duty whose services are necessary and shall be paid at time and one-half (1-1/2) forthe hours worked, plus his holiday pay. ARTICLE 20 - SICK LEAVE Section 1. The Employer agrees that employees will not be required to furnish medical evidence to support a request for approval of sick leave unless such period exceeds three (3) continuous days or unless there is evidence of sick leave abuse. When it appears that there is abuse of sick leave, the employee must be advised in writing in advance that medical evidence may be required for any period of sick leave of less than four (4) days. When an employee is advised that he has been using excessive sick leave and abuse is suspected, the sick leave usage record in question will be outlined in the warning memorandum and the employee may be requested to submit medical evidence when additional sick leave is used. An employee on his return to work, who is required to submit a physician's statement concerning sick leave used, will be allowed a reasonable time to procure this after his return toduty. Section 2. The Union recognizes the importance of sick leave and the obligation of the employee, as well as the advantage to him, to utilize it only when incapacitated for the performance of duty by sickness, injury or other medical related reasons. The Union, therefore, agrees to support the Employer in efforts to eliminate unwarranted or improper use of sick leave. To assure all employees fully understand the purpose and intent of the warning memorandum, a copy of such memorandum will be sent to the Chief Steward and the Steward responsible for the Division in which the employee performs work. They will further discuss this matter with the affected employee; inform him that sick leave abuse is a matter of mutual concern to both Union and Management and urge the employee to 23