H. Sick Leave

1. Employees on Call shall be protected against loss of pay that would result from absence due to illness according to the same salary protection as that for regular employees based on service accumulation while on assignment exceeding (5) days.

2.  Sick leave provisions, in accordance with Article 6., shall become an entitlement from the sixth (6) and subsequent consecutive working days on any one (1) assignment. The qualifying period shall be calculated from the first (1^st) day of that assignment and use of such credits shall be during such assignments only. An Employee on Call who has accumulated sick days shall be given an annual statement of the accumulated number of such days as of June 30 of each year, in November.

Basically, this means that you accrue sick days only after 6 days on a consecutive assignment and can only use it during an assignment where you have already worked 5 days. 

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