(a) When an employee sustains an injury on duty and acting nonnegligently in the line of duty, the employee shall make application for and actively prosecute claims under the Workers' Compensation laws of Ohio.
Such employee may file a request for injury leave with the City. Such application shall assign to the City all wage loss benefits which the employee may receive through the Workers' Compensation laws for any period of time during which the employee is receiving injury leave benefits from the City.
If an employee refuses to make such assignment, such employee shall be ineligible for injury leave benefits. If the employee fails to comply with the terms of the assignment by failing to turn over to the City all such wage loss benefits through Workers' Compensation laws, such failure shall constitute grounds for termination of employment.
(b) If the application for injury leave benefits is approved by the City, such employee may convert up to 347 hours of his accumulated sick leave balance to injury leave. Such conversion shall be at the rate of three hours of injury leave for every one hour of accumulated sick leave balance.