How have courts interpreted the phrase "entitled to sick leave"?

At the time of the trial court's decision in the case at bench, Marsille v. City of Santa Ana, supra, 64 Cal.App.3d 764, 134 Cal.Rptr. 743 seemingly had decided the issue in favor of the first of the alternative constructions of the phrase "entitled to sick leave." While dealing with a situation in which the municipality's civil service rules themselves entitled the plaintiff-firemen there involved to be placed on sick leave for disability incurred in the line of duty, the court nevertheless appeared to turn its decision upon the proposition that by reason of Government Code section 21025.2, "Firemen are entitled to have their respective dates of retirement delayed until the expiration . . . of their accumulated sick leave." (64 Cal.App.3d at p. 773, 134 Cal.Rptr. at p. 748.)