(A) Each full-time, permanent city employee, having five full years of continuous service with the city shall be entitled to an allowance of .5% of his or her current straight time base salary and an additional .5% each year thereafter until a maximum of 5% in longevity allowance is reached. The longevity allowance shall be granted in a lump sum on the first pay day of December of each year. All employees hired on or after June 6, 1983, shall not be entitled to longevity allowance.
(B) Effective July 1, 2001 all full-time, permanent, non-bargaining employees covered by the provisions of this section of the Administrative Code and who were hired by the city on June 6, 1983 or after, shall be granted an annual lump sum payment. The lump sum payment will be paid on the first payday in December. The amount of the lump sum payment is based on the completion of a specified number of continuous years of full-time service with the city. The breakdown of the number of years of completed continuous full-time service and its corresponding lump sum payment is as follows:
Continuous Full-time Years of Service with the City | Lump Sum Payment
|
After completing 5 years | $500 |
After completing 10 years | $1,000 |
After completing 20 years | $2,000 |
After completing 30 years | $2,500 |
(C) No employee will be eligible to receive both payments, which are defined in divisions (A) and (B) above. However, if an employee’s longevity payment, as described in division (A), is less than the lump sum payment that is described in division (B), for the same number of years of service then that person shall receive a payment equal to the lump sum payment described in division (B). However, this does not preclude the employee from being eligible to receive longevity payments in future years, if and when their longevity payment would be greater than the lump sum payment.
(D) The lump sum payment, described in division (B) above, is not accumulative.
(E) Payment for the last year of service will be on a pro-rata basis, and will be paid at the time of termination.
(F) Furthermore, the calculation of continuous service shall not include leaves of absence without pay or any other periods of time that an eligible employee does not receive pay. Therefore, payment of longevity or lump sum pay for years of service shall be on a pro-rata basis based on the actual hours an employee received compensation, and the payment will be paid on the first regular payday in December.
(1980 Code, § 33.24) (Ord. 3364, passed 10-6-1975; Am. Ord. 4310, passed 5-23-1983; Am. Ord. 6736, passed 4-2-2001; Am. Ord. 7078, passed 3-3-2003; Am. Ord. 7203, passed 2-17-2004)