(a) Effective January 1, 2003, all non-elected full-time employees shall receive an additional compensation for length of full-time, continuous service with the City according to the following schedule:
One hundred dollars ($100.00) for each year of consecutive full-time service with this City commencing on the employee’s fifth anniversary date of such service with the City. At that time the employee will become entitled to a sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), which will be paid in a lump sum in the first pay period of December of that year. Employees with more than five (5) years of consecutive full-time service with the City shall be entitled to one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year of service up to a maximum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500). Longevity will continue to be awarded on the employee’s successive anniversary dates of consecutive full-time service to the City according to the procedure hereinbefore provided.
(b) All sums payable to any employee by virtue of this section shall be prorated in the year of separation to the date of such separation.
(c) Elected officials, attorneys in the Department of Law, the City Engineer, members of any board or commission, any person providing services pursuant to contract and seasonal employees shall not be eligible for longevity compensation hereunder.
(d) No individual employed by the City in more than one capacity shall be entitled to the benefits of this section other than the primary Department of such employee.
(e) Except as provided in subsection (b) and subsection (f), termination of employment, for any reason, either voluntary or involuntary, shall terminate all rights and accrued benefits and eligibility under this section. Any employee who retires and is re-hired full-time by another Department of the City shall accrue benefits hereunder as if the employee were a new employee and prior service with the City shall not be counted.
(f) In the event an employee leaves the employment of the City under the disability provisions of a pension program or dies while still on the active payroll of such department, then the longevity benefits payable under this section shall be prorated for such period of time. Such prorated longevity benefits shall be payable in a lump sum within thirty (30) days after disability commences or death of such employee and shall be paid to such member or surviving wife or husband, dependent children or heirs designated in the estate of the employee, in the order hereinbefore named.
(g) In each calendar year the anniversary date of the employment shall be the first day of the month in which the employee commenced his continuous full-time employment with the City. In calculating length of an employee’s continuous employment, full-time service in all Departments of the City shall be included.
(Ord. 03-46. Passed 12-1-03.)