181.03 PAYMENT OF SICK LEAVE AT TIME OF RETIREMENT.
Payment of sick leave at the time of retirement of City employees shall be as follows:
(a) Any permanent, full-time City employee, except those City employees designated in subsections (b) and (c) hereof, who is not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and who retires or is retired:
(1) Is eligible at the time of his or her separation from employment to receive retirement benefits from the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio or other state retirement program or City retirement program, and
(2) Who has accumulated sick leave to his or her credit,
shall be paid at the time of retirement for seventy-five percent (75%) of the employee's accumulated sick leave at his or her permanent classification salary or hourly rate.
(b) Any permanent, full-time City employee who is not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, who commenced his or her employment with the City on or after January 1, 1990, and who retires or is retired:
(1) Is eligible at the time of his or her separation from employment to receive retirement benefits from the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio or other state retirement program or City retirement program, and
(2) Who has accumulated sick leave to his or her credit,
shall be paid at the time of retirement for fifty percent (50%) of the employee's accumulated sick leave at his or her permanent classification salary or hourly rate.
(c) Any permanent full-time City employee who is not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, who commenced his or her employment with the City on or after November 1, 1994, and who retires or is retired:
(1) Is eligible at the time of his or her separation from employment to receive retirement benefits from the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio or other state retirement program or City retirement program, and
(2) Who has accumulated sick leave to his or her credit,
shall be paid at the time of retirement for twenty-five percent (25%) of the employee's accumulated sick leave at his or her permanent classification salary or hourly rate.
(d) Payments authorized under this section shall be limited to a maximum sick leave accumulation of 1,200 hours for employees whose normal work schedule is forty hours per week, and 1,680 hours for those working an average fifty-three hour work week.
(e) Employees whose separation from the City's service is the result of resignation or dismissal proceedings shall not be eligible for payment for accumulated sick leave.
(f) Any permanent, full-time City employee retiring with the Public Employees Retirement System credit from another jurisdiction shall be paid only for sick leave accumulated while in the service of the City of Hamilton, unless such employee has over ten years of continuous service.
(Ord. 94-9-123. Passed 9-28-94.)