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(a) For the purposes of this section, “eligible City employees” means employees of Lakewood Municipal Court and the City of Lakewood who meet the eligibility criteria established by the City’s health and welfare plans, but excludes members of Council, part-time hourly employees, temporary employees, seasonal employees, school guards, and members of the Civil Service Commission. Medical benefits shall become effective for each eligible employee on the first day of the calendar month following the month in which the individual is hired.
(b) The Director of Finance is hereby authorized to pay from City funds on behalf of each eligible City employee who is a participant in the City’s primary group hospitalization plan or dental plan as adopted by the City, the full or a portion of the monthly cost of said coverage, including claims costs and all administrative charges, for single or family coverage, as selected by the employee and as established by City policy or an applicable collective bargaining agreement.
(Ord. 38-2023. Passed 11-20-23.)
The Director of Finance is hereby authorized to pay from City the full or a portion of the monthly cost of coverage under the City’s primary group hospitalization plan and dental plan, including claims costs and all administrative charges, for single or family coverage as selected by the Councilperson and as established by City policy, for Councilpersons who are enrolled in the City’s hospitalization or dental plan.
(Ord. 63-11. Passed 12-19-2011.)
Upon requisition issued by the Director of Public Works or his or her designee and approved by the Mayor, the Director of Finance is authorized and directed to pay, from the funds from time to time appropriated for such purpose, the cost of uniforms for appropriate employees of the Department of Public Works.
(Ord. 41-11. Passed 10-3-2011.)
(a) All full-time, permanent, hourly employees and all annual, salaried employees shall be granted leaves of absence from their respective positions without loss of pay for the time they are performing service in the uniformed services, for periods of up to one month, for each year in which they are performing service in the uniformed services.
(b) Any full-time, permanent, hourly employee or annual, salaried employee who is entitled to the leave provided under subsection (a) of this section, and who is called or ordered to the uniformed services for longer than a month, for each federal fiscal year in which the employee performed service in the uniformed services, because of an executive order issued by the president of the United States, because of an act of congress, or because of an order to perform duty issued by the governor pursuant to section 5919.29 of the Revised Code is entitled, during the period designated in the order or act, to a leave of absence and to be paid, during each biweekly pay period of that leave of absence, the lesser of (1) the difference between the employee's gross biweekly wage or salary as a employee and the sum of the employee's gross uniformed pay and allowances received in that pay period; or (2) two hundred fifty dollars.
(c) No employee shall receive payments under subsection (b) hereof, if the sum of the employee's gross uniformed pay and allowances received in a pay period exceed the employee's gross wage or salary for that period or if the employee is receiving pay under subsection (a) hereof.
(d) Each employee who is entitled to leave provided under subsection (b) hereof shall submit to the employee's appointing authority the published order authorizing the call or order to the uniformed services or a written statement from the appropriate military commander authorizing that service, prior to being credited with that leave.
(e) The City shall maintain or reactivate all medical, dental and prescription benefits of an employee who is entitled to leave provided under subsection (b) hereof at the request of the employee, the employee's spouse or the employee's dependent. The employee, spouse or dependent and the City shall continue to be liable for payment of the cost of said benefits as if the employee were not on a leave of absence.
(f) As used in this section, "month, means twenty-two eight-hour work days or one hundred seventy-six hours, or for firefighters or emergency medical technicians, seventeen twenty-four-hour days or four hundred eight hours, within one fiscal year.
Ord. 38-18. Passed 11-5-2018.)
Employees of the City, and volunteers of Lakewood Office on Aging, who are required to use their personal automobile in carrying out their duties on behalf of the City, shall be paid a mileage allowance indexed to the per mile rate authorized by the Internal Revenue Code; provided, however, that such personal car use shall be approved by the appropriate department head and provided further that, when applicable, such allowance shall not exceed the cost of round trip coach air fare for such trip.
(Ord. 49-01. Passed 11-5-2001.)
(a) The Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to establish a voluntary deferred compensation plan for the City, to take any and all action as necessary to participate in the Ohio Deferred Compensation Plan on behalf of any employee who agrees to participate, and to continue any agreements currently in effect, for those employees formerly enrolled, in private deferred compensation plans.
(b) The Director of Finance is hereby authorized, by payroll deduction, to pay any approved amounts to the Ohio Deferred Compensation Program or any other existing deferred compensation program on behalf of enrolled employees.
(c) For the purposes of this section, “employee” means any person whether appointed, elected or under contract, providing services for the City for which compensation is paid.
(d) The deferred compensation program established by this section shall exist and serve in addition to retirement, pension or benefit systems established for the benefit of employees of the City and no deferral of income under the deferred compensation program shall effect a reduction of any retirement, pension or other benefit provided by law. However, any sum deferred under the deferred compensation program shall not be included for the purposes of computation of any taxes withheld on behalf of any such employee, except municipal income tax or as otherwise permitted by law.
(Ord. 49-01. Passed 11-5-2001.)
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