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(a) (1) Civil service classified, emergency services, or exempt management employees who are laid off will retain their accrued hours of sick leave for 24 months following their layoff. After 24 months of being laid off from city service, all accrued sick leave will not be recognized by the city and eliminated from official records.
(2) Any employee who is laid off from the city civil service may not earn or accrue additional sick leave nor be paid for any personal sickness after their layoff. Employees who retire from the city’s service before or during their layoff will be paid for their accrued sick leave according to the provisions of this chapter.
(3) Any employee who is reemployed by the city before 24 months have elapsed since their layoff will have their sick leave accrual reinstated, and the employee will earn sick leave at the existing accrual rate.
(b) When civil service classified, emergency services, or exempt management employees are laid off from the city’s service, they will be paid for vacation hours earned to date in accordance with § 39.183. If the employee is reemployed with the city before 24 months have elapsed since their layoff, the employee will begin to accrue vacation leave at the same rate as when that employee was laid off. If the employee is rehired after being laid off for 24 months, that employee will accrue vacation benefits at the same rate as a new employee.
(c) Under the provisions of the city’s health plan, any civil service classified, emergency services, or exempt management employee that is laid off and later reemployed by the city must apply for and qualify for coverage as a new employee unless reemployed within 18 months of layoff, provided the employee retains and pays for the coverage during the 18-month period of layoff.
(d) If the employee is rehired in the same classification and department that the employee held before the layoff took place, there is no requirement for a probationary period if the employee has passed the original probationary period for that classification.
(e) Employees called back to their former positions will receive their former regular base salary or hourly rate of pay and all increases in pay which were applied during the period of layoff.
(1992 Code, § 30-54) (Ord. 37-95, passed 3-6-1995; Ord. 87-97, passed 12-2-1997; Ord. 131-98, passed 12-7-1998; Ord. 4-01, passed 1-8-2001; Ord. 115-23, passed 12-5-2023)
A civil service employee who has resigned or otherwise separated from a position with the city in good standing, may upon recommendation of the director and approval of the mayor, be reemployed without examination in a former position or similar position with an equal or lessor pay grade for which the employee is qualified within one year from the date of separation from service. No probationary period shall be required for a civil service employee so reemployed.
(1992 Code, § 30-55) (Ord. 28-00, passed 4-10-2000)
In addition to the application requirements in § 39.044, police and fire applicants must be: (1) at least 21 years of age at the time of the entrance civil service examination, and (2) no greater than 44 years of age at the time of the entrance civil service examination.
(Ord. 97-16, passed 8-9-2016)
Any member of the Class B South Dakota Retirement System, with the exception of uniformed employees of the fire prevention division, who has attained or attains age 60 years shall be retired on the first day of the calendar month following the month in which the member attains age 60 years.
(Ord. 97-16, passed 8-9-2016)
CIVIL SERVICE BOARD
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