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CHAPTER 260: EMPLOYEES GENERALLY
Editor’s note:
   Provisions relating to regular compensation are not codified. Copies of the latest relevant legislation may be found in Appendix I following Title Ten of this Administration Code or may be obtained, at cost, from the Clerk of Council.
   The city enters into agreements from time to time with representatives of various classes of municipal employees, which agreements provide for compensation, benefits and other incidents of employment. The provisions of this chapter, therefore, apply only to those employees and to those benefits and other incidents of employment not otherwise provided for in such agreements. Copies of the latest relevant legislation and of such agreements may be found in Appendix II following Title Ten of this Administration Code or may be obtained, at cost, from the Clerk of Council.
   Reference should also be made to Ordinance 1995-18, passed January 30, 1995, which provided for pay ranges for employees and memoranda of understanding between representatives of the city and of sergeants, lieutenants and dispatchers in the Police Department and employees of the Pollution Control Department, the Service Department, the Building Department, the Engineering Department and Administration. These memoranda summarize revisions to existing terms and conditions of employment for such employees for the period January 1, 1995, through December 31, 1997.
   Council executes memoranda of understanding with certain employees and classes of employees from time to time by ordinance, which memoranda of understanding constitute the complete employment contract between the city and such employees or classes of employees. Copies of the latest relevant legislation and memoranda may be obtained, at cost, from the Clerk of Council.
   This chapter was repealed in its entirety and re-enacted by Ordinance 1998-25, passed May 18, 1998.
Section
   260.01   Application of chapter
   260.02   Types of employees
   260.03   Exempt and non-exempt employees
   260.035   Classified and unclassified employees
   260.04   Compensation
   260.05   Overtime compensation; call-out pay
   260.055   Overtime on-call pay
   260.06   Vacations
   260.07   Holidays
   260.08   Sick leave
   260.09   Funeral leave
   260.10   Longevity pay
   260.11   Travel allowance
   260.115   Use of city vehicles
   260.12   Group hospitalization and other insurance
   260.13   Protective gear, uniform and other allowances
   260.14   Re-employment rights
   260.15   Immunizations
   260.16   National Guard and Reserve duty (Repealed)
   260.165   Service in the uniformed services
   260.17   Jury duty
   260.18   Education and tuition reimbursement
   260.19   Pension; salary reduction; pick-up plan
   260.20   Bonds and indemnification
   260.21   Performance-based bonus system
   260.22   Use of city computers
   260.23   Use of city-issued cellular telephones
   260.24   Use of city-issued credit cards (Repealed)
   260.25   Additional fringe benefits and public purpose expenditures
   260.26   Drug and alcohol testing policy
   260.99   Penalty
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Authority of Council, see Charter Art. IV, § 8
   Dereliction of duty, see § 606.19
   Improper compensation, see § 606.18
   Interfering with civil rights, see § 606.20
   Qualification of, see Charter Art. VIII, § 2
   Welfare, see Ohio Const., Art. II, § 34
   Workers’ Compensation, see Ohio Const., Art. II, § 35; R.C. Ch. 4123
§ 260.01 APPLICATION OF CHAPTER.
   This chapter is applicable to all employees except those covered by a collective bargaining agreement.
(Ord. 1998-25, passed 5-18-1998)
§ 260.02 TYPES OF EMPLOYEES.
   For the purposes of this chapter, there are three distinct types of employees, defined as follows:
   (a)   Full-time employees.  FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT STATUS is defined as employees who are scheduled in an active pay status for not less than 2,080 hours annually or regularly scheduled for 40 hours per week. For the purpose of this provision, ACTIVE PAY STATUS is defined as conditions under which an employee is eligible to receive pay, and included, but is not limited to, vacation leave, sick leave, bereavement leave, administrative leave, compensatory time, holidays and personal leave.
   (b)   Part-time employment.
      (1)   PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT STATUS is defined as employees who are in an active pay status and not regularly scheduled for more than 56 hours per pay period. Employment in a position that does not normally require a person to work more than 28 hours per week. Employees in these positions are not allowed to work more than 1,456 hours in a year, meaning they shall work only 28 hours per week.
      (2)   Part-time employees must not work more than 28 hours in a calendar week without permission of the Mayor or the Mayor’s designee and no part-time employee can work more than 1,456 hours in a year. If this is a rehired city employee, the employee’s total hours in a 12-month rolling year back and forward, cannot exceed 1,456 hours. Part-time to seasonal change of status is permissible providing the 12-month rolling back or forward does not exceed 1,456 hours.
   (c)   Other types of employees.
      (1)   Temporary employees. Are defined as individuals appointed by the Mayor without regard to the provisions of R.C. §§ 124.01 through 124.64 to address an immediate or limited service need within the city. Except as otherwise provided in R.C. § 124.30(A), the temporary appointment may not continue longer than 120 days. Where a position is vacant for a temporary period by reason of sickness, disability or other approved leave of absence of a regular employee, a temporary appointment may be made for a period longer than 120 days and may continue during the period of sickness, disability or other approved leave of absence..
      (2)   Seasonal employment.
         A.   Employment in a position of a seasonal nature, the duration of which does not exceed 26 consecutive weeks. Employees in these positions are not allowed to work more than 1,456 hours in a year including overtime. Seasonal employees can work up to 40 hours per week. Any overtime must have prior approval from the Department Director.
         B.   Seasonal employees must not exceed 26 weeks and no seasonal employee can work more than 1,456 hours in a year. Upon the completion of their seasonal employment, such employee shall have their employment with the city terminated.
Before being allowed to be rehired by any city department in either a seasonal or part-time position, a former seasonal employee must have a break in service from city employment that is either (a) if the employee worked for 26 consecutive weeks, then the break in service must be greater than or equal to 26 consecutive weeks or (b) if the employee worked for less than 26 consecutive weeks, then the employee may be rehired if the employee’s break in service was at least four consecutive weeks; and the employee’s break in service is longer than the employee’s immediately preceding period of employment with the city.
(Ord. 1998-25, passed 5-18-1998; Ord. 1999-64, passed 4-19-1999; Ord. 2012-46, passed 2-21-2012; Ord. 2012-61, passed 3-5-2012; Ord. 2014-37, passed 4-7-2014; Ord. 2014-87, passed 5-5-2014; Ord. 2015-148, passed 7-6-2015)
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