(a) An employee who retires or otherwise terminates employment in any manner except by discharge for cause or death and who on such termination date has been in the employ of the City of Springfield for a period of ten years or more, having accumulated over 300 hours of sick leave, shall be paid sixty two and one-half percent (62.5%) for all accumulated sick leave in excess of 300 hours.
(b) An employee who is laid off and who has accumulated over 300 hours of sick leave and has been in the employ of the City for a period of ten years or more, shall have the option of receiving the payment for unused sick leave authorized in subsection (a) hereof. Such option may be exercised at any time after notice of layoff to such employee who has been given but no later than the time when such employee ceases to be laid off and in no event later than one continuous year after layoff status commences. An employee shall do so by submitting a written request therefor.
(c) Payment for unused sick leave shall be made at the employee’s regular hourly rate in effect on the date of termination of employment or layoff, as the case may be. An employee electing to receive payment for unused sick leave pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall have his accumulated sick hour balance cancelled.
(d) An employee who leaves the employ of the City for a position with a qualifying governmental agency, as defined and provided for by the Ohio Revised Code, and who satisfies the requirements of subsection (a) hereof may elect to be paid for a portion of their accumulated sick leave as provided for in subsection (a) hereof and transfer the remaining portion in excess of the minimum accumulation (300 hours) and excluding those hours used to calculate a partial pay-out under this section to such qualifying governmental agency at the rate of one hundred percent (100%); subject to the limitations of State law and the policies of the entity to which the employee transfers. An employee wishing to exercise this option shall do so by submitting a written request therefor to the Director of Finance and Human Resources Director no later than two weeks prior to such transfer.
(Ord. 22-168. Passed 5-24-2022.)
(e) An employee who dies while employed by the City, and who has been in the employ of the City of Springfield for a period of ten years or more as of the date of death, shall have paid to his/her estate one-hundred percent (100%) of all accumulated sick leave hours. The rate utilized to calculate such payment shall be the regular hourly rate in effect for the employee at the time of death.
(f) An employee who shall become disabled, apply for and be found to be eligible for disability retirement under the provisions of Ohio law, shall use all accumulated sick leave prior to going on disability retirement. However, in the event the City should find it necessary to declare any such person's position vacant or for other reason except discharge for cause find it necessary to terminate an employee who is going on disability retirement before the employee has exhausted his accumulated sick leave, then in such event the employee shall be paid one hundred percent (100%) of any accumulated sick leave which he/she has been unable to use.
(g) The accumulated hours referred to in subsection (a), (b), (d), (e) and (f) hereof must be hours accumulated with the City and not transferred in from another agency. In making this calculation, the City shall subtract the number of hours transferred in by the employee under Section 185.14.