(a) This section applies to any employee of the City to whom the City Administrator has delivered a notice that he or she has been laid off.
(b) The Director of Finance shall pay to each laid off employee a sum equal to the per diem value of such employee's accumulated unused vacation pay. Such payment shall be made at the time of the first payday following the last day worked by the laid off employee. A laid off employee shall not accumulate any vacation benefits during the period of his or her layoff.
(c) The Director of Finance shall pay to each laid off employee a sum equal to the per diem value of such employee's accumulated unused holiday pay. Such payment shall be made at the time of the first payday following the last day worked by the laid off employee. In determining which holidays are to be included, any discretionary day to which such laid off employee is entitled during the calendar year of layoff which has not been used shall be included. One-fourth (1/4) of the total number of holidays allowed for firemen under their collective bargaining agreement shall be accrued each calendar quarter for the purposes of calculating accumulated unused holiday layoff pay. Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as increasing the total number of holidays allowed to be accumulated by any City employee pursuant to City ordinance, State law or collective bargaining agreement. A laid off employee shall not accumulate any holiday benefits during the period of his or her layoff.
(d) The period of an employee's layoff shall not stop the accumulation of years in service or time in grade for the purpose of calculating longevity pay during periods of future employment or for the purpose of calculating the amount of vacation time earned during periods of future employment or for the purpose of determining eligibility for promotion, seniority credit for promotion or the length of probationary employment periods during periods of future employment, but rather all of these matters shall be calculated as if the period of layoff were actually a period of active employment.
(e) Notwithstanding the requirements of Section 165.05, the Director of Finance shall continue to pay the premiums for hospitalization insurance to cover each full-time employee who is laid off for a period of sixty days from the date each full-time employee is laid off. Should an individual full-time employee be laid off more than once during any calendar year, this benefit shall still not be given in excess of a total of sixty days during each calendar year. This benefit may be waived by any individual employee on his or her own behalf.
(f) A laid off employee shall not receive any payment for accumulated unused sick days upon layoff, but the record of such sick days shall be maintained and shall be available to such employee during future periods of employment.
(Ord. 87-7. Passed 2-2-87.)
(g) The provisions of this section shall not apply to full-time employees whose employment is covered by a labor contract approved by Council, to the extent to which such contracts are at variance with this section and are deemed superseded by provisions of Ohio R.C. Chapter 4117.
(Ord. 88-43. Passed 9-19-88.)