Employees in salary groups A-1 through A-15, and 94 hired into the City on or before 12/31/92 shall have the option of maintaining their current sick leave accrual and severance pay plan as set forth in part (a) of this section or electing the sick leave conversion plan as set forth in part (b) below. This election may be made during the one hundred and twenty (120) day period following passage of this legislation. Employees opting into the plan must remain in the plan. Employees hired on or after 1/1/93 and all employees in salary groups E-1 through E-5, and L-1 through L-4, shall be covered exclusively by the Sick leave plan set forth in part (b). Employees who move to the exempt service from other units and who are already enrolled in the City's Sick Leave Conversion Plan set forth in paragraph (b) shall remain under such plan.
(a) Eligible employees who elect to maintain their current sick leave accrual and severance pay plan shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula: one and one quarter (1 1/4) days shall be credited for each month of service, not to exceed fifteen (15) days per calendar year. Such days shall continue to accumulate at such rate without any maximum limitations. Provided the conditions of Section 2101.44, Termination and Severance Pay, have been met, unused sick leave accumulated to the time of termination shall be paid at the rate of one-half (1/2) for all such accumulated sick time up to two hundred (200) days and full pay for accumulated sick time in excess of two hundred (200) days.
(b) (i) Employees hired on or before December 31, 1992 who elect the sick leave conversion plan set forth herein, and all employees in salary groups E-1 through E-5, L-1 through L-4, will bank accumulated sick leave through December 31, 1995. This banked sick leave accumulation will be used as the need for sick pay arises or may be converted to cash under the terms set forth in paragraph (b) (iii). Provided the conditions of Section 2101.44, Termination and Severance Pay, have been met, unused sick leave from that banked effective December 31, 1995 will be paid as follows at the employee's regular rate as of the date of separation: One-half for all banked sick time up to two hundred (200) days and full pay for accumulated sick time in excess of two hundred (200) days.
(ii) On and after January 1, 1996, employees covered by this Sick Leave Conversion Plan shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula: One and one-quarter days shall be credited for each month of service not to exceed a maximum of fifteen (15) days per calendar year. Such days shall continue to accumulate at such rate without any maximum limitation.
(iii) Sick time not used by the end of the year can either be turned in for payment of a percentage of salary as indicated herein or carried over until retirement or separation. The maximum number of sick days allowed for year-end payment will be five (5). Employees using two and one-half (2½) or fewer days of sick leave in the preceding calendar year shall be entitled to a conversion to pay at fifty percent (50%). Employees using more than two and one-half (2½), but five (5) or fewer days shall be entitled to a conversion at twenty five percent (25%). Employees with fewer than sixty (60) days of accrued sick time or who have used more than five (5) days in the preceding calendar year, shall not be eligible for this conversion privilege. The employee's accrued sick leave shall be reduced by the number of days converted to cash.
(iv) Provided the conditions of Section 2101.44, Termination and Severance Pay, have been met, unused sick leave accrued after enrollment in this plan will be paid as follows at the employee's regular rate at the time of termination: thirty-three percent (33%) of salary for the first eighty (80) days and fifty percent (50%) of salary for the next eighty (80) days for a maximum of one hundred sixty (160) days.
(c) An employee granted a leave of absence without pay for thirty (30) calendar days or more shall not accumulate sick pay during the period the employee is on such leave.
(d) An employee hired from another political jurisdiction within Ohio may transfer his or her unused sick time to his sick leave bank with the City. Such time may be used and may be paid in accordance with the terms of this Chapter. However, for employees hired after September 30, 1995, such time shall not be counted toward the sixty (60) day minimum necessary for sick leave to be converted.
(Ord. 599-23. Passed 11-21-23.)