For Employees Hired Before 1/1/91.
Regular employees of the City shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula 1/1/88: One and one quarter (11/4) 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 limitation. An employee granted a Leave of Absence for thirty (30) calendar days or more shall not accumulate sick pay during the period the employee is on such leave.
Employees who terminate their employment with the City for any reason shall have their termination pay computed in the following manner.
(a) They shall be compensated for any earned vacation and bonus vacation including any vacation carried over from the previous year plus vacation earned the year in which the employee was terminated. The computation of the vacation earned in the year in which the employee terminated shall be in accordance with the following table:
Entitled to 2 weeks - .916 x the number of months worked
Entitled to 3 weeks - 1.333 x the number of months worked
Entitled to 4 weeks - 1.750 x the number of months worked
Entitled to 5 weeks - 2.166 x the number of months worked
Entitled to 6 weeks - 2.583 x the number of months worked
(b) In addition to the above, the employee shall be paid for any holidays worked for which they have not been compensated either in the form of pay or time off. If the employee was entitled to discretionary holidays and has not taken them and he/she terminates on or before June 30, they shall receive pay for one (1) discretionary holiday. If the employee terminates after June 30, they shall receive pay for two (2) discretionary holidays.
(c) An employee shall also be paid longevity computed on a prorated basis for those number of months worked that year.
(d) In addition to the amount set forth in (a), (b), and (c) above employees who retire or die while in the employment of the City or who separate in good standing from employment after twenty-five (25) years of service shall also receive severance pay for unused sick time accumulated to the time of termination 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.
In the event the employee died as a direct result of injuries sustained in the course of their employment with the City or is totally and permanently disabled as a result of injury received while responding to or working at the scene of an emergency call or engaged in fighting a fire or returning from the scene of a fire or emergency, the employee shall receive payment for full accumulation of sick pay at the time of death or retirement.
For Employees Hired After 1/1/91
Employees hired on or before January 1, 1991 shall elect between maintaining their current sick leave accrual and severance pay plan and the sick leave conversion plan set forth in part (B) below. This election shall occur on a one-time basis only. Employees hired on or after the aforementioned day shall be covered exclusively by the sick leave conversion plan in part (B).
(A) 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: 1/1/88 one and one quarter (11/4) 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 limitation. Provided the conditions of section 2125.92, 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.
A Firefighter who dies as the direct result of injuries sustained in the course of employment with the City, or who is totally and permanently disabled as a result of injuries received during activities directly related to fire suppression or medical runs (on duty) shall receive payment for the full accumulation of sick pay at the time of death or retirement.
(B) (1) Firefighters hired on or before aforementioned day who elect the sick leave conversion plan set forth herein will bank accumulated sick leave through the above mentioned date. 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 part (B) (3). Provided the conditions of Section 2125.92, Termination and Severance Pay, have been met, unused sickleave from that banked effective on the above date will be paid as follows at the Firefighter's regular rate as of the above mentioned date: one-half (1/2) 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.
(2) On and after January 1, 1991 employees covered by this plan shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula: seven (7) hours shall be credited for each month of service, not to exceed eighty-four (84) hours per calendar year. Such hours shall continue to accumulate at such rate without any maximum limitation.
(3) Sick leave hours not used by the end of the year can either be turned in for conversion for a percentage of salary as indicated below or carried over until retirement or separation. The maximum of sick hours allowed for year-end conversion will be forty (40); employees using no sick leave in the preceding year shall be entitled to a conversion to pay at seventy-five percent (75%). Employees using twenty-eight (28) hours or fewer of sick leave in the preceding calendar year shall be entitled to a conversion to pay at fifty percent (50%). Employees using more than twenty-eight (28) but fifty (50) or fewer hours shall be entitled to a conversion at thirty-three percent (33%). Employees with fewer than four hundred twenty (420) hours of accrued sick time or who have used more than fifty (50) hours in the preceding calendar year shall not be eligible for this conversion privilege. The employee's accrued sick leave shall be reduced by number of hours converted to cash.
(4) Provided the conditions of Section 2125.92, Termination and Severance Pay, have been met, remaining sick leave accrued after effective date of this Section 2125.68 will be paid as follows at the Firefighter's regular rate at the time of termination: thirty-three percent (33%) of salary for the first three hundred and twenty (320) hours and fifty percent (50%) of the remaining accrued sick time.
(5) A Firefighter who dies as the direct result of injuries sustained in the course of employment with the City, or who is totally and permanently disabled as a result of injuries received during activities directly related to fire suppression or medical runs (on duty) shall receive payment of the full accumulation of sick pay at the time of death or retirement.
(C) Sick time transferred from other political subdivisions of the State of Ohio will be accepted in full, but shall not be applicable toward the year-end conversion provided in part (B) (3). If transferred sick time is held to retirement or resignation, it may be counted together with sick time accrued after December 31, 1990 from the City of Toledo toward the remaining sick time and then would be paid under the 33%/50% formula above.
(D) Any 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.
(Ord. 463-03. Passed 5-27-03.)