A) Regular employees of the City shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula: One and one-quarter (1¼) 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.
1) Employees enrolled in this plan will bank accumulated sick leave. This banked sick leave accumulation can be used if needed for illness or paid off at retirement or resignation provided that the conditions of Section 2106.102, "Termination and Severance Pay" have been met. 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.
2) Beginning with the last full pay period of 2011, an employee who has twenty-seven (27) years of service credit and is age eligible to retire will have the right to ask for up to thirty-three percent (33%) of their accumulated sick pay, in excess of sixteen hundred (1600) hours, be paid out or converted to compensation time. This will occur annually in the last full pay period of the year or no later than December 30. Sick pay selected under this program will be deducted from the total hours available at the time requested. The employee who accepts accumulated sick pay under the provisions allowed under this section will not be entitled to paid extension of sick time, effective with acceptance of this pay.
B) Effective June 1, 1998, those newly hired employees in Local 2058 positions hired directly from the street will be under and automatically enrolled in the City Annual Sick Leave Conversion Plan, as provided in C) below.
C) Employees promoted to Local 2058 Communication Operator Supervisors who are already enrolled in the City's Annual Sick Leave Conversion Plan shall remain under the Plan as set forth below. All other Local 2058 Communication Operator Supervisors bargaining unit members shall have the option of enrolling in the below Plan, but once enrolled must remain enrolled.
1) Employees shall be credited with sick days in accordance with the following formula: seven (7) hours per month, not to exceed eighty-four (84) hours per calendar year, until two hundred ninety-four (294) hours have been accumulated, then one and one-quarter (1¼) days shall be credited for each month of service, not to exceed fifteen (15) days per calendar year, thereafter; provided however, that if the employee's accumulation drops below two hundred ninety-four (294) hours or fifty percent of their total potential accumulation, whichever is greater, inclusive of sick pay used and converted, then the accrual will revert to seven (7) hours per month until the applicable threshold is regained unless it is the use of FMLA approved time, or of "documented sick time" as defined in 2106.80, Reporting; Proof of Illness, which causes the employee's accumulation to drop below this level. Such hours 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.
2) Sick leave hours not used by the end of the year can either be turned in for payment of a percentage of salary as indicated below or carried over until retirement or separation. The maximum number of sick hours allowed for year-end payment will be forty (40). Employees using twenty (20) 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 (20) but forty (40) or fewer hours shall be entitled to a conversion at thirty-three percent (33%). Employees with fewer than two hundred ninety-four (294) hours of accrued sick time or who have used more than forty (40) hours in the preceding calendar year shall not be eligible for this conversion privilege. Hours converted to pay shall be at the employee's regular rate.
3) Provided the conditions of Section 2106.102, "Termination and Severance Pay", have been met, unused sick leave 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 four hundred eighty (480) hours and fifty percent (50%) of salary for the next four hundred eighty (480) hours for a maximum of nine hundred sixty (960) hours.
4) 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 payoff provided in part (c)(2). If transferred sick time is held to retirement or resignation, it may be counted together with sick time accrued after June 1, 1998 from the City of Toledo toward the nine hundred sixty (960) hour maximum and then would be paid under the 33%/50% formula above.