Council would like to provide all at-will employees that are not provided a contract with severance as follows:
(a) Each full time at-will employee upon termination of full time at-will employment by the Borough for reasons other than just cause will be provided one week of severance pay for each year of service to the Municipality not to exceed three months of employees current salary payable on the date of the employees termination or payable on regularly scheduled pay dates of the Borough in amounts equal to the employees current rate of pay. The payment(s) will continue until payment(s) total the full amount due to the employee for severance compensation. In calculating the total amount of years of full time at-will employment the Borough will consider all full time at-will employment within the Borough, including that which may have occurred previously to his/her current term of employment. No previous employment will be considered in this full time at-will calculation, if the employee has previously received some type of severance compensation for the previous full time at-will employment or if prior employment was not of a full time at-will capacity.
(b) In the event a person is re-employed by the Borough within one (1) year of termination, the employee will be required to reimburse the Borough for the amount of severance previously paid by the Borough before the employee can be re-employed by the Borough. If the employee is later terminated by the Borough, the employee will be permitted a combined severance payment for both the current full time at-will employment period and the previous full time at-will employment period.
(c) In the event a person is re-employed by the Borough one (1) year after termination, the employee will not be required to reimburse the Borough for the previous severance payment. However, if the employee is later terminated the employee will not be permitted to again receive severance compensation for the previous full time at-will employment period which the employee had previously received severance compensation. The employee will only be permitted to receive severance compensation for the current employment period.
(Res. 3329. Passed 1-19-04.)