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HomeMy WebLinkAbout5608 FRINGE CITY OF ARCADIA BENEFITS RESOLUTION JULY, 1.991. 5608 FRINGE BENEFITS RESOLUTION TABLE OF CONTENTS Section # Acting Pay Amendments Bereavement Leave Court witness Leave Definitions Fringe Benefits - Eligibility Holidays Jury Leave Leaves of Absence Leave Deductions - Management Life Insurance Management Leave Memorandum of Understandings/ Prior Resolutions Mileage Military Leave Physical Examinations - Management Overtime Promotional Step Advancement Purpose Retired Health Insurance Salary Step Advancement Severance Pay sick Leave Special Assignment Pay Stability Pay Temporary Assignment Tuition Reimbursement Vacation Accrual Vacation Leave - Management Vacation Leave - General Employees Workers' Compensation Work Day Schedules 11 32 19 26 2 30 23 25 14 21 12 20 31 9 27 22 8 4 1 13 3 28 18 5 6 10 7 l5 17 l6 24 29 Paoe # 9 32 21 27 1-2 31 23-25 27 12-14 22 10 22 32 9 28-29 22 7-8 4 1 10-11 3 30 19-20 4 5 9 6 15-16 17-18 16-17 26 30 (7/91) 5608 RESOLUTION NO. 5608 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA PROVIDING FOR FRINGE BENEFITS AND RELATED COMPENSATION FOR OFFICERS AND MANAGEMENT AND GENERAL EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES HEREBY FIND, DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. PURPOSE. The purpose of this resolution is to consolidate the presentation of fringe benefit information by: (1) eliminating references to benefits covered in memorandum of understanding of recognized employee organizations, and (2) incorporating previously adopted resolutions concerning General and Management Employees into a single document. SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS. As used herein, and in the general salary resolution, the following terms shall have the following meanings: "Classification" shall mean a group of positions having sufficiently similar duties, responsibilities and qualifications to be designated by the same descriptive title, and as to which the same salary range may be made to apply with equity. "Emplovee" shall mean a full-time budgeted employee of the city of Arcadia. "Emplovrnent Date" shall mean the period of continuous full-time employment from and after such employment date shall be used in computing stability pay, sick leave and vacation, and shall be the starting point for determining salary step increases. "Gender" whenever the male gender is used in this resolution, it 1 5608 shall be construed to include male and female employees. "General Emplovees" shall mean those full-time non-management employees that are in classifications not represented for employee- employer relations matters, in a recognized employee organization. "Manaaement Emplovee" shall mean those full-time employees having responsibility for formulating, administering or managing the implementation of City policies. "Permanent part-time emplovees" shall mean those persons employed in full-time classifications regularly working twenty (20) or more hours per week. "Recoanized Emplovee Oraaniz.ation" means an employee organization which has been formally acknowledged by the City as the employee organization that represents employees in designated classifications in an appropriate representation unit. "Salarv Advancement" shall mean an increase in salary from current step to a higher step within the same salary range based upon performance and continuous service in the same class. 2 5608 SECTION 3. SALARY STEP ADVANCEMENT. a) The advancement through the salary steps shall be based upon performance and continuous service in the same classification. The following schedule is the continuous service time required for each step: b) A Step to B Step: 6 months B Step to C Step: 12 months C Step to D Step: 12 months D Step to E Step: 12 months 0 Salary step advancements may be withheld or delayed by the appointing authority if an employee's performance does not merit such an advancement. with the approval of the City Manager, an employee may be c) hired at any step within the salary range applicable to the position. d) The city Manager shall have the authority to advance an employee's salary step within that employee's salary range when the purpose is to correct an existing inequity or give recognition to exceptional performance. 3 5608 SECTION 4. PROMOTIONAL STEP ADVANCEMENT. a) When an employee is promoted, his pay shall advance to the lowest salary step in the higher salary classification range such that it will provide not less than one step increase in compensation, unless the top step in such range provides less than one step increase. The one step increase shall be measured by the range from which the employee is promoted. The percentages between steps within a range are from 4% to 6%. b) When an employee is promoted to a higher classification, the date of promotion shall be used in determining the date of future step increases. SECTION 5. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT PAY. Police Management Employees assigned to race track traffic control duties shall be eligible for race track assignment pay at those rates established in the Salary Resolution for Police Officers or Sergeants depending upon their assignment. 4 5608 SECTION 6. STABILITY PAY. This feature of the Pay Plan was intended to encourage stability of employment by recognizing years of service with compensation. The plan pays $25 per year for each year of consecutive service up to a maximum of twenty (20) years of service. Management and General Employees that were hired before July 1, 1982, and have five (5) years of consecutive service are eligible for Stability Pay. All Management and General Employees hired on or after July 1, 1982 are not eligible for stability pay. The following schedule is used to calculate Stability Pay: Completed Years completed Years of Service Amount of Service Amount 5 $125 10 $325 6 $150 14 $350 7 $175 15 $375 8 $200 16 $400 9 $225 17 $425 10 $250 18 $450 11 $275 19 $475 12 $300 20 $500 Cash stability payments are made once a year between December 1 and December 10 only to employees on the payroll as of December 1. Stability payments will be paid on a pro-rata basis to those employees that retired or are laid off prior to December 1, provided they meet all eligibility requirements. 5 5608 SECTION 7. TUITION REIMBURSEMENT. The City will reimburse the employee 100% of the cost of books, fees and tuition for up to '7 semester or 9 quarter units during each semester/quarter at rates of the California State University system. The reimbursement shall be only for courses that are directly related to the employee's position as determined by the City Manager. General education courses and other courses not directly related to the job will not be approved for reimbursement. Prior to reimbursement of costs, all course work must be completed while employed by the city of Arcadia with a passing grade of "C" or equivalent when numerical score or pass/fail grade is given. Any employee who terminates employment within one year from the completion of a class or classes, shall refund all tuition paid under this provision unless he was required to attend by the appointing power. 6 5608 SECTION 8. OVERTIME. a) When necessary to perform essential work, a department administrator may require Management and General employees to work at any time other than during regular working hours until such work is accomplished. b) General Employees required to work overtime, shall be credited with pay at the rate of one and one-half times the regular hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 8 during anyone day, or in excess of 40 in anyone week, or with time-off equal to time and one-half. General Employees recalled to work after completing a day's work, including any overtime, shall receive a minimum credit of one hour of overtime pay. c) When directed to attend classes or functions by their department administrator or City Manager, General Employees shall be paid at the rate of one and one-half times the regular hourly rate of pay for hours in class or at a function in excess of 8 hours in anyone day or 40 hours in anyone week. Employees who are exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act shall receive equivalent compensatory time off on a time- and-one-half basis when directed to attend classes or functions by their department administrator or city Manager in excess of 8 hours in anyone day or 40 hours in anyone week. 7 5608 d) Fire Battalion Chiefs working in excess of 204 hours in a 27- day work period shall receive overtime at time-and-one-half. No other Management Employees are eligible to receive any form of overtime compensation for additional hours worked, except as stated in section 5. 8 5608 SECTION 9. MILEAGE. Mileage is reimbursed for t~avel in connection with City business and shall be paid in accordance with the prevailing IRS rate. Prior approval must be obtained from the immediate supervisor or department head. If travel is required frequently during a month, reimbursement shall be made once a month. Completed mileage forms shall be submitted to the department head consistent with the administrative policy. SECTION 10. TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENTS. When a General Employee is temporarily assigned by the appointing power to the full duties of an unfilled position in the classified service of a higher classification for a period in excess of thirty (30) consecutive working days, he shall receive the pay of that higher classification after the initial thirty-day period. SECTION 11. ACTING PAY. General Employees in the Equipment Service Division of the Public Works Department who are required, in writing, to work three (3) working days or longer in a higher classification which is vacant due to paid or unpaid leaves, injury, termination or move up due to acting pay shall receive acting pay of five (5) percent above their current rate of pay , retroactive to the first day of the assignment. Should such percentage exceed the top step of the range for the higher classification, the employee shall receive compensation at the top step of the higher classification. Acting pay shall not apply to an employee who is being trained by the city to qualify to a higher classification. 9 5608 SECTION 12. LIFE INSURANCE. a) The City shall provide Management and General Employees with group term life insurance in the amount of $7,500.00. b) Management employees shall be provided group term life insurance equal to their annual salary rounded off to the nearest (next lowest) one thousand dollars. An optional employee-paid $10,000 group term life insurance policy shall also be offered to Management Employees. c) The City shall provide a $10,000 group term life insurance plan to management employees who retire after July 1, 1979, but who were hired into a management classification prior to September 21, 1982, in accordance with the controlling provisions of the plan. SECTION 13.. RETIRED HEALTH INSURANCE. a) Effective July 1, 1985, the city agrees to pay the employee- only health insurance monthly premium cost for eligible City retirees. An eligible retiree is a Management or General City employee who retires on a SERVICE retirement and has 125 days of accumulated sick leave at the date of retirement. Such payment shall cease by employee's sixty-fifth (65) birthday. If the retired employee has other group medical coverage available to them, then this other group insurance shall be primary and the City's health insurance plan shall function as a secondary co-insurance. 10 5608 b) In order to be eligible for retiree health coverage, the employee must apply for such coverage through the City Personnel D~partment. During the month of June, each insured retired employee must contact the city Personnel Department in order to maintain coverage. In the absence of such contact, coverage shall cease on the following July 1. c) An employee who has fewer than 125 days of accumulated sick leave at the date of retirement may become eligible for coverage for the employee only health insurance premium by paying the City an amount equal to the employee's daily pay rate at the time of retirement times the number of days needed to meet the 125 days of accumulated sick leave requirement with the following restrictions: 1. The employee must have reached age 55, 2. The employee must have worked full-time continuously for the City of Arcadia for a minimum of 15 years; and 3. The employee would be limited to purchasing a maximum of 60 days (480 hours) worth of sick leave 11 5608 SECTION l4. LEAVES OF ABSENCE. upon the written request of an employee stating the reasons therefore, the appointing power with the approval of the City Manager shall have power to grant leaves of absence with or without pay, with the exception that leaves of absence with or without pay of more than thirty (30) calendar days shall be granted only upon the recommendation of the appointing power and approval of the City Manager and City Council, subject to the following restrictions: (1) Lenqth. Leave of absence without pay may be granted for a period not to exceed one (1) year with the exception that military leaves may be granted for the duration of a war or national emergency or as required by the Military and Veteran's Code. (2) Reason. A leave of absence may be granted an employee, provided he meets all other requirements set forth in this rule, who desires to attend school or college or to enter training to improve the quality of his service, who enters military service of the united States, who is temporarily disabled and unable to work due to a medical condition, or who presents some other reason equally satisfactory. The term medical condition as used herein encompasses all temporary medical disabilities, including, but not limited to, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. 12 5608 An employee who requires a leave of absence for medical reasons must notify his department in writing of the need for such a leave as soon as the employee learns that he or she is, or will become, temporarily disabled and unable to work due to a medical condition. Such notice must specify the reason for the leave, the date such leave will begin, and the expected duration of the disabi.lity. An employee who requests such a leave may be required to provide initially and from time to time proof of disability in the form of a physician's statement. An employee returning from a medical leave of absence shall be required to provide a physicians's statement that indicates that he is fit to return to work. (3) Riaht to Return. The granting of a leave of absence without pay confers upon the employee the right to return to his classification before or at the expiration of his leave of absence. Therefore, a leave of absence shall be granted only to an employee who intends to return to his classification with the city. An employee who fails to report for work at the end of an approved leave will be deemed to have voluntarily resigned. (4) Service Record. A request for leave of absence will not be considered unless the employee presenting the request has a satisfactory service record. 13 5608 (5) An employee granted a leave of absence may be required by the appointing power or the City Manager to successfully pass a medical examination prior to being allowed to return to work. (6) The granting of a leave of absence of thirty (30) days or less, with or without pay, shall not constitute an interruption of service within the meaning of this subsection. The granting of a leave of absence with or without pay of more than thirty (30) days shall constitute an interruption of service unless, in the action granting such leave of absence, it is provided that such leave of absence shall not constitute an interruption of service. (7) The City shall continue to provide health, dental, life, and disability insurance for an employee granted a leave of absence for up to 30 days. It shall be the responsibility of the employee who wishes to continue any insurance coverage beyond the 30th day after the leave of absence takes effect to notify the Personnel Department of his/her intent to continue coverage and to remit the full monthly premium for any coverage to the Finance Department. 14 5608 SECTION 15. VACATION ACCRUAL. a) Non-Sworn Management and General Employees, with the exception of temporary appointments, shall accumulate vacation with pay beginning with the first full pay period of employment at the rate of 3.077 hours per pay period during the first five years of continuous full-time employment with the City; at the rate of 4.616 hours per pay period between the employee's fifth and tenth anniversary date of continuous full-time employment; at the rate of 5.231 hours per pay period between the employee's tenth and fifteenth anniversary date of continuous full-time employment, and at the rate of 6.154 hours per pay period after fifteen years of,continuous full-time employment with the city. b) Management Employees assigned to the Police Department shall accumulate vacation with pay beginning with the first full pay period of employment at the rate of 4.616 hours per pay period during the first ten years of continuous full-time employment with the Ci.ty and at the rate of 6.77 hours per pay period after the Gompletion of ten years of continuous full-time employment with the City. c) Management and General Employees assigned to 24-hour shift schedules in the Fire Department, with the exception of temporary appointments ( shall accumulate vacation with pay beginning with the first full pay period of employment, at the rate of 6.924 hours per pay period during the first ten years of continuous full-time employment with the City and at the 15 5608 rate of 10.154 hours per pay period after the completion of ten years of continuous full-time employment with the City. For employees assigned to 24 hour shifts, a "day" means 12 hours or one-half (1/2) shift. d) Fire Department Management and Fire Employees assigned to a 40 hour week schedule, shall accumulate vacation with pay beginning with the first full pay period of employment at the rate of 4.616 hours per pay period during the first ten years of continuous full-time employment with the city and at the rate of 6.77 hours per pay period after the completion of ten years of continuous full-time employment with the city. SECTION 16. VACATION LEAVE - GENERAL EMPLOYEES a) Accumulated vacation shall be granted at the discretion of the appointing power. b) On December 31st of each year, any vacation accumulated beyond the amount accumulable for a fifty-two (52) pay period basis shall not be carried forward. Any excess accumulated vacation over this limit shall be forfeited. c) An employee who has previously requested and was granted approval of vacation leave for use during the last three (3) months of the calendar year and is unable to utilize such leave because of the City's cancellation of leave shall be allowed to carryover the excess leave time into the next three (3) months of the new calendar year, if rescheduling of the vacation leave is not possible. 16 5608 d) upon termination, vacation used shall be pro-rated against vacation earned. Every City employee who leaves the City employ for any reason shall be granted all accumulated vacation or shall be paid therefore at his rate of compensation applicable at the time he leaves the City employ. If an employee works more than 50% of the pay period, the employee shall receive credit for that pay period's vacation. e) Fire Department General.Employees shall use any vacation hours in excess of the maximum accumulation by June 30 of each year. Any vacation hours in excess of the maximum accumulation shall be forfeited at this time. SECTION 17.. VACATION LEAVE - MANAGEMENT. a) Management employees shall take a minimum of 50% of their vacation days earned during the calendar year prior to the end of that calendar year, b) Management employees shall be allowed to accumulate the remaining 50% of their vacation time up to 40 days (320 hours) and up to 44 days (352 hours) for safety Management Employees. c) Management employees listed in Attachment A whose accrued vacation as of October 30, 1982, exceeded the maximum, shall be allowed to maintain those hours as their maximum accumulation. d) Vacation hours in excess of the maximum accumulation listed in Subsection b December 31 of employees shall or Subsection c shall be used prior to each year. Fire Department Management use any vacation hours in excess of the 17 5608 maximum accumulation by June 30 of each year. Any vacation hours in excess of the maximum accumulation shall be forfeited at this time. e) Management employees may sell back a maximum of ten (10) days vacation per calendar year, provided that the employee takes an equal amount of vacation leave during that year. Management employees whose accrued vacation is covered by Subsection c above, may in addition to the above, sell back vacation days up to the number of days between their accrual and the maximum accrual in Subsection b. However, if any additional vacation days are sold, the remaining accumulation level shall thereafter be the maximum accrual level for that employee. 18 5608 SECTION 18~ SICK LEAVE. a) Management and General Employees, with the exception of temporary appointments, shall accrue sick leave beginning with the first full pay period of employment on the basis of 3.693 hours for each pay period of service completed with the City. b) Management and General Employees assigned to the Fire Department on a 24 hour shift basis, with the exception of temporary appointments, shall accrue sick leave beginning with the first full pay period of employment on the basis of 5.539 hours for each pay period of service completed with the City. For employees assigned to 24 hour shifts, a "day" means 12 hours or one-half (1/2) shift. c) General Employees may accumulate up to a maximum of 1,300 hours of sick leave with pay. Management Employees shall be allowed unlimited accumulation of sick leave. d) The appointing power and City Manager may require a medical examination by a physician of any employee during absence on account of illness of such employee. e) Sick leave means authorized absence from duty of an employee who is temporarily disabled and unable to work due to a medical condition or due to a scheduled medical or dental appointment during regular working hours. Every effort shall be made to schedule appointments during non-working hours. f) Sick leave may be used by an employee when his care and attendance i.s required by a family dependent who is seriously ill. sick leave may also be used when the employee's family 19 5608 dependent requires the employee's presence at the dependent's medical or dental appointment during regular working hours. Every effort shall be made to schedule appointments during non-working hours. Family dependents shall include only dependents currently residing in the employee's household, or the employee's minor children. g) The appointing power and City Manager may require evidence of the reason for any employee's absence caused by illness or death in the immediate family of the employee during the time for which sick leave is requested. h) In case of absence due to illness, the employee shall notify his department in accordance with departmental rules and explain the nature of the illness. The appointing power and City Manager may deny or revoke sick leave if the illness or injury for which it is taken is caused or substantially aggravated by compensated outside employment. 20 5608 SECTION 19. BEREAVEMENT LEAVE. At the time of death, or where death appears imminent, in the immediate family, an employee, with the exception of temporary appointments, may be granted a leave of absence with pay, upon approval of the appointing power and the City Manager. Immediate family is defined as the spouse, the employee or employee's spouse's mother or stepmother, father or stepfather, brother or sister, child or stepchild, grandparents, grandchildren, or any relative of the employee or employee's spouse residing in the same household. Such leave, up to a maximum of three (3) working days at one time, shall not be charged against sick or other leave. If over three (3) working days of such leave is granted, at one time, that amount over three (3) days shall be charged against sick or other leave. 21 5608 SECTION 20~ MANAGEMENT LEAVE. a) Management employees shall be provided seven (7) days management leave per fiscal year on a pro-rata basis as determined by the City Manager. Such leave time is nonaccumulative and if not used within the fiscal year, cannot be carried forward nor will compensation be paid in lieu thereof under any circumstances. b) In order to facilitate shift schedules, Five Battalion Chiefs assigned to twenty-four (24) hour shift schedules and required to work overtime shall be paid at time-and-one-half in lieu of receiving management leave as provided in this section. SECTION 21. LEAVE DEDUCTIONS - MANAGEMENT Management Employees shall not be deducted leaves less than a full shift (eight hours). However, management employees must gain prior leave approval from his supervisor for taking time off in increments less than eight hours. Any actual leave abuse by a management employee will be reflected in that employee's evaluation and may be grounds for discipline. SECTION 22. PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS - MANAGEMENT Management employees shall receive a city-paid biannual comprehensive physical medical examination. The City shall establish the terms and conditions of the physical examination. The results of the examination are to be placed in the employee's personnel file. 22 5608 SECTION 23. HOLIDAYS. a) Management and General Employees, except Fire Technicians, shall be allowed with full pay the following holidays: New Year's Day - January 1 Presidents Day - The third Monday in February Memorial Day - The last Monday in May Independence Day - July 4 Labor Day - The first Monday in September Admission Day - September 9 Veteran's Day - November 11 Thanksgiving Day - The fourth Thursday in November The Friday following the fourth Thursday in November Christmas Day - December 25 One-half day preceding Christmas or New Year's Day with approval of Department Head Every day appointed by the City Council for a public fast, thanksgiving or holiday. b) Whenever New Year's Day - January 1; Independence Day -July 4; Admission's Day - September 9; Veteran's Day - November 11; or Christmas Day - December 25, falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the Friday preceding or the Monday following, respectively, shall be a holiday. 23 5608 c) In lieu of a citywide holiday to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, Management and General Employees, except General Employees assigned to a 24-hour shift schedule in the Fire Department, shall receive one floating holiday to be scheduled by the employee in the same manner as vacation days off are scheduled. Floating holidays do not carry over into subsequent fiscal years. Failure to timely schedule the day off shall result in its loss. If the City adopts Dr. Martin Luther Kin9's birthday as a citywide holiday, this floating holiday shall cease and each employee shall receive the citywide holiday. d) An employee required to work or attend a class or function on any holiday allowed to him by this section shall be paid for the holiday, and in addition, he shall be compensated in accordance with the applicable overtime rules. A holiday allowed by 'this section occurring during any leave of absence ! I with pay shall be added to the number of working days' leave of absence to which such employee is entitled. e) Employees in the classification of Battalion Chief shall receive the holidays as defined in Subsections a and c above, only while working on the modified 56 hour work schedule in effect on November 1, 1983. Should the work schedule of this position return to the same work schedule as the Fire Suppression employee then the holidays shall be the same as subsection f. 24 5608 f) General and Management Employees assigned to the Fire Department on a 24-hour shift basis shall be allowed the following holidays with full pay and no others: New Year's Day Labor Day Memorial Day Thanksgiving Day Independence Day Christmas Day 25 5608 SECTION 24. WORKERS' COMPENSATION. In those instances where an employee of the City of Arcadia is injured on duty and the injury is so recognized by the Workers' Compensation Act, by the City of Arcadia or the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, such employee shall be paid a combination of Workers' Compensation benefits and salary which will result in payment to the employee of a sum equal to his gross base salary. Base salary is the step on the salary range which the employee was being paid on the date of the injury. This sum will be paid for such time as he is absent from duty because of such injury up to a maximum of one year from and after the date of such injury. Lost time due to an injury on duty shall not be charged against an employee's accumulated sick leave. 26 5608 SECTION 25. JURY LEAVE, When an employee is called or required to serve as a juror, attendance shall be deemed a leave of absence with full pay. The city will compenate jury service up to 10 days per year. All days in excess of ten days will not be compensated. The employee shall remit to the City all fees received except mileage. SECTION 26~ COURT WITNESS LEAVE. An employee who is subpoenaed or required to appear in court as a witness shall be deemed to be on leave of absence. with approval of the appointi.ng power arid city Manager, an employee may be granted leave wi.th pay during his required absence. The employee shall remit to the City fees received except mileage. A paid leave of absence shall not be granted for time spent in Court on personal cases. 27 5608 SECTION 27. MILITARY LEAVE. Military leave shall be granted in accordance with the provisions of the applicable California state Law. All employees entitled to military leave shall give the department head the right within the limits of military necessity and regulations to determine when such leave shall be taken. If the employee taking such leave for military service has been in the employ of the city for one (1) year or more, immediately preceding the date from which leave begins, he shall be allowed his regular salary or compensation for a period of not more than thirty (30) days in any calendar year or during any continuous leave of absence. If such employee has been in the employee of the City for less than one(1) year immediately preceding the date upon which such leave of ab,;ence begins, such leave granted under this section shall be without pay. Upon requesting military leave, the employee must complete the required forms and submit a copy of his military orders to the City Manager through his appointing power. The foregoing limitations on leave of absence do not apply to employees who are drafted or receive order to military duty for extended periods of time during war or national emergencies. Every employee who has been on extended military duty shall report back for the performance of the duties of his employment within ninety (90) days after his discharge or release from military duty. Failure to do so shall be reason for termination of his employment. Acceptance of extended military duty on a voluntary basis shall be 28 5608 reason for termination of City employment. Prior to being returned to employment from military leave, employees shall submit other than a dishonorable discharge, and take and pass the required medical examination by a physician designated by the City Manager. A returning employee shall submit an honorable discharge and pass the required medical examination, or he shall not be entitled to return to his employment with the ci ty. Employees on extended military leave shall not lose or accumulate sick leave, vacation, seniority or other privileges because of such leave. 29 5608 SECTION 28. SEVERANCE PAY. An employee, with the exception of temporary appointments, whose position is abolished or vacated by a reduction in work load or lack of funds, and has at least one (1) year of consecutive full- time service with the city shall receive, upon termination, severance pay. Severance pay shall be a lump sum payment equal to 1/5th of an employee's previous month's salary times the number of years of consecutive service, not to exceed five (5) years of service. SECTION 29 '0 WORK DAY SCHEDULES. A work day shall be defined as an 8-hour period for all City employees, with the exception that for those Fire Employees assigned to a 24-hour shift, a day means a l2-hour period. An employee who changes between an 8-hour and a 12-hour day shall have leave hours recalculated on the basis of the number of hours worked. 30 5608 SECTION 30~ FRINGE BENEFITS - ELIGIBILITY. a) All full-time employees, with the exception of temporary appointments, shall be entitled to receive the benefits provided by the City of Arcadia for its employees as specified in the Resolution adopting said benefits. b) Upon the recommendation of the Department Head and approval of the City Manager, permanent part-time employees may be eligible for stability pay (if eligible per section 6), vacation, holiday, sick, and bereavement leave benefits at one-half of the stated rate in this Resolution. Jury leave benefits are not provided to part-time employees. Upon the recommendation of the Department Head and approval of the City Manager, permanent part-time employees may be eligible for up to one-half of the City contribution for full-time employees toward medical and dental insurance, not to exceed the cost of the employee-only premium, and City paid life insurance. This contribution is to be used for the payment of medical/dental insurance premiums only and no part may be "cashed back" to the employee. 31 5608 SECTION 31. MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING/PRIOR RESOLUTION Additional rules governing the subjects covered in this Resolution may be found in the individual employee organizations' Memoranda of Understanding. If there is a conflict over the interpretation of a provision of the Memorandum of Understanding and this Resolution, the Memorandum of Understanding shall prevail and supersede the inconsistent or less specific provisions of the Resolution. Other fringe benefits and compensation are applicable to General and Management employees (Officers) as set forth in various Compensation (Salary) Resolutions of the city. SECTION 32. AMENDMENTS. Any modifications or amendments to the terms of this Resolution shall be implemented by Council approved Resolution directing inclusion of the modification or amendment as part of this Resolution 5608. SECTION 33. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution. Passed, approved and adopted this 3rd day of September, 1991. ~ the City of Arcadia ATTEST: f Arcadia 32 5608 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS: CITY OF ARCADIA ) I, JUNE D. ALFORD, City Clerk of the City of Arcadia, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 5608 was passed and adopted by the city Council of the City of Arcadia, signed by the Mayor and attested to by the City Clerk at a regular meeting of said Council on the 3rd day of September1991, and that said Resolution was adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Councilmember Ciraulo, Fasching, Harbicht, Young and Gilb NOES: None ABSENT: None J cit Arcadia 5608 ATTACHMENT A CITY OF ARCADIA Manaaement Vacation Accruals As of october 30, 1982 NAME POSITION HOURS Gerald Gardner Fire Chief 747 Ronald Carle superintendent/ General Services 572 Neal Johnson Police Chief 504 Merlin Bakke Building Maintenance Superintendent 469 David Hinig Police Captain 460 33 5608