[Adopted 12-16-1986 by L.L. No. 11-1986]
The Town Board of the Town of Babylon wishes
to clarify official Town policy regrading sick leave, personal leave,
vacation leave and other benefits granted to employees of the Town
within the Administrative Salary Plan. An official policy regarding
the benefits granted to employees within the Administrative Salary
Plan is hereby established as follows: Personnel covered with the
Administrative Salary Plan shall be subject to the following administrative
employee benefit provisions.
[Added 12-21-2011 by L.L. No. 28-2011]
The Town Board of the Town of Babylon wishes to clarify official
Town policy regarding sick leave, personal leave, vacation leave and
other benefits granted to contract administrative employees of the
Town. Contract administrative employees are temporary personnel employed
under a contract that may or may not be appointed to a civil service
position within the Suffolk County Department of Civil Services Classification
Plan that are placed on the payroll of the Town of Babylon and paid
on an hourly basis. Contract employees will not receive benefits,
i.e., sick, vacation or personal leave, health or dental insurance
or any other benefit granted to permanent employees within the administrative
salary plan. The policy is hereby established as follows: contract
personnel shall be paid an hourly salary and shall not receive any
of the administrative employee benefits extended to an administrative
permanent employee.
[Added 2-10-2004 by L.L. No. 3-2004[1]; amended 11-8-2012 by L.L. No. 16-2012; 6-2-2015 by L.L. No. 6-2015]
All full-time administrative employees shall work a minimum
forty-hour work week.
[Amended 2-10-2004 by L.L. No. 3-2004; 12-10-2008 by L.L. No. 31-2008]
A.
Administrative employees shall be granted one day
per month as sick leave, earned at the end of each month. For an administrative
employee to be eligible to receive a sick day, he must have worked
at least half the month or, if absent, had an accrual to charge such
absence against.
B.
Covered administrative employees shall receive five
personal leave days per year. The five days shall be made available
in the first month of each year. At the end of each year, unused personal
days shall be converted to sick leave.
A.
Administrative employees will receive 15 vacation
days per year until the completion of their second year of service
with the Administrative Salary Plan. Administrative employees with
two or more years of service shall receive 20 days' vacation per year.
B.
Vacation days for full-time employees who change employment
category to the Administrative Salary Plan shall be predicated on
their total years of service to the Town.
[Amended 10-18-2017 by L.L. No. 10-2017]
C.
Administrative
employees may be permitted to convert unused vacation, personal or
sick leave into income upon authorization from the Supervisor, or
his or her designee, and the Town Attorney, based upon financial or
medical factors, or in the best interest of the Town. However, the
maximum leave time to cash out is 30 days. As set out in Town policy,
the employee shall provide written request stating the reason for
such cash-out.
[Added 12-10-2008 by L.L. No. 31-2008; amended 5-7-2013 by L.L. No.
11-2013]
Dental insurance shall be provided to administrative
employees free of cost.
A.
Administrative employees shall be eligible to receive
longevity payments in the amounts prescribed below, provided that
they have total service with the Town from their date of hire for
the following periods of time:
|
Period of Time
(years)
|
Amount of Payment
|
|---|---|
|
5
|
$300.00
|
|
10
|
$800.00
|
|
15
|
$1,000.00
|
|
20
|
$2,000.00
|
B.
All full-time administrative employees shall be eligible
to receive longevity payments in the amounts prescribed below, provided
their date of hire totals the number of years of service for the applicable
period.
[Amended 10-18-2017 by L.L. No. 10-2017]
[Amended 3-17-1987 by L.L. No. 4-1987[1] ]
Administrative employees shall be granted up
to one year of child care or ordinary leave of absence without pay
upon approval of their department head and adoption by Town Board
resolution. Prior to an administrative employee being granted such
leave, he may, if the employee so wishes, use some or all of the accruals
held in his account. If the employee elects to use accrued time, only
vacation and personal leave may be used prior to the commencement
of the leave being taken.
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law also provided
that it shall be effective retroactive to 1-1-1987.
[Amended 8-31-2016 by L.L. No. 13-2016; 4-25-2018 by L.L. No. 11-2018]
A.
Administrative employees shall be entitled to funeral leave with
pay, not to exceed four workdays, to be used within three months of
death, for making arrangements, settling family affairs, bereavement,
or attending the funeral or memorial service in connection with the
death of a member of their immediate family, including the following
persons only: current spouse, parent, child, sister, brother, grandparent,
grandchild, parent-in-law, daughter- and son-in-law, brother- and
sister-in-law, and grandparent-in-law.
B.
Administrative employees shall be entitled to funeral leave with
pay, not to exceed one workday, to be used within 30 days of death,
for making arrangements, settling family affairs, bereavement, or
attending the funeral or memorial service in connection with the death
of a relative other than an immediate family member, including the
following persons only: aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, and cousin. There
shall be no funeral leave provided for former spouses or members of
a former spouse's family.
C.
All requests for funeral leave must be accompanied by the appropriate
form provided by the Division of Personnel. The Town reserves the
right to require documentation of the death, including but not limited
to death certificate, obituary, documentation from funeral home, and
evidence of kinship.
[Amended 7-10-1990 by L.L. No. 4-1990; 12-2-2003 by L.L. No. 30-2003; 5-9-2006 by L.L. No. 11-2006, 12-10-2008 by L.L. No. 31-2008; 7-17-2012 by L.L. No. 10-2012; 11-7-2013 by L.L. No. 17-2013]
A.
Eligibility.
(1)
All
administrative employees and elected officials who commence employment
with the Town on or after January 1, 2004, shall be required to pay
10% of the premium of the plan they choose and continue to do so for
a period of 10 years. At the completion of his or her 10th year, such
employee's health insurance shall be fully paid by the Town. All administrative
employees and elected officials who commence employment with the Town
on or after January 1, 2009, shall be required to pay 25% of the premium
of the plan they choose.
(2)
All
administrative employees and elected officials who were in continuous
employment with the Town prior to January 1, 2004, shall be provided
health insurance, free of cost, from their date of hire with the Town.
(3)
Administrative
employees and elected officials who have five years of service with
the Town and retire shall have their health insurance premiums fully
paid by the Town, covering eligible dependents as defined under the
Town's insurance policy in existence at the time of retirement. All
administrative employees and elected officials who commence employment
with the Town of Babylon on or after January 1, 2009, must have 25
years of employment with the Town in order to receive health benefits
in retirement.
B.
In addition,
an employee who is absent from work due to an extended illness shall
have his/her health insurance paid for by the Town up to one year.
Such coverage may be extended upon approval of the Town Board.
C.
All administrative
employees and elected officials employed and enrolled in a Town of
Babylon health plan for at least one year are eligible for a health
insurance buy-back as follows:
(1)
Eligible
employees hired before May 1, 2006, will receive 50% percent of the
health insurance premium to opt out of the Town's health insurance
plans.
(2)
Eligible
employees hired on or after May 1, 2006, will receive $3,500 to opt
out of the Town's health insurance plans.
(3)
Employees
covered under another health plan who opt to continue in the Town's
health plan, thereby being covered under two health plans, shall pay
75% of the cost of the health plan they receive from the Town.
(4)
Payment
will be made annually in December, on a prorated basis, for the period
the employee opted out of the plan.
(5)
Employees
who have withdrawn from the plan may elect to return to the plan in
accordance with the regulations of the State Health Insurance Department.
[Amended 7-10-1990 by L.L. No. 4-1990; 12-10-2008 by L.L. No.
31-2008]
A.
All administrative employees, upon separation of service
with the Town, except those discharged for just cause, shall be paid
the cash value of accumulated vacation, personal and sick leave, up
to 180 days, as terminal leave pay. Administrative employees who begin
employment with the Town on or after January 1, 2009, upon separation
of service with the Town, except those discharged for just cause,
shall be paid half the cash value of accumulated sick leave, and the
cash value of vacation and personal leave, as terminal leave pay.
Such terminal pay will be paid to the administrative employee, his
estate or his heirs.
B.
Administrative employees who separate from service
during their first year shall receive terminal leave pay based on
a pro rata basis as set forth in the Town personnel policy.
[Amended 3-17-1987 by L.L. No. 4-1987[1]]
A.
Administrative employees will be provided with a long-
and short-term disability plan which shall cover them for illnesses
incurred that are not job related. There will be two types of coverage
defined as follows:
(1)
Short-term disability. The interim period of time
beginning when the employee's use of required accruals expires and
ending with coverage by long-term disability 90 days after the commencement
of the disability) shall be covered by short-term disability provided
by the Town. The Town will provide the same benefits as the long-term
coverage for this interim period through its self-insurance plan.
(2)
Long-term disability. The coverage which the plan
provides after an employee has been absent due to illness for a period
of 90 days from the time the employee's accruals expire.
B.
An employee becomes eligible to receive disability
payments only after 15 consecutive days of his/her disability. During
this time such employee must utilize any accrued time off in his/her
account.
[Amended 5-18-2016 by L.L. No. 7-2016]
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law also provided
that it shall be effective retroactive to 1-1-1987.
[Added 7-10-1990 by L.L. No. 4-1990]
A.
All administrative employees with at least six months
of service shall be eligible for tuition reimbursement for a job-related
course. Eligible employees shall submit their request for tuition
reimbursement, prior to matriculation, to the Supervisor. Tuition
reimbursement shall be subject to the approval of the Supervisor or
his designees.
B.
Tuition for job-related courses shall be reimbursed
to the eligible employee as follows:
