As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning
indicated:
FULL-TIME OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE
One who works a normal forty-hour work week for the City each workweek
of the year, whether such person is paid an hourly wage or is salaried.
The following City officers and employees are required to be bonded
and shall be bonded in amounts as set from time to time by the Common Council:
B. City Clerk-Treasurer as Tax Collector.
D. Account Clerk-Stenographer.
H. City Service Officer, Welfare.
J. Director of Public Works.
L. Sealer of Weights and Measures.
N. Fire Department Treasurer.
Regular compensation shall be rendered any officer or employee of the
City while absent because of death in his or her immediate family or household,
but not because of illness, for a maximum as specified in negotiated labor
contracts and/or policies, upon satisfactory competent evidence of such death.
Regular City employees shall receive a paid vacation as specified in
negotiated labor contracts and/or policies. Vacation rights cannot be accumulated
by employees from one year to another. All vacation requests shall be approved
by the heads of the departments involved before being granted. Employees on
vacation leave shall be subject to immediate recall in the event of an emergency.
The City Clerk-Treasurer shall be authorized to compensate any City
officer or employee who may retire or, upon the death of such full-time individual
while in City service, shall pay to his designated beneficiary all unused
vacation time for that particular year due, but not for prior years, and all
accumulated sick time earned to a maximum as specified in negotiated labor
contracts and/or policies. This benefit is not to be construed as being applicable
to a person voluntarily resigning or being forced to resign for cause. Funds
shall be made available for this benefit from the Emergency Contingency Fund
of the year needed for such purpose, and if not available from such fund,
funds shall be obtained as the Common Council may propose or determine.
The employees of the Street, Sanitation and Water Departments (not receiving)
shall be granted holidays each year as specified in negotiated labor contracts
and/or policies, in addition to those granted to other City employees.
Paydays shall be designated as specified in negotiated labor contracts
and/or policies.
The City shall reimburse any City officer or employee who must appear
in court during his time off from work at his normal rate of salary or wages,
at the discretion of the appropriate head of department. Such reimbursement
shall not exceed 1/2 day's pay or 1/2 day off for a court appearance from
one to four hours, or one day's pay or one day off for a court appearance
from four to eight hours.
Sufficient funds shall be and are duly appropriated for those authorized
purposes commonly termed "fringe benefits," which are applicable to and restricted
to full-time officers and employees of the City.
The City hereby elects to come under the provisions of Chapter 339,
Laws of 1960, titled "An Act to Amend the Retirement and Social Security Law,
in Relation to the Addition of Pensions Providing for Increased Take-Home
Pay, Death Benefits, and Reopening of a Plan for Retirement at Age 55," as
amended, for the purpose of providing death benefits and pensions and providing
for increased take-home pay.
A. Social security insurance benefits provided.
(1) The City, pursuant to § 218 of the Federal Social Security
Act and Article 3 of the Retirement and Social Security Law, shall provide
social security insurance coverage for eligible officers and employees.
(2) The City Clerk-Treasurer shall be authorized to represent the
City and shall comply with the regulations of the Director of the State Social
Security Agency designed to extend social security insurance coverage to positions
of officers and employees pursuant to § 218 of the Federal Social
Security Act and Article 3 of the Retirement and Social Security Law.
B. Retirement age for laborers. All employees in the labor class
in the City departments who are not members of the New York State Employees'
Retirement System shall be retired as specified in negotiated labor contracts
and/or policies.
An Employee Grievance Committee, consisting of the Chairman of the Street
Committee of the Council as Chairman, and the Chairmen of the Finance, Police
and Water Committees of the Council as members, is hereby constituted to investigate
and inquire into employee complaints and grievances.