Agda Pkt 2025.03.10 Joint SA PFA

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00059814-1 31 Effective the first pay period following City Council approval of a successor MOU, current employees hired by Redwood City prior to the date on which this MOU was adopted by the City Council in 2025 and who are assigned to work a forty (40) hour work week may make an irrevocable election on or before December 31st of the prior year to cash out up to forty-eight (48) hours of sick leave to be accrued in the following calendar year and cashed out at their base rate of pay. Employees must retain at least eighty (80) hours (two (2) full weeks) of sick leave after the cash out. Employees hired by Redwood City on or after the date on which this MOU was adopted by the City Council in 2025 who are assigned to work a forty (40) hour work week may make an irrevocable election on or before December 31st of the prior year to cash out up to twenty-four (24) hours of sick leave to be accrued in the following calendar year and cashed out at their base rate of pay. Employees must retain at least eighty (80) hours (two (2) full weeks) of sick leave after the cash out. The sick leave cash out benefit will be prorated for Part-Time employees in accordance with Section 8.3. Payment shall be made at twenty-five (25%) of the unused sick leave hours accrued in the calendar year, or fifty percent (50%) of the unused sick leave hours accrued in the calendar year when no more than ten (10) hours of sick leave have been used for the preceding (26) pay periods. Effective January 1, 2022, payment will be made at the employee’s base salary in effect on December 31st of the calendar year prior to that when payment is issued. Payment shall be made after December 31. There shall be no payment in lieu of accumulated sick leave benefits for years prior to such calendar year. Use of Personal Business Leave shall be excluded from the definition of sick leave for the purposes of this article. 18.1.6 An employee who has reached the maximum sick leave balance of 1200 hours and has stopped accruing sick leave credits will not accrue any sick leave above this maximum during the cash out process. Accumulated sick leave credits shall be reduced by the value of the sick leave compensated as provided in the above paragraph and the remaining balance shall be accumulated to a maximum of one-thousand two-hundred (1200) hours . 18.1.7 If an employee terminates his or hertheir employment, for reasons other than death, retirement or discharge, compensation in lieu of unused sick leave shall be paid the amount provided for an employee who elects to receive compensation in lieu of sick leave credits in accordance with Section 18.1.5, prorated to the date of termination of service. Employees who have ten (10) years of service and who retire from City employment with benefits from PERS or who die while in the employ of the City shall be eligible to receive fifty percent (50%) of the employee’s normal rate of pay for the remaining accrued unused sick leave. In the event of the death of an employee, such payments shall be made to the designated beneficiary filed with the Director of Finance, or, in the event no designated beneficiary has been chosen, the beneficiary listed in the employee's insurance policy. The beneficiary will receive the payment of such unused sick leave in the applicable amount provided in this Section. Employees discharged for disciplinary reasons shall not be eligible for payment of unused sick leave. 18.1.8 Following an employee’s use of one-half of their annual sick leave allotment in a calendar year,Iif an employee's illness or the illness of a family member results in an absence from work for three (3) or more days, a verified statement from a licensed medical practitioner or other reasonable proof of illness may be required by the City. 6.I. - Page 45 of 119 459