§ 3.28.010. Longevity pay for city employees.

A.

All permanent employees of the city who shall have completed sixty (60) months of continuous service in the employment of the City of Larned shall receive, in addition to their regular wages or salaries, longevity pay equal to two dollars ($2.00) dollars per month times the number of months of employment as hereinafter defined and subject to exceptions hereinafter specified.

B.

Longevity pay shall be distributed out of salary funds for the various departments of the City on or about December 16th of each year to employees then currently employed and otherwise eligible.

C.

Authorized leaves of absence, regularly authorized vacations and illness shall be excepted from the requirement that service be continuous. All requests for leaves of absence must be in writing and must be approved by the head of the employee's department and the City Manager. All authorized leaves of absence may be cancelled for cause at any time. If an employee while in good standing resigns or is granted leave of absence or otherwise interrupts his service to the City as an employee for the sole reason of entering active military service of some branch of the armed forces of the United States, and if such employee shall after being released and discharged from such service be appointed or reemployed as an employee of said City, then such employee shall receive credit on his longevity service record for the total time spent in such active military service; provided however, that any such employee who volunteers for active military service shall not receive credit on his longevity service record for the time spent in such active military service except for times of war or national emergency.

D.

The maximum period which may be used in the computation of longevity pay shall be three hundred (300) months which shall continue until final severance and termination of employment. The calendar month shall be the unit in the determination of eligibility and in the compensation of longevity pay, and sixteen (16) or more days shall be treated as a full unit.

E.

Without impairing the rules, qualifications and limitations herein prescribed, the Governing Body of the City may by resolution with individual, unusual or hardship cases relating to eligibility, qualification and interruption of continuity of employment.

(Ord. No. 932, §§ 1—5, 7-28-75)