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Request for Waiver of PTO Cap During Calendar Year 2015 (NB)
Explanation
Interim General Manager Kathy Viehe participates in the City's PTO leave system. Under this system, employees with 15 to 20 years of service (the range that Ms. Viehe falls into) accrue 9.14 hours of leave time per pay period. Employees in this range are allowed to accumulate no more than 240 hours per year. In accordance with HR Policy L-3, hours in excess of this cap at the employee's anniversary date are transferred into the employee's Critical Leave Bank to be used only in cases of injury/illness of the employee or the employee's immediate family.
When Ms. Viehe became the Interim General Manager, her work load and responsibility increased and she has been unable to use enough PTO hours to avoid going over the cap. She is requesting that she be allowed to retain any excess hours in her PTO (estimated to be 68.56) at her anniversary date so that these hours can be used in 2015. This waiver would not change her retirement benefit or payout.
Recommendation:
The City Commission waive the Paid Time Off (PTO) cap in 2015 for the Interim General Manager so that any hours in excess of the 240 hour cap (estimated to be 68.56 hours) can be used in 2015 after a new general manager has been hired.