SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (“SAMA”)

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of two thousand (2,000) hours, at the rate of base pay effective on the date of such termination. 6. Employees who notify the City, in writing, of their intent to retire within twelve (12) calendar months shall be allowed to cash out any eligible sick leave bank balances (Section 10.1K) upon request. Employees shall receive payment the first paycheck in January after the request has been made. If said employee cashes out their eligible sick leave bank balances prior to retirement and subsequently does not retire from the City, all future sick leave accrual for said employee shall be subject to the same cash out provision elected and will be processed on the final paycheck. All combined cash outs cannot exceed what the said employee would have been entitled to if the cash out was processed on the final paycheck only. 7. Employees with at least ten (10) years of full-time city service that retire from the City of Santa Ana within one hundred and twenty (120) days of separation shall be eligible to convert up to two -thousand (2000) hours of accumulated unused sick leave to Ca1PERS Service Credit as defined in Section 13.3. Effective the date of City Council adoption of this 2022-2025 MOU, the maximum total unused sick leave that can be converted shall be ten (10) eight (8) hour working days equal to eighty (80) hours. Employees hired on or after a contract amendment between the City and Ca1PERS shall not be eligible to convert unused sick leave to CalPERS for service credit. The City Manager is authorized to grant a newly appointed incumbent of a SAMA classification sick leave credit up to an amount equal to any earned but unused sick leave credit available to such appointee at the time of their separation from their most recent previous employer. A lump sum payment shall be made to the beneficiaries of any eligible employee whose death occurs while such employee is an active employee of the City, such payment to be in the amount of one-third (1/3) of the total sick leave benefit credited to the employee's account at the time of their death, and at the rate of pay effective on the date of death. 10.2 Bereavement Leave. A. An employee shall be granted up to three (3) days leave without loss of pay in case of death of a member of the employee's immediate family. Such leave is designated as bereavement leave. "Immediate family" as used in this section is limited to: SANTA ANA MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (SAMA) MOU: 2022-2025