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Employees who separate from State service with twenty (20) or more years of continuous State
service and are eligible to receive severance pay will have one hundred percent (100%) of
severance pay converted to the MSRS administered Health Care Savings Plan (HCSP).
Employees with less than twenty (20) years of continuous State service who are eligible to receive
severance pay upon retirement or retirement at or after age sixty-five (65) will have one hundred
percent (100%) of severance pay converted to the MSRS administered Health Care Savings Plan
(HCSP).
At the time of separation, if the employee has been approved exemption from participation in the
Health Care Savings Plan (HCSP) from the plan administrator, then the employee will receive any
payment due in cash. Employees who meet the criteria to receive severance pay into a Health
Care Savings Plan (HCSP) will have one hundred percent (100%) of severance and one hundred
percent (100%) of vacation pay converted to the MSRS administered Health Care Savings Plan
(HCSP). Employees whose combined vacation and severance payouts are less than five hundred
dollars ($500), will receive such payments in cash. The MSRS administered Health Care Savings
Plan (HCSP) does not apply to permanent or seasonal layoffs. In the case of the death of an
employee, severance and vacation payments shall be made in cash.
Severance pay shall be equal to forty (40) percent of the employee's first nine hundred (900) hours
of accumulated but unused sick leave, and twelve and one-half (12 1/2) percent of the employee’s
accumulated but unused sick leave in excess of nine hundred (900) hours, times the employee’s
regular rate of pay at the time of separation.
Employees who have been laid off and received severance pay and are reappointed to State
service are eligible for additional severance only if they meet the continuous State service
requirement.
Employees who have received severance as a result of continuous State service and are
reappointed to State service, are eligible for additional severance upon separation.
Severance for eligible employees returning to state service shall be computed upon the difference
between the amount of accumulated but unused sick leave restored to the employee’s credit at the
time the employee was reappointed and the amount of accumulated but unused sick leave at the
time of the employee’s separation.
Such severance pay shall be excluded from retirement deductions and from any calculations in
retirement benefits and shall be paid over a period not to exceed two (2) years from termination of
employment. In the event that a terminated employee dies before all or a portion of the severance
pay has been disbursed, that balance due shall be paid to a named beneficiary or, lacking same, to
the deceased's estate.
Section 10. Injured on Duty Pay. An employee who, in the ordinary course of employment, while
acting in a reasonable and prudent manner and in compliance with the established rules and
procedures of the Appointing Authority, incurs a disabling injury stemming from the aggressive
and/or intentional and overt act of a person, or which is incurred while attempting to apprehend or
take into custody such person, shall receive compensation in an amount equal to the difference
between the employee's regular rate of pay and benefits paid under Workers' Compensation,
without deduction from the employee's accrued sick leave. Such compensation shall not exceed
an amount equal to two hundred forty (240) times the employee's regular hourly rate of pay per
disabling injury.
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