Fixing Maximum Salaries & Wages of Appointed Officers & Non Bargaining Employees 1990, 1991 Nad 1992

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i A T A SECTION II. SICK LEAVE. Sick leave will be accrued at the rate of eight ( 8) days per year, to be calculated at 2/3 day for each month of completed employment. Employees hired prior to December 31, 1986 may maintain sick time accumulated. Effective January 1, 1987 their maximum allowable accrual will be sixty-five ( 65) days. Employees hired after January 1, 1987 will accrue sick leave at the rate of eight ( 8) days per year, or 2/3 day per month, with a maximum allowable accural of forty-five ( 45) days. SECTION III. HEALTH CARE INSURANCE COMMITTEE. The Health Care Insurance Committee shall continue to operate in an advisory capacity to and under the direction of the City Controller. This Board shall be composed of representatives of each bargaining unit, together with representatives of non-bargaining employees within the City of South Bend. It shall be the responsibility of the Board to review, under the direction of the City Controller, on a regular basis the activities of the City' s Health Care Insurance Program. SECTION IV. ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS INDEMNITY. A. ILLNESS OR DISABILITY. An employee will be paid short term disability benefits of one hundred dollars ( $100.00) per week for a maximum of seventeen (17) weeks beginning at the later of the date following the date on which all accrued sick leave is exhausted or the 16th day of illness or disability. Long term disability benefit coverage will provide eligible employees with disability benefits in an amount equal to sixty percent ( 60%) of an employee's monthly compensation, but said sum shall not be in excess of One Thousand Dollars ($1000. 00) per month. The eligibility and terms and conditions of the long-term disability program shall be contained in a pamphlet which shall be distributed to each officer and employee. B. HEALTH INSURANCE. 1. Employee contribution. The contribution by employees for single health insurance coverage for the self funded insurance program of the City of South Bend shall be ten dollars ( $10.00) in plan year 1990. The contribution for dependent coverage shall be Twenty-one and 98/100 dollars ( $21. 98) in plan year 1990. The monthly employee contribution for both single and dependent coverage in plan years 1991 and 1992, shall include an additional charge of twenty percent ( 20%) of any premium increase charged for that respective plan year. 2. In an effort to control health care costs, the City' s current health insurance package shall be modified beginning with the 1990 plan year to provide a program containing comprehensive major medical health insurance that includes a $500 annual deductible and subject to an 80/20 coinsurance payment to a limit of $1200 per year excluding any fee charged in excess of the then prevailing rates of medical services as established by the Health Insurance Carrier for the City of South Bend. 3 . Cafeteria Plan Contribution. The City shall contribute Five Hundred Dollars ( $500. 00) to each employee' s individual health spending account. The contribution shall be made annually on the first Monday of the plan year. This amount will be prorated for qualifying part-time employees. 4 . The City shall pay Thirty Dollars ( $30. 00) per month to any employee who elects to leave the City' s insurance program to be covered by another program for which the City makes no contribution. This election shall not be mandatory and the employee may return to •