Addressing the Terms and Conditions of Employment of City Employees Called to Active Military Duty in Persian Gulf or Persian Gulf Crisis

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position in the employ of the City, he or she shall be offered employment and, if such covered employee so requests, shall be employed in such other position the duties of which the covered employee is qualified to perform as will provide him or her like seniority, status and pay, or the nearest approximation thereof consistent with the circumstances in his or her case. SECTION II WAGES AND BENEFITS 1. Each covered employee shall receive thirty (30) days pay at his or her current rate of pay commencing with the day following his or her last day of active employment with the City before reporting for military duty. 2. Each covered employee shall receive compensation at his or her current rate of pay for all unused vacation days accrued by his or her last day of active employment with the City before reporting to military duty. 3. Each covered employee shall receive a regular bi- weekly paycheck from the City in an amount equal to the difference between his or her current gross City wage and his or her gross military wage. In no event shall the total of gross City and gross military wages exceed in any calendar year the total gross wages that would have been earned by the covered employee in his or her City position had he or she not been called to active duty. Reconciliation of amounts owed to or by the City shall occur in February, 1992 with adjustments made to the March, 1992 paychecks. similar reconcilliation and adjustment shall occur annually thereafter, as necessary. 4. For purposes of computing the covered employee's gross City wages, each covered employee shall receive that annual increase he or she would have received had he or she not been called to active military duty. 5. Vacation and sick days shall not accrue during such time a covered employee is on active military duty. 6. Time on the job and seniority will accrue during such time the covered employee is on active military duty. 7. Propay benefits will not accrue during such time a covered employee is on active military duty. SECTION III HEALTH INSURANCE 1. Pursuant to terms of the Basic Disability and Comprehensive Medical Plan ( "the Plan ") governing the terms and conditions of employee health care coverage provided to the City by Benefit Trust Life, City - provided health insurance benefits for each covered employee shall terminate as of the date he or she is activated to military duty, as medical coverage is provided the covered employee by the United States Government. 2. Pursuant to a modification to the Plan, dependents of covered employees with City - provided dependent health care coverage at the time the covered employee reports to active duty, shall remain covered under the Plan pursuant to Plan administration policies while the covered employee is activated to military duty. 3. Pursuant to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) as amended, each covered employee and his or her "qualified beneficiaries ", as defined by COBRA, with City - provided health care coverage at the time he or she reports to active duty, may elect to continue such dependent health care coverage upon termination of such coverage, as provided in paragraphs 1 and 2, of