2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [41] XLI LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Chapter 4117: PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
4117.109 [Enactment subject to referendum; See note] Prohibited provisions regarding paid sick leave balance.

Notwithstanding any provision of section 4117.08 or 4117.10 of the Revised Code to the contrary, no agreement entered into or renewed under this chapter on or after the effective date of this section shall contain any provision for the exchange or sell-back of a public employee’s accumulated paid sick leave balance with the public employee’s public employer at the public employee’s final retirement or death that provides for a cash payment that exceeds fifty per cent of the public employee’s total sick leave accumulations. No payment made pursuant to this section shall be made for accumulated sick leave in excess of one thousand hours. Such payment shall be based upon the public employee’s hourly rate of pay at time of final retirement, unless the employee is a member of the police and fire pension fund and participates in the deferred retirement option plan. If the public employee is a member of the police and fire pension fund and the public employee participates in the deferred retirement option plan, the payment shall be based upon the public employee’s hourly rate in effect at the time the employee entered the deferred retirement option plan. For purposes of this section, “final retirement” means when an employee retires and is immediately eligible to receive pension benefits by satisfying the normal length of service and age qualifications or as a result of disability.

Added by 129th General Assembly File No. 10, SB 5, § 1. This enacment is subject to referendum in the Nov. 8, 2011 election.

See 129th General Assembly File No. 10, SB 5, §4.

The enactment of this section by 129th General Assembly File No. 10, SB 5, § 1 has been made subject to referendum in the upcoming November, 2011 election.