2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 5 - State Employees
Chapter 67 - State Personnel Act
Section 5-213 - Termination of longevity payments to employees not included in any collective bargaining unit.

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-212, each employee in the state service who has completed not less than ten years of state service and who is not included in any collective bargaining unit, except those employees whose compensation is prescribed by statute, shall receive a lump-sum longevity payment on the last regular pay day of April 2013, based on service completed as of the first day of September 2011, determined in accordance with the longevity rate schedule established for the employee’s class of position by the Commissioner of Administrative Services, except that a retired employee who retired between October 1, 2012, and March 31, 2013, inclusive, shall receive, in the month immediately following retirement, a prorated payment based on the proportion of the six-month period served prior to the effective date of the employee’s retirement.

(b) No longevity payment shall be made to any employee in the state service who is not included in any collective bargaining unit, except those employees whose compensation is prescribed by statute, for service completed on or after April 1, 2013.

(1967, P.A. 657, S. 22; 1969, P.A. 658, S. 5; P.A. 74-138, S. 1, 2; P.A. 78-231, S. 6, 10; 78-240, S. 2; 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 79-621, S. 9, 24; P.A. 80-483, S. 15, 186; P.A. 81-457, S. 7; P.A. 82-388, S. 1, 3; P.A. 89-34, S. 1, 5; P.A. 90-230, S. 11, 101; P.A. 00-68, S. 8; P.A. 04-219, S. 4; P.A. 11-51, S. 134; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 32.)

History: 1969 act added Subsec. (c) re part-time, seasonal or intermittent service; P.A. 74-138 provided for prorated payment for recently retired employees in Subsec. (b) and removed similar provision from Subsec. (c); P.A. 78-231 included managerial employees in provision for longevity payments, effective October 1, 1983; P.A. 78-240 added Subsec. (d) re employees of radiological maintenance and calibration facility; P.A. 78-303 authorized substitution of commissioner of administrative services for commissioner of personnel and administration in Subsec. (d); P.A. 79-621 specified applicability of provisions to those not covered by collective bargaining in Subsec. (a), deleted references to determination of payment as percentage of salary increase in Subdivs. (1) to (4), inclusive, replacing such references with determination according to rate schedules established by administrative services commissioner or director of personnel and labor relations and including provisions for managerial employees; P.A. 80-483 made technical changes; P.A. 81-457 amended Subsec. (a) to allow for the continuance of longevity payments to managerial employees, which had been scheduled for termination as of October 1, 1983; P.A. 82-388 amended Subsec. (b) to specify that the longevity payments shall be made on the first regular payday following April 23 and October 24 of each year; P.A. 89-34 substituted “last regular pay day in April and October” for “April 23 and October 24” and provided that retired employees shall receive their payments in the month following retirement instead of on the first regular pay day following the twenty-fourth of such month; P.A. 90-230 corrected a reference to the director of emergency management in Subsec. (d); P.A. 00-68 amended Subsec. (a)(3) to substitute “Commissioner of Administrative Services” for “Director of Personnel and Labor Relations” and “the employee’s” for “his”; P.A. 04-219 amended Subsec. (d) to substitute Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security for Director of Emergency Management, effective January 1, 2005; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (d), effective July 1, 2011; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 replaced former provisions with new Subsecs. (a) and (b) re termination of longevity payments to employees who are not included in any collective bargaining unit, effective December 21, 2012.

Statute cannot be construed as prohibiting a retiree from receiving more than two longevity payments in last year of state service prior to retirement; plaintiffs were entitled to have their final, prorated longevity payments added directly to their final year salaries in the calculation of their base salaries. 284 C. 149.