Chapter 3.60 — DISABILITY INSURANCE FOR CERTAIN EMPLOYEES

Full-time M-designated employees are covered by the State Disability Insurance (SDI) program. SDI premiums shall be shared equally by the employee and the county.

(Prior admin. code § 2-19.01)

All full-time and part-time employees not working in employee representation units for which there is a recognized employee organization and all part-time M-designated employees shall be covered by the State Disability Insurance (SDI) program. SDI premiums shall be paid by the employee through payroll deductions beginning with the pay warrant dated April 4, 1986. SDI benefits will be payable on and after November 1, 1986, in accordance with state SDI regulations.

Effective the pay period upon the implementation of the Alcolink HRMS System, unless otherwise provided in a current, valid memoradum of understanding, all full-time and part-time employees shall be covered by the State Disability Insurance (SDI) program. SDI premiums shall be shared equally by the employee and the county.

(Ord. 2002-61 § 1; Prior admin. code § 2-19.02)

An employee otherwise eligible for disability insurance benefits shall have the choice of (A) not applying for disability insurance benefits and using accrued paid leave, vacation leave, compensating time off, floating holiday pay, and/or, with the consent of the department head, discretionary major medical supplemental paid sick leave, or (B) applying for disability insurance benefits and the using of accrued paid sick leave, and, with the consent of the department head, vacation leave, compensating time off, floating holiday pay, and/or discretionary major medical supplemental paid sick leave as a supplement to the disability insurance benefits. The amount of the supplement for any hour of any normal workday, shall not exceed the difference between one hundred (100) percent of the employee's normal gross salary rate, including premium conditions, and applicable salary ordinance footnotes, and the "weekly benefit amount" multiplied by two and divided by eighty (80).

The employee's accrued sick leave, discretionary major medical supplemental paid sick leave, vacation leave, compensating time off, and/or floating holiday balances shall be charged only for the hours (to the nearest one-tenth of an hour) represented by the amount paid as such supplement.

(Prior admin. code § 2-19.03)

Hours, including fractions thereof, charged against the employee's accrued sick leave, discretionary major medical supplemental paid sick leave, vacation leave, compensating time off, and/or floating holiday balances as supplements to disability insurance benefits will be regarded as hours of paid leave of absence. Vacation and sick leave shall be accrued based upon the proportion of the hours charged against the employee's accrued sick leave, discretionary major medical supplemental paid sick leave, vacation leave, compensating time off and/or floating holiday balances to the normal pay period. For purposes of determining eligibility for the county's hospital and medical care contributions and dental coverage, employees who are receiving a supplement to disability insurance benefits paid from and charged to accrued sick leave, discretionary major medical supplemental paid sick leave, vacation leave, compensating time off and/or floating holiday balances shall be regarded as on full-time paid status with regard to the days for which such supplement is paid.

(Prior admin. code § 2-19.04)

In the event that a paid holiday occurs during a period of absence for which the employee receives disability insurance benefits, holiday pay shall be prorated in proportion to the amount paid to the employee as a supplement to the disability insurance benefit from accrued sick leave, discretionary major medical supplemental paid sick leave, vacation leave, compensating time off and/or floating holiday balances on the day before and the day after the holiday.

(Prior admin. code § 2-19.05)