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(A) Each full-time permanent state employee paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and those employees listed in divisions (B)(2) and (4) of section 124.14 of the Revised Code, after service of one year, shall have earned and will be due upon the attainment of the first year of employment, and annually thereafter, eighty hours of vacation leave with full pay. One year of service shall be computed on the basis of twenty-six biweekly pay periods. A full-time permanent state employee with five or more years of service shall have earned and is entitled to one hundred twenty hours of vacation leave with full pay. A full-time permanent state employee with ten or more years of service shall have earned and is entitled to one hundred sixty hours of vacation leave with full pay. A full-time permanent state employee with fifteen or more years of service shall have earned and is entitled to one hundred eighty hours of vacation leave with full pay. A full-time permanent state employee with twenty or more years of service shall have earned and is entitled to two hundred hours of vacation leave with full pay. A full-time permanent state employee with twenty-five or more years of service shall have earned and is entitled to two hundred forty hours of vacation leave with full pay. Such vacation leave shall accrue to the employee at the rate of three and one-tenth hours each biweekly period for those entitled to eighty hours per year; four and six-tenths hours each biweekly period for those entitled to one hundred twenty hours per year; six and two-tenths hours each biweekly period for those entitled to one hundred sixty hours per year; six and nine-tenths hours each biweekly period for those entitled to one hundred eighty hours per year; seven and seven-tenths hours each biweekly period for those entitled to two hundred hours per year; and nine and two-tenths hours each biweekly period for those entitled to two hundred forty hours per year.
The amount of an employee’s service shall be determined in accordance with the standard specified in section 9.44 of the Revised Code. Credit for prior service, including an increased vacation accrual rate and longevity supplement, shall take effect during the first pay period that begins immediately following the date the director of administrative services approves granting credit for that prior service. No employee, other than an employee who submits proof of prior service within ninety days after the date of the employee’s hiring, shall receive any amount of vacation leave for the period prior to the date of the director’s approval of the grant of credit for prior service.
Part-time permanent employees who are paid in accordance with section 124.152 of the Revised Code and full-time permanent employees subject to this section who are in active pay status for less than eighty hours in a pay period shall earn vacation leave on a prorated basis. The ratio between the hours worked and the vacation hours earned by these classes of employees shall be the same as the ratio between the hours worked and the vacation hours earned by a full-time permanent employee with the same amount of service as provided for in this section.
Vacation leave is not available for use until it appears on the employee’s earning statement and the compensation described in the earning statement is available to the employee.
(B) Employees granted leave under this section shall forfeit their right to take or to be paid for any vacation leave to their credit which is in excess of the accrual for three years. Any excess leave shall be eliminated from the employees’ leave balance. If an employee’s vacation leave credit is at, or will reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of the accrual for three years and the employee has been denied the use of vacation leave during the immediately preceding twelve months, the employee, at the employee’s request, shall be paid in a pay period for the vacation leave the employee was denied, up to the maximum amount the employee would be entitled to be paid for in any pay period. An employee is not entitled to receive payment for vacation leave denied in any pay period in which the employee’s vacation leave credit is not at, or will not reach in the immediately following pay period, the maximum of accrual for three years. Any vacation leave for which an employee receives payment shall be deducted from the employee’s vacation leave balance. Payment shall not be made for any leave accrued in the same calendar year in which the payment is made.
(C) Upon separation from state service, an employee granted leave under this section is entitled to compensation at the employee’s current rate of pay for all unused vacation leave accrued under this section or section 124.13 of the Revised Code to the employee’s credit. In case of transfer of an employee from one state agency to another, the employee shall retain the accrued and unused vacation leave. In case of the death of an employee, the unused vacation leave shall be paid in accordance with section 2113.04 of the Revised Code, or to the employee’s estate. An employee serving in a temporary work level who is eligible to receive compensation under this division shall be compensated at the base rate of pay of the employee’s normal classification.
Effective Date: 03-30-1999; 06-30-2006; 07-01-2007