Ohio Administrative Code › Title 123:1 - Division of Human Resources › Chapter 123:1-32 - Sick and Personal Leave › Section 123:1-32-08 - Conversion or carry-forward of sick leave or personal leave credit at year's end for employees paid by warrant of the director of budget and management

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Conversion or carry-forward of sick leave
			 credit or personal leave credit at year end. An employee whose wage or salary
			 is paid by warrant of the director of budget and management shall have,
			 pursuant to the following provisions, the option to convert to cash benefit
			 payable on the first payday in December or carry forward the balance of any
			 unused sick leave credit or personal leave credit at year's end.
(1) Sick leave credit conversion or
			 carry-forward. An employee who accrues sick leave pursuant to section
			 124.382 of the Revised Code and
			 rule
			 123:1-32-01
			 of the Administrative Code shall have at year's end the following options with
			 regard to the portion of sick leave credit:
(a) Carry forward the balance of sick leave
			 credit.
(b) Receive a cash benefit
			 conversion for the unused balance of sick leave credit. An employee serving in
			 a temporary work level or an interim appointment who elects to convert unused
			 sick leave to cash shall do so based on the base rate of pay of his or her
			 normal classification. Unused sick leave shall be converted at a rate based on
			 the amount of sick leave remaining as of the last day of the pay period
			 preceding the first paycheck the employee receives in December as described
			 below:
(i) An employee who did not use sick
			 leave during or subsequent to the pay period preceding the first paycheck the
			 employee receives in December may convert up to eighty hours of unused sick
			 leave at a rate equal to eighty per cent of the employee's base rate of pay.
(ii) An employee who used eight
			 hours of sick leave or less may convert eighty hours, less the amount of leave
			 used, at a rate equal to seventy-five per cent of the employee's base rate of
			 pay.
(iii) An employee who used
			 more than eight hours but less than sixteen and one tenth of one hour of sick
			 leave may convert eighty hours, less the amount of leave used, at a rate equal
			 to seventy per cent of the employee's base rate of pay.
(iv) An employee who used more than sixteen
			 hours but less than twenty-four and one tenth of one hour of sick leave may
			 convert eighty hours, less the amount of the leave used, at a rate equal to
			 sixty-five per cent of the employee's base rate of pay.
(v) An employee who used more than
			 twenty-four hours but less than thirty-two and one tenth of one hour of sick
			 leave may convert eighty hours, less the amount of leave used, at a rate equal
			 to sixty per cent of the employee's base rate of pay.
(vi) An employee who used more than
			 thirty-two hours of sick leave may convert eighty hours, less the amount of
			 leave used, at a rate equal to fifty-five per cent of the employee's base rate
			 of pay.
(c) Carry
			 forward a portion of the balance of sick leave credit and receive a cash
			 benefit conversion of a portion of the sick leave credit as provided in
			 paragraph (A)(1)(b) of this rule.