CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Approve the recommended changes to add sick leave to the PTO-11 time off plan and add paid parental leave as a City benefit.
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DEPARTMENT: City Manager's Office
SUBMITTED BY: Doug Krieger, City Manager
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
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BACKGROUND:
During a recent budget workshop, Councilwoman Brodhead requested that staff provide a recommendation to City Council offering additional time off for Tier II employees with a focus on maternity/paternity leave and sick time. This memo outlines staff's recommendation for revisions to the PTO-11 time off plan and an addition of a citywide parental leave benefit.
Current Plans
The City offers two tiers of time off benefits for employees. Tier I employees participate in either the Traditional Plan or TOP Plan. All sworn Police and Fire personnel are on Tier I time off plans, as are employees hired before July 1, 2011. Both the Traditional Plan and the TOP Plan provide an accrual bank for vacation/PTO time and a separate accrual bank for sick time, as well as floating holidays as part of their available time off.
Employees (non-sworn personnel) hired after July 1, 2011 are in the Tier II time off plan, PTO-11. For employees in some bargaining units, the timing of Tier II may have been delayed depending on when the change to PTO-11 was negotiated into their contract. Currently, 43% of all non-sworn employees are on the PTO-11 Plan. The PTO-11 Plan allows for one accrual bank of time off. Employees in this plan do not have separate sick leave benefits.
Time-off plan participation is as follows:
Employee Group
Traditional
TOP
PTO-11
Union - Public Safety Sworn
346|1010 10|Union - Non-Public Safety
28
144
91
Non-Union
37
112
150
TOTAL
411
257
241
When initiated, the PTO-11 plan was intended to accomplish a number of different goals including reducing the cash payouts associated with time off plans, reducing the City's future financial liabilities of these plans, an...
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